Let's suffer a little longer, fellow Blue Star folks.

"According to the intelligence Li Shan provided to the gathering place, the number of demons besieging the eastern fortress has exceeded 30,000, and the leader of this group of demons is also a powerful half-step great demon."

"At the same time, the transportation routes between the three fortresses of the Yunhe Army's northern camp and Yunhe Town have been cut off."

Alps then drew a red horizontal line on the south side of the three white circles.

"The most fatal thing is that the roads used for large carts have been almost completely destroyed by the demons, and the flat land that barely allows large carts to pass has also been created with all kinds of obstacles."

"Were these done by the demons besieging the fortress?" Jiang Qian asked in a low voice.

"Some are, but most aren't," Alps replied.

"The destruction of the avenue was almost entirely caused by the demons that had already entered Yunhe Town from Yangwei Village."

"Before, neither we nor the Yunhe Army could spare the time to deal with them, so they took advantage of this time to mess up the area north of Yunhe Town."

Alps then shot a red arrow in from the west side of the map, but he put a question mark next to the arrow.

"The rest are just speculations from Li Shan. He probably doesn't have any concrete information himself, so we may have to wait until the brothers who set out from the trading point reach that area before we can remove this question mark."

"In this situation, what can the three of us do even if we run to the vicinity of the east fortress?" Shen Xi, who had not responded until now, finally asked a 'soul-searching question' at this moment.

Ah Gang and Jiang Qian also fell silent at the same time.

Yes, what could the three of them do there?

In terms of high-end combat power, they probably don't lack Agang over there. In terms of battlefield intelligence, Li Shan probably knows more than them. In terms of demon intelligence, even if the three of them circle around nearby, they won't be able to get any useful information...

"That's still useful."

Speaking of this, Alps showed a 'cunning' smile.

"If you can successfully enter the fortress and establish contact with the leader in charge of it, you might be able to make another big news."

Chapter 404 The planner shouldn’t be that crazy

"why?"

Ah An blinked, obviously not knowing what Alps meant.

"Well, it's a long story to explain this to you," Alps said after a pause.

"It's okay, we have plenty of time."

Ah Gang nodded immediately.

The three of them were now moving eastward step by step. Even with the protection of darkness, they dared not increase their speed.

After all, inferior and low-level demons passed by the nearby mountains from time to time. In order not to expose his whereabouts, Ah Gang did not dare to take action directly and could only wait for them to slowly go away.

In this case, he had plenty of time to listen to Alps' long story.

"That's fine."

Alps shrugged.

"Anyway, Skyrim and Morning Dew won't be arriving anytime soon."

Having said that, he also adjusted his sitting posture, briefly organized his words, and then continued in the voice:

"First, a brief background. In the game Dawnbreak, one of the main reasons why demons pose such a significant threat to humans is that they can transform into human form."

"I think you should agree with this."

"Yeah." Agan and the other two nodded at the same time.

"After these past few months of fighting demons and monsters, and reading all the records about them in Yunhe Town, I've discovered that they're extremely fearful and hesitant."

"Ah."

The three nodded again.

"So, can we simply infer from this that before a demon attacks a human settlement, there's a high probability that it will possess the body of a high-ranking individual there?"

"Especially since they're currently targeting Yunhe Town, a large gathering place with two Earth-rank experts. How could they rashly launch a general attack of this scale without any internal support?"

"That makes sense."

Hearing this, Jiang Qian seemed to understand Alps's overall logic. She subconsciously responded:

"So you're speculating that there's a high probability that a high-ranking official in Yunhe Town has been possessed by a demon?!"

"It's not just Yunhe Town." Alps nodded with a smile, "I suspect there's a high-level demon hiding in the northern camp of the Yunhe Army, and it's very likely a late-stage high-level demon."

"Then why is it in the east fortress?" Ah An asked curiously, "Is there any other information?"

"No."

Alps shook his head very decisively.

“That’s purely my guess.”

"After all, Li Shan also said that the strength of the eastern fortress is not the weakest, but the demon must be defeated now. I think there must be some deep meaning behind the planning and design of this plot."

"That's it?" An blinked.

"That's it." Alps nodded.

"Anyway, if you can actually get to the fortress, just go find the captain in charge and tell him about this suspicion. He might already have someone he suspects, and you'll trigger the mission right away."

"What if the one whose body was possessed was the captain?" Shen Xi asked suddenly.

"Forehead……"

Alps blinked silently.

"The planner shouldn't be that crazy."

……

Gradually, as the players and monsters in the monster-occupied area continued to fight, the moon slowly set in the east, and the dazzling sun rose again as usual.

After resting for most of the night, [Iron Pot Stew Self] finally opened his eyes again.

"Ok?"

At this time, [Rice Zongzi is More Delicious] was leaning against a big tree and eating dry food. Hearing a slight sound beside him, he turned his head and looked at the iron pot.

"Are you awake? Are you done?"

"That's about right. Anyway, they won't bother me again within a week." Tieguo stretched vigorously, then took another portion of dry food and water handed to him by Rouzong, and asked while eating.

"Did anything happen last night? I was busy with things and didn't even check the forum."

"There's one."

Rouzong briefly recalled and said, "Agan's team discovered two high-level demons, and then heard some information about a great demon. I saw that the discussion on that post was quite lively."

"So lucky?" Tieguo raised his eyebrows silently.

He had heard a little about Agan's situation. Didn't he say before that he brought two newbies to the demon-occupied area this time? How could he come across big news?

"And they seem to have crossed the demon blockade and continued to move towards the fortress." Rouzong added.

Speaking of which, she and Tieguo were the first players to see the three fortresses in the northern camp of the Yunhe Army.

However, they didn't think about communicating with the NPCs in the fortress at that time, and they were ambushed by a high-level demon and taken directly to the opponent's base camp.

"Why don't we go around from behind the Yunshan Mountains to the front battlefield?"

Seeing that he couldn't finish the food in Tieguo in a short time, Rouzong simply opened the map and then turned around and asked.

"Then there's definitely no need to go around."

Tieguo shoveled some dry food into his mouth and drank some water while explaining, "We're attacking from the flank now. The demons will also need to send people to defend, which will also help relieve the pressure on Yunhe's army."

"Furthermore, the demons will have to face enemies from two directions, and the battle line will be forced to stretch, making it easier to kill them."

"Is that so?" Rouzong nodded, not quite understanding.

"let's go."

After Tieguo swallowed the last bit of dry food, he immediately stood up, patted the crumbs on his body, jumped on the spot, and then stretched while saying:

"Let's not worry about what's going on over there. Since the demon-occupied area in the north contains clues to the main plot, then there must be some in our area as well. Otherwise, why would we plan quests for both areas?"

At present, the demon army that rushed into Yunhe Town from Yangwei Village has been nowhere to be seen. If they can find the whereabouts of this group of demons first, the intelligence reward they will receive will definitely not be less than that of Agang and his friends.

"Go, go, go! The action continues!"

Rouzong also jumped up from the ground with a somersault, Tieguo also picked up the weapon, and the two of them continued to head east.

However, compared to the other players' bold and aggressive movements on the south side of Yunshan Mountain, the two of them moved forward with extreme caution, even though the demon density in this area was extremely low...

"boom!"

A raging flame suddenly rushed out from the forest, and almost instantly burned a black bird flying rapidly in the sky to ashes.

"From the east."

Tieguo retracted his right hand, then immediately added an arrow on the map and recorded it in their small group chat:

'It's faster than the previous one and its flying height is basically the same.'

Chapter 405 Another Demonic Army

This was a method that [Iron Pot Stew] had figured out on his own—to roughly infer the location of the demon army by following the flight direction of the demon's 'spy'.

Although players currently do not know the generation mechanism of these "eyeliners", after some exploration, there are already two mainstream speculations on the forum.

The first guess was put forward by "I'm Not a Traitor". He thought that these "spies" must have been made by a demon himself, and it is very likely that they required the assistance of some special materials.

Therefore, this demon must be constantly running back and forth in various places, creating these "spies" day and night.

But Alps denied this conjecture because he also proposed a second conjecture.

He believed that the reason why these "spies" could frequently appear in every corner of Yunhe Town was because their creation did not require the presence of the demon itself. As long as the creator had certain tools, he could continuously generate "spies" after paying a certain price.

The demon itself does not need to run around, it can monitor all places by staying in one place.

Tieguo himself is a staunch supporter of the second hypothesis.

So he believed that the demon army that had invaded the heart of Yunhe Town must have a tool that could create "spies".

He and Rouzong could take advantage of this and infer the location of the demon army through the flying directions of these scattered "spies".

"The tails of these arrows are becoming more and more regular."

Tieguo and Rouzong walked forward cautiously while looking at the map in front of them and said.

When he just left the trading point, the arrows he recorded were completely irregular, with arrows in all four directions: east, west, south, and north.

But as they got farther and farther away from the trading point, not only did the speed of the "eyeliners" fly faster and faster, but the direction of these arrows also became more and more unified.

They all flew from the southeast and headed towards the trading point.

So he now boldly predicts that the group of demons that broke into Yunhe Town are now in the southeast of the trading point!

……

At the same time, in the north of the Yunhe Army’s fortress, there was the demon army led by Hongao.

"Ok?"

Fengshi was lying in the shadow of a large rock, carefully checking the situation of each "spy". Suddenly, its attention was focused on the south of Yunshan Mountains.

"Dead? How could there be someone in this position?"

It blinked its compound eyes in confusion, moved its butt, and then immediately recalled the scene that the spy had sent back before his death.

Woods, hills, lakes...

"boom!"

The final scene stopped at a burst of flames rising into the sky.

"Were we attacked by humans?"

"He's also a Xuan-level cultivator with fire attributes?"

Feng Shi silently turned his attention back to the mountainous area occupied by demons, and at the same time recalled the fire-attribute practitioners in Yunhe Town in his mind.

Well, they are all Yunhejun’s.

But now two of them are in the northern camp, and one is in Yunhe Town. It doesn't make sense for them to appear near the Yunshan Mountains...