Chapter 16: Tracking and Pursuit

Shenhua 104 heard this, frowned and groaned, then raised his eyes and said resolutely: "Even if it is very difficult, you have to give it a try, and you can't give up any hope." ”

Base 102 suggested: "Since it is certain that they are going from underwater, the upstream of the river is our old base No. 5, which has always been very guarded, and they will not take risks, and the downstream exit is an open pool, which is passed under the mountain, and there is only one sentry on that side, it is estimated that most of them are going from the downstream exit." ”

Major General Xu said: "Then we will organize our men separately and hurry up to pursue, maybe we will really have a harvest." ”

When several military officers discussed properly and were about to set off for the downstream exit of the underground river, Lao Mai proposed that he would walk through the hole in front of him alone, intending to search for the traces of the sea eagle ability members, whether they really went to the downstream exit.

Shenhua 104 was stunned for a moment when he heard this, nodded and said: "Okay, I agree, you be careful yourself, safety first," he didn't propose to send someone to follow, Lao Mai is a master-level ability, and no one can keep up with him, so he can only explain and be more careful.

Lao Mai said with a smile: "Don't worry, chief, I'm a little afraid of the rain of bullets, but I'm not afraid of the strangers, maybe they should be afraid of me, by the way, borrow me a walkie-talkie, in case of any abnormal situation, I can report it in time." ”

Commissioner Dong happened to be holding a walkie-talkie in his hand, which he borrowed when he inquired about the records of various kills and prisoners just now, and he kept it in his hand and did not return it.

Lao Mai took the walkie-talkie, waved his hand to the chiefs, turned around and got into the hole leading to the underground river.

Commissioner Dong saw that he was walking too fast, so he hurriedly stepped forward and shouted: "Lao Mai, the walkie-talkie is not waterproof, be careful of entering the water!"

In fact, at the same time that Lao Mai jumped out of the hole, the walkie-talkie had already entered his storage belt, how could it get into the water, hearing Commissioner Dong's shout from afar, he was still thinking that if you want to enter the water, it is also your Colonel Dong's brain that is water, and you are still a stranger.

Hearing only the sound of "plopping", Lao Mai fell into the dark underground river, and his body automatically formed a layer of Tugang Imperial Body Protective Shield, completely isolating the cold river water from invading his body.

The upstream of this underground river passes through the underground military base, and the road to the downstream is covered with a tunnel-like underground passage along the river, and the entire underground river is completely covered, turning into the sewer of the No. 5 underground base.

Lao Mai unleashed his divine sense to scan everything around him, observing all traces of earth-based materials being touched, and found that along the underground riverbank, there were slight traces of human movement downstream.

He walked downstream along the bank of the river, which was only faintly glistening, and was sure that there were people who had walked in the same way not long ago, and that the traces that his mind had detected were all left by the scuba equipment touching the shore.

It is conceivable that the members of the old American sea eagle who stole the alien's corpse were wearing diving suits and carrying oxygen cylinders on their backs, stumbling and quickly downstream along the flowing river, leaving all kinds of touches in Lao Mai's consciousness, as clear as footprints on the snow.

Lao Mai thought about it, found a place where there was no water along the coast, took out the walkie-talkie from the storage belt, pressed the call button and called: "Base 9, Base 9, I'm SH307, I'm SH307, there is a situation report, there is a situation report!"

I only listened to a few clicks from the walkie-talkie receiver, and someone answered and said, "I'm base 102, SH307, please speak." ”

Lao Mai said into the microphone of the walkie-talkie: "I went down the river and passed through the underground river for several hundred meters, and found traces of diving equipment touching the mud on the river bank, the traces are very new, it is estimated that it happened a few hours ago, and the report was completed." ”

The head of the base 102 on the other side of the walkie-talkie listened: "The base understands that we are heading to the downstream exit of the underground river by car, and you continue to go downstream, and report the situation in time." ”

Lao Mai agreed, then put away the walkie-talkie, and continued to run downstream, using the qi control technique on his legs, and his feet quickly swept along the narrow and sloping shore of the underground river without touching the water.

Anyway, it has been confirmed that the thief is running from this direction, so you don't need to look carefully, just recognize those insignificant touches.

In a short time he reached the outlet of the lower reaches of this underground river, where the outlet was still buried at the bottom of the mountain, and he had to sneak through a deep pool of water to get out, as it seems that all the underground rivers in the deep mountains and valleys have this virtue.

In fact, it is also due to the drainage of the river, if there is no natural surface river outside the downstream outlet to connect the underground river water, the river water directly discharged to the surface will inevitably form a pool, which will often submerge the underground river outlet.

But Lao Mai was not so stupid and got out of the water, so he naturally cast a spell and escaped outside, and suddenly reached the edge of the waterhole outside the exit, and then saw a few shallow footprints in the darkness, and walked into the low grass.

Before Lao Mai could continue to look, a strong light suddenly came, and he heard the sound of the firearm turning on the cutout, followed by a pause: "Who is over there?" Raise your hands, turn around, hurry up!"

Lao Mai obediently raised his hands and squinted his eyes to look over, only to see that in the night not far away, there was an abrupt boulder, and there was an observation hole on the stone, and the muzzle of a black hole protruded from the hole, and the voice of the speaker came from there.

Lao Mai's hand shook, and a walkie-talkie appeared in his hand, and he was about to answer, when he heard the roar of a car engine in the distance.

The person in the boulder who was aiming at the gun was feeling a little strange about the sudden appearance of a walkie-talkie in Lao Mai's hand, and at this time he also heard the sound of a car coming, and hurriedly moved to the observation hole on the other side to look out, but found that it was a special vehicle of the base headquarters, driving from far and near with the high-beam headlights.

Several open-top off-road vehicles sprayed with camouflage colors soon came to the waterhole at the outlet of the lower reaches of the underground river, not far from Lao Mai, who was holding his hands up, and several middle-aged men wearing military uniforms jumped out of the car open the door.

The boulder turned out to be a sentry set up in the underground base, and when I saw the car of the head of the base arrive, the dark sentry box disguised as a boulder opened a small door, and a young sentry in camouflage uniform came out, and just wanted to meet him, when he suddenly saw a major on the other side of the car waving and shouting: "Sentinel, come and report the situation." ”

The head of Base 102, Major General Xu and Commissioner Dong, who hurriedly got out of the car, walked towards the position where Lao Mai was standing first.

Lao Mai saw that several familiar army leaders were coming, so he put down his hands that were raised, pointed to the sparse grass underground, and said, "Report to the chief, their group should have run from here." ”

Just a few steps from the edge of the waterhole to the grass, there are almost unrecognizable lines of men's light shoe prints, which seem to belong to three people.

At this time, a staff officer of the base major who went to inquire about the sentry immediately ran over and reported closely: "Chief, I just asked the sentry, and the sentry reported that no one else has appeared here except for Director Shenhua 307 Mai, who has only been here for a while. ”

Commissioner Dong interjected: "If it is the Sea Eagle Eagle King, his stealth technique can envelop three people, and the naked eye of the sentry cannot detect anyone passing by at a slightly distance. ”

Those shallow footprints in the sparse grass have a slight trace of trampling, and the next direction is the uneven rocky mountain, which ordinary people can no longer recognize with the naked eye, including the ghost Lao Mai who was born in the mud, after all, it is just passing by, and there is no trace of damage on the dry and hard mud and stone ground.

The theft of aliens' corpses was a major dereliction of duty for the heavily defended No. 9 base, and in addition to letting the head of Shenhua 104 stay at the base, the senior generals of several special forces personally participated in the pursuit.

Although it is still unclear, the adversary does not steal the equipment on the UFO or the materials on the UFO, but instead steals the corpses of several aliens, regardless of the purpose of the UFO, and steals anything on the UFO, which is serious enough to involve the leakage of military secrets.

Their task is to get back the stolen things, take 10,000 steps back, and say that if they can't find it, they also need to find out the other party's intentions and what secrets are on those alien corpses.

At this moment, the officers of the base's special services department and the elite soldiers of a certain special forces unit in several cars, a total of about 20 people, flashlights also came around.

The head of Base 102 asked Lao Mai to understand that he couldn't see the traces of the thieves' subsequent escape, and couldn't help but scratch his head in anguish.

Commissioner Dong suddenly looked down in the sparse grass and the sand and gravel not far away, and then muttered: "There seem to be subtle traces of water dripping into the soil and evaporating." ”

At this time, the night was deep, the sky was already completely dark, only the distant Milky Way starlight, in the complex mountains without moonlight, except for Lao Mai, who could see things with his divine sense, only Commissioner Dong, who had the ability of spiritual vision, could see the abnormal phenomena on the ground.

Commissioner Dong reminded Lao Mai that the thieves who came out of the water were dripping with water, and he had thought about it just now, but later he felt that those people had a storage function, and they would collect the water in the storage bag, and if there was no water dripping into the mud, they would lose the traces of tracking.

Now Commissioner Dong found traces of water droplets evaporating outside the grass, which shows that those sea eagle members still walked a long way in diving suits for the sake of safety.

Lao Mai suddenly had such an idea, the space controlled by the storage ability was not very large, and it was already very reluctant to hold four alien corpses weighing a total of four or five hundred pounds, and those diving equipment were difficult to carry off, so they had to be discarded.

He is much stronger than these abilities, at best, he can make ten or eight cubic storage belts, and his ability is only that of cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi cultivation, even if he has the ability to open up space professionally, two or three cubic spaces will reach the top.

So, Lao Mai suggested loudly: "These thieves are not far away with water, they should find a hidden place to bury them, we scatter to look around, we may find diving equipment, and then use military dogs to track them, and there will be a chance to find them." ”