In the eyes of Li Ke and Aichy, the jungle connected to the river bank was full of various animal corpses, from big brown bears to small rabbits. Their corpses were stacked on top of each other. What was even weirder was that these animals had all killed each other!
The rabbit bit the fox's throat tightly, while the fox's claws scratched the brown bear's body. The brown bear's body was full of small animals, and there was also a thick tentacle in its mouth. But none of these animals had traces of predation. All of them were traces of fighting. It was as if their opponent was the one who killed their entire family, which made them give up hibernation and go against their nature to fight creatures that were not their opponent.
And there was no doubt that these animals also had a black, but more accurately, a dark red aura on them. And there was no doubt that it was because of the presence of this aura that they uncharacteristically came out of their nests and gathered around to kill each other.
"It seems that even if it isn't the godslayer you mentioned, the one who caused this must be a terrifying one."
When Aichy saw that the blood hadn't frozen, she couldn't help but take down her bow and prepare for battle. Because this meant that the final winner of this battle left because it discovered them, and such a scene made her not dare to bet on whether the 'winner' would continue to attack other creatures. And Li Ke was also ready to fight at any time. After all, such a scene was a little strange, and it was also a scene that he had never seen before.
"I hope that the guy who caused all of this isn't nearby, or maybe it's not the person I think it is."
Li Ke said and walked towards the corpses. Aichy continued to be cautious and observed the surrounding traces. After all, from the traces, there were only some traces of monsters coming, and there were no traces of them leaving. And Li Ke also noticed this because many of the dead animals were crushed to death, which meant that a huge monster had appeared in this area. But judging from the traces, the huge monster didn't leave this place.
Therefore, he looked at the brown bear that had died for unknown reasons and the huge tentacle in its mouth. Li Ke walked over and put on his gloves. He forcefully pried open the brown bear's mouth and pulled out the bloody tentacle. He then showed it to Eich who was standing at the side.
"Gruffen, this is a Gruffen's tentacle, but it's hard for a Gruffen to appear on land!"
Aichy naturally recognized the tentacle, but even if she recognized it, she didn't dare to believe it. So she condensed an arrow in her hand and used it to gently move the tentacle in Li Ke's hand. Then she looked at the river, which was at least a few hundred meters, with a face of disbelief. Because he really couldn't understand why a Gruffen, which could only obtain enough food to eat in the water.
"I've always been curious why a Gruffen would come to a place where it can't even be fed. It should live in the shallow sea. Moreover, the traces left behind by the Gruffen can't be this small. I've seen them move on the shore, and they can only move forward by wriggling on the ground. If there really was a Gruffen here, then the trees around here wouldn't be so well preserved. There are only some scratches. "
Looking at the traces on the snow, Aichy pursed her lips. The traces and clues they found were completely beyond her common sense. A huge Gruffen couldn't have left only such small traces, but the blood on the tentacle that was not frozen proved that there was a Gruffen here. And the strangest thing was that the corpse of the bear was frozen, but the blood on the tentacle wasn't frozen!
This meant that the tentacle was just torn off, but whether it was the frozen bear or the surrounding snow, there was no way to explain this! All these strange clues made it impossible for a local like her to explain, because the problem here was too big.
"I don't understand it either, but I think you know very well that the way to solve this problem is to find the owner of this tentacle."
Li Ke shook the tentacle, and the blood on it flew out and wet the snow around him. He realized his mistake and quickly stopped and threw the tentacle into the snow. He took off his gloves and hesitated for a moment. Then, he chose to put the gloves in a bag that was specially used to store bait. After all, he might need the gloves in the future.
"Indeed, as long as we find it, the problem will be solved."
Ashe nodded and was about to continue their journey to the snowfield with Li Ke. However, she had only taken two steps when she noticed something strange behind the brown bear. A snow pile abruptly appeared beside the tree trunk behind the brown bear, and the surrounding snow was abnormally fluffy, as if it had just snowed heavily. Aichy wouldn't care about such a scene in the past, but in this situation, to a local like her, it was as conspicuous as a murder weapon stained with blood.
She pulled Li Ke and pointed at the snow pile. Although Li Ke didn't think that a snow pile would be a problem, he still put his hand on his sword. Just like Aichy, he walked towards the river while guarding against the snow pile.
However, just as they were on guard against the snowdrift, a gigantic head with bright red eyes suddenly appeared on the flat snowfield behind them. This head slowly rose up from the flat snowfield, preparing to attack Eich and Li Ke. It didn't make the slightest sound, as though its huge body didn't put any pressure on it. Only the snow on its body fell a little when it lifted its head. But this little movement wasn't much louder than a tree branch being blown by the wind.
However, Aichy's ears suddenly twitched.
"Danger!"
Eich's warning, the sound of an arrow piercing through the air, and the loud sound of the monster biting a tree trunk all rang out at this moment. Although Li Ke did not discover the monster's attack the moment it launched its attack like Eich did and shoot the arrow at the monster's body, his sense of danger allowed him to jump to the side the moment the monster launched its attack. He did not let himself be bitten by the monster.
After the snow fell from the huge impact, he saw the monster's appearance clearly and unsheathed his sword in an instant.
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