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After leaving Jumu Town, the first two days of journey were fairly easy. Because this part of the journey is built on grasslands, the climate is much better than the real desert. At the same time, because of the existence of the pastures scattered in this area, there are still a large number of roads trampled by the animals to facilitate everyone's progress.

Every night, Lawrence and the others will try their best to find pastures to live in at night. And just in the last pasture on the edge of the grassland, they got the lame track from the owner of the pasture. According to the rancher, the old lame came here a few days ago and stayed for one night, and then the next morning he took five camels full of things on his body and walked all the way to the northwest, looking to go deep. Gobi. He also bought a batch of beef jerky before leaving.

"Five camels?" After having dinner with the rancher, Lawrence returned to the tent where the team was stationed and told everyone this new information he had obtained. After hearing this message, a priest of the church who believed in Mother Earth, who pretended to be his steward, whispered. "That is to say, the other party is still supplementing some supplies on the way."

All the members of the team showed a thoughtful look on their faces, because this sudden increase in supplies seemed too suspicious, and these newly added supplies were likely to hide some important information. According to their analysis, if there are no accidents, the supplies should be part of the food and water.

"In other words, what this old lame leg wants to hide is his own number." said a druid who believes in the father of nature. "The water purification powder the other party carries shows that they have found a source of drinking water, so The main thing that can be supplemented here is some dried meat or cheese as food. If calculated by calories, one camel can carry 500 people a day's food. The additional two camels can basically carry 1,000 people Food for the day."

After the druid finished speaking, several other people also shared their findings. However, in contrast to the information Lawrence just asked, what they found only supplemented the existing information. For example, several members of the Mother Earth Church who accompanied the team discovered that as everyone continued to move northwestward, divine power pollution gradually began to appear in the soil.

After listening to everyone's information sharing, Lawrence motioned for everyone to keep quiet, then cleared his throat and said. "Now let us summarize the conclusions we have drawn through various information. Based on the series of information we obtained before and after analysis, we can get the following conclusions."

"First of all, a team related to the pollution of divine power entered the Gobi Desert before us. This team is likely to be one of the enemies we will face in the future. According to current data, this team has about 30 to 30 people. Between 50 people. About ten of them are skilled in using gunpowder weapons and explosives."

"Secondly, there are one or two quite identifiable people in this team as the core. According to the expensive elf mead, it can be judged that this person has a high probability of being a noble or a person of noble origin. In this case, The opponent is likely to have a caster or enough casting tools in the team. We need to be vigilant."

"Finally, according to the situation we asked in the past few days. Neither the three small towns on this grassland nor the people in Heraklion City have seen an expedition team that meets the goals we want to track, but consider In the mountainous area more than 30 kilometers southwest of Heraklion city is Caracalla, one of the most famous spas in the empire. The identity of the other party is likely to be disguised as a rich or noble who came to vacation."

"If this is the case, it is basically impossible for us to lock each other's identities." said the paladin of the Fortune Church. "Because there are too many nobles and wealthy people who come here on holiday. They are used to going out. Bring a lot of entourage and various things for your own use. In this way, it is too easy to hide an expedition."

"That's true." Lawrence nodded and said, "Actually, at the beginning, I planned to pretend to be a person going to a hot spring vacation. But then I thought about it that didn't fit my personality, and it was likely to be seen by others. It wasn't right, so I just became the scientific expedition team like now."

"And the other party is probably not a repeat offender." The Paladin analyzed it seriously. "If you are a habitual offender, you should try to pretend that you are passing through densely populated areas, instead of sending a few people around to collect supplies after leaving the starting point like this, while the main team evades operations in densely populated areas. In fact, this approach is more susceptible to suspicion than if we move forward with integrity."

After continuing the discussion for a short period of time, Lawrence and the others soon took a break. After all, tomorrow everyone will leave the grassland and set foot on the Gobi Desert, and the road after entering the Gobi Desert will be the most difficult part of their operation. They will stay away from people and move forward in places unsuitable for human existence.

Early the next morning, they left the manor and proceeded to the northwest. Unlike the vast grasslands on both sides of the road, as they kept moving forward, the scenery on both sides of the road began to change. First, the small streams that appeared on both sides of the road slowly disappeared into the grass, and then the plants thinned out a little bit. When they started camping at night, the surrounding environment had completely turned into a desolate Gobi desert with scattered grass.

On the second day, the journey was completely in an earthy world. The earth was earthy and the hills in the distance were earthy yellow. Even because of the constant wind blowing, the entire sky is tinged with a faint yellow. Fortunately, the totem pole lent to them by the great shaman before was powerful enough to reduce their physical exertion due to the hot climate around them.

In the next few days, the entire team was moving toward the goal one step at a time in this bad situation. When they had just passed a low hill and arrived near the predetermined area according to the original plan~lightnovelpub.net~ they found that a very conspicuous crater appeared in the distance. It looks twenty to thirty kilometers in diameter.

"Go back, all go back." At this moment, the priest of the Mother Earth Church, who was standing in the team and kept vigilant, shouted nervously. Upon hearing this shout, Lawrence and the others immediately stopped and retreated for the first time. When everyone returned to the hilly area, the priest explained the reason.

"Just now I felt that there is something that doesn't belong to the earth on this land." The sacrificial **** Mother Earth said with a serious face. "Because a hostile team may appear around, I am worried that these things may be some props or even traps set by the opponent for supervision."

The priests of different gods have some differences in their specialties, and these differences are changed by the priests held by the gods they enshrine. For example, the priests of the Mother Earth Church have extremely keen awareness of changes in the earth, and can feel the slight changes in a certain piece of land without disturbing anyone.

A few minutes later, Lawrence took a few core members of the team and lay on the sand dunes. Then they used a telescope to look at the small plain between the hilly area and the crater. Sure enough, under closer inspection, Lawrence and the others found that the ground in those places pointed out by the priests of the Mother Earth Church really had something unusual.

"I'm going to investigate." At this moment, Nora volunteered. After all, her body is the most compact here, and she is not a flesh and blood creature, so she can avoid most of the normally set magic traps. At the same time, because her transcendent level and physical strength are the highest among these people, it is easier to come back alive if she encounters a magic trap.