"The defensive power of this camp has been strengthened." Looking at the dilapidated camp in front of him, Catherine looked around and said: "It seems that they have learned the lessons from the night before and deliberately increased their defense."

Indeed, in the previous camp, what I saw was not so much a camp, but rather a circle of residues from the trench. The ground inside the trench was an ordinary lawn in everyone's eyes. At most, there were a few small holes on the lawn that were not easy to detect with the naked eye. These small holes were the only traces left when setting up tents. Only wild survival experts and tracking experts like Panis or Flar can keenly discover these traces and then infer the exact location, direction and size of the corresponding tent. However, the second camp was different. It was easily penetrated by the undead the night before, which made the expedition team that year be more vigilant, so it took more time and energy to build the camp.

The outermost periphery of the camp is still a circle of trenches several meters deep. As for the inside of the trenches, it is no longer just a trap, but a circle of wide and thick earth walls one meter high, which should be made of the soil when the trenches were made. Although the earth wall is now full of weeds, through the traces left behind, it can be seen that a lot of lighting equipment and defense equipment were set up on it to prevent the enemy from attacking the camp without any awareness like last night. There was no negligence inside the earth wall. After walking around the earth wall, Pannis found at least six traces of various traps. Although after forty years, these traces were not easy to distinguish under the destruction of time, in Pannis's seriousness, they were still as conspicuous as the beacon in the middle of the night.

"It must be more than these six." Panis said, rubbing his chin, "According to the distribution density of the traps, I estimate that there are at least twenty traps in this circle in the inner area of ​​the defense wall. They are going to turn their base into a battlefield, and they are not afraid that their night patrolmen will accidentally step on it. If they really step on it, tsk tsk, the adventurers who die in their trap will definitely not be the first and the last one, but I guess they will be the one with the highest identity and strength."

Panis himself did not realize it at all. His words were full of sarcasm. It seemed that when he affirmed that the attacker was controlled by Neli in the air, he had already stood firmly on the side of the attacker and subconsciously placed the previous expedition on the opposite side. Of course, although he didn't know it, everyone, including Dilly, could see it clearly. However, no one protested for this, and no one reminded him that in the eyes of the girls, at this time

Panis is like a sulky child. In order to protect his cherished partner, he firmly despises all creatures that are enemies with her. This is the first time that girls have seen Panis have such childishness. Compared with his mature and reliable way in the past, of course, it is a bit more cute in the eyes of girls now. Perhaps, he will only show such a side when facing things related to Nelly.

"Fortunately, she only belongs to the past." Although she had condemned herself countless times and stopped herself countless times, the Knight Girl could not help but feel glad: "We are not like that fool queen, trying to defeat an enemy that belongs to the past. We don't need to defeat the past, because the enemies of the past do not need to defeat, we only need to seize the present and future that does not belong to you, well. As long as there is a future. Ah, Lord Neli, I'm sorry, I shouldn't think so, you are still my role model. But, but, in this regard, we will not give in."

"Just relying on such a trap, I want to block our joint breakthrough? I'm too underestimating our fighting consciousness." Of course, Panis could not guess what the girls could not say in his heart. He had subconsciously brought himself into the role of the small skeleton. In his inner world, it seemed that he had returned to the days of joining hands with his beloved female knight to fight against powerful enemies together, that day without crime, self-blame, sacrifice, death, and that day that the happiest period of life, but never recovered. Perhaps it was because of more than a hundred years of self-blame and pain that he still unconsciously missed the joy of the past in his heart that he built a phantom in his own field that belongs only to the past and cannot touch now because of this contradictory mood.

As if touching the pain and happiness deep in Panis's heart, the Knight girl couldn't help but turn her head, her eyes were slightly red. She gave him the courage to face her past and then walk out of the past to welcome the future. This is the effort the girls have been making, but the pain and sorrow brought by the past is a negative impact that the girls can't bear to see but cannot eliminate. All they can do is to stay by his side and use their own existence to resolve this pain. Therefore, when Catherine turned back, the tears in her eyes had faded, and she tried to say with her usual smile: "Grandfather and the others don't know who the opponent is. In their cognition, the opponent should be just two powerful undead with sanity."

"That's right." Panis nodded, no longer entangled in the trap. He squatted beside several mounds in the camp and poked the hard and dry soil with his fingers: "They did not use the tent this time. It is probably because if there is light, it is easy to see the figure inside through the tent, and the tent is too easy to be cut and torn. They actually used the remaining soil to build several houses similar to the tent shape. It seems that the expedition team has natives from the western wasteland of Neville. This kind of construction method is a standard Western wasteland method. It does not require any wood and bricks as load-bearing structures. It can be built with clay alone."

"And the rooms are much denser." Catherine looked at the locations of these collapsed rooms and said: "Dense buildings are easier to defend against enemy raids, but it is more troublesome if they encounter large-scale magic attacks. However, his grandfather was in the team, with a demigod mage guarding it, so it was not difficult to defend against large-scale magic attacks, so it was not considered a disadvantage."

"Well, and we are not good at aggressive magic." Panis nodded, "They should have seen this problem from our performance the night before, so they use dense buildings to increase their defense."

"It's a pity that all these rooms collapsed." Lina interrupted regretfully, "This is the first time I have seen such a conical dirt house. I have only seen it in books before, and it doesn't look as strong and durable as the book says."

"There is no way. Although this soil treated with special methods is indeed waterproof, the Death Forest is too wet and rainy after all, and it has been normal for more than 40 years to collapse." Panis raised his chin to the side and signaled: "Aren't there two still uncollapsed?"

"That's right, after all, it's been so long, so you can't ask too much." Lina nodded and turned her curious eyes to the two rooms that had not collapsed. One of them was already broken and seemed to have the possibility of collapse at any time. The other room was kept intact. Although it was bumpy on the surface, the main structure was still not damaged. However, these two rooms were relatively short and mixed in other rooms that had collapsed, which was not easy to find. The priest girl's eyes lit up and she said excitedly: "I'll go and see what's inside. Vivian, please accompany me. I don't want to step on the trap."

"Stop making fools. The traps will be removed when they leave. This is the basic requirement for adventurers to camp in the wild." Vivian gave Lina a blank look, but despite saying that, she still followed. After all, this is not a foreign house at home, but a dangerous wilderness. Although the danger is much smaller in the forbidden area of ​​life, it is better to be careful.

Lina took Vivian's hand and ran to the small tent amid the protest of the mage girl. She ignored Vivian's dissatisfied eyes because of her sudden running. She curiously looked at the dark space inside the house through the short door. The mud cottage had no windows, only a curved hole as an entrance. If the book records correctly, after entering the room, sealing the entrance with metal mesh or thick wooden boards will be a closed and comfortable space. However, the cottage must have no closed entrance now, and the black hole entrance exposes the internal structure.

The two girls did not intend to enter the room. No matter how curious they were, the rich experience of veteran adventurers made it impossible for them to rashly break into a room that had not been carefully investigated, even if this room was located in a forbidden area of ​​creatures where life could not exist. Therefore, the girls just poked their heads at the door and looked away from afar to satisfy their curiosity.

Just as the girls were looking at the internal structure of the mud room, a "click" sound came from behind the two of them. It was not the sound of the trap being triggered, nor the sound of footsteps. Strictly speaking, it was the sound of bones and joints rubbing. At the same time, Panis's loud reminder: "Be careful behind it."

The two girls reacted very quickly. The first move was not to turn back stupidly. That reaction was equivalent to suicide. After hearing the light sound and hearing Panis' reminder, Vivian's first reaction was to roll forward suddenly and drill to the entrance of the house that was sure there was no object. He did not enter the room, but just let the walls of the room block her left and right directions. At the same time, Lina's body had already flashed with the blessing of magic. The defense and strengthening magic technique were both on her body and moved sideways, just blocking the entrance, protecting Vivian behind her, and at the same time, she used her strength to swing the mace in her hand.

With a "double" sound, the priest girl only saw a white shadow in front of her eyes. A huge force came from her hand. Even after the magical technique strengthened her power, Lina could not resist this powerful force. Her body could not stop retreating. After hitting Vivian, the two girls rolled into a ball uncontrollably. However, while rolling into the room, a huge ball of fire suddenly flew out from behind Lina, and with a scorching temperature, it rushed out of the mud hut along the entrance of the room.

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