Chapter 172 Pursuit

"Your Excellency, their whereabouts disappeared here." The thunder leopard was led by his subordinates to a towering ancient tree, and the footprints of Pei Qing's escaped cronies disappeared here.

"Are they from the tree?" The thunder leopard frowned and asked, looking at the suddenly disappearing footprints.

"It should... have escaped from the tree." In the face of the anger of the thunder leopard, a subordinate replied hesitantly. They also climbed up the tree to explore the situation, but did not find any valuable clues.

"It should be! What does it mean to be! What a bunch of rubbish." When the thunder leopard heard his gimmicky answer, he was not angry.

The old mayor signaled slightly that a middle-aged villager behind him stepped forward to take a closer look at the traces left by the two. He first explored the last footprints carefully for a while, and then looked carefully on the big tree beside him.

"Have you climbed this tree from here?" After some exploration, the middle-aged villagers asked the men of the three thunder leopards.

"Yes." One of them nodded and answered.

The middle-aged villager nodded, and he went to the old mayor to report the results of the exploration.

"What? You said they didn't escape from this tree!" When the thunder leopard heard the results of his report, he couldn't help shouting.

"Yes, I have searched the whole tree. Except for the traces of your subordinates climbing up the tree, there are no traces of others climbing the tree." The middle-aged villager said firmly.

"Then how did he suddenly disappear? Don't forget that he is still carrying a wounded man on his back. Can he still fly? Lei Bao said, although his subordinates were incompetent to annoy him. However, their judgment was refuted by the villagers of Yunwu Town in person, which was like a slap in the face.

"From the footprints he left, the depth of the pair of footprints is far greater than the previous footprints, and there is only one possibility of this situation." In the face of the aggressive questioning of the thunder leopard, the middle-aged villager pointed to the footprint and said, "That's the trace he left on the ground when he jumped with all his strength."

"Oh, jumping? Who can jump more than 100 meters? A subordinate standing behind the thunder leopard said coldly. They searched the ground nearly 100 meters around and found no suspicious traces. For this reason, he naturally scoffed at the judgment of the villagers of Yunwu Town.

Seeing that his judgment was questioned, the middle-aged villagers did not say anything. They walked to the feet and were eager to do so.

The thunder leopard heard the judgment of the villagers and was also very skeptical about it. Just now, his subordinates have reported to him about the situation around him, and it is absolutely impossible for this to happen. However, seeing that the middle-aged villagers were confident, they were puzzled.

"Hey!" The middle-aged villagers jumped a few meters forward with all their strength, only five meters high.

Seeing that he jumped out of such a distance and height, the thunder leopard and his subordinates behind him couldn't help laughing secretly. Just as they wanted to say a few sarcastic words, a move of the middle-aged villagers stunned them.

He was in the air, untied a long whip from his waist and swung it into the air.

"Bang!" The tail of the whip scratched through the air and made a crisp air explosion. One end rolled up a thick branch, and the middle-aged villagers swayed forward leisurely. When he approached the highest point, he shook his hand gently, withdrew the long whip, and then waved it again. In this way, he kept wandering into the distance, which had already exceeded the limit of human jumping.

"So it is!" Seeing the demonstration of the middle-aged villagers, Lei Bao suddenly understood.

"You guys, go in each direction to see which direction there are traces of whips on the branches." The thunder leopard ordered to go down.

The young cronies carry a man on his back. Even if he uses this method to get rid of tracking, he will definitely leave obvious marks on the thick branches. After receiving the order, the four men scattered in three directions to find out.

"I found it!" In a short time, a man found a trace wrapped around by a long whip on a tree more than 20 meters away from the footprints.

"Let's go." This discovery made everyone excited. The thunder leopard quickly greeted everyone and rushed over.

Based on this discovery, I searched in several other directions again.

"Here!" The branch with traces was found again 20 meters in front of this trace.

Dozens of traces have been found one after another, and they have been taken nearly a kilometer away from the footprint. The cronin was proficient in the way to escape from the jungle, and the direction of his progress was from left to right, which made the tracker's brain hurt.

Here! There are footprints here!" A villager looking for traces on the ground shouted in surprise.

Hearing the sound, a group of people immediately gathered around. Sure enough, clear footprints appeared on the ground again.

"Chasing!" The thunder leopard personally chased down the footprints.

The cronin fled into the woods with Pei Qing on his back, taking advantage of his rich experience in living in the woods for a long time to get rid of the pursuers behind him. This is the main reason why the old cronin finally asked him to guard Pei Qing. In the woods, no one can do better than him.

"Okay, we are safe for the time being. Take a break." Pei Qing looked at his cronies making a lot of disguises and led the pursuers astray. The pain on his body made him unbearable. He couldn't help asking for a moment to rest.

Hearing Pei Qing's words, the cronin thought that those illusions should be able to stop for a while, so he stopped by a big tree.

He relieved Pei Qing behind him and let Pei Qing lean against the tree and sit down.

The injury of the broken arm has caused Pei Qing to lose a lot of blood. In addition, the arrow wound behind him is even worse. Because of too much blood loss, his face turned pale without a trace of blood.

"Boss! Wake up!" Seeing that Pei Qing just sat down and was about to fall asleep, the cronin quickly woke him up. If you fall asleep in this weak state, you may never wake up again.

"Come on, take a sip." After waking up Pei Qing, the young cronies took off the wine bag with him and poured him a sip of liquor.

"Cough..." He had never drunk such a strong wine, and Pei Qing was choked and coughed.

"Boss, you must not fall asleep." While dressing the wound for Pei Qing, the cronin kept talking to Pei Qing to prevent him from falling asleep again.

After dressing Pei Qing's wound, the young cronies also sat down beside Pei Qing against the big tree. When he just ran away, in order to get rid of the pursuers, he consumed a lot of physical strength, leaned against the tree and fell asleep drowsily.

I don't know how long I slept, and the cronin suddenly woke up.

He heard a faint noisy voice from the upper wind, which was the pursuers wandering around in the suspicious array he had arranged. In the case of a pursuer, he fell asleep so carelessly. In case he didn't wake up in time, wouldn't he sit and wait for death? Thinking of this, he couldn't help sweating coldly.

"Are you awake?" Pei Qing leaned against the tree and asked weakly. As soon as he saw the cronies sticking to the trunk, he fell asleep and couldn't bear to wake up the cronies, because he also knew that when he fled, the cronies had consumed too much energy.

"Boss, they are chasing again." The cronies said anxiously that Pei Qing was seriously injured and his strength was greatly reduced. Naturally, he could not find the pursuers who were nearly a kilometer away.

"Did they chase it again?" Instead, Pei Qing asked calmly. He had expected that the thunder leopard would not let go of himself. From the moment he saw his true face, he knew that the thunder leopard would definitely kill himself. "Escape yourself. Bring back the news that the thunder leopard appeared here and avenge all of us!"

Pei Qing knew that his cronies took his wounded and could never escape the pursuit of the soldiers.

"Boss! I will never leave you." The cronin said firmly, "Because this is the will of the eldest brother, I will definitely finish it."

"You go! Take me, only two people die together! Don't leave again. I'll die in front of you!" Pei Qing said and put the sword on his neck.

"Don't, boss!" From the attitude shown by Pei Qing, the cronies could see that Pei Qing had made up his mind. Listening to the clearer and clearer voice, he was very anxious.

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in his mind.

"Boss, I have a way. Both of us can escape their pursuit. He quickly stopped Pei Qing's suicide.

Although it has been decided to die so that his cronies can escape, after all, survival is an innate nature, and Pei Qing is no exception. Hearing his cronies say this, a glimmer of hope also appeared in his heart, and the sword in his hand unconsciously moved away a little.

"In a short time, they will find it here. I will lead them away, boss, you hide in the tree. They won't think that you are hiding in the tree, and they will be able to avoid their pursuit. The cronin suggested.

Pei Qing's proposal brightened his eyes. When the pursuers come here, it is indeed very likely to ignore him and hide in the tree, so that he can really escape.

"But aren't you dangerous?" Pei Qing was worried.

"You can rest assured that there is no one in the woods who can catch me." The cronin replied confidently.

"It's not too late. Now I'll hide you in the tree." The cronin carried Pei Qing on his back and jumped up to the treetops and hid him on the canopy. The thick branches and leaves covered him tightly. There is no one hiding in the tree at all under the tree.

"You just hide here and don't make a sound. I'll lead them away." After saying that, the cronin jumped down the branch.

"Hey, what's your name?" Pei Qing stopped his trusted and asked. Until now, he still didn't know the name of this trusted.

"Name? Just ask me to fight." The cronin did not turn around and replied in a low voice.

"Struggle... Struggle..." Pei Qing muttered and repeated these two words, with great emotion in his heart.

Struggle is the name of his adventure team. Pei Qing also clearly remembers that when the team was founded, the elderly cronin who sacrificed his life to protect him outside the woods, recommended himself and took the name of struggle for the team in the adventurer guild. But now he has sacrificed meaninglessly for his momentary greed, and he regrets it when he thinks of it.