Chapter 316 Weird
Looking at the requests on the exploratory communication device in his hand, Mino organized his words while marching, replying one by one to comfort them.

As the highest-level explorer in the team, Mino naturally discovered the changes in the surrounding environment. Moreover, as a transcendent and a machinist, he saw more information.

Although some of these cave spiders are local spiders in Area 5, the majority of them are not like the group of cave spiders that the explorers had previously cleared and expelled in Area 5.

They are obviously larger than the cave spiders in Area 5, and the patterns on their bodies are also obviously different.

Apparently, a larger and more massive group of cave spiders had arrived in Area 5 and swallowed up the local spiders that had been cleared and expelled by the explorers.

However, these new cave spiders are just relatively larger in size. Perhaps, for ordinary people, they will be more lethal and deterrent.

However, for the explorers, who are all extraordinary, it makes no difference whether the size is big or small. What can ordinary beasts do to fight against the explorers?

However, although ordinary wild beasts pose no threat to explorers, there are basically some extraordinary creatures in the biological communities that can develop in the Dragon's Back Passage.

For example, when they were clearing area No. 5 before, they encountered several one-ring cave spiders and a two-ring cave spider leader.

Relying on terrain advantages and sneak attacks, they still caused some casualties to the explorers.

No one can guess whether some extraordinary creatures will be born in this new spider colony?

Mino looked at the red eyes in the darkness silently without any fear.

However, even if an extraordinary creature was born, what would it matter? Even the lowest-level explorers would not be afraid, let alone him.

No matter how many come, they will kill as many as they want.

Mino was not worried that there were extraordinary creatures in the new spider colony. He was mainly worried about whether this new spider colony would affect the exploration plan of Area No. 5.

After all, the number of explorers is limited. If an independent explorer is besieged, it is still possible to get back the Fountain of Life and other means of resurrection. Moreover, the undead creatures responsible for some simple tasks are not very strong. Under the same number conditions, the undead cannot defeat the cave spiders.

If the undead responsible for simple tasks were to be dismantled by these cave spiders, the exploration plan for Area 5 might have to be postponed.

In addition, this new group of spiders were obviously not honest creatures. They even dared to follow Mino and his group and kept staring at them during their march.

If they dare to track you today, they will dare to attack undead creatures tomorrow. I dare not even think about what they will dare to do in the future.

Mino frowned slightly, looking at the cave spiders that were following them fearlessly, and he cursed in his heart.

What is Calvin doing? It's so obvious, doesn't he notice it?
As the highest-ranking explorer in Camp 5, it was impossible for him not to notice the problem with these cave spiders.

If he had discovered it, why didn't he give any news at all?

Mino frowned. It couldn't be that all the explorers in Camp No. 5 were dead.

Even if they are all dead and waiting for resurrection at the Fountain of Life, the Fountain of Life should send him a message.

He opened the communicator to connect with the Fountain of Life and looked at the death list reported by the Fountain of Life. Mino did not see Calvin's name.

However, explorers seem to be dying a little more frequently.

Mino frowned and looked at the death list fed back by the Fountain of Life, and noticed something was wrong.

Since the death list seven days ago, the frequency of explorers' sacrifice has increased significantly.

It is clear that Camp No. 5 should not have any large-scale exploration plans recently. According to previous plans, they have to wait until they arrive at Camp No. 5 and have enough explorers before starting large-scale external exploration.

If there had been no large-scale external exploration, then why would these explorers have sacrificed themselves? Moreover, no abnormalities have been found at the Fountain of Life.

Was it Calvin's order?
Something is wrong. There is definitely something wrong.

Looking at some familiar names on the death list, Mino frowned slightly.

These people were all explorers under his command. Under his orders, they should have stayed in the camp. Even Calvin couldn't have directly mobilized them and let them go out to explore without asking any questions. So why did they suddenly die?

Mino raised his head slightly, and quickly gave orders to the entire team through the exploratory communication device. He silently ordered everyone to be on alert, and at the same time activated the strange equipment on his body as if nothing had happened.

After activating the magical device on his body, Mino also began to contact Calvin at Camp No. 5 and sent him several messages in succession.

However, no matter what Mino sent, all the messages seemed to fall on deaf ears and received no response.

After not receiving a reply from Calvin, Mino did not continue to send messages to Calvin, but instead sent a message to the Fountain of Life, asking them to send the death records of all people on the death list in the past seven days.

According to Roland's order, everyone who was resurrected in the Fountain of Life must record his or her own death.

The main thing is to record why I died.

This was Roland's mandatory requirement. Even if one was illiterate, one had to dictate and have someone write down a copy.

Compared to Calvin's disappearance, the Fountain of Life recovered very quickly.

After Mino sent the message, the Fountain of Life quickly sent a series of death reports to Mino in less than a minute.

Looking at the death report sent from the Fountain of Life, Mino frowned.

These death reports do not seem to be problematic and are no different from those of other explorers who died. They all died suddenly due to various reasons while exploring abroad.

The reasons for sudden death are all due to various force majeure factors, such as: the ground collapsed and fell to death underground; the passage collapsed and the whole person was buried alive; or some trap left by the dwarves was activated and killed by the trap.
These reasons are not surprising, because many explorers died from these reasons, so the Fountain of Life did not notice any problems.

Even if the death rate of explorers increases, the Fountain of Life probably only means that the explorers have begun large-scale external exploration.

However, these death reports might have fooled the staff at the Fountain of Life, but they could not fool Mino.

Looking at the densely packed red dots on the communication device on his wrist, Mino felt a deep chill in his heart.

Since they died while exploring, then why are their exploratory devices still in Camp No. 3?

Even if the explorers at Camp No. 5 would recover the rare equipment, how could they possibly recover all of the rare equipment that had fallen into the ground and were buried deep inside due to the collapsed passage so quickly?
Did these people who died and were resurrected in the fountain of life lie?!

There is definitely a big problem at Camp No. 5.

Mino immediately summarized everything that had happened and reported it to his superiors, marking the information as an emergency notice.

Less than a minute after the emergency notice was issued, Mino received a new order from his superiors.

Evacuate Area 5, build a defense line according to the situation, wait for support, and report all information including coordinates and enemies regularly.

After receiving the order, Mino immediately sent the retreat order to everyone in the team.

After receiving the new order, the people who were originally on alert according to Mino's order decisively followed the order, changing the front row to the back row and the back row to the front row, and began to evacuate.

As explorers who have received military training, obedience to order and rules has deeply influenced them.

Without questioning or complaining, they quickly carried out Mino's new orders.

However, their camouflage ability was relatively poor. Before they received the alert order, they were still talking and laughing along the way, but after receiving the alert order, they quickly fell silent and did not say a word.

The changes in the entire team are very obvious.

When the team was preparing to retreat from Area 5 to the relatively safer Area 4, a group of cave spiders following them did not make way for them.

Even if the light of the magic machine drove away the darkness and illuminated their bodies.

The cave spider, somewhat uncomfortable with the light, twisted its body but did not retreat.

Looking at the cave spiders blocking the team, Mino calmly gave orders.

"kill!"

His order was quickly passed on to every explorer in the team. The explorers in the front row looked at the cave spiders twisting in front of them, not used to the light, and took out flares in unison.

Start, throw.

More than a dozen flares were thrown above the cave spider, and then an extremely dazzling light instantly illuminated the entire nearby area.

Stimulated by the strong light, all the cave spiders closed their eyes and waved their limbs wildly.

While they were confused in the strong light, the explorers, who had already put on goggles and held weapons in hand, began a ruthless slaughter.

Behind them, explorers holding crossbows and wearing eyepieces began to shoot with precision.

At the same time, in the Fountain of Life area closest to the Silver Gate, a city defense force and legion recruits were urgently mobilized.

After the city defense forces and legion recruits surrounded the entire Fountain of Life, all personnel at the Fountain of Life also received orders. They were ordered to stop some work and stay where they were for inspection.

The staff at Fountain of Life were naturally very surprised and surprised by the sudden inspection.

The Fountain of Life is a building of great importance to the War Committee. Those who can work here have basically undergone a lot of assessments before being able to come here to work.

Why do we have to be examined all of a sudden? Is there a spy inside?

Thinking of this, the staff of the Fountain of Life consciously obeyed the order, put down their work, stayed where they were and prepared to be inspected. At the same time, they looked at each other with vigilant eyes, looking for possible traitors.

Under the order of the military, the city defense forces and legion recruits quickly took over the entire Fountain of Life.

Among them, the explorers in the Fountain of Life recovery area were the focus of inspection, and all of them were gathered in an open space.

Around the open space, the legion recruits were holding various weapons and watching them vigilantly, while behind the recruits, the city defense forces were pushing elemental cannons and also watching them vigilantly.

Under the order of the military, the city defense forces and the legion recruits did not make any contact with them. Even when they were asked to gather in the open space, they stayed far away and shouted at them to gather.

Just as the explorers were in panic in the open space, several rays of light flashed across the sky and flew over here.

The three commissioners who received the message arrived at the scene.

Looking at the three committee members who were watching them warily in mid-air, the explorers on the open ground were numb.

Even three of the committee members came in person, what had they done wrong?

After the committee members arrived at the scene, the explorers no longer considered the possibility that there might be a mistake, but began to think about what crime they had committed that required such a big fuss and even made the three committee members so nervous.

However, even if their memories were drained, they could not figure out what crime they had committed.

"The last explorers at Camp Five, all come out."

Under the order of the committee member, the explorers, the last one in memory to stay at Camp No. 5, came out obediently.

A committee member slowly landed in front of them, while the remaining committee members stared at them intently, ready to take action at any time.

The commissioner who landed in front of them presented the evidence provided by Mino and spoke to the explorers in front of them.

"There is something wrong with your death report. Now, I'll give you a chance to tell me what you really saw before you died."

The explorers looked at the evidence in front of them and looked at each other in confusion.

After all, they are not fools. After seeing these evidences, they also realized the problem. Especially those explorers who had memories of falling into the abyss or being buried alive, they realized that something was wrong.

They were all resurrected in recent days. Even if there are people in the camp responsible for recovering the strange machines, it is impossible for them all to be recovered to Camp No. 5 so quickly.

"I have checked. When you died, the location of the strange machine was at Camp 5. Tell me, what happened at Camp 5? How did you deceive the inspection?"

The commissioner said coldly.

If not all spellcasters were so busy right now, either plastering the northern wall or deciphering the ruins at the Silver Gate, few spellcasters would be able to spare the time. Otherwise, the committee would not even ask, but would directly let the spellcasters extract their souls and forcibly check their memories.

Listening to the committee member's words, a second-ring explorer frowned and muttered to himself.

"Have I been in the camp?"

"Yes, yes, I should be in the camp. Why would I go out without orders?!"

"My memory, my memory has been tampered with!"

He suddenly shouted and quickly cast a spell with his hands.

The moment he cast the spell, several committee members immediately looked at him. Just when one committee member was about to kill him, the committee member on the other side who heard the explorer talking to himself stopped him.

"Wait, let's see what he's going to do."

As the committee members watched, this rare spellcaster explorer cast a second-level spell, Soul Shock, and smashed it hard on his own head.

As he exerted his full strength, his face instantly became somewhat ferocious.

He had just been resurrected and was in a weak state, and now he became even weaker. He fell to the ground, and blood began to flow out of his eyes and ears.

After keeping his head down in silence for a while, he suddenly looked up and shouted loudly.

"I know, I know, it was the Dream Weaver Spider!!! The Dream Weaver Spider attacked Camp No. 3, and we died at its hands. These are all false memories, we were all deceived by it!"

"Dream Weaver Spider?"

After hearing this name, the false memories in the explorers' heads were shattered, and they recalled their real memories one by one.

Nothingness.

Putting aside the false memories, their real memories only stopped a few days ago when they were working in Camp No. 5 and suddenly their vision went black, and then they were resurrected here.

During these few days, they did not wake up at all and had no idea what had happened. The so-called memories of these days were all false.

In this situation, only the Dream Weaver Spider in the precautions about dangerous creatures in the Dragon's Back Mountains issued by the Executive Committee can do it.

Since they all reacted, the committee members naturally thought of this as well.

Several committee members looked at each other for a few seconds, and after a brief exchange, one committee member stayed behind and placed all the explorers under house arrest in an area, forbidding anyone else to contact them.

Although after mentioning the Dream Weaver Spider, these explorers may have really been deceived by the false memories woven by illusion.

But, what if? What if it wasn't the Dream Weaver Spider?

Therefore, to be on the safe side, it is better to isolate the explorers from other people first, so that if there are any unexpected situations, it will be easier to deal with them.

While the explorers were transferred to the area designated for them according to the orders and the commissioners and soldiers were watching from the side, on the other side, several commissioners also led a group of legion recruits and ran towards the Silver Gate, ready to support Mino.

At the same time, the committee members who were in contact with Mino immediately sent the suspected dream weaver spider to Mino, asking them to be more vigilant and not to be caught by the dream weaver spider and fall into the dream it wove.

Fortunately, the two sides have been in contact, and Mino did not go to Camp No. 5 but chose to retreat. Therefore, they have not encountered the attack of the Dream Weaver Spider. When the committee member sent a message to them, the sober Mino saw the message in time and responded.

Afterwards, he immediately distributed the information about the Dream Weaver Spider to everyone in the team and ordered everyone to remain vigilant.

Although Camp No. 5 was likely to have fallen, Mino at least discovered it in time and did not foolishly go to Camp No. 5 to fall into the trap, so he still has the ability to fight.

The current situation is not the worst possible.

　Goo, there should be another chapter in the afternoon.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)