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"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Panis gently patted the banshee's back and comforted softly: "It's okay, don't be afraid, we are all here, we will protect you, be good, don't be afraid."

Anne trembled in Pennis' arms for a while before tentatively raising her head, looking at the people who were already familiar around her, finally let go, wiped the tears from her face, and whispered: "There are so many dead people inside, everywhere."

Dora hid behind Catherine, poked her head out from her shoulder, and asked in a floating voice: "Can you tell me a little bit clearly? How are there dead people, how are there live people? How are they distributed? Are there anyone alerts?"

"How many dead people? Well, ten, fifteen, twenty, oh, I can't count them." Anne danced and gestured for a while, and finally could only make a move to hold everything in her arms: "There are all dead people, and there is not a single living person."

Dora did not show a look of surprise, but just sighed deeply, sat down dejectedly on the dead tree stump beside her, covering half of her face and moaned, "Sure enough, it's too late."

Catherine turned around and pinched Dora's shoulders as if she was comforting, and asked the little banshee: "Annie, are you sure there is no living person inside?"

"I'm sure." Anne nodded vigorously: "I'm very sensitive to the breath of living people. If there are living people, I will definitely find it. I can guarantee that there are absolutely no living people inside."

"It was indeed silenced." Catherine shook her head helplessly, her fists clenched tightly, and she clattered: "It seems they know something, so the legendary level we encountered a few days ago was indeed summoned to silence. Haha, is it better to die if there is no value in Zhi**? The bastards behind the thieves are really cruel. Alas, the clues are broken again."

"Forget it, don't think about it." Panis walked to Catherine with Anne in his arms: "Go in and take a look, maybe you can find some clues left behind."

"I hope so." Catherine shook her hair vigorously, forcibly cheered up, stood up suddenly, walked forward with heavy steps, and shouted as she walked: "Let's go in and see the means of our opponents."

"How are you?" Panis patted the banshee's head, pointed at Catherine and said, "Do you want to go back to the room?"

"No." The little banshee refused decisively: "I won't be afraid if my brothers and sisters are here. I'll let me down and I'll leave myself, it's okay."

"Anne is so awesome." Panis smiled and put Anne back on the ground, held the banshee's cold little hand, and followed Catherine toward the hidden valley where the thieves were stationed.

Near the towering cliff, as Ye Owl described, an inconspicuous crack was hidden in the vines climbing at the bottom of the cliff. The crack was not narrow and could allow a person to pass through normally, but because of its concealment in its position, it would not be easily discovered.

Panis pulled Anne, and suddenly took two quick steps, walked to the position in front of Catherine, and took the lead in pushing away the vines and walked into the crack. Catherine was stunned, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and the anger in her heart suddenly dissipated a lot inexplicably.

When he walked into the crack, Panis saw only darkness. It was night now, leaving the jungle and losing the best light source of the flash vine. In addition, the crack did not run through the entire cliff, so the sky was completely impossible to see. Therefore, it was pitch black inside, and only the little banshee around him emitted a faint and cold white light, which made people barely see the rock walls on both sides. Panis quickly lit the torch that had been prepared and looked at everything around with the fire. The cracks in the cliff were not wet, there were no snakes and insects, and the ground was even dry and there was no moss. Standing at the entrance of the crack, you could feel a slight warm breeze blowing from the inside of the crack, and there was no dirty smell in the breeze.

"Let's go." Seeing everyone walking into the crack and two more torches were ignited, Panis took a step and walked deeper along the winding crack. The crack was not easy to walk in. The biggest obstacle was above the head, and protruding rocks kept blocking the high place, making people have to bend down and avoid it, and they would hit the head by accident. Fortunately, the distance between the cracks was relatively short. In less than two minutes, Panis walked into the valley and saw the stars in the night sky again.

"Huh?" As soon as he entered the valley, Panis exclaimed: "It's actually... this group of thieves really plan to stay here."

The valley is not as empty as everyone originally thought. Nearly thirty simple wooden houses were built in nearly 40,000 square meters of space. The wooden houses are very rough and not solid. However, because the valley is surrounded by mountains, with almost no wind and no rain, even such a rough and simple wooden house can be used for people to live normally. The wooden houses are distributed in a circular shape, and in the middle is a large open space, with various debris and weapons piled up on the open space, which is messy.

"How did it become like this?" As soon as the guide Elad came in, he exclaimed in surprise.

No one answered, and everyone's eyes were silently concentrated next to a house dozens of meters away from the crack. Several corpses were lying there, with different postures and messy directions. It was obvious that they suddenly fell down without any signs.

"Bastard, these beasts." Dora suddenly waved her whip and whipped heavily on the ground. She saw the appearance of the corpse clearly. The condition of several corpses was similar. There were no wounds on her body, and there were no signs of being hit by external objects. Even her clothes were neat. However, their bodies were extremely abnormal, with muscle atrophy, their skin was dissatisfied with wrinkles, and their hair and beard were gray. They opened the mouth of a corpse, and even their teeth were all gone. There was no trace of struggle around the corpse. The eyes were tightly closed, but their expression was very painful, and their fingers were deeply clenched into the loose and floating soil.

"They, these people, they, they are really old and dead." Shadow Wolf, who was responsible for inspecting the corpse, swallowed heavily and said a little acoustic: "Their death is physical failure caused by excessive aging, which is a typical situation of old and death."

"It seems that our previous guess is completely correct." Catherine hugged her chest with her hands and said in a cold voice: "It's really these guys who plunder other people's lives."

"How did they do it?" Dora asked in disbelief: "I have never heard of anyone doing this."

"Some." Vivian was paced around several corpses when he heard Dora's question answer: "Aging is a kind of method."

"Aging is not a permanent effect, and it is impossible to make people die of old age." Dora said loudly: "And even if there is, it doesn't make people die of old age alone."

"Maybe it's not completely meaningless." Lina half-kneeled beside the corpse, chanting the prayer in a low voice, suddenly raised her head and said, "Do you remember the first time we saw the actions of the two mages through projection? They put away one thing at that time."

"You mean, black crystal?" Catherine's eyes lit up: "Yes, they carefully collected it."

"So I guess that's the meaning of their behavior." Lina stood up slowly, gently dusted off the dust, meticulously sorted out her clothes, and carefully observed that every crease on her priest robe was exactly the same as before.

"Does other people's vitality be stolen in some way?" Vivian was irritated and circled around the place, saying to herself: "No, it's not life force. They didn't die of exhaustion. They were stolen... Is it lifespan? No, it's not lifespan. What exactly were they stolen? Why did they die like this? Oh my God, it's so amazing. You must figure it out. This discovery is so great."

"Vivian?" Katherine said loudly, "You actually say that this kind of thing is great?"

"Sister, you don't understand." Vivian said with excitement on his face and danced: "This is an unprecedented discovery in the magic world. Any breakthrough discovery is great, even if it is so evil."

"Maybe you're right." Catherine was solemn as never before: "But no matter what, I don't allow you to study these things in depth, Vivian, don't be blinded by your eyes."

"This is not *." Vivian explained urgently: "This is a pursuit of knowledge."

"Carebrokenness is also a kind of*." Catherine raised her voice again and said almost shouting: "Being controlled by any * is dangerous, and curiosity is no exception. Vivian, I don't want to see you in evil knowledge. Look at the corpses in front of you. The great discovery you think in your heart is obtained by stealing other people's lives. Do you think such knowledge is not evil? Wake me up. If you study these, what is the difference between you and our enemies?"

Vivian was stunned by Catherine's yell. She stood there for a long time. The fanaticism in her eyes slowly faded away, and she lowered her head weakly: "Sorry, sister, you are right, thank you, I almost got lost. Thank you for pulling me back. It's really dangerous."

Catherine also breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's okay, my sister, I'm really afraid that you will just go in like this."

"Don't worry, sister, after this time, I'll be mentally prepared and will not be lost so easily." Vivian walked to Catherine, hugged her waist, and leaned weakly in Catherine's arms and said: "However, we still have to find a way to understand the reasons and methods of the other party's method. Only by understanding them can we defeat them."

"I agree with this." Catherine nodded and said, "As long as you are not as fanatical as you were just now, I don't object to you to understand these things."

The others were very sensible and consciously left room for the two girls to argue alone. They each explored the valley for a while before returning to their original position. The valley was silent. In the middle of the circular simple building complex, a large number of corpses were lying densely on the ground. After a rough count, there were four or five hundred. The dead bodies were exactly the same, all the same as the corpses found before, old, weak, painful, and then died.
Chapter completed!