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Yunshui Creek, one of the many tributaries of the Kenser River, flows peacefully as usual.

The stream is crystal clear, with a depth of less than half a meter. Small fish, shrimps and crabs can be clearly seen in the water. This stream is the source of water for drinking and irrigation in Hewan Village on weekdays, and is also a place for children to play in summer.

As the name suggests, Hewan Village stands at the bend of Yunshui River. It is one of the settlements opened by the Kingdom of Fontaine in Yongye Forest twenty years ago.

According to the relevant laws of the Kingdom, the new Tuobian County not only does not need to pay taxes to the central government for the first thirty to fifty years, but can also enjoy various welfare policies of the Kingdom.

The purpose of these relevant laws is to quickly transform the newly expanded border counties into areas under actual control of the kingdom, becoming the barriers to the kingdom's hinterland counties and outposts for continued outward expansion.

In addition, the nobles also hope that their territories will develop rapidly and their population will expand rapidly. Therefore, the nobles of the newly expanded five counties set a lower tax rate than other areas to promote the breeding of the population in the territory.

Compared with other areas in the newly expanded five counties, the situation in Hewan Village is even better.

This place is located in the Evernight Forest. The scattered orcs who usually come to the newly expanded five counties to harass and clear grass valleys will not come here at all.

Moreover, Hebend Village used to have a large number of hunters. As early as ten years ago, they had cleared away all the wild beasts and monsters around Hebend Village. The current villagers of Hewan Village have not been threatened by external forces for a long time.

After twenty years of development, the original shacks in Hewan Village were slowly replaced by sturdy stone and wooden houses, and the population grew from the initial 200 people to nearly 800 people.

Four thousand acres of cultivated land have been opened up in the fertile river bends surrounding the village.

The sun slowly disappeared from the horizon. The residents of Hewan Village finished their spring plowing for the day. Carrying farm tools and seeds, they returned to their homes in twos and threes to rest.

At this time, in the forest that had not yet been opened up as farmland, a group of thousands of werewolves were quietly lurking outside the village.

"Have those human hunters been dealt with?"

"Lord Dusk Blade, we have taken care of it. This village has not discovered our existence yet."

"Very good, remember, the core of our operation is concealment. We must kill all the humans in the village and don't let anyone go!

In addition, we must search for as much food as possible. We have no logistical supplies along the way. It is not easy to find a remote human village like this. Everyone must bring enough food for ten days! "

On the main battlefield on the front line, the old beast king led an army of hundreds of thousands of orcs to attack key fortress nodes head-on.

At the same time, the old Beast King also detached many highly mobile troops to attack and harass the five new counties, aiming to destabilize the frontline defenders of the Fontaine Kingdom.

This thousand-man level werewolf is one of the many troops interspersed with harassment.

Looking at the configuration alone, this werewolf detachment has two Silver Moon-level werewolves, thirty fourth-level werewolves, and more than four hundred third-level werewolves. It can be regarded as an elite orc force.

According to the instructions above, this werewolf troop passed through the Evernight Forest and circled to the vicinity of Luke's Fortress. As long as it took away a food transport team and showed its presence, it could quickly evacuate.

The purpose of this is to attract the attention of the Fontaine Kingdom and at the same time shake the morale of the front line. At that time, the old Beast King can take the opportunity to lead his army to press forward and destroy the Fontaine Kingdom's defense line.

Since this werewolf team went deep alone, they had no logistical supplies and no friendly wing protection. They could only try to cover their whereabouts while trying to find ways to obtain food supplies.

Along the way, Dusk Blade, the leader of this werewolf army, had not thought about obtaining food through hunting.

But the food needs of 1000 people are too great, and it is difficult to find enough prey in an area. If they hunt in a big way, they will make too much noise and be easily noticed by humans.

Moreover, there are many powerful monsters in the Evernight Forest, and this werewolf detachment lost many men during the hunting process.

Fortunately, Dusk Blade's scouts discovered such a remote but quite wealthy human village.

Given the size of this village, its food reserves are definitely enough to meet the urgent needs of this werewolf detachment.

However, in order to ensure the mobility of his men, Mu Ren still did not dare to let them carry too much food, and only asked them to carry ten days of rations each.

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It's late at night, and Hewan Village is like a peaceful and peaceful picture, as if the war on the front line has not had the slightest impact on the place. The occasional barking of dogs echoed, which only added a bit of life to the peaceful village.

At this time, Orion Soth's wife Penny was pacing anxiously in the room.

Normally at this time, Soth would have returned home long ago, and when he set out today, he said that he was just going to pick some mushrooms in the nearby woods and would be back soon.

But today, Soos didn't return home until dark, and he didn't ask anyone to bring news or anything. This made Penny worried about her husband's safety.

"Mom, why isn't dad back tonight?"

Ten-year-old Angel sat at the dining table and looked at Penny with his big, fluttering eyes.

Children from poor families learn to understand early. When Angel was only ten years old, he gradually understood how dangerous his father's hunting business was. He was also very worried about his father, Soth.

"Angel, don't think too much. Go to bed first. I'll go ask the village chief."

"Good mother."

Angel obediently climbed onto the bed and stared at Penny with his big eyes until she left the room and out of Angel's sight.

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When Penny arrived at the village chief's house, she found that seven or eight people had gathered in front of the village chief's house. She took a closer look and found that these seven or eight people were the family members of three hunters in the village.

At this time, these people were chattering around the village chief, and the anxiety in their expressions was clearly visible.

"Village chief, my father went out early this morning, saying he was going to Mackerel Pond to catch mackerel, but he hasn't come home yet."

"The village chief and my husband are the same. He said that he and Jack next door went on a hunting trip to the Yunshui River in the north to hunt fragrant pigs. They both still don't believe it."

"Village Chief, my husband Soth said he just went to pick some mushrooms in the pine forest in the south, but he didn't come back for a day." Penny also began to report the situation to the old village chief Jerok.

"Village Chief, can you ask the villagers to help search for you? I'm really worried about my husband. Without him, I don't know how I can survive." A middle-aged woman's sobs interrupted the old village chief. thoughts.

The old Jerok, who served as the head of Hebend Village as a retired soldier, realized that something was wrong. Many hunters in the village disappeared in different directions. There must be something wrong with it.

I'm so sleepy, I didn't take a nap, I finished coding this chapter at 23:25