This time to participate in the purge of the Defia Brotherhood, Yang Long not only wanted to take Van Cleef's head and pass the personal test of the Hunter Organization, but also to reap a lot of benefits in this operation.

The improvement of strength is only one aspect, the key point is that Yang Long wants to find an opportunity to see if he can cultivate some loyal private armed forces in a place far away from the kingdom's power, or find a hidden hiding place.

For now, the Death Mine is a good place to be.

Therefore, Gerard Bell, who was monitoring Yang Long, became an existence that had to die, and as for whether killing the core members of this hunter organization would lead to death, Yang Long couldn't care so much.

However, it seems that the old butcher is lucky, and after careful examination, he did not find a magical item on Gerald Bell that was used to communicate and convey messages, making it much less likely to be found.

"Maybe spying on me is just the private behavior of this unlucky guy?" Yang Long's solemnity in his heart was slightly relieved after raising his hand and unleashing a puff of flame, incinerating the body of the shadow thief, and there were no other professionals within a kilometer of the vicinity.

Although Yang Long didn't know where the Brotherhood of Defia's lair, especially Edwin Van Cleeff, the target of this operation, was hiding in the Death Mine, he knew that there was nothing wrong with walking low.

Now that Yang Long has joined the hunters, killing Van Cleef is only one of the main tasks, but not the only one.

As a candidate with the potential to become the leader of the next generation of hunters. In addition to the tasks that must be completed, there are actually some other uncertain pieces of information that can be used as a criterion for evaluating the results of Yang Long's trial.

One of the most important is the information that MI7 bought at a great expense from goblins half a year ago.

That is the authenticity of the Defia Brotherhood, whether they are really secretly building giant gunboats in an attempt to raid Stormwind City one day, if they can confirm this one thing and can provide accurate coordinate information, they will be able to pass the trial normally.

For a number of other reasons. Yang Long was not told all this. There was still only one way for him to complete the trial by killing Van Cleef, but that didn't stop him from finding Van Cleef's location with other information.

Since the Brotherhood of Defia, it is quite possible that gunboats are being built in secret, then for the convenience of launching into the water. The elevation of the hull area of the cast is not too far from sea level.

To know the location of the City of Moon Creek. It is hundreds of kilometers away from the Endless Sea to the west. And the altitude is at least 2,300 meters, and if you want to accommodate the next gunboat that can threaten Stormwind City, the area where the ship is cast must not be too far from the sea.

"Although these cannon fodder in front of me are not of much use. But just in case, let's continue to take them for a few days. Yang Long watched the corpse turn into ashes, pondered for a moment and then made a decision, striding forward before catching up with the large army.

The sound of fighting in the rear, especially the first explosion, was heard by the soldiers on the march, and the army, which had been in a state of depression for several days, was stimulated to show extreme instability.

With the exception of a handful of veterans of the local army, more than 4,000 soldiers were noisy and wanted to return to fight the "enemy", and even two of the five officers could not hold back.

But when Yang Long's lonely figure strode from the rear, the whole team fell into silence, and no one came up to ask Yang Long what was going on, and the old butcher didn't mean to explain.

Only Matilda Valen, who had a certain understanding of Gerard Bell and had privately speculated about whether this shadow thief might be following Yang Long, secretly looked carefully several times with a puzzled look, and found that Yang Long seemed to have no traces of battle before giving up.

After all, in the eyes of this twelfth-order high-ranking berserk female warrior, Gerald Bell, who was a core member of the hunter and a disciple of the second leader, was no weaker than an adventurer of the same rank, and the only one who could defeat him without difficulty was a pseudo-super-rank powerhouse.

This idea is actually not wrong, even Gerard Bell, who has just become a disciple of the second leader, has not yet received the true guidance of the teacher, and it is definitely not something that Yang Long can easily kill.

However, Matilda Valen didn't expect that the shadow thief, who was a professional in the Yin and used sneak attacks as his housekeeping skills, would actually be ambushed by Yang Long, a "dual-talent battle mage", and died a clean death for no apparent reason.

And this act of secretly observing Yang Long, also under the old butcher's open perception at all times, was clearly revealed, making her the primary target on Yang Long's list of exterminations.

Under the careful command of Yang Long, an army of nearly 5,000 people kept walking through a passage that was lower than the other, and after two days of time, it finally discovered the code left by Cromwell's army.

This discovery greatly boosted the morale of the army, and after three days of rapid marching in the direction pointed by the code, they began to encounter some small groups of Defia Brotherhood troops one after another.

The army, which had already been extremely uncomfortable, suddenly burst out with great fighting spirit, destroying all the enemies it encountered, and after some torture, it found the passage to the "shipbuilding workshop", and rushed madly all the way.

In the past few days, Yang Long has not made a single move, and every day, in addition to the necessary cultivation of martial arts, is a silent quiet place, recovering his strength for the encounter with Van Cleeff at any time.

Another day passed, and just as Yang Long had fully recovered to his energetic state, after several days of fighting, the army, which had been reduced to more than 4,000 people, finally entered a gentle channel.

Compared with the passage they had walked in the past few days, the passage that the soldiers marched through at this time was more spacious, and the gravel road that had been deliberately leveled was no longer damp mud and sand.

And every more than 100 meters away, on the side wall of the passage up to 30 meters wide, there is an oil lamp, a small part of which is still emitting light, illuminating the dim passages one by one.

Needless to say, the professionals knew that they had arrived at the enemy's lair, and every soldier began to get nervous, unconsciously raising their vigilance to the highest level, paying close attention to their surroundings to guard against the enemy's sudden attack.

However, until they walked a few kilometers away, there was still no enemy situation in the entire passage, and the soldiers, who had been nervous for a while, had just breathed a sigh of relief, but they were confronted by a group of adventurers.

A group of adventurers on the run, to be exact.

There were about twelve or thirteen adventurers in this group, and except for a middle-aged woman who looked like a priest, all of them were young and middle-aged, and their average strength was about the upper rank of the fourth order.

It is said that they are on the run because these adventurers are unkempt and dirty, and almost everyone is more or less injured except for the priest who looks languishing, and looks very desolate and miserable.

Seeing the appearance of the clearing troops, these adventurers were startled at first, and when they saw clearly that the army belonged to the Storm Kingdom, the horror in their eyes quickly faded, and they didn't care about the army, and they were about to leave when they stepped aside, but were stopped by the soldiers.

If they were in other circumstances, even if the adventurer was hit like this, a soldier who was an ordinary professional would not dare to embarrass these powerful beings.

However, now in the deep underground tunnel, no one present dared to guarantee that they would be able to return to the surface alive, and the soldiers who had been aggrieved for many days also let go of all their worries at this time and directly confronted the adventurers.

Although at an absolute disadvantage in the comparison of strengths, more than a dozen adventurers still refused to bow their heads, and the entanglement at the front of the team quickly developed into a confrontation with bad intentions, and a battle could occur at any time

(To be continued......)