"Kaji, what did you find?"

The perceiver's reaction, naturally, did not escape Lindsay's attention.

He opened his mouth to ask, and Kaji immediately turned around and reported to Lindsay in a bitter tone:

"Diablo Lord, up to this point, I can still trace the two of them. But...... I don't know if it's a coincidence? About 1 day ago, the smell of a person also appeared from here, and the route was chasing them! ”

“……”

"Is there anyone else tracking Mülenahun and Hanske?"

Hearing such news, Lindsay frowned.

There are a lot of adventurer activities in the Echo Tunnel, and they haven't disappeared so far. It is not impossible that the exploration activities of these people coincide with the route of Mulenahuun.

But at this time, face this problem.

Lindsay can't tolerate a little sloppiness:

"Kaji, can you confirm the identity of the other party?"

Naturally, the perceiver did not dare to be sloppy with Lindsay's request.

He heard the inquiry, and the next second he was focused, trying to discern the breath in the air.

Supported by a large amount of essentia.

His technique is subtle, and even the water vapor in the air at different times can be distinguished one by one.

It's at the extreme of this technique.

It took Kaji four or five minutes to finally catch a hint of the smell.

"Horses! It smells of horses! ”

The Perceiver looked at Lindsay excitedly:

"My lord, I smell it! There is a little smell of horses on the other party's clothes, this smell is not left for a short time, this should be a person who has been with horses for a long time! ”

Lindsay smiled bitterly and shook her head:

"That's not a clue."

Kaji's face stiffened with excitement, and then he wilted.

Lindsey was right.

Horses are among the most common mounts in the world.

Even though the forest garden is not suitable for horses, immigrants carry the animal with them. Therefore, whether it is an awakened person or an ordinary person, it is possible to have long-term contact with it, let alone judge the other party's occupation.

It's really not a reliable and valid clue.

Kaji muttered quietly:

"I ...... I've done my best. ”

Lindsay knew that he couldn't blindly suppress the other party, so he patted Kaji on the shoulder comfortingly:

"It's okay, I know you did your best, keep going."

"If you find anything else after that, just let me know as soon as possible."

“……”

Kaji nodded slightly, and the two continued to follow the scent.

There was no light in the dark echo tunnel.

Even the sensitivity to time has decreased.

About another three or four hours had passed, and there was no sign of any other adventurers around.

Kaji also followed the smell in the tunnel.

Brings Lindsey to a naturally cracked underground rift.

And here it is.

For the first time, the perceiver appears to be at a loss.

He followed the target's breath all the way here, and there was even a smell left by the other party in the air behind him, but in front of the underground crack in front of him, the smell suddenly disappeared.

It's as if the target of the track has been drilled directly into the rocks!

Kaji wailed in his heart - it's okay for you to run away, I'm terrible if I lost it!

The perceiver was horrified.

But with what happened before, he didn't dare to deceive Lindsay no matter what he said, so he had to bite the bullet and say:

"Di ...... Diablo-sama! ”

Kaji turned his head and pointed nervously at the crack in the ground in front of him:

"The smell of a few of them ......"

"To ...... At this point, it suddenly disappears! ”

After the perceiver finished speaking, he closed his eyes, fearing that what would happen next would be the end of his fate.

If you really die here.

I'm afraid that no one will even come to clean up his body, so he can only lie in the dark ground forever, rotting along with other bones!

Kaji was terrified.

But what came to his ears next was not Lindsay's blame or sentence.

"It's okay, it's not your problem."

"They did come here, and they left some traces that you can't see."

“……”

“？”

When Kaji opened his eyes, he saw that Lindsay was not paying attention to himself at all, instead paying attention to the walls around him.

In fact, in Lindsay's field of vision, there is some faint essentia residue at the moment.

After all, Kaji is only a fourth-stage perceiver, and his senses are remarkably honed.

However, it is not sensitive to some subtle essentia changes.

At this moment, Lindsay opened the [Puzzle Game] and found traces distributed around.

Especially this seemingly naturally occurring crack.

It shone with an incomparably abrupt light, as if it was the evidence left by the previous Awakened fighting or chasing!

"Organizers? Knights of the Law? ”

Lindsay muttered under his breath.

Two seven-stage powerful existences, anyone can cause the picture in front of them.

After Lindsay touched his hand and carefully sensed the breath left on the stone wall, a situation that left him speechless appeared.

"It's ...... Value manipulation by merchants? ”

Lindsay was all too familiar with this essentia.

Because not long ago, he had only seen the scene of the battle of the sixth-stage great merchants, and the essentia core dropped by the other party was even lying in his bag.

Before spending all his possessions, the skill of a merchant can be useful in almost every way.

Could this crack be the handiwork of a businessman?

"There's a merchant who tracked them here?"

Thinking of this, Lindsay had a bad premonition in her heart.

He then pulled open the map, and there were no living people within a hundred meters. He then continued to expand the scope of his investigation, and finally four or five hundred meters below here, Lindsay saw two markers.

The color of the marker is one green and one yellow.

The combination is not abrupt and there is nothing special about it.

But here's the problem.

The two are located in a cave underground, but the cave itself is completely enclosed and has no communication with the surrounding tunnels!

"Won't this suffocate to death?"

Lindsey pondered the other party's identity.

Mülenahuen had never met him, and the merchant treated him mostly as a hostile red.

Then there will be a friendly attitude object here.

It is only possible to fight the knight of the law in the Lookout City - Han Sike!

At the same time, Kaji also leaned up to Lindsay and asked:

"What are you talking about, Lord Diablo?"

Lindsay turned her head and looked at the other intently.

It wasn't until Kaji was already panicked and restless that he took out a [Hardwood Seed] from his bag and handed it to the other party:

"Kaji, you can take this seed."

"Remember the thorns I threw over Folz?"

"If you're in danger, throw this seed to the ground, and it will grow on its own, quickly multiplying those toxin-laden thorns."

“……”

"I ...... I ......"

The perceiver was speechless for a moment, and the emotions in his heart were filled with emotion.

Obviously, Lindsay's purpose in giving him this seed was to let Kaji take it for self-preservation.

The perceiver is well aware of the relationship between the two.

Being able to put this kind of good thing in his own hands at this moment can only show that Lindsay's view of himself is completely different from the beginning.

Kaji took the seed and was excited to show his loyalty to Lindsay.

Don't wait for him to say something.

Seeing Lindsay in front of him, he took out a pickaxe out of thin air and handed it straight to him.

"Huh?"

Kaji was confused, not understanding the current situation at all.

Lindsay pointed to the ground under the feet of the two of them, and commanded in a plain tone:

"Now take it and start digging down."

(End of chapter)