I'm also trying to survive today [Western Fantasy]

Chapter 277 Undercurrent

Afterwards, Kelly remained silent. Julian noticed that Tom had taken Kelly out alone, and did not know what he had said to her. After returning, Kelly's expression was not as gloomy as before.

Julian didn't care too much about the grievances and entanglements here. His goal was very clear, which was to use this opportunity to enter the ghost fruit forest, and separate from these people after the escort task was completed.

The girl named Catherine was impatient, and immediately after Tom and Woody settled the camp, she immediately found the two mercenary leaders in her tent.

Besides Catherine, the girl in black armor and the old man in red robe also followed her, inseparable from her.

"Miss Catherine, what do you want from us?" Hu Di, the head of the Gale Wolf mercenary group with a relatively large number of people, asked proactively.

Although Tom disliked this playboy who wanted to kidnap his sister, he had to admit that their Twilight Squad was indeed slightly inferior in terms of strength.

No matter how much he hates this playboy in his heart, since they have cooperated now, at least there can be no disagreement on the surface.

Woody probably meant the same thing, and he was quite kind in his work, and he would discuss with Tom about the decisions he made.

It has to be said that his behavior changed Tom's opinion of him a lot. At least when the two talked, Tom was not so angry.

"That's it." Catherine glanced at Woody: "I want to set off to explore that area now."

Both Woody and Tom were taken aback, carefully observing Catherine's expression, and found that she didn't look like she was joking, they looked at each other, and their expressions became serious.

"Can I ask why?" Woody asked tentatively.

Catherine pinched the sleeves, and Tom noticed that the lady seemed a little nervous, and the lace on the sleeves had been crumpled into a mess by her.

"Uh...can I not say anything?" Catherine looked at the red-robed old man for help, but he still had that kind look on his face, but he didn't intend to help her.

Woody hesitated for a moment: "You are the employer, and generally speaking this kind of thing is up to you to decide, but I have to remind you that it will be dark soon, and the place you said you want to go to is very close to the ghost fruit tree Lin, you should also know the properties of the ghost fruit, it is very dangerous to go there at night."

He glanced at Catherine secretly, and found that although she was nervous, she didn't mean to change her mind, so he paused: "And, most importantly, it's now the territory of the evil eye. It has been found out that this is a very large evil eye group. The legendary squint eye lives on the top of the mountain, and most of his group live in the ghost fruit forest. When they are active at night, the danger we will encounter is several times higher than during the day , if you are not in a hurry, I suggest you take a rest today and go tomorrow."

"No, we have to go today." Catherine asserted.

"Why?" Tom asked suddenly.

"Because..." Catherine's words were interrupted by a coughing sound. She knew that she had made a slip of the tongue, smiled awkwardly, and said bluntly, "Anyway, I am the employer, so I have the final say."

Tom frowned indistinctly. He felt that since the black-armored girl and the red-robed old man came, the attitude of the employer had changed. When he first took on the task, the girl obviously had no experience. To put it bluntly, she was naive. It's so cute that it can be labeled as a fat sheep.

After he was injured, he didn't contact his employer for a while, and the employer hired people from Galewind Wolf, and then added two more guards, which made him feel afraid.

Especially the red-robed old man, apart from exposing a little aura on the first day to frighten them, this old man completely restrained his aura, acting like an ordinary person, which is not something ordinary people can do.

Woody is a handsome man. With a reputation as a playboy, he always behaves as gracefully as you do to ladies. Even though Catherine's last words were a little blunt, he still kept smiling: "Okay, since Miss Catherine insists, then I'm going to get them ready."

Tom looked at this guy contemptuously, because this bastard treats every woman like this, he is very disgusted that this guy pursues his sister, and always feels that his sister is with such a flirtatious scumbag , the days to come will definitely be difficult.

Woody froze when he was stared at by Tom's scornful eyes. He was just used to dealing with all kinds of ladies with such a gentleman's attitude, but he forgot that such a performance in front of his future brother-in-law was obviously a negative item.

Woody, who was vaguely aware of this, almost walked out with his hands and feet. When he separated from Tom, the other party's indifferent attitude made him completely wilt like an eggplant beaten by frost.

Tom returned to their camp and found Julian discussing possible scenarios with Kevin and Kelly.Martin is not here, so he should have gone out to inquire about news. Martin has a lively personality and is also the most popular. Usually, he is responsible for almost all such inquiring things.

"Pack up your things and get ready to go."

"So soon?" Julian was stunned for a moment. He remembered that he had agreed to leave tomorrow, and, if he remembered correctly, it was quite dangerous to enter the ghost fruit forest at night.

Tom went to get his package, and said helplessly, "The employer requires it, there is no way."

Kevin hesitated: "It's too dangerous to go at night."

"People with Gale Wolf are with us, even if we encounter Xieyan, as long as they are not above level seven, the danger is not great."

Although Kevin felt that there would be some danger even with the addition of Gale Wolf, but mercenaries are like this. In many cases, you have to go even though you know there is danger, so he stopped talking and packed his package in silence. .

Kelly was also packing her things, but her hands were distracted, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

After a while, Martin came back and learned that they were going to leave soon. He didn't even have time to tell the news he heard, so he joined the finishing team.

Going out this time, in theory, you won’t stay for too long, and there are even people staying behind in the camp, but there are relatively few people in Twilight, so the task of staying behind is given to the people of Gale Wolf, and the people in Twilight are also used to leaving every time Bring all the necessary things, even if the leftovers are lost, they are not worth much.

After a lot of tossing, everyone soon came to Catherine's tent again.

Catherine and the old man in the red robe were already waiting there, and the people from the Gale Wolf were also running over from the other side.

After everyone gathered, the red-robed old man led the team and slowly walked down the small path on the side of the cliff. When they reached a quarter of the mountainside, the path turned to another direction. The red-robed old man took out a map and compared All of a sudden, he led the people away from the path and went straight into the woods.

This piece of forest was just an ordinary forest, but under the influence of Yin Qi, all the branches became twisted and weird, and some shapes resembling human faces grew on the bark of some trees, making the whole forest extremely terrifying.

However, these people in the mercenary team are already accustomed to these, not to mention that these are just ordinary numbers, even they have seen a lot of mutated dryads, so of course they will not be affected in any way.

On the contrary, it was Miss Catherine who yelled all the way, as if she had seen something incredible, and occasionally asked some people from Gale Wolf to help him collect some things, and treasured them up.

Woody winked at his confidant, and the confidant slowed down carelessly, and came together with a group member who had just gone to collect.After a while, he returned to Woody and shook his head towards Woody, indicating that those materials are the most common things, and there is no valuable thing at all.

Woody nodded to show that he understood, but he still asked people to collect the things Catherine collected when no one was around. Anyway, it doesn't take much effort, and there may be some unexpected gains.

Tom is a shield fighter, and he is very good at defense. He has been walking behind Catherine and the three of them. As a shield fighter, he has a fighter called support. When needed, he can rush to the area he is protecting in an instant Beside the subject, covering him under the shield.

The rest of the Twilight Squad surrounded Tom, and in the event of a battle, they could form various formations as quickly as possible.

Because Julian is a newcomer, there is almost no cooperation with them, so Julian can only be used as a firepower turret, walking in a fixed position, so as not to hinder their cooperation.

Not only did Julian not feel angry, but he felt that Tom's decision was very good. If the other party really wanted him to integrate into the team in just one day, then Julian would have to wonder if there was something wrong with his brain. .

That's great, he doesn't need to think about cooperation, he just needs to output, this way of fighting doesn't need to think, it's relatively easy.

Woody's Gale Wolf belongs to the type with a large number of people, but the average level is slightly lower. They also have masters, but the strength of more people is kept at a medium level, so the peripheral protection is done by them. After returning from an investigative thief profession, he said something to Woody.

Woody stepped forward and came in front of Catherine: "Miss Catherine, after a short walk, we will leave the woods. There is no road ahead, how do we go next?" He said he was asking Catherine, but in fact he was looking at the old man in red.

The old man in the red robe smiled slightly: "It's okay, you will know when it arrives."

Woody frowned, but remembering the contract signed by the two parties, he still didn't say anything, and returned to his original position, asking his confidants to remind all his subordinates, be careful not to overturn the boat in the gutter.

He was very wary of that red-robed old man in his heart, if it wasn't for the high liquidated damages of this mission, even their Galewind Wolf would be hurt, he really wanted to cancel the mission immediately.

After walking out of the woods, there is a mountain wall in front of you. Lush vines grow on the mountain wall, almost turning the entire mountain wall into green.

The red-robed old man came to the mountain wall, lifted up the vines, glanced at them, and nodded to Catherine.

Catherine was very happy immediately, and asked Woody's men to look for the entrance of a cave nearby.

Woody's eyes flashed, and he ordered his men to go ahead and do it, but he himself had a heart, and he deliberately moved to Tom's side, reminding him to pay attention in a low voice, so as not to suffer.

Tom didn't express it on his face, but he had already taken his words into his heart. He also found out that the red-robed old man had no intention of hiding anything at all. Either the other party was sure that the treasure inside would be gone if he took it away, or the other party wanted to kill someone to silence him.

It's fine if it's the former, Tom thinks he's more trustworthy, but if it's the latter...he won't wait to be killed!

Owen Diary:

Do I wake up today?

No, not only no, even Julian doesn’t show his face much..._(:з」∠)_

Feels like my aura is gone...