In the plains north of Tyrian City, a team of humans and tribesmen was quietly advancing, the two sides were originally incompatible mortal enemies, but at this time they did not fight each other, everyone was silent, and the atmosphere was quite eerie.

It is now winter, but there is no heavy snow in Victor Province, only the early morning humidity condenses into a thick white mist and shrouds the earth, the autumn insects are no longer chirping, the migratory birds have also flown to the south, and the plain is quiet and terrible.

The members of this team carried a compass and led their horses to grope their way forward, and each of them had a cautious face, as if an ancient beast was hiding in the thick fog that would pounce at any moment.

"Stop. The human warrior at the forefront raised his fist and asked everyone to stop.

"Green, is there a situation?" asked James, walking over with a light step.

The warrior named Grimm listened to the sounds around him with a solemn face, but there was no sound other than the snorting of the horses, not even the sound of the wind.

"I seem to have heard a dog barking just now. ”

James gently patted the other party's shoulder armor and said, "Don't be nervous, young man, we are still far from the grassland." ”

Seeing that many of the young warriors accompanying him were a little nervous, James decided to rest on the spot for a while, there was no way, these young men were participating in the Winter War for the first time, and this mission was very dangerous, as they got farther and farther away from Tyrien City, they would inevitably become more and more uneasy, in order to reduce the occurrence of accidents, these young people needed a process of adaptation.

"Rest in place for a while. James gave the order. "Green, where are we now?"

The young warrior was a little embarrassed by the oversensitivity just now, and when he heard the culture of the chief, he immediately observed the scenery around him, and then replied with some hesitation: "I want to ...... We should be almost at the Silver Pine Forest. ”

Well, at this time, it is really not easy to determine where it is, and James does not blame Green, turns around and says, "Marlowe, Pavey, you come here." ”

That's right, this is the search team personally arranged by King St. George-Barbarossa, with James as the captain, Pavi, a veteran of the long-time garrison in Victor Province, and Marlowe, the tribal chief, as the vice-captain, and Green as the team leader, this young man was born in a small village north of Tyrian City, so it was only fitting that he should guide the way.

The place they were going to now was Grimm's hometown, a village called Cuckoo, which served as a point in the first line of defense of the Battle of the Cold Winter, where two thousand human warriors were stationed.

Marlowe handed the reins to Mecca, then walked up to James and waited for the latter to speak, and Pavey, with a bushy beard, also walked over.

The three of them crouched down, and then James took out the map he had brought and said, "Now we are probably here, and we should be at the cuckoo village thirty miles to the north, and when we get there, we will be able to find out if there is any Minotaur activity in the vicinity." ”

This was the third place Marlowe and the others had searched, and they had found nothing in the first two places.

The Minotaurs in the first place had withdrawn to the northern border by the time Marlowe and others arrived.

The second place is that there has been a head-on conflict between the minotaur and the human army, more than 400 minotaurs have been killed and wounded, and the human side has also lost nearly a thousand warriors, fortunately these minotaurs are not members of the whitehoof tribe, but the tragic after-war scene still makes Marlowe and the others sad, and now they are even more anxious to find their people, because they learned from a minotaur captive that the situation of the tribes this year is not good.

"Ray Jay, you and Green go around and see if there are any signs of tribal activity. Marlowe called the honest-looking Minotaur subordinates over. Although he is only the vice captain of this team, his voice is not weaker than James's, because Paul gave death orders, and the team not only obeyed James's command, but also strictly followed Marlowe's orders.

Hearing Marlowe's words, James was not displeased, he nodded towards Green, and the combination of a minotaur and a human quickly disappeared into the mist.

"Did you think we could find Ray Jay's people this time?" asked James, picking up the map.

However, no one could give a definite answer, Pavey was expressionless and did not react, Marlowe exhaled deeply and said, "I hope so......"

A few minutes after Ray Jay and Green left, there was a sudden sound of weapons clashing in the fog, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps, and the dead branches on the ground crackling as they were trampled by the comers, and the team immediately became nervous, and everyone drew their weapons in the direction from which the sound came from.

Soon a figure rushed out of the fog, only to see that this person was wearing heavy human plate armor, and because he was running so fast, he could already see fine sweat dripping down the gap between the helmet and his cheeks.

"Green!" asked James as he grabbed the young warrior and then looked in the direction Green had come from, making sure there were no pursuers. "What's going on, why did you come back alone, Ray Jie?"

"Thunder...... Ray ...... Regger's gone!" Green replied breathlessly.

Ray is the only Minotaur that Marlowe brought to St. George, and in order to convince the Whitehoof tribe to believe Marlowe, there must be a proof from Ray Jay, and if Regie is not there, Marlowe's promise to Bane Whitehoof will be a dead letter.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on, have you met orcs or humans?"

Green took off his helmet, shook his head and gasped: "Captain Marlowe, I don't know, I went to urinate at the time, and Ray himself was walking forward, but after a few seconds, I heard the sound of a fight, and when I chased after him, I didn't see anything, and Ray was gone!"

"Quick, go over and see for me!"

Green immediately took Marlowe and the others back to the place of the incident, but it was true that as Green said, except for the slightly messy dead branches and leaves on the ground that proved that there had been a battle here, Marlowe could not find anything, not even a drop of blood.

"How so?" said Marlowe, who was about to call out Ledger's name, but James covered his mouth.

"Shhhh James warned in a low voice. "Let's go, everyone get out of this forest, let's go to the cuckoo village to ask about the situation and then come back to find someone. ”

Marlowe immediately woke up, Lei Jie is not a fool and is strong, how powerful a being can subdue Lei Jie and take people away unscathed, if it is a person from the White Hoof Tribe, it is fine, but what if it is another tribe, or if it is a powerful human......

The latter two situations are definitely not a good thing, but since the other party did not kill Lei Jie on the spot, it means that Lei Jie is still alive, and Marlowe decided to follow James's advice and immediately go to Cuckoo Village, perhaps Lei Jie was captured by the army stationed here.

The situation was urgent, and everyone turned on their horses and galloped in the direction of the cuckoo village.