Chapter Seventy-Four: Sun Yan's Whereabouts
"Simon, it's you. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info"It was Ansu who pulled aside the palm leaves.
"Captain!" Simon and Li Kai breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that some beast had appeared, but they had a false alarm.
"What did you find?" Ansu asked. His eyes looked at the craters of different sizes in the ground, and then swept over some of the destroyed vegetation around them.
"There are some human-like footprints." Li Kai said, and then took An Su to the edge of the big pit and pointed it out to her.
Ansu's gaze grew heavier, and she spread out her hand, and a piece of leather lay in her palm. This leather is all too familiar to Ansule and Simon, it is the skin that has been peeled from the body of the flying ray. In addition to An Su and Li Kai, there is only the missing Sun Tong now. Ansu sniffed the leather on the tip of his nose, and could vaguely smell the faint fragrance of medicine. This was ripped off Sun Yan's clothes, hooked on a thorny vine, and was discovered by An Su. Ansu stared at the few footprints, maybe they belonged to him as well.
"Sun Cheng has been here, I'm afraid he fought here against the thing that attacked us." Ansu closed her palms and clenched her fists.
"How did he come to such a distant place? Looking at these footprints, it should have been several days. Li Kai said, touching his chin and thinking, "Could it be that the thing that attacked us caught him and brought him here?" He turned to Moo and asked, "Did you notice anything unusual?" ā
Amo thought hard for a moment; "When I think about it, it seems to be true."
"Speak quickly!"
Amo looked up at the clear blue sky and thought. "After the destruction of the temple, I was sent to investigate the situation, and when I went back, I did see a point of light flying by rapidly, and I thought it was a meteor at the time."
"When?"
"Four days ago."
"You didn't hear any fights or explosions?" Simon asked.
Amo shook his head: "No." ā
"It's a pity." Li Kai sighed.
"There should be other traces, let's search around here again." After listening to Amo's narration, Ansu did not show a disappointed expression, but immediately took action to deal with it. She never wastes her time and emotions on failed intelligence.
"Be careful, there may be people lurking in the Red Sama nearby." "After all, they were the ones who occupied the temple before it was destroyed. ā
Simon's fist touched his chest: "It's better to come, I haven't loosened my muscles and bones for a long time." ā
Li Kai rolled his eyes, you battle maniac.
Under the leadership of Amo, the four of them prepared to conduct a serious search along the temple. While walking. Li Kai told An Su about the situation here. An Su couldn't help but marvel at that clearing, what kind of power could clear the ground so cleanly? Not a trace of the building remains.
"See? It seems that someone has been here. Ansu crouched down and removed the two fallen leaves, revealing the crushed dead leaves and dead branches underneath. Those unnatural cracks caught her eye.
In the fallen leaves all over the ground, such a subtle difference can be found, worthy of the captain. Li Kai looked at An Su adoringly and nodded again and again.
"Go over there." Ansu bent over, searching for every footprint, and then connected into a path. The footprints went in the direction of the dense forest. Ansu also chased after him.
"Hey, aren't you going to look at the other stone pillars?" Mo hurriedly stopped them, and if they went there, they would get farther and farther away from the stone pillar.
Ansu was still wrinkling her eyebrows and studying the direction of each footprint, and she was so engrossed that she didn't have the time to pay attention to Ah Mo. Li Kai patted Mo on the shoulder and said, "The stone pillar pestle will not disappear there, and it will be the same when I come back tomorrow." However, these traces may disappear overnight. He looked at An Su's serious side face, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, in the captain's heart, none of them should be missing. It's the kind of captain who can make them follow with all their hearts.
"This way." Ansu pointed forward.
"Hey, wait." Amo hurriedly shouted.
Li Kai hooked his neck: "What's the matter?" ā
"It's a cliff dozens of meters over there, there's no way there's anyone down there, right? Besides, the sun is about to go down. Momo said as he looked at the sky through the gaps in the leaves. The forest was darkened, and several unknown cries echoed in the lonely air. Li Kai heard the birds flapping their wings and falling on the branches, it was indeed dusk.
"The jungle in the dark is the most dangerous." Mo continued, "Why don't you come back tomorrow?" ā
Li Kai glanced at Ah Mo: "It seems that you are afraid?" ā
"I'......," said Amo, who hesitated for a few moments, and finally resolved to speak his heart, "not only are dangerous beasts infested at night, but the Red Sama also like to appear at night. If you are not careful, you will be captured and used as an evil ritual, and several people have disappeared like this. Amo said worriedly.
"Don't be afraid, with the three of us here, we won't let you be arrested." Li Kai patted him on the back, "Otherwise, you can go first." ā
"How can this be!" Amo said anxiously that although he was a little timid, he would never break his promise and bring them back if he took them out. Besides, it's shameless to go back alone. What if the shrine maiden-sama asks?
"What are you doing and leaving?" Simon said in front that at the moment when Li Kai and Amo were talking, Ansu and Simon had already walked to the front.
There are a few black lines hanging down from Amo's head, have you listened to me?
Ahead is a steep downward slope consisting of slab-like rocks, washed by rain and soaked in the moist air of the forest for many years, and most of it covered with a thick layer of moss. The moss was green and fluffy, like a green blanket. It was dotted with some fallen leaves, and it was flat, with no signs of being stepped on at all.
The setting sun is cut into pieces by the shrubs that grow out of the cracks in the stone on the slope, like a few mysterious geometric patterns embroidered on a carpet.
Not in the glow, not in the shadows. No, no, no, everywhere.
An Su was silent in the afterglow of the setting sun, like a black statue. After a while, she said, "Go back." ā
Amo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
The last bit of light was swallowed up by the black jungle, and after a while, the faint green light lit up, and some of the plants that glowed also emitted a ghostly glow of various colors. The sound of insects is clearer in the night. The nightlife of the jungle began.
In a cave on the cliff face, a pair of blue eyes slowly opened in the darkness. (To be continued.) )