Six days have passed since that tribe fought against the Ye Qiong tribe.
Now it seems that this is not good news. If they had withdrawn directly at that time, after such a long time, they would have reached a deeper position above Dinglong.
It’s not easy to catch up now.
If it were summer, Ye Qiong would lead the soldiers to catch up without hesitation, but now it's winter!
If you catch up rashly, you are likely to encounter various emergencies and fall into traps for yourself and the soldiers, especially at night.
The area above Dinglong from the peak is full of dense forests, which are much taller than outside, and the types of trees are also different from those outside.
In the summer, Ye Qiong saw many species that he had never seen before, including some very nice-looking red fruits, a bit like dragon fruit. However, for safety reasons, Ye Qiong did not have any at that time. Instead of eating it directly, I picked some and put them together with the dried meat of the guard beasts in the wooden house.
At this moment, it was placed quietly inside. It has become dried fruits. Ye Qiong has never had time to study it. He also told the soldiers stationed here not to touch the dried fruits.
Except for trees, flowers and fruits, animals and magical beasts are not much different from those outside. Ye Qiong feels that every winter, there are probably many magical beasts that accidentally enter the Dinglong.
Or...
Come out of it.
More than ten kilometers of passages allow the Dinglong Mountains to connect with the outside world, but for plants, there is no way. After all, in winter, it is covered with snow, and there are no seeds that can be brought out from the things.
If it were summer, it would probably be different. If animals and some magical beasts were used for transportation, the plants on both sides would be connected.
Ye Qiong stayed on a boulder on the side of the reverse slope in a daze until Xingxing went down the mountain.
The sky gradually darkened, and after an afternoon of observation, Ye Qiong also noticed two abnormalities.
There was no way to enter the dense forest at night, and Ye Qiong did not lead the soldiers and Daidai out of the Dinglong Mountains, but continued to stay at the wooden house.
When Ye Qiong came back, the soldiers in the wooden house had already prepared dinner. After Ye Qiong came back, they started eating immediately.
While eating, the soldiers reported to Ye Qiong the situation around the wooden house. Through the blood stains and traces and footprints left in the dense forest, they had determined their departure direction.
However, for the sake of safety, the soldiers did not go too deep. They just followed the traces for about a kilometer and then returned.
The problem now is still the number of people. If the team that can be brought out can have hundreds of people, it will not be difficult to chase them in. But now the number of people Ye Qiong has brought is only thirty, so they can only come here to investigate first. , the specific time for tracking still needs to be discussed in the long term.
No matter what, you still have to make a decision before the next snowstorm comes. Otherwise, when the snow falls, the traces left behind will disappear. If you want to follow it deep into the dense forest, it will be equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack. The difficulty is very huge.
Early the next morning, after Ye Qiong got up, he once again took Daidai to the location where he had explored yesterday.
Even though they now know their retreat route, there is no way to know the distance. Ye Qiong still has to judge how far it is.
There are not many soldiers at the waterfall base. With the army and forest apes there, there is no need to worry about safety issues.
Ye Qiong continued to look at the two places where there was movement yesterday.
One left and one right.
The place on the left is about ten kilometers away from the wooden house, and the place on the right is farther away. According to visual inspection, it is about twenty kilometers.
Going twenty kilometers deep into the dense forest to track down a tribe was very dangerous, but it would be a pity for Ye Qiong to just let them go.
Ye Qiong is now sitting on a boulder, and Daidai is lying next to the boulder, taking a nap, not falling asleep, thinking about something, and opening his eyes from time to time, looking at Ye on the boulder. Qiong's figure, has it disappeared?
Ye Qiong picked up a stone on the ground, hit it directly on Daidai's forehead, and called Daidai up.
The diameter of this boulder is more than twenty meters. After jumping on it, it is still very spacious.
Ye Qiong took out an animal skin from the bag on Daidai's back, and then took out an ink pen made by himself.
He spread the animal skin directly on the boulder, and then Ye Qiong started drawing on it with an ink pen.
The main thing is to paint some iconic places on it, so that you can still see it clearly from here.
Ye Qiong still felt that he couldn't miss this opportunity and had to take people there to find that tribe, at least...
We also need to bring back a few alive.
If they use the same language and characters as the tribes outside, then Ye Qiong will have no interest in them. They can go wherever they like in the Dinglong Mountains.
If the characters and languages they use are different from those of the tribes outside the Dinglong Mountains, then it will be necessary to capture a few alive.
When two races using different writing and languages meet, they will naturally be unable to communicate at first.
But as long as time allows, communication will definitely be possible.
It's a very simple truth. For example, two different human races have different languages and characters for monsters like the Snow Wolf.
But no matter how they pronounce it, or what symbols they use to record and represent the Snow Demon Wolf, the Snow Demon Wolf is the Snow Demon Wolf. Those pronunciations and words record the same thing.
So if you follow a very simplified procedure, you put two people who don't understand each other on a desert island. After a month, they may still need physical communication, and after a year, they can basically communicate normally. The longer it takes, the easier it will be to communicate without any barriers.
In the end, both of them can master each other's language and writing proficiently...
When more people of the same race as them arrive on the desert island, the people who come after them will not have to work so hard because they have translators.
But if there is no one to communicate, but to directly present the text in front of you, then it will be extremely difficult to decipher this kind of text. It is not something that can be directly translated after a long time.
Therefore, Ye Qiong knew very well how important the tribe that suddenly emerged from the Dinglong Mountains this time was.
