Liu Yong told me that most of his knowledge of the wanderers was actually concentrated in the vicinity of Jiuhe City, that is, the southwest region of Dongkou Province, and that the power of the wanderers had long been spread over most of Dongkou Province, and that the wanderers were originally composed of multiple groups that were relatively independent of each other, so the specific (情qíng) of the wanderers in other areas Besides, he probably doesn't know much.

What Liu Yong meant was that he didn't know much about the few strongholds in the vicinity, at most he stayed on the surface, and he didn't know anything about what was inside, how many guarded wanderers there were, and what their purpose here was other than the Gu worm virus.

This seems to me to be very normal, and from the mouths of the previous survivors and Mr. Qin, it has also been confirmed that Liu Yong's main range of activities is near Jiuhe City, and there are very few other places.

The forest Liu Yong was referring to seemed to be quite large, stretching to the end of my eyesight, and I noticed that many of the trees in this forest had been cut down, and many places were showing small clearings.

My eyes were pretty good, and I could find almost immediately traces of human activity in these clearings, and even some ashes from fires that had clearly just been extinguished.

I immediately stopped and began to tell the other bounty hunters who were with me to disperse quickly to see if I could find more clues.

"Be careful, these people who are arranged to swim in remote areas have two strokes on their hands. Liu Yong said a little nervously: "And a large part of them belong to the unstable elements. ”

"What do you mean?" I asked, frowning.

"That is...... Most of them are people who have made mistakes in the wandering ((swing dàng) dàng). ”

"Did you make a mistake? Does that mean you've been sent here?"

"Almost, it's not a good thing anyway. Liu Yong said unashamedly.

I said in my heart that no matter how bad they are, I'm afraid they won't be able to catch up with you.

At the same time, Lu Ming had already asked his bounty hunters to disperse in groups of three and march slowly forward in a carpet pattern, and I asked Liu Yong to indicate the specific entrance to the underground stronghold.

However, Liu Yong shook his head and said that he couldn't remember clearly, after all, he had only been here once, and the entrance to the underground stronghold of these wanderers would change frequently, last time it was here, maybe next time it will be moved.

I nodded, and said in my heart that if it was an entrance, there would definitely be obvious traces of stampede activity on the ground nearby, and the difference should be relatively obvious.

And for this, the hunters who are experienced in the wild are much better than me, and needless to say, they also know how to track and follow.

We carpeted through the dead wood forest above the land for five minutes, and we had reached a distance of almost a few hundred meters into the woodland.

During this time, we passed through many glades with traces of human activity, some of which showed a long time ago, but some of which were clearly new, and I even found strange traces of burning in some places.

No matter how you look at these traces, they look like they were left behind after a large number of Gu things were burned, judging from some scattered broken bones, there were even people!

This message immediately caught my attention, and if it involved the burning of the bodies of the dead, it meant that things were going slightly more than I had imagined.

At this point we arrived at one of the largest clearings we had ever seen in the forest, which was five or six hundred square meters in size, and there were even a few small wooden houses at the edge of the clearing, right next to the woods.

In the middle of the clearing was a large crater filled with an exaggerated amount of bone fragments, and it was not surprising that this was a large incineration site.

In the surrounding wooden houses, there are many various tools left, including a few intact earthen guns, which seem to have been temporarily stored here by nearby wanderers ((swing dàng) dàng).

These wanderers may think that it is impossible for outsiders to come here, so they are so relieved.

Naturally, we unceremoniously took the things for our own use, and then searched the inside and outside of the hut again, and then found something new.

These were actually some document drawings, and to my surprise, we couldn't understand the text at all.

It's very similar to the documents in the Blue Bird Company before, because the font is very similar, although we can't read the text, but judging from some hand-drawn illustrations, these files are clearly used to record the activity records of Gu things, and they should include their own (身shēn) (身shēn) body condition records and outing action records.

Even...... It seems that there is also a chart to measure the lethality of Gu creatures.

"How can anyone among the wanderers understand these ancient documents?" I asked Liu Yong in surprise.

However, Liu Yong shook his head: "At least I haven't heard of it." ”

I shook the papers in front of Liu Yong and said, "Then what's the matter with these documents? Could it be that there are still people who specialize in these studies?"

"You'll have to ask them. Liu Yong pointed out the window, and then I heard the shouts of several people outside the wooden house.

"Raise your hands!"

......

It turned out that outside the window, I don't know when there had been a few swimmers holding earthen guns, and these swimmers looked like they were all dressed like Hanako, which is the kind of swimmer I am most familiar with.

There were six wanderers in total, and they should have only spotted me and Liu Yong in the wooden house for the time being, but they didn't know that there were a dozen or so of our other bounty hunters in the vicinity.

I was just thinking about whether to subdue these guys who had been sent to the door by force, when I heard one of them suddenly say in a surprised tone, "It's Liu Yong, why are you back here?"

"They know you?" I asked Liu Yong in a suppressed voice.

Liu Yong frowned: "It seems to be ...... But I don't know them, maybe these people have been around Nine Rivers and know what I look like. And...... They don't seem to know that something is going on in Jiuhe City! The lot here is closed, the news is slow to spread, and they don't know anything about my situation!"

I nodded: "Then don't do it yet!

"Okay. "Liu Yong is obviously still very unwilling, willing to listen to my orders.

However, Liu Yong now knows that he is subject to me, and there are so many bounty hunters on my side, even if there is a head-on conflict with the guards of the wanderers here, he will not be left behind.

So he honestly followed my wishes.

I saw Liu Yong immediately pretend to be familiar and walked outside the door and said, "Brother Qi asked us to come here to send some supplies to you." ”

Liu Yong's nonsense is very well made, because apart from this reason, we really have no more reasonable reason to appear here.

What's more, sending supplies and supplies is tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow for these wanderers in the marginal areas.

Sure enough, the eyes of the six wanderers immediately lit up: "Oh, Brother Qi hasn't forgotten about us, what are they?"

"Don't worry. Liu Yong lied, his face was not red, and his heart was not beating: "In order to ensure the safety and statistics of materials, I have to go to you first."

Take stock in the base. ”

"We don't have any stock. One of the swimmers immediately said: "The supply transportation on the Tibetan Mountain Line has been cut off for several days, and we are now even getting water from underground wells!"

This Tibetan Mountain Line is a national highway extending from the central part to the northernmost part of Dongkou Province, at least before the cataclysm, and although the path in the mouth of this traveler may change slightly, it definitely represents the northern end of the tourist's transportation line.

And the city of Nine Rivers, where we clashed before, is located in the southern region, which means that the wanderers are now in trouble in both the north and the south, but we don't know what happened in the north.

Of course, this may also be a simple shortage of materials, after all, the wanderers themselves do not think about farming, and they will definitely not last long just by looting everywhere.

However, I didn't believe them at all, not to mention anything else, just from the looks of these people, I knew that there would definitely be no shortage of food for them, at most it was a little difficult to drink water, and it was not to the point when (sex xìng) was at stake.

The reason why they emphasize their shortage of materials is nothing more than to take more things from us.

Even I didn't believe it, and Liu Yong naturally didn't believe it, he immediately told those who traveled ((swing dàng) dàng that they had to inspect it no matter what, otherwise they wouldn't be able to deal with Brother Qi at that time.

It was always the most effective to use the superiors to suppress people, and the wanderers quickly succumbed and told us to follow them.

At the same time, I also saw the shadows of Lu Ming and several other bounty hunters at the edge of the forest, and I immediately gestured for them to wait in place, and then Liu Yong and I began to walk with the other swimmers towards the forest in front of us.

On the way, Liu Yong began to have more conversations with those who wandered ((swing dàng) dàng, and Liu Yong now seemed to be completely leaning towards my side, and every word he said was trying to (tào) out of the information of the wanderers here.

Combined with my side-kicks, we have come to the following three conclusions.

First, the number of wanderers here is about fifty, all of them are male, because those wanderers have been complaining that they are not satisfied in some way.

Second, their underground layer has been reduced by half due to the collapse of the strata since recent times, and the current main settlement is about the size of half a football field.

Thirdly, and most crucially, we have finally figured out the purpose of these wanderers here, it turns out that they are mainly responsible for incinerating all kinds of Gu things transported from the Evergreen Valley to this place, these Gu things not only contain animals, but sometimes there will be a huge number of human beings, some dead and some alive, but even if they are living animals and people, they are already dying.

Liu Yong didn't know where the Changqing Valley was, but I was sure that this Changqing Valley was a central point in the entire nearby area, and all the nearby strongholds served around the camp in the Evergreen Valley.

And from there, a lot of Gu things are often transported out, which means that the base camp for studying Gu things is also there.

That might explain the documents we just saw in the cabin.

The research of Gu objects should still be relatively narrow, and their purpose (sex xìng) is definitely not as clear as that of the Blue Bird Company and the Salvation Army, I am afraid that it is just to control more people who do not have complete thinking to act as combat puppets for them.

In this way, the human corpses sent here for incineration must be the product of failure, and the vast majority of them are probably semi-infected.

Anyway, I already had some doubts when I attacked Nine Rivers City before, because I didn't encounter too many semi-infected people over there, and if I look at it now, maybe they were all moved to the rear?

In addition to these three points, I also found an opportunity to pretend to be casual and asked about those strange documents, but those wanderers did not pay much attention to these documents, saying that these documents were only found by them from the original underground layer nearby, and they wanted to find someone to study and study, but unfortunately everyone couldn't understand the text on them.

This shows that the underground layers related to voodoo are also distributed in this vicinity.

Soon I arrived at the entrance of the hidden stronghold of those wanderers, and the place I entered was actually a tree hole, the diameter of the trunk body was seven or eight meters, which could be regarded as a giant ancient tree, and there were some chaotic stones piled up on both sides of the tree hole, and the concealment (sex xìng) was extremely high, I am sure that even if the bounty hunter wanted to find this place, it would take a lot of effort.

We were largely unhindered by acquaintances leading the way, and when we entered the hollow, there was a tunnel that sank down along the end of the roots, and there were some bulges on both sides that resembled lantern holders, and I could see at a glance the hidden mural patterns near the bulges.

Originally, the site was rebuilt from the frescoes that were distributed......

The temperature in the basement is unexpectedly high, and it seems that their indoor temperature is maintained well, so it is no wonder that in this cold place, these swimmers can still maintain their red faces......

However, I really don't dare to compliment the personal qualities of these swimmers, and sure enough, as Liu Yong said, these guys are not fuel-efficient lamps at first glance, especially a few annoying swimmers even played tricks on me with contempt.

It seems that these people will not be able to survive no matter what, let alone join us.

Soon Liu Yong and I were taken to their storage place, probably because they were afraid that Qi Fang would settle accounts in the end, so they didn't hide the total amount of supplies this time, and we saw boxes and boxes of air-dried (meat ròu) and slightly inferior rations.

Also, I even saw some alcohol.

They have more weapons and tools than food.

I'm overjoyed, and I've secretly regarded these supplies as my own, but this is not enough, and I need to take the opportunity to find out the distribution of materials in several other nearby strongholds.