Steel steam and flame

"But indeed, if we can pull Soriatu into our camp, or if we have him join us on some of the planned routes, it will not only go much smoother, but it will also be completely guaranteed. That is a real person walking in the world. monster, judging from our current level of strength." Korkva said, lost in memories, "Only now do I realize that when I met Mr. Soriato in the Kingdom of Chil, the aura that he actively exuded was the real The ferocious beasts, like many rare and powerful individuals in the second category of creatures that are incompatible with the group, will not rely on the strength of the group, but only on their own sharp fangs."

"If a person like him has a strong team behind him to handle all kinds of trivial matters, it will be even more terrifying, right?"

"Of course, after all, there is no need to show your fangs in many things." Korkova agreed with Monica, "But after all, I have to think about whether I can meet Mr. Soriato again for a long time. It’s a problem. Like me, you are not someone who can take time off all the time. In this current situation, there are too many things that everyone needs to do.”

"By the way, sir, are you sure you won't use this border cleanup mission?"

Korkvar shook his head directly, "The top is always paying attention, and it is almost impossible to hide it. The focus is to pay attention to the future trends within the alliance. There will be more and more opportunities left for us, but we must have the strength to seize these opportunities." You have to come down.”

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I only rested for half an hour at noon. The time during the day was precious and I spent all of it on the road. By evening, Cassia calculated that the team had penetrated nearly two hundred kilometers into the forest. The environment has become quite similar to the outer area of ​​the southern forest, but the height of the trees has not exceeded the upper limit, and it is still very different from the southern forest.

It was not until 1 a.m. that the team found a place with better terrain to rest. It is still Isha and others who are on guard and vigilant, but compared to last night, the entire vigilance has become a rotation. It is not that the vigilance has dropped. During the day's trip, no similar traces were seen on the surrounding ancient trees. This situation made Isa and the others feel more relaxed.

Cassia, who was resting against an ancient tree in the middle of the team, closed her eyes. The sound wave pulses had been unfolding since yesterday, helping Isha and others observe the situation in further areas in the forest. Probably because his temperament tends to be cautious, and the guesses in his head are all heading in the worst direction, Cassia will carefully note down the subtle changes in the environment.

"There are also insects, which are much louder than last night." At this moment, Cassia seemed to be standing above the entire forest, watching everything within a circular range of four thousand meters with a pair of invisible eyes, " There are no other teams around, and there are no abnormal conditions, but the number of wild animals seems to be much less. The base number last night was about a hundred, but tonight it is less than half. The weather will be abnormal tonight, so they have not come out. Activity?"

Cassia wanted to see the night. The dense branches and leaves blocked the view, and there was no gap to see through. Recalling the bush areas with sparse trees that she passed through during the journey, Cassia was sure that there would be no extreme weather in the past few days. The temperature at this moment is also consistent with the early summer season, so this situation should not occur at this moment.

The senses of animals are more sensitive than those of surgeons in some aspects. After all, they are closer to nature and can use many methods beyond the control of surgeons to sense upcoming dangers.

Just as Cassia was thinking about whether some dangerous creatures were wandering nearby causing this phenomenon, a vague sound appeared faintly in the distance. Cassia herself couldn't hear clearly, let alone other people around her. Isa and the others were completely unaware of it. They were all lurking in the ancient trees in the distance, observing what was going on around them.

Taking a deep breath, Cassia closed her eyes, her auditory senses became sharper, and it seemed that more traces of the vague and absent sounds could be captured.

A long sound wave line came slowly, stretching very long. The source of the sound was outside the limit detection radius, and Cassia could not observe what creature was emitting it. But it can be seen from the sound wave lines in the head that the sound wave source is continuously emitting this sound.

Wanting to identify this sound, Cassia tried to empty her head in an attempt to restore the sound. But within half a minute, this sound had already started a chain reaction. At the beginning, there was only one sound source, but now it became two, and they seemed not far apart.

Then, about half a minute later, the third sound source appeared in Cassia's auditory senses. After that, almost every half minute, there will be another sound in the senses. It lasted for more than ten minutes before this vague sound completely disappeared from Cassia's perception.

"Thirty-five." Cassia opened her eyes and looked in the direction of Isa.

The sound sources started out in a straight line and appeared one after another, but along the way, the direction and the number of sounds changed every half minute. Later, there were many times when three or four sound sources appeared at the same time. Cassia connected these sound sources into points in her head and drew an incomplete circle. There is the only angle on the circle that can be seen as a gap, but the direction is towards the territory of the Flame Alliance, which is the end of the border forest. "The encirclement network that has been formed?"

It was already around two o'clock in the morning, and other members around him were resting. Cassia stood up in the darkness, touched the ground and slowly approached Toyinbi, "Did you hear any sound? It was coming from far away just now."

"Voice?" Toynby said softly, questioningly. Neither he nor Cassia could see each other's faces clearly in the darkness, "Is it insects? Or something else? What did you hear?"

"I seemed to hear wolves roaring in the distance, and then a chain reaction started, one after another. It was all around us, as if we had been completely surrounded." Cassia said in a worried tone, "Today It's not a full-moon night, so it's a little strange. I wonder if it's an illusion caused by what you said before, Mr. Toyinby." She laughed as she spoke, and Cassia hoped that Toyinby would think along the way.

"Then it must be an illusion. This kind of situation will appear frequently in future missions. You need to get used to it as soon as possible." As he spoke, Toynby let out a long breath, but I don't know if it was to comfort him or if he himself was aware of it. Added a sentence, "I will pay attention to this, after all, anything can happen in this forest. No one will joke with their own lives. Go and rest, if it is what you think, we are already surrounded , and then making a breakthrough after taking a good rest is our only option.”

As he said that, Toyinby stood up and walked towards Isa, "I'll go take a look, you go back and rest." He said again.

Cassia turned back to the ancient tree. In the sound wave pulse, Toyinbi was already talking to Isa. In the darkness, Cassia finally took out the blade. However, what was unexpected was that the sharpness of ordinary blades was difficult to cut through his skin. I used most of the dozen blades I bought, and finally managed to open a small wound. Cassia quickly squeezed hard, dripping a drop of sticky blood on the damp ground, and then covered it with dead leaves.