Ru Feng and Xun Ye gradually separated after walking not far together. Xun Ye searched directly to the north, while Ru Feng searched in the north-west direction. Half an hour later, everyone returned one after another.

The place where we broke up.

As soon as they met, they began to summarize the situation, but they all said that they did not find any useful clues. Only Xunye said that he found a trail that seemed to be walked by bandits, but it was made when fetching water, and there were only a few traces after passing the water point.

Gone.

"The situation seen in Xunye is also normal. After those bandits transporting food camped here, they must get water for cooking. Even people and horses need a lot of water. It is normal to be able to walk out of a small road.

Xun Ye judged that this path was taken by the water collector, which was more realistic. If it was the road that the bandits took when they left, there should be traces after passing the water collection point.

Since the traces disappeared after crossing the creek, it means that the bandits did not leave from that direction, and there is a big mountain directly in front of that direction. The bandits with heavy loads will not choose to climb the mountain.

Since there are no clues, we still need to analyze and see which direction the bandits are most likely to go after leaving here. Without traces, we can only rely on judgment."

Ru Feng asked everyone to sit down and took out a map for everyone to judge and analyze based on their current location. In fact, everyone already knows this map by heart, and repeated viewing can only help them become more familiar with it.

"Now that we have found this bandit's camp again, it means that our previous judgment was correct. I think we should continue to search according to our previous judgment. It is very likely that we will also find the next camp of the bandits.

As for the direction, I think we should search in the northeast direction. If we go further, in two or three days we will reach the route we used to deal with Gui Shatou and the others.

Don’t we suspect that Gui Shatou will choose a hiding place on that route? Once we get to that route, we will search carefully, and maybe we can find Gui Shatou’s hiding place soon.

If you search to the northeast, you can avoid the mountain to the north, and the route is relatively easier. The road to the southeast is also easier to walk, but it is impossible for Gui Shatou to hide in that direction.

The road to the north is not only difficult to walk, but also has a big mountain. These bandits with heavy loads will not choose it. They would rather take a long detour than climb over the mountain. Besides, there is a big mountain not far behind this mountain.

There may be people going northwest, but that should not be the direction the bandits should choose. If the route we are following is not bad, then the bandits should turn northwest where we stayed yesterday, instead of going back

Come and camp here.

Since the bandits chose to camp here, they shouldn't go back to the northwest. It's not common sense to seek the distance instead of the near, so we don't need to go northwest to search."

Brother Wang Xiangyong saw that everyone was silent, so he first expressed his opinion. It should be said that this judgment was quite reasonable, so no one raised any different opinions.

"It is still very difficult to determine the route that the bandits took when they left here, but as Brother Wang said, the northeast direction is the most likely, and now we can only choose this direction.

There was a distance of forty or fifty miles from the last bandit camp to the current camp, which shows that these bandits are not moving slowly and they are trying their best.

On the way, we found no traces of the bandits taking a temporary rest. This may be due to three reasons. One is that the route we followed did not exactly match the route taken by the bandits, so no traces were found.

The second is that although the bandits took a rest in the middle, the traces they left were not obvious, and they completely disappeared after a while. It is normal for us not to notice.

The third possibility is that the bandits did not rest at all on the way. They walked from the previous camping camp to this camping camp in one go. Although this possibility is not very high, it cannot be completely ruled out.

I judge that the next camp of the bandits should be about forty miles away from here, or even closer, because the bandits will become more and more tired and the walking distance will naturally be reduced.

Since we can't find any traces, we can only rely on judgment. This time, Brother Wang Xiangyong and Third Brother are the two of you searching ahead. After thirty miles, we will search more carefully, paying special attention to the possible camping spots of the bandits.

We can analyze it based on various aspects such as the mountain topography and walking distance, and make a comprehensive judgment based on your experience and feelings. If we can find the bandits' next campsite, our tracking direction will be more determined.

Let’s set off now. The horses will be led by the four of us. After walking for more than ten miles, we will rest and eat, and then we will set up camp after walking for more than ten miles. We don’t have to go too fast today.”

Ru Feng made the final decision, and everyone got up and set off. It should be said that walking in this season is not very difficult, because the weather is not too cold, the mosquitoes have not become active, and the walking speed is not fast.

They only walked less than thirty miles that day, but Wang Xiangyong and Wu Yunlei ran a lot. Because they had to search back and forth all the time, they naturally walked more miles than everyone else.

But despite trying very hard, no valuable traces were found. It should be said that I walked blindly that day, or that I searched and judged the possible direction of the bandits based on my feelings.

We walked like this for another two days, covering about eighty or ninety miles, but no traces of the bandits passing by or camping were found, which made everyone feel very disappointed.

During dinner in the evening, everyone gathered together again and started a discussion, but there was no result. Because no traces were found, there was no evidence for judgment, so there was no convincing conclusion.

Bite the bullet, everyone continued to search for a whole day along the originally determined route, but still found nothing. This made everyone's mood depressed again, and no one said much during dinner in the evening.

"This is very strange. The original judgment is not so outrageous, right? There are various signs that this group of bandits transporting food should have taken this route. How come there is no trace at all?

Maybe our judgment was wrong? No traces were found, and we can’t continue tracking like this. We may still get nothing if we go forward. It’s time to re-determine our tracking route.”
Chapter completed!