We set off in the morning at dawn. A total of eight of us quietly entered the woods behind the station, and walked unhurriedly towards the earl's sphere of influence. According to the rules, it was the old guy Yugovic who led the way, and I walked at the back of the group.

As I walked, I looked at the terrain and environment around me, and kept thinking about the various battles that might arise against the bandits and even the eastern battalion of NATO. And the others, except for the old guy, chatted from time to time. I didn't pay attention to the content of the chat, but generally speaking, the content does not leave the beauty, ******, there are some strange things.

We stopped at noon and were scheduled to take a short break to restock our food and water before continuing our walk in the afternoon.

"It's like a pond." Not long after we sat down, the oil bottle pointed to the southwest of where we were.

I looked in the direction he was pointing, and there seemed to be a sparkling sensation, and I felt a little cool breeze blowing in it. I looked at him and said, "Why do you want to go over and have a look?" ”

Yugovich began: "It's a pond, and I can smell the peculiar smell of water in the air here. ”

The oil bottle smiled, "Maybe I can catch a fish and eat it." I haven't eaten fish in a long time. ”

"Pull it. Are you really here for camping? Grilled fish over a fire? Are you afraid that others won't find out about you? But if you eat it raw, I'll let you catch it. ”

"Eat it raw, eat it raw." After the oil bottle finished speaking, he stood up and patted his buttocks, "I'll go over and take a look." ”

"Hey." Yugovich looked at the oil bottle and said, "Don't drink water casually, not every place here is drinkable." And be careful not to get bitten by snakes or anything. ”

"Don't worry, uncle. He had been in Colombia, and he was a grave robber before he got a gun. He knew these things. I waved my hand and signaled to Yugovic not to worry.

Hearing me say this, the oil bottle looked back at me unhappily and said, "How many times have I said it, it's archaeology." I'm archaeology, not tomb robbing. ”

"I'll go with you, too." Seeing that the movement of the oil bottle was not stopped, the little man Lukovich also stood up and chased after the oil bottle.

I took a few sips of water and a bite to eat, and then leaned against a tree to get ready for a rest, but I had just closed my eyes. There was a rush of footsteps. I immediately opened my eyes and looked towards where the sound had come from.

It was Lukovic who ran over, and he motioned for us to be silent as he ran, and he quickly ran to Yugovich, who crouched down, looked at everyone, and said softly: "We saw that there were people on the other side of the pond, and they looked like armed men, and we didn't have time to count the exact number." ”

Yugovich and I looked at each other, most of the people we met in this place must be armed men, and this place is chaotic and a place of vacuum and anarchy, who has nothing to do with running in a ghost place? What's more, most of the armed men who appear here are the Earl's men. Could it be that he's already starting to do something to us? So fast? Or is it a patrol, or a scout?

"Take us to see it." I looked at Lukovich and picked up myself and the gun that was dragging the oil bottle.

Yugovich nodded, "All of you take your weapons." Stay put, don't talk, don't move. ”

After the old fellow had said that, he followed Lukovich with me to the pond. We soon saw the oil bottle, who was hiding behind a dense clump of foliage and looking in the direction of the pond. He heard us come and looked back at us and motioned for us to take our time and move slowly.

Yugovich and I slowly walked to the side of the oil bottle, and then slowly brushed away the leaves in front of us and looked out. "Eleven o'clock. There were two people standing there. The oil bottle said softly.

I looked quickly in the direction he was saying, and soon I saw a figure in the woods by the pond, carrying a backpack with what appeared to be a strap on his chest, which was obviously carrying a weapon. I didn't see the other person who dragged the oil bottle, but there should have been someone in the woods on this person's side, because this man looked into the forest from time to time, and his mouth moved a few times. However, in the woods, because of the dense vegetation now, the light is not good, and it is difficult to see the location of the people there, let alone how many people there are.

"Wait and don't move." I whispered and handed him the gun that was dragging the oil bottle, "Look what they're going to do down there, where they're going." ”

So we each grabbed our guns and looked at the man on the other side of the pond. After about five minutes, the people on the other side started to move, and there was a lot of movement over there. I saw a man come out of the shadows in the woods, and came to the man we could see, and he looked around the pond and exchanged a few words with the people around him, then he looked back into the woods and said a few words, and in a few moments, one after another, came out of the woods.

The men were all dressed in camouflage and armed arms, and the whole group seemed more relaxed, with occasional conversations and smiles.

“1，2、3、4。。。。” The oil bottles counted the people who appeared in our field of vision one after another, and did not stop until they reached thirty.

"Thirty?" I looked at the oil bottle.

"Thirty people. Unless there is anything that cannot be seen in the woods, it must be thirty. The oil bottle replied in the affirmative.

I nodded and continued to look at these people, and I saw that these people were heading in the direction we had come, which meant that they were heading in the same direction as our station. After a few moments, the two men who had been observing the surroundings also turned and followed the group along the edge of the pond, and after a while disappeared into the woods by the pond.

"What are we going to do?" The oil bottle looked at me and asked.

I looked across the pond, and there were only thirty of these people? What can thirty do? How come I also have nearly 100 armed men there, are these 30 people just reconnaissance or patrol teams, then the scale of this team is a bit large, how large is this total range of 30 people? If not, what is it ready to do? Learn from NATO people to engage in raids? Small, big?

"Uncle." I looked at Yugovic, "Let's go over and see where they were and see if we can find anything." After that, I looked at Lukovich and continued, "It seems that Lukovich is going to go back and report the news, no matter how many people there are, or whether they are going to trouble us or not, they must let the people in the station know that a group of armed men are quietly approaching them." ”

Yugovic nodded, "Lukovich, grab your gun and hurry back to report the news." Remember to be aware of your surroundings on the road, and don't just keep your head down and hurry. ”

"Understood! Rest assured, it's not the first time I've been on my way through the woods. Lukovic said as he quickly ran back to where we had rested, picked up a water bottle and walked away with his gun.

Yugovich and I, along with the oil bottles, led the others along the edge of the pond to where the group had just stayed. Upon arriving here, Yugovic immediately looked at the ground, presumably trying to find some useful information from the traces on the ground. I also looked at the ground, and I could tell from the ground where there were people, and from the footprints, these people sat down very quietly after arriving here, and no one walked around, and there was no garbage left on the ground, and I could see that these people were quite disciplined.

Yugovic took a quick look around, especially the neighborhood of the road the gang had walked and the road they had taken when they left, and then he came to me and said, "Judging from the footprints and the traces of the range of personnel resting, there are about thirty people here. ”

I nodded, and the old guy shouldn't be wrong when he said that. But are the other party's thirty people a little less? Or is it ... I looked at the oil bottle and said, "Do you see any other weapons they carry?" For example, mortars. ”

The oil bottle shook his head, "I didn't see it." They were just like us, they were all carrying regular rifles, and they didn't seem to even see heavy machine guns. ”

"I didn't see it either, and judging from the footprints and other marks left by these people, there was nothing too heavy, and there were no animals to carry the equipment. It seems that these people are probably on the same task as us. Jugovic said.

"Okay. Now it's almost certain how many of them there are. But I don't think their task should be that simple. I gestured around, "Thirty? How many of us and the Count are there, and how far apart are we? Send so many people to investigate? In other words, I would never send so many people, the target is too big, isn't it just that we found out? ”

"So what are they doing here? It's not really going to attack us, is it? Drag the oil bottle asked.

"It may be, it really is. However, these people are estimated to be a pioneer, and the big head should still be behind. It's also possible that they're going their separate ways and we're just running into one of them. I said, looking around, "Looks like we're going to have to go back." We've got to follow behind these guys. Our reconnaissance has paid off. Hopefully, the people in the station will be fully prepared when this group approaches. ”