Chapter 1555: Strange Movements

Several Soldiers of the Xingtian tribe quickly left the team and plunged into the sparse woods over there. Besides being Soldiers, they were also excellent hunters; they only needed to pay a little more attention to see the traces left by prey moving on the ground.

They discovered footprints. After all, on relatively soft ground, the pressure exerted on four hooves by a tall horse plus the weight of a strong man was quite significant, so the traces naturally left on the ground were very obvious.

This kind of round hoof was one they had never seen before. They searched through the images of all the animals in their minds, but none of them matched; they did not know there would be such an animal with this type of hoof.

However, looking at the silhouette, they also roughly felt that it was a creature they had never seen before, so they did not dwell on what exactly that hoof was like, but instead quickly gave chase.

An animal, regardless of whether it is herbivorous or carnivorous, would not inexplicably keep running at such a fast speed, because for any animal, its actions should have a purpose. Especially for herbivores, unless a predator or its natural enemy comes, it would not run wildly in such an inexplicable way, so the few of them felt that they had a great chance of catching up.

Hun did not care at all about what was behind him because he had already completed his task. So, after meeting up with his right guard, he simply slowed down and informed him: "The scouting is done, let's head back quickly!"

"Yes!"

The two horses picked up speed again and galloped away.

For the few Soldiers of the Xingtian tribe, this was a bit painful, because their legs were human legs; although they could run, they could not be as persistent, and their speed was not as fast.

They only saw that the hoof prints on the ground were clear and fresh, and the soil turned up by the hooves had not yet lost moisture or changed color, indicating that they were just a little bit ahead of them, which gave them hope, but no matter how they chased, they could not catch up or see a shadow.

When they quickly chased to the place where the right guard had stopped, they were very shocked, because the hoof prints had changed from one beast to two beasts, and under that tree, the hoof prints were densely scattered and the range was small, clearly indicating that they had stayed in such a place for a long time and had hardly moved.

But they could not see any traces of the surrounding Grass being grazed upon, which was too unreasonable. How could a herbivore, when staying in one place for a long time, not take every second to eat a couple of mouthfuls of Grass? Even a person would have to pull a blade of Grass to stick between their teeth.

"Zhe, I look at these hoof prints, why are they so strange? Could it be that the one that stopped here was waiting for the one behind?"

"Oh, I think so too. These hoof prints are too strange. Look, they started running again here. What on earth is the reason?"

"Zhe, you are the best hunter among us. Can't you even guess this?"

Zhe shook his head: "No, no, this is a bit strange. Mainly, I have never seen this kind of beast, and I don't know what they are doing this for. Let's keep chasing; as long as we catch up, won't we know?"

So the few of them started running again, chasing the footprints of the two horses forward quickly, but they could only see the prints, not the horses, and could not hear any sound. It was truly too strange.

After they chased for another round, they felt it was truly too strange and too abnormal. They could only see the hoof prints left after fast running, but could not see a single shadow of the beast. If it were a normal beast, it should have stopped by now.

Moreover, beasts would not run in such a straight line, because if they wanted to avoid natural enemies or do something, they would definitely run toward areas with dense vegetation. What is there on this straight path?

And on such a straight road, they could not see any traces at all, so they simply gave up, found a cool spot on the spot, sat down, and started complaining.

"These two beasts are really strange. Why would they run like this, and run so fast for so long?

Forget it, let's not chase anymore, I'm exhausted."

"Exactly, exactly, let's not chase. Let's wait a bit; the Tribal Chief and the others are all behind us. When they catch up, we will go over and meet up..."

The left guard sent back by Hun, upon seeing the main force, immediately waved his hands frantically. The people at the very front of the team, upon seeing this, also immediately slowed their pace.

The left guard bypassed the front and ran directly to the position where Baifeng was. After pulling the reins to a sudden stop, he immediately flipped down and knelt on one knee toward Baifeng, his movements smooth and fluid.

"King! The three of us discovered a team ahead, large in number, suspected to be the Xingtian tribe. Brigade Commander Hun and another person stayed behind to continue scouting for details, and sent me back to report the news."

"Get up and speak!"

Baifeng was riding on his horse, looking down from above: "How far away are they from here?"

The Soldier looked up at the sun: "King, I rode here, it was about two hours. They are out of sight, at least a kilometer or more away from us."

Baifeng understood, waved his hand to let him go rest first, and after exchanging a look with Xuanyuan, immediately ordered: "All units, set up camp right here!"

"Stop, stop! Set up camp right here! Set up camp right here!"

The order was gradually passed to everyone amidst waves of shouting by the messengers, and the team immediately stopped. Everyone unloaded the heavy items from their bodies, sat on the ground to rest for a while, and then prepared to set up camp.

Xuanyuan had also learned one thing from Baifeng, which was the use of messengers. In such a long team, the order passed down from the very front, after passing through too many people and the shouting of many voices, was prone to being miscommunicated. Short ones were fine, but long orders were easily garbled.

And as long as there was a person with a loud voice and good hearing acting as a messenger, taking the message passed from the front and then passing it backward, accuracy could be guaranteed, because only he could shout the order, clearly enough, without interference.

Baifeng had not yet dismounted, and Xuanyuan was also still on the back of the small elephant.

"Baifeng, do you think the one we encountered this time will be the Xingtian tribe?"

Baifeng's eyes were firm: "I feel it is. But no matter who it is, we must be prepared for battle. This time, no matter if the people coming were sent by Shennong or are fleeing from the Shennong Clan, we cannot let them go. The more we let go, the greater the variables."

Xuanyuan laughed heartily: "That is the attitude I wanted. We let so many people go; what is the point of just attacking Changyang Mountain?

People are still more important than this land. As long as you are not afraid of wasting effort, then we will fight every one we see."