Renee calculated that it should be dark outside the cave, so she greeted Song Zhe and said that she would patrol the valley around the camp at night. Song Zha said that he would let the two soldiers go with Renee to protect Renee's safety. Renee refuses lightly, "honestly" that she may go to dangerous places, and the soldiers accompanying her will limit her mobility.

When Renee said this, Song Zha had no choice but to give up, and he instructed, "You must come back unscathed." ”

"Hmm."

After explaining to her teammates, Renee can finally travel at night without suspicion. She came to the exit of the cavern and looked up to see that the sky above the wasteland was covered with darkness, and only a silver moon and scattered stars dotted the monotonous night sky.

The wind blew from the northwest during the night, just in the direction of the entrance to the valley to the wasteland. Renee spreads out her senses against the night wind, focusing on sensing the smell of plague seeds in the air blowing from the upper wind vent.

Renee cautiously gathered information about the environment and returned the way she came, but luckily she didn't encounter large plague species on the way, only seeing some very small creatures such as lizards and insects. Creature that is significantly weaker than Renee's approach, sensing Renee's approach, takes a detour, while others lie still in the environment, hiding themselves motionless.

Renee maintains a harmonious pattern with these weak plague species, pretending that no one can see anyone. She passed through the wasteland and returned to the waterfront at the entrance of the valley.

At night, the golden frogs that had been lying on the platform disappeared at this moment, and the swimming fish in the water beach seemed to swim along the underground waterway to other places, and the blue-purple flower vegetation that grew on the water beach completely bloomed its bright and attractive flowers. A hazy dust floats around their flowers, and the dust matches the silent surface of the water reflecting the moonlight, like a magical wonderland.

In the morning, these blue-violet vegetation is completely an ornament of the environment, and it is only at night that they show their true form. This fairyland-like hazy dust is very dangerous, and as soon as the animal inhales it, the Sandman will break through the iron wall of will, and it will fall into a drowsy without resistance.

Renee had also inhaled the special pollen of the "sleeping grass", and when she noticed that something was wrong, she immediately turned on the atavism, but she still couldn't resist the enchanting sleepiness. It was also from the beginning of her exposure to this plant that Renee truly realized that the power of atavism is not omnipotent, and the abilities of many mutated plants should not be underestimated.

Renee remembered that the beach was the upwind, and quickly held her breath to keep herself from inhaling the pollen of the "sleeping grass". She took a detour and moved briskly to the entrance to the forest on the left side of the waterbank.

There's no need to worry about inhaling sleep pollen when she arrives, and the northwesterly wind that weaves through the lush forest to the door can still show her way.

In the silence of the forest, only the distant moonlight in the sky and the fireflies flying among the bushes could provide light, and Renee's night vision was good enough that with this light, she could see as much as she did during the day.

"If you're acting alone and you're good enough at jungle tracking, you'll be able to find me." Renee muttered to herself repeating what Wu Qi had said to her. She pondered the doorway in this sentence, and thought that the four words 'acting alone' were the most suspicious.

"Could it be that guy Wu Qi is now monitoring the entrance in a corner of the forest?" Renee looked around, starting with the most basic footprints to search for Wu Qi's traces.

Renee searched everywhere she looked, but she couldn't find a single footprint, not even an animal's footprint. The lowest level of the ground is ordinary soil, and a little higher is the lawn, which is supposed to leave footprints more easily than flat soil, but there is nothing.

Renee glanced back at where she had come, and indeed stepped on a deep mark, stepping on a series of crooked shoulders of green grass.

It seems that Wu Qi, a veteran hunter, will not allow himself to leave such a shallow trace. Mo said that she had come here on purpose, and if she had been accompanied by soldiers this time, the soldiers would have been able to see at a glance the human footprints left on the ground, and thus judge that there were people other than them in the forest.

Renee pondered for a moment, and suddenly a flash of inspiration crossed her mind, and she leaped onto a tall branch. Standing on a high place, with an unobstructed view of the numerous branches around her, Renee could see at a glance that the thickest branch had left the boot print of a combat boot.

Renee felt that she had grasped something crucial, and she seemed to understand that she had to stand on the premise that only she knew that Wu Qi was hiding in this forest before she could track Wu Qi. Wu Qi used a special but not complicated technique to "cover" the traces of his passing, and it was almost impossible to find traces of Wu Qi by not knowing that the people he was hiding in this forest entered the forest normally and searched for traces every day. Because Wu Qi's traces are in the blind spot of their exploration.

With the idea and the initial clues, the difficulty of tracking down Wu Qi was much lower all of a sudden. Renee followed the tracks on the branches, quickly shuttling between the canopies of trees, and before she knew it, she had climbed to a position not low in altitude.

Renee counted that she had advanced 15 minutes, and stopped to look around. The forest is still silent, and the dim dark blue light and too many mysterious shadows make it easy to feel a faint fear in people's hearts after watching it for a long time.

There was no turning back after they had all come here, and if he hadn't trusted Wu Qi not to harm him at first, he wouldn't have come to look for him in the depths of this mysterious forest in the middle of the night without soldiers following him.

There was a faint smell of burning fire, which was the smell of burning firewood into the air.

Renee didn't see the light of the fire, she thought about it, Wu Qi must have chosen to make a fire in the cave, so that the rising black smoke would not be easily exposed to the top of the canopy sea and be seen by other humans.

Renee's atavistic sense of smell pinpointed the source of the strong smell of burning, which was indeed a cave, and the faint light of the fire refracted on the uneven rock wall, indicating that there were people inside.

She cautiously jumped off the branch, and saw a pile of bones of a giant beast sitting outside the entrance to the cave.

"Is it used to deter weak animals...... Renee thought to herself. She followed the refracted light of the fire to the cave.

The top of the cave is more than 3 meters high, and the width is also very spacious. And when Renee walked to the corner of the cave, more than a dozen silver blades suddenly flew out of the corner, and in an instant, they were 30 centimeters in the air in front of her face.

"You're just welcoming a woman who comes to you in the dead of night?" Renee spoke. She was not afraid of the blades and went straight inside. The blades had no killing intent, and the closer she got closer, the blades retreated.

A second later, Renee saw Wu Qi in the cavern clearing, setting up firewood and burning a fire to barbecue meat. The flame of the fire was not strong and was about to be extinguished.

"Please don't use this ambiguous greeting, and it has nothing to do with your gender." Wu Qi said lightly. At his feet was a pile of herbivore bones. This dinner he had settled.

Renee didn't talk to Wu Qi first, but observed the situation inside the cave. There are ventilation holes in the top wall of the cave, which is why Wu Qi will burn fire in the cave and not be afraid of choking on smoke.

"But if you do this, the black smoke will not float upwards as usual." Renee pointed to the vents in the cave wall.

"Didn't you remember the way when you came? This is already the back side of the mountain, and even if the fire is burning during the day, the wasteland is still invisible. Wu Qi naturally wouldn't make such a low-level mistake, but he still explained to Renee why.

"Oh, that's right."

"So you didn't remember the way? So how do you get back? Wu Qi asked.

Renee found a log to use as a chair, sat down and said, "You still care about my return?" ”

Wu Qi snorted lightly and stopped answering.

Although they had only just exchanged two sentences, Renee felt that the relationship between the two did not seem to be as stiff and difficult to approach as she imagined. At least certainly not the attitude that should be between enemies who pierce each other's hearts.

"Wu Qi, let me ask, how did you think about leaving traces through the branches?" Renee found something to say, and brought up what had just happened.

"It's just that I haven't erased the marks on the branches."

"There must be other uses for this former and latter's method of keeping and tracking, right?"

"You just have to think about it yourself."

Wu Qi said without emotion. He did cram a little bit of thought into it, actually, but only a little.

Wu Qi moved from branch to branch, leaving traces at the same time. Tracking his tracks necessitated continuous movement from branch to branch, causing the canopy to shake in the distance. If Renee was acting alone, there would be only one person who would cause the canopy to shake, and the amplitude would be very small, but if multiple people were moving on the canopy together, Wu Qi would be able to detect it from a long distance.

This method is not completely rigorous, if Renee has the intention of leading someone to track down Wu Qi, and thinks carefully, let everyone else follow her on the ground, and then hug Wu Qi again, then Wu Qi will only be attacked by surprise and forced to fight back.

Renee could almost guess that the canopy shook to convey the message, but she felt that she was thinking too simply, a veteran hunter like Wu Qi must have a means beyond her comprehension, and she didn't know that Wu Qi had replaced the perfect but troublesome means with a little trust ingredient.

The fact that the two were able to meet in such a special and uncomplicated way was still based on a part of trust. Experienced warriors are good at understanding the character of their opponents from the blade, and Renee gives Wu Qi the feeling that he is not at all the type of city government who is very deep and good at conspiracy and harm. In turn, Wu Qi's impression on Renee is the same. That's why Renee took the initiative to come, and Wu Qi allowed Renee to appear here.