"A bunch of useless trash! You still haven’t found the intruder?"

"Don’t just stand there. Keep searching! Until the intruder is found, no one is allowed to stop!"

Following the administrator’s command, large numbers of soldiers began patrolling and searching through the military restricted zone without pause.

"Brother, calm down! We just checked this place three minutes ago. Why are we checking it again?"

"Sigh, what choice do I have? You saw the administrator’s attitude too. If we can’t find anything, we’ll be the ones who suffer!"

"But the problem is, our camp is huge. Who could possibly find them right away? Isn’t this a joke?"

"Ah, stop talking so much and get to work! If we find the intruder, didn’t the administrator say there’s a reward? Ten gold coins!"

"??? Ten gold coins??? Are you sure you didn’t hear wrong? My brother is a liaison officer. He said Her Majesty the Queen promised a reward of one hundred thousand gold coins! Did you forget the ’thousand’ part?"

"Brother, go read the announcement yourself!"

...

After tireless effort, the soldiers carefully searched the entire military restricted zone from inside to outside.

However, the result of the search was that nothing abnormal had happened at all.

More and more soldiers began gathering at the entrance to the [Zephyr Knights] Instance.

Almost at the same time, they all looked toward the teleportation gate at the entrance.

"Could it be... the intruder entered the Instance?"

"Brother, can you stop joking? These intruders may be lunatics, but they’re not idiots. Would you choose to go in there and die?"

At that moment, all the soldiers present fell silent.

Just then, the administrator of the military restricted zone also arrived at the entrance to the [Zephyr Knights] Instance.

He looked at the teleportation gate not far ahead, his expression shifting uncertainly.

Should they go in, or not?

After thinking for a moment, the administrator quickly made his decision.

His gaze swept over the soldiers present, finally stopping on the faces of the squad captains.

"Each squad will send two soldiers into the Instance to search for the intruder."

The moment this order was given, expressions of terror immediately appeared on the soldiers’ faces.

What kind of joke was this?

Entering the [Zephyr Knights] Instance—how was that any different from being sent to their deaths?

They had indeed joined the army, but they had not joined just to throw their lives away!

Some soldiers were already starting to think about backing out. After all, the Highland Tauren’s benefits were quite good. Even if they left the army now, they could still live a comfortable life.

If they could live well, who would willingly go to their death?

However, these ordinary soldiers completely failed to realize one thing.

The moment the administrator gave that order, they had already become cannon fodder.

And so, barely five minutes later, fifteen unlucky soldiers were pushed out one after another.

Their faces were filled with despair.

After all, the [Zephyr Knights] Instance had a death rate close to one hundred percent. In other words, their deaths had basically already been declared in advance.

Facing these despairing soldiers, the administrator showed no pity whatsoever. Instead, his tone carried strong impatience.

"Enough. Since you’ve already been selected, hurry up and go in!"

"If you find the intruder, the reward is one thousand gold coins! I’ll add another one hundred gold coins myself!"

One thousand one hundred gold coins.

For most ordinary people, that was already a huge sum.

Even for these Highland Tauren soldiers, it could be considered a small fortune.

All in all, having something was better than having nothing.

In any case, their fate had already become like this. Other than accepting it, what else was there to say?

"You few are the newcomers, right? Stop standing there. Hurry over to the plaza and help!"

...

After entering the [Zephyr Knights] Instance, the Highland Tauren soldiers also encountered the captain of the knights and were assigned the task of moving spoils of war.

These Highland Tauren soldiers had originally thought they were doomed to die.

However, the current situation left them deeply confused.

It seemed that the [Zephyr Knights] Instance was not as terrifying as the legends claimed?

At the very least, for now, they had not encountered any danger.

The Highland Tauren soldiers immediately began working enthusiastically, carrying the spoils piled up in the plaza. They were terrified that if their performance was poor, those terrifying knights would kill them on the spot.

Compared to their hard labor, inside the warehouse of the military camp at this very moment, Alyssa was weaving through countless spoils of war with a stunned expression.

According to her rough estimate, there had to be at least several hundred thousand pieces of loot here.

The only thing she did not know was how many of them were projections and how many were real.

Because the [Zephyr Knights] Instance was indeed very special.

Compared with the Instances Caelan and the others had experienced before, the contents of this Instance were more like a condensed fragment of history.

Caelan even suspected for a time that they had entered an extremely rare historical Instance.

A so-called historical Instance was a fragment of something that had once happened in history. When the powers of time and space underwent some unknown distortion, such an Instance would be born.

And within this kind of Instance, both time and scenery would continuously loop.

At that moment, Alyssa suddenly picked up one of the spoils of war. Her tone was filled with astonishment.

"Lord Caelan, look! These are all spoils of us humans. Some even have our writing on them. But in the imperial museum, those writings have all been erased!"

Caelan did not seem surprised. He merely nodded lightly and said,

"Ah, isn’t that perfectly normal? You should know this already. The Highland Tauren have always acted like thieves. Aside from us humans, you know the Lionmen, right? They once gave birth to a powerful empire too. In the end, didn’t the Highland Tauren steal their home as well?"

"But overall, we humans are the most miserable. As for those Highland Tauren bastards, I suspect they have some connection to the annihilation of the [Zephyr Knights]. Unfortunately, we don’t have any evidence for now."

As Alyssa chatted with Caelan, she continued rummaging through the warehouse.

Only then did she suddenly realize that Caelan was not standing beside her.

She could not help asking,

"Lord Caelan, what are you busy with?"

"Nothing!"

Caelan shook his head.

At the same time, however, his hands showed absolutely no sign of stopping.

When Alyssa saw what Caelan was doing, her entire body froze.

She stared at Caelan in disbelief and asked,

"Lord Caelan, didn’t you say the spoils of war here are all projections? Then why are you putting these projections into your storage space?"

"Ahem, well, not all of them are projections!"

"Anyway, they all belong to us humans. Wouldn’t it be great to take them back?"