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Chapter 1571 Traces
Chapter 1571 Traces
Hayata and Xianglan rode on Amber and came to a charred ruin.
After being burned by dragon flames for a long time, the bricks and stones that had been solid for hundreds of years had become loose and cracked.
When I touched it, there seemed to be a trace of residual warmth.
Hayata stood up silently.
"It's all moss and rotten wood being burned by flames, meow. I can't smell anything else, meow."
Xianglan came over with a worried look on her face and pulled her fingertips, "Are you okay, meow?"
Hayata forced a smile and rubbed Xianglan's head, "I'm fine."
"Woof! Woof!" Amber suddenly roared loudly.
Hayata and Xianglan were startled and walked over quickly, only to see Amber digging in front of a collapsed ruin, constantly moving something.
Hayata's heart began to beat wildly and she hurried over to help dig.
After a long time of digging, a man, a cat and a dog finally moved away the pile of broken bricks and stones, revealing a deep hole with a diameter of about half a meter.
Hayata let go of the stone in his hand, and his face was full of disappointment.
Obviously, this hole is not big enough for a grown man.
But Xianglan made some new discoveries.
It leaned in and sniffed hard, "Meow? It smells a bit familiar, meow.
It smells like iron and wood arborvitae. I feel like I've smelled this smell somewhere before."
Hayata slapped his face and forced himself to cheer up, "It looks like a hole dug by Elu.
Perhaps it was a member of the Cat Hunting Team who was exploring the way? Or maybe it was a wild Elu that followed the scouting team into the ancient city."
"Meow!" Xianglan's ears twitched, "I suddenly remembered, meow, it's the smell of bones and flint, meow!
They should have gone underground from here and escaped, meow! Maybe they left some clues, I'll go down and take a look, meow!"
Having said that, Xianglan dived into the cave.
Hayata was in a state of unsettled mood and continued to walk around, with Amber accompanying her.
Ten minutes later, Xianglan jumped out of another hidden exit hundreds of meters away from the cave entrance, "They are still alive!
They must have been hiding underground for a long time, and only came out after the dragon flame was extinguished!
There are footprints here meow, should we follow them meow?"
"Let's go and have a look. If we can find them, maybe we can know something." Hayata rode on Amber, grabbed Pandan, and followed the traces and smells on the ground.
After dozens of minutes of high-speed driving, they moved from the core area of the ruins of the Shulet King City all the way to the outer area near the edge.
Here, they found another charred ruin and numerous signs of fighting.
Comparing it with Lieyan's previous description, Hayata knew that this was the place where the reconnaissance team was attacked by the black dragon.
After coming here, her mood gradually calmed down.
If that illusory hope was shattered, she hoped to at least be able to collect the bodies of her master and the other two hunters and not let the victims be exposed in the wild.
Soon, they found the first remains.
The spear and shield melted in the high temperature and merged into the armor on his body, but he still stood, maintaining the posture in his last moment of life.
Hayata bowed silently towards the highly carbonized remains and carefully laid him flat on the side of the road, ready to move him later.
Searched the area carefully.
Amber found another broken shield axe, which should be the weapon of the shield axe user in the reconnaissance team.
But they failed to find the body of the shield axe user.
This is not necessarily bad news. After all, there is another possibility besides the black dragon being hungry.
"Meow!" Xianglan suddenly let out a scream.
Hayata ran over quickly and found that the former was holding a silver-white sword that was broken in half.
Of course she recognized it; it was the Flying Dragon Sword [Silver] that belonged to Amos.
However, her attention at this moment was not on the broken knife at all.
Hayata stared at the charred road surface. There was a string of cat paw prints and a long drag mark leading to the end of the road.
Under the night sky, above the sea of clouds.
A huge fleet of airships travels on the wind.
On the flagship "Third Princess", the general, professor, investigation team leader, and captains of each ship were gathered together for a meeting.
On the table, there was a huge map of the old continent.
It is densely packed with track coordinates that are incomprehensible to laymen.
"The speed of the Black Dragon is higher than that of the fleet, but thanks to the help of Fukubi Rabbit, we have not completely lost track of the enemy."
The general placed his hands on the table and said, "We can confirm that the black dragon is flying due south. What do you think?"
"Are you sure it's due south? Not southeast or southwest?" The investigation captain frowned, "Go southwest along the coast and you'll reach the city of Melchita.
If you go southeast, close to the inland sea, there are many coastal cities, the nearest of which is Metabetat.
What's due south? The Arcis region? The Metabe Wet Jungle (Old Jungle)?"
"Its next goal may not be to attack the city, but to find a place to recover." The professor said: "The damage caused to it by the Dragon Slayer Cannon is not light.
Even with the ancient dragon species' self-healing ability, it will take at least a few days of rest before it can begin to heal."
"This is good news!"
A tall captain with an open chest, who gave people a rough and generous feeling, picked up his pipe.
“Hiss—Huh, let’s just follow it like this. Don’t give it a chance to rest and recover. When its condition gets worse, we’ll force it to fight!”
"It's not that easy to catch up." Another captain said with a worried look, "Isn't it said that the intelligence of ancient dragons is not inferior to that of humans?
It won't be easy for us to catch up with it. It should be trying to use its speed advantage to play a game of 'pulling' with us."
"This is what we are worried about, so we must turn passivity into initiative, adjust the route, and intercept in advance."
The general drew a big circle on the map with his finger, "The areas along the Inland Sea and the Wadre Sea (Old Sea) are the most densely populated and prosperous core areas of the Old Continent.
There are many big cities such as Metabetat, Giovadreo, Dondoruma, and Rexara.
This is also the area calculated by scholars to be most likely to be attacked by a black dragon.
We must intercept the black dragon before it invades this area.
My idea is that we rush here in advance and set up defenses in the eastern area of the suspected wet forest, so that we can block the Black Dragon’s only way to the Inland Sea.”
Upon hearing this, the captains nodded in support of the general's judgment.
But the leader of the investigation team proposed another possibility, "But what if the black dragon did not go east to the inland sea after crossing the wet dense forest, but continued to go south to the desert area?"
The general folded his arms and nodded, “Your concern is reasonable, I have considered this as well.
But judging from the current situation, if we keep chasing after the black dragon, it may take advantage of the speed difference and leave us behind after a while.
We cannot perfectly predict Black Dragon's thoughts, we can only choose the route with the highest interception success rate."
The professor also said: "All the observation airships and hot air balloons of the Ancient Dragon Observatory have been launched and are on alert day and night.
If the black dragon shows signs of crossing the dense forest and continuing to move south, it will be spotted in the Ruins Plain. We will then find a way to track it and should be able to intercept it in the great desert.
As for the South China Sea further south, it probably won’t get too close there, as that’s the territory of ‘others’.”
The captain of the investigation team nodded slightly.
Just as the generals said, this position is the safest option as it allows for both offense and defense.
Ps.
This is also not an official map, but the information in all aspects is reliable and it is a map compiled from official information. There is only one official map, which is from the 2g era and is very blurry.
(End of this chapter)