A caravan is not an army, and it is impossible to travel without a single woman. Besides, since Broken Starry Sky chose this attacked caravan as the target of the apostle's possession, it means that there are at least three women in the team.
"Stark, it seems that they were hijacked by bandits. Maybe the other party is a group of human traffickers and thieves." Philip rubbed his hands, looking a little excited, which surprised Qin Lun.
In fact, Qin Lun is not very familiar with the most common mission process of the apostle team because he has basically never joined a mature apostle team. From the youth's point of view, Stark and others neglected to investigate the campsite, but Stark and others were more accustomed to facing the task itself.
The reason is simple, because the two have very different attitudes towards the task world.
The apostles of the fortress team, especially the second-tier apostles, have experienced no less than twenty or thirty mission worlds. For them, there are too many plot branches in the mission world. Focusing on the most obvious and critical starry sky prompts will help them trigger the main plot as soon as possible.
The disappearance of the three female apostles was obviously the best hint given to them by the Broken Starry Sky during this period of time. As long as they find the thieves group, maybe they can directly face the key clues of the main plot. In contrast, other doubtful points in the campground are not so important.
Did the other apostles in the fort find any other clues to the encampment? There may or may not be. Perhaps based on the current team disagreement, they will only tell Stark and Philip respectively, increasing the weight of their respective interests competing for team leadership, rather than sharing information.
Or maybe they discovered some doubts, but compared to the disappearance of the three female apostles, they felt that it was not important, so they didn't say it immediately, so as not to interfere with the judgment of the two leaders.
But Qin Lun is different, he doesn't have so much selfishness towards the Fortress team, from the current point of view, he hopes that Fortress can gain huge benefits in this mission world, so that he can safely get a good evaluation, so as to gain the approval of the Tianfu team .
Of course, this is not the biggest difference between Qin Lun and the fortress team in viewing the campsite incident. The biggest difference between them is their different attitudes towards the mission world. The apostles of the Fortress team regard missions in other worlds as a major event related to life, and walk on thin ice with trepidation, while Qin Lun regards missions in foreign worlds as a kind of adventure.
The fortress team has formed a set of customary procedures for carrying out alien missions, and it is also the purpose of most small apostle teams. One is to ignore the sideline plots, follow the prompts of the Broken Starry Sky and go straight to the main line, and then consider the sideline plots after completing the main line.
The second is that the whole team only obeys one voice, except for the team leader, the others don't try to be smart. There are not many people in the apostolic team, you express one opinion, I express another opinion, how to do the task.
The apostolic purpose of this small team has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that they can unite as one, and in most cases, they can complete the main plot of the mission world according to the hints from the starry sky.
The disadvantage is that the plot line of the task world is not well explored, the efficiency of obtaining task rewards is not high, and it is easy for low-level team members to form dependence on high-level members, which will wear down their independent thinking over time. Once encountering high-degree-of-freedom tasks such as team promotion and large-scale team battles, these small teams will die.
In fact, this is also the main purpose of Broken Starry Sky giving the apostles the guidance clues. It needs the apostles to improve the completion of the main storyline in order to develop the mission world and plunder the origin of the world. If the apostle ignores its guidance prompts and hopes to dig deeper into better and more historical plots, that's okay, you have to explore on your own, just like Qin Lun did.
However, not everyone has Qin Lun's wisdom. If everyone regards the mission world as an adventure trip like him, how low will the mission completion be? Broken Starry Sky sending apostles into the mission world also consumes resources, which cannot be wasted at will.
After the strength of the apostles reaches a certain bottleneck, Xingkong will naturally select the smartest and most powerful few of them to carry out difficult tasks through fighting like raising Gu. In other words, Broken Starry Sky hopes to have such a smart tool as Qin Lun, but it doesn't need all the apostles to learn from him, because ordinary people can't learn it.
"The team channel can't contact them. Could it be that Xingkong sent the team to two locations more than ten kilometers away?" Stark was silent for a while, and suddenly said with a slightly ugly face.
The regular communication channel of the apostles team is very far away, which is also one of the conveniences of the apostles in the mission world. In many cases, the apostle can play a role far beyond the characters in the plot, and this secret way of information exchange is also an important reason for it.
"Not necessarily. I can feel that the magic elements in this mission world are very active. I'm afraid it will affect the team communication. As long as it exceeds three kilometers, I'm afraid we won't be able to contact them!" Philip closed his eyes and felt it quietly for a while. , then said with a frown.
"Well, Lol, you go and check around the camp. Since the attackers took away a lot of goods and women in the caravan, they must have left some traces of leaving." Stark waved at an apostle in the team. He waved his hand, and this Longer was the member Philip mistook for Qin Lun at the beginning, and he was an elf thief.
Qin Lun couldn't help frowning slightly as he watched the elf thieves disappear into the bushes around the camp. He was rewarded for the adventures that Stark and Phillip showed, such as the effect of magical elements on team communication.
He was a bit disappointed, however, by the fact that the two were too regular and lacked imagination and deductive reasoning. At least through the observation of the camp just now, he has basically figured out all the clues hidden in the camp.
Although as long as they can find the raiders in the camp, the fortress team will definitely be able to deepen their understanding of the next main mission and better execute the main storyline. However, this is not the point, and at this stage, it will actually affect the efficiency of the guidance task.
The reason is simple. Since the team channel cannot be contacted now, it may take two or three days for the fortress team to find and deal with the attackers, plus the time to return here, about three to five days. Although you can still find the magic cup court of the Jondal elves in the next few days, it will definitely not be the easiest way.
With Shattered Starry Sky's consistent urine, they may miss some historical plots, and the choice of missions will be much narrower. It is in line with the starry sky principle that ordinary apostles perform high-end goods tasks and elite apostles perform high-yield tasks.
Don't say that the Fortress team can't feel anything, even if they know, they will only lament their bad luck, and will not realize that this is a deliberate arrangement of Broken Starry Sky. What's more, giving multiple guides allows ordinary apostles to deepen their understanding of plot tasks, and it is also beneficial for them to complete the main plot.
According to Qin Lun's original intention, he would be happy to just watch and see what will happen to these people at this time. However, the better performance of the fortress team in this mission world may affect Tianfu's evaluation of him, so he is a little hesitant now.
"Qin Lun, you can speak out whatever you have in mind!" Stark was keenly aware of Qin Lun's hesitant expression, he immediately flashed his eyes and spoke encouragingly.
Although Stark and Philip are both Tier 2, Stark has been leading a black iron team independently after all, paying more attention to the performance of other team members.
Besides, after all, Qin Lun was a rookie in the fortress team after all. In Stark's understanding, the junior apostles who can enter the vision of a large team should all have their own advantages, so it's okay to listen to his thoughts.
"Captain Stark, I seldom follow the team. I basically perform tasks alone. There are some things I don't understand and I want to ask for advice!" Qin Lun smiled at everyone friendly and tried to use instructive words. Said in a tone, "What kind of difficulty will the silver team's corporal-level missions have?"
"I thought it was some kind of problem..." There were a few soft mocking voices from the crowd around.
"Soldier-level tasks have nothing to do with the team or not, the basic difficulty is similar!" Stark and Philip were slightly taken aback, Philip immediately explained with a smile, but Stark frowned thoughtfully, as if He heard Qin Lun's implication.
Their guiding mission "Magic Cup King's Court" is a corporal-level mission!
"So that's the case, then the guiding task of 'Magic Cup King's Court' can be easily completed by the next person!" Qin Lun seemed to have not heard those low-pitched ridicules at all, and said to himself with a smile.
As soon as he finished speaking, the soft discussion around him disappeared immediately. They were not stupid, and no matter how well behaved they knew that the new apostle had something else to say.
"Qin Lun, just say what you want to say!" Philip raised his eyebrows and said in a low voice with some displeasure.
"My lords, haven't you noticed that the plot characters we possess include both elves and humans, and the apostles who themselves have elf blood have revealed the appearance of blood." Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and he said with a light smile, "The most important thing is that elves are mostly dressed gorgeously, while humans..."
"You mean this is an elf caravan that hired human guards!" Stark's heart moved, and he fell into thinking while rubbing his double chin.
"That's not necessarily true. It's also possible that the leader of the caravan was a human being and was just taken away by thieves!" Philip pouted and interjected.
"No, no, there is a delta plain near Elbad, and the bandit group has no danger to defend, and they won't stay for long. It's understandable to take away women for trafficking, but it's too troublesome to kidnap hostages for ransom, and it's easy to cause trouble. Come to the official siege!" Stark shook his head slowly, refuting Philip's thoughts.
"I also think the leaders of the caravan will be elves, not humans!" Qin Lun showed a slightly apologetic smile, and nodded towards Philip, "This can explain why we entered the Jondal Forest and found the 'Magical Cup King' Court' will only be a corporal-level mission. After all, it will be difficult for human caravans to seek trade with the Jondal elves, and it will be difficult to obtain missions issued by the Elven King Court with this identity."
Stark and Philip nodded involuntarily. If this point is connected, the identity of this caravan will no longer be in dispute.
"Qin Lun, keep talking!" Stark nodded and smiled at Qin Lun kindly.