Chapter 8 Traces and Traces

Duan Peng and the other three walked through the forest quickly. Zhong Li, who walked at the end, had been looking at Duan Peng and Zhong Xi in front of him with a strange look. What Zhong Xi said to him had always echoed in his mind. Is Duan Peng really hope? He couldn't believe it, but Duan Peng's later performance subverted his cognition.

Only taught him how to calm his breathing after running. Since then, Duan Peng can calm down at a very fast speed after each run. Later, Zhong Xi taught him to see more clearly. Although Duan Peng's physical quality limited his speed, his consciousness was no different from the experienced Zhong Xi.

"Wait!" Zhong Xi, who followed Duan Peng, suddenly shouted.

Duan Peng hurriedly stopped and looked around while calming his breathing, "Brother Xi, what's wrong?" After scanning around, he thought he had taken the wrong way, but when he looked around, he didn't see anything wrong.

Zhong Xi frowned and looked at the traces on the ground. Seeing Duan Peng coming, he pointed to the traces on the ground and asked, "Do you see any difference?"

Hearing the words, Duan Peng squatted down and gently fiddled with his hand in the crushed leaves. After looking at it for a while, he stood up again and checked carefully around, but he didn't find any difference after looking at it for a while. Duan Peng looked at Zhong Xi with some embarrassment and waited for his judgment.

"What? Can't you see it?" Zhong Xi asked with a frown.

Duan Peng lowered his head and dared not speak. Zhong Xi taught him for a long time, and he also taught him a lot of experience in trace identification. He felt that he had disappointed Zhong Xi.

Looking at Duan Peng's appearance, Zhong Xi could not continue to criticize. After thinking about it, he said, "Well, tell me what you have found!"

Duan Peng scratched the back of his head. "First of all, I have read the footprints carefully. It can be roughly divided into two types. One is that the leaves under the footprints are relatively completely broken. It should be left by the robot, and the other is just cracked. It should be left by the captured people in our village." Duan Peng said while staring at Zhong Xi's eyes, trying to judge whether what he said was correct from Zhong Xi's face.

Zhong Xi nodded without saying anything, and then said, "Continue!"

Although Zhong Xi did not say anything and did not show any admiration in his expression, the slight nodding still gave Duan Peng a lot of encouragement. Duan Peng tightened his fist and nodded heavily. "In addition to the footprints, other traces were found here, such as here, here, and here." Duan Peng pointed to several places and continued: "There are traces left after the fire in these places, and the range of traces this time is quite large, which shows that this should be the place where the robots once camped." After saying that, Duan Peng clenched his fist and looked at Zhong Xi eagerly.

Zhong Li also looked at Zhong Xi with the same eager face as Duan Peng. Although he didn't know whether Duan Peng was the hope mentioned by Zhong Xi, he was quite happy to see Duan Peng's progress every time. After all, Duan Peng is still his partner in addition to possible hope.

Zhong Xi didn't say anything. He frowned and walked to a broken branch and asked, "What can you think of when you see this?"

Duan Peng squatted down. He carefully looked at the broken section of the broken branch, which was no different from ordinary one. Duan Peng swept around, and the upper half of the broken branch was not far from the broken branch. Duan Peng walked over, picked up the upper half and drew the two pieces together.

What can you think of? After the two pieces are together, there are traces of tapping, which are not artificially broken. Then look at the direction of the branches. It should be stopped in front of the robot when the robot is running at high speed, and then it is abruptly broken, just like when the mecha in the village is moving at high speed. But this can mean anything. If it has nothing to do with people, it can't be a mark left artificially. Besides, the people in the village have been arrested. No one will seem to catch up, and no one will think of leaving a mark or something.

Duan Peng pinched the branches, looked carefully, and even put the broken branches in front of his nose and smelled them. A unique fragrance of vegetation poured into Duan Peng's brain, and Duan Peng was suddenly a little intoxicated.

"Fragrant, yes, it's fragrant!" Duan Peng suddenly jumped up from the ground and shocked Zhong Li, who had been looking at the two of them. "Brother Xi, I found the difference."

Zhong Xi nodded with a smile and said, "Tell me!"

"You can smell the fragrance of vegetation without peeling off the new skin!" Duan Peng said excitedly, "We also passed several camping sites in front of us. Although we didn't stop to check carefully, I believe that this time Brother Xi suddenly stopped to check carefully for these."

What Duan Peng said was not organized, but Zhong Xi understood. Duan Peng really found out the reason why he stopped. He looked at the broken branch in Duan Peng's hand and smiled happily.

Zhong Li stood aside and touched the back of his head confusedly, wandering between Zhong Xi and Duan Peng. He didn't understand what Duan Peng meant at all. Brother?"

"Xiao Peng, tell you about it to Brother Li!" Zhong Xi smiled and patted Duan Peng on the shoulder.

"Yes!" Duan Peng was also a little excited when Zhong Xi praised it. "All plants have a unique grass and wood fragrance in their bodies, and after the branches are broken, this grass and tree fragrance will wave out. The unique grass and wood fragrance of ordinary trees will soon be volatilized, at least not so easy to smell from the broken cut, but I smelled it on this broken branch. Saying this, Duan Peng paused for a moment and was about to announce the answer. Not only Zhong Xi's assessment answer, but also the answer they chased for a day and night. Duan Peng took two deep breaths and calmed down and continued to say, "This shows that the robot has not been here for a long time!"

Zhong Li listened to Duan Peng's explanation and quickly turned his head to look at Zhong Xi. The news was so shocking that he could only believe it if he got confirmation from Zhong Xi. Duan Peng also looked at Zhong Xi. Although he believed in his judgment, he still hoped to get a positive answer from Zhong Xi.

Facing the two people's inquiring eyes, Zhong Xi nodded gently.

Duan Peng jumped up excitedly; Zhong Li clenched his fist and looked into the distance. His eyes became firmer and firmer, and the war was coming. Maybe this would be the last battle in his life.

Duan Peng was excited for a while and suddenly stopped thinking about something. He came to Zhong Xi's side and asked in a low voice, "Brother Xi, how do you know? I think you have been following me all the time, and I haven't seen you running over!"

Hearing Duan Peng's question, Zhong Xi's eyes lit up. Duan Peng learned quickly, but these are not what Zhong Xi valued most. What he valued most was that Duan Peng would ask as long as he didn't understand or wanted to know anything. He always wanted to learn from the advantages of others. This is what he thought Duan Peng would become everyone. The reason for hope.

"It's just experience. You smell it, but I see..." Zhong Xi took the branch from Duan Peng's hand and pointed to the place where it was broken and said, "After the branch is broken, not only the smell will evaporate, but the moisture hidden in the branch will slowly evaporate. For the branch that has just broken, the eyes of the broken mouth will be darker, and the longer the time, the lighter the eyes will become. After saying that, Zhong Xi found a dry branch to break and made a comparison with Duan Peng, "And the one in your hand is basically fresh and freshly broken."

Duan Peng nodded, and he didn't notice this at all.

"Of course, the water of the branches evaporates slowly in the woods. Isn't experienced people basically unable to see it, but there are still many places here that show that they have just left." With that, Zhong Xi took Duan Peng to a place where the soil was turned up. Zhong Xi pointed to the soil that was turned up and said, "You see, this is much more obvious. The water in the soil evaporates much faster than the branches, but you look here, it is almost just turned over." Zhong Xi turned up a new piece of soil for Duan Peng to compare.

Duan Peng grabbed the soil on both sides and carefully compared it, but soon his eyebrows frowned, "Brother Xi, how can you be sure that the soil must have been turned over by them, not by beasts?"

Duan Peng's question did not cause Zhong Xi's displeasure, and he was even a little happy, which showed that Duan Peng was thinking seriously. Zhong Xi patted Duan Peng on the shoulder with a smile and said, "The beasts are the most sensitive. They will feel dangerous. After such a large group of robots pass by, the beasts must have run away long ago and will not come back in a short time. This is the reason why we have not met the beasts since we left yesterday."

"Oh, so that's it!"

"Okay, let's take a break and think about what I taught you." After saying that, Zhong Xi took out a piece of dried meat and gave it to Duan Peng, and then went to one side and sat down. Zhong Li was not interested in these. While Zhong Xi was still explaining to Duan Peng, he had already gone to rest.

As soon as he grabbed the soil with his hands, Duan Peng took the dried meat and squatted down directly in front of the two piles of soil. He frowned and looked at the soil on the ground for a while. Then he walked aside and picked up the branches that had just been thrown away and put them next to the soil for careful comparison.

He put the dried meat aside, grabbed the branches and looked at the soil. Finally, when he grabbed the dried meat and stuffed it into his mouth again, he grabbed the branches. Duan Peng just frowned and looked at the branch with his teeth, and then lowered his head to continue his research.

Zhong Xi's eyes seemed to have been looking at the direction the robot left, but the afterglow of the corners of his eyes did not leave Duan Peng at all. Seeing Duan Peng's attentive observation that he ate meat and ate the branches, Zhong Xi couldn't help nod involuntarily.

After a short break, about half an hour, Zhong Xi stood up and said, "Okay, let's go!"

Duan Peng took off his iron bar and held it in his hand. He walked to the front of the team, but Zhong Xi waved his hand at him, "Let me lead the team!"

Duan Peng was a little disappointed when he heard the words and silently walked behind Zhong Xi with an iron bar.

Looking at Duan Peng's appearance, Zhong Xi smiled, "You follow me and take a closer look at what I do!" If there is anything you don't understand or want to know, you can ask me directly.

"Thank you, Brother Xi!" Duan Peng ran to Zhong Xi's side with a smile and shouted.

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