If they encounter a situation where the route is not convenient and the target of the mission is difficult to find, Xingyuan and Long Haochen will choose to give up directly. After all, compared with these hunting missions with rewards of only a few hundred merits, the ultimate goal of their trip, exploring the Cave of Fear and Sorrow, is the most important.

As long as they complete this task, they will receive tens of thousands of merits.

After staying in the Narik Province for about four or five days, Xingyuan and Long Haochen confirmed that the tasks were almost completed, and then headed directly to the final destination.

Although they have the magic pupils that can disguise them as nobles among the demons or members of the high-level Moon Demon Clan, they don't know much about the habits of the demons after all, and if they encounter a real one, the possibility of being exposed is quite high.

Therefore, after passing through the Narik Province and truly entering the Demon Tribe's territory, Xingyuan no longer proposed to go to the Demon Tribe's city to replenish resources for the team, or to take the Demon Tribe's 'official road'.

The straight-line distance from the border of the Temple Alliance to their destination, which is the Demon Central Province, is only more than two thousand miles, but in order not to expose their tracks and to bypass the main cities built by the demons, it will naturally take some more time.

However, as they got closer to the Central Province, the number of demons they encountered every day increased. In order not to reveal their identities and attract the demons to hunt them down, they had no choice but to all wear magic pupils and disguise themselves as noble Moon Demons.

In addition to the demons who are rarely seen on the battlefield and whose population is not that large, they can even see humans enslaved by demons in the fields from time to time.

Fortunately, the demons didn't seem to treat these humans badly. There was no beating or scolding. After all, they still had to rely on these humans to grow food for them. In order to increase work efficiency, they were even equipped with a few low-level demons to help them.

"So this is the life that those who were abducted by the demons live with them?"

Yue Mingnan, who was riding on the iron-maned horse and following behind Xingyuan, looked at the figures in the field and said in a daze.

“It’s not that good.”

Xing Yuan shook his head and said, "The prerequisite is that you have to be good at farming and know how to grow crops. Only then can you be treated like this if you are useful to the demons."

He had good eyesight, so he could see at a glance that those middle-aged men were working in the fields, surrounded by a few double-blade demons who looked to be quite smart. They were dressed like typical farmers.

Long Haochen, who was standing by, nodded in agreement and said, "The demons abducted more than just these people from our Holy Temple Alliance. There are also many elderly people, children, and women."

"So where are these people going?"

Yue Mingnan asked somewhat confusedly. After all, she was not as knowledgeable as Xing Yuan and Long Haochen.

For her, who came from a remote village, it was already not easy for her to master the priest's heritage. How could we force her to be familiar with the history of the alliance?

Xingyuan noticed that the members of Long Haochen's side looked at Yue Mingnan with a strange look in their eyes, so he sent voice messages to them and explained briefly.

"As for the child, he should have been sent to the Demon Tribe's Central Province and became a 'Demon Tribe member'."

Xing Yuan thought about it and explained to Yue Mingnan, "As for women, those with better looks were probably sent to the Demon King's harem, or to the residences of other Demon Gods."

Strictly speaking, the demons are not all foreigners from the Holy Demon Continent. A considerable number of them are mutated humans who were infected by the dark spiritual power brought by the coming of the Demon Pillar. For example, the Moon Demons they are now disguising as, and the Star Demons, which are ranked third among the hundreds of demon tribes, are all mutated humans who evolved from the glorious church period six thousand years ago.

There are low-level demons, and also demonized post-humans like the Rook stealth creatures.

After answering Yue Mingnan's questions, Xing Yuan and Long Haochen's teams calmed down again and continued to move forward.

There was no mention of rescuing the farmers from the dire straits, because Xingyuan and Long Haochen couldn't tell whether for ordinary people like them, living in the demon clan's territory would be better than returning to the Temple Alliance.

And there is another possibility, that is, these farmers may not be abducted by the demons from their Temple Alliance, but they have lived in the demon territory since childhood and are "native demons."

……

In order to avoid exposing the team's whereabouts, Xingyuan and Long Haochen also issued strict orders within the team that no one was allowed to attack the demons without their consent.

These dozen or so people were too big a target, and even though some of them wore magic pupils and transformed into the appearance of the Moon Demon Clan, they still exuded a discordant aura from head to toe.

For example, Chen Ying'er in the Xingyuan team, who is kind-hearted and loving, can't pretend to have the arrogance of the Moon Demon Clan who thinks highly of themselves and seems to be superior to all living beings.

The same thing went for Li Xiaomo on Long Haochen's side, so the two of them were always sandwiched in the middle of the team as they moved forward, preventing them from having any contact with the demons.

Cai Er didn’t have any, but her eyes were cold enough. She was the one who looked most like the Moon Demon among Xing Yuan’s group…

Xingyuan also felt that Yuemo’s outfit was not suitable for him, but it was not that his appearance could not suppress Yuemo’s identity.

Just like Cai'er, whose hair color was originally purple, for Xingyuan, he with golden hair and amber eyes was more in line with his temperament than the Moon Demon. If he pretended to be a prophet of the demon clan, the Star Demon clan, who was famous in the alliance for its great prophets, was the only one who matched his temperament better.

And it's not just the hair color, eye color, and temperament that match, which everyone has different opinions on, but even his abilities match those of the Star Demons.

However, the ability to have a vision for the future is Xingyuan’s biggest secret to date, no doubt about it.

The next time I see Yue Ye, I will ask her if she has a magic pupil of the Star Demon Clan style. Xing Yuan thought to himself...

Ten days later.

Xingyuan and his group also entered the Demon Central Province according to the map drawn by the predecessors of the Demon Hunting Group.

Although this is the residence of high-level demons, the risk factor for them to perform missions here is extremely high, but fortunately, the purpose of their trip, the location of the Cave of Fear and Sorrow, does not require them to go deep into the Central Province and enter the area where high-level demons frequently appear.

Otherwise, this mission would not be something that their demon hunting group could accept. (End of this chapter)