Chapter 16 Caution
According to the original design, the only way to get a set of normal clothes is to reach the crowded place first, so that you can escape in the next step.
Zhao Dabao chose a location where the water on the shore was relatively shallow, and walked towards the upper stream of the river one foot deep and one foot shallow. He did not dare to go ashore, and once he walked ashore, his whereabouts would be exposed.
The banks of the creek are barren and grassy, and there is no way to go, and once you get ashore, you will leave 100% traces.
Looking at the sun, it was estimated that it was already more than one o'clock, Zhao Dabao desperately sped up, it was less than seven hours before the next change of guard in the punishment room, and he had to stay away from Qinling Prison within seven hours.
Walking in the water is completely different from walking on the ground, the resistance of the water and the silt at the bottom of the river, Zhao Dabao's speed at this time is only one-third of usual, and his physical energy is extremely fast.
In less than two hours, Zhao Dabao only had air out, no air intake, and the lower air was no longer connected to the upper breath. Looking back, he only walked four or five kilometers, although he couldn't see the annoying Qinling Prison because of the trees, but Zhao Dabao knew that at this distance, the prison guards could catch up in minutes.
After all, when the prison guards are chasing, they will not walk in the water like him, and they will make full use of various means of transportation.
For the sake of the mountain, we must not fall short. Zhao Dabao secretly cheered himself up, took a breath, and walked forward with difficulty. In this physically exhausted situation, the internal strength of the nine turns played an amazing role.
I saw a nine-turn internal energy as thin as a little finger slowly circulating in the body, especially the leg position underwater, although the circulation was slow, but gradually recovering the strength of the legs. It is worthy of the miracle of cultivating immortals founded by Peng Zu, and the effect is incomparable.
Even so, Zhao Dabao insisted until seven o'clock in the evening, and his strength was basically exhausted. I looked at the left and right of the river, and there were tall trees. He chose a large willow tree, the oldest and most densely branched, and wanted to make it his place to stay tonight.
Zhao Dabao cautiously walked towards the big willow tree, before going ashore, he took off his clothes, pants, shoes and socks, tightly wrapped around his neck, leaving only a small shorts, the purpose of which is to prevent the phenomenon of hanging rubbing when going up the tree, and then leaving traces, it will be a failure.
Fortunately, this big willow tree is not difficult to climb, a few minutes, Zhao Dabao has already climbed into the umbrella cover of the willow tree, and the dense branches and leaves cover Zhao Dabao's not too tall body tightly. As long as he didn't do a lot of activity, he would never be able to tell from a distance that there was anyone hiding in the willow tree.
The position of the branches chosen by Zhao Dabao is quite good, the branches are not only thick, but also evenly distributed, and it is completely possible to lie on them.
Although his body was extremely tired, Zhao Dabao did not dare to fall asleep, in case he fell asleep and fell from the tree, all the preparations in the first two months would be useless.
Listening to the faint sound of the late summer wind, Zhao Dabao barely cheered up and let his mind sink into the second pulse of Ren Du. He knew that as long as he practiced the Nine Transformations Xuangong, he would not only avoid drowsiness, but also restore his physical strength.
Time passed little by little, the moon had slowly risen and slowly crept down, and at the moment when the sun shone out of the ground, Zhao Dabao also opened his eyes from his cultivation, and his clear gaze showed the recovery of his physical strength.
Although his strength was restored, Zhao Dabao did not take any action, just listened carefully to the movement in the river. According to the time, it is now more than four o'clock in the morning, which means that it has been thirteen hours since he escaped from the punishment room.
Under normal circumstances, the pursuers have been dispatched for at least four hours. He counted the time lost in reporting and sending people after discovering that someone had escaped from prison.
The prison side is not a fool, after knowing that Zhao Dabao escaped, he will definitely calculate the escape time, escape speed, and distance.
According to the calculation of the first downstream, then the upstream, the time to pursue the upstreams should be approaching now. If the upper and lower streams were to pursue together, the time would have been advanced by two hours.
However, judging from the surrounding situation when Zhao Dabao was practicing, there was no movement of boats or movement of prison guards.
After all, when cultivating the Nine Transformations Xuangong, Zhao Dabao was the most sensitive to the movements around him, and once there was a disturbance, he would never escape his ears.
After waiting quietly for more than half an hour, a "buzzing" sound of the ship's motor came from afar, which was the arrival of the pursuing ship.
Zhao Dabao listened to the sound of the motor with bated breath to judge the speed of the ship.
Judging by the sound, the pursuers' ships were not moving fast, only as fast as ordinary people walking. Zhao Dabao could guess that the prison guards on the boat must have observed the upside-down shape of the grass and trees on the shore while walking, so as to judge whether someone had come ashore.
At this time, he couldn't help but secretly congratulate himself on his caution when he went ashore, even if there was a little grass blade lodging, after this night, he was basically recovered.
Besides, according to Zhao Dabao's estimate, the pursuers' attention was most concentrated within the eight-kilometer waterway. After all, an ordinary person's physical strength is limited, and walking eight kilometers against the tide in the water is almost to the limit.
The prison guards would never have thought that the escaped Zhao Dabao would be able to walk twelve or thirteen kilometers, such a distance is definitely not something that an ordinary person can do. But the reality is that the current Zhao Dabao is not just an ordinary person, but half of a cultivator who has cultivated the Nine Turns Xuangong.
The pursuing ship passed quickly, and in Zhao Dabao's calculations, in less than three hours, the ship returned again, listening to the sound of its motor, and the speed had increased more than twice.
It seems that the pursuers did not bring breakfast or anything, and went back to breakfast.
Think about it, the pursuer is just a simple prison guard, even if there is any escape, it has nothing to do with it, and after being able to chase all night, he has reached the level of dedication, so he will be so hard to chase, after all, Zhao Dabao and these ordinary prison guards do not have a deep hatred.
Perhaps, there are one or two sympathetic prison guards who will help Zhao Dabao say a few kind words.
Listening to the sound of the motor in the distance, Zhao Dabao jumped off the big willow tree without hesitation and plunged into the dense forest.
In the morning, Zhao Dabao didn't dare to put on his clothes, and still wrapped them around his neck, he was afraid of being scratched.
The foliage in the forest is incredible, some soft and some hard, and some have barbs.
In just one morning, Zhao Dabao's whole body was almost white, and it was full of threads of blood. There is no way, the trees are dense, and every step must be hit or hooked by branches, not only painful, but also deeply itchy.
In this way, Zhao Dabao insisted until 12 o'clock at noon, and then put on his prison uniform after resting on a stone for a while.
Judging from his position, he had already detoured to the position of the upper waist in the right front of Qinling Prison. Topographically, the smoke in him was not far away.