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The team entered the cave again before daybreak.

The distance between each foothold is different. In order to ensure the safety of the team, they must enter the cave before daybreak every day.

Even if there is still time to catch up with a section of the road, Gu Qi will not let the team take risks to move forward.

Otherwise, if they fail to enter the next foothold before daybreak, they may be greeted by a catastrophe.

Such a marching speed is of course not fast, but Gu Qi has no choice.

He feels that the mission of this trip has failed halfway. If the beast tide is also migrating to the east on a large scale, then at least half of the villages in the east are finished.

After entering the cave, the team is a little depressed.

First, because everyone is in a very depressed mood and is worried about the situation of the human race.

Second, it is really tiring to rush on the road. Everyone began to rest as soon as they entered the cave.

Although it is a rest, a few people still have to be arranged to keep watch, and two people will explore the environment inside the cave to ensure the safety of this temporary camp.

These tasks have been almost routine in the past few days, and there were no accidents.

But the warriors who went deep into the cave to investigate the situation came back soon to report that they had found a pair of fresh human footprints in the cave.

Chu Yang and Gu Qi immediately rushed over to check what was going on.

The cave where they rested this time was very deep, winding all the way to the depths of the ground.

Su Hai had been here before, but at that time he had not yet joined the caravan, and was busy hunting with the village hunting team every day.

The work of the hunting team was not easy, and they had no interest in exploring this kind of cave in depth, so Su Hai was not familiar with these caves, and did not know where this cave led to.

Now it's good, the warriors finally have some time to explore.

Chu Yang and Gu Qi, as well as several team leaders and scouts, gathered around the footprints that were found, and curiously discussed them.

"The footprints are very fresh, they should only be one or two days old."

"It's a bit strange, why is there only one pair of footprints?"

"It's definitely not the villagers who came here to take refuge, nor should it be the warriors of the hunting team who came to investigate the beast tide nearby... The members of the hunting team are unlikely to act alone, there must be at least two or three people."

"Could it be that they encountered a herd of beasts, so only one person from the hunting team escaped here?"

"This... seems possible."

"From the footprints, the last footprint seems to go deeper into the cave."

"If it's just to avoid the beast tide, is it necessary to go so deep into the cave?"

"Who is it?"

Everyone was very confused, but they couldn't guess the answer.

Chu Yang did not speak until everyone fell silent, then he slowly said: "You go and rest first, I will follow the footprints to see."

Gu Qi said worriedly: "You go down alone? This is not appropriate, it is not safe to act alone..."

Chu Yang smiled: "What is unsafe? Is there anything under the ground that can hurt me? You should take time to rest, and leave the investigation to me."

Gu Qi hesitated: "But you are already very tired from leading the way today, otherwise... you should rest first, and take people down to explore the situation when you wake up in the afternoon?"

"No, I am not sleepy now. If we don't figure out the situation below, everyone will not sleep well."

"Then let Su Hai take people with you..."

"No, it's just a road exploration, there is no need to mobilize so many people."

Time is precious, Chu Yang did not discuss with Gu Qi any more.

He waved his hand, left everyone behind, and began to follow the footprints on the ground alone to the depths of the cave.

Gu Qi hesitated for a while, but finally did not try to dissuade him.

When it comes to exploring the way, Chu Yang, who has a fiery eye, is the best choice. He doesn't even need to carry a torch.

Everyone has already discovered Chu Yang's special ability, but they just haven't asked him in detail.

And with Chu Yang's skills, it's hard for him to get into any danger.

If even Chu Yang can't solve the danger, others will just die.

The depths of the cave are dark and silent. Only Chu Yang's footsteps echo in the cave.

Chu Yang's forward speed is not slow. Although the road deep in the cave is not convenient to walk, and even the height difference in many places is so large that you need to jump directly, with Chu Yang's skills, such terrain is not an obstacle.

The only thing he needs to consider is the problem of physical consumption.

A night of marching has indeed made him feel a little tired. It is not a wise behavior to choose to explore an unfathomable cave at this time.

Fortunately, he doesn't need to rush now, and he doesn't have to run all the way.

Without wasting too much energy, he tried to maintain a fast speed and not waste too much time on exploration.

Unconsciously, he had gone deep into the ground for many kilometers.

Soon the cave came to the end. Chu Yang looked around and found that there was indeed no road here.

He felt a little strange.

He had already reached the end of the cave, but he had not found any human figure. What about the footprints left at the entrance?

Where is the person who entered the cave? Did he go out again in the end?

Probably not.

Just now, everyone has confirmed that the freshest footprints are obviously heading into the cave.

Are there other forks?

Chu Yang pondered for a while and started to look back.

There are not many footprints along the way, because most of the ground in the cave is rock, and there are no traces of people passing through in many places.

If you want to find a fork in the road purely from footprints, you may not find anything.

After looking back for a while, Chu Yang saw the footprints left by the mysterious person again under a big rock.

So, if there is another fork in the cave, it is on the road from here to the bottom of the cave.

Chu Yang sighed and started to walk back to the bottom of the cave.

This time, his walking speed slowed down a bit.

While walking slowly, he carefully observed the surrounding cave walls.

After walking down a hundred meters, Chu Yang finally heard some strange sounds.

These sounds were very subtle and were previously covered by his own footsteps.

This time, because he slowed down his pace, he finally noticed some abnormalities from the sound.

Following the sound, Chu Yang slowly searched for it and finally found a crack on the stone wall.

This crack looked like an ordinary rock crack, and Chu Yang had just glanced at it and ignored it.

But now, when he looked closer, he found that this crack was actually a passage that went diagonally deep into the stone wall.