"What happened?" Lin Dong asked curiously.
"An elite mercenary hired by the Knights Templar. He and his partner went to the stream to draw water. His partner walked in front, but when he returned to the campsite, he found that he had disappeared." Fawkes pointed at the campsite on the other side of the mountain. "Reynold and the rest personally went out to search, but they didn't find anything suspicious. The two buckets were still there, and they were filled with water. Only that poor mercenary seemed to have evaporated!"
"No one heard anything suspicious?" Lin Dong frowned.
"There were six mercenaries who went with them to draw water. Other than the missing one, the other five didn't feel anything at all. They talked and laughed all the way back, until the guards noticed that one of them was missing. Only then did they realize that their partner was missing." Fox shook his head.
"Something's wrong!" Lin Dong decided to go down and take a look.
At the place where the mercenary disappeared.
Reynold repeatedly checked the soil on the ground, trying to find useful clues.
Unfortunately, he had been searching for hundreds of meters of road for two hours, but not a single trace was found.
When Lin Dong and Fox came down, the entire road was already full of people. At this time, there were no traces. Even if there were, they would have been trampled away. Fox kept looking at Lin Dong, as if hoping that he would give the final conclusion, but Lin Dong waved his hand. "Don't look at me, I'm not Sherlock Holmes! But these two buckets of water don't look like they were put down when they were attacked. "
"I think so too." Zhao Daniu smiled. "Maybe the attack site wasn't here at all."
"You mean that the guy put down the buckets to pee somewhere and was attacked by the monster?" Big Ivan speculated that the missing mercenary put down the two buckets of water and went to pee, but was eaten by a hidden monster.
"Impossible!" James sneered. "We have strict rules. Anyone who leaves the team must report!"
"Then there's another possibility. The missing mercenary heard something or saw something scary. He put down the buckets and was about to pull out his gun, but was killed by the monster!" Zhao Daniu speculated.
"That's even more impossible. We have a rule that anyone who finds something suspicious must alert their partner." James did not think that the missing mercenary would ignore the rules.
"Then where do you think the missing mercenary went?" Big Ivan snorted. "Did he just disappear into thin air?"
"Maybe it was an attack from the sky!" Bloody Mary speculated.
"Sky?" Thomas nodded. "That's possible."
"If the attack was launched from a high altitude and instantly pounced down, then the missing mercenaries were captured and taken away, then this deduction would be valid." Reynold looked at Bloody Mary. "But what kind of creature could do this? Leonard looked at Bloody Mary. "Without alerting the five mercenaries, it could kill them in one shot and take them away. What kind of creature could do that?"
"In our Holy Land, there's a type of flying dragon that can fly from high up in the sky. But I don't know if there's a flying dragon in this Holy Land!" Bloody Mary looked at Philip with her big blue eyes.
"Flying dragon. I don't think it's a flying dragon." Philip shook his head. "Flying dragons like to roar to intimidate their opponents. At the same time, it's accompanied by a sonic boom. It's very loud. If it was a flying dragon, there's no reason the five mercenaries couldn't hear it. Also, to a flying dragon, humans are weak prey. It doesn't need to hide its tracks. If it's hungry, it can just fly down and kill us. Sneaking around isn't a flying dragon's hunting habit! If it's a flying dragon, then it's not just one person who went missing, but all of them. "
"Not all flying dragons are giant flying dragons. There are also small flying dragons that like to sneak attack." Bloody Mary insisted.
"Mr Wood, do you think it's a flying dragon?" Leonard looked at Lin Dong.
"There's too little information. I can't make a judgment." Lin Dong waved his hand lightly.
They were discussing.
Suddenly.
A commotion broke out at the temporary camp.
Reynold was furious. He grabbed a mercenary who was running over in a panic and roared, "Calm down, look at how cowardly you are. As a professional mercenary, your performance is really shameful!"
"Captain, someone went missing again. Someone went missing again. This time, it's Jayden!" That mercenary shouted with a face full of fear.
"What? Jayden went missing? "Leonard was stunned.
"How did you find out? When did it happen? "Thomas asked.
"I don't know. I was talking to Jayden just now. I was standing beside him. He was preparing to take over while I got off work and prepared to go back to have a good sleep! When I returned to the tent, before I could lie down, Billy found me and said that Jayden didn't go to take over. Only then did I realise that something had happened to him. Billy and I hurriedly looked for him, only to find an unfinished cigarette on the ground … "That mercenary said as he brought everyone to the location of the incident.
On the ground.
There was only a cigarette butt.
There was a long ash at the front of the cigarette butt, proving that the owner didn't finish smoking it. He only smoked half of it before it fell to the ground.
The footprints on the ground also mysteriously disappeared.
Leonard gestured for his subordinates to give him a shovel and forcefully dug the ground a few times. After digging the soil, there was solid rock underneath. The shovel dug so hard that sparks flew everywhere. Everyone could see clearly that it wasn't an attack from underground. There probably wouldn't be any creatures that could quickly drill out of these rocks to attack a person and drag him underground.
If it wasn't underground, it could only be the sky. The problem was that no one saw the appearance of a flying dragon.
No matter how small a flying dragon was.
It wouldn't be able to capture a person under the eyes of the guards without being noticed.
"It might be a specter, a type of extremely vicious vengeful spirit. It is transparent and can open its mouth very wide, even bigger than a door. It opened its bloody mouth and swallowed Jayden alive." Hairy Bear Zhao Daniu compared the monsters in the ghost novels he had read and found that there was a type of vengeful spirit that fit the description of this strange disappearance.
"It might also be a ray snail!" Big Ivan gloated and said, "I have seen a movie before. There is a type of snail that can shoot invisible rays. Whoever it hits, the unlucky person will be disintegrated by the rays."
"That's not right, that disintegration will turn into a puddle of water!" Hairy Bear Zhao Daniu objected.
"It will turn into water and seep into the soil!" Big Ivan argued seriously.
"Shut up, Mister Big Ivan. Now isn't the time to mock and ridicule. If you still have the slightest bit of sympathy, you should shut up! Even if you don't have such a thing, you should know that we are comrades now, comrades on the same side. How do you know that the monster's next target isn't you? Wait until you are captured by the monster before you complain. That will make you seem more wise and farsighted! " Leonard was furious because the mercenaries who had disappeared twice were his subordinates. They were extremely unlucky.
"I can be sure that the next target isn't me because I am standing beside Mister Wood. Also, the reason why you are in such a situation is because you didn't listen to my advice. Philip had already told you to build tents on the cliff and rest there to ensure your safety. But for the sake of comfort, for the sake of showing off your individuality, you refused to listen! " Big Ivan immediately retorted, "Also, I hope that you will always remember that we are comrades, even when we return to the Surface World!"
Because of the argument.
The people on both sides parted on bad terms.
Fox had been paying attention to Lin Dong's expression. She seemed to want to see something from his face.
Lin Dong was baffled by her gaze. "You can't be thinking that I did it, right? Fox, fortunately, you were standing beside me just now. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to clear my name! "
"Haha, my dear blockhead, of course I won't think that you did it," Fox was amused by Lin Dong's words. "But I think you know the truth about the attack. You don't have to deny it. I trust my intuition. My dear, I am a woman, and I have a natural sixth sense. If you don't know the truth about the disappearance, then you must be thinking hard and not have the leisure to joke with me like you are now! "
"Sixth sense, is it? Miss Fox, I didn't expect you to have such an enviable ability! "Lin Dong shrugged.
"Then what is the truth about the disappearance?" Fox asked.
Enoko Kazama, who had been standing by the side, also looked over curiously.
And further away, Griffon and the others.
They all pricked up their ears to eavesdrop.
Lin Dong smiled slightly. "I don't know the truth about the disappearance, and I am also looking for the answer! However, I smelled the same fragrance at the first and the second location! At first, I thought it was a man's cologne, but then I found out that it was the scent of insect repellent. "
Upon hearing this, Fox cried out involuntarily, "You mean that the unknown monster hated the smell of insect repellent? So it hunted them? "
Lin Dong nodded. "I suspect that might be the case, but there is no direct evidence."
"Which one of you sprayed insect repellent?" Griffon was so scared that he felt a chill in his heart. Fortunately, he had not sprayed it. Otherwise, he might have died in his sleep.
"I sprayed it a little before I went to sleep last night. What should I do now?" Big Ivan's face turned pale.
He could ignore what others said.
But Lin Dong said it.
He believed it with all his heart.
Now, he was especially afraid that he would be the next target of the unknown monster.
A few Shadow Warriors from the Darkness Temple also looked very upset. They had sprayed insect repellent on their bodies as a habit when they entered dangerous places. They did not expect that this action would cause them to be killed.
Lin Dong pondered for a moment. "I suspect that it was because of the insect repellent, but it is not 100% accurate. Don't panic, everyone. As for the next remedial measure, I think we should wash them with clean water first. It should be better once the smell is reduced. I don't know if it would be better to spray some men's cologne. You can try it. As for the attack, I suspect that it might be some kind of large spider. They drop down from the sky, bite their prey instantly, and inject venom to paralyze them. They tie them up and silently drag them up! "
Griffon and the others quickly acted. Regardless of whether they sprayed insect repellent or not, they all washed themselves and sprayed some cologne.
As for Philip, he went down to give Reynold and the others some advice.
Reynold and the others were skeptical.
If not for the fact that Lin Dong had established enough authority along the way, they might have suspected that this was a joke. If it was really a spider, the insect repellent should have worked. Why did it cause them to be killed instead? And spraying cologne could prevent spiders? What kind of stupid idea was that!
"That's my personal advice. As for your choice, I don't care!" Philip decided to give them advice because he was on the human side.
"Thank you, Philip. No matter what, we owe you one!" Leonard nodded his head sincerely.
"What you owe is not me, but Mr. Wood." Philip turned and left.
"Do it?" The mad scientist Parsons felt that this was completely illogical.
"Everyone, do it!" Bloody Mary was more decisive. "There's no harm in doing it! Also, if we do it, the fear of the mercenaries will quickly subside. Whether it works or not, it's a good thing. Right, Mr. Thomas, why don't we use insect repellent for an experiment? If insect repellent can really lure the spider monster, then we can make a dummy and spray a large amount of insect repellent on it. That should be able to attract it, then we can set up an ambush outside … "
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