After a night of nothing, Lin Shuo led Anne, Wei Xingshan, and Yang Tuo to the mountain range outside the cave early in the morning.
From the cave, there is no way to walk here.
Beyond the entrance of the cave is a cliff about ten meters away.
This level of rock climbing and downhill is not too difficult for Wei Xingshan. He first lowered Yang Tuo with a rope, and then used his hands and feet to reach the ground in two or three strokes.
Turning his head, Wei Xingshan saw Lin Shuo and Anne jumping down directly.
Anne was better, at least she looked human. After she got down, she rolled forward, completely counteracting the momentum, and stood up.
Lin Shuo went too far, and jumped behind Master Chase's back. There was a loud "bang", and the knee just bent slightly, and immediately stood upright again.
Wei Xingshan sucked his teeth and shook his head.
If any recruit dared to jump in front of him like that, he would have slapped him long ago.
With such a jumping method, even if the foot is not broken, the knee will be damaged sooner or later.
But Lin Shuo is just Lin Shuo, so it cannot be judged by common sense. And with Wei Xingshan's 10,000 courage, he didn't dare to say anything to Lin Shuo.
Before Wei Xingshan was on the ground, he had driven a certain distance with Lin Shuo.
After suffering from that experience, he learned to behave. This strong man took out a talking machine from the pocket of his combat vest, handed it to Anne, and said:
"The two of you will lead the way ahead. I will protect Dr. Yang and hang in the back. If there is any danger, you two will bear it. If something is wrong, Ms. Anne will use this to report to me, and Dr. Yang and I will evacuate quickly."
"Aren't you the captain of the action team? Aren't you responsible for the safety of all of us?" Lin Shuo gave this strong man who was nearly two meters tall, "Why are you so cowardly?"
"You can pull it down!" Wei Xingshan waved his hand, and put the assault rifle in his hand on his shoulder, "If I still can't recognize the situation at this moment, then I'm a pig brain."
Lin Shuo nodded, with a look of approval on his face, and said solemnly: "Remember to shoot immediately if something happens. Although a gun may not be able to help you, it is faster than talking through an intercom. I can know that you are going to die immediately." .”
"Just wait for me to order!" Wei Xingshan took a sip, "Both of you quickly disappear."
"Captain Wei, Dr. Yang, be careful along the way." Anne instructed, "Remember to follow our footsteps and don't go astray."
"knew."
After saying goodbye, Wei Xingshan only felt the two figures in front of him flicker, jump over the small river about ten meters wide, and disappear into the jungle.
Yang Tuo looked at the two backs that disappeared one after another, and turned to look at Wei Xingshan beside him: "Captain Wei, you just followed these two people and walked a hundred kilometers in the mountains?"
"Hey!" Wei Xingshan suddenly felt that he had more face. He suppressed his guilt, patted his chest, and said, "That's right, don't look at them so powerful, but my old Wei is not far behind."
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Lin Shuo and Ann looked at this rainforest made of ferns from a distance last night. Apart from being a little weird, they didn't find anything unusual.
But once he actually entered inside, Lin Shuo felt something was wrong.
Everything here is too strange to me.
This strangeness is not only visual, but also olfactory.
As He Zihong said, this is an isolated and completely independent ecosystem.
It was the first time for Lin Shuo to smell the smell of almost everything here.
In the river yesterday, Lin Shuo finally smelled danger because there was only the smell of spiders there, so it was easy to distinguish.
But now, the place is full of spore plants, all kinds of spores are scattered in the surrounding air, and hundreds of completely unfamiliar smells all get into Lin Shuo's nose.
It's as if hundreds of strangers suddenly come into view and the police ask you to point out who the criminal is. Then you and the criminal have never met before.
Therefore, Lin Shuo can't detect potential dangers by using the method of hearing the wind and distinguishing the position.
Moreover, so many strange smells were also a great disturbance to Lin Shuo's search for the hook snake.
Although the scent of the hooked snake had long been firmly engraved in Lin Shuo's mind, but now the engraved imprint was wrapped in hundreds of disguises that Lin Shuo did not recognize.
Especially the spores of these ferns, ordinary people may not notice anything when they smell them, but in Lin Shuo's nasal cavity, it is like a heavy punch.
Lin Shuo's pace slowed down quickly. He took out the mask from his pocket and put it on his mouth and nose.
Lin Shuo was careful not to throw away this mask originally used to protect against the cold, but it really came in handy now.
He needs to filter out the smell of some spores so that he can distinguish the smell of hooked snakes.
He did not lie in front of Wei Xingshan last night, the fight between him and the hooked snake would end in an instant.
He only has one chance to kill the hooked snake. If he missed one shot, the hooked snake would not give him a second chance to bend his bow and shoot an arrow.
To fight against the hooked snake, he had to detect its existence first, otherwise it would be impossible to talk about a one-hit kill.
Originally, he had two investigative methods in his hands, one was wind and location detection, and the other was Xiao Ba's aerial reconnaissance.
Now that Xiao Ba is gone, Lin Shuo can only rely on his own nose.
But now, his nose is not working for the time being, so he can only slow down.
As soon as Lin Shuo slowed down, Anne naturally slowed down too. She felt a little strange, but she didn't ask directly, and followed silently.
The ferns here are relatively tall, although they are not as good as the trees in the Outer Xing'an Mountains, but they are not too far behind.
Originally, the light intensity here could not be compared with that on the ground. Once entering the forest, the visibility was even worse, and only a distance of four or five meters could be vaguely seen.
Although the two walked very slowly, they could clearly feel that as they gradually penetrated into the jungle, the temperature here was rising rapidly, and the humidity was also increasing.
Soon, Anne was already dripping with sweat and felt a tightness in her chest.
Lin Shuo's forehead was also slightly sweaty. He stopped and stopped walking: "Give me half an hour, I want to get familiar with the smell here."
"Okay." Anne replied.
Lin Shuo stood on the spot, closed his eyes, closed his sight and hearing, and let his mind completely focus on his sense of smell.
Here, two kilometers deep into the jungle. The scent of this jungle is relatively complete.
Lin Shuo decided to take some time to digest these smells, so that if there are new smells in the future, he can have an underlying database in his mind to compare.
Lin Shuo has been doing this kind of training since he can remember, and he has done it countless times. The Lin family's unique learning, in addition to needing the support of talent, more depends on acquired training.
Lin Shuo's previous taste training was based on the familiar smell library, and then he got to know and recognize new smells.
It is the first time that hundreds of new scents come together like today.
But what makes perfect, this matter is not difficult for Lin Shuo, it just takes some time.
Anne stayed by Lin Shuo's side and observed Lin Shuo for a while.
Since entering this fern forest, Anne's mind has always been on Lin Shuo, and she didn't pay much attention to the surrounding scenery.
Yesterday Lin Shuo said that her performance was unqualified, which dealt a great blow to this woman's self-esteem.
Today, she has no other distractions and has been silently observing Lin Shuo's actions.
It wasn't that Lin Shuo hooked her soul, but because she knew that in this environment, observing Lin Shuo's reaction would be more effective than directly observing the surrounding environment.
Because Lin Shuo's reaction must be faster than hers. All she had to do was pay attention to Lin Shuo's actions and not help herself.
Now that Lin Shuo stopped, Anne saw that he was starting to close his eyes to detect the smell, so Anne knew that she needed to stand guard for him.
Anne looked around for a while, and was soon attracted by the novel plants around her.
But she immediately suppressed her curiosity, and took out the intercom that Wei Xingshan had given her, wanting to remind him that the situation ahead was unknown, so that he and Yang Tuo could walk slowly.
Anne just pressed the call button when Lin Shuo suddenly frowned and said quickly, "Listen, it seems that something is approaching us."
Anne quickly got down and put her ears on the ground.
On the ground here, there is a thick layer of moss, five centimeters thick.
People stepped on it like walking on a carpet, it was very comfortable, but Anne couldn't hear clearly.
She quickly wiped off the layer of moss with her hands, and put her ears on the soil.
"Shushasha..."
"Shushasha..."
"Shushasha..."
Anne was taken aback for a moment, she suspected that she had heard wrong.
She actually heard the sound of waves in the middle of the earth!
This was of course impossible, so she quickly recognized that it was the sound of footsteps!
Very dense footsteps!
Everywhere!
This is obviously not the sound of human footsteps, because the sound of human footsteps, even Lin Shuo who is running, cannot be so dense.
And the nearest group of footsteps was at most two hundred meters away from the two of them!
Anne picked up the intercom, pressed the call button and yelled at Wei Xingshan and the others:
"Run back!!!"
"quick!!!"