When a person is in a state of panic, his five senses become extremely acute. Although most people in this situation are prone to oversharpening themselves and becoming suspicious, they end up proving to be just scaring themselves. But as the saying goes, it is better to believe it than not to believe it, and in the case of possible danger, it is always harmless to be cautious, in the final analysis, it is just a matter of "degree".

Xiang Nanxing seems to have been born with a knack for how to control this "degree". While sensing the gaze behind him, his body did not become stiff instantly, but softly continued the movement of pacing back and forth, and even the urge to turn back only flashed in the consciousness level, without revealing the slightest sign of his body.

The moment he stopped talking to himself, Xiang Nanxing's brain finally returned to its usual level.

"This man...... Assuming this is not my delusion, this person saw me but did not make a move, just hid and observed from a distance, it may be that he himself has no malice, but is just observing the situation on my side to decide his next move, or it may indeed be malicious, just want to do it but has not yet reached the right distance to start. ”

At about the same time as the initial inference, Xiang Nanxing had already made three general coping strategies in his mind:

Option 1: If nothing happens, continue to procrastinate and think about better countermeasures;

Option 2: Immediately turn around and make your position clear and try to cooperate with the other party.

Option three, safety first, run away, and distance yourself from the other party first.

The first is to maintain the status quo, which, while seemingly safest, can also put yourself in a dangerous situation. After all, Xiang Nanxing was completely unaware of the other party's existence before this, and suddenly sensed it at this time, either the other party was close to his own warning range, or the other party made a move before he was ready to do something, if he pretended to be nothing, the other party was likely to continue what he was doing, and when the two sides approached to a certain extent, even if Xiang Nanxing hadn't thought about it, he had to prepare to deal with it head-on, and there would be less room for him to mediate.

The second one seems to be the most risky, but it is actually the safest of the three. First of all, if the other party is not malicious, this is the most direct demonstration of their good intentions, and the two sides can also try to talk to confirm the other party's position and turn a potential conflict into invisibility. If the other party really has bad intentions, then this sudden turn is also tantamount to throwing the problem to the other party, is it to disguise the intention and take the opportunity to close the distance, or just turn the face and start from there? No matter what the other party chooses, Xiang Nanxing can see the move, even if he wants to run in the end, it is not much slower than running away.

In the time of two steps, Xiang Nanxing went from analyzing to coming up with a strategy, and finally choosing one. He pretended to glance down at the piece of paper in his hand, then raised his head to look at the dense forest in front of him, suddenly lowered his head, and executed the strategy he had just chosen without hesitation.

Option three, safety first, just run!

After all, this is not a world he is familiar with, and even if he encounters a living person, it is most likely that he will be released from the same batch of prisoners as him. What these guys will do is difficult to predict, not to mention that Xiang Nanxing can't erase the picture of snatching the fragment in his mind since he saw the map fragment, rather than hoping that the other party will have good intentions and the two sides communicate normally, it is better to seek safety first, and then consider other things when it is his turn to take the initiative next time.

The natural dense forest is no better than the artificial runway, not to mention the lack of fast walking, and it is easy to step on the air and get injured when you are in a hurry. However, Xiang Nanxing unexpectedly played an amazing level. It turned out that he had played orienteering a few times before in college, and although the wild environment he chose for that activity was not comparable to the woods now, the experience he had accumulated at that time gave him the confidence to run faster than those big guys in this place. No matter how strong the opponent is, as long as he can't get close and can't aim, it is not easy to attack him.

And Xiang Nanxing even tried his best to hide the information that he knew about the other party's existence when he was doing this. I saw him jumping up and down in the dense forest, looking down at the piece of paper in his hand from time to time, as if to confirm the direction, and then suddenly made a turn. After all, the person who escaped took the initiative, and even if he was better than him, he would inevitably spend extra time adjusting after each passive turn with him, and it was easy to lose people.

However, Xiang Nanxing felt a chill in his heart. I've done my best, but the feeling of being locked on my back has always lingered. What's even more terrifying is that until now, except for this mysterious sixth sense, I haven't been able to capture the other party's traces normally with my five senses.

He took the opportunity to look back several times for a quick look, but all he saw was the calm jungle, and there was no trace of half a living person at all. Occasionally, he would run through a sparsely planted area, and at such times he would prick up his ears to listen for any human activity in the area he had run behind, but he was disappointed. In the end, Xiang Nanxing even gave up a little, he deliberately slowed down, and did not hesitate to shorten the distance between the two sides to see what the other party was about, but the other party seemed to see through his thoughts, no matter how he tempted, he just didn't show up.

This unexpected sense of oppression completely disrupted his pace, and Xiang Nanxing had to rethink other countermeasures. However, just as he was about to have a complete showdown and stop to roar, the feeling of a thorn in his back suddenly disappeared.

"Huh?"

Xiang Nanxing was puzzled, but he didn't dare to slow down. He ran forward a little further, and only stopped breathlessly when he stood in a small clearing with a relatively open view. At this time, when I looked around again, although I still didn't see anyone as before, the feeling of being observed just now had disappeared.

As if none of this ever existed.

Is it all just an illusion that I am too nervous? As soon as he relaxed, Xiang Nanxing couldn't help but doubt himself. If he had made a wrong decision because of this delusion, the current situation would have been terrible for him.

Although he didn't know where to go, if he continued to think about it, he might be able to figure out where he should go next from the map fragments. But now it was a good thing, he ran so far in one go, and in the middle he changed direction several times in order to get rid of the pursuers, and now even he can't remember how many times he turned in the process. Not to mention the fact that it's easy to get lost in such dense and complex woods, and it's harder to get back to where you started.

Just as a trace of frustration began to grow in his heart, the corner of his eye suddenly caught a glimpse of something in the distance from the gap in the dense forest. He looked at it and almost screamed: it turned out to be the spire of a building! When you walk in a few steps, the outline of the entire villa is clearly visible, this time it is not an illusion, it is a real thing.

This is the first time he has seen anything related to humans since coming to this place, and it is also a big thing behind the villa. If you can see the villas, at least it can show that this area is not too backward, and at least it is also the kind of resort area for the rich. There might be someone on the other side of the villa, and if you call for help as a victim, you should be able to get help.

However, when Xiang Nanxing saw the environment next to the villa clearly, his brows suddenly furrowed tightly, and his steps were slow. He held his suitcase to his chest, and with the other hand he was cautiously moving forward, his eyes still scanning his surroundings vigilantly, as if he was on guard against the sudden arrival of several people.

He was suddenly so cautious because he saw something strange. A holiday house built in the wilderness should have a road for vehicles anyway, but this single-family villa is surrounded by trees and half-human-tall weeds, and there is not even a path or any trace of the road that ever exists. Either the villa has been abandoned for so many years that weeds have completely flooded the driveway, or the road was not considered at the beginning of the construction, and the villa was originally used for other purposes.

Whatever it is, it is not a good thing for Xiang Nanxing at this time.

When we get closer, the answer will be revealed. The exterior walls of this three-story villa are mottled, several eaves have been badly damaged, and even the windows on the second and third floors are crooked, looking like they will fall off at any moment. The outside of the villa should have been surrounded by a fence and enclosed a small garden of its own, but at this time it was no longer visible, and only a little clue could be seen from the relatively flat land. The villa in this dense forest may have been a good holiday destination, but by this time, it has been abandoned for a long time and has long been uninhabited.

There may be something in there that can come in handy, but there is no need to take the risk when it looks like it could collapse at any time. Xiang Nanxing turned around in disappointment and was about to leave, but his gaze accidentally swept somewhere on the ground. At this sight, he was so frightened again that he almost screamed.

On the only small patch of sand among the weeds, a small shoe print was clearly printed! The shoe print looked the size of a woman or a child, it was a simple running shoe, and the imprint was still very clear, and it looked like it had just walked a short time ago, and if you looked for it, you could find a few other mutilated shoe prints a few steps earlier. Pointe in the direction of the villa, the man had apparently discovered the villa as well and was walking over to investigate. However, on the ground, which was closer to the villa and should have taken a further step, the sand was messy, as if someone had deliberately erased the shoe prints.

If Xiang Nanxing didn't just turn around and leave, but chose to observe the villa closer, it might be difficult for him to find these traces that have been artificially erased. If his gaze hadn't swept over the grass just now, but just walked away straight ahead, he wouldn't have found the only intact footprint. Probabilistically speaking, this is definitely a fortuitous event.

However, Xiang Nanxing quietly became vigilant in his heart. He crouched down, intending to study the footprint carefully, and then consider whether or not to take a look at the villa, after all, the footprint looked like it had disappeared there. However, at the moment when he just lowered his head, a sudden change occurred!

The feeling of being on my back reappeared, and it was even stronger than before. The man hiding in the shadows seems to have stopped hiding this time! Xiang Nanxing's body stiffened, and then he heard the man's voice.

"Your senses are so acute."

It was a woman who spoke, as if it were close at hand

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