"Miss Lutina, well, it may be rude to ask that, but it's about our safety after all......"

The wife of the couple looked worried and questioning.

She said to the owner of the travel agency with the golden ponytail:

"Do you really have the experience of entering the Great Forest of Coleridge? You look like you're only sixteen...... O my sun, this is crazy, an underage guide? Won't it lead us into the mouth of the beast? ”

"Ma'am, I confess that my appearance is deceptive, and I will take it as a compliment for what you just said...... But I declare that I am twenty years old, and having grown up in this town, and no one knows the forest better than I do, okay? ”

Lutina lifted her backpack and rolled her eyes.

She walked to the back of the counter, bent down and took out a double-barreled shotgun more than a meter long from a mezzanine, and immediately snapped the barrel of the gun to check the stock situation.

Noticing that two round red shotguns were quietly stuck in the chamber, Lutina smiled and fired the gun back. She rummaged through the counter for a while, then grabbed two boxes of ammunition and threw them into her backpack.

"Alright, let's go, if you have any objections, you can leave now...... But I won't refund the money I just paid. ”

Lutina slung her double-barreled shotgun over her shoulders and lifted her beret to the front.

Among the five students, a boy named Oslo stepped forward and was about to say something, but was stunned by Lutina pointing a gun at the head.

"I said, the money will not be returned."

Lutina said with a smile.

"Ah...... No, you're mistaken, Miss Lutina, I just wanted to ask, is there really a cannibal in the forest? And strange animals and plants that will actively hunt humans? That's what I heard from the guests in the restaurant......"

Oslo was shocked, and quickly swallowed the words that came to his lips and changed his words.

"Don't ask, there will be no surprise if you ask."

Lutina withdrew her gun and glanced meaningfully at the students.

Oslo was deflated, but he didn't dare to get angry, and he retreated into the student ranks with a dejected face.

Chen Lun didn't say a word, and silently took Noah and Anton to follow at the back of the team, and walked towards the entrance of the big forest together.

Along the way, except for the three men, the couple chatted about their wedding with great interest, and this adventure in the forest was their honeymoon, and Lutina teased that the city people really know how to play, and advised the couple not to do something too intimate at night, lest there be an accident and not have time to escape.

This made the couple a little embarrassed, and the other five students also whispered something to each other, looking uneasy.

Chen Lun quietly glanced around with a peep at everyone present and found that they were all ordinary people. However, the leading guide, Lutina, was a little strange, because of the trajectory of her fate, a piece was missing.

The missing part is like a starting point and an end, making Chen Lun unable to see her past and future clearly.

This couldn't help but make him have some doubts in his heart, and he raised his guard a little.

'This Lutina should be hiding some secrets. ’

Chen Lun thought to himself.

He turned his attention to the three unsmiling men, although they didn't speak, they kept making eye contact, and their micro-expressions couldn't escape Chen Lun's eyes at all.

From some details, it is shown that they also have some ulterior secrets.

Since they were just ordinary people, Chen Lun didn't bother to continue to observe, and directly used [Mind Stealing] to probe what they were thinking.

[You have used the skill "Mind Stealing" on the target Yin Wen! ] 】

[Judgment in effect......]

[Your will is 82 points, and the target will is 9 points, and the judgment is successful!] 】

[You cast the skill "Mind Stealing" on the target Daire......]

After a few seconds, he raised an eyebrow and smiled at the corners of his mouth.

The three men didn't notice anything, but they didn't know that the secret in their minds had been exposed, and they were thoroughly touched by Chen Lun.

It turned out to be three gangsters...... Into the forest for revenge? Someone stole their money and goods and fled into the forest, and the three unlucky people were pushed out by the gang to find someone. ’

Chen Lun shook his head secretly, and sighed with emotion, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Soon, the group followed Lutina to a deserted area, where there were no commercial buildings of the town, and only the occasional abandoned farmhouse could be seen.

In front of him, a large barbed wire fence was erected, connected by an iron pipe every seven or eight meters, separating the Great Coleridge Forest from human society.

In addition, in the northeastern corner, there are two sentry posts, which seem to be guarded by special personnel to prevent anyone from breaking the barbed wire fence and entering the interior of the large forest.

"Please note! Ahead is the Great Forest of Coleridge, the forbidden area of the Empire! Whoever you are, stop and turn back...... There are only two warnings here, and those who don't listen to dissuasion will be killed immediately! ”

A loudspeaker rang out from inside the sentry post, and it was the voice of a middle-aged man.

The crowd immediately stopped and looked at Lutina in disbelief.

"You wait here, and come back later after seeing my gestures."

Lutina looked accustomed to it, and turned to the crowd.

Immediately, she carried a double-barreled shotgun and a backpack towards the sentry post.

Along the way, everyone's eyes were fixed on her, for fear that the guards at the sentry post would suddenly shoot her to death.

"She doesn't put down the gun in her hand, isn't she really afraid of death?"

Explosion-headed little Gostiller said in surprise.

Arnell, the short boy beside him, shook his head, took out a candy and stuffed it into his mouth, and said as he ate:

"You don't even see it so obvious? The female boss of Baiou Travel must know the people here, otherwise how could she bring people in......"

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As Arnell had said, Lutina walked to the window of the sentry post safe and sound, chatted with the people inside, and handed over several gold pounds.

Then, she turned to look at the crowd and beckoned, signaling for everyone to come over.

A few students hesitated, but the couple took the lead in holding hands. The three men in caps followed, and Chen Lun also calmly followed with Noah and Anton.

The last five students looked at each other and mustered up the courage to trot forward.

"Old rules, I don't think I saw you...... But whatever you see and encounter in it, even if you die in it, it has nothing to do with me. ”

As soon as everyone approached the sentry post, they saw a middle-aged man in a military uniform with half-white hair open the door and walked out.

As he spoke, he pulled out the key and led Lutina and the others around the back of the sentry post, where they unlocked a hidden side door under the barbed wire.

Syllable!

The wire door creaked open as the middle-aged guard pushed it open, and he stepped aside and lit a cigarette to himself.

"Don't be stunned, come in with me."

Lutina thanked the guards, then led the way through the narrow wire door.

Everyone glanced at the middle-aged guard, and then rushed in.

After everyone entered the barbed wire, there was another bang behind them, and the wire door was locked.

"Don't worry, he'll open the door for us when we get back...... Provided, of course, that you don't die in it. ”

Lutina said calmly.

It's just her last sentence that makes the five students a little nervous.

"Haha...... Look, scare you? How dare you venture into the Great Forest of Coleridge? If you want to hunt for treasure and make a fortune, you must have enough guts! ”

Lutina grinned.

The faces of the five students changed slightly, they didn't expect their secrets to be known to each other.

"Don't think it's a rare treasure map, I've seen more than one or two copies......"

She pointed to the parchment in the hand of Messia, a short-haired girl with glasses, and said.

Seeing the students' faces change again, Lutina laughed as if she had triumphantly.

"Giggle...... You guys are so fun! ”

"Miss Lutina!"

Girl Grey frowned slightly.

Several of the boys looked bad, but Messia, the glasses woman, asked:

"Have you seen anyone else come to the Great Forest with a treasure map?"

"Of course ......"

Lutina shrugged, pulled out a Kukri knife and cracked through the bushes in front of her.

"What 'Golden Tree', 'Gem Lake', 'Life Fruit' and so on...... In short, many things like this, which can only be found in fairy tales, have been recorded on so-called treasure maps and circulated. ”

"So you mean, there is no such treasure in the Great Forest of Coleridge?"

The boy Arnell asked in a deep voice.

Lutina slashed the sticks of wood with a single sword, rubbed her arms wearily, and turned her head with a flick of her golden ponytail, giving Arnell a blank look.

"I didn't say that...... The Great Coleridge Forest is so vast that even if I've lived here for so long, I don't know how many secrets it has, maybe those things really exist? ”

"It seems that the treasure hunters you led before didn't find the treasure either...... Otherwise you wouldn't say that. ”

Messia said with some disappointment.

The other four students also understood this and sighed.

Instead, the three men in caps glanced at each other, made eye contact, and gestured without a trace, not knowing what they were planning.

The crowd followed in Lutina's footsteps and gradually descended into the Great Coleridge Forest.

Fortunately at first, it was an ordinary forest scene.

But as they walked, everyone felt something strange.

The first is that the birds and insects have stopped chirping, and there is a dead silence all around, and the second is that the trees gradually become taller, and even the sky cannot be seen when you look up. With thick piles of fallen leaves and mud under their feet, no one knows if they will encounter poisonous snakes in the next step.

This environment made everyone feel very depressed, and no one was willing to speak out for a long time.

However, the more Chen Lun looked at it, the more he felt that the environment in the forest was very similar to the fairyland natural forest.

After marching for more than an hour, the crowd felt very tired.

The line of sight in front of him widened, and a small wooden house appeared in the eyes of everyone.

"Let's rest here for a while, this hunter's hut is mine, and after a bite to eat, I'll take you to the first 'attraction'."

Lutina led the way into the hut, then took out some wooden bowls and handed them to the group.

She picked up some dead branches and leaves, lit a fire in the campfire outside the hut, and boiled a pot of water.

"You can go around, but don't go too far so that you don't get lost."

Lutina sat on a stone mound and spoke to the crowd as she added wood to the fire.

The five students were impressed, because the treasure map in their hands showed that the target location was not far away.

"Then let's go for a walk, Miss Lutina."

The boy Oslo greeted Lutina, who waved his hand indifferently.

After a few people couldn't wait to leave, a trace of disdain flashed in her eyes, which was captured by Chen Lun.

'Looks like she knows something......

Chen Lun thought to himself.

At this time, the three men in peaked caps also left the hut after a brief sip of hot water, and they said that they wanted to look around for prey and eat some meat.

The couple stayed, probably tired, and whispered while holding hands and wandering around the back of the hut.

Noah stepped aside, took out his easel and small bench, and sketched the wooden house. The cows rushed into the woods, not knowing whether they had gone to play or forage.

Only Lutina and Chen Lun were left on the side of the campfire.

"That's your brother?"

Lutina looked up at Chen Lun and asked, pointing to Noah not far away with the dead branch in her hand.

"So to speak."

Chen Lun smiled.

"He's got a good drawing, he's very talented."

Lutina said with interest.

"Yes, I think so too."

Chen Lun nodded.

And Lutina rubbed her chin and commented in an old-fashioned manner:

"But he seems to be relatively unfamiliar with static landscapes, and his technique is also portrait painting, and his teacher must be a stereotypical old fellow, and nine times out of ten he was born as a court painter."

"You seem to know a lot about drawing?"

Chen Lun raised his eyebrows and put down the wooden bowl.

Lutina shrugged.

"I have touched on it a little, but I haven't written in a long time."

She looked at Chen Lun and asked curiously:

"You two brothers, what are you going to do in the Augusta Mountains with a cow?"

Chen Lun originally planned to prevaricate, but as he felt more and more in his heart, this girl had a secret, so he simply took this opportunity to test it:

"Send a message."

"Deliver a letter?"

Lutina was surprised.

She frowned slightly, as if she had thought of something, and a look of surprise flashed in her eyes.

On Lutina's fair and delicate face, the wings of her nose twitched slightly, she looked at Chen Lun curiously, and asked casually:

"To whom? Is that mountain still inhabited? ”

"A friend's teacher."

Chen Lun replied ambiguously.

Now that I've collected all of Carmen's Codex, I've learned her magic, and now I'm helping her deliver letters...... It's not an exaggeration to say "friends you've never met".

The horror in Lutina's eyes was even worse.

She coughed twice and nodded in understanding, her eyes glowing slightly.

"Okay...... By the way, have you ever heard of the 'Nature Sect'? ”

"Hmm."

Chen Lun nodded naturally.

"A cult that has been driven out of the territory by the Empire."

"The Natural Sect is not a cult."

Lutina spoke slightly dissatisfied.

"They just don't like the Sun King."

She took a deep breath, calmed down, and then asked again:

"Then have you heard of the 'Cat God Cult'?"

"Nope."

Chen Lun shook his head.

Lutina's brows furrowed even deeper, she stared at Chen Lun for a few seconds, and finally gritted her teeth and said:

"You're a liar!"

"Huh?"

Chen Lun pretended to be surprised.

Lutina didn't seem to want to talk to Chen Lun anymore, and after giving him a blank look, she made a bonfire by herself.

And at this moment, there were suddenly exclamations and screams from the woods.

Only four of the five students returned, missing a girl named Grey, and the remaining four were covered in blood and looked terrified.

"Save ...... Help me! Grey has been captured by a monster! ”