Condes Mountains
I didn't expect that after all the effort I put into escaping, this method would be completely unworkable.
Ding Can didn't hesitate and turned back to the underground river.
The underground river will eventually flow out and merge with the river outside. She can just follow the river, or jump into the river and swim out. She will definitely be able to get back outside.
Maybe the river they came out of was the one where they rescued the expedition team earlier.
Even if she fails, she always has Bubu Shenglian with her, and she will not miss the way back.
When I came here, I only heard the sound of water. But when I saw it with my own eyes, I found that it was actually very wide, spanning nearly ten meters, but the water flow was very gentle.
There are gravel fields on both sides of the river and there is a lack of sunlight, but there are plants growing well and a lot of moss plants growing there. I think this is the effect of the river water.
Ding Can walked forward along the direction of the river flow and took about a hundred steps.
Suddenly, she felt a chill on her forehead. She touched her face twice, then raised her head and found that it was a few drops of condensed water that fell from the ceiling of the cave.
It is normal for condensation to form in the hole as it is moist.
But in the short moment she stopped, a few more drops of water fell, and if you looked closely, you could see that they were shaking slightly.
Then Ding Can realized that it was not the water droplets, but the cave ceiling that began to vibrate slightly.
On the snowy mountain, any tiny vibration that can be felt by the human body cannot be ignored. She was already wondering if this was a sign of an impending avalanche.
If there really is an avalanche, I wonder if the underground will be affected.
Before she could figure out what to do next, she heard a loud noise coming from the front and side of her head.
The top of the cave suddenly opened up, and something fell rapidly from above, then hit the ground heavily.
A large amount of snow fell along with it, rustling and exploding into a white mist that blocked her vision. It took her a long time to see clearly that there seemed to be a human figure on the ground?
"Pooh, cough cough cough..."
Joseph spat out the snow that had choked his mouth and tried to stand up by supporting his upper body.
Before he could even stand firmly, he saw Ding Can a few meters away, staring at him with wide eyes in amazement.
He rubbed the back of his head, which was burning with pain from falling to the ground, and forced an awkward smile.
"What a coincidence."
Since meeting the two of them, Joseph has been very silent, and most of the time it was Ye Shan who was doing the external communication.
The other occasional speeches were also centered around Ye Shan.
Ding Can didn't expect that even in a somewhat socially awkward situation, this taciturn person would be the first to speak.
However, even though I was sarcastic in my heart and didn't know the reason, he fell from such a high place after all, so I should still be concerned.
She ran over and helped Joseph brush off the snow on his body. He had thick skin and the injury looked serious, but in fact it was not serious.
"How did you fall from up there? Where's Ye Shan? Wasn't she with you?"
Joseph's face turned pale and blue, and he didn't know how to start for a moment.
Instead, he heard Ye Shan's voice coming from above his head: "You two make way."
She was standing on the edge of the gap into which Joseph had fallen, and looked ready to jump.
"Okay, come here quickly." Ding Can moved two steps to the side and pulled Joseph to move with him, giving up the position in the center.
The next second, Ye Shan's light body jumped down, bent her body and landed on the ground, rolling forward twice before stabilizing her body.
She tucked her short hair behind her ears and glanced at Ding Can up and down: "Why are you here alone?"
"I sneaked out, thinking of finding a way out to pass on the message. Let's not talk about me. How did you find this place and come here in the middle of the night?"
Ding Can noticed that although the two of them were surprised to see him, the degree was not strong.
Obviously, he anticipated that he might appear in the underground cave.
"It was Dasong who told us everything, including the news that 'Cheetah' forced him to trade in mink furs and that you were taken hostage."
Ye Shan raised her hand and pointed, and Ding Can realized that Dasong had also come with them, but he did not have such good skills, so he was awkwardly lowering a rope from above, preparing to come down along the rope.
After a few minutes, he finally landed on the ground relatively smoothly.
I didn't expect that these three people could have three ways to get down.
Dasong knew that cooperating with Cheetah was like trying to get the skin of a tiger. He wanted to save the surviving upright-eared martens, but he would never allow himself to be controlled by others.
The words of thieves cannot be trusted. This is a lesson my elders in my family taught me a long time ago.
When confronting Dave, and confronting him, Dasong let the images of the skinned corpses control his thoughts.
Only after his emotions stabilized could he think calmly.
The impact of this incident is so great that I definitely cannot handle it alone. The best solution is to seek help from the action team.
A lone hero sounds extremely heroic and is praised by everyone.
But in the end, there are only a handful of people who can truly become heroes.
Dasong didn't think he had such luck. He just felt that one more person meant one more chance of success.
Therefore, after receiving Dave's mink fur, he knew that the other party would definitely track his location, so he went down the mountain normally and handed it over to the "Cheetah" members in the town.
When I returned to the cabin in the woods, it was a coincidence that I saw Ye Shan and Joseph had already returned.
They had come across two poachers the day before and were almost able to track them down, but because they were unfamiliar with the terrain, they were unable to keep up and eventually lost the trail in front of them.
The tracking took quite some time, and later a large search was conducted in the vicinity.
In order to better deal with possible emergencies, the two always had to replenish supplies, so they returned to the cabin, ate something and took a short rest.
As soon as Dasong saw the person, he told him everything that had happened that day.
Ye Shan immediately decided to follow him to the edge of the cliff to see if she could find any useful clues. Unfortunately, the footprints were too messy and she couldn't identify the direction.
However, after careful investigation, she did find something wrong.
There was a little brown sticky substance in Dave's footprint, which looked like some kind of moss.
"Is there a stream nearby? This stuff looks like moss."
Dasong followed Ye Shan's finger and looked over. "There's only one flowing river on the snowy mountain. I've been there before, and the mosses on both sides were more turquoise, a little different from this."
"Perhaps because so much time has passed, something has changed here?"
Dasong pursed his lips, thought for a few seconds, and then shook his head. "The color of moss is affected by light conditions. That stream gets a lot of sunlight, so the moss growing on the rocks is brightly colored."
He thought about the written test items in the forest ranger exam that he had passed with a low score, and it seemed that there was indeed some knowledge related to this aspect.
"This moss, with its brownish-yellow color and a few white spots, is more likely to grow in shady conditions, where there's no sunlight year-round. It might originate from underground water sources."
Ye Shan rolled her eyes. "Are you saying that this moss trail could have come from an underground river in the snow-capped mountains?"
Dasong didn't dare to guarantee it. "I'm not sure either. I'm just inferring from the geographical knowledge written in the book that there is such a possibility."
Ye Shan immediately decided: "Then let's look for the surrounding underground rivers and try our luck. This is the only way we have to track down Cheetah. I believe in you."
After losing track of the two poachers yesterday, she and Joseph searched in the snow for most of the night but still lost any trace of them.
Now that there is a new direction for investigation, of course we can’t miss it.
"Then leave it to me!" Dasong was encouraged and gained some confidence.
In terms of surveying geographical locations, he still has a lot of say in front of Ye Shan and Joseph, but it does not come from the theoretical knowledge he learned later.
That was the experience he had accumulated from practicing in the mountains since he was a child.
Since he was a child, his grandfather taught him a lot of practical knowledge in the mountains, such as how to judge the weather conditions that may occur in the next few days based on the natural environment of the day.
You can also determine whether there is water around by observing the growth direction and trend of wild plants.
Although there are still great differences between snow-capped mountains and temperate forests, in fact, all plants are of the same origin and can learn from each other in this respect.
Dasong walked around but didn't find any place where plants grew in large numbers. He thought of the river that saved the expedition team.
If there really is an underground river, it might meet that river somewhere.
The three of them came to the river. Dasong observed the direction of the river and the position of the cliff for reference. He squatted down from time to time to dig the soil to take a look.
In the end, not only were there a lot of mud between my fingers, but my face was also dirty.
Ye Shan had followed him all the way, and even now she was a little impatient: "How long will it take you to find it?"
Dasong had indeed been in this area for some time, but he was still unable to confirm the source of the moisture in the soil.
When the snow melts, it will form water flows, and the degree to which the soil is infiltrated will be very similar to that caused by underground rivers.
He squatted there again, carefully identifying it for a while, and murmured softly, "It's almost here. Why don't you two help me look around?"
This area is in the shade, so the snow is thicker than in other places.
Joseph walked and stopped, and after a few steps he realized that the road here was a little rugged. Under the flat snow, there were many hidden clods of earth and small bumps.
He waded through the snow, tripped several times, and began to get a little impatient.
"What a hell of a place." Joseph complained a few times, took a few steps forward, and couldn't help but lift his feet and stomped on the ground a few times.
The next second, the ground that was originally extremely hard suddenly became very brittle, and a cracking sound came into his ears from under his feet, as if he had stepped on ice.
The stress instinct accumulated from long-term training allowed him to stabilize his body first.
If you dodge rashly at this time, the pressure change caused will probably make the frozen soil or ice under your feet break faster.
"What's wrong?" Ye Shan noticed his strange behavior.
Joseph's eyelids drooped. "I stepped on something. It felt like there was nothing underneath."
Dasong's face lit up with joy: "Maybe it's right under your feet. Do you want me to pull you up?"
"No, I can do it myself." Joseph refused his help. He originally wanted to leave from the middle shattered point by moving slowly and steadily, but he overlooked an important thing.
With his size and weight, he is not comparable to that of ordinary people.
Even if you don't move, the ground will collapse and people will fall down.
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