After learning that he and Althea were almost in danger, the different changes in Mano's attitude made Ryan feel angry and amused.

"Well, at least things don't go where I least want them to go."

"Ma Nuo's security team is basically only a warrior with a professional level of about one or two levels, although it doesn't look like a thing, but all of them add up to a full fifty or sixty people, but it shouldn't be a problem to destroy the temporary garrison of a Green Forest gang."

Ryan thought as he removed his palm from the dirt.

Not long ago, he had rushed to the location of the ambush alone and noticed the ambush in his memory, and since the forest had not been changed since setting it to his preferred terrain, it had helped Ryan to follow the trail left by the ambusher for some distance until now.

"But, it's weird."

Ryan rubbed his index finger and thumb together a few times, watching the soil between his fingers fall, and couldn't help but whisper to himself, "This land is clearly dead." ”

"But that's not the case just now."

"Why is it that when you get here, the land is suddenly 'dead'?" Ryan stood up and looked around, "No, more accurately, the trees, the land, and the grass in this area are all dead. ”

"Forget it, it's better to get down to business first."

Ryan shook his head, although this matter certainly seemed a little strange, but Ryan also knew that this was not the time to focus on these trivial matters.

The bonus of "Preferred Terrain" is so obvious, not only can you keep stealthy and move twice as fast as a normal person when walking alone, but you can also easily identify the exact number and type of other creatures when tracking them, etc.

After about twenty minutes or so, Ryan followed the trail and stopped in front of the ferns outside a field camp.

"Looks like this is the makeshift camp for this Greenwood gang."

"One...... Two...... Judging from these tents, the number of this Green Forest gang is about thirty or forty people, and the overall number is indeed slightly less than that of Mano's security team. ”

"But there must be a few guys in this gang who are as tough as Yarko to deal with."

"Basically, it's a close contest."

After determining the other party's location, Ryan had no reason to stay here. However, just as he was about to leave, the figure that came out of a tent at the innermost part of the makeshift camp surprised Ryan slightly.

"This is, Tieflin?"

Seeing that the other party was similar to humans, but completely different in appearance, Ryan couldn't help but slightly upturn the corners of his mouth, "I see, no wonder they hold such grudges, if the leader behind this Green Forest gang is this guy, it makes sense." ”

Tiefling.

The descendants of the union of man and the devil. Because of this, the Tieflings often find it difficult to integrate into normal life due to their out-of-place appearance with humans.

Therefore, it is all the more natural to have an extreme hatred for human beings or those who hurt them.

Ryan had met more than one Tifflin, and had become accustomed to the habits and appearance of their race.

Therefore, after getting through the initial little surprise, he quickly regained his emotions and prepared to return to Link Town to report the news to Mano, and then served the rats in a pot as soon as possible.

But.

Ryan froze when he saw the face of the next figure in the tent that Tiefling had walked out of.

This is a slightly tall, very good image and temperament, but extremely thin man.

His appearance was so recognizable, and so familiar to Ryan, that he recognized the man's identity at a glance.

He is the owner of Jeffrey's Tavern and the father of Jacky.

This couldn't help but make Ryan suddenly recall the scene when he and Althea had just left the town and were attacked by the Green Forest Gang, when Ryan didn't feel that the other party was a little "too anxious", and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the whole thing.

But now in retrospect.

Obviously, all the people who knew the information that they had rescued Jieluo had been killed, but an ambush against them still happened, which was obviously very problematic.

"Although we have killed all the people who knew the information that we rescued Jieluo, the Greenwood Gang still remembers us and can arrange an ambush in advance shortly after we left the town, and it is indeed only Jeffrey who can make the Greenwood Gang do this," Ryan recalled in his heart, "When we were separated from Jieluo, he happened not to be with Jieluo, and it should be because he went to contact the people of the Greenforest Gang. ”

"I should have thought of this a long time ago," Ryan couldn't help but laugh at himself, "The day after my daughter's accident, she went to the next town to buy goods?" It's just stupid. ”

Thinking of this, Ryan looked at Jeffrey again.

Combined with the strange appearance of the withered land he saw just now, Ryan couldn't help but faintly think of something, and said silently.

"Now is not the time to go back to town and tell them about it."

"I have to know more about why Jeffrey ended up with a Tieflin."

……

When Ryan returned to Link, it was overcast.

Jeffrey's Tavern.

With a gloomy face, Ryan invited Mano and Jero to the tavern, and told them everything he had seen.

“…… I'm done with the situation. Ryan said in a deep voice.

Like Jero, Althea, and Mano, his face is also not very good-looking.

Jeffrey was a good father.

At least until he saw him with Tiefling, Ryan had always thought so.

He may not be as good as he is in the broadest sense of the word, but at least Jeffrey has been playing the role of a good father during the time he raised Jero. He will teach Jieluo to dance, sing and act, and will also drive away men who dare to think anything wrong about Jieluo, and will make Jieluo stop her activities when she is tired.

And he is not the only one who thinks so, Jero, Jeffrey's old friend Leon, and the rest of the town also think that Jeffrey is doing a pretty good job in the role of "father".

But it happened anyway.

Bang.

A bolt of lightning struck, and rain dripped down the gravel pavement outside Linktown.

Ryan looked into the eyes of Jero, who was wearing a pale green dress today, and looked like a fairy dancing in the forest, and at that time, the dancer who was popular in the whole town had a clear hollowness in her eyes.

"I'm sorry, guys."