Chapter 2023: The Light on the Mountaintop
Wan Lin finished speaking, bent down again to check the footprints left on the surrounding grass, and then pointed to the small flower standing on the rock. Xiaohua immediately jumped off the rock next to her, lowered her head and sniffed the footprints on the ground, turned around and ran towards the mountains ahead.
Wan Lin took a deep look at the hunter's corpse, raised his hand and saluted the corpse suddenly, then turned around and ran towards the mountain with Xiaohua. At this time, he was running extremely fast, and the other party actually killed an innocent hunter by any means, which really made a raging fire rise in his heart.
Xiaohua lowered her head in the mountains, sniffing the traces left by the other party in the mountains, and quickly trotted towards the undulating mountains in front of her, Wan Lin followed behind with a small bow in her hand.
When Wan Lin followed Xiaohua and ran past the foot of the mountain in front of him, he suddenly saw Xiaohua running in front of him, looking sideways at something? He followed Xiaohua's gaze sideways and looked into the mountains in the distance, and immediately noticed that a faint light was flashing on the top of the mountain several kilometers away.
Wan Lin's body suddenly flashed behind a big tree on the side, and then poked out half of his head from behind the thick trunk to look at the top of the mountain in front of him, and then found that it was the hundreds of meters high mountain that he had just walked down. The bright light that appeared on the top of the mountain just now must be the reflected light emitted by the telescope in the hands of the national security team members on the top of the mountain.
He shook his head slightly, knowing that the two national security team members lacked field combat experience, and suddenly revealed their position in the alert. He saw that Xiaohua in front of him was running towards a bamboo forest on the side, and said secretly in his heart: No wonder that target suddenly disappeared from under the noses of the two surveillance team members, the other party must have discovered the reflective point on the top of the mountain, and knew that someone was monitoring this mountainous area, so he slipped away with the help of the complicated terrain.
He then flashed out from behind the tree and ran with Xiaohua towards a verdant bamboo forest on the side of the mountainside. The speed of a man and a beast in the mountains was very fast, and it did not take long to chase six or seven kilometers through the rugged mountains. At this time, Wan Lin's face was gloomy like water, holding a small bow in his left hand, and holding a few steel needles tightly in his right hand, while following Xiaohua to pursue forward, his eyes were shining and paying attention to the movements in the surrounding mountains.
At this moment, there was a faint sound of "whooshing" flowing water in the mountains in front of me, and the gurgling sound of flowing water was accompanied by the occasional birdsong, which was extremely pleasant in the mountains, like the sound of heaven flickering in the silent mountains.
But this pleasant sound reached Wan Lin's ears, but it made his heart sink suddenly. He hurriedly followed Xiaohua in front of him through a bamboo forest on the hillside, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that Xiaohua had rushed down the hillside and stopped at the foot of the mountain in front, and several white streams were gurgling down the hillside in the distance, just converging into a small river channel more than two meters wide at the foot of the mountain, flowing slowly and zigzagly in the mountains.
Wan Lin frowned and walked quickly down the mountain. At this time, Xiaohua was wandering around the wet rocks on the edge of the stream, her little head lowered to look left and right for the traces of the other party, and then raised her head to look at the few white streams on the distant hillside.
Wan Lin walked quickly to Xiaohua's side, raised his eyes and followed Xiaohua's gaze to look upstream of the stream, the gurgling stream slowly flowed down the foot of the mountain in the distance, the slowly flowing stream was crystal clear in the sun, and the dark gray rocks at the bottom of the water were clearly visible. The stream is shallow, knee-deep, and small finger-length fish are swimming slowly in the water.
He understood that the target must have realized that he had just exposed his body, so he entered the water here and went upstream, using the flowing water to erase any traces left by himself, and avoid the pursuers from using the animal with a keen sense of smell to follow him.
Wan Lin looked at the stream in the distance and groaned for a moment, then squatted down and carefully looked for the footprints left by the other party before entering the water, and it didn't take long to find two clear footprints in the dirt on the shore.
He squatted on the ground and carefully observed for a while and stood up from the ground, feeling a little surprised in his heart: from the analysis of footprints, the other party is about 1.72 meters tall, weighs 1340 pounds, and should be 40 or 50 years old, but his steps are very light.
If this person were one of those mercenaries, he would be a little older. Mercenaries generally perform dangerous tasks that require extreme physical strength, and generally do not recruit people of this age to join mercenaries unless they have special talents.
And from the analysis of the footprints left on the woodland, the opponent's footwork is light and agile, the depth of the traces on the left and right feet is basically the same, and he obviously does not carry heavy objects on his body, so it is inferred that he should not carry spear-like weapons, the above are obviously inconsistent with the identity of those mercenaries, so what is the origin of this gangster who suddenly killed people in the mountains?
Wan Lin pondered intently, raised his head and looked at the mountains in the distance along the stream, and was indeed a little puzzled in his heart. Since the other party killed a hunter in the mountains, and the direction of progress was towards Lingxiu Mountain, this was obviously to cover his identity with the help of the hunter's clothing, and tried to hide close to Lingxiu Mountain, where the treasures were hidden, but he did not carry high-powered weapons such as assault rifles, which was indeed obviously inconsistent with the identity of those mercenaries.
He pondered the ins and outs of the incident, suddenly patted his head and turned to Xiaohua and said, "Let's go, let's go back" As he spoke, he raised his feet and strode in the direction of Lingxiu Mountain.
At this time, he suddenly figured out that the other party must be the elder of the Takahashi family. The high bridge who was hit by the head of Xie must have been tossed to death by the cold in his body, and if this cold qi wants to be expelled from the body in a short period of time, there must be an internal master to force the cold in his body out, and this injured Gao Qiao must have asked his Takahashi family for help.
From this point of view, this middle-aged man who suddenly appeared must be a master of internal strength sent by the Takahashi family to heal that kid. And the time when he arrived here was obviously faster than the mercenaries who smuggled in from the direction of his hometown, which means that he entered the country by plane through normal channels, so he did not carry weapons with him.
He figured out the identity of the person who came, immediately squatted down and picked up the clear stream water to wash his face, then glanced upstream at the stream, and told Xiaohua to give up the tracking and walk straight towards Lingxiu Mountain.
Now that the other party is traveling in the stream, he is relying on Xiaohua's keen sense of smell to track, and it will take a lot of energy and time, and since the opponent's target is Lingxiu Mountain, there is no need for him to continue to search for this person in this endless deep mountain, and the final battlefield will be laid out on Lingxiu Mountain sooner or later, so he immediately gave up tracking and walked back with Xiaohua.
On the way back, he made a phone call to Wang Molin, reported what happened on his side and his inference about the current situation, and then told him where the hunter's body was, and asked Wang Molin to notify the police to send someone to bury the body as soon as possible.