The sky was getting brighter, and a thin layer of fog had risen in the dense forest, and the visibility was extremely low, and the line of sight was less than twenty paces. All kinds of birdsong are chirping in the forest, and the small animals on the ground are beginning to wake up from their slumber and start to forage for food in order to survive.

Li Xiu looked up at the foggy sky, listened to the movement behind him, and found that he didn't hear any human sounds anymore. She couldn't hold on any longer, and all at once she fell straight onto the turf, never to get up again.

Chen Lan and Hong Ziyan are not much better, and the two of them will not even be as good as beggars. The escape last night was definitely the hardships of their lives.

The two fell beside Li Xiu in turn, panting for breath, and Chen Lan asked even weakly, "Xiaoxiu, are we safe now?" ”

Hearing this, Li Xiu tried hard to open his eyes, looked at Chen Lan, who also couldn't hold on, and said, "Madam, for the time being, we are safe, but we are also facing another thorny problem. ”

Chen Lan and Hong Ziyan were stunned for a moment, and Hong Ziyan hurriedly said, "What is the thorny problem? ”

Li Xiu struggled to raise his hand and pointed to the dense forest that could not see the light of day and said, "Now we don't have to worry about being chased by those bandits for the time being, but we have lost our way in the dense forest. I wonder if I can still get out now? ”

Chen Lan and Hong Ziyan looked at each other, and the two looked around and found that it was indeed as Li Xiu said.

"What should we do?" Chen Lan is already six gods and no master, and she has no ability to survive in the wild, the only thing she can do is to ask.

"Let's take a rest, recover some strength, find something to eat, and make sure we are completely alive before we think about anything else." Li Xiu will feel that it is difficult to even speak.

Although Chen Lan and Hong Ziyan were worried in their hearts, they had no choice but to listen to Li Xiu's words and do so.

The three of them fell silent, closed their eyes and rested, and after a while, sleepiness overcame their vigilance and fear, and all three fell asleep one after another.

On the outskirts of the dense forest, Mahan was still searching with more than two dozen of his men, and there was little to no gain last night. Because in the dark of night, it is almost impossible to vent some traces.

In order to maintain his strength, Mahan simply ordered a pause, so that everyone could not wait for dawn before continuing to search for any clues.

Sure enough, not long after the start, someone found the traces of Li Xiu and their passing.

Ma Han was immediately overjoyed, and after a shout, he led everyone to chase after him, because Li Xiu and the others ran in a hurry, they didn't have time to cover up the traces they had passed, so Ma Han and they easily followed all the way.

An hour later, Mahan and the others could no longer find any trace of Li Xiu and the others, just when Mahan didn't know what to do. Xiao Liu came to his side and said: "Brother Ma, those three women will definitely not be able to go far, and their traces disappeared here, obviously only consciously covered up after dawn. And it just so happens that they are not far from us, so why don't we spread out and look for them. ”

Ma Han also felt reasonable, although this method was very stupid, but there was only this in front of him, so he nodded and said: "Okay, just do as you say, every group of three people, everyone should not be too far away, and be careful that there are traps, and it is not safe in the mountains." ”

"I know the big brother, then we will go our separate ways now." Xiao Liu's opinion was accepted, and he immediately came to his senses.

"Go ahead, send a signal to everyone as soon as you find it, don't do it yourself, do you know?" Mahan was still cautious.

His life was at stake, and he couldn't make any mistakes now.

Xiao Liu nodded and responded again, and then conveniently led the people away, and after the two dozen bandits separated, they formed a semicircle, and then slowly searched deeply.

After half a ring, they found Li Xiu's traces again, and then there was another quick pursuit.

The inn outside the dense forest had completely burned down in the morning light, and the wooden houses had barely left after the fire, and the only thing left was a pile of blackened tiles.

When Mao Wenlong and the others arrived here, the ruins in front of him were presented in front of him. Looking at such a scene, Mao Wenlong suddenly frowned, it was obvious that there should have been a lot of scuffle here last night.

Mao Wenlong's guards immediately rushed to clean up the ruins, and soon found more than a dozen corpses. Mao Wenlong stepped forward to identify them one by one, and finally found that there were no three daughters, so he was a little relieved.

"Chief soldier, there is no one in the village anymore, judging from the mess in those houses, it should have just been evacuated." The vast man came galloping from the depths of the village.

Before Mao Wenlong could respond, he saw Hao Xiao running back from the direction of the dock: "Chief soldier, no one was found on the pier, and there was not even a ghost shadow on the empty side." ”

This situation suddenly made Mao Wenlong into confusion, he pondered for a moment, then looked up, and after a long time he said: "Haoxiao, you immediately go to find the boat, and then take people to the three directions of the Yellow River to chase the limelight, once you find any clues, immediately send someone to report." ”

"Yes, Commander!" Haoxiao didn't talk nonsense, and immediately quit and left.

Mao Wenlong looked at Haoda again and said: "You take people to take the village as the center, look for any clues in the direction of the surroundings, remember, don't let go of any clues, look carefully." ”

Hao Tiantian understood what Mao Wenlong meant, he immediately nodded to show that he understood, turned around and waved and scattered with a large number of people and horses.

At this time, there were less than ten guards left by Mao Wenlong's side, and he dismounted and personally checked back and forth in the burned inn.

The inn was not very large, but it was two stories high, and there were traces of a dozen large trees that had been burned on the other side of the dense forest. However, it only affected one point, and it seemed that someone had extinguished the fire that was burning there.

Except for a dozen or so trees that were affected, none of the other houses around the inn were affected. After Mao Wenlong looked closely, he came to the conclusion that it was caused by human arson.

It was precisely because of the man-made fire that it did not spread to the surrounding area as it is now, and the fire was tightly controlled in this inn. This also just shows that the person who set fire to the house is very calm.

The burned corpses in the inn had more or less knife wounds on their bodies, and judging from their wounds, they were all killed before they were burned by the fire. This also shows that before the inn was burned, there should have been a fight inside.

"There are traces of two groups of people fighting here, who else but those spies?" Mao Wenlong fell into deep thought.