Soul echo

Chapter 334 Tracking

Although they have reached the location marked on the map, this is only an 'approximate range'.

If Cyril's description is correct, and the memories of those merchants are also correct, Zhong Ye's goal of this trip 'should' be here.

In this era, a map with an error of no more than 500 meters is considered quite accurate.

Although Zhong Ye and the others had a map in their hands, they could only determine a rough range, and they didn't know exactly where the stronghold was.

Therefore, it is necessary to search all over the mountains and plains.

Although Zhong Ye knew that those vampires were fleeing toward the northeast, they might not always run toward the northeast, and might change their course on the way. Therefore, it is still necessary to look for the traces they left behind when they fled.

Focusing on the location where the carriage was parked, Zhong Ye and the others divided into three groups and began to search all over the mountains and plains.

They all carry smoking pills, and as long as they find any suspected traces and confirm that the traces are related to vampires, they can send a signal to notify others.

Compared with the other two groups, Zhong Ye moved very fast, but in just half an hour, he climbed over a mountain.

As an extraordinary person in perception, his search speed is naturally fast. As long as anything appears in front of his eyes, it is absolutely impossible for him to subconsciously ignore it.

Although it was searching all over the mountains and plains, it was not aimless.

Vampires are not unable to be exposed to the sun, even legendary level vampires cannot do this kind of thing. After all, in terms of power, the sun god is many times stronger than them.

Therefore, they must find a place to hide, either a building or a cave.

And this stronghold of vampires, according to Cyril's description, should be a cave.

Therefore, they can skip the surface and go directly to the cave.

Since the vampires wanted to run away, they might blow up the cave before escaping, but this would make it easier for them to find it, but I don't know if the group of vampires would do this.

The search operation lasted from the morning until the evening. Zhong Ye did not find the place where the vampires were hiding, nor did they find any traces left by them. Just as he was about to return to the carriage, he saw a column of smoke rising from a distance.

He hurried over, spent ten minutes, climbed over a dozen mountains, and came to the place where the smoke column rose.

The people who lit the smoke column were Lily and Lilian, and a dark cave was not far from them.

Zhong Ye swept his eyes around the entrance of the cave, but did not find any traces. He turned to look at Lilian and the others, "Have you gone in and looked?"

There is no evidence around the cave entrance to prove that this is a vampire stronghold, so the evidence must be in the cave.

"Yes, we went in and looked!" Lily said quickly, "The inside of the cave is caved in."

Although they don't know if there are any earthquakes or other factors that can cause the cave to collapse, their purpose of this operation is to find the suspected vampire stronghold and the traces left by them. As long as they find the suspected traces, they can send a signal to notify others .

Lily is well aware of her own and Lilian's abilities. Unlike Zhong Ye, they can easily find clues, so instead of wandering around here, it is better to directly inform Zhong Ye and Mayer to come over and let them help find them together. .

There is great strength in numbers, not to mention that the two of them are far beyond ordinary people in terms of perception, so they must be much faster to find than she and Lilian.

Zhong Ye raised his head and glanced at the sky, and there was already a gloomy look on the horizon.

Because it was winter, the night came much earlier than the other three seasons. If night fell, it would greatly hinder their tracking operations.

Like Lily and Lilian, they are only suitable for action during the day. Once it enters the night, if there is no light, they are almost the same as blind.

"I'll take a look first, and when Mayer Endrich arrives, you can talk to him."

After saying that, Zhong Ye walked into the entrance of the cave.

After entering the cave, Zhong Ye found that it was unexpectedly spacious.

Not only can he stand up straight, but there is still a space above his head.

This made Zhong Ye feel very strange, and couldn't help but look up a few more times.

However, it was these few glances that made him see the problem - although there were no traces on the ground, there were some scratches on the top of the cave.

With just one glance, Zhong Ye could tell that these scratches were not naturally formed marks, but marks left after being scratched by something.

what happened?There are no traces on the ground, but there are scratches on the roof of the cave?

Some doubts flashed in Zhong Ye's heart, but he did not stop to study the scratches, but continued to move forward, all the way to the end of the cave.

As Lily Lieber said, the interior of the cave has collapsed, and the heavy soil blocks the way ahead.

Zhong Ye inserted his hands into the mud wall and dug out some soil—even in this cold winter, the soil was still a bit wet to the touch.

In other words, it wasn't long before the cave collapsed.

After collecting the information, Zhong Ye turned around and left the cave. Before walking out of the cave, he took a special look at those scratches.

The scratches are not continuous, but scattered and irregular.

When Zhong Ye walked out of the cave, he found that Mayer had arrived. Coincidentally, he told them what he found in the cave.

After hearing Zhong Ye's narration, the three of them were all taken aback for a moment.

"Scratches? Why are there scratches?" Mayer frowned.

If the cave collapses, other parts will definitely be affected, such as the top gravel falling.

There are scratches, and they are numerous, which may indicate that those scratches were left after the cave collapsed.

However, in contrast, there are no traces left on the ground.

"Did you find anything over there?" Zhong Ye looked at Mayer.

"Have!"

Hearing Zhong Ye's inquiry, Mayer immediately replied: "I may have discovered the whereabouts left by the vampire!"

Zhong Ye raised his eyebrows, "Where?"

"Northwest of here."

Hearing this, Zhong Ye took out the compass and checked the direction.

They are now located to the west of the place where the carriage stops, northwest of here...

"Paris?" Lily's heart skipped a beat.

When she checked the map before, Auxerre was located in the southeast of Paris. If the group of vampires wanted to flee to the northwest, their destination might be Paris?
Zhong Ye frowned. It was impossible for the gods to deceive him, and it was meaningless to deceive him in this kind of matter. Instead, it would cause harm to the civilized society of Westland.

In other words, the traces Mayer found may have been deliberately left by those vampires!

"...this may have been deliberately left by the vampires to mislead us."

Zhong Ye pointed to the cave behind him, "If this cave is really a stronghold of vampires, then they didn't leave traces on the ground, but left traces in other places, isn't that very suspicious?"

After hearing these words, Mayer also began to doubt her guess.

Apart from this cave, they did not find any other place that might be the hiding place of the vampires. In such a large area, perhaps this is the only cave where those vampires can hide, and the signs in the cave are also quite suspicious.

"So, the traces you found can only be used as a temporary reserve plan. If we really can't find any other traces, we can start with the traces you found." After speaking, Zhong Ye pointed to the cave again, "Now , I think we'd better start with the scratches on the roof of the cave—since they didn't leave a mark on the ground, could it be that they didn't walk on the ground at all?"

"How to escape without walking on the ground?" Lily asked.

Vampires in this world will not turn into bats, and naturally they cannot fly.

"crawl!"

Zhong Ye looked up at the surrounding branches, "I think they may have climbed out from the top of the cave, and then jumped between the branches to escape from this place!"

(End of this chapter)