The same problem blocked them when the group B students were led by the fork that Ryan had been before, as they were silent,—the large number of glove boxes piled up at the fork.

Usses pursed his lips and poured his fighting spirit into his one-handed broad sword without saying a word. The battle runes swept out sharply, and the sharp sword energy broke all the wooden boxes blocking the way to the ground.

Alisa looked at the fragments on the ground and asked with some disconfidence, "That... is this good? We have never asked the regular army and Mayor Palm to destroy these boxes..."

"Huh~"

After venting for a while, Yuss calmed down a lot. He said in a deep voice, "No need to ask for instructions, no one will manage here, and usually no one will enter. Behind this road is a village that has long been erased from the map by the imperial government."

"Is it erased?" Emma held her chin and pondered for a moment. "Is it because of the accident in that village that has been demolished now?"

Euss sneered, "Accident? Humph~ It's also considered an accident, at least the government announced it was a landslide."

"Let's go, I won't say anything about this erased village next. You'd better not ask, it's for your own good."

Unlike Ryan who had drilled a tunnel before, the five people in Group B used the key given by their instructors to open the lock from the main door openly.

Moving forward in the quiet mountain road surrounded by green woods, they were surprised to find that they did not encounter the large number of monsters that should have appeared along the way.

When he walked to a fork in the mountains, Alisa squatted down to check the two tire marks on the ground, "Finished! There are indeed wheel marks, and they should be fresh traces that have only been passing by in recent days."

Marcias looked at the mountain road surrounded by mountains, pushed his glasses and analyzed calmly, "It's true. It's surrounded by mountains, and the only entrance is firmly blocked by glove boxes and doors. In theory, it is the most suitable place to hide. The problem is..."

Fei took the words of Marcias and questioned "Where did those smuggling merchants come in from... right?"

Usses looked at the wheel prints extending deep into the ground and stood up and urged, "Let's continue tracking. This group of smuggling merchants who were wandering around the border actually chose this place as a hiding place, and they must be arrested."

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When Group B gradually approached the truth of the smuggling incident with the documents left by Ryan, their instructor Reinhardt had already found the group of unscrupulous businessmen.

"Huh~ Fortunately, these idiots did not enter the village site, otherwise the chances of being silenced by their crime of trespassing into forbidden areas would be more than 90%.

The group of smuggling merchants were parking the guide truck produced by Sanliang Ryanfolt Company in a small valley, which was about 5 Selstrom from the former site of the village.

There are many rocks near the valley. If you do not enter through the only entrance that is deliberately hidden, it is difficult to find their traces with your naked eyes.

Of course, it would be a different matter if you just climb the mountain to a high place like Ryan...

Ryan looked at the smugglers who were camping and resting below and touched their chins. ‘The guide trucks produced by Ryan Folt Company do not seem to be merchants from neighboring Libert. So... are these guys citizens of the Empire?’

He stood up and leaned on the rocks and looked at the deep mountain road behind him. Five conspicuous small black dots were cleaning up the monsters and pushing forward to this side.

"Ha~ Come on, the chicks, you are not far from the truth, but according to the group of people's understanding of the surrounding terrain and what Hayneshou said before... the situation is a bit bad."

Then Ryan shrugged relievedly, "Forget it, if you solve it too easily, you will not be able to achieve the purpose of the internship. Try to struggle in the conflict, students from Class 7 of Special Science and Technology."

"Swoosh!"

Ryan flashed away from the mountain without any awareness of the undesired merchants below, and he rarely came to the forbidden area. He planned to worship the villagers who had been buried here for twelve years.

Due to the lack of people throughout the year, in addition to a large number of monsters on this abandoned mountain road, the surrounding vegetation grows very densely away from the environment where humans live.

If it weren't for a moss-covered street sign on the side of the road, Ryan wouldn't even know that he had walked near the village.

After reaching out and wiping the dusty street sign, Ryan finally saw the name of the abandoned village.

"Hamel"

Ryan shook his head with a wry smile, "Although I heard that I had speculated about whether I would come here during my internship at Palm, I didn't expect to visit this way..."

He picked one of the lily flowers in the blooming mountain at the entrance of the village. Ryan gradually walked into the former site of Hammel Village with a solemn expression on his face.

After twelve years, the traces left by the burning of the village have become very blurred.

The remains of the wooden building that was burned to black back then were also covered with verdant ivy and vines. The former site of the village was completely different from the tragedy that had been suffered before.

Ryan did not stay in the village. Based on the information that Joshua revealed during the chat, he came straight to a high ground behind the village.

A earthen tomb stands in front of the decaying railing at the end of the platform, and a broken sword with a strange shape like a wrench is inserted directly in front of the tomb.

Ryan silently placed the mountain lily in front of the tomb, silently closed his eyes and prayed for the master who died of the sword.

The tomb in front of me is just the tomb of Joshua's clothing. Sword Dereenhardt himself had been sleeping forever in Lake Valylia in Libert two years ago.

After the silence, Ryan squatted down to check the strange-shaped sword that Joshua inserted in front of the tomb of clothes. "The outer logic magic sword 'Rock Eater' seems to have completely lost its former magical power, and it can be considered as having gone through the last journey with his master."

"Okay." Ryan stood up and walked out. "It's almost time for the students to find the smugglers. Come and watch a good show, by the way..."

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As Ryan expected, the five people in Group B walked around several times like headless flies in the place where the wheel prints disappeared.

In the end, Emma found clues through some hidden spells. When she was haha ​​facing the puzzled eyes of the other four people, a purple cat was turning up dead fish eyes to look at the farce below on the branch not far away.

"What a group of kids without tension. Is it time to ask Emma?"

As the cat finished speaking, the merchant who was on guard patroled to the front and saw the five people standing in the open space chatting at a glance.

"Who are you? Why are you here!"

The armed businessman holding a guide rifle in his hand was very surprised by the appearance of the five people. Although he looked a little panicked, he still aimed the rifle at the students in Group B according to the previous training.

His shouting undoubtedly alarmed everyone in the temporary base. Before the students of Group B could react, more than a dozen armed merchants holding guide guns came out of the valley.
Chapter completed!