Chapter 418: Painstaking Search

At first, his hands were shaking, and when he could see the words on the cigarette butt, Wu Zhongyuan began to tremble, uncontrollable trembling, Wang Xinran smoked, and only smoked soft China, this cigarette butt is ironclad evidence, Wang Xinran really came.

Excited, moved, shocked, and joyful, in all fairness, he didn't expect Wang Xinran to come, although he subconsciously hoped that she would come, if he didn't want Wang Xinran to come, he wouldn't have left Mr. Li's phone number on the old plane.

In addition to being surprised and moved, he also had a strong sense of guilt in his heart, not because of Jiang Nan and Wu Di, the last time he went back, he had told Wang Xinran the truth about the situation of the two, without any concealment and deception. The same is true for Jiang Nan and Wu Di, he did not hide Wang Xinran's existence, nor did he hide that he couldn't forget Wang Xinran, the reason why he felt guilty was because Wang Xinran had a family in modern times, and in order to come to find him, Wang Xinran gave up everything in modern times.

Taking a deep breath to calm his agitation, he continued to look downstream, and after two or three miles, he finally found a narrow area that could cross the stream, and there were obvious trampling marks on both sides of the stream.

On the west side of the stream are still the mountains, and because it is winter, the trees have fallen their leaves, and the thick fallen leaves on the ground make it more difficult to track, and there is no trace of trampling at all.

At this point, the search is once again in trouble.

After thinking hard, she thought of a way to find the river in the mountain, the waterhole and lake in the mountain Wang Xinran can bypass, but she can't bypass the river, Wang Xinran lacks understanding of ancient times, and doesn't know what kind of creatures are in the river, and she won't swim down the river rashly, so as long as she encounters a river blocking the way, she can only move downstream along the river bank.

Autumn and winter are dry seasons, there are few rivers in the mountains, occasionally, only very narrow streams, narrower than the previous stream, Wang Xinran can easily cross, such streams are meaningless, you have to find those big rivers that can stop Wang Xinran from moving.

It was relatively easy to find the river because it could be seen from the sky, but after moving more than 200 miles to the southwest, no large river was found.

Wang Xinran crossed the mountains and mountains from the primeval jungle in a weight-bearing state, it was impossible to move far every day, the thing had happened for more than half a month, two hundred divided by fifteen, and it was only ten miles a day, Wang Xinran was specially trained, and he should not only move more than ten miles a day, but also continue to look forward.

After searching for more than a hundred miles, he finally found a larger river, and if Wang Xinran had not been hindered in his movement, half a month would have been enough time to reach here and move downstream along the riverbank.

In order to avoid some omissions, Wu Zhongyuan first flew upstream for more than ten miles, and then turned around and looked downstream along the river bank, this river is relatively large, when the flood season comes, the river is much wider than now, after the flood recedes, there are beach deposits on both banks, the beach is a good thing, stepping on it, will leave footprints.

Whether it is searching or tracking, it is necessary to blindly seek speed, and it is necessary to make careful observations, and at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Zhongyuan found two strings of footprints on the beach.

The footprints were obviously left by Wang Xinran, because there were no anti-slip lines on the soles of the shoes at this time, and according to the footprints, Wang Xinran once came to the river from the woods to the east, and then turned back to the woods.

This situation is not reasonable, you must know that the woods at this time are not modern woods, the woods are overgrown with weeds, thorns, walking through the woods is far less fast than walking from the beach, since Wang Xinran has come to the river, why not go downstream along the beach, but turn back into the woods?

In his heart, he came to the place where Wang Xinran had stayed for a detailed observation, there was a small puddle dug by man on the beach near the river, he had been in contact with Wang Xinran for a long time, and he also had a slight understanding of the field survival skills of the special forces, such puddles are used for drinking water, and the reason why the sand pit is dug instead of drinking the river water directly is to use the sand to preliminarily filter the river water.

It is difficult to determine when the puddle was dug by visual inspection alone, but the sand dug up during the digging of the pit is still piled up next to the puddle, and the sand is high above the ground and wet when it is dug out, so you can observe the degree of dehydration and dryness of the sand pile, so you can infer how long it has been dug out.

The surface of the sand pile has dried, brush off a layer, it is still dry, wipe off another layer, and the bottom is still dry, which means that this sand pile is not dug up in a day or two, if it is, it is impossible to dry so quickly.

In addition, it can be deduced that Wang Xinran had been moving rapidly before rushing to the river, moving more than twenty miles a day.

In such a harsh environment, such a rugged terrain, for a person with a heavy load, thirty miles a day is the limit, in other words, Wang Xin's rush to the river, if not a matter of one or two days, will not exceed five days at most.

Reaching out and pulling some more, the sand was a little wet, but it didn't make much sense, because he couldn't be sure how thick the sand could be every day, and the few times he had only plucked it before.

Just as he was about to stand upright, he suddenly noticed a little white in the sand.

When the sand pile was peeled away, what was buried underneath was revealed, two white bags.

Wipe off the sand on it, and look closely, one is a zeolite hemostatic dressing, and the other is a self-dipping elastic bandage.

Seeing the words on the bag, Wu Zhongyuan's heart instantly tightened, what he was most worried about happened, Wang Xinran was injured, and he needed to be wrapped in a bandage to show that the injury was very serious.

In a peaceful state, everyone can stay calm, but in the case of impatience, no one can stay calm, Wu Zhongyuan knows that it is useless to be anxious, but he still can't help but worry about it, he doesn't know why Wang Xinran was injured, and he doesn't know how injured he is, but he knows that if he is injured in the primeval jungle, the smell of blood will attract beasts. He also knew that when a person was injured and bleeding, his physical strength would decay rapidly.

Once the pessimism appears, it will spread sharply, and at this moment, Wu Zhongyuan's mind is full of the worst results, no matter how hard he tries, he can't expel the picture of the worst results from his mind, and he can only wash his face with water in a hurry.

The cold water did calm him down, but calming down did not mean that the pessimism also subsided, in fact, on the contrary, after calming down, he suddenly thought that Wang Xinran could not carry too much dry food, Wang Xinran arrived here at the fastest time It would take ten days, and the dry food she brought was probably exhausted, and this puddle also indirectly corroborated his inference that if there was still clean drinking water, Wang Xinran would not drink the river water. Wang Xinran should have been out of food and water when he arrived here.

Some men are born with a desire to protect, especially for their own women, and they don't want her to encounter any danger and difficulties, knowing that Wang Xinran is in danger, he is so anxious that he can't describe Wu Zhongyuan's mood at this time, and his internal organs are violently spasmed because of excessive tension.

It is useless to be in a hurry, you must calm down, and only by calming down can you make correct inferences and thinks.

After calming down, first observe the footprints on the beach, the footprints are very deep, which shows that Wang Xinran is still in a weight-bearing state, with Wang Xinran's personality, she will definitely have tobacco in her backpack, but not a lot, she knows very well that the guns and ammunition will not be replenished in the future, and will carry ammunition as much as possible, and she is in a weight-bearing state, which means that the guns and ammunition are still there, which is a factor in her favor.

In addition, there is a relatively favorable factor, that is, this drinking sand pit, Wang Xinran still has time to dig out the sand pit to filter the river water, which means that although she is thirsty, she has not reached the limit of thirst, otherwise she will be desperate to drink water first when she rushes to the river.

There is also a very important point, that is, there are only Wang Xinran's own footprints on the beach, combined with a comprehensive analysis of Wang Xinran's injury, Wang Xinran came to the river and then turned back to the woods, probably to avoid chasing, there is no shelter on the beach, if you move downstream from the beach, it is easy to be found, and you can better hide your whereabouts when you return to the woods.

The reason why it was judged that it was a human and not a beast that was chasing Wang Xinran was because if it was a beast, Wang Xinran did not need to hide, she was fully capable of killing the other party. If the guns can't be killed, then it's useless to dodge through the woods, because she can't escape the beast's keen sense of smell

There were only Wang Xinran's own footprints on the beach, which was good news for him, indicating that the other party did not chase him to the beach, and Wang Xinran still had the possibility of escaping.

He was faced with two options, one was to enter the woods and search downstream, Wang happily returned to the woods to avoid pursuit, so she was unlikely to go deep into the forest, and would normally move downstream from a position close to the beach.

There is also an option to go east, looking for possible traces of the battlefield, Wang Xinran is with a gun, the other party injured her, it is impossible for her not to fight back, if you can find the battlefield of the battle, you can judge through the observation of the battlefield who attacked Wang Xinran, as long as this is determined, you can directly find the other party's nest.

After a brief period of silence, Wu Zhongyuan chose the second path, where the vegetation was more vigorous near the river, and Wang Xinran would leave obvious marks as he moved, not footprints, but broken branches and fallen weeds.

After a few miles, Wang Xinran left fewer and fewer traces, and there was an open area ahead.

While walking through that open area, Wu Zhongyuan found blood stains on the ground, the blood stains had dried up, and if he looked closely, it was not a drop of blood, but a trace left by a large amount of blood loss.

Just as he was examining the bloodstains, a yellow spot of light not far from the right caught his attention, and when he picked it up, it was a warhead.

The bullet is not large, it is obviously a pistol bullet, this bullet has been badly deformed, this can only happen if it hits something hard, and there are no rocks nearby, there are only grass and trees, and hitting grass and trees is unlikely to cause serious deformation of the warhead.

Looking at the bloodstains on the ground again, Wu Zhongyuan instantly understood that the bloodstains on the ground were not Wang Xinran's, but the enemy's, Wang Xinran once fired more than two shots at the enemy, one of which hit the enemy, while the other shot hit the hard thing and was blocked.

The bullets move far faster than a human can react to, so it is impossible for the enemy to target defenses, and the only plausible explanation is that the enemy is wearing hard armor.

This place is the closest to the Jiuluan of the Bird Clan, and Li Tao, the city lord of Jiuluan, had participated in the hunting of psychic soldiers that day, and this person was the most suspicious.

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