The members of the exploration team quickly confirmed the location of the ore found, and then left a mark, whether the ore vein can be found next, but it depends on the ability of the two geologists from the geological exploration team.

Just when everyone was excited about the harvest, a kobold spearman in charge of the escort task suddenly shook his ears, and then, he suddenly threw out the kobold spear in his hand in one direction!

All this happened so fast that the members of the exploration team, who were excited a moment ago, had no idea what had just happened.

When they listened to the movement and turned their heads, they saw a white figure quickly fleeing into the distance in the snow.

"What?!"

The white shadow in the snowdrift, the other party has a natural protective color, everyone only felt a dazzle, and before they could see anything clearly, the figure ran away.

The kobold spearman who threw the spear, after a few quick steps, bent down to pick up the spear he had stuck in the snowdrift, and frowned.

"Centurion Wang, what happened just now? What is that white thing? ”

Then the people who reacted trotted all the way to catch up, and after relieving themselves, some members of the exploration team asked Wang Yuan, the kobold centurion who had discovered the situation before.

Faced with this question, Wang Yuan shook his head and replied: "It's not sure for the time being, the white guy is not easy to see in the snow, but it's ......."

As he spoke, Wang Yuan's words turned slightly, and then his eyes fell on the remaining footprints.

"Judging from the shape and spacing of the footprints, the other party should be walking on two legs, and I am afraid that it is an orc who lives in this area."

After coming to this conclusion, everyone's nerves subconsciously tensed, after all, last year, they were chased by the orcs in this bitter cold land.

But Rowling never imagined that there would be other orcs on the periphery of this bitter cold place.

Unknown threats are terrifying, especially if the other party is so good at hiding their tracks.

After thinking for a while, Wang Yuan spoke again: "But don't be nervous, you look at these footprints, judging from their size, the owners of the footprints should be small and medium-sized orcs like wolves or dogs." As long as they don't number more than two hundred, I'm confident I'll be able to keep you safe. ”

This is not because Wang Yuan is arrogant, but because it is the case.

Heavily armed kobold spearmen, in the face of these orcs who are outdated in equipment and similar in size, are confident that they can defeat two or even three enemies.

Then I heard Wang Yuan say again: "It's better to take a group of soldiers to catch up and see, and try to find out the details of the other party." ”

Rowling was obviously aware of the troubles of unknown threats, and finding out the bottom of the orcs here was already within the scope of the exploration team, so she didn't think much about it, and nodded in agreement.

"Then Centurion Wang, this matter is hard for you."

Hearing this, Wang Yuan nodded, and directly followed the footprints with fifty kobold spearmen.

After chasing for a distance, Wang Yuan soon found that the footprints in front of him suddenly separated, one left and one right, extending in two different directions.

There is no doubt that the other party left to confuse them, and the white guy is really cunning.

Wang Yuan sniffed, only to find that there was a residual smell of the other party in both directions.

Wang Yuan hesitated a little, the troops it brought out this time were limited, and if it was to look for it separately, it would be too risky After thinking for a while, it stretched out its hand and pointed to the right.

"Go this way!"

Following the footprints on the right, they chased for nearly 100 meters, and then, the footprints broke, and it seemed that the footprints on the right were just a disguise.

Wang Yuan, who hurriedly turned back, chased along the footprints on the left with the soldiers under his command.

However, when they were far away, in the snowdrift not far from where a kobold was standing just now, they suddenly began to tremble, and then a white figure emerged from the snow.

Immediately after, the white figure quickly fled in the direction where Wang Yuan and the others had come.

After chasing for a while, Wang Yuan found that the footprints on the left were also broken, and he realized that he had been tricked by that cunning guy!

Wang Yuan's heart was called a nest fire, but it was impossible to continue looking for it, because the surrounding snow had been trampled by themselves.

Despite his reluctance, Wang Yuan could only return to the camp with the soldiers.

After returning to the camp, listening to Wang Yuan's narration, Luo Lin and the others all frowned, according to this statement, the other party is really difficult to deal with.

But in any case, their exploration work cannot be stopped.

Since you can't catch the other party, you can only strengthen your defense.

As the exploration team conducted geological exploration and searched for ore veins, kobold spearmen and northern warriors all dispersed in all directions, making sure that the cunning ones were no longer quietly lurking under their noses.

In the face of such guards, the members of the exploration team did not see those white guys again for a period of time.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the other party appeared, but they did not find out the possibility.

As the days passed, after a week of exploration and confirmation, they finally figured out the approximate location of the vein.

At the same time, the ore that was brought back to the camp for inspection has also been confirmed to be copper ore.

Although there are already several copper veins in Great Xia, Xia Qi naturally hopes that the more copper, the better.

The most important thing is that in order to improve the enthusiasm of the exploration team before departure, Xia Qi also specifically said that he would reward every vein he found.

So, after learning the good news, the members of the exploration team decided to celebrate.

The camp's cooks rolled up their sleeves and walked into the tent where the supplies were kept, intending to prepare a sumptuous dinner to celebrate the achievements of the past two months.

"Huh? What about salt? Where is the bag of salt? ”

One of the cooks looked left and right, but he couldn't find the bag of salt.

In the supply tent, another slightly older cook listened to it and replied casually, "Isn't the salt in that corner?" ”

"Here? No, I don't. ”

The cook searched around that corner, but found nothing.

As he spoke, a cold wind blew, and the biting chill made him shiver.

"Hell, this place is so cold. Wait......"

The cook suddenly realized that he was in the corner of the tent, and even if the wind blew in through the door, it would not be possible to blow here.

After the cook removed the clutter in the corner, he found that the tent had actually broken a hole!

He only felt his heart beat half a beat slower.

"Uncle Wang, come on, this tent has been opened with a hole!"

Hearing this, the cook Lao Wang hurriedly came up, and looked at the big hole behind the tent, and his whole face suddenly turned black.

"Call everyone over and count the supplies! Several other tents stockpiling food were also inspected! ”

The movement here quickly attracted the attention of the other members of the exploration team.

As it happened, Rowling returned to the camp at this time, and seeing this, she called a soldier and asked, "What's going on over there?" ”

"Report to Captain Rowling, it's the cooks who have found holes in the back of several tents where they are stockpiling food, and are now counting supplies."

"A hole?"

Rowling, who heard the news, suddenly raised her slender eyebrows upward.

"As soon as you have the results, report back to me."

Because of this incident, the joy of the entire exploration team because of the discovery of the vein was also reduced a lot.

Food and materials are related to the survival of hundreds of people in the camp in front of them, and it can be said to be the top priority.

The results of the inventory came out quickly, and after Rowling read it, her face suddenly became gloomy.

At the beginning of this month, the grain materials that the grain transport team had just delivered were directly reduced by one-fifth!

You know, this is a month's food for hundreds of people, and you can imagine how big the loss of one-fifth is.

Rowling took a deep breath, and then called the scout captain of the exploration team, as well as Wang Yuan, Alola, and the others.

Although she is the captain of the investigation team, it is obviously not her specialty to investigate this kind of thing.

After a period of deliberation, the matter of thoroughly investigating the food theft case was handed over to Wang Yuan and the scout captain Chuck.

Alora, as for her, continues to be in charge of guarding their exploration team.

Wang Yuan and Chuck, who took over the temporary job, walked around to the back of the camp, intending to confirm the traces of the scene first.

However, in the bitter cold land, there is snow all year round, and traces such as footprints and smells are basically nothing to be found after a period of time.

"Centurion Wang, have you found anything on your nose?" Chuck, who had found nothing, turned his head to look at Wang Yuan.

Hearing this, Wang Yuan shook his head and replied, "No." We don't know when the other person moved, it's too windy, usually more than half an hour, and the smell will be blown away. ”

Although kobolds have a keen sense of smell, their noses are not omnipotent, and the smell is blown away, which is also something that cannot be helped.

After telling Rowling about the result, Rowling's mood couldn't help but get worse.

"So what do we do now? I don't even have a clue, how can I find it? ”

"Maybe we can try to wait for the thief to come to the door himself."

I only heard Chuck, who was standing in the tent, speak slowly.

"This batch of grain was just delivered at the beginning of the month, and the thief stole so much grain in such a short period of time, which means that the other party urgently needs a large amount of food."

"If my assumptions are correct, the thieves should come back to steal food in the short term."

Faced with Chuck's speculation, Rowling frowned slightly.

"And what if the thief doesn't show up again?"

"That means that the thief is from the camp, and there is a thief in the camp!" Chuck said this with a determined expression.

And after everyone was stunned, they also reacted one after another.

That's right, if the thief is a person in the camp, and now the whole camp already knows about the theft of food, the other party will definitely stop it in time to avoid exposing himself.

But if not, as long as they pretend that nothing has happened, the thief will come again to steal food.

Just use this method to confirm whether there is a thief!