But soon, Xiang Nan saw a strange scene. The general was very enthusiastic towards him, but the other soldiers treated him with disdain.
After careful questioning, I found out that the former general guarding Tianhuo Island was only Tianyuan Wuzhong, and he died on the island. So far, only half of his body has been found.
Tangling's military found out that the situation was serious, so they sent this young, highly skilled general over here.
He is a newcomer, and Xiang Nan is also a newcomer, so the two sides naturally warm up easily.
However, those soldiers who had experienced fighting were dismissive of Xiang Nan's state.
No one greeted Xiang Nan, and no one gave him a second look.
The general immediately led Xiang Nan into the camp and got into the tent.
"My name is Wu Jun, you are not a soldier, just call me Brother Ang." The general patted Xiang Nan on the shoulder: "You are young and promising, it seems that the little brother is only in his thirties, but he is already a spy of the sky. Yes, the disciples of the guild are really extraordinary."
The appearance of warriors ages very slowly, it is difficult to judge age from appearance, most of them guess based on realm.
Xiang Nan didn't explain anything, and said, "Brother Ang, can you tell me what happened on the island?"
"Okay, brother Xiang is really strong and resolute, I'll tell you right now."
In the beginning, on Tianhuo Island, only some patrolling soldiers disappeared mysteriously, and one or two would go missing in about three or four days.
Later, the number began to increase, and three or four disappeared almost every day.
At first, the military thought it was a sneak attack by monsters in a small area, so they didn't take it too seriously. They just sent some more people to defend.
But then, the problem got worse.
Pointing at the map, Wu Jun said, "We have 5,000 people stationed in the four corners of the entire Tianhuo Island in the southeast, northwest, and observing the movements of the monsters in all directions."
"But the strange thing is that these four camps were not attacked, and all the dead were patrol soldiers patrolling the island."
"We suspected that there were powerful monsters haunting the core area of the island, so we sent more people to check it out, but none of them came back alive."
"We even started to send some masters in the late stage of the Tianyuan Realm and even the early stage of the Sky Peeping Realm, but they never returned."
"At this time, we still thought it was a monster causing trouble, but we slowly discovered that things are not that simple."
Wu Jun pointed to several areas on the map: "Monsters usually have a strong sense of territory and will not easily step out of their territory."
"But the places where we were attacked were scattered in different areas, which shows that it is very likely that it was done by humans."
"Hmm..." Xiang Nan pondered, nodded and said, "Where are the people sent by our guild before?"
Wu Jun said: "They also went in, but the result is still the same, no one came out."
"But this time something is different. The mysterious enemy has begun to attack the enemy."
"Both the eastern camp and the western camp were attacked, and more than a hundred people disappeared inexplicably."
Wu Jun raised his head and looked at Xiang Nan: "If the monsters retaliate, they will never just do this, but will directly capture the camp and eat up the humans."
"That makes sense." Xiang Nan nodded.
Wu Jun said again: "So we are more sure that this is not an act of revenge by monsters, but a warning from humans!"
"Until yesterday, no one dared to go to the depths of the island to patrol. There, it has faintly become a forbidden area."
Xiang Nandao: "Give me a map and mark all the known accident locations. I'm going to have a look."
Wu Jun took the map and marked seven points of distress for Xiang Nan, but in fact, there were not so few real points of distress, but Wu Jun and the others never found out where many people died.
The bodies of the three batches of Ziye Peak warriors have not been found yet.
Xiang Nan took the map and was about to set off, but was stopped by Wu Jun.
"It's getting late." Wu Jun shook his head and said, "At night, the evil spirit is strong, so it's not suitable for investigation operations. The evil spirit will cover your perception."
Xiang Nan thought for a while, and felt that what he said made sense, so he chose to act after dawn.
Without the sun's rays, the evil spirit grows like crazy. In this environment, it is extremely difficult to perceive the aura fluctuations of a human warrior.
Xiang Nan and Wu Jun sat in the tent drinking, chatted about some irrelevant things, and then both fell asleep.
From the last mission to now, Xiang Nan hasn't slept for a minute, so he just took this opportunity to catch up on sleep.
This place is located in the southern camp of the island. Military tents stand on the ground one by one, and the closely guarded soldiers shuttle back and forth between the camps, waiting in full force.
It was late at night, and a full moon was hanging over the head, but under the permeation of the evil spirit, the moon looked silver-gray, which was very strange.
A group of soldiers was wandering outside the camp, just in time to change shifts with another group.
At this moment, Xiang Nan opened his eyes suddenly, and rushed out without saying a word.
Wu Jun's reaction was only a little slower than Xiang Nan's. He also grabbed his spear and rushed out after Xiang Nan.
"You feel it too?" Wu Jun glanced at Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan nodded: "I feel it!"
The two rushed out of the barracks back and forth, and came to the place where the aura fluctuated abnormally.
As a result, after looking at it, the scene made both of them frown.
Here, there should have been a team of patrolling soldiers, but at this moment it was empty. There was not even a trace of fighting on the ground, on the trees, or in the air, and there was not even a wave of spiritual energy.
Xiang Nan's face was solemn: "Just now, in my sleep, I felt the aura of five people disappear out of thin air, so I woke up with a start."
Wu Jun looked at the scene with a very puzzled expression: "It shouldn't be, even if it's a sneak attack, how can it not even leave the spiritual energy fluctuations."
Xiang Nan sniffed his nose: "Is it really a monster?"
There is no spiritual energy, only monster energy, which means that no human beings have been here.
Wu Jun shook his head firmly: "Impossible! The monsters don't have such high intelligence, how could they do things so neatly."
"Furthermore, all my soldiers have undergone strict training, and the monsters only know how to chase and fight fiercely, so they will definitely not let the scene be so clean."
Xiang Nan was also surprised. Wu Jun was right. The missing soldiers looked like killers, and the monsters didn't have such a sneak attack consciousness at all.
"But what if it is a monster controlled by humans?" Xiang Nan pondered, and proposed another idea.
If it is manipulated by humans, then the behavior of monsters is no different from that of humans.
"The possibility is very low." Wu Jun still shook his head: "Even if there are humans who tame monsters, monsters can only obey orders, but they can't behave exactly like humans."
"Look at the ground, not to mention the traces of fighting, there are not even messy footprints."
The neat footprints on the ground indicated that the patrolling soldiers left the ground and disappeared suddenly.
When the two were still in doubt, Xiang Nan grabbed the handle of the knife behind him with his backhand.
Wu Jun was taken aback.
Xiang Nan gave Wu Jun a look, and said in a very soft voice, "Don't talk, he's still here."
The night wind howled, the gray moonlight fell, and the dense leaves around rustled.
Except for Xiang Nan and Wu Jun's aura, there was no sound at all.
And Xiang Nan's face slowly turned to a tree.
On that tree, there was a shadow lying on its stomach.
The shadow didn't move at all, there was no ups and downs caused by breathing, no spiritual energy fluctuations, no monster energy fluctuations.
Xiang Nan lowered his head, holding his sword, but remained motionless.
That Wu Jun swallowed a mouthful of saliva and did not speak.