In fact, there was no need for Qin Lun and the others to drown in the Ruiwen River to leave the city. After so many days, Elistin's hidden wounds had finally healed. She could transform into a giant eagle and bring Qin Lun and the others out of the city one by one.
"The druid profession is really convenient. If I knew we could change it!" The three apostles expressed their sincere envy for the elf druid who can adapt to any environment, which made the elf beauty very excited. happy.
The farm where the accident occurred was only two or three kilometers away from Silvermoon City, and the owners of such farms themselves did not dare to stay too far from the city, lest they be suddenly attacked by wild creatures.
It was precisely because of such a short distance that the farm was attacked by jackals, which attracted attention in Silvermoon City. Otherwise, such things would not surprise the nervous residents of the world of Toril.
After a while, everyone saw the hazy farmhouse shrouded in the night. However, after successfully arriving here, the few people fell into a somewhat awkward situation, hiding in the bushes next to the field and starting to discuss.
The assassins of the Zhenta Forest are very strong, and Qin Lun himself has a deep understanding of this. Since they planned to make trouble at the Silver Moon Festival in Alustriel, they probably would not only send one or two people, but at least a small team of five to ten people.
The city lords in the Northland are different from ordinary nobles in human countries. Most of the people who can grow into lords in such a complicated environment have strong combat effectiveness. A legendary powerhouse favored by the goddess Mystra.
It's not difficult to make troubles under her nose, the real rare thing is to not be caught after making troubles.
The Zhentarim Society wants to take advantage of this action to drive apart the cities of the Silvermoon Alliance. In case everyone learns the truth about the assassination, even killing a few lords will not help. On the contrary, it may be self-defeating, helping Alustri to make the alliance more united.
Based on this, the Zhentarim will at least send two or more legendary assassins to fight against Alustriel, and the rest are at least high-level.
Among the five people from Qin Lun this time, only Elisten is a high-level druid, and neither Idriya nor the three apostles have reached high-level druids, so they can barely fight against high-level druids for a while.
If such a lineup is against two legends, plus a group of high-level players, it must be courting death. Besides, Qin Lun and others came here mainly to investigate the situation, not to seek a decisive battle. Otherwise, it would be better to bring Mustasia and the two ladies of Candlekeep, at least a few more cannon fodder.
The problem Qin Lun and the others are facing now is that they are not sure how to sneak into the farmhouse and the storage cellar under the farmhouse without alerting the other party, which is the most likely place to hide people.
Originally, Qin Lun still had the Shadow Gale Leopard to use, but in the battle between the Troll's Claw and the Troll Sentinel, the Shadow Gale Leopard was seriously injured by the troll's dying counterattack. Qi Ling has been shaken violently and cannot be summoned at present.
And letting Elistine infiltrate by herself as a lynx made everyone a little worried. After all, no matter how careful Elistine was, she didn't have the talent for shadows, so she couldn't sneak.
"Use the beetle structure, the area of the farmhouse is too large, in fact, even if the Shadow Storm Leopard is not injured, it will startle the opponent after a long period of activity."
Hill reminded the other two companions on the team channel, "The construction beetle is not easy to attract attention, and it can also crawl into the cellar of the farmhouse. The three of us each put a few, and search this area quickly."
"Okay!" Qin Lun and Rand's eyes lit up, and they nodded in agreement.
"Hey, what kind of bug is this?" Seeing Qin Lun and the others take out more than a dozen palm-sized black beetles from the storage space, Elistin came over to watch curiously, while Idriya's hair stood on end, and she looked at the beetle. The face left the three of them in horror.
"It's a kind of alchemy creature. It can help us explore this farmhouse without attracting attention." Qin Lun put the constructed beetle on the ground. These constructed creatures can be connected with the apostle's soul seal, although they cannot The gargoyle feeds back the mirror image it sees to the apostle, but it can also send back some simple messages.
Elisine wasn't afraid of these big ugly bugs at all, squatted down and grabbed a beetle and waved at the female knight.
"Idriya, look, it's so cute!" The armored beetle kept moving its six chelicerae on Iristen's hand, opening and closing its sharp mouthparts like pliers, hissing. Bugs chirping.
This kind of alchemy beetle is of course not a good stubble, on the contrary, they are very aggressive. It's just that Qin Lun suppressed them with his consciousness and prevented them from attacking Iristen, so he had no choice but to slap his legs and grin his teeth to express his strong protest.
"You, don't come here!" Idriya's face showed a rare look of panic, and she waved her hands back and forth, almost staggering.
"Oh!" Seeing Idrija's appearance, Iristen was so frustrated that the elf's pointed ears drooped.
Elf druids have been close to wild creatures in the forest for many years, and they are not afraid of any bugs. On the contrary, Idriya, a follower of Ms. Lovita, has not yet gotten rid of her feminine nature in this regard.
Seeing more than a dozen structure beetles crawling towards the farmhouse, Elistin's habit of being curious about the baby broke out again, pulling Qin Lun to ask things, asking where these structure beetles came from.
She knew very well that Qin Lun absolutely did not have these things before he disappeared.
In fact, regarding the matter of the inexplicable disappearance, although Elistine had never been interested in getting to the bottom of it, Qin Lun knew that her patience was about to run out from the expression of the elf druid who was about to speak from time to time.
However, after such a long time, Qin Lun has already prepared an excuse for this matter, planning to blame it on a certain god. Anyway, the world of Toril has the entire elf pantheon, and there are many chosen people of God among the elves. Whether Elistine finally believed it or not, at least he was able to prevaricate.
"Okay, I know what you mean!" Qin Lun looked at Elistine's big bright eyes, sighed, took out a few armored beetles from the storage space, and stuffed them into her hand, finally blocking her temporarily. Q.
The elf druid squatted aside with a smile on his face, teasing the poor bugs. However, this time she didn't distribute the beetle to Idriya. Seeing the female knight's undecided look, she knew that this good sister might not like this kind of game.
"Hey, strange!" After a while, the armored beetles sent some simple messages to the apostles who controlled them, "There are no living creatures in the farmhouse, did we guess wrong, the Zhentarim did not regard this place as a temporary stronghold?"
"Wait, there's a beetle smelling blood." Hill has gained a little.
"Both the Gnoll and the Silver Guard held parties here, so they probably left behind!" Rand joked with a smile.
"No, the smell of blood is very strong, and it was left recently." Hill shook his head and said, "Go, since there is no one, let's go in and have a look!"
The scouting of the construction beetles was very meticulous, they had crawled over every inch of the farmhouse. Except for a few who smelled blood, there was no news of living people.
Even so, Qin Lun and the others seemed very cautious. Construct beetles are unintelligent alchemy creatures. As long as they are prepared, they can be deceived in many ways.
The five people approached the farmhouse in two teams from two directions, and finally met at the main house of the farmhouse.
The main house of the farmhouse was in a mess, and the well-made wooden tables and chairs were almost smashed into a pile of tatters. Perhaps the jackals used these tables and chairs as firewood to keep warm during the days when they were entrenched here.
The ground was full of broken earthen pots and utensils. Although the Silver Guards wiped out the Gnolls, they did not clean up the farmhouse. Dark brown bloodstains can still be seen in some places on the wall of the main house, probably left by the previous owner or the wolf man.
These bloodstains are not the bloody smell that the armored beetle smelled before. After a few months, the smell of these bloodstains has long since dissipated.
"It doesn't look like anyone has been here!" Hill searched the farmhouse carefully and came to an accurate conclusion.
The shepherd has a great say on this point. When he was a cannibal, he paid great attention to cleaning his "canteen". If it weren't for this, the world would not have been able to discover his crime for so long.
If there were people living in the farmhouse these few months, it would be absolutely impossible to hide it from Hill.
"It seems that our trip was indeed in vain. The Zhentarim may not have chosen this place as a hiding place." Rand shrugged helplessly.
"Didn't we find the cellar yet? The bloody smell the beetle smelled might be there, and it will be clear after looking at it." Qin Lun was very unwilling to give up, no matter from any point of view, everything that happened here was too serious. There is a coincidence.
If this clue is lost, combined with the fact that the Hand of Light has not discovered any abnormal conditions in the city, it will be very difficult to find the Zhentarim assassin.
"I found the entrance to the cellar, come quickly!" Idriya called from outside the farmhouse.
It turned out that the cellar of this farmhouse was arranged in the hay warehouse of the farm, and there was not much straw left here. Because it has not been dried for a long time, the straw pile exudes an unpleasant musty smell.
Lifting the floor behind the fodder warehouse, a huge tunnel appeared in front of everyone.
"Did you smell it?" Hill frowned slightly and asked vigilantly.
"Well, I can smell it. It smells very strong." Qin Lun sniffled and couldn't help sneezing. "The ventilation conditions down here are probably poor. Let's wait a quarter of an hour before going in."
After a while, the bloody smell below the cellar faded a little. Qin Lun asked Rand to stay up there with Elisteen, so as not to be caught in the urn, and he walked into the tunnel with Hill and Idriya .
"Hey!" The female knight walking in the front lit a torch. Under the flickering dim light of the fire, the tunnel looked a little gloomy. Fortunately, the cellar of the farmhouse was not big, and the tunnel of more than ten meters soon came to an end.
"Huh?" As the fire illuminated the entire cellar, the three of them couldn't help but shrink their pupils looking at the scene in front of them.