"Master, Top and the others succeeded!"
Su Su couldn't hide her joy and said happily.
"Well, for now, as long as Top lures those dimwits a little further away, I can turn on my flashlight and get going."
As for those Haru trying to catch us, to hell with them!
"Right, right! Let them go to hell. If those Haru chase after them all night and still can't catch up, and end up losing them altogether, I wonder if they'll die of anger?"
Dante, too, made a joke at that moment, echoing my words.
“Pat is fast, it shouldn’t take long. Let’s get our flashlights ready. After Top lures those Haru away, he’ll let Pat fly to an altitude of a thousand meters.”
We used the light from our flashlights to guide them like a lighthouse.
After listening to me, Su Su and Dante put the ropes and other items back into their backpacks. At that moment, Top took a tactical flashlight; we still had two left.
Pat can find us by shining a flashlight vertically into the sky at the right time.
Shining the flashlight vertically into the sky also avoids light spots, greatly reducing the chances of Haru detecting our flashlight beam.
The special lens structure of an eagle's eye makes it particularly sensitive to light sources. In addition, given that Pat was looking down at the ground, it would be easy for him to spot our flashlight beam in the pitch-black night sky.
About twenty minutes later, all the light from the Haru torches disappeared from our sight.
I know that these Haru are already quite far away from us, and Pat and the others should be preparing to come back by now.
"It's alright now. Everyone, turn on your flashlights and shine them into the sky to guide them back."
As I spoke, I took out my tactical flashlight, opened the cover, and shook it a few times in the air. Immediately, a blue beam shot into the sky.
A few minutes later, Pat and Top reappeared before us.
Those Haru were still relentlessly pursuing us in another place; they never imagined that we would have air support on our side.
It doesn't matter if they realize this soon; a round trip of several tens of minutes is more than enough time for us to disappear without a trace.
Half an hour later, Haru, who was leading the team, discovered that there wasn't even a trace of trampling on the grass along the way they had come.
This doesn't look like someone just escaped; it's as if no wild animals have visited in months.
Haru realized that he had been tricked by his opponent for so long without even realizing it, and in a fit of rage, he slashed wildly at the bushes in the jungle with his bone knife.
However, it did not lose confidence and immediately ordered its subordinates to retreat and await orders. It was still confident that we could not get out. As long as we were more careful next time, these humans would definitely not be able to escape.
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The canyon is located 10 kilometers away from Haru...
We continued moving in the original direction and did not return along the same route.
"Master, those Haru were lured away by Top and the others yesterday. Why don't we take this opportunity to go back the way we came?" Su Su asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Hehe, don't underestimate these bastards. The fact that they know how to set up an ambush shows that they are not just brutes with strong limbs."
We tricked them yesterday, and although we don't know how long that lasted, their hatred for us has definitely doubled.
Now they probably assume, as is common sense, that we will choose a familiar route to turn back, and that they only need to lay an ambush along the way to catch us in one fell swoop.
However, I'll do as it wishes and play by my own rules. As the art of war says, "What is real is made to appear unreal, and what is unreal is made to appear real."
Now that we have anticipated their predictions, their strategy of waiting in ease has become meaningless, turning into passive waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump.
As it turned out, the actual situation was pretty much as Tang Yi had imagined. As soon as the Haru discovered the anomaly, they quickly returned to defend all the intersections they had come from and set up ambushes there.
What they didn't expect was that the Haru herd, which had been hiding in the damp bushes all day, felt like their bottoms were about to get moldy, but they still hadn't seen a trace of those humans.
However, I'm not entirely optimistic. My plan is to keep going forward, then turn back and make a big detour to avoid Haru's territory and return to my original route.
However, while the idea is good, putting it into practice is not an easy task.
I had already started to take the detour according to my own plan, but to my dismay, we encountered a towering cliff blocking our way.
If we continue back now, we don't know if we'll be able to get out, but we'll definitely end up in Haru's lair.
Unfortunately, we had to readjust. Since flanking from the left didn't work, we could only try flanking from the right.
Just after we had lunch and walked for another afternoon, we were utterly devastated to discover that the situation on the right was the same as on the left—another towering cliff reaching into the clouds.
At that moment, I had an uneasy feeling that Haru was so confident that they wouldn't send anyone to search after we came in.
Perhaps they anticipated that no matter what tricks we played, we wouldn't be able to escape the confinement of this natural cliff.
Looking at the terrain that clearly resembled a cage trapping us, Su Su asked a question.
"Master, it seems this place won't work either. We still need to go back, right?"
I frowned, resting my chin on my hand as I looked at the terrain. I couldn't believe that there was only one way out, especially since we hadn't even finished exploring the road ahead.
Turning back is too risky for us right now. Unless absolutely necessary, I still want to find another way out.
At my suggestion, we continued along the towering cliff face. If it truly were a cage, we would have circled back to where we first discovered the precipice.
Clinging to a sliver of hope, we continued onward. However, it looked like it would soon get dark, and it seemed we wouldn't be able to get out of this place today.
We were unsure of what to do spending the night in such a place. Not to mention the Haru that were constantly eyeing us, even the deadly giant mosquitoes in this jungle were not something we could easily handle.
This problem becomes even more serious, especially after we fall asleep at night. Our lives are constantly shrouded in the shadow of those giant mosquitoes.
We had previously seen Haru use the sap of the guar gum tree as a combustion aid. Along the way, besides looking at the route, my primary goal was to find the kind of tree that could produce natural diesel oil.
I'm almost certain that those Haru were the ones who found the guar gum trees in this area. It's just that we've been walking for so long and still haven't found a trace of these trees.
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