Renee was sure that it would be dark outside the cave, so she said hello to Song Zha and asked to patrol the valley around the camp at night. Song Zha asked for two soldiers to follow Renee to protect Renee's safety. Renee refused lightly, "telling the truth" that she would go to a dangerous place, and the soldiers accompanying her would restrict her mobility.
After Renee said that, Song Zha had to give up. He asked: "I will definitely come back unscathed."
"Um."
After explaining things to her teammates over there, Renee could finally travel at night legitimately and without arousing suspicion. She arrived at the cave's exit and looked up. The sky over the wasteland was shrouded in pitch-black night. Only a silver moon and scattered stars dotted the monotonous night sky.
The wind at night blows from the northwest, just in the direction from the entrance of the valley to the wasteland. Renee opened her sensory net against the night wind, focusing on sensing whether there was any smell of plague in the air blowing from the wind outlet.
Renee carefully collected information in the environment while returning along the original route. Fortunately, she was not blocked by large plague species on the way, and she saw some very small creatures such as lizards, insects, etc. Creatures that were obviously weaker than Renee took a detour when they sensed Renee's approach, while some lurked quietly in the environment, hiding themselves motionless.
Renee maintains a harmonious mode with those weak plague species, pretending that no one can see anyone. She passed through the wasteland and returned to the water beach at the entrance to the valley.
At night, the golden frogs that were originally lying on the platform disappeared at this moment. The fish in the water beach seemed to have swam to other places along the Didong Waterway, and the blue and purple flower vegetation growing on the water beach was in full bloom. It has bright, attractive flowers. There is hazy dust floating around their flowers. The dust matches the silent water surface reflecting the moonlight, like a misty and magical fairyland.
In the afternoon, those blue and purple flower plants are completely decorative to the environment. It is in the morning that they show their true appearance. The hazy dust that is like a fairyland is very dangerous. Once an animal inhales it, the sandman will break through the iron wall of will and fall into an irresistible drowsiness.
Renee once accidentally inhaled the special pollen of the "sleep grass". She noticed that it was good and immediately started atavism. It turned out that she still couldn't resist the obsessive sleepiness. Perhaps from the time she came into contact with that plant, Renee truly realized that the power of atavism was not omnipotent, and the power of many mutant plants should not be underestimated.
Renee thought about whether the beach was in the wind, and quickly held her breath to prevent herself from inhaling the pollen of the "sleep grass". She took a detour and quickly moved to the forest entrance on the left side of the water beach.
Once there, she no longer had to worry about inhaling sleep pollen, and the northwest wind blowing through the lush green forest to her face could still guide her.
In the quiet and dark forest, only the distant moonlight and the fireflies flying among the bushes can provide light. Renee's night vision is good enough. With that little light, she can see things the same as when the sky is red.
"If I can act alone and my jungle tracking skills are good enough, I can naturally find him." Renee muttered to herself and repeated what Wu Qi once said to her. She thought about the meaning behind that sentence, and after much deliberation she decided that the four words "acting alone" were the most suspicious.
"Is it possible that Wu Qi is monitoring the entrance in a corner of the forest?" Renee looked around and searched for traces of Wu Qi starting from the most basic footprints.
Renee searched everywhere she could, but she couldn't find a single footprint, not even an animal's. The ground with the lowest level is ordinary soil, and the ground that is higher is lawn. Logically speaking, lawn is easier to leave footprints than flat soil, but there is nothing there.
Renee looked back at the place where she came from. She had indeed left deep traces and twisted a series of shoulders in the green grass.
It seemed that Wu Qi, a veteran hunter, would not let himself leave such obvious traces. Not to mention that she came here specifically. If she had been accompanied by soldiers this time, the soldiers would have been able to see the human footprints on the ground in Liudong at a glance, and thus judge that there were people other than them in the forest.
Renee thought hard for a while, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind, and she jumped to a high branch. Standing at a high place, she had an unobstructed view of the many branches around her. Renee saw at a glance that the thickest branch left a boot print of a combat boot.
Renee felt that she had grasped something crucial. She seemed to be aware of it. If she knew where Wu Qi was hiding in the forest, then she could start tracking Wu Qi. Wu Qi used a special but not complicated leg technique to "cover" the traces of his passing. People who didn't know where he was hiding in the forest entered the forest normally and searched for traces every month. It was almost impossible to find any traces of Wu Qi. . Because Wu Qi's traces were in the blind spot of their investigation.
With the ideas and initial clues, the difficulty of tracking Wu Qi became much easier. Renee followed the traces of branches and quickly shuttled between the tree crowns. Unknowingly, she had climbed to a high altitude.
Renee calculated that she had been moving forward for 15 minutes, so she stopped to look around. The forest is still silent, and the dim blue light adds too many mysterious shadows. Looking at it for a long time can easily make people feel a little bit scared.
Having gone there, there was no turning back, and if I had not trusted that Wu Qi would not harm me in the first place, I would not have gone east to look for him in the mysterious depths of the forest late at night without any soldiers following him.
There was a faint smell of fire in the air, the smell of burning firewood emitting into the air.
Renee didn't see the light from the fire, and then she thought about it, Wu Qiqiu must have chosen to light the fire in a cave, so that the rising black smoke would not be seen by other humans above the sea of tellurium canopy.
Renee used her atavistic keen sense of smell to accurately find the source of the strong burning smell. As expected, the source was a cave. The slight firelight reflected on the uneven rock wall meant that there was someone inside.
She carefully jumped off the branch and saw a pile of skeletons of giant beasts placed outside the entrance of the cave.
"Is it used to scare weak animals..." Renee thought to herself. She followed the firelight that refracted many times and walked into the cave.
The top of the cave is more than 3 meters high and wide, so it is quite spacious when you walk through it. And when Renee walked to the corner of the cave, more than ten shining silver blades suddenly flew out from the corner, and in an instant they were placed in the air 30 centimeters in front of her face.
"Is that how I welcome a woman who comes to see me in the dead of night?" Renee asked. She was not afraid of those blades and walked straight inside. Those blades had no killing intent, and the closer she got, the blades retreated.
A second later, Renee saw Wu Qi setting up firewood and cooking a barbecue in the open space of the cave. The flames in the fire were not strong enough and were extinguished immediately.
"Please don't use that ambiguous greeting, and it has nothing to do with my gender." Wu Qi said calmly. At his feet was a pile of herbivore bones. He had already taken care of that dinner.
Renee didn't shut up with Wu Qi first, but observed the situation outside Yidong Cave. There are ventilation holes on the top wall of the cave, which is why Wu Qi would light a fire in the cave for fear of choking on the smoke.
"If I do that, the black smoke will probably still be floating." Renee pointed to the ventilation hole in the cave wall and said.
"Didn't I remember the way when I came here? It's already on the back of the mountain. Even if the sky is red and the fire is burning, the wasteland is still invisible." Naturally, Wu Qi would not make such a low-level mistake. He didn't No explained to Renee why.
"Oh, that's it."
"So I didn't remember the way? How do I go back?" Wu Qi asked.
Renee found a log as a chair and walked eastward and said, "I'm very concerned about his return?"
Wu Qi snorted lightly and stopped answering.
Although they had just exchanged a few words with each other, Renee felt that the relationship between the two was not as stiff and inaccessible as she had imagined. At least it is certainly not the attitude that should be expected between enemies who stab each other in the heart.
"Wu Qi, he wants to ask, why did I think about leaving traces through the branches?" Renee asked for something to say, and then brought up what happened just now.
"It's just that I haven't erased the traces of the branches."
"The method of tracking one behind and the other on the front must have other uses, right?"
"I can just think about it myself."
Wu Qi said without emotion. In fact, he did put a little bit of thought into it, but only a little bit.
Wu Qi moves among the branches, leaving traces at the same time. Tracking his traces will inevitably require continuous movement among the branches, which will cause the shaking of the tree crown that can be seen in the distance. If Renee acted alone, there would be one person causing the shaking of the tree crown, and the amplitude would be very small. But if multiple people were moving together in the tree crown, Wu Qi would be able to detect it from a long distance away.
That method was not completely rigorous. If Renee had deliberately planned to lead people to track Wu Qi, and had thought carefully about it, letting everyone else follow her on the ground, Zhai was so confused that Wu Qi swarmed around him again, then Wu Qi would also It means being attacked by surprise and forced to fight back.
Renee could almost guess that the shaking of the tree crowns conveyed information, but she felt that her thinking was too simple. A senior hunter like Wu Qi must have legs beyond her understanding. She didn't know that Wu Qi had to use a little trust. Replaces the perfect but troublesome leg section.
The two people can meet in that special and uncomplicated way, which is based on a certain degree of trust. Experienced warriors are good at understanding the character of Wanli from the blade, and Renee gave Wu Qi the impression that she was not the type who was very deep in the city and good at plotting to harm others. On the other hand, Wu Qi's impression on Renee was also the same. That's why Renee took the initiative to come, and Wu Qi allowed Renee to appear there.