"What's the matter?" Hearing Wang Xu's muffled exclamation, Nilou asked, stooping out of the carriage, "There is an enemy?"

When Nilou got out of the half-human-high pine carriage, stood firm, and followed Wang Xu's gaze in the direction of the Elven Forest, suddenly, she raised her eyebrows, her eyes widened, and she involuntarily whispered, "Hmm......"

After seeing Wang Xu and Nilou's reaction, Zana, who was still sitting in the carriage, teleported, and stood beside Wang Xu, and also looked there, it didn't matter, in an instant, Zhana was also stunned, the expression on her face froze, her small and pink mouth was half open, and she didn't say anything for a long time.

I saw that less than 200 meters away from the carriage was an area about the size of two football fields, which should have been a forest, but at this moment, it was burned to the ground by fire, and the ground was covered with a layer of black soot, and the soot layer was full of dense footprints.

Judging from the size of the footprints, it can be judged that these footprints are orcs, and they seem to be kobolds in the beast clan, because those footprints are obviously dog's paw prints that have been magnified countless times.

In that area of carbon gray covered with footprints, there is a circle of purple totem poles, four or five meters high, about three to four meters apart from each other, each totem pole is painted with different patterns, and no totem pole has the same pattern on it.

There are about one or two hundred of all the painted toms, and the area enclosed by them is probably not much larger than a football field.

Just these scenes did not surprise Wang Xu and them, what surprised Wang Xu and them the most was that from the top of each totem pole, there were four or five dark yellow hemp ropes hanging down, and the end of the hemp rope was all wrapped with a bunch of long green braids, and under the braids, all of them were connected with a seven-hole bleeding elf head.

In the circular area enclosed by the totem pole, near the position of the totem pole, there are all circular shallow pits with a diameter of one or two meters and a depth of more than one meter, and the pits are full of black viscous liquid, as if something has been burned.

Wang Xu took a closer look, and took half a step back in shock, and he found that the pit was full of burned corpses, and those viscous liquids were the corpse oil that had been burned by the broken corpses.

In the center of the area enclosed by the totem pole, there is a circle of pebbles of the same size, all the pebbles are green, obviously, each pebble has been soaked in the blood of the elves, and the source of the blood must be the owner of the elven heads hanging on the totem poles.

"Kobold!" Nilou was furious, her eyes widened, her eyebrows raised above her hairline, her mouth grinned, her teeth clenched, her nose trembled slightly, her fists clenched so tightly that she could hear her fingers rubbing against the skin of her palms, and even the black sorcerer's cloak she wore bulged out without wind, and the cloak was filled with terrifying fluctuations of botanical magic, and even the ground beneath her feet began to crack, and the cracks spread into the distance like spider webs, and the earth kept howling "click, click, click.......

Seeing that Nilou was about to go crazy, and it was a frenzy without an object, Wang Xu hurriedly raised his hand to hold her shoulder, trying to calm her emotions, but in an instant, Wang Xu felt a huge flow of plant-based magic elements flowing from Nilou's shoulders to himself, and in an instant, Wang Xu, who felt that he was struggling to bear this flow of plant-based magic elements, quickly directed this energy along his meridians to the ground.

I saw that from Wang Xu's feet, in an instant, a calf-high dogtail grass spread.

Seeing that the covered area of the dogtail grass was about to approach the totem pole, Wang Xu hurriedly spoke out to stop it: "Don't ruin the scene, if it is destroyed, we will not be able to find the traces left by the enemy!"

"Hmph!" Snorted angrily, Nilou put away the magical energy of her body, her expression was still very angry, and her breathing rate became very fast, but after Nilou put away the magical energy on her body, the growing area of the dogtail army on the ground stopped the trend of continuing to spread.

Suddenly, the leader of the elven mercenary group hired by Wang Xu, the great swordsman Arnold, walked next to Wang Xu, and said to Wang Xu with an angry expression that was distorted: "You don't mind if I send a signal flare to call the Praetorian Guards guarding the forest, in this case, the Praetorian Guards must be notified, this is my responsibility and obligation as a member of the elves!"

Arnold did not know the identity of Wang Xu, who was hired by the mercenary group of twelve people by posing as a merchant, and Nilou and Zana were pretending to be Wang Xu's wife.

At this moment, Wang Xu was wearing a gorgeous purple Shu brocade merchant robe, and inside the long run was his Mithril battle armor, of course, Arnold couldn't see what Wang Xu was wearing in his robe, while Zana was wearing a space mage robe, and Nilou was wearing a black warlock cloak.

"When you fire a flare, if it's not the Praetorian Guards but the enemy who are attracted here first, then how do you deal with it?" After thinking for a moment, Wang Xu whispered to Arnold.

"Well......" Listening to Wang Xu's words, Arnold was stunned for a moment, he really didn't think about this, and then he realized that if he hit a signal flare and really attracted the enemy's troops first, what should he do, maybe at that time, he would also be dismantled and his head would be hung on the totem pole.

"You go and shoot the flares, hurry up!" Nilou gritted her teeth viciously and said in a hateful voice, "It's just right to attract the enemy, I'll go find them again!"

"This ......" After listening to Nilou's words, Arnold set his eyes on Wang Xu, he understood that Wang Xu was the decision-maker, Nilou was not, the person who gave himself money and took care of himself was Wang Xu, so only Wang Xu could make decisions.

"Otherwise, let's stop using flares, I'll send one of my men into the forest to look for the Praetorian Guards, it's not too far from the Praetorian Guard's defense area, and we'll be able to notify them soon!" Arnold thought of a way to do both.

"What, the defense area is not far away!" Wang Xu's brows suddenly furrowed, staring directly into Arnold's eyes, and asked in a deep voice: "In other words, if there is a fire here, then the Praetorian Guard's defense area should be able to see the fire or black smoke, right?"

"That's right!" Arnold didn't know why Wang Xu was asking this question.

"Look," Wang Xu raised his right hand and pointed to a half-burned steel shield not far away, "The pattern on the shield is not the symbol of the Praetorian Guard." ”

After listening to Wang Xu's words, Arnold turned his head to look in the direction that Wang Xu was pointing, and after seeing the birch relief on the shield, he nodded violently and said, "Yes, that is the military emblem of the Praetorian Guard!"

After speaking, just as Arnold twisted his head back with a confused expression, Wang Xu suddenly took a few steps forward and walked past him, and when Wang Xu walked to the side of the totem pole, and observed the circle made of pebbles in the area surrounded by the totem pole, his expression suddenly became gloomy.

"What's wrong?" Zana, who also came to Wang Xu's side, asked Wang Xu in a coquettish voice after glancing at the magic circle.

"Hmm......" After a moment of silence, Wang Xu looked back at Arnold behind him, and said in a heavy tone: "I think that the Praetorian Guards in the camp near here may all die here......" (To be continued. )