The group walked along the rancid, locust-infested banks to the mouth of the river downstream.

They had come from the shoreline, so the distance was not very far, and it wasn't long before they saw the sea in the leaves of the trees, and they were a little excited.

"There should be an estuary ahead, so be careful." Fang Jinyan did not forget to remind them again.

"Well, we know." Everyone knows it's not a game, so they take it seriously.

So everyone suppressed some excitement and quickened their pace to rush forward.

Soon, they saw an open estuary delta with a flat meadow and a golden sand at the edge!

"Don't worry, let's go and investigate first." This time it was not Fang Jinyan who spoke, but Zhu Pingzhi.

In this team, Fang Jinyan is not the only one who is more cautious, in fact, driven by Fang Jinyan, everyone has cultivated a more vigilant consciousness, and now even if there is no Fang Jinyan to remind them, they themselves will remind each other to be vigilant.

They are not stupid, and they don't always need to be reminded by Fang Jinyan to understand.

Although most of the time, there is no serious danger in them, but they do not dare to relax lightly.

"Looks like some muntjac is grazing over there." Zheng Chen said after hiding behind the bushes and observing for a while.

"Yes, it's the same one we caught last time on Rubber Ridge." Zhao Lan also said.

Rubber Ridge is the name they took for a place, on the hill across the volcanic lake, where they first discovered the rubber groves.

"The captain said it. Where they appear, it is likely that predators are hidden. We need to be vigilant. Zhou Rong also said with a stern face.

Experiences like this are indeed what Fang Jinyan said before. In fact, they are all very simple truths, and you can understand them when you think about it, but ordinary people don't have such awareness, and now they are preliminarily cultivated.

Fang Jinyan was naturally happy about this, he had no intention of showing off his skills, and his companions could realize for themselves that it was best to be saddened, to be honest, if they always needed his reminder to realize it. Sooner or later, something will go wrong.

They clenched their weapons in tacit agreement and quietly pushed forward.

They approached the muntjac who were drinking and grazing by the river, and did not let them notice.

"Kill them, eat the barbecue later," Zhou Rong whispered, among all the game animal meat, the venison has the best taste, at least when grilled, the bison is too old, and the leopard meat is a little sour. The mutton has a strong smell, and the rabbit meat has no texture

"Don't worry, I feel like there's something wrong with them." Fang Jinyan frowned and said.

"What's wrong? Hey, the big one is a little lame when it walks. Is it hurt? Zhou Rong observed it and found it.

"Yes, it has a clear injury to its right thigh, you notice that wound. Most of the injuries in that area were caused during predation. ”

"So it's been preyed?! Is it a crocodile or a leopard or something," the crowd said in amazement.

"Neither. It should be human. Fang Jinyan gave an even more surprising answer.

"How so?! There's a human around here?! ”

"How do you know?! Maybe it was a beast bite."

The crowd hurriedly asked, but they didn't realize it. They now seem to be more terrified of humans than wild beasts.

"If you look closely at the wound, there's clearly a piece of stuff stuck in it, and if I'm not mistaken, it's supposed to be a broken arrow." Fang Jinyan said.

"Where can you see clearly, the distance is too far, our eyesight can't compare with you" Zhou Rong and the others stared at each other for a long time, and finally said helplessly.

"Trust me, I can't be mistaken." Fang Jinyan said.

"So what are we going to do now?" Zhao Lan asked.

"Sneak around and take a look, and maybe you'll be able to spot something else." Fang Jinyan said.

"Okay."

After a while, Fang Jinyan walked quickly to a low banyan tree and said, "Look here. ”

"The branch is broken, and the fracture is extremely smooth, and it looks like it should have been cut with an axe or a knife." Zhou Rong immediately understood.

"And there are no broken branches around, apparently they have been taken away." Zheng Chen also added analysis.

"There's also a break over there, which should have been cut by them." Zhu Pingzhi reminded.

"That's right, they should have someone injured, so they need to make a stretcher with a branch and carry it back." Fang Jinyan looked around and said.

"How do you see that?" Everyone asked in amazement.

"Look here, there's clearly blood here." Fang Jinyan pointed to a stone and said.

"How do you not know that it is not the blood that is shed after the prey is killed?" Zhou Rong was defeated again and again, and said unconvinced.

"Because this blood stain is not dripping, but left when the wound is bandaged, it should be that the wound of the injured person is too large to stop the bleeding at all, and then the blood stain seeps down, and this fiber filament is proof, it has a clear curvature, and it is obviously the fiber of artificial fabric." Fang Jinyan said with his fingers twisting a thin line like a hair from the bloodstains.

The thread has been dyed dark red.

"What the hell happened to them?" Liu Yun asked.

"I can't judge this now, but the wound is so big, there are generally two possibilities, one is attacked by a beast, and the other is injured by a human weapon." Fang Jinyan shook his head and said.

"In other words, there are not only other victims here, but there may be more than one group of people here?" Zhao Lan Zhou Qi frowned and said.

"Yes." Fang Jinyan replied in the affirmative.

"Shall we retreat now, or should we find out their whereabouts?" Zheng Chen hurriedly said.

His mentality is different from others, most of the others are more jealous, although he is also a little jealous, but more importantly, he still wants to find his girlfriend, so he actually prefers the latter

"Of course it's to investigate, we can't hide from them for the rest of our lives." Fang Jinyan said.

"That's right, and we've managed to find this place where we can dry salt, and it's a shame to go like this." Zhu Qianqian said.

"Captain, I think that since they are also humans, they must also eat salt, and if they really live nearby, most of them will also dry salt here! Let's look for it, and maybe we'll find it! Zhou Rong said suddenly.

"You're right, we'll go find out right away." Fang Jinyan nodded and said.

"If we do, what should we do? You're not going to grab it, are you? Zhu Pingzhi asked.

"If we weren't forced to do so, we wouldn't have to find conflict with other humans. It depends on the situation, if we can, we can trade with them, we can also rent their salt pans, which will save us a lot of effort, of course, if they are not very friendly, we can only resort to other methods. Fang Jinyan said. (To be continued......)