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After confirming that there were no traces of demons in the camp, a new reconnaissance team was quickly formed.
Maggie set off first with Agatha on her back to search the camp. The 50 soldiers of the First Army escorted Soroya, Summer, and the others, who lacked the ability to escape, to find out why the Red Mist had disappeared.
"We're almost there." Lightning gestured to Maggie. "Descend."
"Ow!"
Agatha craned her neck and saw the rocky beach gradually appearing in front of her. Just as the little girl had said, the thick Red Mist had disappeared without a trace, revealing the dark brown earth. Unlike the dark green forest around, there was not a single tree in the camp, as if the ground had been torn off.
This was the first time she had been so close to the demons' residence.
As a former member of the Quest Society, Agatha could not help but feel a little excited.
"Lightning is about to land. I repeat, Lightning is about to land."
"Be careful. If you encounter any possible danger, remember to escape immediately." Roland's voice came from the other side of the Magic Stone.
"Lightning understands."
Maggie folded her wings and dived toward the ground.
The scenery under her feet changed continuously, from the blue sea to the gray rugged stone walls, and finally to the moist brown land. Agatha felt her whole body shake, and the huge Devilbeast landed steadily on the ground.
"Demons live in a place like this?" Lightning was amazed. "I didn't notice it when I looked down from the sky, but now it's really weird."
Agatha had the same feeling.
Dark stone towers stood everywhere on the empty land, like a black forest in a picturesque disorder. The black spots from the sky were basically from these alien buildings — the tall ones were about three or four stories high, and the short ones barely above their heads. In terms of density, they were far more densely packed than those in the frontline camps.
It seemed that these stone towers had other functions besides storing the Red Mist.
"Although I don't know what happened to them, it shouldn't be too far from now," she judged.
"Why do you say that?" Lightning asked curiously.
"Because the stone towers haven't completely withered." Agatha pointed to the nearest Blackstone Tower. "Only the surface of these towers has darkened, but they're still far from being rough and fragile. This is completely different from the barren land left behind by the Union after they seized the frontline camp. It can only mean that the demons didn't plan to retreat, or... they made a very hasty decision." She paused and said, "Let's go to the center of the campsite first. It's the tower where Eye Devil is staying. Maybe we can find something."
"I hope A Xia can find out the reason — ah!" Lightning, who was walking in front, suddenly screamed and instantly sank into the ground. Maggie was so scared that she immediately turned into a pigeon and flew into the sky. Agatha also summoned ice and stood in front of her.
"I'm fine." Before the two of them could react, the little girl flew out of the hole again. She patted the dirt off her body and complained, "Who dug a pit here to harm people!"
Agatha let out a sigh of relief and was about to dispel the ice wall. However, what Maggie said next made her heart jump again.
"Hey, there's a demon in here!"
"Yeah," Maggie landed on her head. "But it seems to be dead."
"I think so." The little girl patted her chest and said with a lingering fear, "Otherwise, I'd be in trouble."
Agatha held the ice spear in her hand and moved closer to take a look. Just as Maggie said, a Mad Demon was standing in the pit with its head drooped. Its exposed skin had shrunk and curled like a salted fish in the sun.
"I remember Sylvie once said that these demons usually hide underground, right?" She further confirmed her judgment. Whether they decided to retreat at that time or encountered some other accident, it must have been very sudden. Otherwise, these demons would not have waited for a new order until they died and used up the Red Mist bit by bit underground.
"Then we'd better fly to find it," Lightning muttered. "I don't want to fall into a pit again."
She carried Agatha on her back and walked slowly on the ground. After the three bypassed several rows of stone towers, the view in front of them suddenly became clear.
There was an open space in the camp.
"This is..." Agatha gasped. From the scene at the scene, it was obvious that the demons had not deliberately left this open space. There was a huge hole in the center of the open space, which was about the size of the square of Border Town, and many fragments of the stone tower were scattered around it. The three of them stood at the mouth of the hole and looked down. The hole was so deep that it was difficult to see where it led.
"It's just like the place where I found you." Lightning smacked her lips. "Do you want me to go down and have a look first?"
"Don't go!"
"No, coo!"
Agatha and Maggie stopped her at the same time.
"All right." The little girl sighed and showed a regretful look. Since His Majesty punished her to do test questions, her adventurous spirit had been restrained a lot. "Then let's walk around first."
The rest of the camp was almost the same. Of course, the three of them did find something. Maggie found a lot of Magic Stones in a stone tower with a flat roof and a dead Chaos Beast. At that time, she just wanted to stop on the stone tower to rest, but she did not expect to find a narrow entrance to the courtyard, which was probably used by the demons to inject the Red Mist.
Two days later, the First Army also arrived at the Rocky Beach.
Lotus found a narrow crack in the mountain and cut a path on the cliff that was only wide enough for one person to walk through. The heavy machine guns and other equipment had to be transported by Maggie, and it took a lot of effort for the fifty soldiers and witches to enter the inland.
This was also the first contact between the aborigines and the aliens.
Even the most determined soldiers felt fear and panic when they saw the incredible scene in front of them. Roland had already expected this. He ordered them to camp near the entrance of the cliff, so that they would not be too nervous. As for Summer's playback work, Roland simply did not let the First Army participate.
According to Agatha's deduction, the time when the camp tower disappeared should be one and a half to one month ago. If the playback time exceeded one week, Summer's magic power would be consumed rapidly. As for the incident that happened one month ago, he could only replay it once a day. There was no shortcut, so they could only try it slowly.
Among the large pile of Magic Stones that Maggie brought back, there were many practical ones. Although the quality was far inferior to the ones obtained from the Fearsome Demon, it was better than nothing. It could be said that the sorcerer tower, which was about to be completed, only lacked a living demon.
It was a long process to find out the exact time of the incident. While waiting for the result and developing new gadgets, Roland received the second secret letter from the Fjords.
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