Chapter 82 Tracking

"The mud hasn't caked up yet. They should have been away for less than ten days."

These nomads did not even slightly cover the ruts and marks on the ground. From a distance, you can see a large piece of tall grass lying on the ground. The fallen tall grass showed a wide circular depression, which was crushed. The tall grass on the ground has begun to turn yellow, and within a month it will be overgrown with the same grass again.

That was the clan's garrison.

In other words, the former camp.

Ji Lin has already seen three such circular plots, which are not too close to each other and keep a certain distance from each other. The ruts extending from the ground clear an obvious path for those who come after.

The three ruts eventually converged into a larger trail.

Extending deeper into the plain.

The three clans finally gathered into a team and advanced into the depths of the wild plains.

But the number of troops on the march was very large, very large.

The traces on the ground include many small footprints that are not of human size, and there are also deep pits that are far larger than human size. The large number of footprints trampled the tall grass into the ground, paving a green road.

If he joined the border army camp, then someone would naturally join the clan camp. He could guess it from the beginning.

The strength of the lords will not become stronger due to fighting. On the contrary, the more intense fighting will make them weaker, and the loss of the maximum number of soldiers is almost inevitable.

The lord who can survive to the end must be the one who can best preserve his combat power and manage resources well.

The best way to keep your own resources is to find a backer. After joining a camp in the battle, unless the camp is completely destroyed, you can always leave a way out to keep your own resources. Even if you lose, you won't suffer too much loss.

At this time, most of the people who can reach the same level as him are lords of races with stronger individual qualities.

As expected, Ji Lin still missed horses very much. He tried to sit on the steam spider for a while. He only stayed there for five minutes before he was carried by this thing with no shock absorption and turned into walking. His brain was almost shaken. .

After adjusting the power and reducing the speed from 35km/h to 10km/h, he could barely feel that he was riding in a relatively stable vehicle.

Although the speed is less than one-third of the original, at least there is a transportation vehicle that can be used.

This thing running at low power does not have the same terrifying breath when running at full power, so the psychological pressure can be lower.

He has no way to carry infantry troops for this kind of long-distance reconnaissance. The infantry moves too slowly and is too bulky. If he is confident of escaping by himself, it may not be possible to bring a hundred people with him. He uses a hunting spider to replace the hunting dog's function to scout the surroundings, spreading it out in an arc to further explore the terrain, while he sits on a steam spider and advances behind him.

These useful little things have been reduced from the full number of 200 to the current 180. They are too fragile, but they are Ji Lin's only resistance force now. A single attack from the monster infantry can easily bring them down. Walk a hunting spider.

The advantage of tactics can only establish the situation before the battle. When dragged into a head-to-head battle, no matter how high the hunting spider's dodge is, casualties are inevitable.

His luck was really not good. He cleared six camps and obtained 3% of the territory's used building resources. He was not even given a cultivation blueprint.

After waiting for the first round of supplies on the 30th, he can directly send his victory results back to his territory, and then obtain some supplies from his territory.

Dead soldiers cannot be resurrected. They will return to the stasis zone and can only obtain reserves from the territory, unless they have some special buildings.

The scout captain was also recording with him, and he was responsible for choosing the path forward, while the latter rode the steam spider

Even if an employment relationship is reached, he is still wary of himself as an outsider.

This is inevitable. After all, this map will be the basis for the subsequent 10,000-person expeditionary force. Before they can send out scouts to record all the terrain, they will rely on this simple hand-drawn terrain to determine their most basic strategy. Target.

One mistake could kill thousands of colleagues.

Ji Lin explored the terrain along the ring, counting the position of each wooden nail and the distance between the wooden nails.

The virtual image has been constructed in his mind bit by bit,

In a camp with about 10,000 people, there should always be something left behind.

A brown parchment scroll caught his eye.

"We sincerely invite you to join us in our hunt. Those who can make great achievements will be rewarded with a thousand lambs."

The system also reached out and gave him prompts at the right time.

‘You have triggered the task, Battle of the Royal Court (not optional)’

‘With this scroll, you can temporarily join the camp: Frostwood Clan’

‘Because you have joined the border camp and cannot join the clan camp. ’

Ji Lin shook his head, put away the scroll, turned and walked towards the top of the valley.

Take the scroll to the scout leader on the hillside who is drawing a terrain map.

The latter looked at the mark for a while and said.

"The mark of the Frost Forest Clan. Having this mark means that it is recognized by the leader of their clan."

Please don't worry about why these lords can talk to the nomads and understand their writing, but they can also talk to the border troops and understand the writing left by the border troops.

All interpretation rights belong to the system.

"Are we going to keep going?"

Ji Lin asked.

"No, no need. If you go further, you may encounter the royal court's scout cavalry."

The scout captain shook his head, indicating that he had collected all the information he needed.

His sight fell on the gorge at the end of the long road, like a gate in the sky cut open by an unparalleled force, the mountain range was split into two, and through that passage, it went deeper into the wilderness.

And that was also the end of the long road.

It was really a natural wonder.

"Thank you for borrowing this ingenious creation. I will go and give this map to the general."

The scout captain took Xu Shan away, and there were also some spare parts. The journey was long, and the steam spider was easy to break down after a long march. Repairs were not something the scout captain could do.

Let him take Xu Shan with him.

If the steam spider was damaged during the journey, Xu Shan would help him repair and maintain it.

The remaining eight scouts stayed in the temporary camp for recuperation. Ji Lin was responsible for providing them with meals, recuperation and rescue. The border army would pay Ji Lin extra money as a salary for taking care of these scouts.

Ji Lin sat at the highest point of the valley, boredly counting the stars. There was no Changgeng Star that appeared in the west.

But he saw something else.

A...dragon falling from the sky.

It waved its fiery red wings, its sharp claws sunk into the mud, and the young dragon's immature body showed some dragon-like grandeur, and its bright yellow eyes were full of curiosity about humans.

When the young red dragon landed, a figure jumped down from above.