A few hundred meters further along the footprints, the snow on the ground was gone.

Zhang Xuebing suddenly had a headache, where did this snow come from, how can this be tracked, do you want to look for it in this radius of hundreds of miles?

At this time, Xiong Zhan came to the front, looked down at the ground carefully, and then pointed in a direction, "Over there!" ”

As a veteran scout, he surveyed the terrain and tracked it as his profession, and it came in handy at this time.

Xiong Zhan surveyed the traces, and the two chased them all the way to the bottom of the cone surrounded by mountains.

It's getting hotter and hotter, and there's a faint smell of sulfur in the air.

It seems that there must be a hot spring ahead.

At this moment, Xiong Zhan suddenly pointed to the ground and said.

"Old horn, he's turned again!"

Zhang Xuebing couldn't help but complain in his heart, could it be that this guy got up in the middle of the night to play hide and seek with himself?

He gritted his teeth and said, "Chase, you have to find him, I still don't believe it, can he run out of Asia?" ”

At the foot of the mountain, the road gradually steepened, and there were black boulders everywhere.

The size of a small pumpkin and the size of a house are large enough to be the size of a house.

It can be said that there is no road at all now, and the two of them have difficulty climbing between these boulders, and it is very dangerous to carefully look for the traces of the horned wood jiao, and they may be injured or even killed if they are not careful.

The two of them were already tired and sweaty halfway through the climb, and they felt more tired than they had been since midnight.

Zhang Xuebing couldn't climb anymore, so he sat down on a flat boulder and beckoned Xiong Zhan to rest.

Xiong Zhan was also tired like a bear, he sat next to Zhang Xuebing, gasped for breath, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to the other party.

Zhang Xuebing, who usually doesn't like to smoke, also lit one in order to relieve fatigue and returned the lighter to Xiong Zhan.

Xiong Zhan puffed smoke and said, "Lao Jiao is planning to exhaust the two of us, I really don't know where he went, which one is this singing?" ”

Zhang Xuebing slapped the stone and said angrily, "Even if I go through this mountain, I have to find him!" ”

At this moment, an exhausted voice sounded from the side.

"You're finally here!"

Zhang Xuebing and Xiong Zhan were excited at the same time, but they didn't expect that it would take no effort to step on the iron shoes and find nowhere to find them, and the voice of Jiaomu Jiao turned out to be from the side.

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

As if he had clockwork, Zhang Xuebing stood up suddenly, bypassed the boulder, and looked down.

Sure enough, the ragged Horned Wood Jiao was lying under the boulder.

At this moment, the horned wood Jiao has no good cloth on his body, and he is simply fighting with a beggar, presumably scraped by a branch from the woods.

There were blood marks everywhere on his face and hands, his hat was gone, and the hair on his head looked like a nest in the grass, and his expression was even more unbearable.

Lying on the ground, clutching a half-dead fat rabbit in his hands.

Zhang Xuebing was so angry in his heart, he was almost angry and had a heart attack.

"Brother Laojiao, how old are you, did you run out for a hundred and ten miles in order to catch a rabbit?" Zhang Xuebing's head and face are complaining.

Xiong Zhan came over and gave a thumbs up to Jiaomujiao.

"Brother, pay attention, this is a prepared lunch in advance!"

Jiaomu Jiao cried and said, "I'm lost, do you believe it?" ”

The two of them helped him up to the boulder and took out the kettle for him to drink slowly.

After Jiaomu Jiao's story, they finally knew what had happened.

It turned out that during the vigil, Jiaomu Jiao found a fat hare.

So I thought that they were trapped in the forest without supplies, and that catching this rabbit could be used as food for a day.

So he threw out the dagger, and the throwing knife that was originally caught in his hand turned out to be because it was too dark to hit the rabbit's vital point, but only pierced it in the leg.

The rabbit took the dagger and limped into the depths of the forest.

Jiaomu Jiao thought that it didn't matter if he didn't catch the rabbit, but this dagger had been with him for many years, and the commemorative significance was extraordinary, and it must not be lost.

So as soon as he gritted his teeth, he chased after him, despite the darkness and darkness of the forest.

After chasing the bloodstain for a short distance, I saw the rabbit limping in front of me to flee for his life.

It seemed that this guy was also at the end of his crossbow, so he ran wildly, and finally approached the rabbit on a hillside.

Then the rabbit fell down the hill with a bone.

Jiaomu Jiao's heart was unwilling for a while, and he also went down the hillside to the bottom, and the rabbit and dagger were found, but after he returned to the mountain along the hillside, he found that it was not the original place at all.

So he walked around the mountains, and after dawn found himself in the middle of a volcano.

At this time, he was already tired and exhausted, and it was almost impossible to return, and after resting for a while, he began to plan to find a commanding height, see the surrounding environment clearly, and then make plans.

But he was halfway up the climb, thirsty and tired, and the heat here was abundant and the temperature was not cold, so he fell asleep halfway up the mountain.

It wasn't until I heard Zhang Xuebing and them speak that I woke up.

Although the volcano is not very high, it is quite windy because it is not sheltered from the surrounding area.

Zhang Xuebing stood at the highest point, hunting by the mountain wind, his hair fluttering.

The top of the hill was flat, with almost no grass, and there was nothing on the ground except large stones.

Zhang Xuebing looked around in the distance and simply wrote down the terrain.

To the south, there was a large expanse of densely vegetated mountains, presumably through the dense forest through which they had come.

To the north, there is an endless plain, and traces of the highway can be faintly seen.

This side should be the main road to Vostok.

Finally, there are the east and west sides, and the west side is those steamed bun-like hills, and there is a lot of hot air coming out of the ground, which should be a geothermal hot spring.

To the east, there are mountains towering into the sky.

Zhang Xuebing and Xiong Zhan returned to the boulder and began to discuss with Jiaomu Jiao where to go.

Xiong Zhan proposed to go back and find the vehicle, and they didn't have to worry about finding someone with the car.

Zhang Xuebing said in a deep voice, "We don't have a lot of fuel in the car, even if we don't take a detour to get here, it is estimated that there is no gas, it is better to go directly to the hot spring to repair, and then find a nearby village, and we have all the important things in the car with us, there is no need to go back at all!" ”

As a matter of common sense, as long as there is a geothermal hot spring, it is not far from the place where people gather.

The two of them spent a total of half a day and felt that Zhang Xuebing's method was feasible.

When the sun rose to the middle, the servants finally found a small stream and tried that the water here was clear and transparent, and there was no peculiar smell and it was completely drinkable.

The horned wood Jiao packed up the rabbits from the stream, filled the kettle, and went straight to the place where the water vapor was thickest.

The surrounding mountains are like guards guarding the earth, and there is a large open space in the middle.

There were countless potholes in the ground, and thick heat and a lot of hot water came out.

Some of the hot water can just reach into the hand, some are still cool, and some are like boiling a pot, and they don't even dare to put their hands in.