Along the way, Xavier wanted to take the initiative to chat many times, but thinking about what he had done to Miss Hannah before, his thoughts made him fall silent.

This made the girl next to him, who was a head shorter than Xavier, feel strange. She originally thought that Xavier was a playboy who was good at teasing women from good families, so she had already thought about how to deal with the entanglement.

In the end, nothing happened, and it seemed as if everything was just a figment of her imagination.

This made her wonder whether she had wrongly blamed Captain Xavier? Maybe he was just a simple farm boy in his heart.

Thinking of this, she shook her head silently. How could a simple young man make such a request for the first time when they met? She should still take the initiative to keep her distance and actively cooperate on official matters.

In this way, the two squad leaders, who had different thoughts, chose to arrive at their mission site in silence, which was the entrance to the northern forest. This was the furthest place the Reston Village garrison reached when patrolling, because if they went in again

If you do, you may be in danger.

In the large forest with lush foliage, one could faintly hear the sound of chirping cicadas, intersecting with the sound of dripping sweat. The end point where the two sounds met was where Xavier and Hannah were at the moment.

Xavier thought he would hear the crying sound mentioned by the intelligence, but when he arrived at the scene, he only heard a bunch of small animals screaming, which made him wonder if those superstitious villagers were talking nonsense again.

Eight ways.

Of course, it could also be that the cry could only be heard at a specific time period or in a specific location. Xavier, who lacked all this information, had to first find Jill and Spencer, two team members sent by the captain to search for preliminary information.

His opinion quickly gained the approval of Miss Hannah, and the two began to search for their footprints in the surrounding area.

Then......

Something wrong happened, because Xavier discovered that the two figures who were supposed to appear could not be seen outside the entire forest!

"..."

In an instant, the most primitive fear of mankind - the fear of the unknown appeared in Xavier's thoughts.

Obviously Spencer and Jill were supposed to be waiting for them at the entrance of the forest, so why did they disappear all at once?

Captain Hannah, who also noticed something was wrong, asked Xavier, "Xavier, have you seen Spencer and Jill?"

Because Xavier has become her comrade-in-arms, she chooses to use "you" instead of "sir" to refer to Xavier.

"No." Xavier shook his head, showing a thoughtful look, and then briefly analyzed, "There are only two possibilities now. One is that they did not obey the captain's instructions and ran away on their own."

"Impossible." Hannah said firmly, "I know what Gil is like. He respects the captain very much and will never disobey the captain's orders."

"Then it can only be the second possibility." Xavier's eyes suddenly became solemn, "They had an accident."

Thinking of this, the two nodded to each other, and then began to investigate the surroundings tacitly, looking for possible clues.

Under the sunshine at noon, no trace of water can remain on the land, because nature will slightly erase their footprints, but human footprints are obviously not limited to them. Xavier is tens of meters to the west

, found three rows of strange footprints.

The reason why they are strange is because the location where the owner of the footprints went is inside the forest!

Recalling that Gill and others were the pioneers who investigated what was wrong with the forest, could these be their footprints? But the question is, how could it be Sanjo?

"Captain Hannah, please come over and take a look!" Xavier quickly shouted when he realized something was wrong.

"Just call me Hannah." The girl who was called over didn't waste any time and looked directly at the three footprints. After a while, she discovered the details that Xavier had not found.

"Xavier, have you seen it? Among the three footprints, two of them have particularly thick footsteps. Compared with the footprints of normal people, they seem to be much deeper."

"Do you think..." Xavier looked at the armor on his and Miss Hannah's bodies, and then understood what she wanted to say, "These two footprints were left by Jill and Spencer?"

In this case, it can explain why the footprints are so thick, because they are equipped with thick armor!

But who left the third footprint? Xavier thought in his heart.

This footprint, unlike the other two, looks like it was stepped on by ordinary people.

Could it be that he or she is a guide, leading our colleagues in? But why do they trust us so much and choose to follow us directly?

Suddenly, Xavier thought of the legend of the snake spirit here again, and the sweat on his neck suddenly increased a little, but it was a little cold.

According to the villagers, the snake spirit seduces men and makes them follow them obediently. After enjoying the pleasure, it sucks their souls. This can perfectly explain why the two of them walked directly into the forest!

Thinking of this, he proposed his hypothesis to Miss Hannah, "Do you think it was the snake spirit that caught them?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Captain Hannah nodded slightly, "Because the third footprint should belong to a humanoid creature."

What the hell is a humanoid creature... At this moment, Xavier felt a little creepy just hearing this word, and asked, "Why?"

"If they weren't human beings, how could they easily bring our two team members into the forest? Even if they weren't human beings, they would at least be humanoid creatures that looked like humans."

"The more important point is that there are inconspicuous shoe prints on the footprints." Miss Hannah explained, pointing to one place with her finger, "This clearly shows that this creature walks on two feet like us.

, and wearing similar shoes!”

Convinced by Miss Hannah's simple speculation, Xavier believed in the snake spirit's speculation even more, but he was not very clear about what to do specifically now.

At this moment, the system sent a notification sound to his mind.

[Current mission trigger: Investigate the whereabouts of two missing teammates.]

[Reward: Skill Point x1, Lucky Draw Opportunity x1]

Different from the previous time-limited tasks, it has no accept or reject buttons at all. It seems to be a default that he must complete this task.

This was good, even if he still had fear in his heart, he still had to complete this task assigned by both the system and the captain.

However, Xavier discovered something.

The reward for the last water ghost mission was also a lottery opportunity and skill points. This seems to mean that the difficulty between the two missions should not be much different?

However, when he recalled his last experience, he would realize that if he had not happened to obtain the memory of the 'Sword Dance' and entered that fighting state at the same time, he would not have been able to survive among the water ghosts.

So could it be said that this mission also involves a narrow escape from death?
Chapter completed!