The moonlight was like a wash, and two figures crept out of the woods and walked in the direction of the Thousand Star Lake, it was Dio and the wild man.

As the saying goes, knowing the enemy and winning all battles, you must first understand the strength of the enemy before you can make a decision, as for what Raymond said at that time, no matter how many enemies there are, they will also kill them, that is just a joke, no one takes it seriously.

The Roaring Beast is easy to spot at night, and Gordon can only stay and take care of the Roaring Beast, after all, the Roaring Beast has been tamed for a short time, and the wild surname has not been removed, and he is worried that he will never find the Roaring Beast again after walking around.

Raymond was also left behind by Dio, and the earth warriors were not suitable to go out to reconnoitre, and if they were discovered by the enemy, Raymond would not be able to escape at all.

Two hours later, Dio and the savage had approached the Thousand Star Lake, in fact, this area is a swamp area, the so-called Thousand Star Lake, is composed of countless large and small pools, and on a moonlit night, those pools will reflect the moonlight, from a distance, like countless pearls sprinkled on the earth, quietly releasing light, and as if the sky is falling on the world, every little glimmer is a star, so it is named Thousand Star Lake.

The news he received from Parker was vague, after all, Parker was dying at that time, and it was difficult to communicate, and Dio only knew that the first fragment of the best star was found by an adventurer in a cave twenty miles south of Thousand Star Lake.

Approaching the Thousand Star Lake, Dio and the wild man turned south, and a continuous mountain range appeared in front of them, and after several hours, they finally reached the foot of the mountain.

Along the way, they encountered more than a dozen patrols, but the two of them had relatively small targets, and Dio was very good at lurking, and the wild man was even better than Dio in this regard, he could always spot the enemy in front of him, whether bright or dark, and then tell Dio with gestures.

So, although the moonlight was bright tonight, they kept walking without danger.

There was a camp at the foot of the mountain, and judging from the size of the tents, the number of bandits here should be about sixty or seventy, and with the patrols along the way, as well as the open and secret posts, the Franvian bandits should have gathered here more than a hundred.

Dio and the savage cautiously climbed to the top of the mountain from the other side, but fortunately the peak was not high, according to Theo's calculations, the vertical height was around two or three hundred meters, and it only took half an hour for them to climb to the top.

It is very difficult to find a cave in this continuous mountain range, especially now that it is night, no matter how bright the moonlight is, it cannot replace the sun, and their visual distance is very limited, but Dio has his own idea, where there are voices and lights, go wherever there is light.

The method proved to be effective, and soon Theo and the savage followed the light of the torches to find a hollow.

A narrow cave appeared before them, and at the entrance of the cave stood dozens of samurai on guard.

After this period of tempering, Dio has developed a fairly accurate observation, before, he needs to pay attention to what kind of medal the other party wears, in order to make a judgment, if he does not wear a medal, only use the way of battle to find out the strength of the other party, now there is no need, eyes, temperament, walking posture, etc., can provide him with information.

People who are accustomed to command, even if they are just a small leader, have a different demeanor from those ordinary thieves who do chores and do cannon fodder.

And those samurai standing at the entrance of the cave, although they are always vigilant, but their complexions are calm and their eyes are powerful, they are likely to be the elite samurai of the bandit group. In other words, the worst strength in it should also be a mid-level radiant warrior, although some people wear weapons, but this is not the only criterion for judging whether the other party is a radiant warrior, Sophia's father's friend, he likes to carry a terrifying giant axe, and even Raymond always carries a round shield?

No wonder they didn't feel any resistance all the way, the elite warriors of the Franvi bandit group were all gathered here! Dio frowned slightly, when they just marched towards the Chris Plains, they often encountered groups of three or five samurai...... These bandits had also just discovered the mining area, and the news had not reached the outside world, so there were still many bandits searching aimlessly on the Chris Plains.

But why concentrate all the elite samurai here? At least they should guard the cave in groups and take turns resting, not all of them together.

A few naked men came out of the cave, they were really naked, not to mention underwear such as pants, they didn't even have shoes, although it was summer, and they wouldn't feel cold without clothes, but the mosquitoes all over the mountains would make them suffer deeply.

The warriors at the entrance of the cave immediately surrounded them, and took a handful of large and small stones from the hands of those big men, some of which were shining, and the discerning person knew at a glance that they were fragments of stars, while some of them were so plain that they needed to be broken with a hammer to really judge whether the stones were valuable or not.

In fact, this kind of work will not go wrong, most of the star fragments have to rely on the samurai themselves to sense, sense whether there are source force fluctuations in the stone, if there is, there must be star fragments hidden in it.

As for the ones that the savages took out, they were all processed by people.

At the entrance of the cave, several samurai swirled hammers and smashed the stones one by one, then found the shards of the stars and handed them to their companions.

There were also a few samurai who were carefully searching the men, it stands to reason that a naked [***] person, there is no need to search carefully, and there is no place to hide anything on their bodies, but those samurai still check carefully, pluck their ears, touch their hair, make those big men open their mouths, and finally even let those men pout their buttocks.

Seeing this scene, Dio had a very strange feeling in his heart, in another world, I am afraid that the strictest prison is nothing more than that.

When the inspection was finished, the big men nodded and left the cave, walked out, then picked up the clothes that had been thrown on the ground, put them on and yawned and walked into the woods, where there was a small camp, almost seven or eight tents, apparently they had finished their work for the day, and now they were going to sleep.

One of the samurai was carefully recording the numbers, and not alone, and when all the shards of the stars were gathered together, one of the samurai brought a swarthy box, and finally they put the shards of the stars in the box and put a seal on it.

Dio made a preliminary estimate, there were a total of four men, and more than 100 star fragments were mined at a time, but he didn't know how long they had been working, and in this situation, he also knew that he couldn't get in, and he couldn't estimate the scale of the mining area.

After the box was sealed, a samurai left the cave with the box in his hand and walked towards the opposite hillside, followed by seven or eight samurai.

Dio somewhat understood, so many warriors gathered together, it seems that it is not for the purpose of protecting anything, but for mutual supervision, for people engaged in the profession of banditry, there should be no sense of honor and responsibility, maybe as long as the opportunity arises, someone will flee with the shards of the stars.

Dio gently tugged at the wild man, and the two men silently followed the warriors and felt their way up the hill.

The savage was a little unclear about Dio's intentions, stretched out his fist, and gestured to those warriors, Dio immediately shook his head, if he was surprised, he had a certain hope of intercepting these star fragments, but he didn't want to startle the snake, although those star fragments were already a windfall, but they were still far from his goal.

The warriors climbed to the top of the mountain and turned down the road, never dreaming that in the dark woods there were two pairs of shining eyes watching them.

As the warriors approached the camp at the foot of the mountain, they were greeted by someone who was talking in a low voice, when the savage suddenly sensed someone approaching behind him, and hurriedly pulled Dio to hide in a bush.

Eight warriors walked briskly past them, and Dio recognized them, all of them standing in front of the cave.

When the second group of samurai also entered the camp, both sides took out their ledger-like things, and then the box was opened, and the people in the camp carefully counted the number of star fragments, and then took the ledger to look at.

Dio wanted to laugh a little, after so many 'formalities', the possibility of cheating should be very small, is Franvi so worried about his subordinates?

The next moment, the box was closed again, and the seal was resealed, and a familiar figure jumped into Dio's eyes.

Firefox Judith!!

After such a long recuperation, Judith's injuries had healed, and her expression looked good, and the warriors brought the box to Judith, who took the box and turned to walk towards a carriage.

Dio knew how powerful Judith was, he held his breath, his eyes looked at the carriage without blinking, and when the door opened, by the light of the candlesticks in the carriage, he could clearly see that there were several rows of boxes in the carriage, and there should be more than thirty in number.

At this time, Dio also noticed another detail, the warrior who was guarding in front of the cave returned with a ledger, while the warrior who remained in the camp hid the other ledger to watch his sneaky movements, obviously avoiding Judith.

Even Judith didn't believe it?Dio laughed dumbly, the bandit leader Franvi, who had admired the name for a long time, should be a very suspicious person, which is also reasonable, if he was not suspicious and cunning enough, maybe Franvi would have died in a certain purge of the Marquis of Sain, and he would not have survived at all.

Dio quietly made a gesture to the wildling, Judith's presence made the original plan of him and Raymond and the others meaningless, only Judith was alone, they could try it, but with so many high-level light warriors, they would definitely not be pleased.

(To be continued)