Chapter 363 Looking for Xiao Luban
As the sky became brighter and brighter, Fang Xiaocao pinched his eyebrows and shook his somewhat confused head.
Looking at his subordinates who were ready, Fang Xiaocao smiled: "Xiao Luban is one of us. Now that she is missing, we can't ignore it. I only have one request for this operation. If you want to see people, if you want to see corpses, let’s go!”
As he said that, Fang Xiaocao took the lead in riding a camel and headed towards the sand dunes.
Taotie and Drilling Rat immediately followed on their camels to prevent Fang Xiaocao from being left alone.
Liu Yishou took Qianmian and Wen Shi to stay in the camp, waiting for news.
Fang Xiaocao made this arrangement after careful consideration.
First, Qianmian is a wounded person, and like Wen Shi, he is a scumbag in combat.
Following the action will not only not help, but may also drag down the entire team.
If Xiao Luban is not found, then the two of them will be involved. The gain outweighs the loss, and the deal is not worthwhile.
Secondly, this arrangement can also prevent Xiao Luban from suddenly coming back, not knowing where they are going, and missing them again.
“The gopher!”
Fang Xiaocao reined in the camel in front of the sand dune and shouted to the gopher.
“Your Highness the Princess!”
Drilling Rat immediately rode a camel to Fang Xiaocao.
"Use your skills to search and see if you can find any traces left by Xiao Luban."
Fang Xiaocao ordered in a deep voice.
However, Fang Xiaocao didn’t hold out hope either.
This is a desert, surrounded by a sea of sand.
Even the footprints downstairs will soon be buried by the rolling yellow sand.
A few hours have passed, and the chance of finding traces left by Xiao Luban is already very slim.
“Yes!”
The Drill Rat responded, jumped off the camel, and began to search carefully around.
Fang Xiaocao was riding on the back of a camel, looking at the sand dune in front of him. From a distance, the sand dune looked not high, but when he got close to the front, Xiao Cao realized that the sand dune was really not that short.
It’s almost as high as a hill.
"Your Highness, we have discovered something!"
Just when Fang Xiaocao was sighing with emotion, the Drilling Rat suddenly shouted loudly.
The cry of the gopher brought Fang Xiaocao back from his thoughts, and he looked at the gopher.
“Let’s go and have a look!”
Fang Xiaocao shouted to Taotie, and immediately drove the camel towards the gopher.
"What did you find?"
Fang Xiaocao asked in a deep voice when he came to the side of the mole.
"Your Highness, look here."
"This is Xiao Luban's crossbow arrow. There is one here and two more on the sand dune. It should be that Su Wanqing is indeed pointing towards the sand dune. She ran away, where Xiao Luban once tried to shoot her with a repeating crossbow. "
"It's just that the crossbow arrows were shot crookedly and did not hit Su Wanqing. It was dark and Xiao Luban did not recover them or missed the three crossbow arrows when recovering them. From this, it can be confirmed that Xiao Luban and the others were indeed Ran towards the sand dunes.”
The burrowing rat told Fang Xiaocao his guesses and conjectures.
Fang Xiaocao nodded repeatedly after hearing this, feeling that the burrower's reasoning was very reasonable: "It makes sense!"
"Let's go!"
"Let's go to the sand dunes! "
"Driller, you lead the way."
With the search direction determined, Fang Xiaocao decided to continue the search without hesitation.
“Yes!”
Drill Rat responded, took the reins of his camel from Taotie, flew on the camel, and walked towards the sand dunes.
While walking, the burrowing mouse paid attention to its surroundings, not wanting to let go of anything. It might be the clues left by Xiao Luban.
The sand dunes are really high. Even with camels, it still took more than half an hour for Fang Xiaocao and the others to reach the top of the sand dunes.
It's a pity that along the way, the burrowing mouse didn't find any traces of Xiao Luban. Of course, no body was seen.
This is a good thing for Fang Xiaocao and the others. At least it proves that Xiao Luban is very likely to be safe before climbing to the top of the sand dune.
“Driller, look for it again!”
While standing on the sand dune, Fang Xiaocao looked at his camp and ordered the driller.
The gopher nodded and jumped off the camel.
Start searching inch by inch.
When the gopher dug up a piece of floating sand, his pupils suddenly shrank rapidly: "Your Highness, there seems to be blood stains here!"
Fang Xiaocao's heart sank, and he felt uncomfortable. With a good premonition, I immediately jumped off the camel and walked quickly Go: "Where?"
Drilling Rat pointed to the sand: "Here, this dark red sand ball should be formed by dripping blood. There should be a lot of bleeding, but it is impossible to tell. Human blood is still animal.”
Fang Xiaocao nodded: "Keep looking!"
"It's best to find where they are going."
Fang Xiaocao felt that it was unlikely that this was animal blood, and it was most likely that it was. Human blood.
Either Xiao Luban shot and injured Su Wanqing, or Su Wanqing sneak-attacked Xiao Luban on the top of the sand dune and left blood stains.
“Your Highness, there are footprints here!”
Searching around for blood stains, the gopher soon made another discovery.
Fang Xiaocao and Taotie immediately moved forward, and sure enough, there was a footprint made of sand and blood on the ground, which was preserved.
Fang Xiaocao frowned slightly, now he was sure that it was human blood.
“The toes of the footprints are facing forward, and the center of gravity is downward, which shows that the owner of the footprints has the intention of going down the sand dune.”
The size of the ground is not the same. Cao Wen made a judgment based on his own experience.
"Chase!"
Fang Xiaocao said expressionlessly.
"Drill, please pay attention to what happened along the way. The injured person was Xiao Luban. He probably rolled down from the top due to excessive blood loss and lack of strength while chasing Su Wanqing down. Buried under the sand."
Fang Xiaocao warned in a deep voice.
“Yes!”
The gopher responded and instead of riding the camel, he chose to lead the camel down the sand dune.
This way it is less likely to miss clues.
Fang Xiaocao and Taotie rode camels and followed step by step behind the gopher.
Because we were walking, and the gopher had to check for suspicious signs along the way, the speed became even slower.
It was already an hour later when Fang Xiaocao and the others followed the direction of the toes of their shoes and descended the sand dune.
Along the way, the gopher found several more bloody footprints, all with the toes of their shoes pointing down.
This proves that the gopher's judgment is correct.
This man did go all the way down the dune.
"There is a corpse here!"
At this moment, the burrower shouted.
Fang Xiaocao's heart twitched, and he hurriedly leaned over. In the sand in front of the burrowing mouse, a human arm was exposed. It was obvious that there was indeed a person who did not know whether he was alive or dead walking under the sand.
“Dig it out and see who it is!”
Fang Xiaocao ordered.
Drilling Rats and Taotie execute immediately.
Soon, a body covered in blood was dug out of the sand.
But this body belongs to a man.
It is not the Xiao Luban or Su Wanqing that Fang Xiaocao imagined.
“A man’s body?”
Fang Xiaocao frowned.
Su Wanqing was the only woman who escaped from the camp last night. Qianmian also confessed that no one else escaped from his camp except Su Wanqing.