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"It's true." Catherine frowned: "The door is open, but no one guards, no villagers are in and out, and the people patrolling the wooden wall are gone."

"It's normal. The invasion of the monsters has ended. There's no need for the mercenaries to patrol every day like before." Lina said: "It's normal that there are no villagers entering and leaving. Now it's almost dark, and it's almost time for the villagers to go home for dinner. Who is still wandering around at the entrance of the village?"

"It's really almost time to eat, but what about the smoke from cooking?" Catherine pointed at the sky above the village with her chin: "No one."

Lina also became serious and quickly adjusted her mindset and entered a state of alert: "It seems that there is indeed a problem, let's go and take a look?"

"Let's go." Catherine took out the shield, reached out to wake up Vivian who was tragic, and briefly explained the situation. The four of them each held weapons and approached the spindle village carefully.

"It's very wrong. Both the inner and outer doors are open, which does not comply with the security rules of the forest border. It's really quiet and there is no sound at all." Catherine walked into the first gate carefully: "It seems that everyone in the village has disappeared."

"It's awful. I feel the residual of magic fluctuations." Vivian also said with a heavy face: "It's been half a month, but the residual fluctuations are still very obvious. Let's see, well, at least three legendary mages have participated. I guess the situation in the village will not be very optimistic."

"Magic fluctuations?" Catherine seemed to suddenly think of something, and while maintaining maximum alert, she quickly crossed the inner gate and entered the village. As soon as she crossed the city gate, she heard her roar full of hatred: "These bastards!"

The villagers could be seen everywhere on the streets of the village, but they had been dead for a long time. The bodies fell to the ground in various positions, obviously suddenly falling down during daily activities without any preparation. Catherine flipped over a corpse uneasy, but unfortunately, as she was worried, what appeared in front of her was an extremely old face. Every time she turned over a corpse, the result was the same.

"It's them again, damn it." It was not Catherine but Lina who broke out first. Lina felt a little strange, but found that Catherine didn't have much anger on her face, but she had a cold expression: "Sister, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Catherine shook her head: "It's no longer the time for anger to solve the problem. This is the declaration of war, and it is also to tell us not to meddle in other people's business. Unfortunately, they don't understand that the Knights will never be afraid of war."

"Put aside if you declare war." Panis said on the street full of corpses: "Dora and the others will come back first."

"It's bad, Dora." Although Catherine always spoke badly at Dora's habits, she raised her shield and ran to the temporary residence of the mercenary group when she heard Panis's words, allowing the other three people to chase after him. She hurriedly pushed open the door of the house where she was temporarily resided. Fortunately, she did not see any corpses, but many things had been knocked over. There was a solid wood seat twisted into pieces in the middle of the living room in the house. From the fragments of the seat, you could see the obvious traces left by Dora's whip sword.

"Dora." Catherine called out the name of her former friend in a low voice, half kneeled in front of the broken seat and gently stroked her. Her head was lowered, so that her black hair covered her side face and hid her expression. Only her slightly trembling shoulders betrayed her anxiety and anxiety.

"Are you paying for that chair? My dear senior?" A familiar voice suddenly sounded outside the gate. Catherine turned around suddenly, and Dora's tall shadow projected into the room from the gate. Against the sunset, you can see Dora's worried face still had a joking smile on her face, and she joked to Catherine: "I'm sorry, senior sister. If I had known that you liked this chair so much, I wouldn't have broken it that day to vent my anger."

"You guy." Catherine's tense shoulders slowly relaxed in seclusion: "What the hell is going on here?"

"Actually, I don't know, we only came back three days earlier than you." Dora slowly walked into the house and nodded to the others: "This is what happened here when we came back, including our thirty or so main members, and none of them existed. I checked it and found no clues except this."

Dora snapped her fingers, and the fantasy fox who was following her took out a memory crystal and handed it over.

"Memory Crystal? Is it another trick?" Catherine sneered and activated Crystal: "I want to see what he wants to say this time."

"We've been missing for a long time, and I'm very happy to see all the distinguished guests again." In the crystal projected image, Sandy, the long-lost mage, didn't even carry a hood with him. This time, he stood on the street, with corpses all over the ground all over the ground: "I guess the guests still remember me. Do you still like the dinner I provided?"

"Last time my servants offended you, I punished them for you, as a small gift for you. But I was very disappointed. You didn't even want the sign of returning the gift, which made me very sad. Because forgetting to return the gift in this way really made me lose the identity of a noble person with status and strength." Sandy made a very realistic expression of disappointment and sighed, "But I also understand you very much. After all, living in the jungle for a long time will inevitably miss some habits of understanding. I believe you didn't do it on purpose. Therefore, in order not to bear a bad reputation of losing your identity, I decided without authorization and use this village as a reward for the gift. Although it is also a bit rude to make your own decision without notifying you, but in order to protect your reputation, I would rather bear the reputation of being rude. Everyone doesn't need to thank me, this is what I should do.

After a moment of pause, Sandy bent down and saluted: "Then, there is not much time left. I will leave in advance. I hope everyone will not mind because of this. I also hope that in the near future, I will meet you again. Then I will sit down and have a good chat with you."

The crystal projection flashed a few times and finally disappeared. Catherine stared at the disappearing position of Sandy for a long time before she asked Dora with an ugly face: "Where did you find it?"

"It's in this room, this living room." Dora stomped her feet and signaled her feet, and placed it on the ground in the middle. She put it in a small red box for the sake of being conspicuous. How about it, senior sister, do you have any ideas?"

"Before entering the village just now, Vivian once said that at least three different magic waves of legendary wizards remain here." Catherine said: "This news is very serious."

"This shows that the other party did not do these things as a personal identity at all." Dora's face became even more gloomy: "It must be the action of the group, and it is incredible that three legendary mages can gather in this group."

"Notify the guild, this is no longer something we can handle." Catherine frowned and said, "Although I'm very unwilling to give it to the guild as the main person in charge. At most, we should assist from the guild."

"It has been notified." Dora said: "I sent Yinglang back to report to the commander. The commander should be coming, and he will be responsible for notifying the guild. Just so, you can meet the commander when he comes, and maybe there will be a chance to cooperate in the future."

"Forget it, no need, I plan to set off immediately and rush back to the capital of knowledge." Catherine said.

"So fast? Are you not going to take a rest for a night before leaving?" Dora said in surprise: "You haven't rested in a safe environment for a month, can you still hold on?"

"It's okay to hold on. I need to go back quickly and inform the Adventurers Guild. Vivian will also inform the Mage Guild. The guild will come forward and cooperate with the mercenary union to find the murderer." Catherine turned around and smiled apologetically at Lina and Vivian: "I'm sorry, everyone, I don't have time to rest, let's set off right away."

"No problem, it's the same if you go back and rest." Lina and Vivian said: "We can still hold on and we can set off at any time."

"Okay." Catherine nodded gratefully, suddenly turned back and said to Dora: "By the way, about this adventure, and about our guide Elad, there is something to tell you."

Catherine leaned closer to tell the story as it was. He heard Dora's expression constantly changed. It was not until Catherine finished speaking for a long time before she recovered: "Thank you, senior sister. But compared with the village being wiped out, these can be put aside for the time being. After the incident, I will ask about his whereabouts in the circle of mercenaries. The tricks are actually on our heads, and we must not let him go easily."

"I'm just notifying you about the situation. I don't have any hope of finding him." Catherine explained: "Okay, everything has been explained clearly, let's go now."

"Senior sister, be careful on the way and wish you peace all the way." Dora didn't bother her much and replied simply.

"You must be careful, maybe it's still dangerous here." Catherine nodded and turned around and said, "Sorry, everyone, I can't rest. Let's go home immediately."

"Go home, go home." The girls turned around and left without any complaints, without any dissatisfaction or nostalgia.

"Go home?" Panis chewed the words and suddenly smiled: "Okay, go home together."

No matter failure, pain, sadness, depression, disappointment, confusion, for all these wounds, perhaps the word home is always the best cure, but for Penis, how long has it been since I heard this simple but not simple sentence?
Chapter completed!