342. Tracking

The broken carriage revealed unusual information.

Lane wasn't very sensitive to the information, but Henrik and Gascoigne were nervous.

Anomalies are information beyond common sense, but they are dangerous for a profession like a hunter who relies on intelligence to plan a battle.

"We've got to find that guy, it's so beastly that it should have become a four-legged walker, and it's too dangerous to leave it alone."

Henrik got up from his half-squat, straightened his yellow mask, and made a decision.

Gascoigne nodded silently, and Lane didn't have much of an opinion.

Every profession has a work ethic.

And the hunter's work ethic is: if you find an abnormal monster, you must be hunted by the discoverer, and even if you can't catch it, you must leave a striking hint.

Other hunters passing by may not be aware of the signs, and if left unchecked, they may cause unsuspecting hunters to be ambushed by monsters.

There is a big gap between ambush operations and ambush operations.

In the case of the bestialized patient that Len had dealt with in a matter of seconds, the battle would have lasted at least two to five minutes if Len hadn't spotted it earlier.

And Lan En didn't dare to guarantee that he would be unharmed.

When you are raided, you can really lose your life if you are not careful.

Henrik discovered the existence of the anomaly, so he was going to eliminate the 'anomaly'.

"Do you want to split up?"

Gascoigne transformed the long-pole axe he had held in both hands into a hand axe, and pulled a flare-mouthed musket from the strap on his waist.

Unlike the strategy when teaming up, this is a combination that lends itself to solo action.

"The smell of blood here is too mixed, ordinary people, hunters, and monsters have all bled here, and we can't track down the beast with the smell."

Under his eyes wrapped in white gauze, the wings of his nose twitched slightly, and he made a judgment.

Henrik agreed, and he couldn't find a target in the smell of blood. The Yanan people are only sensitive to blood, but this sensitivity is not an extraordinary sense.

Immediately, Henrik was ready to nod his head and let the team disperse the search.

However, Lan En, who was still crouching on the edge of the wreckage, pinching a handful of jelly-like plasma from time to time, gave a different sound.

"In the face of a monster in an abnormal situation, it would be a little silly to separate people's hands."

"And what advice do you have, Outlander?"

Henrik asked angrily.

Lan stood up, the cat-like pupils in his eyes constricted.

"You don't have to use blood to track, I'm a bit skilled at this?"

"I found that guy's footprints, and we can follow them."

"Footprints?" Gascoigne asked cautiously, "Lanne, can I remind you?" We're stepping on a stone brick road now. ”

"There will always be traces, even if it's a brick road."

The witcher's tone is calm and determined, which is usually the tone that only appears when a professional encounters a problem with his profession and has a certain number of things in mind.

Henrik and Gascoigne nodded to each other after a moment of thought.

Henrik also pulled out his hunter pistol, and the sawsaw turned into a shrinking state.

"Vigilant forward, Lan En leads the way."

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In the witcher's extraordinary senses, the beast's claws scraped across the ground in a very bright red.

But in the eyes of ordinary people, or Yanan hunters like Henrik, the scratches on the stone brick pavement were just normal wear and tear accumulated over time.

They couldn't tell if it was a mark from half an hour ago, or a mark from a month or two ago.

Ran's footsteps did not stop, and he led Henrik and Gascoigne through the alleys of Yanan.

Sometimes you walk through houses that are already in shambles.

The inhabitants were either dragged out and killed by the bestiality, or they were dragged out and killed by the hunters after being beastial.

In any case, the scene will not be very good.

In the midst of the dwellings, Lan saw black powder scattered all over the place, as well as several fragments of wooden barrels.

In Yanan, people literally put barrels of black powder in their homes.

This reminded the demon hunters in the countryside even more that they should not play with fire easily in Yanan.

Tracking is an extremely time-consuming procedure in hunting activities.

In a normal hunting activity, it may take only ten minutes to kill the prey, but it takes ten hours to trace the tracks.

The efficiency of the witcher's extraordinary senses was very high, but Lan En still chased the two of them for three or four hours.

Following the scratches of his claws on the ground, Lan's gaze slanted upwards, skimming over the brick walls on either side of the alley.

"Can patients with a higher degree of bestiality still be able to climb walls on four legs?"

Lan En asked in a low voice without looking back.

Henrik, as the most experienced veteran hunter in the small group, gave a categorical answer.

"They can climb walls, but they also have a hard time climbing walls, and they can hang on them outside of combat. But in the fast-paced nature of the battle, they're mostly still on the ground. ”

If monsters can run freely on walls, it means that the battlefield environment will expand from a two-dimensional plane to a three-dimensional one, and the way of handling and thinking will need to change dramatically.

The information given by Henrik is not so bad for the time being.

Lan En raised his palm slightly, signaling the two behind him to stop.

The current terrain is a narrow alley with a wider alley behind it.

From one end of the narrow alley, the three of them could see through the wide alley at a glance.

From the witcher's point of view, bright red claw marks extend from the walls of the narrow alley, but clean on the walls of the wide alley.

"It's clear that our 'friends' are waiting for us on the widening corner of the alley."

Lan En pulled out the sword of the Lake Maiden from his waist and subconsciously turned out a sword flower.

Gascoigne grinded his teeth: "The terrain is narrow, so I can't let it go." ”

He's a hunter with a big axe, and he does feel limited in this kind of terrain.

Henrik had long been quiet because he had done a lot of work in this kind of terrain.

He checked the status of his Hunter pistol and reloaded it.

Lann noticed that the bullet was not the usual brass material, but more like a layer of mercury?

Mercury? Doesn't the high temperature in the chamber of the gun evaporate mercury vapor?

It was a bullet that had never been seen or heard before, but Lan En already knew that Yanan's place could not be judged by common sense, so he only regarded it as the unique craft of the locals.

After both of them had reloaded their bullets and confirmed the status of their guns, the three of them walked together towards the corner of the alley.

Henrik's Hunter pistol was more accurate than Gascoigne's, and he looked up to knock the bestiary off the wall as soon as he saw it.

Lann and Gascoigne, on the other hand, are always aware of their surroundings.

According to Lan En's expectations, it was just a monster with a slightly special situation, and when Henrik shot it down, the three of them were enough to burst out in an instant with a wave of strong enough attacks to make this monster lie down.

But when the three of them finally walked cautiously across the corner, Henrik's fingers were raised upward, and the fingers had already hooked the trigger, the old hunter's eyes widened suddenly!

"Spread out!"

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