All plans were disrupted, even though I didn't have any serious plans. However, Rong Ruo felt that she had made the best arrangements she could make in such a situation, although it was still very risky.

In order to go into the forest to find the galaxy, Rong Ruo tried to ask the villagers of Saku Village about the direction of the people who entered the forest at that time, and even thought about finding a villager to be their guide, but the villagers in the village were very taboo about this, and did not want to talk about the matter of entering the forest at that time, let alone someone willing to be their guide, and the only help she got was a dog, or she bought it from the villagers at her expense.

Jasmine's sleigh parked in the backyard was gone, but the mule that pulled the sled was still there, and the person who had taken Xinghe last night might have dragged him away on the sleigh, which made her a little puzzled, because it was a little different from the previous disappearances in the village. However, she didn't have time to analyze, because not only was she anxious about Xinghe's disappearance, Lan Yue wanted to go into the forest to find her brother immediately, no one could stop her, and Rong Ruo knew for the first time that she still had such a tough side.

The dog he bought from the villagers was an old hound, with little energy, and it seemed that he had a hard time walking. Despite this, Rong Ruo had bought it from the villagers by virtue of her identity as a demon spirit, because in the eyes of those villagers, entering the forest was no different from dying.

They sniffed the old dog's clothes for the galaxy, and thankfully, its sense of smell had not faded, and he got up from the ground and walked into the forest, and as they entered the forest, Rong Ruo caught a glimpse of a few villagers standing behind them and pointing at them, but Anton and Lan Yue were in a hurry to find the galaxy and didn't notice this.

Last night's snowfall wiped out all tracks, making tracking difficult, and the same was true for the old hound, who struggled in the snow to find the scent of the galaxy, but slowly.

After walking for more than an hour, the old hound was tired, it stopped and crouched on the spot to gasp, and Lan Yue walked over to the hound and tried to force him to move.

"Arazuki, it needs a break. Rong Ruo opened her mouth to stop her.

Lan Yue's emotions were very excited, "If we wait here a little longer, my brother will be taken to an unknown location!"

"Satsuki, calm down, we'll find Xinghe. Anton walked over and grabbed Arazuki.

"Yes, Satsuki, Xinghe will be fine, we can only rely on this dog now, if it strikes, we will have no way to find Xinghe. Xiaoxin also persuaded her.

Lan Yue finally calmed down and let the old hound go. Rong Ruo took out some sliced sausage slices from her bag and fed them to the dog, and gave him some water, it was so old that it was still panting in place for a while after eating and drinking.

Rong Ruo didn't waste the old hound's rest, she asked Xiaoxin to test the connection with Xiaorou, that was their only means of external communication, and the two sisters had not tested the maximum distance they could reach each other, so they had to determine if the other party was still within contact every once in a while.

After resting for more than ten minutes, the old hound was finally able to get on the road again, and several children followed on the road, almost all of them had something on their minds, so the whole team was very dull, even Rong Ruo didn't say anything superfluous all the way.

Her heart was also very irritable, although she was calmer than Lan Yue and the others, but that was only because of the training she had received as an agent at Valhalla, always staying calm was the basic quality of an agent, and the more anxious she was at this time, the more useless it was.

After about the fifth or sixth break, Rong Ruo felt that everyone was already a little tired, so she stopped the team and stopped for lunch. Before entering the forest, they brought some bread from Jasmine's kitchen and exchanged some jerky and sausages from other villagers. These things can be instantaneous, after all, they can't live in the forest, so it's easy to attract attention.

They had been walking all morning, and now the place was deep enough into the forest, and for safety, Rong Ruo let Pixar go to the sky to scout, and the leprechaun could act as an excellent scout in the forest. At the same time, Rong Ruo also asked Xiaoxin to contact Xiaorou in Saku Village once, and learned from the communication that Rou and Chonggo had found some old objects in the cellar of the house, and they were checking those old things to see if there were any clues.

During the entire lunch, Lan Yue only ate half a slice of bread, which was basically the same as not eating at all. These quick foods don't taste so good, but they don't get to the point where they can't be eaten. Rong Ruo could only attribute this to the fact that her bad mood had affected her appetite, and after thinking about it again, she did not choose to persuade the other party to eat more, after all, these foods did not need to be heated, and she could eat them whenever she wanted.

It was probably when they had rested for more than twenty minutes or so that Pixar, who was observing from the sky, noticed something, something strange, but it was certain that it was not hostile. So Rong Ruo didn't tell everyone as soon as possible, after all, everyone's nerves were tense enough.

Rong Ruo walked to a tree and pretended to rest against the tree, but kept her eyes fixed on the direction Pixar told her, and soon a fawn emitting a blue light came out of the forest. She breathed a sigh of relief, it was just a spirit of nature, Mao Wen's great hunt was underway, and it was not surprising that there would be a spirit of nature in the forest.

Since it was certain that it was a spirit of nature, there was no reason to tell Arazuki about them, after all, they couldn't see the spirit of nature, and telling them that there was an invisible animal around would only make them uneasy.

Seeing that the alarm was lifted, Rong Ruo told everyone to continue on the road, the old hound may have rested enough, and behaved more actively than in the morning, it led them back and forth in the jungle, Rong Ruo noticed that they had entered a land with many hills and ravines.

The tracking seemed smooth, but one thing that made Rong Ruo uneasy was the spirit of nature, the fawn that had been following them, running away whenever she tried to get closer, only to catch up with it soon.

The fawn itself is not a threat, but now it is Mao Wen's big hunt, and many young Mao Wen are looking for their prey in the forest, and having such a natural spirit following behind may attract those Mao Wen who are looking for their prey. If it was two days ago, Rong Ruo would have been happy to witness Mao Wen's great hunt, but now it means trouble.

Rong Ruo wondered if it would be better to tell everyone about the deer, but at this time, the old hound suddenly barked, interrupting her thoughts.

The old hound was like a wild horse that had escaped from the ground, and suddenly rushed into the woodland, and Lan Yue was the first to follow it into the forest, and the others immediately followed, so Rong Ruo didn't have time to think about the problem of the deer.

Rong Ruo didn't expect the old hound to run so fast, and soon there was only a small point left, Lan Yue and they followed the hound closely, Rong Ruo was also running with the hound, but she stopped halfway, because on a tree, she found abnormal black scorch marks.

Rong Ruo shouted to the front, asking Lan Yue to wait first, but Lan Yue didn't know if she didn't hear it or what, and didn't stop, Anton glanced back at her, and then at Lan Yue, who was still following the old hound, and finally decided to follow Lan Yue to chase the hound. Only Xiaoxin hesitated and stopped after hearing her call.

"What did you find?" asked Xiaoxin as she walked over.

Rong Ruo didn't answer directly, but recalled the little goblin who was on guard in the sky, and with Pixar's confirmation, she pointed to the scorch marks on the tree and said, "This scorch mark has the same magic as in the house." ”

"So we're in the right direction?" Xiaoxin's face showed joy.

"Hopefully. Rong Ruo nodded, "Let's go too." ”

Before they could take a few steps, though, a bow with a broken string stopped them again, and the rough shape of the bow showed that it was a Mao Wen's hunting bow, which was not good news. At this moment, there was a sudden sound of a dog barking in front of me.

Rong Ruo and Xiaoxin didn't care to continue their research, so they hurriedly picked up the bow from the snow and ran forward, and after running over a small hill, they saw Anton and Lan Yue, who were standing on the side of a sled board, and on the side of the sled board there was a furry thing lying in the snow, and the old hound barked wildly beside it.

Rong Ruo and Xiao Xin immediately ran over, the fluffy thing was the corpse of Mao Wen, the old hound found this thing, Lan Yue was not satisfied with this discovery, and her mood looked very low.

"I found the same remnants of magic in the back as in the house, which means that we are in the right direction, although there is Mao Wen's body here, there is no blood, which means that no one was injured, and Xinghe must be safe now. Rong Ruo briefly comforted everyone, and then went to inspect Mao Wen's corpse.

Mao Wen's cuirass had been taken, but the handguards and leggings had not moved, and his weapon, a sharp hunting knife, had been left in place. Mao Wen had two external injuries on his body, one on his chest and one on the bridge of his nose, both of which were scorched by the electric shock, and both were slightly fractured. But these should not be the reasons for the death of this Mao Wen, neither the injuries on the chest nor the bridge of the nose seem to be serious enough to be fatal, and a young Mao Wen's body should not be so fragile.

However, if Rong didn't find any other external injuries on Mao Wen's body, she was not a forensic doctor, and could only make some simple judgments based on experience, and the place where Mao Wen died may have been some kind of special magic.

"There are footprints here!" Anton's shout suddenly came, causing Rong Ruo to withdraw her attention from the corpse.

She went to check the footprints that Anton had found, and there were three footprints in total, two of whom walked together and the other alone. The footprints stretched all the way into the distance, and finally there were some clues, and Rong Ruo felt that her nerves were tense and relaxed.

"Xiaoxin, let's get in touch with Xiaorou and tell her that we have found a clue. Rong Ruo said to Xiaoxin.

Xiaoxin nodded, closed her eyes, and began to whisper a spell, faint magic fluctuations surging from her, but soon fell silent again. She opened her eyes and shook her head, "No, I can't get in touch, it seems to be a little out of range." ”

This is something that has been considered for what will happen, Xiaoxin and Xiaorou have not tested the limit distance of the communication magic between them, and now it seems that this distance is not too long, about more than ten kilometers.

Rong Ruo looked at Lan Yue, "Lan Yue, let's go back some distance and contact Xiaorou before tracking the footprints." If we don't make it clear, we lose contact, and Xiaorou and Shigego outside the forest will worry about us. ”

Lan Yue lowered her head, looking like she was considering the proposal. However, at this moment, the old hound, who was lying on the ground, suddenly barked again. Rong Ruo was startled and looked into the depths of the jungle, where she saw a little reflection in the forest.

"Shield!" Rong Ruo shouted.

The only two shield stones in the team were on Xiaoxin and Anton, two people who could use magic freely, and after she shouted the shield, Xiaoxin immediately reacted, and the pale white shield poured out from the stone and wrapped them inside.

Immediately after that, a lot of things rained down on the shield, making a ticking sound. There's nothing aesthetic about it, though, because the things that hit the shield are arrows.

The first round of archery was over quickly, and Xiaoxin had spent a lot of magic to fend off these arrows, and her forehead was already covered with beads of sweat. Rong Ruo stepped on Anton, "Fatty, ready to replace Xiaoxin at any time!"

Fortunately, the second round of arrows did not come, and the Mao Wen who were hiding in the forest came out of the forest one after another, surrounding them, Rong Ruo looked at the encirclement of Mao Wen, and glanced at the Mao Wen corpse in the snow, which seemed to be the worst situation.