My analysis quickly gained everyone's approval.

Jiang Man looked at the rubble on the ground and continued to refine my analysis: "Duan Jinyan is a very goal-oriented person. Although he is the leader of the Black Robe Organization, he is not the owner of the organization! The purpose of this organization is to collect cultural relics for Jinbai International! Now that so many teams are searching for the Miao Jiang Immortal Palace, he will definitely not abandon his business to deal with personal grudges at this time!"

So, the only reason the Black Robe Organization is targeting Qu Ruilin and his group is the beast head they possess! Previously, the Black Card Organization seized a large amount of relevant data during their attack on the Ping'an Village council chamber; they may have discovered something within that data!

"That's a good thing!"

After listening to Jiang Man's analysis, the monkey revealed a happy expression: "Now we've found two of the three beast heads, and they're both in our hands. We've gotten the benefits, but Wei Shengnan and the others are taking the blame! Is that what you mean?"

"They're pretty much the same!"

I turned to Jiang Man and said, "You just said that the Black Robe Organization's markings, with the blade pointing left, indicate tracking and capture. This means that the Black Robe people approve of Qu Ruilin and his group's route of action, and knowing that they have already obtained two beast heads, they want to use them to complete this task! After they find the bull's head, they will carry out the next step of capturing them and obtain the three beast heads through them!"

Jiang Man nodded: "I think we can make use of this! The black-robed mantis stalks the cicada, while we are the oriole behind! As long as we follow them, we can not only get the bull's head through Qu Ruilin's group, but also capture the black-robed organization members and force them to reveal more information about the Miao Jiang Immortal Palace!"

Jiang Man and I thought of the same thing, and we led the way toward the valley ahead: "Everyone, pay close attention to the marks left by the Black Robe Organization along the way, and destroy them as soon as you see them."

...

I don't know how the black-robed man targeted Qu Ruilin and his group, or how he failed to discover that they had hidden the two beast heads in Li Changyou's house.

However, the marks they left behind were indeed a great help to us.

4:30 PM.

I climbed to the top of a mountain, observed the surrounding terrain, and then glanced at the map in my hand. Pointing to the area ahead, I said, "This is the area where Qu Ruilin suspects the existence of the Golden Bull Cave. If nothing unexpected happens, this area will be their final destination. Currently, Qu Ruilin and the black-robed men are active in this area."

The monkey licked its lips: "The Black Robe Organization's mark breaks here. Could it be that Qu Ruilin and his group discovered the Black Robe Organization and launched a counterattack?"

"It's unlikely."

I explained, "The marks left by the black robes don't indicate direction, they indicate route! Otherwise, they would only need to send their real-time location! The markings along the way are to guide the support team to the mountains via the simplest route! And they are in this area, so once the support team arrives, they can locate them using the location!"

Lin Que seemed to understand but not quite: "So, you mean we've arrived here and are now aimlessly wandering around?"

"More or less, but it's not like I'm just wandering around aimlessly!"

I pointed to the mountain range ahead and said, "The terrain here is called 'Three Galloping Horses,' which looks like three galloping horses. The auspicious burial site is on the middle horse! Burials can be made at the head, back, and tail, each with a different meaning! What we need to do now is to detour to the middle mountain and search from the tail all the way to the head!"

Manjing asked, "Qu Ruilin and his group set off a morning earlier than us. If they've already obtained the bull's head and returned via another route in the past few hours, wouldn't all our efforts have been in vain?"

"No! Our people have already secured Li Changyou's house. Whether Qu Ruilin and his group have shaken off the Black Robe Organization's pursuit or have been captured and are going to retrieve the other two beast heads, it will alert my people! And the fact that I haven't received a call yet means they haven't gone back!"

Jiang Man paused for a moment: "The road is long and arduous, but we will arrive if we keep going! Whether Manjing's guess is accurate or not, we'll have to see for ourselves!"

After I observed the mountain from a high vantage point, everyone started walking down the valley.

We were now in a truly remote and deep forest, an area that even forest rangers rarely patrolled.

Our journey up the rugged mountain was extremely difficult; it took us forty minutes to finally descend the steep slope to the bottom of the valley.

The monkey jumped from a two-meter-high rock into the grass, slipped, and fell on its backside. It immediately started cursing, "Damn it, who is so inconsiderate as to poop and pee in public like this... Hey? Young Master Duan, someone pooped here!"

I saw the monkey raise his hand in greeting, and I was so disgusted that I took off my water bottle and threw it at him: "Wash your hands first, is that poop still warm?"

The monkey washed its hands thoroughly and wiped them several times: "It's gone! The outer shell is a bit hard, but there's still moisture inside, so it must have been from today. There are also cigarette butts nearby, indicating that those people are quite well-off!"

"Someone passed by here, which means we're on the right track. Let's head into the mountains!"

After hearing the monkey's answer, I didn't bother to let everyone rest and led them into the mountains.

As the old saying goes, going up a mountain is easy, but going down is hard. We climbed up the middle of the mountain range without much effort.

Holding a compass to adjust the direction, I walked for about twenty minutes, then pointed to a small hill in front of me and said, "That's the location of Mawei, one of the three auspicious sites on this mountain!"

"I'll go take a look!"

After hearing my words, the monkey energetically ran towards the hillside ahead. When we arrived, the monkey pointed to the bushes behind us and said, "Young Master Duan, someone has been here before. They marked the spot with plum blossoms!"

As I approached, I saw that there were indeed many holes left by Luoyang shovels on the ground, and in the grass on one side, there were also compressed biscuits and some glass bottles of oral liquid with straws inserted.

“These things were left behind by the Black Robe! We’ve found these things before when we dealt with these guys.”

Jiang Man explained, "The members of the Black Robe Organization have all received military-style training. That oral liquid is their unique drug; you can think of it as a stimulant made from traditional Chinese medicine! This drug has very few side effects and can give people plenty of energy. It is said that they can run for three days and three nights without sleep!"

I lit a cigarette: "The Black Robe Organization followed Qu Ruilin and his group into the mountains, so there was no need for them to dig a trench here themselves! Therefore, this plum blossom point was left by Qu Ruilin and his group, and the Black Robe Organization members who were following them rested here."

The monkey picked up some soil from the ground and rubbed it between its fingertips: "This soil is still moist; it won't be more than three hours since it was dug up!"

"Three hours is not enough to walk the entire length of this mountain range, let alone locate the burial sites."

After hearing the monkey's response, I looked at the undulating mountain ridge ahead: "The two groups of them are still on this mountain. We are already very close."