37. Tracers
East's observation skills are quite strong. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info he even found the abnormality when he was squinting to recuperate.
At the edge of the woods overturned a four-wheeled cart. This type of car is tall and sturdy, can carry a lot of goods, and is the favorite car of merchants. Usually these carts are towed by tame earth lizards. The big car in front of him overturned to the ground, and the wheels were facing the sky. Some hastily chopped branches and weeds covered the car, fundamentally ruining the visual appearance of the car. If ordinary people pass by and don't pay attention, they can't tell that this is a big car.
East woke Sonia up and drove his mount towards the overturned cart. When he came to him, he jumped down and sat up, picking up a branch that had covered the car. The twigs are so fresh that they can be cut down for no more than two hours.
Esther brushed aside the weeds and branches, and with a strained pair of arms, he flipped the cart back. On the driver's seat in front of the cart, the words "Cruise Groceries" are clearly engraved.
This road is rarely traveled except by the residents of the town of Cruise. When he first saw the car, East suspected that it was the car of the grocery store owner's family, and now he has proven this judgment.
According to the townspeople, the grocery store owner and his family of five were in the car, including the owner and his wife, two sons and a daughter. In addition, there are young people from three towns who are going to Colombo to work.
That's eight big living people. But now there's no one here.
If you can take eight people away, there must be more than eight. What's more, those people in the grocery store are not defenseless, they are women and children, not counting the underage daughter, there are also seven adult men and women. This is not the waste wood white-collar workers in the metropolis of the previous life, but the strong and armed Coronian farmers and herdsmen.
East looked around, and the footprints on the ground were messy, and he could see that people were panicking after the overturn. But what about the earth lizard? I've never heard of a ground lizard that can overturn! This animal walks very steadily, and can hardly fall over in its life.
Everywhere you go, you're in trouble. Easter really regretted coming over and checking it out. But if he finds out and doesn't care about it, he feels sorry for his conscience. I am highly skilled, so I should naturally help those ordinary people more. What's more, the jazz annuity I receive every year is also a tax paid by these ordinary people one by one!
Esther tells Sonia to go back to town and call someone. He followed the trail on the ground and walked into the woods.
When the first rays of sunlight shone on the roof of the Colombo Zoo Centre restaurant, the nerves of the Count of Vantaa that had been tense all night finally relaxed. The arrival of Master Sal Montaro and Valentina completely reassured him. The two legendary powerhouses assured him that no other powerful creatures had been released last night, except for the razor-toothed tiger's blue aurora. The riots that lasted all night were more like harassment activities to rescue the blue aurora. A large number of herbivores and small carnivores are impassable in front of the zoo's high walls and deep pools. The group of golems guarding the door even caught a large number of animals that were stunned.
The Count of Vantaa accompanied the two legendary powerhouses to the location of the force field cage where the Bladetooth Tiger had been held. Also coming over was Mr. Polo, a famous detective from the Wangdu Police Department.
The force field wall was still open, but inside the wall was no longer the beautiful and powerful giant tiger, but a frightened and half-dead, lost soul.
Valentina temporarily crushed the force field wall with a single blow. She dragged Jeremy out of it and asked the people around her if they knew the kid.
"This is Jeremy, one of the Principal's personal attendants. He was the one who was taken away last night. A zoo employee immediately recognized Jeremy.
"Oh. Such. This kid has gone a long way! and he can still survive. "Of course, Valentina knows what a so-called personal attendant is. She shook Jeremy and saw that the kid's eyes were completely unfocused.
"Master, this kid is terrified. Do you see what you can do?" Valentina immediately shifted the trouble to Master Lissal Montaro.
Master Sal Montaro looked into Jeremy's eyes, nodded, and took a small incense box from his bosom and put it in front of Jeremy's nose.
"Ahh By the time he stopped shaking, his eyes were back in focus. He found himself once again in his hands.
Detective Polo picked up Jeremy's confession and read it again. Yesterday's night zoo riot made many big people very dissatisfied. He had worked in the Colombo Police Department for sixteen years and had never seen so many big names at one time. It's just those two legendary powerhouses that he has never been in contact with before. This time the case looks very confusing. Judging by the losses, one legendary beast escaped from the zoo, and many more animals died in last night's chaos. Thankfully, there were no casualties, which was much better than the zoo riots five years ago.
According to the little squire named Jeremy, it was two young girls who had grabbed him, and they were probably not much older than him. The two girls have a ten-year-old zoo poster. They wanted to see the animals described above. After discovering that the animals were gone, the two girls felt cheated by the zoo and began to retaliate by releasing the animals.
Polo clearly remembers that the little attendant said that the two girls did not release any carnivores that might pose a threat to people, but rather released a lot of large, stupid herbivores. From this point of view, it looks like some bear child's prank. But this kind of prank is also a little too scary. In the end, a giant carnivorous beast of the legendary level was released. Such an act is too much, even if it is a prank.
Now the question is who these two girls are, how did they get into the zoo, and how did they leave? In this regard, the legendary powerhouse of the female who is inferior in height has her own opinion. She considers both girls to be strong fighters. They probably came in directly over the wall. After all, this is just a zoo, and the legendary beast is not something that ordinary people can unleash at all.
The Count of Vantaa has a great deal of responsibility in this regard. He came to the zoo last night, causing many of the guards who were supposed to patrol to be mobilized to the domestication base to protect him. Although he himself is an eighteenth-level warrior and does not need the protection of those little miscellaneous fish, it is normal for bureaucrats to do this.
It seems that the matter needs to be examined in more detail. Detective Polo intends to inspect every meter of the zoo's walls in detail. He believes that as long as something has been done, it will leave a trace.
Esther looked at the river in front of him in a daze. He followed the trail of the ground until he came to the river. On the tidal flats along the river, there are obvious traces of boat dragging. This proves that the grocery store owner and his party were brought on board. The river must be one of the tributaries that flow into the Pervasse River, and it will eventually flow to Colombo. But without the ships, Esther couldn't continue the chase - he couldn't leave any signposts for Sonya. As for turning into a small fish and going down the river, he was not so bold. The Pervas blackfish is a well-known carnivorous fish that can grow up to two meters in length. Esther didn't want to experiment with a fishmouth escape.
Are you going to give up? Easter's brow furrowed. The big river was rough and there were no suitable boats. It's a real headache.
It turns out that there will always be a way. Easter's final solution was to take out a one-meter-square wooden box from the armband, and after the experiment proved that it was not leaky, he cut a thick branch to make an oar, bravely sat in it, and floated downstream.
The banks of the river are completely untouched and unexplored. It's hard to imagine such an inaccessible primeval forest three days from Colombo. The plane of Coronia is still too underpopulated.
Esther sat in the box, keeping an eye out for boats on both sides of the river. It was a pretty big boat, at least twenty or thirty people. No matter where it lands, it is bound to leave a mark.
The river was flowing at a fast rate, and Esther struggled to maintain the balance of the wooden boxes, and the sight was always the same on both sides of the river, with no signs of human activity in sight. Easter estimated that he had been drifting down the river for three or four hours. The other party's boat is bigger and better than its own, with more oars, and perhaps an alchemical propulsion device, and it is estimated that the speed of going down the river is faster than its own. It made him anxious. If the other party goes directly into the wider Pervas River, it will be ten times more difficult to find the other party's traces than it is now.
Afraid of what comes. After another two hours of chasing brown without harvest, the surface of the river suddenly changed from 70 to 80 meters wide to 7 or 800 meters wide. Esther immediately realized that this was the mouth of the tributary that flowed into the Pervasse River, and that he was already seeing the Pervasse River. As he continued along, the surface of the river became extremely open, and he stood in the box and looked into the distance, only to see the mist of the river steaming, and the width of the river was seven or eight thousand meters, and in the center of the river there was no bank to be seen.
Such a large river is not something that can be floated in a box. Beneath the huge volume of water in the Pervas River, huge fish live. The most common of these is the one-tonne goldennosed bass. This huge carnivorous fish is big enough to overturn a small wooden box.
In a frustrated mood, Esther put the wooden box on the bank of the river. After five or six hours of huddled in a wooden box, he was already very tired. Thinking that Sonia should have seen the message she carved on the tree by this time, she just didn't know when she would be able to catch up with her. But there are a lot of them, so they should be able to make a raft soon.
Esther put away the crate and searched the neighborhood without finding any clues. But he was still careless, climbed a tree and hid his figure with leaves. He ate a lot of the food he carried in his armband. Took a little drink. He made a trigger alarm on the trunk of the tree, and then fell down on a horizontal branch that was fifteen meters above the ground and began to rest. It's already like this, so let's recover our strength first and then figure out a way.
In order not to miss Sonya, who arrived at some point, Esther never fell asleep, but used breathing to keep him in a half-asleep state. This state soon brought him unexpected discoveries.
In the dimness, Esther heard the sound of oars lapping against the water. He opened his eyes wide to discover the source of the sound.
That's three boats. Three ships that are basically the same size as Easter's estimate.
East's chosen tree is right at the mouth of the river with a good view. He could clearly see that the boats had six pairs of oars and a crew of about twenty. In addition to this, there are about ten people who are tied up.
"That's you. Esther clenched his fist excitedly, and the exhaustion of his whole body disappeared at this moment.