There was still some time before it got dark. In order to find the missing person as soon as possible, the team leader immediately led Shao Xuan out to have a look.
"I want to know if they went directly to the place to get water after they left the cave." Shao Xuan said in pairs.
Although he knew that the missing person went to fetch water, Cheng still wanted Caesar's help to make sure.
"Okay." Shao Xuan replied.
When he was in the cave, Shao Xuan asked Caesar to smell the items used by the missing person, so Caesar remembered the smell of those three people.
Cheng and Mai each took a dozen people and went out with Shao Xuan.
"We used to try to follow those things, hoping to find their nests, but after several waves, we found that their holes were different," Cheng said.
The ballast went to Mai and the others for help. One was to borrow Caesar and try to find someone. It is best to determine which hole the missing person was taken to. Second, no matter whether it can be found or not, three people are lost at once, and the current situation is still a bit abnormal. It is necessary to seek help in advance, and the object of seeking is naturally the team of Mai and his team that is closest to the hunting route.
Growth sighed and looked at the wolf walking in the forefront.
Caesar walked in front of the line, walking and sniffing.
Some distance after leaving the cave, it was indeed the way to go directly to the water collection point, but in the middle of it, Caesar stopped.
After observing Caesar's reaction, Shao Xuan said, "There is a person who went over there."
Cheng looked at the direction Shao Xuan pointed, and shook his head, "There are no caves, no trees, and no water over there. We don't usually go there."
"We didn't look carefully over there." Ballast said.
Cheng was silent for a few seconds and said, "Let's go to the water collection place first." Only one person left in the middle, but all three of them were missing. What happened to the other two who went to the water collection point
The place where their hunting team fetched water was a natural pool, not too far from their first stronghold cave near the mountainside.
"We usually fetch water here. At least three people are together each time. There are no very dangerous beasts on the mountain. Even if we encounter them, we can escape smoothly. I have come to fetch it several times. However, this time is different." Ballas pointed to the grass under his feet.
There are some marks of being pressed on the grass, which should have been pressed when the missing person fell to the ground, and many grasses were directly crooked. There are also knife marks and claw marks on a stone next to it.
The knife marks belonged to the missing warriors, and the claw marks were similar to those of those bats, and larger than those that had been seen before.
If the missing soldier was captured from the air, it is no wonder that the hunting party couldn't find it, because there is no other useful clues on the ground except here.
However, after being taken away from the air, even Caesar, whose sense of smell is much more sensitive than a human being, finds it difficult to continue searching.
"Go and see that." Cheng said somewhat disappointedly.
"Hmm." That's all.
Everyone turned back and returned to the place where the three people who fetched water were separated. Here, a soldier left. Caesar carefully identified the smell and led the crowd away.
At first it was just on the mountainside, and then it went up the mountain.
"I remember that there are a lot of rocks in that area, and it's not easy to walk. We only visited once a long time ago." Ballast said.
Cheng looked around and said, "Sometimes there are traces of antelope here."
"It smells of blood." Qi suddenly said.
Not only the ballast, but Mai and others also smelled it.
However, the wind direction here is a bit chaotic, and it is not easy to accurately judge for a while.
The crowd followed Caesar and continued to walk until next to the rock, where there was the body of a chamois.
The many bite wounds on the antelope were caused by those big bats. There was blood on the ground, but not much. Most of the blood was eaten by those bats.
If they didn't follow Caesar to find it, it would be difficult for the hunting team to find this place. After all, they rarely came here before, and they never thought that people who fetched water would come here.
"He must have heard the movement, so he chased after him," said Qi.
The person who followed was the strongest among the three people who fetched the water. He probably did not expect that in this place on the mountain, he would encounter those bats that were chasing their prey, and he even folded in, and no one was seen. No dead body.
"The food that has been eaten will not be taken away, and the food that has been taken away has not been eaten for the time being," Mai said.
It's better to be gone than to find a dead body, at least possibly alive.
Everyone turned their attention to Caesar, only to see Caesar sniffing on the ground nearby, then walking a distance in one direction, sniffing again, and looking at Shao Xuan.
"Look at this, what Caesar discovered." Shao Xuan said.
"Is there something on the ground?"
He walked over quickly, his fingers touched the ground in front of Caesar, put it under his nose and smelled it carefully, his brows were wrinkled, there was indeed a smell, "What is this smell?"
"Probably, those things'... urine." Shao Xuan said his guess.
"Their urine?"
"Well, if you eat too much of those things, drain more water to make your body lighter and easier to fly." Shao Xuan said.
Hearing Shao Xuan's words, Mai and Cheng nodded, and felt that it made sense.
With such a clue, everyone was refreshed and continued to follow Caesar.
Walking out of this large rocky area, there are not many trees around, and after walking a distance, I approached the place where the water was drawn, but it did not go past, but continued to move forward.
"Those things peed all the way?" Ballas asked.
"Probably along the road, but... there is also the smell of someone here." Shao Xuan said according to Caesar's reaction.
"What do you mean?" Cheng looked at Shao Xuan.
"That is to say, the arrested person may have urinated all over." Shao Xuan said.
He was pissed all over, and the soldiers who fetched the water were all wearing furry fur coats, which could absorb some water and then drip down the road.
That soldier was really unlucky. He went out of the cave to get some water, but he was caught by the bat and urinated all over his body. However, it is precisely because of this that continuous clues can be left.
The crowd followed Caesar and walked all the way up the mountain. Sometimes the smell was interrupted in the middle, and the search area had to be expanded.
Looking at the sky, Mai was a little worried, "If we search further, we may not be able to go back before dark. We don't know if there are any caves around."
"We seldom came here before, but there are quite a few holes in those things. We followed them and found quite a few caves, right on this mountain." Cheng said.
"Where are their holes?" Shao Xuan asked.
Cheng raised his finger and pointed in several directions, "Those places are not on our hunting route, and many places are unfamiliar."
Caesar has stopped, the smell has stopped again, and this time may really not be able to continue.
"What should I do?" Qi looked around. It was a mountain that wasn't too high. There were no trees around, and there was only a patch of grass on the ground that wasn't dense.
The surroundings were unobstructed, and nothing unusual could be seen.
Shao Xuan stood there, and he felt that the totem in his mind was a little active. Looking at other people, it seemed that there was no such situation.
Looking carefully at the direction of the flames on the totem, Shao Xuan looked over there, and there was the top of the mountain, because it was not high, there was no snow, just a piece of grass.
Shao Xuan lifted his foot and walked over there. Seeing this, Mai and the others thought that Shao Xuan had judged the position based on Caesar's performance, and then walked over together.
As he got closer to the top of the mountain, the totems in Shao Xuan's mind became more and more active. In addition, Shao Xuan also heard some sounds, like the sound of rapid airflow, similar to the sound of amplified exhalation.
"Uncle Mai, did you hear anything?" Shao Xuan asked.
"No... No, I seem to have heard it. It's the sound of those things, but it's not very clear. It should be too far away." Mai said.
"I heard that too." Cheng quickened his pace and ran towards the top of the mountain.
The cry of a bat? Shao Xuan frowned, no, no, what he heard was not the sound of a bat.
Cheng, who ran to the top of the mountain first, suddenly stood there, motionless, as if he had seen something extraordinary.
"What did you find?" Mai Jiren also speeded up and ran over, standing on the top of the mountain after a few ups and downs.
Like Cheng, the others were also stunned.
In front of them, there was a large pit with a diameter of over 100 meters and a depth of over 80 meters.
The inner wall of the pit is not as barren as the rest of the mountain, and it is like another world inside.
Several thigh-thick vines intertwined and extended downward, and huge umbrella-like leaves spread out. The inner wall of the pit is also overgrown with various plants, some of which are blooming and bearing fruit.
"here is… "
I've never been here, Cheng didn't know there was such a big pit here, and when they chased those things, they never walked to the top of the mountain.
Shao Xuan stood on the edge and looked down. It was still bright and light, and he could see the bottom of the pit. However, compared with the inner wall of the pit, there are far fewer plants, and there are only some grasses of unknown type, which are monotonously distributed there.
The totem in my mind is very active, and the flames around the horns are beating.
Below, something is attracting.
"There are several kinds of precious medicinal herbs below, some of which I have only seen on the animal skin scrolls in Wu's place." Shao Xuan said.
Mai and Cheng glanced at each other and said, "Let's go down and have a look first, you guys will see the situation later."
Mai Heqi, Cheng and the others went down along the vines to see if there was any danger in the pit, and to investigate the situation, Shao Xuan, Lang Ga and others were waiting above, acting according to chance.
Just like what Shao Xuan said, there are a lot of good herbs in this pit, including the kind of plants they use to resist bat toxins.
After looking around for a while, Cheng gestured towards the people above, indicating that they can come down, but be careful, there are still uncertain dangers here.
There are still some burrs on the vines, which are not slippery, which is a good thing for everyone and makes their movement easier.
Shao Xuan went down with everyone, leaving only Caesar on top.
There are many medicinal plants around the inner wall of the pit, and everyone quickly cut off those they knew and could save them.
Shao Xuan did not pay attention to the rare medicinal plants around him. After landing at the bottom of the pit, he felt that the flames on the totem seemed to be excited.
Look down at your feet.
A piece of bat shit.