But to be honest, at least Jacob is very happy that he was not separated, and the familiar environment made him feel at ease.
Armin then summoned the command level of the company. In addition to him, the Tenth Company also had 10 veterans, including a priest apprentice, who formed the command level of the Tenth Company.
During the discussion, Armin would occasionally stop and check a small locator in his right hand.
Jacob realized that the company commander was not just looking for traces, he was using his logical tools to decide that trace was the most likely route from here to reach their last known position.
After almost five minutes, the result was discussed, and the company commander signaled them to follow him to a trace of his choice.
As they walked into the shadow of the tree, a bird called out somewhere in the distance.
Jacob didn't hear the meaning of its cry, but the sound made him feel uneasy and trembled for a moment, and was briefly touched by the premonition of disaster.
Then he looked to the side and saw Mis, who was also the son of Amydodon, clearly felt it. His thin face was a little gloomy.
"The bird screamed ominously,"
Jacob heard the other person's whisper and looked away. He was not a superstitious person, but he felt just feelings.
The team was divided into two columns, and the captains' armor buzzed as they walked up the hillside. The servo motor and gravity stabilizer were working to keep these veterans balanced on the steep hillside. The Space Marine's leg armor turned out a large piece of soil with each step upwards.
The recruits rely entirely on their own strength. Jacob was encouraged by the cold and clean air and the beautiful scenery around him. His modified muscles did not feel any fatigue.
It has to be said that the environment of Nysen 4 is well protected, and the commander of the battle does not seem to want his hometown to be overly poisoned by the industry.
In order to get himself out of these inappropriate ideas, Jacob began to think about their tasks.
Missing populations happen frequently anywhere in the empire, but this situation still needs to be investigated. He is not sure what the enemy is going to do, but he has learned that there are sufficient reasons for thinking about every action of the enemy.
Thinking of the powerful power of human enemies, Jacob understood that his battle group really needed to be vigilant, and any strange magic or technology could cause considerable trouble.
A spy may discover the defensive weaknesses of the monastery fortress and prepare for a full-scale invasion.
He knew this happened before and it was easy to happen again.
In any case, the company most needs to find some survivors if they are still alive and provide any information they can learn about.
If no one survives, they need to find their bodies and find out what killed them.
As a result, they walked all day but found nothing.
At night, Armin did not plan to return, and they did not set up camps, they needed rest, but also paid attention to whether they had missed anything in the search in the dark.
They were already close to the last known location of the person they were looking for, and more traces of missing hunting groups were found: discarded food strips, areas where the shrubs were cut open.
The night shrouded the forest, they did not make fires, sentries were arranged in strategic locations around the camp, and all communications were connected to the encrypted channel, which would be extremely difficult for anyone to eavesdrop on their communications.
Sentinels on the high ground can quickly and quietly warn them when they see anything, and anything that wants to sneak up on them will immediately discover a reversal of form.
In fact, everyone didn't sleep that night, and all the recruits were nervous, almost all of them stayed in place with their weapons.
It is generally believed that the enemy should attack at night, or at least harass it.
After all, this environment is so suitable. Jacob thought that this might be a company commander's plan, and using this method to lure the other party out - a night attack is better than a blind search.
But the result is surprising.
Nothing happened that night, except for the depression before the rainstorm approached-
"It's really strange."
Jacob watched the sun rise in the mountains. It was the end of his watch-off time, and he was not tired at all, and the beauty of the place itself made him amazed.
At first, the mountains only had a slight shadow, and their outlines were like a rough hole cut on the cloth at night. They began to appear when the sky came, but they seemed to be flat, like paintings drawn on stone walls.
As the light increases, they become more specific, more depth, more details until they suddenly flash in the sun, as if they are reborn.
The mist rose from the trees below like smoke, just like mountains giving life to the clouds in the morning light, or a wizard used magic to make the forest emit flameless smoke - Jacob knew that this was not the reason, and soon the fog would evaporate like a ghost in the sun.
But he still enjoyed watching the rebirth of the world and listening to the birds singing that welcomed the sun.
However, the sunlight did not last long, because the storm was coming soon, and most of the sky was occupied by dirty clouds.
In the distance, he could hear the complaints from his comrades and the sound of eating ration sticks. Everyone sat wither all night, and in the second half of the night, even began to pray that the attackers would appear.
Everyone was so tired.
But the enemy just doesn't show up, either they are very calm or they are not nearby at all.
No matter what, the team still has to set off.
They packed up the camp, lined up again to walk down the hillside, towards a strangely separated area in the forest.
Not long after leaving, everyone became alert - they saw the situation below as they followed the traces.
Due to the dark clouds, the forest looked deeper and darker and twisted, and the trees looked sick. Armin observed these with a magnifying glass and then spoke.
"This was not the case here, and there was no written in the report."
"It looks like these trees are infected with plague."
Jacob was also observing that the trees looked really sick, they were hunched like sick people, and looked decaying, strange glowing fungi grew on their sides, and the faint light was still visible even in the daytime sunlight.
Jacob didn't like this at all, no matter how they became like this.
He looked around and the air smelled really wrong. There was a weirdness in the whole place, and there was a faint but very uneasy smell in the air, like some kind of reptile, which made the hair on the back of his neck stand up.
For some reason, he could always think of himself walking in the grass and being peeked by a poisonous snake.
Armin clearly felt it, and he opened a channel to the monastery fortress and began to report to someone.
Suddenly, a static sound came, something was interfering with the communication signal.
Jacob thought for a moment that the trees had a weird connection with signal interference, but he put the idea aside as nonsense.
How is this possible?
Deep in his mind, the knowledge put in the engine told him that all signs indicate that something dangerous must be happening.