through the dark road

The figure of the visitor gradually became clear after entering the area covered by fire. If the four adventurers were active in this area, their level should not be lower than level 25.

"Good evening, young adventurers."

A bearded man with a rough temperament came forward, said hello with a smile, took off a gauntlet, stretched it over the bonfire, teased the dancing flames and said:
"Oh... On a night like this, it would be most comfortable to light a bonfire. But... it's also stupid!"

He changed the topic and suddenly released a ball of cold air from his hand, extinguishing the bonfire in an instant.

Seeing several young people sitting around a pile of charcoal blocks looking at him blankly, he couldn't help but grinned, as if he had seen something interesting, and then said:

"Hasn't anyone taught you before? Don't think that you only need to be alert to the woods when you spend the night at the beach. You can be more relaxed. The monsters here are good at water and often dive and sneak up on you!"

While he was talking, he rudely reached out and pulled out a piece of sausage from the barbecue fork and took a bite. He chewed it while nodding his head, raised the sausage in his hand and shook it to express his approval of the taste.

Mo Bei was confused.

This person is here to amuse himself. .

Although the intention is not bad, this behavior is too unreasonable. What's going on when someone puts out the bonfire as soon as he comes up?

I ate it without asking. . .

Fortunately, this person didn't go too far. He didn't invite his friends to come over and share. He just ate up the sausage on his hand in a few mouthfuls and then wiped it on his leather armor.

He was about to say something more when his attention was attracted by some noises in the forest. After staring at the dark trees for a moment, he shook his head and said:

"Look, you can make a fire and barbecue without attracting monsters? There's not even a warning person, hey... it's a miracle that you can get here..."

Seeing that several people were still looking blank, the bearded man was also a little puzzled.

What's going on with these rookies?

I told you it was strange, why are you still sitting there stupidly? .

He clicked his tongue a little irritably, shook his hands and sighed:

"Forget it, let's take it as a reward for eating your food and help you solve it."

"We haven't eaten yet, hehe."

His three teammates also came over, followed the same example, tore a piece of barbecue and stuffed it into their mouths, then each pulled out their weapons and walked towards the woods.

Mo Bei and his friends looked at each other for a while, feeling speechless at the sudden visit. When they thought of stopping those four people, the sound of fighting had already been heard in the jungle.

After a while of noise, they crawled out of the woods with silk sacs hanging on their backs and under their bellies. They looked like they were carrying large and small bags home for the New Year.

A few silk sacs were still twisting, it was the four people from the bearded group.The other silk sacs contained either wild boars or giant wolves. They were probably stabbed to death by the woolen yarns and their arthropods on the spot. They looked bloody.

Big Beard and the others were captured without any injuries. They struggled in fear in the silk sac and finally poked their heads out. When they saw Mo Bei and the others still sitting by the charcoal pile, they froze when they looked at each other. My brain is a bit out of whack.

Mo Bei finally made a move, stepped forward and cut open the silk sac with a sharp blade, and released the four people.

"Are you okay?"

The four of them were stunned for a long time, looking at Mo Bei and then at the giant spiders. They found that the numbers were the same, and they had a rough guess in their minds.

The bearded man sat up, raised his hand to wipe the sand off his face, and asked softly:

"You...are you?"

"Adventurers like you want to visit Westmarch," Mo Bei said.

"Are you from... Kurast?" The bearded man looked at the woolen yarns again, and he was still frightened when he thought of his previous experience of being captured.

Mo Bei smiled, expressed his acquiescence, and asked:

"What are you doing wandering around at night?"

The bearded man choked for a moment, thinking to himself that if you didn't light this fire, how could this bad thing happen. .

But now he dared to make mistakes and struggled to squeeze out a sentence:
"We... that... are on our way!"

Mo Bei didn't expose it and continued to ask:
"Are you aboriginal from the Western Boundary or are you from other places?"

"Natives."

"The atmosphere here in the Western Border is like...are you like this?"

The bearded man twitched, showed an ugly smile and said:

"Seeing that you are young, I treat you as a rookie. I don't mean to offend you."

"No offense, let's get something to eat together."

Mo Bei said hello and asked his friends to move and clear a few empty seats beside the campfire.

The bearded man looked at the rekindled bonfire, feeling that there seemed to be a faint blue light, which made him feel frightened for no reason.

He is an elemental druid, and his perception and control of elements is naturally not weak, so he is becoming more and more confused.

The current bonfire, under his perception, was not as easy to put out as before, which somewhat subverted his perception. .

He hesitated for a moment, looked at each other again with his teammates, then nodded, said thank you, and sat down by the campfire.

"Are you free adventurers or scouts?" Mo Bei asked again.

"I used to be a guard in Vic Town, but after I was transferred to the Gray Mist Forest, I left the guard and became a free adventurer."

The town of Vic in Big Beard's mouth is equivalent to a novice camp on the west side. The Gray Mist Forest is located to the west of Branwell. There are a lot of thorny monsters and they are good at hiding. It is also a place for low-level teams. Fierce place.

"Why did you leave the garrison?"

"None of us like being ordered around, and the command of the garrison is too confusing." The bearded man said bluntly.

"Oh? What kind of chaos method?" Mo Bei finally heard what he wanted to know and became interested.

"When two forces are mixed together, chaos is inevitable. In the past, both sides demarcated their own defense areas, but either there were blank areas or cross-border conflicts. Later, it was changed to simultaneous dispatch, that is, both sides sent an equal number of manpower. In the same area, it looks like cooperation on the surface, but in fact it is more chaotic.”

Mo Bei nodded slightly as he listened to the bearded man's story. He also had some experience in Alkanas and could imagine the general situation of the non-free deployment of combat forces here.

This kind of cooperation with the same strength but not the same focus will inevitably respond more slowly to the defense pressure from various places.

"That time we were sent to garrison the Beihuang outpost. Originally, four teams were required to take turns to replace us. But for some reason, there was only one team there when we arrived. After waiting for a long time, not only did no one else come, not even the other team came. It was time for both teams to return for patrol. The four of us stayed there all night. In the early morning, the outpost was attacked by a group of monsters and almost failed to escape. After we returned, we couldn't get an explanation from the left and right, so we quit in a fit of anger. The garrison.”

The bearded man didn't show any emotion when he talked about this. He seemed to be used to it, but Mo Bei's forehead was twitching.

The Western Border has always been recruiting mercenaries. The main reason is that the death rate remains high. Although Big Beard did not say that the two sides were specifically engaged in internal strife, this incident is enough to illustrate the problem.

It is understandable that mistakes in personnel transfer occurred, but there was no intention to find out the reasons afterwards. This can no longer be called chaos, but that people's lives are not taken seriously. (End of chapter)