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"Welcome to the Glittering Forest, the third largest forest on the continent. On the evening of the second day after stepping into the jungle, the young guide, who was only fourteen years old and slightly pale in skin and had a thin and short stature, suddenly stopped, turned to the crowd and said, "Brothers and sisters, are you ready? ”

The young guide's name is Elard, a professional of the Black Iron Order, whose grandfather moved to Spindle Village when he was young, and has lived here ever since. Three years ago, Elard's father died on a solitary forest hunt, leaving Elad alone without any relatives. Young Elad followed his grandfather and father into the forest from an early age, inheriting not only their hunting skills, but almost all of their experience, and at least a third of the nearly 100,000 square kilometers of forest has set foot on his tracks. With these skills, he made a career as a guide for adventurers entering the jungle, and received enough money to enrich him for the rest of his life, but his love for the forest from the bottom of his heart made him unable to escape this life, risking his father's adventure into the jungle again and again.

When the village chief first led Elad to meet everyone, everyone was taken aback by his age, and even thought that the village chief had introduced him as a guide in order to give the fatherless Elad some source of livelihood, but the village chief introduced that Elad had gone into the jungle alone many times, and even entered the core of the forest many times - the territory of many legendary monsters - to collect herbs, and even swore that he was the best hunter and guide in the village. After a brief five-minute chat with Elad, Pannis assures everyone that what the village chief said is true, and that the boy is indeed very familiar with everything in the forest. Everyone heard the conversation between the two, but no one understood why Pannis could come to such a conclusion, but this did not prevent Catherine and Lina from trusting Pannis, and Catherine's confidence in Pannis affected Dora, and everyone reluctantly accepted the young guide.

"There was only confidence and impatience in his emotions. Vivien whispered to Panis and Catherine, "This man is probably quite a good guide. ”

So a group of ten people entered the jungle under the leadership of Elard. After two days of dreary walking in the sparse jungle, everyone noticed that the scenery in the distance had changed. The original forest was also covered with trees, but the distance between the trees was so sparse that it could accommodate horse-drawn carriages. The forest in the distance I saw now seemed to be separated by an invisible dividing line, and at the other end of the dividing line, the trees suddenly became dense and tall, and the canopies were layered on top of each other, and from a distance it looked like a black oppression. It was only then that Elad uttered a long-overdue welcome speech, signaling that the trip to the Flash Forest was about to begin.

"Didn't we walk through the glittering forest before?" said the gray squirrel, wrapped in a dusty cloak, with a pointed chin and two beards, in a sharp voice, "Why is it now the beginning of the forest journey?"

"Can that be called a forest?" Elad's tone was full of disdain, "it's just a bush at best." If you think that the forest is like the previous ones, then you might as well go back now, the real forest is much harder than you think. ”

"Alright, let's set up camp. Dora stopped the gray squirrel from arguing: "Gray squirrel, you go prepare firewood, Shadow Wolf, you go find some prey nearby, be careful not to get lost, Night Stalker and Phantom Fox, you two find some edible wild vegetables and wild fruits nearby, go now." Mr. Elard, you are familiar with the forest, there should be a water source nearby, can you go and get some clean water back, thank you. ”

"Okay, everyone is gone. Watching several people leave one after another, Pannis and the four ladies began to tidy up the camp, and while carrying out their work, Pannis asked, "Now that we have come in with us, can we tell the truth?"

"What, what's the truth?" said Dora, a little unnaturally, "I didn't tell a lie. ”

"We're not stupid. Catherine said dissatisfiedly, "Do you really think we can't hear your question?"

"What's the problem? Dora decided to play dumb to the end.

"Don't give up, okay, I'll tell you something. Catherine sneered and said: "First, if your head is not in the right mind, he will never send you a gold rank and forty silver ranks to the forest to clear out the thousand thieves group with four gold ranks and more than thirty silver ranks, this is not a clean-up, this is death, no mercenary group leader would be stupid enough to let a gold-level captain-level high-level to carry out this kind of death mission." Second, you don't refuse such a task, but run happily to carry it out, which shows that either you have a problem with your brain, or the task has an inside story. ”

"Thirdly, the night before your departure, when we met for the last time, you told us that your original plan was completely flawed nonsense, and you can tell that it was improvised to make up the numbers. It seems that you are not an idiot, you are not stupid enough to carry out such a high-risk mission without making a careful plan, and if what you said before is the so-called careful plan, if I were your regiment leader, I would have kicked you out of the mercenary group a long time ago, which means that you must have changed your plan on the other hand when you told us, why did you change the plan? just to cover up your lies. Lina still maintained a expressionless posture, and said coldly in a tone without ups and downs: "And as the top of the mercenary group, as the captain of the column, when the plan you formulated was completely rejected by Pannis, you did not have any arguments, but took advantage of the situation to agree to Pannis's plan. This shows that you are not optimistic about your so-called plan in the first place, and you also think that it is not feasible. But the problem is, what do you do if you don't have a viable plan? This is your fourth vulnerability. ”

"How?" Catherine glared at Dora, "Do you want me to continue?"

"No need. Dora smiled bitterly and shook her head: "I also knew that I couldn't hide it from you in the end, but I didn't expect you to find out the problem so early." ”

"Less nonsense. Catherine looked at the cleared clearing, where the thick fallen leaves had been swept aside, revealing the damp soil of the ground. At the edge of the clearing, a one-meter-high metal pole is erected every two meters, and the metal poles are connected by metal nets, so that the fallen leaves outside are completely isolated from the inside of the camp. Seeing the initial formation of the camp, Catherine nodded with satisfaction, ready to start setting up the tent, and did not forget to say to Dora very fiercely when tidying up: "Hurry up, what is going on." ”

"Wait a minute. Pannis abruptly stopped Dora and walked over to Vivien. Vivien, who had not been involved in the cleanup of the camp from the beginning, had been resting against a tree, and was even lying on the ground by this time, when Pannis came over and said, "Get up first, don't lie here." ”

"What's wrong?" Vivien was looking up at the canopy above, and when she heard Pannis's question, she asked suspiciously, "It's good here, the leaves are soft and comfortable." ”

"This is a habit that must not be formed. Pannis said solemnly: "Now it may be a little better here, after really entering the forest, there are often a large number of highly poisonous insects and snakes hidden under the fallen leaves, so you must not lie on the fallen leaves for a long time." Go to the camp and get a sleeping bag and lie down for a while, there will be no danger there. ”

"Oh, okay. Vivien barely took Pennis's hand and got up, staggering into the cleaned camp area.

"Okay, let's talk. Pannis said to Dora, "Actually, we guessed a little. ”

"Actually, I'm hiding a little bit. Dora was a little embarrassed and said, "It's true that the thieves are here, and it's true that the head of the group sent us, but the mission is a little different." The task given to me by the head of the regiment is just to detect the traces of the thief group and then send someone to monitor it, as for the subsequent purge, after I came back to report the news, I waited until the end of the Warcraft invasion period, and then the captain of the first mercenary ** team led people to clean it up. And the other party only originally had four golden ranks, and they were all golden beginners, but it is said that one died two months ago, and now there are only three golden beginner professionals. ”

"Why lie to us. Catherine asked: "You came to us for help, do you really want to exterminate the thieves with us, why do you have to exterminate it yourself and not according to the original plan?"

"Well, for very personal reasons. Dora was a little embarrassed: "The captain of the first brigade has some ...... for me Attempt, but I don't like this guy very much, so I want to disgust him in this way. ”

"It's naïve. Catherine rolled her eyes and commented, "And what about your original plan?"

"The original plan was actually quite simple. Dora said: "Forty-one people, three people acting alone, the rest of me with me, each group of people at an interval of three hundred meters to search in a net." The people selected are all relatively powerful people, and if they are in a group of three, even if the gold-level demonic beasts sneak attack, it is enough to support others to come to the rescue. And the goal of the three people is relatively small, and it is also more flexible. ”

"This is a normal person's solution. Catherine nodded in agreement with Dora's claim.

"There are still problems. But Pannis didn't fully accept it, and asked: "Using your method, searching for a thousand hidden people in a hundred thousand square kilometers of forest is no different from finding a grain of sand of different shapes from the desert, and you must know something." ”

"I only know that it is in the southeast of the Golden Monster region of the Glitter Forest. Dora said: "You also know that the closer the outer level of the demonic beasts in the flash forest, the lower the rank, so the territory of the gold-level demonic beasts is quite deep into the forest, and I know that the southeast, the range is not particularly large, and I can find out when I get closer." ”

"Okay, I see. Pannis nodded: "You have an inside line." ”

"You, how do you know?" Dora shouted in surprise: "Don't talk about this, there is a thief group who secretly surrendered to us, but because the thieves group controls the news too strictly, they can only send us such vague information by all means, but that person must not have been found yet, and he must still be alive." ”

"Presumably, within a certain range, you have a way to sense the existence of the inner line. Pannis said, "I just don't know how big that is?"

"A radius of one kilometer. Dora covered her face and sighed, "How can you guess anything?"

"Do you know what the concept of a 100,000 square kilometer area is?" Pannis shrugged and teased, "If you don't have this method of perception, you may not be able to find each other in the forest for a lifetime." ”

"Okay. Dora stretched out her hands helplessly: "I have explained the truth, what are you going to do later? ”

"Verdict?" Catherine walked around behind Dora and Pannis, and kicked them in the ass, "Since just now, you two have only talked and not done things, hurry up and get out of my work." ”

"Yes, Senpai. Dora understood Catherine's words, and rushed to Lina's side to help her set up the tent. Lina glanced at her expressionlessly and said indifferently, "Over there." ”

"What?" asked Dora, inexplicably.

"Go over there. Lina mechanically gestured to another tent.

"Ahh

"Get in the way. ”

"Okay, okay. Dora was pushed aside with a sad face, and on the way she almost tripped over Vivien, who was lying in the middle of the camp: "Wow, why are you lying in the middle of the road?"

Vivien opened her eyes and glanced at Dora with a very bored look, not even bothering to speak, and closed her eyes again and fell into deep thought.