Walk back to the house, put on two pieces of scale armor, and put on leather armor on the outside.

Two guards led the way, and a group of three horsemen headed straight for the scavengers' camp.

The sound of horses' hooves.

The people who had just returned from outside, the scavengers on the road, heard the sound of horses' hooves and gave way early to both sides of the road.

A distance west of the camp is a colony of scavengers.

Further west from here, there is a large lake.

Tang Wen rode all the way to the shore of the lake and met his subordinates in the hunting camp.

"Commander Tang!"

"Commander Zhou led the people and chased them down the path."

"Chasing?" Tang Wen was surprised.

"Well, we found the footprints of leather boots in the woods ahead. Those missing scavengers, who took them away? ”

Tang Wen's thick eyebrows raised, could it be that there was a shortage of slaves in the Black Mountain camp?

Possibly, they got the coal mine just when they needed manpower.

It seems that the missing scavengers are going to die of exhaustion in the coal mine.

It's really a troubled world, it's not as good as a dog in a prosperous world.

He sighed, not in the slightest intention of saving the scavengers.

The sun went down and the dense forest in front of me was silent.

"Quack", a red-eyed crow flew overhead, as if to report a funeral.

Following Zhou Bing's traces, Tang Wen walked into the path.

In less than half an hour, he met Zhou Bing and others who were returning.

"What did you find?"

first smiled at him, and then Zhou Bing shook his head and said: "The other party came prepared, first drove people away, and when they got to the front, they brought horses and carried people away." ”

The two returned side by side, and Tang Wen expressed his conjecture.

Zhou Binghe agreed, she also felt that the Montenegrin camp did it.

The two were on the same page.

"It seems that the lessons of the Montenegrin ghosts are not enough! Arrest and catch us at the door! ”

Back at the camp, the two of them analyzed it with the ruling commander Zhang, who immediately sneered.

He has a severed arm feud with the Black Mountain camp, and of course advocates teaching the Black Mountain ghosts a lesson.

Commander Zhang said: "In the Black Mountain camp, there is only one general-level black old ghost active every day, and he will not go out easily. Therefore, the guy who comes to steal people at night is at most the commander and lead the team. Why don't we catch him first? ”

Tang Wen and Zhou Bing glanced at each other, and the former said unhurriedly: "Squat for a while, of course it's no problem." But the lion fights the rabbit, and it still needs to be fully exerted. It is good to inform General Zhao. ”

The news was reported, and in less than a quarter of an hour, General Zhao arrived, followed by two commanders.

"This group of black mountain ghosts, jumping very much!"

General Zhao's eyes were full of evil anger.

Tang Wen explained: "At present, it is only speculation, and there is no evidence yet. ”

General Zhao waved his hand: "Evidence? What we say is proof! ”

Look at the other people as they should be.

Tang Wen shook his head and said, "No matter what, let's figure out their purpose for arresting people!" If it's just mining, it doesn't matter. I'm afraid there are some factors that we don't know about. ”

General Zhao frowned and thought for a while, and said, "It's okay, then squat separately at night." Arrange several hunting teams to guard the way to the camp in Montenegro. ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it tonight. There is also a scavenger camp, and I will send a few people to live in it. ”

After speaking, seeing that there were no objections from a few people in the house, Tang Wen said to General Zhao again: "General, just in case, I have to invite you to come to the camp town outside the city in the next few days." ”

"Well, I'll be staying here tonight."

Getting this sentence, Tang Wen breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, according to his analysis, the Montenegrin camp secretly did this kind of abduction.

There is a high probability that there will be no generals, not even at the commander level.

After all, the masters want face;

Second, to deal with a group of scavengers who don't have enough to eat, ordinary guards are enough.

The hunting guards are dispatched, which is considered overkill.

But what if!

Tang Wen didn't want to take any chances.

Imagine, after the guards found out that someone was coming, they fired arrows.

I stupidly rushed over to take a look, okay, a general-level powerhouse, what should I do when the time comes?

Is it to perform kneeling on the spot?

Chanting: Wen, wandering for half a life, only hating ......

He shook his head, turned to the herald, and called the captains of the ten squads of the hunting camp, all of them.

After a while, the ten captains arrived.

General Zhao arranged them one by one according to what he just said:

A group went to the coal mining area to squat and wait to see if any slaves were sent over.

The second team, lurking on the way to the camp in Montenegro.

The task of the three teams is to go to the scavenger camp every night to see if they can block the comers.

It's all a surveillance task, and it's not difficult.

A squad is sufficient, and it is enough to rotate shifts day and night.

The three captains went down to prepare.

The other seven hunting teams were also not allowed to herd sheep.

At least half of the people should stay at the camp each night.

Things didn't settle out before.

Tang Wen and Zhou Bing also had to live in the camp.

However, three days passed.

There was no movement.

General Zhao couldn't stay any longer: "The drought is coming, I have a lot of things, and I can't stay in the outer city all the time." You two are more attentive. ”

After a few words, he led people away.

Tang Wen was reluctant, but there was no reason to stop him.

On the fourth night, he was on duty and slept in the lounge in a daze, never sleeping well.

Fortunately, there was no incident overnight.

Five days passed, and the supplies brought by the three hunting teams ran out, and the food was gone.

They sent people back to report that they hadn't seen anything suspicious for five days, not to mention people in the wild, not even a ghost shadow.

The people in the scavenger camp are not missing again.

Zhou Bing guessed: "Could it be a ghost from the Black Mountain, there are not many people lacking, and after capturing those hundred and ten people, there will be enough manpower?" ”

Could it be that coincidental?

Tang Wen didn't believe it, but it was not a way to let the team do this kind of surveillance all the time.

The drought has begun, and his three-story cellar has been built, and he is about to carry out the next step of his grain hoarding plan.

How can there be time to protect waste pickers?

He decided: "Withdraw!" Inform the 123rd team to withdraw today. ”

"Yes!"

The sentry took the order.

Seeing that there were only two people left in the house, Tang Wen said to Zhou Bing: "Next, I want to let three teams go to the field to practice every day." ”

"Training?"

Ice Beauty hadn't heard of it.

Tang Wen grabbed her slender green palm, played with it and said, "At present, the beasts in the forest have not migrated due to drought. We're going to stock up on some meat. ”

Zhou Bing glared at him with disgust, shook his head and said: "It's okay to hunt, but the meat can't be held, and it's not winter, even if you use salt to pickle, where does you get so much salt?" ”

The salt in the camp is rock salt, which comes from the mountains, and it is not easy to purify it.

To ensure that everyone has salt to eat, no problem.

But if you want to use hundreds of pounds to pickle food, it's impossible.

Tang Wen didn't answer, but pointed to the outside of the city wall and said: "These trees around our camp must be cut down, otherwise the trees will dry up and be prone to fire." Just use these green branches to make smoked bacon. ”

"Bacon?" Zhou Bing was puzzled: It's another new word.

Tang Wendao: "I also learned by chance that smoked meat does not need to use too much salt, and the dried meat can be stored for more than half a year. ”

"Good! Since you want to do it, let's try it. Zhou Bing has never heard of any smoked meat, but she believes in Tang Wen unconditionally.

Tang Wen raised his hand to rub her smooth face, the white jade-like skin, the temperature rose, and it was red.

"Let's go, go find the cook."

"It's so late."

"Sooner rather than later."

It was a matter of having enough to eat, and Tang Wen did not dare to delay.

Early in the morning of the sixth day, he went out of the city with three hunting teams.

A team arranged to cut down trees.

The other two teams, plus him, made a total of twenty-one people.

Divide into seven groups and go hunting in the forest.

Speaking of which, the world is densely forested, but the products are not abundant.

The place where the Flame Camp is located has a climate that is somewhat similar to that of the Northeast in the previous life.

But there is no abundant product of "beating roe deer with a stick and scooping fish".

Tang Wen has been hunting for a few months, and he has not seen a few fauna, only a few animals, and they are all difficult to catch.

He speculated that first, the alienated beasts ate too much;

Second, the environment is harsh.

Natural disasters are not only a test for people, but also for animals.

In the evening, the hunting party harvested so-so.

More than a dozen martial artists, placed in their previous lives, were at least masters at the level of fighting champions.

At the end of the day, each person harvests less than 10 catties of meat.

I haven't eaten much yet.

But that's not how the accounts were calculated, and the food they ate was provided by the camp.

And the prey you hit is your own.

On the seventh day, the hunt continued.

But as soon as you go out, the omen is not good.

A red-eyed crow followed them all the way, and Tang Wen raised his hand to knock it down.

But the archers in the team said that it was unknown to kill this thing, and that its meat was too sour to be tasty.

Tang Wen gave up.

The harvest of this day is really average.

On the eighth day, Tang Wen was preparing to go out hunting.

Suddenly, a guard came to report: "Commander Tang, I received news that someone was missing in the scavengers' camp last night!" ”

"Huh?" Tang Wen turned his head suddenly, his eyes sharp.