Just as everyone was about to leave, the deer's movements suddenly paused, "Wait a minute! ”

"How?" The bear subconsciously clenched the double axe in his hand.

The deer didn't say much, took two steps closer to the front, and said, "There are footprints." ”

"Footprints?" The bear leaned over, looked at a fallen leaf on the ground, frowned, and said, "Why didn't I see it?" ”

"There are fallen leaves everywhere, and last night the wind blew again to speed up the falling of the leaves, and the footprints were covered quite a bit," the deer explained. ”

As he spoke, the deer swept the leaves with both hands, and sure enough, a clear footprint appeared in front of the two of them.

"Could it be that you left it yesterday?" The bear is still a little confused.

The deer's gaze kept wandering around, as if looking for some clue.

Hearing Xiong's words, the deer shook his head and said, "Impossible, we didn't come here yesterday, and ......"

As he spoke, the deer found several footprints in succession.

"These footprints lead in that direction, I'm afraid people from other tribes have been here since we left yesterday."

Hearing this, Xiong Xiong's breath suddenly became short, you know, he has been training in the military camp for a while, that is called a boring, this time he is responsible for protecting the safety of the deer and his party, it is estimated that the patriarch is looking at the previous relationship.

The deer noticed the abnormality of the bear and said: "Don't be stupid, you don't have an order from the patriarch, you dare to act without permission, but you will be severely punished, be careful that the patriarch will punish you for not eating for three days!" ”

"I didn't! Don't talk nonsense! ”

Xiong who heard this suddenly panicked, during this time, the patriarch of the family has been emphasizing discipline and obedience, and he doesn't have to think about it, if the deer goes back and mentions it with the patriarch a few times, the punishment will definitely not be able to jump.

It doesn't matter if he is scolded for a few words, but if he eats, let alone three days, he can't stand it.

"So what do you say?" Xiong asked helplessly.

Deer: "You go back first, I'll touch it by myself." ”

"No, I wasn't allowed to act without permission just now, why did you still act without permission?"

In this regard, Lu Li said, "What is unauthorized action? I am the deputy leader of the reconnaissance team, and the task given to me by the patriarch is to explore all the surrounding environments, and I am completing the task assigned to me by the patriarch. ”

"I don't care, then you can take me with you." Xiong said with some reluctance.

The deer rolled his eyes and said, "Don't make trouble, you're so big, aren't you making trouble for me and increasing my risk of exposure?" ”

So saying, the deer stopped paying attention to the bear, and ran over in the direction where the footprints extended.

Looking at the back of the deer's departure, the bear sighed helplessly, no way, who let the deer take the lead this time.

The deer followed the footprints on the ground slowly, and during the whole process, he was in a calm mood as he quickly entered the state, his ears carefully catching all the sounds around him, and his eyes kept wandering.

Someone!

With a small cracking sound, the deer's heart tightened, and he quickly fell to the ground, trying to hide his body in the fallen leaves.

The deer's eyes wandered, carefully observing the surroundings, only to see dozens of meters away, there were two primitive people walking by, the other party did not find the deer that occupied the advantage of the high ground, after seeing the two barbarians go away, he breathed a sigh of relief, maintained the posture of lying on the ground, and slowly crawled forward with his arms.

The process is very slow and very careful, as if a sound comes out, it may alarm people nearby.

From a distance, the other party's tribal camp is not very large.

The deer was a little annoyed and said, "Damn, it was my mistake." After discovering those things yesterday, I was so anxious to go back to report to the patriarch that I forgot to look into the surrounding area, and maybe those people didn't find the footprints we left yesterday. ”

Although the Xia tribe is very strong now, it stands to reason that no other tribe should dare to attack, but the patriarch often said to him that it is always good to be careless if he is careless.

What should I do, should I retreat now and report the situation here to the patriarch, or will I investigate the situation of this tribe in depth?

The deer were still quite far from the tribe, and could only see the outline of one camp, and nothing else.

After thinking for a moment, the deer decided to move a little closer and gather more information.

The deer carefully lay on the ground, moving forward little by little, he was very smart, he did not choose a straight line, but took a roundabout movement, trying to hide his body as much as possible, plus his sense of detection was very strong, the whole process was not discovered by the opposite tribe.

The distance was getting closer and closer, and the tribal camp, which was originally a little bigger, was also enlarged in his line of sight, and when he reached a certain distance, he was no longer moving forward, and his intuition told him that if he got any closer, he would encounter danger.

The deer lay motionless on the ground, trying to minimize his presence, as if his breath was not even there, and a pair of eyes kept sweeping over the other party's tribal camp, and he was counting the other party's tent.

It is impossible to determine the population of the opposing tribe in a short period of time, so the deer thought of a way, that is, to count the tents, and estimate a relatively accurate number through the number of tents.

After making a rough estimate, the deer began to slowly retreat, and after confirming that he had opened a safe distance and that there were no people from the other tribe around, he quickly got up and ran towards the location of his fellow tribesmen.

The deer's heart was beating wildly, and his breathing was becoming more and more rapid, although this whole process could only be said to be thrilling, but the psychological pressure brought to him was not a lot.

By the time the deer returned to the taro field, there were only ten people left, including the bear, who were in charge of answering the matter.

Seeing the deer return safely, Xiong, who had been waiting anxiously, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but still couldn't help but complain, "Why did it take so long to come back?" ”

Lu smiled and replied, "You have to get some useful information first, otherwise what will you say when you report to the patriarch?" ”

"Let's go, I believe the patriarch is already in a hurry."

Just as the group was rushing to the camp, Xia Qi was busy with another thing.

As I said before, Xia Qi has always wanted to get the bamboo from the bamboo sea over there, but because of the distance and road conditions, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to get the bamboo, and compared with the amount of bamboo that is brought, the gains outweigh the losses.

But Xia Qi didn't give up, and after exploring, he found that because of the heavy rain some time ago, a small river appeared on the wasteland, and that river eventually merged into the river they had been flowing downstream.

However, this new river is not far from the bamboo forest, Xia Qi patted his thigh, simply, let people cut down the bamboo and make it into a bamboo raft, all the way down the river and finally into the Great Xia Lake.

To this end, Xia Qi specially recruited a part of the felling team, and also sent a white wolf team for special protection.

Although Xia Qi specially took them to make a small raft before they set off, Xia Qi's hanging heart could not be put down until he saw them succeed.

Xia Qi, who had been waiting in the tribe, did not wait for the white wolf and them, but waited for Xiong and the others first.

The group hurried and hurried, and finally returned to the tribe safely before dark.

Xia Qi, who had been waiting in the tribal camp for nearly a day, saw this and immediately greeted him, "How is it?" Are things going well? ”

As he spoke, Xia Qi's gaze had already fallen on the vine basket behind them, and his face had already shown obvious joy.

However, before he could be happy for a while, the slightly solemn deer quickly came up and spoke in a low voice, "Patriarch, something unexpected happened. ”

Glancing at the deer's expression, the joy on Xia Qi's face faded, "What's wrong?" ”

"I found a tribe near the taro field." The deer's tone was slightly heavy.

"There are a lot of people on the other side?" Xia Qi asked, and then asked, "Did the people from the other tribe find you?" ”

"The number of the other side should be around two hundred. After we left yesterday, the people of the other tribe probably went to that area, and the point was whether they noticed the footprints we left on the snow. The deer replied.

"That is, not sure?" Xia Qi asked rhetorically, to be honest, he no longer cares about this tribe, after all, with the current Xia tribe, the number of troops alone is more than two hundred.

But after thinking about it, in the end, he decided to take the initiative, not because the so-called side of the couch would not allow others to snore, but because he wanted to see the results of Xiong's training.

While thinking about it, he heard a noisy sound from the lake, Xia Qi went over to see that it was the white wolf and others, operating more than a dozen bamboo rafts, and there were a lot of bamboos stacked on the bamboo rafts.

Xia Qi suddenly smiled and said, "Good boy! ”