The retreat plan was implemented in an intense and orderly manner.

Unlike a well-trained army, it takes longer to rally the city's citizens to retreat. Therefore, the leaders of the Confederate forces decided to give six hourglasses for their money.

During this time, the Union forces were primarily responsible for clearing out reliable retreat routes. Thinking that there was still an army of monsters inside and outside the city, they couldn't swagger open the city gate to evacuate, so they had to find another way.

And in this regard, the fat mayor of Soft Maple City has made a great contribution.

He found the new thief in the city—and after Wither's disappearance, an obscure thief emerged to inherit the "legacy" of old Charlen—and tortured him.

Thanks to the thief's confession, the leaders of the Union Army learned of the secret passage located in the "Charron Tavern", and they immediately sent someone to widen and strengthen it.

The first batch of laborers were all members of the death squad who had just picked up a life from the battlefield. They carried shovels on their shoulders and their eyes were full of fear. The soldiers were on the sidelines to supervise and watch over the group.

Occasionally, a few roars came from the dark cavern, like a dying volcano muttering to itself. For those who have faced an army of monsters, these sounds are not good memories.

"There are no monsters in there, just some alchemy-domesticated digging worms," the mercenary leader sat on a low table next to the tunnel, and explained to the laborers.

It turned out that in order to speed up the progress of the project, the fat mayor of Soft Maple City mobilized some alchemists to help, and each of them brought a digging worm that is usually used to produce a raw material for alchemy.

Despite the word "worm" in its name, the Digger is not an insect, but a magical beast. When they reach adulthood, they are about the size of horses, with six legs and a shovel-like paw.

Normally, alchemists collect the oral secretions of the digging insects, which are thick, corrosive liquids with a certain acidity. But with a little treatment, it can be made into a very good solvent. In addition, the old skin shed by the burrowing insects every year can also be used to make containers for certain corrosive alchemical potions.

It's just that the purpose of bringing in the digging insects now is to let them exert their housekeeping instinct - digging into the ground. Their palate and feet are ideal for digging.

In addition to rocks with a lot of permafrost and metallic minerals, the speed at which the diggers can dig under soft soil, gravel, gravel and other terrain is absolutely astonishing.

And, through the viscous, corrosive liquid secreted from the mouth, the digging worm can reinforce the excavated cavern into a solid passage.

With these little burrowers, the dispatch of those laborers is really just to make a start, responsible for carrying the soil and gravel dug up by the diggers with tools.

When the tunnel was widened and reinforced, the alchemists turned around and left with their diggers, and they had to hurry up to refine the fiery glue and shock oil.

The first to descend into the tunnel was the leader of the rebel army, who had been silent for the past two days.

Rake wants to talk to Quest after coming to Soft Maple City, but only gets a reply like "wait two days". He had some grievances and some rifts in his heart, but when he witnessed the battle that broke out after the monster army poured into Soft Maple City, all these emotions disappeared - it was indeed not the time to chat, and he had to wait two days.

The reason why he will be the first to go down is because the tunnel leads directly to the outskirts of Juniper Village. He had to take the people back to the village first, evacuate the villagers and the rebels, and lead them to Emerald Wood City one step ahead of schedule.

He was followed by a black-armored knight who was by Grimm's side. With him with him, the rake would not have to worry about being intercepted by the defenders of Emerald Wood City as an enemy, so it would be convenient for them to evacuate quickly.

After walking an hourglass hour or so, the group finally walked the tunnel. In fact, if they hadn't had to install a torch on the wall of the tunnel every other distance, they would have been able to walk out of it in half an hourglass.

"It's only half a league from Juniper Village," said the rake a little speechlessly, standing in a grave circle, "but no one has found out for several years that there is a secret passage that leads directly to Soft Maple City." ”

"It must be because it's so remote here, and there's no one or anything," Rake's men chimed in, but the black-armored knight who followed Rake didn't say anything, he just looked around cautiously.

Now that he had come out of the tunnel, the rake did not delay his work any longer. He led the group out of the cemetery quickly, came to a man-made path, and walked in the direction of Juniper Village.

There is a thin layer of snow in the forest, and when they step on it, they make a "rustling" sound. By this time, night had quietly fallen, and the path through the woods had become darker, and one of the rebel soldiers following the rake had taken out a lantern and wanted to light it.

"Don't light the fire," the black-armored knight, who had been silent all along, quickly approached the soldier and grabbed his wrist at once. "Something didn't seem right, I smelled blood. ”

Because of this reminder from the black knight, the rake immediately reacted. He immediately pulled a small leather pouch from his bosom, squeezed out a small amount of crimson ointment from it, and quickly rubbed it into his nostrils.

It is an alchemical potion called "Hound Blood" that can improve the user's sense of smell for a short time. With the help of a foreign object, the rake also confirmed that the black knight was right, and that there was indeed a faint smell of blood in the air.

Thinking of the army of monsters he had encountered in the past few days, the rake immediately thought of something, "Oh no! Juniper Village may have been attacked by monsters, and the defenders here can't stop that group of vicious monsters." ”

Leading troops to fight all year round, this alchemist-turned-rebel leader has a ability to resist pressure far beyond his peers.

The rake did not give the order for his men to go to Juniper Village, but stretched out his palm and told them to disperse a little bit in sign language, so as not to let the possible enemy encompass them all.

Then, he glanced at the black-armored knight and nodded at him as well. The group of people carefully took out their weapons, lowered their bodies, and slowly groped in the direction of Juniper Village.

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