After eating some wild fruits, I rested in the jungle for the night.

Early the next morning, they set out on their return journey.

Speaking of which, the weather was still a little cold, and it was foggy in the second half of the night, and the fog did not dissipate in the morning, and the visibility was not high.

But instead of complaining, everyone rejoiced.

Fog and low visibility mean that they have a low chance of being spotted by the Crees.

As for the severe cold, it has little effect on everyone.

Who are they, hunters and tanners of the fur company, who will not lack anything to wear.

Lin Yao was dressed in a leather coat made of bear skin, which the craftsmen of the camp had helped him do, and the needlework might not be as good as that of the tailors in the town, but it was enough to keep him warm.

The same goes for the others, with Uncle Taylor and nephew wearing deerskin coats, and Hawke wearing a wolfskin cloak.

The worst nameless cobblers have thick beaver coats, and it is not easy to freeze them to death.

"Stop, there's smoke ahead!"

After walking all morning, the fog cleared at noon.

Lin Yao and his entourage stood on the mountain, looking at the smoke in the distance, because the distance was too far to see anything clearly.

It can probably be judged that the smoke is more than ten miles away.

Of course, Wangshan runs dead horses, surrounded by mountains, and more than ten miles of mountain roads can make people walk for half a day.

"It should be the Kree, only they dare to blatantly start a fire!" Taylor stood next to him and said, "Look at the location of the Kree, Glass should be in front, we are about 20 miles apart, that is, 6 hours away!" ”

Compared to the second echelon that remained behind, Glass and the members of the first echelon, because the Kree people were chasing and marching faster.

The Cree were a dozen miles away from them, and Grasse was to add a few more miles to that distance.

The two sides should not have met today, at least Lin Yao and his party did not hear the gunshots.

In the absence of fog, in the silent mountains and forests, the sound of gunfire can be heard for more than ten miles.

"We have to go in a different direction, we can't follow them anymore."

Lin Yao looked at the smoke in the distance, and said to Hawke, who was sitting on a stretcher and carried by Taylor's uncle and nephew: "Hawke, help us choose a route, the road is easier to walk." ”

Hawke didn't speak, holding the map and thinking seriously.

After a while, he pointed to the mountain to the north, and then to the mountain to the east: "On the mountain ahead, we go east, and if nothing else, this is the way we will come in." My dad didn't choose to take this path, they should have planned to give it to us. ”

All roads lead to Rome, and as long as the direction is good, you can get out of the reserve.

The difference is that it's a little easier to walk, or it's a little more tortuous.

Glass and his party crossed the mountains and took the most dangerous route, and they did not follow the Kree behind them, so they could have taken a safer route.

"Let's rest for a while and split up to find something to eat."

Lin Yao motioned for everyone to stop first, and he went out hunting with bows and arrows.

Their bows already had arrows, which were sharpened by the old cobbler on the road from twigs, enough for some small and medium-sized prey, such as rabbits, elk, etc.

As for the wolves and the black bears, they weren't too worried.

The carnivores within a radius of hundreds of kilometers were almost killed by them, and those that did not die became frightened birds.

They had to be more careful with the returning Kree than with the beasts.

Behind them, Grass, there were more than a hundred Cree warriors, plus a few Cree warriors.

No one is sure that they will keep chasing it.

In case of chasing halfway and some people choose to return, their group of old, weak, sick and disabled people who follow behind will be in danger, which is also the reason why Lin Yao wants to change the route.

"The harvest was good, I hunted a pheasant, I didn't even know there was a pheasant here!"

Half an hour later, Lin Yao returned to the temporary camp: "What did you find?" ”

"Some wild mushrooms, there's a lot of this stuff in the woods." Taylor replied.

"I found some wild vegetables, if only I could make a fire, pheasant stew with mushrooms and sprinkle some wild vegetables, it's a must." William said boredly.

"Don't even think about it, the smoke will attract the Cree, and I don't want to be hunted down."

Lin Yao denied William's fantasy, he also wanted to eat pheasant stewed mushrooms, but it was unrealistic.

The smoke attracts the Cree, so they have no choice but to eat either pheasants or mushrooms raw.

Luckily, they are wilderness hunters, and eating raw meat is an essential skill for them.

Replaced by the waste green in the city, you can't eat as much as you want to vomit.

"This pheasant is very fat, plus there are mushrooms and wild vegetables, not to mention that everyone is full, it is estimated that they can eat seven points full."

Lin Yao threw the pheasant to William to deal with, while he sat on the stone and wiped his rifle, muttering: "I want to eat baked potatoes, just make a fire and throw the potatoes in it, after the exam, peel off the skin, and the fragrant people drool!" ”

"Sir?"

"Huh?"

Lin Yao looked up and found that it was Hawke who called him, so he asked, "Something?" ”

"Captain Gerrard is really going to meet up with the boss?" Hawke stood on crutches and watched him.

Lin Yao's face remained unchanged, and he asked rhetorically, "Of course, otherwise?" ”

Hawke didn't ask again, but he always felt that Lin Yao's statement was a bit perfunctory.

If you change to a normal person, you will know that there are Kree people in front, and if you want to meet with the first echelon, you have to cross the Kree defense line, which is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous thing.

How could Gerald do this, as the captain of the hunting party, he knew very well how powerful the Kree were.

The Cree were armed not only with bows and arrows and spears, but also with muskets and shotguns.

Not to mention whether you can catch up with the first echelon, the Kree alone is a lot of bad luck, how can a smart person like Gerard take risks.

"Don't be cranky, you have to rest more, try to get better as soon as possible, we can't carry you all the time."

Lin Yao didn't let Hawke continue to think about it, instead of thinking about this, it was better to think about what to do next.

They can't live a life of drinking blood forever, so they must get rid of the Cree as soon as possible and return to a civilized society with flames and camps.

After an hour's rest, the team set off again in the afternoon.

This walk, after stopping at night, they spent an afternoon walking nearly a dozen miles of mountain roads.

If you do the math, you can walk about fifty miles a day.

Some people may think that this number is not high, for example, during the Anti-Japanese War, the marching speed of our army was about 140-160 miles per day, and it could even reach 200 miles in a single day when the army was forcibly marched.

But that was the speed of the land march, and there was a road, so it would have been much slower in the mountains.

They don't have ready-made roads, and with Hawke, a disabled person, the fifty-mile mountain road is already their limit.

Lin Yao is still quite satisfied with the current speed, according to his own estimates, it will take about 15 to 17 days to get out of the reserve.

It's a pity that just when Lin Yao felt that everything was developing in a good direction, the first challenger came.

That night, sleet fell in the mountains.

This is the first sleet of early winter and possibly the last.

Either way, this sleet didn't come at the right time.

Lin Yao and his entourage curled up under a big tree, huddling together as much as possible to keep warm.

But it didn't work, the leaves of the autumn trees had already fallen off, and the bare trunks could not stop the rain and snow.

There was really no way, they could only shrink into their coats and hide inside like insect cocoons.

Even so, it can't stop the rain from pouring in, and the night is really torturous.

In the second half of the night, Lin Yao, who had not been sleepy for a long time, tightened his bearskin coat.

He had a bearskin coat to protect him from the cold, and he found the night difficult.

Others don't have the conditions like him, so they probably feel even colder.

I wonder what happened to the old cobbler?

He only has a beaver fur coat, which is warm enough in normal times, but it may not be enough at such times.

To be honest, they still didn't think it through, and they actually forgot to bring a few skins with them before leaving.

If each person carries a few furs and lays one piece and covers one piece when he sleeps at night, maybe he won't have to worry about the rain.