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"This is it."

Aurora looked around nervously. "Klaus rushed in from here."

Their five senses have all been enhanced as their evolution points have increased, but it is still very difficult for them to see a crime scene in the dark.

Fortunately, there was Aurora, the human-shaped light source.

A soft, pale white light rose from her, dispelling the darkness within a few meters around her.

A brief but fierce battle had clearly taken place here.

Broken wooden spears lay scattered on the ground.

It's the kind that those reptilians have in their hands.

Several tree trunks still had sharp bone spurs embedded in them, and large patches of dried, dark green bloodstains, but no red bloodstains.

"Thankfully, it's only the blood of those monkeys." Ivan leaned closer to smell it and breathed a slight sigh of relief.

He randomly picked up the torn and tattered pieces of red and white cloth from one side.

When pieced together, you can still see the white question mark on it.

There was blood from a reptile monkey, but no body...

"The reptilian monkey that fought with us must have been wearing the jacket we threw away as a trophy."

He traced a mark half a meter long on the tree with his finger.

The claws of those little green creatures were finer and more delicate; they weren't left by the reptilian monkeys.

There were still overturned pits on the ground.

"Then they fell into some kind of trap here and were attacked by another, stronger group of predators."

"Klaus mistook the reptilian monkeys wearing our clothes for us."

"That idiot Hans the Cat,"

Ivan swung his axe at the ground, kicking up a cloud of dirt. "You're usually so clever!"

Despite the insults, the worry on her face was undeniable.

"So he went after those guys who ambushed the lizard monkeys?" Aurora took a few steps deeper to illuminate a larger area.

Nine out of ten...

As Aurora moved, more traces came into view.

Several fairly clear tracks stretched from beneath their feet into the depths of the jungle.

"Those drag marks...could it be Klaus?"

Renyi didn't answer, but he was more inclined to believe it was a reptile.

He crouched down and picked up some soil. Besides the claw marks left by the lizard monkey and the long drag mark, there were deeper and larger footprints, some deep and some shallow, piled up haphazardly, making them difficult to see clearly.

"Aurora, put the light away."

The soft white light vanished instantly, leaving only scattered starlight filtering through the lush foliage, casting dappled patterns of light.

The three stood still for a moment, allowing their vision to readjust to the darkness.

With the loss of sight, hearing becomes unusually acute...

The wind rustled through the treetops, the leaves whispered, unknown insects buzzed, and the heavy breathing of wild beasts echoed from afar.

Ivan controlled his breathing very lightly until the darkness finally subsided a little.

The outlines of the objects began to emerge from the darkness.

enough.

This time, Ren Yi took the lead, while Ivan brought up the rear, cautiously scanning the way they had come. The three of them formed a long, serpentine line and disappeared into the deep jungle.

Drag marks on the ground are not hard to find.

The sap from plants crushed by heavy objects in the dense vegetation emitted a fresh, astringent smell, which was distinctly mixed with the stench of lizard blood.

But Renyi still moved very slowly.

Before taking each step, he would first test the ground with the tip of his knife, while trying to avoid piles of dead branches and fallen leaves.

After walking about a few hundred meters, Renyi suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?"

Aurora nervously followed suit and squatted down.

There, on a nearby tree that would take three people to encircle, was a broken bone spear stuck at waist level.

This bone spear is longer and of higher quality.

Clearly different from the crudely made ones in the hands of the reptilian monkeys.

He casually ran his fingertip across the broken end of the bone spear that was stuck in the tree trunk, without feeling any bone fragments obstructing his view.

"The cut surface is very smooth...it was severed by a sharp instrument."

"Could it be Klaus?!"

Nod casually.

It's very likely him. Perhaps he caught up with those things here, or perhaps he was discovered.

The good news is that there was no smell of human blood at the scene.

Whether Klaus escaped or was captured, there is a high probability that he is still alive.

With a flick of his wrist, the broken bone spear was pulled out, bringing with it several pieces of broken bark.

[Target: A crudely made bone spear (incomplete)]

[Review: The leg bone of some large mammal (from yesterday's leftovers). PS: It was probably ground down with teeth.]

[Family members, here's the latest battle report!]

[How's Klaus doing? Don't tell me he's been turned into a Hans Cat sausage!]

[Alive...]

[It's not just good, it's incredibly moisturized ((＝￣(ｴ)￣=))]

Unfortunately, the three people in the jungle couldn't see the comments.

All they could see was a string of messy, crisscrossing footprints on the ground, and a drag mark that stretched into the depths of darkness.

"Walk."

He uttered a single word, and the speed was more than twice as fast as before.

The further in you go, the more messy the drag marks become.

Watch your step.

Turn the volume down as low as you can, and use the tip of the knife to pry open a tree branch.

Below was a mud pit covered by branches and leaves, with several sharpened wooden stakes stuck in it.

"These guys are pretty good at making use of waste."

Ivan muttered softly and carefully went around it.

Similar rudimentary traps are becoming more and more common. Some are disguised as vines but are actually tripwires, and others are vine rings hidden in the grass, but the workmanship is quite crude.

"These things... don't seem to be designed for us..."

Aurora looked at a trap that had already been triggered, with the carcass of a green lizard still inside.

After walking for about fifteen minutes, the drag marks on the ground began to become messy.

What was originally a clear drag mark gradually branched into several more, and more messy marks appeared around it.

It seems that many creatures are frequently active here, and Klaus's trail has completely disappeared.

"Damn it, how do we find this?"

Ivan scratched his head in frustration. The marks on the ground looked like a messy spider web, and he couldn't tell which one was the target.

The trail went cold.

But there seemed to be a faint, almost imperceptible... presence in the air.

Barbecue flavor?

......

What a beautiful sunny day!

"Hiss—hiss!"

A cave-dwelling monster with a mask of an unknown beast's skull, grayish skin, and arms that extended past its knees let out a satisfied hiss.

It has just finished its meal—

Hand-torn green, huh?

Right now, he's lazily leaning against the rock, basking in the starlight while picking his teeth.

Suddenly, a muffled thud, as if a trap had been triggered, came from the nearby jungle, followed by the terrified squeaking of the damned green maggot.

Another fool has taken the bait!

The cave monster's mood instantly brightened.

It grabbed the large bone club leaning against the rock wall and charged forward on its short legs—

It has to drag the spoils back to its den before its companions discover them!

However, the scene before my eyes...

It smoothed out the almost non-existent brain considerably.

At the edge of the trap pit,

A long, thin creature, white on top and black on the bottom, with a strange appearance, was grabbing a lizard monkey by the scruff of its neck with one hand and pushing it into a trap with wooden stakes stuck in it.

The green lemur thrashed wildly in the air, emitting desperate screams of "squeak, squeak—", but it could not break free from that seemingly slender hand.

The cave monster stood frozen in place, its hand holding the bone club trembling slightly for some reason.

Its traps... seem to have been taken over?

That long, thin, strange creature noticed it too.

in the dark,

The strange creature bared its teeth in a bizarre expression and made a sound it couldn't understand:

"Look, Aurora, Ivan."

"I told you this would work."