"It seems that the enemy here is not simple, at least this level of destruction is definitely not something that a wild boar can do."

A familiar voice came from behind her, and Atalanta looked back to see that the man named Zheng Shu had come behind her at some point.

"Why do you say that?" There was no time to wonder why the other party had been able to get here so quickly, and Atalanta calmed down and asked a little strangely.

Although these wooden walls on the periphery of the village are heavy, they may not be able to stop it in the face of the giant wild boar they hunted today, and the only strange thing is that with the combat power of the village, it is impossible for a single wild boar to cause such a big damage.

However, if you are unlucky, it is not impossible to encounter a herd of wild boars.

"Can you find debris from the shattering walls around the perimeter?" Zheng Shu squatted on the edge of the remaining wall, with a solemn look on his face.

"Huh?!" Atalanta was startled, finally realizing where she had been feeling discordant.

Not only the fragments of the walls, but also the beams of a large part of the building, and even all the corpses disappeared.

And it stands to reason that in such a terrible situation, at least there should be a wailing all over the wilderness, but Atalanta has been here for so long, not only has she not heard a sound other than the flames burning, but she has not even seen a single wounded.

It should be said that not even a single living creature was seen, including the livestock that had been raised.

Looking around, Atalanta's whole face immediately darkened, and she hurried towards the target she had discovered.

Zheng Shu also followed her after seeing her actions, and when he came to the location, Zheng Shu realized that it was a fragment of clothes crushed under the rubble.

At the edge of the fragment of the garment was a piece of land that was darker than the surroundings at night, and through the light of the fire from the ruins next to it, it was barely clear that it was actually a deep red, meaning that the land here had been soaked in blood.

But the two found no trace of the body, and even if Atalanta opened the stones of the ruins and searched carefully, they did not find the trace they wanted.

"......" Atalanta stood up and pursed her lips as she looked at the ruins of the surrounding villages.

At this point, she didn't need to say anything more, and she already knew what had happened to the village—everything that could be eaten in the whole village had been eaten.

"Any clues?" Zheng Shu continued to use the firelight to examine the stones on a ruin, and the sound was clearly heard in Atalanta's ears.

“…… It's not clear, as far as I know, it's simply impossible to have a herd of beasts of this magnitude in this vicinity. And it's very likely that it wasn't the beast's doing, because even a large herd of beasts can't be devoured so cleanly. Atalanta frowned.

As one of the top hunters in even the entire ancient Greek mythology, Atalanta's hunting range is far beyond most people's imagination, and the concept of "nearby" can even exceed the distance that some animals can travel in a lifetime.

So in the case of Atalanta, that means that at least within a reasonable distance, this type of creature is not possible.

Zheng Shu suddenly walked to the broken wall, and stood on the broken stubble of the wall, constantly observing the situation on both sides by the light of the fire.

"What did you find?" Atalanta looked over.

Zheng Shu touched his chin and looked up at the sky again: "What you said is right, the attacker this time is not a beast. ”

He dragged Atalanta to the wall, pointed to the land on both sides of the town and asked, "With the wall as the dividing point, there are many traces of chaos inside, but most of the land outside is not marked by the large-scale movement of wild beasts, except for a small part, and not even the trees on the ground in the distance are broken...... What do you think of? ”

"The enemy can fly." Atalanta's eyes narrowed slightly.

As a hunter, her eyesight is naturally top-notch, even in the dark night, she can see the distance clearly, as Zheng Shu said, the woods around the village have not been trampled. On the contrary, there are very obvious clutter marks on the canopy of some trees in the distance.

"And although the wood in the village, including the fence, has disappeared, the surrounding trees have not been damaged much, so it is basically certain that this group of enemies should eat meat, as for the wood, ......" Speaking of this, Zheng Shu hesitated a little, he really didn't know why the enemy wanted to take away the processed wood.

"It's for nesting!" Atalanta's voice came from the side, "I've heard that some wyverns like to raid human villages in order to snatch their wood, because human-treated wood is more durable than natural trees, and in some extreme cases, wyverns will even snatch stones for housing. ”

"Besides, the enemy this time can indeed fly, could it be that the flying dragon did these things?" Zheng Shu scratched his hair and always felt that something was not right, and some of the marks he had just found on the stones of the ruins showed him that the enemy's body might not be very large, at least not the claws of the level of the flying dragon.

"This ...... I don't know, but it stands to reason that there are no dragons' lairs around here. Atalanta shook her head, "And if it's a wyvern, at most it will appear as a group as a family unit, and it is impossible for such a large group to appear...... At least after being attacked by the Wyverns, there should be a lot of survivors in this village. ”

"No, it's not like there are no survivors at all." Zheng Shu suddenly interrupted Atalanta's words.

After all, his physical fitness is a little stronger than Atalanta's, so he can see more information in the dark.

Atalanta was stunned for a moment and immediately looked in the direction of Zheng Shu's line of sight, and after having a specific direction, she looked carefully, and finally found a little different.

Beneath the ruins, heavy barrels and furniture are piled together, making the ruins a little taller than the rest of the site.

Atalanta appeared next to the ruins, and after lifting a few stones, she finally found that at the bottom of the ground was a basement door, and the barrels and furniture held down the inconspicuous door, blocking the possibility of opening the door and protecting the people inside.

"Let's get the people inside out first, there is a fire all around, and there is not much air inside." Zheng Shu's figure also appeared on the edge of the ruins, picking up a huge stone and throwing it to the side.

The crackling sound of the flames as they burned muffled the sound of the survivors breathing, and partly because the survivors had been trying to cover their mouths so that they wouldn't make any noise.

Zheng Shu's strength is beyond ordinary people, and this kind of gravel, which requires large machinery to move, can be moved by hand only by hand.

With a quick move, it took less than a few minutes to leak out the covered door panel.

Atalanta eagerly opened the door panel, revealing the survivors underneath, two children who had fallen into a coma due to lack of oxygen.

The two children still had tears on their faces, and it looked like they had cried before they fell unconscious, but even in the coma they tried to cover their mouths with their hands to keep themselves from making any noise.

This is the first time that Zheng Shu has felt the cruelty of this world, even in a village that seems to be so prosperous, even children know how to improve their survival probability.

Zheng Shu and Atalanta carried the unconscious child on their shoulders one by one, carefully searched the ruins again, and after making sure that there were no other survivors, they quickly left the place.

"What's next?" Zheng Shu and Atalanta stood together in a clearing outside the village, watching the flames burn smaller and smaller.

"Let's go find the Hunter." Atalanta had already collected his feelings, "His strength is good, he shouldn't lose his life in this disaster, the house he lives in is closer to the village, and he must have seen what the hell is attacking." ”

Zheng Shu knew that Atalanta was talking about the hunter's adoptive father who raised her, and when he came to the village before, he had also seen the hunter's hut where the other party lived, although it was on a hillside far away from the village, but for people of their level, such a distance was no different from living nearby.

But......

"That means the hunter has been attacked as well, and although I don't see any traces of blood, how can we find him?" Zheng Shu's eyes lit up with a faint golden light, and the pupils in his eyes also changed to vertical pupils similar to those of lizards, such a change allowed him to ignore the interference of the night and look farther away.

Turning his head to look at the hunter's hut on the hillside in the distance, the already dilapidated hut had completely collapsed at this time, and from the traces left on it, the other party should have also been attacked by the enemy, but Zheng Shu did not find any bloodstains, indicating that the hunter should have escaped before being attacked.

"No problem, I have control over the location of all the hunter huts in the forest around here, there are three nearest hunter huts in this vicinity, with the foot strength of the 'hunter', it should not be caught up by the opposite side in the forest, we just need to check them one by one." With that, Atalanta turned and left.

Zheng Shu didn't have a good way, so he could only change the child he was carrying to a more comfortable position, and then follow in Atalanta's footsteps.

……

……

"It's bugs."

The man who spoke was an old hunter who looked to be quite old, with messy hair and beard, and dressed in what looked rather thick. He sat in the dilapidated hunter's hut, his face and hands scratched a little hideously, and a relatively intact hand fiddling with the fire in front of him.

"It's a swarm of giant bugs that have attacked the village, the exact number of them is uncertain, but each of them is unusually large, and the shells on their bodies can even withstand my bow and arrows."

Zheng Shu and Atalanta looked at each other, they were lucky enough to find the hunter's trace in the second hunter's hut.

And what is even more surprising is that behind the other party are two children who have fallen into a deep sleep, these two children were rescued by the hunter after the attack on the village, of course, the price is the hideous scars on his arms and face.

And according to Zheng Shu's observation, the bow and arrow that the hunter carried with him were probably broken in that battle.

The hunter glanced back at the four children who had fallen into a deep sleep, turned his head and continued to play with the flames in front of him, the hideous wounds on his body seemed to him as if they did not hurt him at all, Zheng Shu still did not see any painful expression on the face of this tough guy.

"Huge bugs? How big is it? Atalanta furrowed an eyebrow.

Of course, she knew her adoptive father's strength, although it was not very strong, but as a hunter, the lethality of using a bow and arrow must not be underestimated, and the arrows shot were enough to penetrate the fur of the wild boar comparable to steel.

But if that group of bugs can withstand such an attack, doesn't that mean that the carapace of those bugs is harder than steel?

The hunter didn't answer directly, but turned his head to look at the hunter's hut behind him.

Zheng Shu and Atalanta followed his line of sight, the hunter's hut looked like it was some years old, and it looked like it should be just a makeshift shelter built haphazardly out of some wood, and the overall size might even be the size of a van.

Zheng Shu was still a little puzzled why the hunter was looking at the hut, but suddenly his eyes widened, and a look of disbelief appeared in his eyes: "No!?" Such a big bug?! ”

Atalanta also quickly understood what the hunter meant, and reached out to compare the size of the hunter's hut with some disbelief: "Are you sure you are seeing insects, could it be that it is too dark to see the flying dragon wrong?" ”

"Although I'm old, I'm not stupid yet, so I can naturally tell the difference between a flying dragon and a bug." The hunter replied angrily, "It would have been easier if it was really the Wyverns who attacked the village this time, after all, I can fight all but those very old Wyverns, but those bugs ......"

The hunter finally fell silent, only to shake his head bitterly.

Atalanta was silent for a moment, but still asked in a resolute tone, "Then do you know in which direction the bugs left?" ”

"Are you sure you're going to find those bugs?" The hunter looked at Atalanta with a serious face, "Although your strength is stronger than mine, you can only beat one or two at most. But there are already dozens of them in sight alone, and this level of enemy is not something you can handle. I think you'd better hurry up and get out there in town and post the bounty so that the stronger 'heroes' can handle these things better." ”

Atalanta didn't speak, just shook her head firmly.

Looking at the eyes of his adopted daughter, the hunter was silent for a moment, and finally sighed: "Okay...... I know, but you have to promise me that you must not act rashly, that level is not something you can handle. ”

The hunter pointed out the direction to Atalanta and finally reminded, "Remember not to act rashly! I'll go to the village after dawn to search for some belongings, and then I can use these things to go to the city to hire stronger heroes, and you must not be discovered by those bugs until new heroes arrive, and protect yourself. ”

"Don't worry." Atalanta carefully sorted out her equipment, "I'm not such a reckless person. ”

"If you could really do what you say, I wouldn't be so worried." The hunter sighed helplessly as he looked at Atalanta's departing back, he also wanted to follow to help his adopted daughter, but unfortunately the serious injuries had already made his body reach its limit.

"Don't worry, I'll help her." Zheng Shu picked up his mace and waved at the hunter.

"Actually, I wanted to ask before." The hunter looked at Zheng Shu's dress with some curiosity, "Who are you?" ”

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The day after tomorrow.

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