The giant bear's huge body was taller than an ordinary tree, and it was still faintly visible until everyone walked far away.

Ron wiped the cold sweat that had been scared by the giant bear, and continued to lead the way with Gavin, looking for the mark left by Number 33 and Catherine.

The process of Arabella's use of words to influence the giant bear is tantamount to a miracle, if it is placed in ancient times, it is definitely the level of worship and canonization of all peoples, but Ron still thinks that she is a little reckless, including the attitude of other children who try to fight with the giant bear, he feels that these children do not know the terrible nature of the giant bear, ordinary black bears are all overlords, and the giant bear just now must be the king of this forest, even if there are more powerful creatures in this forest, the number will not be too much.

In short, this time he picked up a life, and he didn't want to meet a more powerful guy, because a more powerful guy may not be able to influence him.

The forest is not a flat tree, there are rocks, valleys, hills, 33 and Catherine do not walk in a straight line, sometimes they take detours, and even where they should not need to take a detour, they can only speculate that they have to take a detour.

As he walked, Gavin suddenly sniffed and tilted his head suspiciously to look in a certain direction.

"What's the matter, old man?"

Ron was familiar with Gavin's movements and demeanor, and it was common for him to notice something unusual that would not be immediately dangerous, and he was hesitant to report it to his master.

Gavin circled his legs and looked fixedly.

The forest was too dense for Ron to see anything over there.

Jiang Chanji and the others also caught up and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know, there might be a situation over there, I'll climb up the tree and take a look. Ron threw off his luggage and climbed a tree.

"You don't need to ......," Jiang Chanji grabbed him.

"I'll go!"

Mio sprang to the branches, leaping nimbly from branch to branch, and soon disappeared into the canopy.

Ten seconds later, she jumped down from the tree again, and there was still a distance of about ten meters from the ground, and she jumped down, landing with her knees bent and cushioned, and there was almost no sound.

"It's on fire! it's on fire over there!" shouted Mio.

"It's on fire, how big is it? Be clear, don't always be surprised. Jiang Chanji said.

Mio was asked, "Uh...... I didn't see the fire. ”

"And you say it's on fire?" he was speechless.

"There's smoke! A column of smoke floated diagonally upward. Miobi paddled.

If there is a pillar of smoke rising, it should indeed be on fire.

"Did the falling wreckage ignite it?" Chio said.

"Probably not. ”

Everyone disagrees, because it has been two or three days since the plane crash, and the wreckage would have caught fire a long time ago, so why wait until now to catch fire?

It is unlikely that the wreckage caught fire after the fall and has been burning until now, because it rained yesterday, and if the fire had burned for two or three days, it would have spread into a wildfire, and it would have attracted the attention of the official rescue team.

"Is there a helicopter near the smoke column?" Jiang Chanji asked again.

Mio crossed his waist and shook his head, "I didn't say that of course it is not, do you still need to ask?"

The possibility of a fire in the wreckage cannot be ruled out, and it is unlikely that yesterday's lightning struck the fuel tank or engine of the wreckage.

It is more likely that someone lit a fire in the forest and did not completely extinguish the fire after cooking, and the fire rekindled, igniting the surrounding bushes and trees, which is Ron's professional opinion.

Everyone had seen the cans and ashes left behind before, so everyone was more accepting of Ron's statement.

The direction of the nearest mark of No. 33 is different from the direction in which the smoke column rises, so the smoke column has nothing to do with No. 33, and she is not such a careless person, so the choice in front of everyone is, do you want to go to the smoke column to check?

After a few minutes of discussion, the unanimous decision was made not to make a fuss, but to contact the outpost by satellite phone or radio, so that the helicopter pilots who stayed there could get in touch with the official rescue team, and that the forest fire should be handled by the authorities.

If the fire shows signs of spreading further, in order to avoid a prairie fire, a helicopter will come and take Aurora to the scene of the fire and suppress the fire with ice crystals - this is the best policy, because Aurora does not know if there are people or rare animals in the forest below, and the best policy is to send propeller planes to spread flame retardants.

After everyone agreed, the whole team moved on, and Aurora was about to make contact with the outpost camp when the satellite phone rang first.

"Miss Aurora, this is the camp, and I have something to report to you. ”

"What's the matter?" Aurora turned on the speakerphone for everyone to hear.

"Ever since you entered the forest, the family has brought in a low-orbit satellite to periodically fly over the forest. Just now, the satellite's infrared sensor camera took a suspicious photo and is now sending it to you. ”

Aurora stared down at her phone, waiting for the image to come over.

Jiang Chanji was speechless when he listened, and he actually deliberately adjusted the orbit of a low-orbit satellite to ensure the safety of Aurora, just like ordinary people driving their children to school because of today's bus outage......

The data transfer from the satellite phone was slow, and it took almost a minute to download the photo.

Unprocessed infrared photographs are black, white and gray, with high-heat areas being white, low-heat areas being black, and gray being transition areas.

"The photo shows a forest a few kilometres away from you on fire, the brightest circular area in the photo, and it's hard to explain that from the main point of fire there is a series of miniature fires, as if someone was running and setting it on fire," the camp explains. ”

Aurora takes a closer look at the photo, where the forests and ridges are shown in a darker blackish-gray color, taking up most of the image, as well as irregular white spots, clouds floating in the sky.

In the black-gray forest, an arrow is used to mark a location, which is a circular white dot extending a gray-white solid line trajectory, which is a column of smoke floating into the air, and on one side of this white dot, every unequal distance, there will be a miniature white dot, this string of miniature white dots forms an intermittent dotted line trajectory, extending in a certain direction.

If each miniature white dot represents a miniature ignition point, then as the camp notes, it seems that someone is running all the way to set the fire.

Is this who is taking revenge on society?

The people left behind in the camp couldn't figure it out, and Aurora couldn't figure it out, so she explained the situation to everyone, and everyone couldn't figure it out, who would risk their lives to go into the depths of the forest and then deliberately set fire?

These miniature fires may not necessarily spread into fires, or they may extinguish on their own, but they are a threat that would put the entire forest in danger of survival for people and animals if a forest fire ignites.

"Could someone have deliberately set fire to obliterate the key evidence of the crash?" Aurora said.

This possibility cannot be ruled out, but it is too ...... to burn an entire forest to the ground in order to annihilate the evidence It's indescribable.

"It's not like arson. Jiang Chanji said, "If it is intentional arson, it is better to burn one more vigorously than to set fire to many places." ”

The photo also indicates the current location of everyone, presumably through the data obtained by satellite phone positioning.

The dotted lines of the miniature white dots will pass not far from them if they do not change their direction and continue to extend.

Just now, everyone thought that it was unnecessary to go a few kilometers away to inspect the smoke column, but now it is different, only a slight change of route can lead to an encounter with the suspected forest arsonist and see what he or she is up to in person.

Aurora asked again, and there was no more information, because the low-orbit satellite orbited the Earth every two hours, and now it had already flown over the forest, and the next time it flew over the forest and took pictures would be two hours later.

Everyone agreed to change their itinerary for the time being to intercept the forest arsonist.

Based on their compasses, maps, and photographs, they went to ambush ahead of the miniature white dot extension route.

However, a thin line less than 1 mm wide in the satellite photo may cover a distance of tens of meters or hundreds of meters in a real forest, and the suspected arsonist is not running in an accurate straight line, so everyone must not gather together and wait for the rabbit, and must be dispersed within a distance of hundreds of meters to ensure that the target is not missed.

Not to mention hundreds of meters in the forest, you may not be able to see each other more than ten meters away, but fortunately, everyone has a walkie-talkie, and they agree to contact others after seeing the target.

......

Snort -

Ouyang Caiyue's clothes were torn by her companion, and she was about to be caught by her companion, and she could even feel her companion's hot fingers.

With such hot fingers, my companion seems to have a high fever, and his body temperature is estimated to be above 40 degrees, but I have never seen a patient with a high fever who can run faster than a rabbit.

"Ho-ho-"

The heavy wheezing of his companion seemed to ring behind his ears.

Ouyang Caiyue didn't dare to look back, afraid that she would trip over the branches under her feet, and that she would never be able to run again as soon as she turned around.

She is really out of ammunition now, not only thermite pine cones, but even ordinary pine cones have been thrown away, and there is nothing to delay the hunt of her companions.

She regretted a little, not that she should have thrown the baby away, but that she regretted that she had known that this was the case, so it was better not to run at all, stay where she was and have a good fight, maybe she could win?

She also regretted throwing away the dagger, and if she turned into one of those monsters, she would rather end her life with her own hands.

Afraid of something, it was such a slight distraction, the tips of her shoes stepped into the grass, and when she raised her legs again, her body lost its balance.

She didn't fall down, she could take advantage of the situation to roll forward, stand up and continue to run, but just when she wanted to do the forward roll action, she suddenly thought of the baby on her back, if she did a forward roll, the already weak baby might be crushed to death by her.

So, she stubbornly chose to land on her shoulders.

With a click, the inertia of the high-speed rush dislocated one of her shoulders.

She rolled her eyes in pain, but at the moment of life and death, let alone a dislocated arm, even if it was broken, she had to find a way to save her life first.

The moment she touched the ground, the five fingers of her other hand were inserted into the soil, and she grabbed a handful of dirt and threw it upwards, impartially pasting it on the face of her companion who happened to be rushing at her—she had already used this shitty trick of lime powder.

Taking advantage of the temporary blindness of her companion, she gritted her teeth, rolled over and got up and continued to run.

However, with a dislocated arm, she is already at the end of a real crossbow, and she can't run a hundred meters at most, and she will be chased by her companions who wiped the mud off her face.

"Help!"

"Anyone, help me!"

In desperation, she knew that it was useless to call for help in the reckless forest, so she could only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor and shout for help.

After shouting, she didn't expect anyone to respond, so she untied her backpack from behind her back as she ran, and looked at a bush in front of her, ready to throw her backpack along with the baby.

This was her last resort, throwing the baby into the bushes and running on her own to the other side, luring her companions away.

She knew that she would either become a good meal or a bloodthirsty monster, and that the baby would not end much better, and if she couldn't escape, the baby would probably become food for the beast, but what else could she do?

Just as she raised her hand and was about to throw it, there was a bang, a bowstring sounded.

Huh-

A very thin and sharp scream sounded, like a needle pricking her eardrums.

The life-and-death moments she had experienced suddenly appeared in her mind, and in the images that emerged, she did not escape death as in reality, but was gnawed by wild beasts and dismantled by the enemy, and died a miserable death.

The screaming sound evoked nightmares and fears in her heart, in her career of running for money, she had always been afraid of overturning, but often walking by the river, how could she not get her shoes wet? Overturning was a matter of time, and some of the seniors she knew before disappeared silently, dying in a ghost place where birds don't.

Just when she was in a trance, a sharp arrow came at her, and she clearly saw it, but her body froze with trembling and extreme fatigue, and she couldn't hide at all.

The arrow missed her, almost grazing her body and flying behind her, nailed into the soil in front of her companion.

"Stop!

Jiang Chanji jumped down from between the branches, holding a screaming bone bow.

He wanted to pretend to be handsome, but this sharp arrow did not have any deterrent effect at all, and his companion seemed to have not seen the sharp arrow or heard the scream, so he took advantage of Ouyang Caiyue to stop, pounced, and bit her on the back of the neck.

At this time, Ouyang Caiyue no longer had any ability to dodge and resist, and was tantamount to a lamb to the slaughter.

Jiang Chanji was greatly embarrassed, but fortunately he had already mounted the second arrow in advance, and pulled his bow and released the arrow again.

He recognized Ouyang Caiyue, although he didn't know the situation, he didn't know why they were chasing each other, and who was the one who set the fire all the way, but no matter what, the party trying to protect the baby deserved his protection.

The scream sounded again, and the arrow hit his companion in the shoulder accurately.