Before nightfall, the expedition team occupied the jackal's den. This simple den made of rubble was actually an open-air camp. The inside smelled worse than a pigsty and was filled with excrement, garbage, food scraps and the bones of the victims.
The reason why we occupied this place is that after the establishment of Harmony Village, a large number of adventurers found that this camp was spacious enough and had water sources during their exploration of 'the past', making it very suitable for a stopover. However, the situation that was circulated lacked a lot of specific details, or
The earliest occupiers deliberately concealed it.
"No one has ever reported that there is an ogre here." Zhou Qingfeng stood inside the gravel wall of the jackal's lair and looked at the surrounding forest.
In order to prevent the smell of blood from attracting more monsters, the corpses in the battle must be disposed of as soon as possible. Several huge bonfires were piled outside the lair, and 'Swift Shadow' commanded the skeletons to complete this laborious work.
The gnolls abandoned their cubs when they escaped, and Zhou Qingfeng did not hesitate to order them all to be killed. The slaves in the nest were also worthless goblins and kobolds, and were also executed. All the corpses were thrown into the nest together with the ogres.
A bonfire.
Winner or loser, the rules of survival in the Black Forest are so cruel.
Wolf howls can be heard in the forest, which are the angry and sad cries of the escaped jackals hiding in the darkness. They were slaughtered, expelled, and lost their precious settlements. The weak preyed on the strong, and the predators became the prey.
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The air was filled with the burning smell of burning, and Zhou Qingfeng could only hold his nose. The skeletons worked as coolies, and after disposing of the corpses, they had to clean up the garbage in the nest, otherwise the expedition team would not be able to stay at all.
Next, the expedition team will continue to expel monsters in the surrounding forests. Rubio and Wilson will call in villagers to build simple roads in the forest. This work originally took the adventurers of Harmony Village more than a month to complete, but now it takes about a week.
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Exploring a dense forest is time-consuming and laborious work. No matter how anxious Zhou Qingfeng is, he must do it step by step. Trying to do it rashly will only lead to a quick death. When night fell and the bonfire crackled, Old Berg, who was in charge of the search, shouted loudly: "Victor
, you’d better come.”
The nest is divided into partitions by gravel walls. The farther inward the partitions are, the smellier they are. The largest partition in the innermost part is the ogre's residence, which is a collection of bedrooms, kitchens, toilets, and garbage dumps. The ground inside is raised one level.
, a closer look revealed that they were all skeletons.
The expedition team had axes and shovels for excavation, and the skeletons used them to clean the ground and transport a large amount of bones with carrion and ointment out for burning. Zhou Qingfeng came in holding his nose, and Old Borg was surrounding him with the 'Plague Priest'
A crude wooden box was spinning.
The 'Epidemics' were playing with corpse poison every day. Most of them had rhinitis and were not sensitive to the odor. Zhou Qingfeng asked them to clean up in the lair, but the jackals were very poor and had no property to use as trophies. The only thing worth noting is that
Ogre's wooden box.
The box had been opened a long time ago, and inside were some inexplicable bones and ores. Old Borg grabbed a bone and cheerfully said it was some rare bird and animal, keeping in mind his expertise in studying corpses. In Zhou Qingfeng's eyes,
They are all worthless.
"Why are you calling me here?" Zhou Qingfeng also looked at the box, but didn't find anything special for a long time.
Old Borg pointed to a few things that were cleared out next to the box and said, "These are all made by elves. It's a bit strange to appear in an ogre's box."
"The ruins of Silverleaf City are in the Black Forest. It's easy to understand why the ogres found some elven things." Zhou Qingfeng said.
But Old Borg shook his head, "No, ogres don't like elves' artworks. They don't have the ability to appreciate them. Such savage monsters only know how to eat them alive."
"Perhaps these elf statues were originally here." After Zhou Qingfeng finished speaking, he frowned slightly. Old Borg also stopped looking through them, thoughtfully.
"Victor." Na'er also came over, holding a piece of gravel in her hand, "Maybe you should take a look at the walls that make up this lair."
The wall surrounding the jackal's lair is actually a pile of rocks. Over time, the wall has grown overgrown with moss and weeds, and its original appearance cannot be seen. Na'er also accidentally kicked the stone under her feet, but found patterns on the stone.
"This is not a stone at all, this is a brick." Zhou Qingfeng casually opened the weeds on a wall and grabbed a 'stone', "This place was not originally a jackal's lair, it was probably the ruins of an elf building.
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The elves have lived in the Black Forest for many years, and they must know better which places are more suitable for living here. They have built buildings all over the place, so it is not surprising to find so many ruins.
At this moment, night has fallen, and the surroundings are dark. The expedition team can no longer clearly see the layout of the entire jackal lair. But judging from the layout of the lair walls, this place is indeed not something that low-intelligent races like jackals can build.
The weeds were lifted, and the broken bricks that formed the walls of the lair were neatly stacked. Some walls were even rejoined, which was not something that could be done casually. It was definitely not something that a jackal or a goblin slave would do.
Obviously, the jackals were latecomers, and the magpie nest and dove took over this place. So who repaired this place before?
Elves? Elves left here fifty years ago.
Zhou Qingfeng realized that he seemed to have encountered a secret, a secret that the adventurers who occupied this place for the 'first time' deliberately concealed it. No one reported that there were ogres here, no one reported that this place was actually an elven ruins, and no one reported that this ruins had been sorted out
Pass.
Now it was Zhou Qingfeng who occupied the Jackal's Lair for the first time. He easily discovered the anomaly of this ruins. Thinking along the hidden information, the key to this secret lies in..., the ogre.
Even if it was reported that there were ogres in the Jackal's Lair, Zhou Qingfeng wouldn't be too surprised. But why didn't anyone report it?
The ogre is a monster with a strong sense of territoriality. If it dominates a place, it will not run around casually. Zhou Qingfeng encountered it, and there is no reason why the adventurers who "formerly" occupied this place should not encounter it.
"Is that ogre's body still there?" Zhou Qingfeng turned his head.
Todd walked in from outside and said blankly: "Ah... I just threw it into the bonfire to burn."
Zhou Qingfeng waved to Old Borg again, "Your pastor seems to have a trick called 'talking to the dead'."
Old Borg shook his head, "That's a third-level magic. I'm only a fourth-level witch doctor, and I haven't acquired that ability yet."
Na'er stood up and said: "Victor, what do you want to ask? I can ask the trees in the forest. However, the information the forest knows is often very vague, and the answers are only a few words."
Zhou Qingfeng pondered for a moment, "I want to know who organized this elf ruins and where is this person?"
Na'er nodded, walked into the forest outside the nest in the dark night, and found the oldest tree. She held her hand on the thick trunk and murmured a question. After a while, she came back with a frown and said: "The ancient tree."
The tree said it was this ogre who tidied up the ruins."
Impossible, how could an ogre do such a thing? This is completely different from what Zhou Qingfeng and others expected.
Na'er continued: "The ancient tree said that the first person to stay in this ruins was the ogre we killed. He also said that she cried every night to guard this ruins. The gnolls were the slaves captured by it.
"
What..., can ogres cry?
Zhou Qingfeng and others looked around at the dirty, messy and smelly jackal's lair, as well as the particularly dirty and messy ogre's residence - the monster living in this ghost place actually has some literary aura?