Horn glanced inside the house and saw the scene of rummaging through boxes and cabinets. He understood that the werewolf had taken away valuables and also took away meat and other food stored by the villagers.

Perhaps because of the adequate food, the villagers' bodies were not ruined.

"Collection of the corpses and buried them," Captain Fred turned to the first-class warrior holding a bow and arrow and a long sword on his waist: "Dom, take someone to investigate and figure out the direction of the gnolls' escape."

"clear."

“…”

Under Captain Fred's command, everything went on in an orderly manner, and Horn found a slightly cleaner room and sat on a chair and fucked the dog and waited.

Not long after, the soldiers were busy, and Horn and everyone came to the burial pit to pray for the dead.

Of course, he had no gods to believe in, but was just pretending.

After the prayer was finished, the earth was covered with soil, and Captain Fred ordered people to close the gate of Silver Leaf Town, and the closed people jumped off the wall.

Imperial law stipulates that these houses that have lost their owners belong to the Empire.

According to convention, these houses will be sold by the local government and the property obtained will be handed over to the treasury. Of course, it is unknown how many gold coins will be able to actually enter the treasury in the end.

Everyone waited for a while, and the investigators came back.

Horn saw their frowns and understood that things were not going well.

Sure enough, the first-level warrior named Dom came to Captain Fred and lowered his head: "Sorry, Captain, we failed."

"What's going on?"

"That group of werewolves was too cunning. They left many interference messages and used their tails to clean their footprints. We really couldn't find their mark."

Captain Fred frowned. Things were even more troublesome than expected. This group of zombies actually knew the anti-tracking skills.

"Let's go, let's go to the scene first."

Horn followed everyone to the position facing the forest on the back of Yinye Village. As soon as he arrived, he saw the footprints of the werewolf on the snow, and the footprints extended to the forest.

Everyone followed the footprints to the forest, but after entering the forest, the footprints disappeared.

Dom pointed to the snow: "Look, this snow has traces of being swept, and the zombies' tails are fluffy. They can easily erase the footprints in the snow, and they are also scattered and left information to interfere. We really can't tell the direction of their main force."

Captain Fred frowned, then stretched out and looked at Horn on the side. Just look for the magician when encountering a problem.

"Brother Horn, can you detect magic?"

"No," Horn shrugged helplessly. After all, he was just a wandering mage who had just advanced and had little magic reserves.

"But I have a way."

He patted the snow dot beside him: "Go!"

The snow spot came to everyone and sniffed it on the snow with its nose. The hot air spurted out from its nostrils melted the small ice crystals.

Seeing this scene, Captain Fred touched his head awkwardly: "Why did I forget it? The wolf's nose is more sensitive than a hunting dog."

The werewolf attacked the village in the early morning, only a few hours before the smell had disappeared.

Soon, the snow spot found the direction and took small steps ahead to lead the way.

"Come on," Captain Fred waved his hand and everyone hurriedly followed.

After walking for a long distance, everyone no longer needed Xue Spot to lead the way, because the werewolf felt foolproof and their footprints were getting more and more frivolous, so they simply stopped dealing with them in the end.

Everyone continued to track down the footprints. The first-level warrior holding a round shield opened the way in front, and a small number of people were distributed around to prevent them from being raided.

Suddenly, the team stopped.

"Captain, come and see."

Captain Fred, who was broken behind and Horn, who was protected in the middle, came forward and saw blood and messy footprints on the snow. The chaotic were mixed with some cat footprints.

Horn squatted down and took out a hair from the frozen blood, a pale yellow zodiac hair.

A few hours ago, a battle, or hunting, happened here.

"This group of werewolfs were attacked by extraordinary beasts," he found traces of dragging on the snow not far away, with blood on the traces: "And there were casualties."

Captain Fred looked at the tall trees around him: "It is normal for the Sorrow Forest to encounter extraordinary beasts, keep moving forward."

Everyone continued to move forward, Horn came to Captain Fred and whispered: "Captain, I feel something is wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"Ordinary extraordinary beasts will not attack large enemies because large enemies are more dangerous, and carnivorous extraordinary cats are generally kings in a certain area. They have a strong sense of territory and will not leave their territory easily. This is the periphery of the forest..."

Captain Fred frowned and looked around the snow and ice: "Brother Horn, it's winter now, maybe it's hard to find prey, forcing those regional overlords to search for prey more widely."

"It is indeed possible, but no matter what, we have to be careful. There are dangerous animals nearby that dare to challenge the large number of werewolves, so please be careful and nod."

Horn looked up at the branches covered with snow: "They like to climb trees, maybe they hide in them."

Captain Fred nodded with a slight gaze, which made everyone more alert and expanded the alert range.

At the same time, Horn also opened his eyes and scanned his surroundings from time to time.

After being promoted to the official mage, his mental power increased greatly and he also became much easier to deal with the consumption of eye runes.

The more he looked, the more frightened he became. After walking less than a thousand meters, he found three traces left by extraordinary beasts, the terrifying claw marks on the bark of the tree two hundred meters away, the hoof marks on the snow three hundred meters away, and the fresh skeleton that was mostly buried in snow.

Damn it! When did the extraordinary beasts outside the forest become so dense!

Horn wondered how to remind Captain Fred and how he could explain how he discovered these signs.

"Captain! There is a situation!"

The shouting from the side interrupted Horn's thoughts. He and Captain Fred came to the shouting team members. Without reminding them, the two saw the hoof prints on the snow.

This hoof print is as big as a washbasin. It directly penetrates the snow and you can see the land below.

A long list of basin-sized hoof prints gave people a strong visual impact. Captain Fred measured the distance between the front and rear hoofs and found that the owner of the footprint was at least five meters long.

"This..., Horn, do you know what animal this is?"

"I don't know, but no matter what, it shouldn't have appeared here. There was a change in the depths of the Sorrow Forest that we didn't know, and those dangerous animals ran out."

Horn looked up at the deep forest, and the layers of trees looked like the sharp teeth of giant beasts, eating people without spitting bones.

“We have to retreat.”
Chapter completed!