There is no ready-made road from Brown Bear Town to the Lord's Manor, but it is located in the same plain, and although the road is a little bumpy, it is faster than taking Ansai Town and then turning back north.

The carriage rested three times and finally made its way back to the manor after dark.

The refugees from Brown Bear had already arrived, and had already been settled by Jeff, who had temporarily divided the empty cabins among them, leaving only the row of cabins closest to the avenue. There are five rooms in total, one of which is Kaka's makeshift workshop and former butler's prison quarters, the remaining ones are the residences of several young girls and Jeff and Eric, and the middle and tallest one is Leon's residence, although Leon may not care where he lives as a lord, but Jeff and Eric agree that they should maintain a moderate status symbol in front of the lords.

In the past few days when Leon has been touring the southern villages and towns, some of the previously damaged wooden houses have been cleared and a row of "high-quality" tents has been erected, which is the residence of the elves, and Jeff plans to build a new manor after the plan is released, and then make a separate row of houses for them according to the wishes of the elves.

At this time, most of these tents were empty, and many elves had gone to the northern woods and had not yet returned, so they mainly explored the woods extending from the wolf's kiss forest, and made a survey of the species of trees and the types of creatures in them, as well as the dangers of the process, and then collected materials for trees suitable for building houses, so it took a relatively long time. And once the logging starts for timber, the wagons that the Brown Bear refugees have arrived in can be converted to transport timber, which will increase the speed a lot.

Jeff sent some of the young men who stayed at the manor to some of the safer villages and towns in the vicinity to buy some common necessities, and by the way, he also posted the job posters he had written in the central squares of each village.

From these methodical moves, it can be seen that Jeff still has some experience in running the territory, and at this time, the vacant lot at the end of Manor Avenue near the ruins of the castle has been stacked into a temporary office space by some large and small boxes, and the brown-haired Redfield's current butler is talking to a tall and thin man.

"Don't worry, as long as the lord gets the news, he should be able to come back soon, and it is estimated that it will only be a day or two at most. ”

The tall and thin man looked a little haggard, and although he still looked anxious when he listened to the other party's reassuring words, he had to nod.

It was at this time that the carriage came into view, and it came all the way from Manor Avenue to a steady stop in front of them. Leon jumped down first, nodding to Jeff, and then stepped closer to look at the other man.

He did know this person, when he was fighting in the City of Chaos, he had met with all the members of the "Flame Soul" mercenary group in the administrative district, and the tall and thin man was among them, and he was armed with two swords, one long and one short, and killed more than twenty enemies in total, which made Leon leave some vague impressions of him.

The tall and thin man was obviously more impressed by Li Ang, so he recognized him immediately after meeting, and he looked excited, "Captain Li Ang, you are back!"

"Yes, I rushed back as soon as I heard the news, don't get excited, tell me if there's something wrong with Red?"

If it was Li Ang in his previous life, he would definitely be unable to hold his breath after hearing similar news, but after this period of training, he understood that this kind of emotion had no effect except to cause chaos to himself, so he looked quite calm.

Leon's expression also affected the other party, and the tall and thin man gradually calmed down, starting with a self-introduction, describing the current situation of the mercenary group to the young man who had become a lord.

"Flame Soul" did have an accident, and it was not small.

The destination of their special mission this time was a col on the side of the Pale Mountains on the human realm, not too far southwest of Campbell, so Red had the idea of stopping by to find Leon for a drink after finishing his errands.

However, when they arrived, they found that there were already two other mercenary groups under their direct command that were assembling, and the inspector of the mercenary union also appeared here and officially announced the content of this special mission.

According to the Inspector, the destination was located in the underground cavern of the col, which was quite secretive, and it was supposed to be a small ruin eight or nine hundred years old, which was close to the beginning of the Age of Change, and there must have been many precious books and texts, works of art, and magical treasures inside.

The location of the ruins is the news obtained by a high-level of the mercenary union headquarters through special channels, and the source does not dare to guarantee the uniqueness, maybe this news will soon reach the ears of others, so the guild must act quickly, and conduct the first round of excavation of the ruins before others, so as to maximize the interests of the mercenary union as much as possible. Therefore, a total of three directly subordinate mercenary groups were dispatched, and they entered separately from three directions, and the inspector was fully responsible for the excavation and evaluated the mercenary group, and it is said that the first mercenary group to find the ruins and the mercenary group with the greatest harvest will also be reported to the headquarters and have the opportunity to receive special awards.

Red also sighed at the time that Li Ang didn't go, otherwise, even if he didn't want to become a direct mercenary group, this time the benefits should be a lot.

However, just a few dozen minutes after Red and the others went deep underground, an accident happened, groups of ghouls appeared around and launched a crazy attack on them, including a large number of elite ghouls and low-level mummies, these undead creatures that were already equivalent to the peak level of the second order led countless low-level creatures to surround more than twenty humans.

Although I knew that there would definitely be similar dangerous creatures in the underground ruins, I didn't expect that there would be so many of them, but fortunately, the combat power of the Flame Soul was also very strong, and the head of the regiment was a third-order weapon master, in addition, the elder brother in the pair of twins was a third-order assassin, and several people had also reached the peak level of the second-order, and the mercenary group took the regiment leader as the vanguard, and led these people all the way from the weakest direction of the enemy to the depths of the underground cave.

This fierce battle not only killed the three members of the mercenary group on the spot, but also accidentally walked into a fork in the road when they fought and retreated, and the next path became extendential, and they could no longer distinguish the true direction.

They are lost.

"Then how did you get out?" Li Ang quietly heard this, and suddenly asked.

The tall and thin man continued with a particularly apprehensive expression.

When he found out that he was lost, Red chose an upward path, now underground, as long as he walked up, he would always be able to get close to the ground, but when the road came to the end, there were three more forks, and at the same time, the undead creatures that had been following closely behind swarmed out again, and the two sides fought fiercely again.

After repelling several of their attacks, Red looked at the number of undead creatures that were not only not less, but gradually increasing, and knew that the shape was already very critical, he divided several lightly injured people into three groups and entered through three intersections, wanting to see where these paths led.

Dick was one of them, and he was lucky enough to choose the path that led to the ground, but when he reached the ground and was about to go back to inform the regimental commander, the ground shook and the path collapsed.

Dick sighed when he said this, and when he found that he couldn't go back, the first thought that popped into his mind was to ask for help. But it was at least four or five days away from the chaotic capital, and halfway through a mountain road that was often infested by natives, and there were several battles when he came, so how could he get by by alone?

And even if you go back, what can you do? It can be said that the elites of the Chaos Capital Branch are already here, and if you ask for help from the headquarters again, it is estimated that it will take at least ten days, it is too late!

Dick's eyes fell to the east, not far from this direction is the border of the Sver Kingdom, he recalled that the head of Red said that he would take everyone to Campbell to find Leon when this task was completed, so his eyes lit up, and he immediately ran all the way to the east, hoping to find Leon as soon as possible, and then bring people back to rescue the mercenary group.

This remark lasted for about a few dozen minutes, and Leon only interrupted once in the middle, but other than that, he listened quietly, and only after Dick finished speaking completely did he ask again, "When did this happen?"

Dick did the math and said, "At least three days ago!"

Leon fell silent again, and did not speak for a long time.

"Captain Leon......" Dick said with a look of pleading.

"I see, you go and rest first," Leon said.

"But...... Captain Red keeps telling us that you're his friend, don't ......."

Dick was in a hurry, he ran all the way to the Campbell border, struggled to find a small town to find out the location of the lord's manor, and finally came here, it took him nearly two days, and he didn't know what would happen underground.

"I know," said Leon, "you go and rest first, and I'll give you an answer shortly." ”

"Mr. Dick, please come with me," Jeff walked over and patted the man on the back gently, motioning for him to stop talking.

When Dick reluctantly followed Jeff away, Leon sat in Jeff's place, his hand on the table and tapping lightly.

"Red...... "Leon thought, "it's a good thing I didn't agree to go with you then, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to save you now." ”