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As Catherine slowly drew her sword from the back of the Jungle Spider, Pannis had swung her branch again and began to move on. The clock had reached the afternoon, and since the morning break, Pannis and Erad had taken the lead alternately, swapped positions twice, and now it was Pannis's turn to be at the front of the line. Because it is on the outer edge of the Flash Forest, the strength of the demonic beasts is low, except for a gold-level demonic beast passing by, it is just some black iron bronze level demonic beasts, which cannot cause any danger to the ten-person team at all, and at most it only slightly slows down the speed of progress. In fact, I didn't encounter many Warcraft along the way, after all, Warcraft just wanted to hunt for food, not to send them to death.

However, this does not mean that everyone walks very easily, when entering the forest for a long time, the nose is full of the unpleasant smell of wood **, and the ears are always accompanied by the monotonous and boring sound of kicking away the fallen leaves, what you see in front of you, in addition to the trunk, or the trunk, the gray-brown trunk surrounds the surroundings, as if there is no other thing between heaven and earth. In contrast, these are not actually difficulties, the countless vines and shrubs that may trip over passers-by at any time and the countless hidden dead branches are the obstacles that interfere with progress in the real sense, and the biggest obstacle is the quagmire traps hidden under the dead leaves that can be encountered everywhere. This kind of hidden small swamp is absolutely deadly for ordinary people, and for high-level professionals, although they can use their shields to bounce through the mire to break free from the shackles after falling into the swamp, the delay and the traces left on their bodies are unavoidable.

At the end of the day, although everyone avoided most of the quagmire under the constant reminder of the leader, there were still three people who unintentionally stepped into the trap. Among them, Catherine, who is of the gold level, because of her physical fitness and reaction speed, is far superior to others, and activates the Douqi shield at the moment of sinking and pops up the trap, and is not really affected by the trap, but the shadow wolf and the gopher are not so lucky, the pants of the two are now full of sludge, and in the environment of the forest, the light is weak, dark and damp, and the dampness on the pants and the slippery feeling brought by the sludge even through the protective leather clothing worn close to the body, it also makes people feel uncomfortable for a while, not to mention the constant stench of sludge, forcing others to stay away from them, for fear of being infected with such a smell。

"Pannis, why are you walking for twenty-two hours today?" With other victims as examples, Lina followed behind Pannis with extreme caution, almost walking in Pannis's footprints: "Will this often happen in the future?"

"Occasionally. The branch in Pannis's hand was like a harpoon, and he accurately stabbed a small crimson snake that had just emerged from the fallen leaves, and replied casually, "There may be at least three or four more times." ”

"Why?" asked Lina curiously, "It's exhausting." ”

Pannis smiled mysteriously, "You'll know why after a while." ”

"It's mysterious, it's annoying. "Lina's curiosity is always very high.

"Stop. Pannis suddenly lifted the branch that was used as a walking stick: "There is a problem. ”

The line in a straight line immediately changed, the distance between them quickly shrunk, the mercenaries surrounded the city to protect the guide in the center, and the three girls of the adventure group formed a triangle facing outward back to back, Catherine of Pannith asked, "What did you find?"

"Traces of the battle. Pannis walked a dozen steps with a solemn face, squatted under a big tree, pointed to the trunk and said: "Look, the burn traces, from the perspective of the range, do not look like naturally burning flames, they should be traces left by fire-attribute magic or skills." Well, interesting, there are leaves on the ground that have been cut in half. The traces have not been left for long, and it seems that we have companions. ”

"Could it be the traces left by the monster?" The talking gopher was originally a lone professional near the country of mountains, and most of the familiar environment was related to caves, and he only came into contact with the forest recently after joining the mercenary group, so he was not very familiar with the forest, and when he heard Pannis's words, he couldn't help but interject. But after he finished speaking, he found that the other nine people were all looking at him with a stupid look, and they couldn't help scratching their heads and stammering, "What, did I say something wrong?"

The four members of the adventure group were embarrassed to say anything, but the night owl, who was also a fellow mercenary, couldn't help but ask in a hoarse and ugly voice, "Have you seen a fire-type demonic beast on the border of the forest in the past two months?"

"Huh?" the gopher recalled carefully for a while, shook his head and said, "I really haven't seen it, isn't there a fire attribute demonic beast in the forest?"

"Of course not. The shadow wolf, who was also covered in mud, took the opportunity to stop and grabbed the fallen leaves to wipe his pants and said, "If you play with fire in the forest, a hundred lives will be burned to death." ”

"Ah, I forgot about that. The gopher didn't mind being ridiculed, and smashed it in the palm of his hand: "Sure enough, every time I go to a new place, there are still many things to learn." ”

"Shovel. Pannis bent over to stare at the ground, reaching out his hand backwards and shouting.

The oldest and most stable middle-aged female mercenary, Phantom Fox, took out a folding shovel and handed it over, squatting to the side by the way, observing everything by himself from Pannis's perspective, obviously learning to absorb the experience of Pannis's exploration, and also squatting together was Catherine in chain armor. Seeing the movements of the two, Pannis was stunned, smiled understandingly, but did not hide his secrets, and pointed out a few traces for the two ladies before excavating.

"This is the mark of the burn, you look at the range, with this as the center radiating evenly to the periphery, this is the characteristic of the fireball technique. But it's autumn and the trees haven't dried up too much, so they haven't caused a fire. Look at this again, and take a closer look at the color of these leaves, which are slightly different from the others. This is supposed to be the leaves of the lower layer, but it has been turned over to the upper level, and this situation is concentrated in this small area, indicating that someone has buried something here. And over there, look carefully at the dead leaves, and then look at the dead leaves under our feet, and see the broken leaves, that is, footprints, this shape represents someone who has been trampled on, and someone has stood there. Altogether, I'll see, four, no, five people. This is judged by the degree and depth of the broken leaves, and there are slight differences in the effect caused by people of different weights, which is purely empirical. After pointing out all the traces to the studious two, Pannis unfolded his folding shovel and thrust it into the place he had pointed out. After digging a few times, he frowned: "Be mentally prepared, it is estimated that it is a bit visually stimulating." ”

"What is it?" Lina leaned over and asked, "Corpses?"

"Yes, it's a corpse. Pannis nodded: "As for the murderers, it should be the white-backed venom gland fox, I smell the venom they spew." ”

"Poison Gland Fox?" Lina flipped through the Warcraft Illustrated Book in her hand, turned to the page she was looking for very familiarly, and looked at the pictures on the page. The fox in the picture is gray-yellow all over, with a narrow linear white hair on its back, swollen cheeks, and the skin on its gills is very thin, looking crystal clear: "There are three kinds of magical beasts in the flash forest that use liquid spitting as weapons, and we have encountered two of them in the past few days?"

"I haven't touched it yet. Pannis corrected, "Just came across a corpse that died of Venom." ”

As the shovel was excavated, the rest of the people also smelled the pungent and pungent smell, and the victims gradually emerged from under the fallen leaves, and the corpses could only be described as miserable. The white-backed poisonous glandular fox is a small and medium-sized monster that lives in groups, often twenty to thirty in a group, and its body is only the size of a domestic dog. Unlike the dinosaurs that can spew acid and have a variety of attacks, the most terrifying attack weapon of the venom gland fox is only venom. But correspondingly, their venom reserves are very large, they can be sprayed more than a dozen times in a row, and the amount of spray is large, the spray speed is fast, and the coverage is wide, plus often dozens of venom are sprayed at the same time, which will make a small area like a deadly poisonous rain. Against this kind of demonic beast, if you can't escape the coverage of the venom in time, you can only open your shield and hold it hard. However, because of the high corrosive toxicity of the venom and the high spray frequency, even if it is hard to support, the fighting energy reserves of the silver-level professional cannot support the opponent's stored venom to be exhausted, so this kind of small and medium-sized demonic beast with the highest level is only the silver level, but the danger level is set very high.

It was clear that the victim didn't have time to open the shield, or the shield didn't run out of venom to support the foxes, so he was sprayed in the face by the venom. The back of the corpse's head was intact, and thick blonde hair could be seen, but the front of the head was unrecognizable, leaving no trace of flesh and skin, only a skull with green and black slime, and occasional fine streaks of blood between the mucus. Part of the skull was white, the other part was blackened by venom, and there was still some flesh left on the edges of the sides of the skull, and the remaining flesh still had blisters left by corrosion. The corpse's eyes had been corroded away, and its mouth was as long as it could, and you can imagine the screams of pain before dying. There weren't many injuries on the corpse's body, only a small amount of venom splashed on the body, eroding the clothes and flesh into a few large holes.

Pannis pressed the hands and feet of the corpse, turned over the relics of the corpse, and said in a deep voice: "Dead for about six hours, spell-casting professional, judging by the physical fitness, should belong to the silver level." Judging from his relics, they should belong to the elemental mage, and the burning mark may be the spell he unleashed. It seems that their squad was besieged by the foxes, and he must have died of carelessness before he could open his shield when he was attacked. The rest of the people don't seem to be doing well, although they buried their teammates, but from the point of view of sloppiness, it is obviously not optimistic. So they chose to flee after burying their teammates, and as for the foxes, they should have caught up. ”

"Does the other party have anything to do with the thieves?" Catherine asked with a frown.

"How do I know. Pannis shrugged, pointed to the corpse, and said, "I just asked him, and he won't answer me." ”

"Maybe it will matter. Catherine paced back and forth and said, "Let's catch up and see." ”

Pannis snickered, Vivien snickered, and Lina snickered.

Dora rolled her eyes and said angrily: "Senior sister, if you want to go to the rescue, just say it, and find such an unconvincing reason." Even if there are mages in the thief group, it is a rare resource, how can a silver-level mage be allowed to participate in the operation of a small force? Obviously, this is just an adventure group. Besides, watching and helping each other is the first rule of professional survival in the wild, and no one will blame you for such a decision, so why bother making excuses?"

Catherine smiled awkwardly and asked Pannis, "Where did they flee?"

"No, you can't. Pannis replied dryly, "They are clever enough to escape from the tree, otherwise they would not have been able to escape." But then I can't track it. ”

"That's right. Catherine was a little disappointed, thinking in embarrassment.

"Maybe, I can. Lina stroked her silver hair and said uncertainly, "You wait, I'll ask." ”