Thanks to the well water gushing out from the Suolong Well, the people who kidnapped Xu Guan were all stained with muddy water under their feet, so even after a few days, after the ground was covered with a thin layer of wind-blown dust, a few pairs of inconspicuous mud footprints could still be observed.

The orange cat also noticed that the footprints were not in a continuous series like normal walking, but intermittent, and after appearing from here, most of them reappeared after three or four zhang, and some were five zhang away from the farther ones. In the case of holding one person, one step can still reach a distance of several zhang, which shows that these people who caught Xu Guan are not extraordinary people, and their cultivation may not be super strong, but they are definitely not weak.

And the whereabouts of these footprints are not a straight line, but a zigzag, as if they are deliberately avoiding something, looking for a remote corner.

The orange cat followed the intermittent footprints for a distance, but lost the next footprints in the expected position of three or four feet ahead, looked up for a long time, and finally saw three pairs of mutilated mud footprints on the outer wall of the third floor of a building not far from the left front.

"It's good enough to run. The orange cat said this, jumped up, stepped on the outer wall of the building, and covered one of the mud footprints on all four legs.

It paused briefly on the wall to quickly observe where it might land if it leaped forward from this angle. Sure enough, I saw the footprints on the road in front of me on the right again, and the orange cat flicked its hind legs and jumped onto the footprints on the road I saw.

Then the orange cat froze, for if it looked forward, it could not find the footprints behind it. At that time, the water in the Suolong Well sprayed up and flooded a large area of the city buildings, and the next footprint was to step into the location that was once flooded, so it has not left a trace now.

The orange cat fell into deep thought, Li Dazhuang chased after him with half a bag of food on his back, and saw the orange cat squatting on the side of the road in a daze, and couldn't help asking, "Senior Huangliang, why don't you continue to go?"

"The footprints are gone. The orange cat squatted on the pavement, and in front of him were the last three pairs of footprints.

"Can't even you find it?" Li Dazhuang was surprised, with a series of performances after Huang Liang came to the imperial capital, he had long regarded Huang Liang as an omnipotent old-timer, but now this old-timer has no choice?

"Don't worry, I'll think about it. The orange cat paced in circles on the road covered with a thin layer of dust, because the road had been flooded and was still a little damp, and the orange cat's little paws stepped on it, leaving a mess of small plum footprints.

The orange cat was wandering around, muttering in his mouth, as if he was teaching Li Dazhuang and letting him learn his own thinking.

"At present, there are two kinds of information from these footprints: one is that there are three pairs of these footprints, so there should be three people on the other side, and the second is that these footprints are several feet apart from each other, so it is definitely not an ordinary person who should also be a cultivator. ”

"That's not right, Huang Liang's senior. Li Dazhuang was standing next to him, watching the orange cat muttering as he walked around, and suddenly interrupted after hearing the orange cat's speculation.

"What's wrong?" the orange cat stopped and turned to look at him.

"You said later that they were cultivators, I have no opinion. But you said that they were three people first, and that would be wrong. If there are three of them and they still have to take Mr. Xu Guan with them, then where did Mr. Xu Guan's footprints go?"

The orange cat remembered that Li Dazhuang hadn't gone up to the roof of the building with him a moment ago, so he didn't know that on the top of the building at the beginning, there were four pairs of footprints, and after coming down, the footprints became three pairs, which means that the other party was three people who joined forces to subdue the seriously injured Xu Guan, and then carried Xu Guan on his back, or clamped it around his waist, in short, three people walked all the way with Xu Guan, who was incapacitated, so now only three pairs of footprints can be seen on the way.

After the orange cat explained all this, Li Dazhuang let out an obvious 'oh'.

"Then, the path of these footprints is crooked, indicating that they are hiding from something, probably afraid of other discoveries on the battlefield. The orange cat continued to speculate, "Although the route is curved, their general direction has not changed, and one of them is heading in a northwesterly direction. Speaking of this, it was suddenly surprised: "Yes, the general direction is right, why bother with footprints." ”

As if he had an epiphany, the orange cat turned around and ran up to a nearby building. Li Dazhuang helplessly looked at the back of Huangliang's predecessor climbing upward, and couldn't help but sigh resentfully: "Come and show this again, you will climb." ”

The orange cat climbed to the top of the building, looking back at the crooked route he had walked along the footprints, and combined with the battle scene that he had simulated repeating in his mind before, although the two did not coincide perfectly, but they were also seven or eight times out of ten. It secretly said in its heart: "Sure enough, when they hijacked Xu Guan and left, the reason why the route was so winding was because they wanted to avoid the sight of those masters in the battle on the battlefield. ”

"So-" The orange cat stood on the roof of the building and looked around, taking in most of the imperial capital: "The barrier was broken from the south, and when the city was broken, the southern half of the city became the main battlefield, and the houses were most seriously damaged; In this way, the quietest place in the entire imperial capital at that time should be the quarter of the area in the northwest. ”

"So whether they want to kidnap Xu Guan and leave the imperial capital, or hide their bodies in the imperial capital for a short time, the northwest area is the area they will definitely go to. Thinking of this, the orange cat immediately climbed down from the roof of the building, followed the routes he had passed, extended to the northwest, locked a general direction, and ran forward with Li Dazhuang.

Seeing that the orange cat was running fast, Li Dazhuang no longer looked around, looking for clues, and asked it in wonder: "Senior Huangliang, do you want to slow down, so that you can see the clues left by those who kidnapped Mr. Xu Guan?"

"No more clues. Go straight to the area northwest of the city and talk about it when you get there. The orange cat said back, turning his head and running faster.

"Northwest Region?" Li Dazhuang suddenly looked happy when he heard this, smiled, threw away the remaining half of the pack of food on his back, and said loudly: "I have been there with Uncle Wushuang, and I know that there is a place there with a lot of delicious food. ”

The orange cat in front of the "......" did not respond.

It is hoped that the three mysterious people who kidnapped Xu Guan will stop in the northwest region for a while, so that it is possible to find more clues. The orange cat thought so, and the soft fur on the huge fat body was blown backwards by the wind brought up by the high-speed running.

The darkness of the night sky deepened, and the first quarter moon crept a few points directly above it, reflecting the white light of the surrounding stars as always.