Chapter 50 Tracking
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A group of thirteen iron horsemen rode through the western frontier of the tribe like ghosts and entered the wilderness.
The dawn gradually rose, and as far as the eye could see, it was almost an endless color of pig iron, and occasionally a miasma covered a large area along the way, and there was a dead silence in the gray-brown miasma. The wilderness, such a desolate and barbaric living environment, made Zhou Luzhi frown.
Every now and then, a thin guard jumps from his horse, grabs a handful of dirt and sniffs it vigorously at the tip of his nose, or looks through a crevice in a rocky rock for clues that no one has noticed......
Whether or not the thirteen miners can be rescued is related to the peace of the entire western Xinjiang of the tribe, and if you want to rescue those miners who have been captured, you must track down the whereabouts of the sand bandits who sneaked in the day before yesterday.
There are two ways to track down that gang of bandits, one is to enter the wilderness and find any gang of bandits, grab a few tongues and ask.
Of course, this is extremely dangerous.
If you want to grab your tongue, you don't know what kind of tough battle you want to fight, if you provoke a big force and are surrounded by hundreds of people, it will be quite difficult for them to escape, and there are so many sand bandits in the wilderness that even if you catch your tongue, the other party may not know the information they need.
Then there is another way, which is to follow the trail of the sand bandits who withdrew the day before yesterday.
But that's also extremely difficult.
The sand bandits have been retreating for two days, and in the harsh wilderness, many traces have been erased by the wind, torrential rain, extremely hot fire, and poisonous miasma, and the day before yesterday, when the sand bandits retreated, they adopted the strategy of breaking the whole into pieces, and hundreds of people scattered and retreated like a low tide, and it was not easy to track down.
Zhou Lu peeked at the group of guards, and now those people were not in a hurry, and they looked extremely confident in the thin guards.
The thin Iron Guard's footsteps were as soft as a cat, and he took a few steps up the rock, and to everyone's surprise, he pulled out a wooden bead smaller than a fingernail from between the cracks in the rock.
Zhou Lu was taken aback.
That wooden bead was the favorite decoration worn by the sand bandits under their clothes, and they were hung on the corners of their clothes with silk threads, and Zhou Luzhen didn't understand how the thin iron guard could still have such a presence in the depths of the mountains and rocks during the rapid journey.
"Can his gaze turn?"
The emaciated Iron Guard took out the animal skin with the mutilated map on it, studied it with Tie Mi Tao for a long time, and finally pointed to one of the forks in the road and whispered, "Go from here." ”
All the guards jumped on their horses.
"No!"
Zhou Lu suddenly shouted, and everyone turned their heads to look at him.
Zhou Lu didn't know why, there was a faint fear in his heart about that direction, as if there was a huge danger lying there, Zhou Lu didn't even know if that fear was because of the sixth sense formed by the perception of heaven and earth by the brute cyclone, or because of the love transmitted by the demon fire in the dantian.
Anyway, he didn't want to go in that direction.
Zhou Lu looked at the front, pointed to another road like the new big 6, and shouted to the thin iron guard:
"You're chasing the wrong one, look, what's under that dead stump?"
Zhou Lu ran over on his horse, carefully removed the strip of cloth that was scraped and torn under the stump more than ten zhang away, and then ran back.
Zhou Lu triumphantly showed off:
"This came from that road, and I think we should chase that way. ”
Everyone looked at Zhou Lu with a disdainful gaze.
The thin iron guard snorted coldly, flew on the horse, turned his head on the horse's back, and said lightly:
"There are many bandits in the wilderness, and this is another group of bandits who stayed earlier. ”
He didn't even want to explain too much, he shook the reins and was about to move forward, Zhou Lu shouted behind him in great disbelief and asked, "How do you know that this is another gang of bandits, how do you know that you have chosen the right path?"
Zhou Lu was extremely resistant to the direction chosen by the thin iron guard, and he subconsciously wanted to convince the other party.
This time, the eyes of the iron guards looking at Zhou Lu almost directly wrote the word "stupid", the thin iron guard Huo Ran turned the horse's head, walked to Zhou Lu's side a few times, and grabbed Zhou Lu's collar viciously across the horse, his eyes behind the ghost mask were shining, and his voice said in a cold voice:
"Remember, I'm the master in the field of tracking, you, nothing, you, either shut up for me, or, let me plug your mouth with a cloth, which one do you choose?"
Frightened by this iron guard, Zhou Lu honestly shut his mouth aggrievedly, reluctantly drove his horse behind everyone, and secretly muttered unconvinced: "Don't you even let people express their opinions?
The thin Iron Guard in front of him had a blue face, but what could he say to the tangled slut.
None of the iron guards answered the road, and the group rode their horses and galloped, and thirteen green horses stepped on the uneven mountain rocks like walking on the flat ground, passing through the mountain col like arrows, and swept through a dry forest, and then drilled out of the forest, and a sudden wind swept the sand and rocks all over the world, completely enveloping the thirteen figures.
The wind and sand were blowing dimly, and there was no human figure visible a few steps away.
Galloping in the wind, Zhou Lu covered his hands in front of his eyes to block the wind and sand, and cursed angrily while spitting out the sand in his mouth.
The more he walked in this direction, the stronger the faint uneasiness in Zhou Lu's heart became, and following behind everyone, Zhou Lu hurried to catch up with great reluctance.
There was no trace of the sand bandits along the way, and Zhou Lu muttered to himself: "Hmph, say that you went wrong, you still don't believe it, look, there is not even a trace and you still track a fart?"
Strayed into the wind and sand, the green horse is struggling as hard as possible, but there is no trace of the sand bandits after driving such a long way, at this time even Tie Mitao is a little suspicious, that is, he is on the right road, and he is blown away by such a strong wind, and all the clues have been blown away, how to find traces and chase them down in the future?
In such bad weather, can you really find the location of the bandits by tracking?
At this time, only the thin iron guard still rushed to the front with great determination.
Everyone struggled in the wind and sand, and galloped forward for more than half an hour, before the wind and sand gradually dispersed, revealing a gray-yellow sky, and the thirteen people were all wolves, their heads were scattered, their faces were gray, and they were full of sand.
In front of the mountain road, the dry yellow quicksand that has been blown from nowhere has covered the uneven rocks.
Looking at so much yellow sand, everyone was dumbfounded, and they all slowed down their horses a little at a loss. The yellow sand covered the mountain road, how could we track it this time? At this moment, the thin iron guard's face suddenly showed a look of ecstasy, and he beat the horse with all his might, and galloped more than thirty feet away, and one of them jumped off the horse, pulled up with both hands in the yellow sand on the ground, and after a while, dug out half a sharp bone spear from the sand.
There was also a slash mark on the tip of the bone spear.
The thin guard put the bone spear on the tip of his nose and sniffed vigorously, then jumped on his horse with a half-cut bone spear and ran back excitedly, and shouted in a low voice:
"Found it, it was the sand bandits who left behind the day before yesterday, and we are absolutely on the right path. ”
At this moment, everyone except Zhou Lu was extremely happy, and Tie Mitao's eyes lit up.
Such a harsh climate did not prevent the iron guard from finding the traces of the sand bandit again, and the thin iron guard's almost magical tracking skills made them confident in this mission again.