Returning from the abyss

Chapter 126 Looking for Blue Fire
Eleven people plus the three seriously injured are all from the distribution center.

From their previous skills, we can actually see the clues, but after Shu Xingruo confirmed it with "crow", everyone knew each other.

These people came from two cells, headed by the man who asked for help at the beginning and the thin man who tried to poke the eye, and they met by chance in the forest.It's a pity that before they had time to do anything, they were caught off guard by the fat man, and the two of them were directly maimed. In the ensuing battle, they were attacked again by the meteor hammer.Now that the danger was lifted, everyone hurriedly carried the three seriously injured people to the open space to check their injuries.

Shu Xingruo started talking with the two leaders.

The thin man's name is Zhang Fengxi. This is his second promotion test, so he was promoted to be the captain temporarily. However, his words are humble. From the fact that he was beaten into the air by the fat man but did not suffer any injuries, it can be seen that he has been trained for a long time people.The other is Shi Shaocheng, who also came in after forming a team in advance. He escaped from prison with three teammates and a few companions he met temporarily in the cell. Unfortunately, he was caught up by the hunter.

"Thank you for your help." Shi Shaocheng thanked Shu Xingruo hurriedly, "The difficulty of this promotion test is higher than we expected. Everyone in the village has superpowers. We can only run if we can't beat them. Thinking about being caught up."

"Have you obtained any information?"

Shu Xingruo pushed his hand away unobtrusively and asked.

"We escaped relatively late, we patronized and hid ourselves along the way, and we didn't have time to find any information..."

"No? For example, are there any special buildings in the forest, or encounter strange people or creatures?"

Shi Shaocheng shook his head.

"We've met."

Zhang Fengxi next to him spoke.

"On the way here, we saw a fire in another forest, but because it was blue, we didn't dare to go there, so we took a detour."

blue fire?

The expressions of Lu Ning and Yetisi both changed a little.

"If you need it, I can lead the way, but it's better not to follow the injured brothers."

Two of the three injured people were from Zhang Fengxi's side, so he couldn't let it go.

"Lu Ning, Ye Tisi, you two are together. Lianren and Zhilan stay here, we will go and have a look and come back."

Shu Xingruo consulted several people for their opinions and left the team.

"If we leave for too long, you can move freely. Don't go back to the village yet. Now that you know the location of Moon Lake, the next step is to find the mountain castle. There is no need to waste time waiting for someone."

After arranging the people, Shu Xingruo asked Zhang Fengxi and another man to lead the way, reorganized a team of five and returned to the forest.

The place he walked was getting farther and farther away from the direction of the mountain village, and during this period, Lu Ning also found that the soil on the ground was no longer so wet, but some footprints of wild animals could still be seen, which were slightly shallower.

"It's not far ahead."

Zhang Fengxi's ability to recognize the way was good, and he ran all the way back without any hesitation. Slowly, even the moonlight in the sky was covered by the overlapping branches, and only the fine beams of light shone down, providing some light.

However, when Zhang Fengxi stopped, he didn't see any blue flames.

"Just in that direction."

He pointed out.

"At that time, there were about five or six blue fires. We thought it was not a good thing and bypassed them. Now we can't see them."

"How far is it?" Lu Ning asked.

"Tens of meters, it must not be very far."

After hearing such an answer, Lu Ning immediately pushed aside the bushes and walked straight in that direction.

She moved quickly, and when Ye Tisi and Shu Xingruo chased after her, Lu Ning was already rummaging for things on the ground.

"Is it true?" Shu Xingruo knew Lu Ning quite well, knowing how she would react once she found out.Lu Ning did not disappoint her, and nodded immediately.

"It's a pity that the soil here is relatively hard."

She used a stick to pull apart a dark mass.

"Animal poop. Fresh."

Ye Tisi and Shu Xingruo also saw the lump that Lu Ning pushed away.

"There is no plant fiber, it is a carnivorous or omnivorous animal, and its weight is not very heavy. At least it cannot leave footprints here compared to the footprints of humans next to it. Human footprints can see the outline of toes, that is, they are not wearing clothes. Shoes, from the size and stride, it can be inferred that the height is more than two meters."

"Both?" Shu Xingruo repeated the word.

"All, the shape of the feet is different. At least four people walked by here, but the number of animals is unknown. According to the hardness of the land and the dryness of the feces, it is roughly consistent with the time Zhang Fengxi saw before."

Lu Ning threw the feces-stained wooden stick aside, borrowed a dagger from Shu Xingruo and cut a new one for herself.

"There are still savages in this mountain?"

Yetis pinched her nose and stepped aside, she didn't want to get close to the pile of things on the ground at all.

"Being able to domesticate animals, maybe it's not wild people, maybe it's another ethnic group living here? The question is... do the mountain village and this side know each other's existence?"

Lu Ning slowly analyzed while poking the ground with a stick.

"Judging from the names of the murlocs, the blood in our bodies has different names in their eyes. Since this is the case, the blood of this group should also be different in the eyes of the village, right? Aren't they 'clean blood'? '? If they knew each other, with the 'enthusiasm' of the people in the village, they would definitely not let this side go, right?"

"That means they don't know each other?" Yetisi frowned and said.

"too close."

Shu Xingruo looked back in the direction of the village.

"That's right, you can't see the village at all here, and it's also in the deep forest of the mountain, but this is not a place that ordinary hunters can't reach when entering the mountain. Since the village has existed here for 500 years, there is no reason why you can't find the village on the mountain. other groups."

"I think so too, but in this way, the positions of the two sides will not be easy to distinguish...Shu Xingruo, come here."

"how?"

"Something's wrong."

Lu Ning poked the stick hard on the ground, the stick shook twice, and then it was about to fall loosely, but she was held steady.

"I thought it was because the animals were too light to leave footprints, but now it seems that the land is much harder than I thought. I weigh 46 kilograms, how much do you weigh?"

"52."

Shu Xingruo immediately understood what Lu Ning meant, and walked over to carry Lu Ning on her back.

"Walk a few steps."

Shu Xingruo took two steps back, Lu Ning immediately jumped down, poked the wooden stick at the place she had just walked, looked at the light marks on the ground, made a little calculation in her heart, and came to the result.

"The people who walked here weighed about [-] kilograms - two meters tall, this weight?"

"I thought you might want to see this more."

Yetisi, who was walking far away to avoid the shit on the road, suddenly called out to Lu Ning.

Under her feet was a puddle of sticky black liquid. The reason for this color was because the light here was too dim. The smell of the liquid was an all-too-familiar smell to her.

"It's blood."

When Lu Ning came over, she immediately recognized what the liquid was.

"How? Can you see anything?"

"I probably understand... Judging from the way the blood splattered, the height of the drop was less than two meters, and the degree of coagulation was left over ten minutes ago. In other words, the weight of [-] kilograms is because they were carrying things while walking." , The things that were picked left this puddle of blood."

"It's a group of people returning with their prey." Shu Xingruo concluded.

Lu Ning nodded, looked around, and followed the footprints until she came to a place with dense trees.

"Hunting in the deep mountains in the middle of the night, and then carrying the prey back to the place of residence. I don't know if it's a hunting dog or some other beast, with a strong body, the only problem is the prey."

She snatched a small strip of cloth from a torn bush.

"Unless these guys who live in the mountains have some way to get chemical fiber fabrics from outside, we are their prey."

Even with this preparation, Ye Tisi and Shu Xingruo were still disappointed when Lu Ning came to the conclusion.

"There are no friendly forces here. Judging from the amount of bleeding, this race's approach is even worse, because they don't mind whether we are dead or alive."

Lu Ning threw away the cloth and returned along the road.

"It is not recommended to keep up. Since they have raised animals, we may be discovered if we chase them without knowing anything, and we will end up like these 'prey'."

"I agree." Yetis immediately stated that she didn't want to stay in this place any longer.

"I don't know if it's a good idea to drop a lead...but since it's your decision, I agree."

Shu Xingruo also nodded slowly.

The three of them pushed back through the bushes, but just when they were about to join Zhang Fengxi who was waiting there, a sudden change occurred!

A long arrow drilled out of the dense forest, and silently sank into the back of the person beside Zhang Fengxi.He only had time to let out a scream before he fell forward and never moved again.

Zhang Fengxi's expression changed immediately, and after shouting "Lie down" to the three girls in the bush, he also rushed to the bush and hid nimbly behind a tree.

Lu Ning's three reactions were also extremely fast. When she saw the person falling down, she immediately squatted down. At this time, they could clearly see two blue flames appearing in the opposite forest from their perspective!
"They don't even divide their territory when hunting?"

Yetis gritted her teeth and cursed.

Two "persons" walked out of the forest.

They are covered in animal skins and are more than two meters tall. They carry simple longbows made of wood and rattan on their backs, and wear masks made from the whole boar's face. They are barefoot.One of them was holding a black wolf with green eyes and shiny fur, and one hand was holding a long stick about his height with sharpened ends.Another held a torch with a blue flame, and a mace embedded in the bones of some unknown beast.

A torch indicates that there is at least one other guy behind, and there is a high probability that there are two such guys.

No expression could be seen, but a pair of ferocious and bloodthirsty pupils could be seen from the two black holes where the original eyes of the pig face mask were.

(End of this chapter)