Outside the east gate of the town, the heavy rain stopped and the sun began to set in the west.

"It's been a weird couple of days. Luo Xue wrapped her clothes, felt a hint of coolness, went south along the east gate, walked for two hours, and came to the Fanshui River. After being washed by heavy rain, the Fanshui River is still crystal clear.

He carried the kettle, opened the lid and filled it with water. Occasionally, I heard Uncle Lin Zhuang say that the forged weapon will be much sharper after being quenched by the water of this river than by quenching it with well water. I don't know why, but I gave him this large pot of river water as a thank you for the knife. He should probably be happy.

There seemed to be a strange noise on the other side of the river in the distance, and Luo Xue raised her head to see that it was two little beavers playing and playing.

The low body, webbed hands and feet, rounded body, buckteeth, are the characteristics of the beaver beast. But in his opinion, the two little beavers were not rounded to any extent.

The beaver beast, which was pregnant two months ago, came here to make a home, and now its babies are so old. He knew in his heart that the beaver beast was a docile animal, and as long as it did not invade its territory, there was no danger. And the whole of Mortal Water Town knew about their presence on the other side of the river, but they all acquiesced to the fact that they occupied a large area of water.

Not sympathy. Luo Xue denied this speculation in her heart. He quickly switched his sensual thoughts, and squinted behind the little beaver beasts. The fog trees crisscrossed there, and the misty branches were frantically rising upward, greedily breathing every inch of sunlight. There's the bottomless Forest of Demonic Words.

It's to use them as a shield, Luo Xue has to admit this fact. To the north, there is the Watch City under the pressure of the Demon Forest, to the west is the aristocratic city of Tianhe City, which does not welcome us very much, to the south is to follow the Fanshui River to the Kaijiang River, that is, the interior of the Forest of Forests, to the east is a section of the Demon Forest to the interior of the Forest Country, in the southeast there are beaver beasts to make their home, and due east is now infested with clawed bears.

Beaver beasts at the bottom of the river, taloned bears at the end of the river. In this way, the smell of the baby beaver will be ......

Looking at the little beaver on the other side of the river, you and I threw a mud ball at each other, he involuntarily turned his gaze, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and discovered an established fact.

Known conditions: the indifference of the captain of the town, the beaver beast who guards the calf, the brutal and cunning talon bear.

There is only one best outcome: beaver beasts and taloned bears fighting each other.

If you really match it, there is absolutely no chance of winning. He subjectively estimated the combat effectiveness of the next two sides in his heart. The kettle in his hand shook a little. Thinking of this, Luo Xue's gaze shifted, and she couldn't bear to look at the two cute elves again.

Looking down at his face reflected in the river, his hair, which had just been wet by the heavy rain, had not yet dried completely, and the tips of his messy hair were sticking to his head indiscriminately.

"What strength do I have to interfere with them?" he smiled self-deprecatingly, a miserable smile reflected in the reflected river.

Luo Xue held on to her legs, which had been tired from the long journey, and barely stood up and was about to leave. The two little beavers seemed to notice him, squeaked, and were not afraid to run into the river, and wanted to swim directly.

"Don't be the last one. Luo Xue didn't look back, turned her back and ran towards the town. Only the little beavers were left to open their big watery eyes and stare at each other curiously.

Looking at the east gate as far as the naked eye could see, Luo Xue calmed down and remembered the medicine basket that had been thrown on the ground after the Talon Bear attacked him two days ago. Two days have passed, and the picked moonflower grass should not have withered. It's rare to come out once, so let's go and see it before it's dark.

Maybe it's still there? Luo Xue still had a glimmer of hope that the Talon Bear wouldn't be in the same place.

This time he was prepared, he patted the animal repellent powder hidden on his chest, full of confidence, even if the talon bear was still there, he would be able to dodge in time if he was no longer careless.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly pinned the kettle that had just been filled with river water, and his running legs flicked to the right, shifting the route of travel.

A green meadow was nourished by rain and dew, and the few fog trees scattered on the meadow did not compete, but grew crookedly and lifeless. The wind whistled in my ears, and I was not far from my destination. Luo Xue slowed down her footsteps, and under the cover of the bushes, she moved forward step by step.

His nose twitched and sniffed, not smelling a strange smell or feeling a strange movement of air. He hid in the dense bushes and stretched out his hands, feeling the flow of air intently, and there was no abnormal air flow.

The fog tree, which had previously been in the center of the main battlefield, broke off and flew in two, apparently caused by the clawed bear. The prey in hand escaped, so he was angry and took out his anger with the tree? Looking at the scene of destruction, Luo Xue was thoughtful.

"Huh?" there was some inconspicuous object on the bush, he reached out and took it, and twisted it again, it seemed to be the hair of a clawed bear, the hair was loose and slightly faded, either very hungry or badly wounded.

Thinking of the huge wound on his abdomen before, Luo Xue had a rough guess in his heart. "Unfortunately, there was no time to observe its wounds that time, and there was no way to know what species caused the wounds. He muttered to himself. After experiencing these few days of calm, his state of mind barely recovered, and he can calmly recall every detail at that time.

Anyway, at least not here for now. Luo Xue looked straight ahead and saw that after the heavy rain, in the cracks of the broken wood grain of the fog tree, there were a few drenched unknown birds hiding inside, as if they were crying out from the cold, and their voices were a little trembling.

I don't know the bird, the silly gray bird, because the spring, summer, autumn and winter are not migrating here, and they have to be frozen in winter and called "cold ~ cold~", which is jokingly called the bird that does not know spring, summer, autumn and winter, so it does not migrate. I don't know how the bird got its name from this. They are timid by nature, but they are close to people, and they are contradictory birds.

As he identified where he was, he slipped out of the bushes and returned to the scene, searching for the herbs he had discarded.

"What is this?" he saw the knife stuck in the dirt, stained with mud and water. Luo Xue pulled it out and wiped it clean, tied it to the waistband of his trousers, and put it side by side with the crystal knife given by Uncle Lin Zhuang. It's just that one has a knife barrel and the other doesn't.

"How could it be gone? Clawed bears are not herbivores. He searched everywhere, but found no sign of the medicine basket. Just as he was about to give up, he found a few footprints in a nearby mud field that was not covered with turf, which were human footprints.

"Not my footprints. "The footprints of a few days ago have been washed away by this heavy rain, and these footprints may only be left today.

The footprints are blurry, and if you step on it after the rain, it will take less than a few hours, and if you don't have other factors to interfere with it, it should be clear. Luo Xue extrapolated the time left by the footprints, and came to the conclusion that the only possible time was roughly around noon.

He knew that his reasoning skills were not perfect, and he could only give such an answer.

"Who picked up a big bargain and took away my herbs, and didn't leave any of them!" Luo Xue instantly understood, and her heart was full of indignation.

"No, I need to see who stole my Moonflower Grass. Luo Xue pounced, the more she thought about it, the more wrong she became, and the expectation in her heart instantly turned into anger.

He followed his indistinct and staccato footprints along the way, his eyes bracing his surroundings for any danger that might come his way.

Although the heavy rain has stopped, there are still some carnivorous monsters that will come out to feed.

This is the way back to the town, and it seems that the man picked up the moonflower grass and returned directly to the town. Luo Xue looked forward from the track of the footprints, knowing that it was the route back to Fanshui Town. If this Yuehuacao wasn't lost by him, he really thought that this person had been staring at Yuehuacao from the beginning.

But there was a bit of a gap with Luo Xue's expectations, this person seemed to have made a small circle to the north, and walked all the way down, and the northeast corner of the town could already be seen through the forest. But just as the town in sight had already peeked out of the horizon, the footprints seemed to be messy in a disorderly manner. Halfway through, the footprints changed abruptly, and the direction pointed directly to Fanshui Town again.

"The footprints are much deeper than when I walked, and the softness of the ground in this piece has not changed, and if the weight has not changed, it should have increased the strength under my feet. Luo Xue squatted down and looked at the footprints that changed the trajectory and began to reason.

"The spacing has increased, which should be running, but why is the spacing getting bigger and deeper?

There was another dense layer of grass ahead, and after that we were almost back in town. Somehow, Luo Xue always had an inexplicable feeling in his heart, this bad feeling seemed to be blocked in his heart, difficult to express, he always felt like he had ignored something.

Turning over the grass, he saw a medicine basket and moonflower grass scattered on the ground, and the man seemed to have left something here.

"It's not in vain for me to track it down!" The joy of regaining it made Luo Xue temporarily lose her cool and rush out.

But why do you want to leave it here? Luo Xue rummaged through the white moonflower grass in the medicine basket that had shown its original form because it had been pulled out, and the moonflower grass that had been dehydrated had absorbed enough rain and dew to regain its vitality. But there were still subtle traces that he had captured.

"Blood?" he saw a blood-colored dot on the white stalk, and couldn't help but put his nose forward and sniff it, and a faint smell of blood came in.

Looking at the dark green grass not far in front of her, there were a few moonflower grasses, Luo Xue walked in and found that they were lying quietly in a pool of blood, and the brown blood mixed with the dark green grass was difficult to attract attention. Behind the pool of blood were trailing traces of blood, which spread into the grass in a broken line. Scattered around the pool of blood were twisted kite-shaped shields, a broken and exquisite sword.

There are a few footprints in sight! Bear footprints!

A bone-chilling chill enveloped his body.

A detour back to town!Panicked running!Dragged bloodstains!Bear's footprints!Clawed bear!Must be a cunning taloned bear!

He didn't dare to move, his defenses turned on as his brain burned as he tried to recreate the scene.

But footprints! Why didn't there be any tracks of the Talon Bear before! It couldn't be sent into the bear's mouth! Any inference came to an abrupt end in the face of the fact that there were no footprints, and Luo Xue felt that she had overlooked a very important clue.