At noon on the third day of the march, Rollin and his soldiers walked halfway through the wetlands, and more than a dozen miles further on, the destination of the mission, the town of Mire.

Mire Town is located deep in the wetlands, like an isolated island overseas, she rose because of a gold mining boom, but as the gold mines were gradually mined, the town also slowly declined, and in the last ten years, the town is basically deserted, and its only role is to provide a temporary foothold for wetland adventurers.

But her location is so remote that not many adventurers want to settle here.

The wetlands are very wet, with swamps and puddles from time to time, and the only passage is muddy and very difficult to navigate.

'Snap, snap', the hooves of the war horses trampled on the ground, splashing black muddy water. There was constant 'snapping' applause in the ranks, and it was the soldiers who were driving away the pesky mosquitoes.

It's already May, Vendôme is in the south, and it's sunny today, and the weather is already getting a little hot, especially in this wetland, which is even more sultry.

"Ah~" Dai Wei suddenly snorted softly, Luo Lin was startled, turned his head to look, and saw a fist-sized spider hanging in front of Dai Wei. The spider is black and red in color, has poisonous fangs, and is a black widow that is a specialty of the swamp, and if bitten by this thing, it will immediately cause a high fever, and even kill people.

Luo Lin's hand shook slightly, and the long sword had already been pulled out by him, and with a flash of sword light, the black widow spider was cut in half and flew out.

"Come close to me, don't go far." Rollin whispered.

"Okay." Dai Wei answered, and drove the horse to follow Rollin as far as he could.

After walking like this for a while, she raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead. I couldn't help but gently scratch the red spots on my neck, cheeks, and arms. It was bitten by a mosquito. It's itchy. She suspected that if she was bitten by this abominable mosquito while she was casting a spell, she would have to stop casting the spell due to her magic disorder, and if she was a little more unlucky, she might become the first magician in history to be killed by a mosquito.

She hadn't been able to take a shower for three days, and she felt sweaty, sticky, and uncomfortable. If she had just left Vendôme, she would never have been able to bear it. But after a few days of marching, she also adapted to this hard life a little, although it was extremely uncomfortable, but at least she could not hold back herself from screaming.

As he was walking, Luo Lin next to him suddenly stretched out his hand, and she soon saw that he was holding a ball of white flower clay in his hand.

"Silver Star Flower, the first batch of flowers that bloomed this year, is itchy and calming, take it and rub it on your neck and hands." Rollin said softly. He had specifically instructed the scouts to collect them.

Dai Wei nodded, took it and tried it. Suddenly, I felt a cool feeling coming from the red dots that were originally itchy and painful, and I suddenly felt refreshed. The whole body is much more transparent and refreshed.

"Thank you."

"Hehe~" Rollin smiled at her lightly, then turned his head to continue listening to the scout's report.

"Sir, further on there is a gentle slope, the terrain is beginning to rise, and the ground will become drier and drier, and about five miles further up the road will be the town of Mire."

"How's the town going?"

The scout showed a hint of confusion on his face, shook his head, and said, "It's strange, no one has seen it, many houses are dilapidated and collapsed, and from a distance, it looks like ruins, and the whole town seems to be completely deserted." ”

"No one?" Luo Lin was a little strange and asked, "What about the situation around the town?" ”

"We went around in a circle, there were weeds everywhere, and we didn't see any signs of human life."

Luo Lin nodded: "Oh, I see, you go drink saliva first and rest." ”

Looking at it this way, the town has been abandoned, and it is very likely that the ruined miè sect knew that the news had leaked and retreated in advance. But it's only a possibility, and it's also possible that these sects deliberately make the town appear deserted so that it doesn't go unnoticed, and they live in seclusion.

Either way, they've already made it here, and they'll have to see it for themselves.

"Speed up, keep going." Rollin shouted an order.

The horses, urged by the riders, began to trot, and in less than twenty minutes they had covered the last five miles to the outskirts of the town of Mudbore.

The scene here is exactly what the scout said, dilapidated, depressed, and declining.

The streets of the town paved with black slag were overgrown with green weeds, the walls of the wooden houses by the roadside were black with honeycomb cavities, the damp and dark corners were covered with moss, and there was a large windmill in the middle of the town, and the blades of the windmills were broken and covered with blue vines.

All indications are that the town has been abandoned for at least half a year.

"Look, sir!" One of the scouts suddenly shouted, gesturing to the grass on the side of the road ahead.

Rollin looked over and saw a rotting corpse lying quietly in a field of weeds, surrounded by a large number of flies.

Without Luo Lin's orders, the scout had already rushed over to check, and several people looked through it, and then the scout captain came back to report.

"Sir, judging by the way you dress, you should be an adventurer passing by. Judging from the decay Cheng dù, it should have been dead for less than a week. He had a lot of wounds on his body, the fatal wound was on his back, and judging by the appearance of the wound, it should have been poked out with a dagger. He must have suffered a sneak attack here. ”

One week? Sneak attack? Rollin's eyes narrowed, he smelled something unusual.

After thinking for a while, he gave an order: "Listen to my order, a group of ten people, and explore the town separately!" ”

"Yes. Sir. ”

The soldiers disperse and begin to search the town for clues to the anomaly. Rollin also rolled over and dismounted, and walked over to the corpse to look.

The Scout Captain was still examining the body, and he looked very closely, hoping to find more clues.

"Stop!" As the scout captain opened the corpse's coat pocket, Rollin called out to him, then crouched down to take a closer look.

The coat pocket looks clean, but if you look closely at the bottom of the pocket, there is some white powder left, and Rollin reaches out and dips some powder into it. Take a closer look. Here are some crystals. Highly transparent, each one presents the same oblique quadrilateral, and the sunlight penetrates through these small crystals, which are lightly divided into various colors, showing the high refractive index of this crystal.

"It's the shreds of the spell crystal." Davi's voice rang out, and she came over too, recognizing it at a glance. She is a magician and often deals with spell crystals.

Rollin's heart moved as he listened.

"Sir. This adventurer was supposed to be a thief during his lifetime. The scout captain also appeared: "Look here, there is a small mark between the fingers, it is a butterfly knife pattern. There are a lot of small thieves who like to mark their members in this area. Looking at his fingers, he has calluses in the middle of his index and middle fingers, and thieves like to clip their blades open their target's pockets. ”

So Luo Lin came to a preliminary conclusion: "In that case, it is very likely that this thief accidentally revealed some secrets here, he came to steal these expensive spell crystals, and then was discovered by some people, and finally was attacked to death." ”

In fact, there is another possibility, and that is that this thief stole a spell crystal from somewhere. Get it here to trade, and then the crystal is robbed. People were also killed.

However, this is relatively unlikely, as the town of Mudmarsh, as a hidden gathering place of the Miè Sect, could not be used as a semi-public trading place, and the people of those sects were very cunning to do such stupid things.

Dai Wei also appeared, she pointed to the wound on the thief's back and said, "Look, Luo Lin, the decay around the wound is very high, but there is no pus, this strange decay phenomenon can only be the result of the erosion of shadow magic. ”

Indeed, Rollin nodded, stood up and said, "I'm sure that this town hides terrible dark secrets. We must find and destroy them. ”

…………

Outside the town of Swamp, the dwarf Saledo turned out from behind a big tree, looked at the army in the town in the distance, and sneered.

"A fresh and strong group of souls, right, Ertu?"

A voice came from behind the tree, where a tall, sturdy otherworldly creature was sitting, and he said in a sullen voice, "I don't mind killing them all now!" ”

"No, no, no, they're on full alert now, it's too dangerous for you to rush out. We sneak up at night. ”

"Danger? Hah, dangerous? Ertu's voice involuntarily raised, as if he had heard something extremely ridiculous: "A bunch of bugs get together, and you tell me that these bugs are dangerous, and this is really the most ridiculous joke I've ever heard." Shorty, you're making fun of me. ”

But the dwarf was not angry, he insisted: "You just listen to me, Ertu, you can't be wrong." ”

"Well, you're the master of the orders, we signed the contract, oh, the damn contract, so I have to listen to you dwarf." Ertu muttered discontentedly, his muscular body moving, and he waved his greatsword in his hand in boredom.

At this moment, a lizard emerged from the bushes and looked at Ertu in awe. The latter glared at the lizard, then stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, the lizardman was his fellow countryman. In their world, his favorite food is the lizardmen's tail, which is fluffy and crunchy...... Oh, that's delicious.

The lizardman shuddered, then stepped forward and whispered to Saledo, "Master, that human is about to be tossed to death by us. ”

"Did he give in, then?"

"I didn't ...... No, but he couldn't continue tossing, and his body was almost shattered. ”

This news made the dwarf very unhappy, and waved his hand at Ertu on the side, Ertu's eyes lit up, and he immediately rushed up, ripped off the lizard's tail, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.

The lizardmen were in pain, but they didn't dare to move, waiting for their master's next command.

"Let him slow down, and when he does, he will continue." Salado Road. He didn't expect that the noble young master would be such a hard bone, this is really not a pleasant thing.

Ertu looked at it and laughed: "Haha~~ Shorty, you also have mistakes, you knew this, wouldn't it be better for me to kill him with a sword?" ”

The dwarf didn't speak, his eyes looked at the town in the distance, and he wondered how to get rid of the troubled bugs. (To be continued......)

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