Late at night.

The wind howled in the dense forest, and nine metal ships above were suspended in the air, and a dozen black figures walked out of each ship.

They wore the same standard of soft armor and black clothes, used weapons of the same specifications, and had the same coat of arms printed on their chests, which was the pattern of a black phoenix and a dark fire.

"Carra-la-la-la" A series of metal grinding sounds sounded, and a portal slid open on the bow of the metal ship, from which a long rope was thrown and fell vertically to the ground.

The black-clothed men slid down the long rope very quickly and quickly scattered on the ground.

A sharp voice sounded, and Yao Yunzhen sniffed, "This is it, the location where Qu Li's last message was transmitted is near here." ”

A man with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes next to him held a **** handkerchief in his hand: "Qu Li has a habit of cleanliness, and from this position, it has been showing a fan-shaped diffusion, and the poisonous insects in the forest have been cleaned up, which is Qu Li's handwriting." ”

Yao Yunzhen lay on the ground, his fingers gently pulled out a piece of soil and put it in his mouth, then spit it out again, nodded and pointed in one direction and said, "Over there!" ”

Whew。。。。。。

The black shadows quickly disappeared, speeding through the dense forest, and suddenly, their feet stopped.

"Here!"

There was a rectangular pit on the ground, which seemed very abrupt, Yao Yunzhen's complexion changed slightly, sniffing the rotten moisture in the air that came out of the ground, "The time when this pit was dug is basically the same as the time when Qu Li sent back the information, but 。。。。。 ”

"What's the problem?" An old man with triangular eyes next to him asked.

"It's not a detached handiwork, it's like... Yao Yunzhen's eyes rolled, looking around, and suddenly his feet flashed, and he appeared in front of a huge tree trunk, and his five fingers stabbed into the trunk and tore downward.

The whole trunk was pulled out of the middle, revealing the empty hole in the tree, he poked his head in, stretched it out again after a while, and said to the old man with triangular eyes: "I obviously feel that there should be a person hidden here, but I don't smell the smell of a living person, you can come and see." ”

"Oh, that's interesting." The old man with triangular eyes walked over, rubbed his two fingers on his eyelids and rubbed them vigorously, and soon, the whites of his eyes behind his fingers were rubbed red, and the bloodshot was dense, like a bright spider web about to seep out of the eyeballs, which was extremely weird.

The hollow shone with a faint red light, and the rotting body of the tree was like human skin, and a dense patch of skin textures appeared on it, some deep and some shallow.

The old man with triangular eyes let out a strange exclamation, took out a gray bottle from his arms, poured out some powder, and raised it, as if he had applied a layer of foundation cream in a tree hole.

"It's kind of interesting."

"How?" Yao Yunzhen asked.

"I told Mr. Yao before that the human body secretes metabolic substances all the time, such as skin debris and hair and fine fluff, unless it is a dead person, it must leave these marks at the place of passage at all times, of course, these secretions are usually difficult to see, but this hard frost dust powder I developed can make it visible." The old man with triangular eyes tilted his head as he spoke, "However, there is not a single trace of human secretion in this tree hole. ”

"That's no one, huh?" Yao Yunzhen frowned, which was inconsistent with his conjecture.

"No!" The corners of the triangular eye's eyes burst out, and the two eyeballs seemed to bulge out, sticking to the trunk of the tree: "There is no secreted substance, but there is a slight friction mark near the bottom trunk here, this friction trace is somewhat similar to what I saw in the pit just now, this kind of friction is very new, and it is absolutely impossible for the tree hole to be produced by itself, it can only be artificial... ”

"There should be some kind of metallic texture accidentally touched lightly, leaving a trace, this scratch is a bit like 。。。。。" There was a glimmer of light in Yao Yunzhen's eyes: "It is similar to the spiral texture of a chain." ”

"In this tree hole, there was a person hiding not long ago, and that hole was caused by this person, but I don't know what the reason is." The old man with triangular eyes shrank his body back from the tree hole, and said seriously to Yao Yunzhen: "What's even more strange is that there are obviously people who don't leave the material that a living person should leave behind, could it be that what was stuffed in the tree hole at that time was not a living person, but a dead person?" ”

"No, His Highness Snow Phoenix should still be alive." Yao Yunzhen seemed to know what the triangular-eyed old man was going to ask, and replied first: "According to my guess, His Highness Snow Phoenix should have been chained and buried in this square pit at that time, and the person who was buried was hiding in the tree hole, watching Qu Li pass by here in the dark. ”

"Hehehehehe。。。。。" The man with clear eyebrows interjected and laughed: "So, Qu Li, that idiot, has obviously found His Royal Highness Xue Huang, but like a blind man, he didn't see anything, walked over, and then 。。。。。。 I'm afraid, I was followed all the way behind, and I was really a brainless idiot. ”

"I don't want to admit it, but I'm afraid that's the truth." Yao Yunzhen's eyes showed a trace of worry: "This person can hide here without being perceived by Qu Li, and there is almost no trace of a living person in the tree hole。。。。。 He followed Qu Li with great courage in the back, which shows that the enemy this time is even more terrifying and cunning than I expected. ”

"Afraid of what?" The man who interjected sneered, hid his face and said: "We are just responsible for tracking, as long as we find each other's traces, the rest is not our business, and naturally someone else will deal with it." ”

"Hmm!" Yao Yunzhen nodded, and said to the old man with triangular eyes: "Let's also draw a scoop according to the gourd, and find the traces of Qu Li first, he will definitely not deliberately cover up the traces he left." ”

The triangular-eyed old man didn't talk nonsense, with a wave of his hand, a gust of wind rose, and the gray powder frost was evenly sprinkled, showing a half-arc fan spread out on the ground and in the air.

Soon, tiny specks appeared in the air and on the ground, like fireflies illuminating the road ahead in the dark night.

"That dead eunuch has an unexpectedly large amount of dandruff。。。。。" The sharp voice teased, and then, with a sharp snort, his face was ugly: "There is a faint smell of blood, as if the blood is coagulated and wafted out, the 'dandruff' on this road is not all one person, the smell belongs to at least three different people." ”