"Reporting to the Lord, they've all returned," Guard Five continued, "It's just that quite a few people in Hunter Five's group got stabbed. They said they were injured by a creature called an Ice Gall."
"Miss Doctor has already gone to treat them. She said it's not serious."
"Lord, do you need me to call Hunter Five or Miss Doctor over?"
"No need," Ethan waved his hand, "I'll go check on them myself later."
Hearing that, Ethan more or less understood what had happened.
Hunter Five and his group were originally in charge of the ice field area, hunting the remaining snow monsters and collecting materials along the way.
If there was one place where snow would pile up the thickest, it had to be the ice field.
The environment there was just too suitable for those things to survive.
So Ice Galls would naturally appear in large numbers near the ice field. That was why, even though Hunter Five and the others had received Ethan's message, they still couldn't avoid getting injured.
Fortunately, Ethan had notified them early enough. Otherwise… at this moment, Hunter Five and the others probably wouldn't just be injured. They might have been severely pierced, or even left their lives behind on the ice field.
Hearing that their injuries weren't serious, Ethan finally let out a long breath of relief.
But right now, the most important thing for Ethan was to find out exactly who had invaded his territory.
He was worried that, like before, they had been targeted by witches again.
And judging from Guard Five's description, the intruders seemed to be from the military.
That made it even more necessary to ask clearly.
If there really was a military force in this world, Ethan didn't think that was a good sign. After all, players like them could also be considered intruders in this mist world.
Then these troops were very likely a force created specifically to deal with players like them.
So Ethan had to get to the bottom of it.
"Eee-ya!"
He pushed open the door of the pet enclosure.
Inside, three people were tied to several pillars.
Since all three were injured to some extent, Guard Five had them seated, with their hands tied behind the pillars so they couldn't move.
In the middle of the pet enclosure lay three corpses.
Each one was covered with a white cloth.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
At that moment, the scarecrow hopped in as well and said, ["I heard you caught a few intruders. I came to take a look too."]
"Why are you so nosy?", Ethan grabbed the scarecrow by the head and pulled it away from the beehive, "You have to stick your nose into everything?"
["Hehe! Think about how much help I've given you along the way,"] the scarecrow said shamelessly, ["If you didn't have me, I don't even know what you'd do."]
"Haha! I really should thank you."
Ethan let out a cold laugh and directly hung the fart-bee hive next to the mutated killer bees, making it convenient for the queen bee to rule both sides.
Then, he took off his gloves and walked over to the three tied intruders.
Smack!
Ethan used the gloves to slap one of the intruders awake, "Wake up! Stop pretending to sleep, or I'll have the bees sting you a few times!"
"No, no, I'm awake!"
Hearing that, the intruder immediately opened his eyes, fear flashing in them.
Seeing he had stopped pretending, Ethan raised an eyebrow and asked, "If you want to suffer a little less, cooperate. Answer what you're supposed to answer honestly. Otherwise, I don't mind testing some of the new materials or poisons I just got on you."
"I'll talk! I'll talk!"
The man had an honest-looking face, thick lips, big eyes, and a large nose.
Although they were all of the same race, Ethan felt he didn't look like he was from east. Instead, he looked more like he was from a neighboring country.
"Who are you people?", Ethan stared coldly at the honest-looking man, "Why did you invade my territory?"
"We're residents living nearby. We just happened to see a patch of vines here and thought there might be wild fruit, so we came to pick some," the man hurriedly explained, "We didn't know the vines were planted by someone. That's how things turned out, sob! sob! sob!"
As he spoke, he actually started crying.
Naturally, Ethan didn't believe him. He turned to look at the other two intruders, who had also woken up.
Seeing Ethan look at them, they nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, we're from nearby. We really didn't expect someone to be living in such a remote wilderness."
"If we offended your territory, we apologize! We're sorry!"
"Please, kind sir, could you let us go?"
"Heh!"
Looking at these three who treated him like an idiot, Ethan let out a cold laugh, "You say you're residents nearby. Then can you explain why you're wearing military uniforms?"
"Th… that's because…"
The honest-looking man immediately began to stammer.
Another man beside him, who looked smarter, quickly answered, "That's because we picked up some clothes. We didn't know what kind of outfit it was. We just thought it was comfortable, so we wore it!"
"Yes, yes, so it's called a military uniform?"
"It's pretty good. Durable and comfortable!"
The three of them chimed in one after another.
Ethan was almost amused by their stupidity. Since they wouldn't speak a single word of truth, then he wouldn't be polite anymore.
"Queen Bee, send out a few fart bees!"
It just so happened.
Ethan had originally planned to make all the territory's people immune to poison.
Earlier, he had absorbed the gas and his poison resistance had gone up three levels. He had planned to let the territory members try it after returning, but he was worried they didn't have strong enough bodies and might just drop dead!
But these three in front of him were different!
Weren't they the perfect test subjects?
["Yes, Master."]
The queen bee responded, and six or seven fart bees flew out of the hive.
Ethan's conversation with the queen bee, including her reply, had all happened through spiritual communication in his mind.
So the intruders naturally couldn't hear it.
All they saw was Ethan snap his fingers, and several strangely colored bees flew out. They were instantly terrified by the bizarre scene in front of them.
"Be… bees…"
"Lord, we've already told the truth. Why are you calling out bees!"
"Yes, we really didn't lie. We just picked up the uniforms…"
"Shut up!"
Ethan stared at them coldly, "You said you're nearby residents. Then how do you know I'm a Lord? Are you trying to be funny?"
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