Chapter 25: Footprints
Zhang Siyuan's originally lowered head suddenly lifted up stiffly like a puppet being grabbed and pulled by a string, he clenched his fists, his eyes almost jumped out of his sockets, and he stared at the river with golden light without blinking. I squinted my eyes and leaned over to stretch my neck, letting my gaze sweep from left to right, inch by inch.
The rows of footprints still lay there quietly, there was still not a trace of superfluous marks on the ice, and there was nothing special on the snow. Everything seems to be normal, but this is the most abnormal part.
My cold sweat flowed down like a waterfall, my body began to tremble uncontrollably, and I barely managed to stand firm by holding on to the tree, and finally squeezed out a sentence that changed my tone from between my teeth: "He, where did the two of them go?" ”
Zhang Siyuan's face was like dead ashes, cold sweat flowed down like a waterfall, and his two eyes were as dull as dead fish eyes. He slowly walked out of the woods with stiff trembling steps, and I followed him by holding on to the tree, knowing that the worst was already in front of me, my mind was in chaos, my heart was no longer beating wildly, and the boundless fog of despair surrounded me.
We walked mechanically to the snow one after the other, and I didn't see the slightest difference in the number of footprints or anything else. The snow was exactly the same as the last time I saw it, the two men seemed to have disappeared into the dense forest, leaving footprints only three or five meters away from me, but there were no suspicious traces near the footprints.
I was afraid that Zhang Siyuan would suddenly evaporate into the air, and I grabbed his arm tightly, but when I was about to talk to him, I found that something was wrong with his eyes, and there seemed to be something flashing in his eyes. I followed his gaze and said suspiciously, "These are the footprints we left last time......
Before I could speak, a flash of lightning suddenly crossed my head, and the cold hairs on my whole body stood up instantly, and I opened my mouth half in surprise and half joy to look at those footprints again, and suddenly found a clue. I complained to myself about my recklessness as I tried to remember all the traces that had been left here. None of us went to the river the first few times, but now there are a few new footprints extending from the original footprints, and it stands by the river, and there is no extension.
Zhang Siyuan nodded solemnly: "There are two lines of footprints that extend to the river. I just looked at it and it felt very familiar, and there was no need to doubt that it was definitely their footprints. But they were extremely careful to put their feet into the marks they had left before, and the new footprints they left behind were much shallower. If it weren't for my sharp eyes, I wouldn't have noticed that they had actually been here. So the question is, why are they doing this? There are no cracks in the ice, so where did they go? ”
My heart raced, and I leaped to the river in a few arrows, crouched down and took a closer look in the dim light.