"Tsk, there are so many bugs around here." As he moved forward, he frowned and looked at the surrounding environment, his smile gradually faded, and he sighed: "Alas, I don't know how those boys came over in the past two years, this kind of place is far inferior to Tacheng, I don't know if they will blame me for transferring them here." ”

"How can you blame Lord Sipna? This is a great place to practice, and we're all platinum-level masters now! ”

A young man in his early thirties stepped out of the bushes not far away, holding a tree oil lamp in his hand, and in the dim yellow light, his face full of vicissitudes was covered with fine scars, but the smile on his face was extraordinarily bright.

As he said, the armor he was wearing was also covered with scratches and friction marks, but the platinum-gold medal on his chest was particularly dazzling.

Sipna laughed, walked up to him in three steps and two steps, looked up and down, and said, "Fickelton! Good boy, I'm relieved to see that you're alive and safe! ”

Fickelton smiled innocently, and then his gaze fell on the young men who were following Zipna, and seemed to be stunned for a moment: "They ......"

Li Li and the others followed behind Sipu quietly, very obediently and did not disturb them to catch up.

"They're students who went to Nanta City to participate in the competition this time, what's the matter? Are you upset to see that I brought a bunch of people to eat your barbecue? ”

Feckelton shook his head repeatedly: "Is this possible?" Knowing that Lord Sipuna is coming, we have prepared a lot of good things! ”

Sipna was overjoyed and patted Feckelton on the shoulder: "Let's go, take me to your camp to have a look." ”

The young man, Fikkelton, seemed to have great respect for Sipna, and was very careful to lead the way for the latter. The ordinary tree oil lamp he was carrying in his hand was crumbling in the night wind, the oil was dyed, and the light became extremely faint.

But fortunately, he seems to be very familiar with the terrain around here, and can move forward in the dark.

Sipuna frowned and said, "Why do you think you are living so shabby?" By the way, I don't seem to have seen you send people back to Tacheng to collect supplies in the past two years, what's wrong? Are you still worried that Lao Tzu doesn't know how to take care of his old subordinates? ”

Fickelton smiled and didn't care: "There are no people in the ultra-high-risk area, and we are usually either hunting demonic beasts or training, we are all rough people, and we don't need anything." ”

"That's not going to work." Sipna looked at the tattered armor on his body, and sighed: "I also only returned to Tacheng in the past two months, and I have been guarding outside the town for the past few years, you wait for me for a few more months, and I will write an application for you when I go back this time, send a new team to rotate, and let you boys go back to Tacheng to rest for a while." ”

This was obviously good news, but Feckelton didn't seem to have any idea of returning to Tower City, and replied vaguely, "It's okay sir, we're used to being here now." ”

As he spoke, a bright fire appeared in front of him.

Wickleton turned back and smiled at the crowd and said loudly, "The Border Squad's station has arrived!" ”

In the darkness, a simple fortress made of stone appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the warm light of the fire faintly shone from inside, and in the night wind, the smell of barbecued meat could not even hide the rain, and it was very tempting to float into everyone's noses.

For the young people who have walked a long way in the cold night rain, it can be called the dawn of victory.

A few people from the East Tower College were in a happy mood and followed the people of Sipu to the stone fortress quickly, and Corinth and Siren also followed in a good mood.

In the dark night, Li Li fell to the end.

She looked at the fortress in front of her, and looked at the surrounding environment very cautiously, this is an old problem that she can't get rid of, and when she sees a new person, she thinks about how to kill it quickly, and when she arrives in the new environment, she plans her escape route first—this twisted habit is all due to the cunning demon cultivator at the beginning.

"Yao Tan."

She whispered the name of her friend beside her, and then made a gesture, and the latter was stunned, nodded and whispered, "Everyone is on them." ”

This is also Yao Tan's usual caution, he is always used to leaving a spiritual imprint on everyone in an unfamiliar environment.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Li Li was relieved.

But when she turned her head, she noticed that Ariel's eyes seemed to glow green in the night, and he was standing motionless not far away.

"What's wrong?" Li Li asked curiously.

"It smells of demonic beasts, and it's several super-high-level demonic beasts." Ariel was silent for a moment, then spoke in astonishment.

"Huh?"

Yao Tan suddenly became nervous, quietly squeezed between the two, and then carefully looked around.

However, in this dense forest, except for the sound of wind and rain, there were human voices in the fortress ahead, and there was no movement of demonic beasts at all.

Yao Tan blinked, as if remembering something, pointed to the fortress in front of him, and asked Ariel in a low voice: "What you smelled, could it be the corpse of the super high-level demonic beast they killed before?" ”

Ariel narrowed his eyes and said lightly: "The taste of a living demonic beast is different from that of a corpse, and as a member of the Lionheart family, I can still distinguish this." ”

Although Ariel is not yet fully beastly, even in his human form, he has inherited an excellent sense of smell from the Golden Lion's bloodline, and can distinguish subtle smells coming from the air very clearly.

"But......" Ariel also hesitated a little, and said with rare doubts: "The aura of those demonic beasts is very light...... And very strongly. ”

"That's a bit of a contradiction." Yao Tan frowned.

Ariel thought about it, but in the end, he couldn't explain the strange sense of disobedience, so he could only frown and look at his surroundings, trying to find out the monsters who didn't know where.

At this moment, the people inside the fortress seemed to notice that they had not yet entered.

Fikleton, who had just led people in, leaned out half of his body and beckoned to the three people outside: "Come in, if it's slow, there won't be any barbecue!" ”

The three of them looked at each other, and finally tacitly chose not to talk about Ariel's suspicion that there were demonic beasts around them, and walked into the stone fortress together.

This fortress built deep in the mountains is as rudimentary on the inside as it is on the outside.

It is said to be a fortress, but it is actually more like a two-story house made of stones, and this team of warriors stationed here should live on the second floor, and the first floor is informally messy with a lot of miscellaneous items, and there are many broken monster corpses inside.

There was a bonfire burning in the middle of the fortress, and a grill was set up on it, and a tall and lanky warrior was roasting meat, and Corinth and Siren, who were very interested in the matter, had already offered to help.

The students of the East Tower Comprehensive College were sitting in the corner, listening to the other team members talk about various interesting stories when they were stationed in the ultra-high-risk area, and from time to time they let out surprised admiration.

Sipna sat in the doorway, looked around, and said worriedly, "Where's Gru?" Why haven't I seen him all the time, is something wrong? ”

Wickleton was stunned, then shook his head with a smile and said, "How could something happen?" He's been injured a little bit for the past two days, and he's resting upstairs. ”

"Hurt?" Sipuna couldn't sit still, so he immediately stood up and touched the healing scroll from his bosom by the way: "I'll go see him, and I happened to bring two healing scrolls, so I'll ......use it for him."

"No, Lord Sipna!"

Feckelton hurriedly called out to Sipuna and stopped: "It's just an ordinary small injury, don't waste such an expensive thing." ”

"The small injury is still lying on it, why don't you come down to see Lao Tzu?" In front of these old subordinates, there was no councillor's shelf, and he blew his beard and glared: "Hurry up and let him come down and let me check it, if he can, I will have to hit him with two healing scrolls!" ”

Feckelton had no choice but to go up and bring down the magister named Gru.

The middle-aged magician in an old black mage robe walked down slowly, he seemed to be a little weak, and the few steps he walked alone seemed to exhaust his strength, and his face looked extremely pale.

Sipuna looked worried, and hurriedly walked over to support him: "What's the matter?" Where was the injury? ”

The magister named Gru shook his head and reluctantly said, "Lord Sipna, it's okay, I just accidentally got hit by a demonic beast." ”

At this moment, Yao Tan, who had been sitting quietly beside Li Li, suddenly got up.

With a very friendly and concerned expression, he said softly: "Ladies and gentlemen, I see that you all seem to be injured, I am a pharmacist, I can check the injuries for you and then prepare the potion......

Sipna nodded approvingly.

As soon as he came in just now, he saw that these warriors seemed to be bandaged in layers, either with injuries on their legs or hanging on their arms, and the smell of medicinal herbs was so strong that even the smell of demonic beast blood in the house was covered.

Gru coughed a few times and lukewarmly rejected Yao Tan's proposal: "No need, we have all used medicine during the day, just take a rest." ”

The others also said they didn't need any more treatment, and Gru whispered an apology to Zipna, wrapped up his long cloak that was dragging on the floor, and slowly limped back upstairs.

Yao Tan was not reluctant, so he could only sit back next to Li Li regretfully.

Over there, Corinth and Siren had already grilled the meat, and a group of people began to share the barbecue and eat it lively.

The wind and rain outside grew louder and louder, and the crowd was inside the warm stone fortress, as if they were all cut off.

Yao Tan came back with two skewers of meat, handed them to Li Li and Ariel, and signaled with his eyes that this thing was fine.

He sat quietly beside Li Li, and then took out a booklet containing various medicinal materials and began to read.

Feckelton over there wanted to invite him over for dinner, and Sipna laughed and said, "Leave him alone, he's a little nerd, and the other little guys on the road are playing, and he's always reading." ”

After hearing this, Fickelton was not reluctant.

Li Li finished the barbecue in two bites, threw away the skewers, and clenched the Kurong Sword in his hand.

And her gaze silently fell on Yao Tan's booklet.

He wrote on it, very scribbled, and it looked very similar to the tadpole script of the magical world, but if you read it carefully, you could see that it was the script of the cultivation realm.

"Under their bandages are not medicinal herbs used to stop bleeding at all, but some ordinary plants with a strong smell."

Yao Tan quickly touched Li Li's arm, and then dropped another line of words on it.

"There's something wrong with them."

Chapter 63: Forbidden Demon Rain

As night wore on, a group of students who had eaten barbecue in the stone fortress quickly regained their spirits.

As the new captain of the first team of the East Tower Comprehensive Academy, Melissa is from a noble family, but she does not feel arrogant.

She put away her magic wand, neatly pulled up the sleeves of her mage robes, beckoned her team to clean up the pile, and then stood in the doorway, looking through the heavy rain and fog at the shadows of the trees.

It's close to the south, and the variety of plants and trees in the forest is different from that around Dongta City.

Melissa's gaze swept over the corpses of the demonic beasts that were stacked haphazardly in the corner, and there were even residual blood stains on them, which could be seen to have just been hunted.

She was curious: "A few adults, do you usually have a lot of magical beasts around here?" ”

"Of course."

The thin warrior looked at the depths of darkness with a solemn face, and said in a deep voice: "A large number of demonic beasts will appear around here from time to time, and no one knows where they come from. In the beginning, they only appeared during the dim period of the double moon, but now, even when the double moon is bright, they will also haunt the mountains and forests, so we need to stay here all the time, and if we find any traces of a demonic beast, we will quickly go and destroy it. ”

The rain outside was getting more and more intense, and even the hardwood trees in front of them were too tall to shelter the storm from the storm tonight, and even the rain outside the fort had accumulated a shallow puddle.

The warrior, who had his hand still tightly bandaged, casually put on his cloak to cover the rain, and then took up his weapon with the good hand.

"It's almost time to rest, and I'm going to patrol the mountains around here to see if any new monsters come out."

Ecco raised his head and said worriedly, "Is it going to rain so hard outside?" ”

"I'm going." The wounded soldier's expression was particularly cold and resolute in the warm bonfire: "There are more than a dozen villages scattered among the mountains near here, adding up to thousands of people, so no matter how heavy the rain is, you must go." ”

"There are so many villages?" Ecco was stunned.

"Hmm." The warrior nodded.

Melissa's eyes showed a little deepness, and the young people of Dongta Comprehensive College didn't ask such stupid questions as "why didn't these villagers move to Tower City?"

As the warrior walked out with his cloak on, Melissa suddenly followed.

"I'll go on patrol with you."

The beautiful red-haired magician summoned his wand and showed a confident and warm smile: "I can barely step into the ranks of high-level magicians, it shouldn't make a mess for you, if you encounter a magical beast, one more person will also have one more helper, isn't it?" ”

Ecco was stunned, but quickly followed.

"Since the captain is going, we must be together."