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"Be careful." Dora had no time to rescue her and could only exclaim.

The head wolf's claws were getting closer and closer to Vivian's shoulders, but neither Lina, Panis, nor Vivian herself seemed to have any reaction, and let the head wolf get closer to Vivian little by little.

The moment the huge claws were put on the shoulders, the head wolf's pounced forward suddenly stopped, and a humanized expression of doubt appeared on its furry face, and it could no longer move. The head wolf's huge claws were originally covered with painted black fluff, but as the head wolf paused, the fluff was immediately covered with white frost. The frost quickly spread upward along the two claws, making a sound of Krakela. In less than three seconds, it had covered the whole body of the head wolf, and it was constantly getting thicker, eventually turning the head wolf into a wolf-shaped ice sculpture.

Under the influence of gravity and inertia, the giant wolf's jumping body began to overturn to the side in the air. Vivian leaned forward slightly, allowing her to almost touch her two claws. The ice sculpture, which had lost its target, twisted and continued to move forward, directly hitting the side guardrail of the convertible car, and was pushed away by the rebound force and fell to the ground. The collision was not very powerful, but the huge ice sculpture made a crisp sound of crystal shattering from the inside, and a large number of fine patterns appeared on the surface of the ice sculpture. Finally, with a click, the ice sculpture and the head wolf inside broke into more than ten pieces, with no trace of blood on the section, and only completely frozen muscles and blood vessels could be seen.

"Ah." Lina exclaimed in surprise: "Vivian, your movements are faster than I thought."

"Hehe, of course." Vivian smiled proudly: "In front of you, the greatest wizard genius in hundreds of years, what's so surprising about this."

"You are... promoted to the Golden Higher Level." Panis touched his chin and looked up and down at Vivian: "I haven't noticed when I advanced."

"Last night." Vivian smiled even more proudly, her two short ponytails swaying left and right like windmills: "I don't mean to say it, I'm going to scare you today. Hehe, sister, Lina, I'm a step ahead this time."

"You are really brave." Catherine was not happy, but said dissatisfied: "I just advanced and my strength cannot be completely controlled, so I dare to use such a dangerous way to fight the enemy. What do you think of fighting as? What is the game? Fortunately, this is just a silver-level monster. What if it is a golden-level? Can you freeze it so simply? Have you ever thought about what will happen if you can't freeze it? Is it so interesting to be injured?"

"Um." Vivian pouted and lowered her head: "I'm sorry, sister."

"Don't be so proud again in the future." Catherine said in anger: "Don't forget our profession, adventurer, and a profession that is always with danger. If you joke about danger like this, don't take risks with us again."

"Yes, sister." Although Catherine started nagging again, Lina and Vivian rarely changed the subject. Vivian lowered her head and whispered: "I know I was wrong."

"Just knowing it's wrong." Catherine smiled: "When the mission is over and we'll celebrate, and celebrate that our Vivian has become more powerful."

"Hehe." Vivian secretly looked at Catherine's expression and confirmed that she was not angry anymore, so she raised her head with a smile.

"Senior sister, you are really strict," Dora sat back in her seat, tidied up her whip that turned into a sword and said, "It's very majestic."

"Oh, there's nothing we can do." Catherine sighed: "By the way, why are monsters starting to appear here? Such an outer periphery should be just ordinary beasts."

"During this period of year, there are war zones around the forest." Dora shook her head and said, "World beasts below the Golden Level may appear anywhere, so we must be careful too."

"How far is it from the first ruin?" Panis suddenly asked at the rear of the car: "Where is the abandoned city?"

"At our speed, it will take about an hour to get to the ruins of the first village." Dora looked at the sky: "As for the abandoned city, the forest is W-shaped, and the city is just between the two prominent tips at the lower end. If we pass through the forest directly, we can not pass by the city. However, since we suspect that the thieves are hiding in the ruins of the city and want to go and see it, we can arrive at around 3 pm. What? Is there anything wrong?"

"I care about something, maybe I need to confirm it." Panis gestured on the map with his fingers, occasionally pondering for a while.

"What's so serious?" Lina stabbed Penis on the side: "What did you find?"

"Nothing." Panis shook his head: "It's not a very important thing. I'm not sure yet. Let me tell you when I'm sure."

"It's mysterious." Lina curled her lips and looked at Panis with a slanted eye: "There must be something weird."

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The nameless small town outside the Shining Forest looks like a very ancient city with a history of at least several hundred years. Judging from the scale of the ruins, the city is not big, with only three or four hundred buildings, covering an area smaller than that of Karatomir. It is closer to the size of the town than a small town. The shadow of time has left a deep mark on the buildings of the small town. A large number of houses collapsed and weathered, and many houses carry traces of fire. There are less than ten buildings that can maintain completeness.

"What's the name of this city?" Lina looked around.

"I don't know, no one knows." Dora shook her head: "This city should have been destroyed by war. Under some collapsed buildings, sometimes the bodies of the dead residents can be found. However, the records about the city have long been lost, so the name of the city, the time of destruction, and the causes of destruction can only be guessed."

"It's a bad feeling for me here." Lina's eyebrows were frowning, and her expression on her face was very sad: "There is a breath of resentment and despair everywhere. Maybe Dora, you are right, this place may be really haunted."

"Of course it's true. I've been seen many times." Since entering the small town, Dora has been pressing against Catherine tightly. No matter how Catherine kicks and beats, she will never leave a step. Catherine is helpless, and finally can only abide by Dora's sticking to him and holding his arm tightly.

"Divide two groups to explore the two sides." Catherine said: "I am in a group with this fool, and you three are in a group, each exploring part of each, focusing on checking intact buildings. If there are intact rooms in the damaged building, you should check it out to see if there are any traces of the activities of the thieves. Once you encounter a living person, no matter whether it is a thief or not, hit the resonance crystal as soon as possible to notify the other group of people, and never attack without authorization."

"Wait." After entering the city, Penis kept observing the gates of each building in detail. He heard that Catherine began to assign tasks and then raised his hand to interrupt Catherine: "Don't disperse for now, there must be problems here. I smelled the stench of a large number of corpses, definitely not left by those corpses that had died for hundreds of years."

"Lead the way," said Catherine, "How many bodies are there?"

"Many, at least more than fifty." Panis curled his lips: "Also, I think you have confused me with some animals again."

"It's just an illusion, lead the way." Catherine looked at the sky with her eyes squinted: "It seems that I guessed right. Even if those thieves are not here, it is at least related to it."

Under the guidance of Panis, the five people slowly followed the abandoned roads in the city toward the center of the city. The city was not big. Even when everyone was on guard, they walked to the city center in less than thirty minutes. There were still several buildings where they could smell the pungent stench of corpses.

"It's a bit exaggerating." Lina covered her nose and didn't dare to breathe: "There are definitely more than fifty corpses. You can't leave again. If you walk again, you will be poisoned, Vivian."

"I understand." Vivian immediately took out ten bottles of potions: "Breath-holding potions can stop people from breathing for five minutes, two bottles per person. I think ten minutes is enough."

Even after a long period of adventure, the girls are used to seeing corpses of various causes of death, after all, they are still normal people and have never encountered a large number of corpses with highly decaying environments. It is not until they drink potions that they feel like they are escaping from death.

"We finally survived, let's speed up the movement." Catherine pursed her lips when she spoke, otherwise there would always be an illusion of corpse smell that she would be swallowed in her mouth.

After walking for a few minutes with the smell of corpses, he walked around a building and finally arrived at the central square of the city. In the middle of the square, there were a large number of corpses piled up, layer by layer, and at least four or five hundred were roughly calculated. The corpses had rotted to a state of disintegration and melting. A large number of corpses merged with each other, and dark corpses flowed all over the ground, condensing layer by layer, covering each other. Judging from the degree of decay between the corpses, they should have died at the same time.

"Wait, I'll go over and take a look." Panis looked around and put on a pair of thin gloves, walked to the pile of corpses to look through one by one, and would occasionally take out a dagger to cut it. The more he looked, the more he was confused, and the more he was about to end the time of the second bottle of breath-holding potion, he quickly ran back to the girls. None of the five dared to speak, and escaped with the fastest speed of the way he had always come.

"It should be OK here." After running for a long time, Catherine took a tentative breath, and there was still a stench floating around, but it was tens of millions of times better than when she approached the central square: "Okay, let's talk while walking, what did you find?"

"From the physical perspective, these are basically all professionals, but their strength is not high. Most of them are black iron-level, and there are a few bronzes and silver. Although I couldn't check them all, according to the proportion, there should be no more than five corpses of the silver-level." Panis said: "From their clothes, they are close to bandits, and they are likely to belong to the thieves group mentioned by Dora."

"So, can we be sure that the thieves are connected to this place?" Catherine asked.

"Basically, it's OK. But I discovered something strange." Panis said in confusion: "All the corpses are not fatal, and their expressions are different, not only pain and fear, but also many corpses have a happy or happy expression."

"How long have these people been dead?" Lina asked absent-mindedly, touching the books in her hand.

"From the rot, it should be about thirty days." Panis calculated the time and answered with affirmative answer.

"There is actually very strange that these corpses exist in themselves." Lina's hand unconsciously flipped the book in her hand: "There is a large number of corpses accumulated, and it is the season for monsters to invade. Under normal circumstances, the nearby monsters have long attracted food, but the corpses are kept intact."

"Yes, this is very unreasonable." Vivian nodded and said, "Unless, there is something here that makes the monster feel scared and dare not get close."

"Ghost." The girls thought of the answer at the same time: "It turns out that it is really possible that it is haunted here."

"Hey, I've said it all. The news is true. Many people have seen it. Why don't you believe it?" Dora shouted in anger: "Okay, I've seen the body, so leave here quickly."
Chapter completed!