It is impossible to deduce anything from this mark alone. We searched around again, and when we found nothing out of the ordinary, we moved on. Anyway, we have come a long way in this cave, judging from the rocks on the mountain wall, there are no traces of artificiality, it should be a natural cave, but this cave is too deep and too long.

When I reached a certain turn, it was obvious that the road began to go down, I calculated, after the first time I found Liu Yue's mark, I found a total of four places, all of which were the same markers without any warning, which means that they came all the way and there was no danger. This inference is relatively reassuring, at least here, they are fine.

Sheng Shiyao decided to stop and rest, I disagreed, and wanted to continue chasing them, but he said that if they had entered the cave two days ago, then we would not be able to catch up with them even if we ran through it. His words always make sense, I can't refute them, but they just make people feel uncomfortable. Looking back, I understand that this is actually my psychological effect affecting myself, I don't want Sheng Shiyao to be a ruthless person, at least I will care about the people around me.

Just thinking about leaning against the mountain wall, his brain was disordered, and when I looked at him several times in the middle, I found that he had his eyes closed, and I didn't know if he was really asleep. But my guess is that he should be a fake sleep or a light sleep, in which case it is difficult to sleep no matter how tired he is. After resting for nearly two hours, he got up and said to me first: "The rest time has passed, and then you will shout that you are tired, and you will not stop for another minute." ”

I shrugged, disapproving. Behind the heart, no matter how tired you are, I won't bow my head to you.

The two walked silently, looking for the marks left by Liu Yue along the road, but this pattern ended at a fork in the road. When two forks in the road could be seen in front of them within range of the flashlight, both of them couldn't help but pause. The two roads are obviously in opposite directions, and the places leading to them are not the same, but the strange thing is that Liu Yue's mark cannot be found at this fork in the road. In general, there are obvious directional signs engraved in this position, and we have searched for them again and again, even the bottom corner, but we have not found any depictions that can be regarded as markers.

"What should I do?" I looked at Sheng Shiyao and listened to his decision.

He squinted into the depths of one of the paths, but raised his hand to the other, "Take this path." I didn't quite understand the basis for his choice, and when I asked about it, his answer was laughable, and he actually said that it was chosen randomly. But on second thought, he should have been casually perfunctory, and he must have had his ideas about choosing that path, because he is not a person who makes casual choices.

So the two of them walked away from one of them, and there was no trace of Liu Yue's portrayal on the cave wall, and I felt anxious in my heart, and I wanted to open my mouth several times to remind him that maybe we were going the wrong way, and now I won't waste too much time when I turn back. But seeing that his expression was grim, his eyes were condensed, and the atmosphere was very depressing, his words shrank in his throat.

I walked like this for more than two hours, and I didn't find any traces, and I couldn't help but ask: "We obviously went the wrong way, why don't we go back and take the other one?" ”

"Why do we see we're on the wrong track?"

"I came here on this road, and there was not a single mark, so I naturally went wrong."

Sheng Shiyao chuckled, "Xiaoxiao, no mark doesn't mean it's a mistake." Have you ever wondered why Liu Yue didn't mark the fork in the mountain? I was stunned, this question was indeed very puzzled in my heart just now, but I really couldn't understand Liu Yue's thinking, so I asked, "Why?" ”

"There are two possibilities, one is that she can't make a mark, and the other is that she can't."

I was more and more confused, what is the difference between not being able to do it and not being able to do it? Sheng Shiyao didn't sell it, and immediately explained to me, he said: "What you can't do means that something may have happened to her, such as being injured and causing her to fall into a coma, so naturally she can't mark it anymore; The fact that she couldn't do it meant that she was afraid that the mark she had made would be discovered by others, which meant that it was not only them who walked the cave, but someone else who followed them. ”

Being analyzed by him like this, I really think it makes sense, his thinking is always very clear, and he can see the possibility of what will happen below just from a superficial phenomenon, and the speculation is not far from ten. I'm still a long way from keeping up with his thinking, so I can only continue to ask: "Then do you think these two possibilities are more likely?" ”

Generally, a double choice question is either one or two, but Sheng Shiyao is a two-choice choice, and he said that both possibilities have happened. The three of them must have entered the cave for some reason, and it was most likely that something had happened to one of them, and they were so anxious that they could not afford to wait until they decided to venture into the cave. And Liu Yue's marks carved on the mountain wall, from the first to the last one found, obvious traces are getting shallower and shallower, which means that she has also changed.

But if this change causes them to be unable to move forward, then they will be seen at the fork in the road, since they haven't seen it, it means that at least one or two of them are still capable of moving, so even if Liu Yue is no longer able to engrave the mark, it will be carved by another person. So why not engrave it at such an important location at the fork in the road? They must have noticed that someone was being followed, in case the person being tracked knew exactly where they were.

Sheng Shiyao's inference is closely related and is very likely to be the truth. But there are a few points that I can't figure out, and I mentioned them one by one. First of all, what happened to the three people who stayed on this mountain that led them to decide to venture into the cave? Secondly, if it is still possible to accurately judge that they can no longer leave marks at the fork in the road, proving that they have not been arrested, then how did they find out that someone was tracking?

Sheng Shiyao smiled lightly and said, "First answer you second, if someone is found to be tracking, and they are not caught, there is usually only one situation, that is, who found the tracker on their body." ”

I was taken aback, "How can there be a tracker?" Don't...... Could it be that Wong Tai Sin's people have caught up? ”

"This is the most likely, otherwise we are in the maze forest, how can they find it so easily."

"So, it's likely that they also got out of the maze with the help of the tracker, and then crossed the green lake to find the mountain? So who will the tracker be? I instinctively touched my pocket, but I heard Sheng Shiyao say: "Don't look for it, you don't have it on you, if I have it, I would have found it a long time ago." It must have been on Zhou Tong, only he had fought Huang Tai Sin, and if I guessed correctly, the tracker should have been implanted in his body along with the Soul Nail in his body. I was negligent in picking up the Soul Nail for him and didn't check it carefully. ”

"Trackers that you didn't even notice, so how did they notice them?"

"This brings us to your first question, remember what we saw in that village? At that time, we deduced what caused the people in the village to die one by one? ”

Without thinking about it, I replied, "Water, it's the problem of the lake." ”

He nodded and said, "There may not be anything wrong with the lake itself, but the water pollution caused by the lake monsters, and the area near the mountain where we docked is where the lake monsters haunt." Along the way, we still have a lot of dry food left, but there is not much water, and when we separated from them, Liu Yue also gave us a bottle of water. It is likely that they used the water from the lake that day to save the water they had brought with them, and it didn't take long for them to react to the change in quality, which may have been especially serious for the injured, but they must not have realized that it was the water problem, and only thought that it was caused by an infection in the wound.

It was precisely because of the retreatment of the wound that Liu Yue found the tracker, and now they couldn't wait any longer, and it was very likely that it was Wong Tai Sin's gang who continued to wait. There may be lake monsters in the lake, and it is impractical to row a raft to blindly look for us, so in general, they can only go into the cave to find another way. The mark on the straight road ahead was to remind me that they had entered the hole, but when this prompt reached the fork in the road, Liu Yue thought that they could not stay any longer, which was a good opportunity to track the number of people separately, and also to give them a chance to survive when the road ahead was blocked. ”

Sheng Shiyao stopped at this point, and basically deduced everything that might have happened two days ago, as if he had seen it himself. After I sorted out the information, I asked, "Then did the people of Wong Tai Sin enter this cave now?" In this way, don't we know which way Liu Yue and the others are taking? ”

Suddenly, he pinched his palm, and saw his sideways eyes staring at me, "Xiaoxiao, I'm not an immortal, just now it was just my inference, I can't estimate whether Wong Tai Sin's people have caught up with me, I only know that this road must be the one taken by the three of them." ”

"Why are you so sure?"

"Because Liu Yue was taught by me, she was sure that I could guess her mind, so she boldly did not make any marks. And have you noticed where this road leads? ”

The direction of the fork in the road flashed back to my mind, and I suddenly felt enlightened, this direction was the same direction we rowed to the village. In that case, Liu Yue will definitely choose a path that can be close to us, and even she may feel that she can meet us through this road, she has studied feng shui metaphysics with Sheng Shiyao, and the identification of the position is more advantageous than ordinary people. And there must be something at the mouth of the two caves that can make her feel that she has reached a consensus with Sheng Shiyao, which belongs to the tacit understanding between the two of them that has been getting along for many years.

I fell silent, and the unexplained sourness once again flooded in my heart. Judging from what Liu Yue did and what Sheng Shiyao said, Liu Yue should be the most powerful person next to Sheng Shiyao. Basically, if Sheng Shiyao is not there, she should be the leader, and Zhou Tong and Liuzi will listen to her.