I, the sycamore tree demon, have met a phoenix!

In short, it went smoothly as well. The little monsters encountered so far basically have no resistance, and Wu Ji doesn't need to do anything. The village soldiers alone can solve it smoothly.

Although not many monsters were dealt with in more than ten days, the deterrence of the village has been improved a lot anyway, so that the monsters lurking in the forest have gradually begun to consciously avoid their advancing routes.

Generally speaking, everything is progressing slowly on the right track. As long as there are no accidents, a series of problems such as food, security, population, and trade routes will be solved one after another, and the scale of the village will definitely continue to grow go down.

only……

When the time came to 20 days later.

"Another one disappeared?"

Li Wan's eyes widened, staring at her niece in front of her.

"What's going on? This is already the second one, right? How could such a big living person disappear out of thin air for no reason? Are you sure you have searched the surrounding area carefully?"

"I've searched and found nothing. There are no footprints, no fluctuations in demon power, and no traces of fighting. It can be said that there is nothing. These two people seem to have really evaporated from the world."

The person who answered was Li Jie.

At this moment, the expression on her face looked a little ugly.

You know, the village soldiers who follow the team are all villagers in the village. They all have relatives. If they died in battle, it’s okay. Just go through the steps once.

But like this, when the team is advancing, it disappears from the team inexplicably, and it is a bit difficult to find people who are alive or dead.

It is equivalent to wasting two lives in vain, without any information or results in return, it can be said to be a pure loss.

"Could it have something to do with that?"

Li Wan said in a deep voice.

The "that" in her mouth naturally refers to the wisp of human smoke she found in the south before the suppression began.Since Li Jie was in charge of the south, she had already told the other party about this matter.

In other words, it was precisely because of this unstable factor in the south of the village that Li Jie, who had marching experience and was only inferior to the two big monsters in the open space, was sent to take charge of this direction.

I didn't expect that even if it was the other party, something happened now.

"I'm not sure either..."

Li Jie frowned and shook her head.

"However, I have never found human habitation in the surrounding mountains, and I have never found traces of human habitation, but there are many traces of monsters..."

"You think it has something to do with monsters?"

Li Wan stared at her.

"That's the only possibility left. I haven't stayed in the south for long. Maybe it's a monster that I've never seen before and is especially good at hiding its body and aura." Li Jie guessed.

"En." Li Wan nodded.

"Then you have to look for it again..."

Meanwhile, on the other side.

On an unnamed mountain outside the village.

"Huh... Finally, there are only the last five nodes left. Tomorrow, I will make up for the five southernmost nodes, and then I can directly build a formation eye and start to change the circulation of the earth's veins." Yin Dapeng rubbed his sore neck , somewhat weakly half-closed his eyes.

"Yeah, after everything is done, you can take a good rest." Lin Wu couldn't help but smile a little, and then turned to look at the distance beyond the mountain.

"But the locations of the last five nodes should be quite far away, right? Maybe it won't be finished in a day...Huh?"

Speaking of this, she suddenly raised her eyebrows, and the smile on her face disappeared.

"What's wrong?" Yin Dapeng noticed her expression instantly.

Lin Wu was silent for two seconds, then shook his head.

"...No, we're going back."

Is it an illusion?

She seemed to sense a strange aura in the distant mountains and forests just now, but after careful perception, she found nothing.

Probably some kind of goblin...

After all, if there was a big monster, it would have been discovered by the villagers long ago, so how could it be hidden now.

And if it's really a little demon, then let Xiaoya and the others handle it. There is no need to do this kind of trivial matter by yourself.

Chapter 160 Six: The Existence of Darkness (4000 words)

The next day.

The team to eliminate monsters set off from the village again.

It's just different from before, this time everyone concentrated to the south.

Compared with the little demons who have not yet been wiped out, the village obviously still pays more attention to these enemies hidden in the dark, so after listening to the news reported by Li Jie, they decided to grab these enemies and make a living for the village.

Eliminate them before doing further damage.

"Scatter search?"

Liu Ya glanced lightly at the two sisters next to her.

"No." Li Jie shook her head, her face slightly serious, "The enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. As long as they enter the mountain, they will definitely find us. If they search separately, they will be easily defeated individually. It is better to act together."

You know, they don't know how strong that existence is. If it is a big monster, the blind division of troops will only ruin everyone's lives.

"It takes a lot of time to go together." Liu Ya frowned slightly.

The size of this mountain forest can be seen just by looking at it, it can be said that it is almost boundless. If everyone acts together, how many years and months will it take to search it all?

"no way."

In this regard, Li Jie's attitude is quite firm.

"Safety is more important than efficiency. What's more, even if we split up, it won't increase the efficiency much. Although the purpose of letting everyone come together is to search, but in fact it is mainly to lure that guy out."

After all, it was the existence that took the initiative in the first two times before they noticed the strangeness, but this time there were many more people here, but it might be impossible to find that guy directly by searching.

Therefore, it is best to wait for that guy to take the initiative, and wait until the moment he strikes, the three of them will seize the opening and work together to find that guy out.

And this was the best policy Li Jie could think of.

Regarding this, Liu Ya was silent for two seconds, but still did not say any objection, "...I see."

She originally wanted to object, but recalling the fight with the other party in the open space before, and what Li Wan told her about the general experience of the person in front of her...

I have to admit that the opponent's ability in all aspects is stronger than my own, and the judgment I make will probably be more correct than my own.

So she didn't choose to object, as long as things can be done well, even if the other party doesn't do what she wants, she doesn't care at all.

So, after the decision was made, the search officially began.

After coming to the south a few times, Li Jie, who is more familiar with the terrain, took the lead to open the way, and then Liu Ya, who was the second most powerful, was used as the observation position in the middle, ready to support the front and rear at any time.

At the end of the team, Li Han is in charge.

Logically speaking, the two disappearances of the members of the team were from the back of the team, so her position should be regarded as the most dangerous one.

After Liu Ya heard the arrangement, she also turned her head to look at the other party.

"Can you?"

If it doesn't work, change it with her, and she has no objection.

But Li Han shook his head with a smile, not feeling much pressure in his heart, "It's okay, Sister Ya, I'll take care of the future."

Liu Ya stared at her for a while, then turned her head and didn't say anything more.

The opponent has changed quite a lot. If it was in the past, let alone cut off the back like this, this guy might not even have the courage to participate, but now...

According to Lord Qingwu's words, this guy finally started to shine.

"come on."

Liu Ya turned and left, leaving these two words lightly when passing by the other party.

Li Han was taken aback for a moment, then immediately smiled and waved to her.

"understood!"

In this way, the team quickly moved forward in the mountains and forests.

The sunshine in winter will always give people a warm feeling. Perhaps God also knows the importance of their actions and makes the weather very clear.

And because of the season, the leaves of most of the trees on the mountain have fallen one after another, making the mountain road that should be difficult to walk suddenly much easier.

In addition, the militiamen who followed them were carefully selected by the village chief He Shi. Almost all of them are young and strong, and they are also good at field operations, so their entire team is moving faster than expected Not a lot.

Soon, they walked from morning to afternoon like this, until several hours passed, and finally came to the place where one of them disappeared.

"Let everyone be careful, we've arrived."

Li Jie, who was walking in the front, whispered a reminder to the back, and at the same time kept turning his eyes sharply to observe the surrounding scene.

Following her voice and the passing of these words in the team, everyone couldn't help but feel a little more tense. In this dense forest, no one dared to speak, only the faint sound of footsteps in the forest. reverberates.

only……

After they had completely crossed the mountainside and arrived at the foot of the mountain, they still found nothing, and nothing happened.

The scene in the mountain is very normal, the birds in the sky and the insects in the forest are all moving normally, there is nothing abnormal.

"Let's take a rest first, and count the number of people by the way."

To be on the safe side, Li Jie stopped and turned around.

The whole team stopped like this, and the deputy captain in the front immediately ran out of the team to pass on the other party's orders.

"Anything?"

Not long after, Liu Ya walked over with a blank expression.

"No, I just ordered someone to let everyone have a rest." Li Jie shook her head helplessly.

The guy hiding in the dark was much more cautious than she thought, so many of them were walking in the mountains, if that guy was nearby, it was absolutely impossible not to spot them.

But the other party has not shown the slightest trick up to now...

"Ugh."

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh.

If it was replaced by a few big families to deal with this situation, they would definitely order to directly use the monster-seeking bell, white jade mirror or special green insect powder to solve this problem.

These are the simplest and most effective things to search for monsters. As long as the former two get close to a monster at a certain distance and capture the slightest demonic power of the monster, they can give an early warning of the monster's approach, or identify the type of monster.

And the latter is easily attracted by the monster power, leaving a taste on the monster's body.

If they had these things, they could greatly reduce the effort required.

It's a pity that these things are magic weapons, and how could such things be used in a place like Hebian Village.

Or it was precisely because when she encountered such a situation on the battlefield before, she relied on the magic weapon to solve it. Now that there is no magic weapon, her thinking is a bit restricted.

"Do you have any ideas?"

Li Jie was not afraid of embarrassment, so she turned to ask the girl next to her for advice.

Hearing this, Liu Ya thought for a while, then said softly, "Why don't you put some bait?"

"Bait?" Li Jie was taken aback, and immediately understood what she meant, "You mean..."

"Find a few people to go out alone, and I will follow behind." Liu Ya said lightly.

Hearing this, Li Jie pondered in silence.

This is indeed a solution. After all, that guy might be cautious because of the large number of them, and he dare not do anything. If a few people are separated...

Maybe it's really possible to lure that guy out.

But this method is not without difficulties...

"Can you fool it?" Li Jie looked at the other party worriedly.

If you want that guy to be successfully lured out, then you must make him unable to see that the people who are assigned are traps, that is to say, those who follow behind must hide themselves perfectly, so that the guy cannot find out. .

And this level of concealment ability...

It should be difficult, right?

"I have my own way." Liu Ya's answer was very decisive.