The bald man opposite asked.

But Lucille didn't dare to answer immediately. She turned to look at Sean, as if waiting for him to answer the question.

"Yes, are you the same?" he asked in return.

According to what Soran said before, most of the people who can appear here are those who participated in this dragon hunting mission, and this bounty mission does exist every year, but it is not announced separately, and is only passed on by word of mouth among bounty hunters.

Judging from the other party's posture, he should be one of the bounty hunters. Why is he still trying to trick him after coming here?

"That's right, but you don't look like local bounty hunters." The bald man said as he slowly approached the campfire.

Perhaps it was an unintentional act during the conversation. As long as they saw that Sean and the other party had no hostility, they could slowly approach each other. However, after taking only a few steps, the ghost leopard next to the bald man became alert.

The growling sound never stopped...

It seemed to sense the danger posed by Sean and Lucille.

"Uh... I'm so sorry, I really have to discipline this pet too much."

Sean sneered.

"No problem, do you want to come over and sit for a while?" He kindly invited the other party.

The bald man shook his head helplessly and said, "No need, I just came here to look for this pet. Now that we've found it, we have to go back, otherwise my teammates will be waiting anxiously. I hope you can find the dragon as you wish!"

Before leaving, he didn't forget to say a blessing.

After the other party left, Lucille, who had been silent all the time, frowned.

"What's wrong?"

"Teacher, I always feel that this person is weird."

"Oh, you can actually find something strange?" Sean smiled. "Then tell me what's strange about it?"

"How could he, a beast tamer, not be able to control his own beasts? And he came here without permission. And you refused when you invited him... Anyway, it's pretty weird."

Lucille probably couldn't put her finger on any other reason, but her first feeling was that the other person was weird.

"You're right," Sean confirmed.

"ah?"

In fact, Sean had been wondering about the changing emotions above his head when the other party approached, until the other party hurriedly chose to leave, including the vigilance shown by the ghost leopard, he finally understood.

This person is here to gather intelligence.

"Gathering intelligence?"

"Yes. I guess everyone who comes here knows that they are all competitors in the search for the whereabouts of dragons, but they don't know who the competitors are, so they need to be bold and come here to explore."

"Oh~ He got here with the help of that beast!"

Lucille finally reacted after Sean said that.

That's right, the other party could indeed use the excuse of looking for the ghost leopard to come and take a look at the situation in other camps, and the ghost leopard's vigilant growl just now had already proved that the ability of the two people could also terrify the beast.

That's why the other party chose to leave...

Firstly, the intelligence has been collected, and secondly, it is to guard against Sean and Lucille.

"These people are so cunning and evil," said Lucille.

"If they weren't bad, there wouldn't be so much competition in the world! When you're out there, this kind of thing is inevitable." Sean comforted them.

The two continued chatting by the campfire, and their eyes were particularly focused on the bald animal trainer on the other side.

really,

The other party also used the same method to explore other camps...

Because there was no hostility, even if the camp opposite knew his intention, they would not say it out loud, and just thought they should be careful of this animal trainer.

As for Sean's words, he reminded himself when the other party approached that he had rarely paid attention to invisible monsters. It seems that he must activate a separate BUFF for himself during this period of time, otherwise he would not know when he would encounter a stealth monster.

The two chatted until late at night.

When they felt sleepy, they would continue to sleep for a while until the two Sauron brothers woke up in the second half of the night and then they would take turns to sleep.

But that night, not much happened.

……………………

The next morning, Sean was woken up by Lucille who had gotten up even more.

The entire team prepared to pack up and set off again, and Soran thought they had to travel faster today because they had discovered during the day that there were quite a few tents resting in this valley.

They said there were more than twenty of them yesterday, but after daybreak we counted them and there were at least thirty. Each team had at least four or five people, so that made a total of more than a hundred people.

If more than a hundred people were traveling the same route, that would be the number of a large mercenary group, and a very large one at that...

This does not include those who may come back later.

Soran thought that they had to hurry up the mountain as quickly as possible. Not to mention anything else, there was a high possibility that someone would set up roadblocks on the road or deliberately cut off the forest and road signs to mislead those coming later. If they didn't set off quickly, they would be regarded as latecomers.

Sean and Lucille nodded, quickly packed up their things, and left with the team.

The subsequent road will lead deep into the mountains and is not easy to walk on, but this is where you truly enter the unknown territory.

Furthermore, a large group of people seemed to intentionally choose different mountain roads to avoid each other, or they were deliberately diverging from each other and not taking the same road...

Before entering the mountain, Lucille looked for the bald man from yesterday in the crowd, but she didn't see him.

Such a conspicuous bald guy seemed to have left very early and was not in the team that set out this time.

After the four of them went up the mountain, the road became increasingly difficult to walk on, and the oxygen on the plateau became increasingly thin and uncomfortable.

"Sir Sean, do you know why the plateau is called the Land of Terror?"

On the way, perhaps to find some topics to pass the time, Thor chatted with Sean and Lucille about things in the plateau area.

"Because of the environment?"

"Part of the reason..."

"That means there are still those unknown magical beasts."

"That's part of the reason," Thor replied.

"Why is that?" Sean asked.

"More importantly, this place is rarely known to outsiders. Few people can enter the deep mountains and the plateau ridge. It is said that there are unknown secrets there, which attracts many people. However, until now, no one has publicly stated that they have reached the plateau ridge."

Thor's words were almost identical to what Ash had said at the time, both describing the subject from the perspective of those scholars.

"Aren't we in danger this time?" Sean asked with a smile.

"It's not that serious... After all, we won't go that deep. We'll be lucky if we can just reach the uninhabited area. In fact, even though we've participated in dragon hunting missions every year over the years, we don't dare go too deep. We choose to go when the snow melts, which only means we have to walk a little further."

Thor's words probably gave Sean an understanding of this mission.

"I see."

It seems that there is indeed something deep in the plateau, but due to environmental and conditional restrictions, many people are unable to go deep inside.

Xue Rong just gave this opportunity.