Chapter 293: Atavism

Another hidden worry in my heart is in Nangong Hai.

I don't know why, she always feels that he won't strictly follow the instructions and take the "capture" method to deal with it.

Now I just hope it's just an illusion, but ...... Is it really just an illusion?

As soon as she entered the mountains, she found footprints on the ground and was immediately refreshed.

Judging from the size of the footprints and the style of the soles, she can be sure that Nangong Hai left them, the footprints are fresh, and the other party should enter the mountains for no more than two hours.

Since she was born with a sharp sword, she could probably guess what kind of way they would hunt down, and what she had to do now was to find Chen Feng before they did.

It seems that it is time to make good use of your tracking talent, even if you are in the sword, it is also superior!

Three days later, the pursuit party was deep in the mountains.

Along the way, the pursuit team kept changing the direction of the tracking with advanced equipment and high-altitude shooting from satellites, but two days later, Chen Feng still did not appear on their scanners.

However, Nangong Hai had already had the consciousness of a protracted war, so he was not in a hurry and moved forward steadily.

"Huh? There's a situation over there! Ahead, Xiao Lin, who was in charge of the outpost, said suddenly.

Nangong Hai hurriedly rushed over there with him, and was stunned for a moment.

In front of him, a tiger corpse that had begun to decompose was lying around.

And judging from the twisted tiger head, it is definitely not a normal death.

"Strange, how can there be a tiger carcass here?" Xiao Linqi said. In this area, the tiger is definitely the top of the food chain, who can kill it?

If it were a poacher, he would be too bold to even enter this place, and in the end he would not have taken his prey away; If it were other beasts, this tiger corpse would not be so complete now, and it should have been gnawed clean.

Nangong Hai didn't speak, leaned over and gently flicked the tiger's body with a branch, his eyebrows locked deeply.

"All over the body, only the neck has a wound." Xiao Lin observed carefully, "Or is it in the position of the big blood vessels, huh?" Could it be that the other party just wants to drink its blood as a drink? ”

"Drink blood? Bloodsucker? Lu Yang, who likes to joke, came over.

"No, it's people." Nangong Hai stood up, threw the branch, his eyes swept around, and after a while, his eyes lit up, "Found it!" ”

When Xiao Lin and Lu Yang looked over, they saw a few messy footprints on the ground, and they suddenly shook violently: "It's human footprints!" ”

Nangong Hai didn't talk nonsense anymore, and decisively ordered: "Immediately take this place as the center, spread around to find out, and see if there are any corpses of other beasts!" ”

Xiao Lin and Lu Yang looked at each other.

Could it be Chen Feng?

But...... He doesn't have a weapon in his hand now, so he can fight a tiger with his bare hands?!

In particular, there was obviously no other blood around it, and the tiger killer was obviously not injured!

Soon, the results returned. Less than half a mile from the tiger's carcass, another wolf corpse was found, dead in the same way as the tiger, but this time missing a leg.

And this leg was also found not far away, but it had been gnawed on and seemed to have been eaten.

Everybody was on alert, because

Nangong Hai immediately made a decision and ordered to follow the direction formed by the wolf corpse and the tiger corpse.

But until after dark, no trace of Chen Feng was found.

However, fortunately, several more beast corpses were found along the way, and it is certain that the pursuit is in the right direction.

Late at night, Nangong Hai ordered to suspend tracking and set up camp to rest.

When summarizing before going to bed, Xiao Lin couldn't help but say: "He seems to be heading towards the depths of the mountains, could he be avoiding us?" ”

"It's hard to say." Nangong Hai said calmly, "I have another guess, that is, he may be trying to escape the pursuit, and it is easiest to do this in the deep mountains." ”

Next to him, Yang Gang wanted to speak and stopped.

Nangong Hai said coldly: "If you have something to say, just say it!" ”

Yang Gang said in a deep voice: "Before we found the tiger carcass, we also encountered many other animal carcasses on the road, and we didn't wake up at the time, and now it seems that he can't control his murderous nature." ”

"Nonsense!" Xiao Lin snorted. Yang Gang entered the sword at the same time as him, so he is one of the few sword members who dare to talk back casually.

"Go on." Nangong Hai said.

"And along the way, I have observed the situation of the trees," Yang Gang said calmly, "The result is that there is no damage to the trees at all, and the footprints in the front row are also in an orderly state, in other words, killing the beast is his purposeful act, which is completely different from the ordinary madman." ”

The crowd finally understood what he meant.

The previous report said that Chen Feng had lost his mind, and if that was the case, it would be impossible to maintain an orderly behavior for a long time.

Yang Gang said again: "Since he is not crazy, and he can't control his own murderous nature, what I think of is another possibility-that is, he has atavistic phenomena!" ”

Everyone present was moved.

"As we all know, 'atavism' refers to the emergence of biological ancestor traits in modern organisms, and before the initial evolution of any living organism, it must be the satisfaction of physiological instincts as the first priority." Yang Gang explained, "He killed, but there were losses on every corpse, drinking blood or eating meat, so it was not indiscriminate killing for no reason, and this is one of the biggest evidences." So I think we should reclassify his attributes and stop treating him as a madman. ”

Everyone looked at each other.

This speculation is very plausible.

Yang Gang said slowly: "And I have another opinion, that is, when he went into the mountains, he may not just want to escape from pursuit. ”

Nangong Haidao: "Say." ”

"He may know that he can't control his murderous instinct now," Yang Gang spat out his opinion heavily, "That's why he went to the place where contact with people was the most unlikely to avoid killing!" ”

At this moment, the sign scanner next to him suddenly issued a low warning sound.

Everyone was startled, and at the same time, they saw a bright spot appear at the edge of the scanner, coming towards them at high speed!

Xiao Lin lost his voice and said, "It's so fast!" Could it be him? ”

A thought flashed in Yang Gang's mind next to him, and blurted out: "He has already discovered us!" ”

Everyone understood what he meant, referring to Chen Feng's deliberate choice to attack late at night when it was difficult to give full play to the numerical advantage, and they all agreed in their hearts.

Nangong Hai shouted: "Prepare for battle!" ”

After a while, everyone was in place, and the tent was used as a decoy without making the slightest change, just waiting for the person who might be Chen Feng to arrive, and immediately launched an attack.

When the man was only more than 100 meters away from the camp, he suddenly stopped.

Nangong Hai looked at the scanner and frowned slightly.

What the hell is he doing?

A moment later, a wild cry like the roar of a beast was heard!

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts when they heard this.

It looks like a man but not a man, like a beast but not a beast, what a terrible sound!

Immediately, the dots on the scanner turned and quickly walked away from the way they came.

Nangong Hai was shocked and said categorically: "Chase!" ”

Everyone immediately came out of their hiding place, formed a pursuit formation, and chased towards the distant point of light.

But when he only caught up with the position where he stayed before, Nangong Hai suddenly felt that something was wrong, and the strong light in his hand shone not far away, and he was shocked.

In the forest, a tiger corpse that was larger than the tiger carcass they had found before was wrapped around the neck by a thick vine and hung from a big tree!

Lu Yang lost his voice and said: "Damn!" What does this mean! ”

Nangong Hai came back to his senses, and then looked at the scanner, only to see that the light point had quickly escaped from the scanning range.

"I see!" Yang Gang suddenly shouted, "He does still have sense, and this is to warn!" ”

"Warning what?" Xiao Lin blurted out.

"Warning us not to chase again," Yang Gang said word by word, "he doesn't want to kill us!" ”

"Humph!" Nangong Hai snorted coldly, "Arrogance! I'm going to see if we catch him, or if he kills us!" Keep the hunt now! ”

In the dark, Zhixiu crossed the camp where Nangong Hai and the others had stayed before, and quickly moved towards the place where the roar came from.

For her, there was not the slightest problem with the cross-country march in this case. Accustomed to the dark eyes of the forest, they constantly catch up on their surroundings to defend against danger and find targets.

Nangong Hai's refusal made her join and did not let her give up. She felt that she had a certain responsibility for this incident, how could she stand idly by?

Especially if the other party is the one who saved her!

Therefore, she was familiar with its equipment and means, and she had been quietly following behind Nangong Hai and the others, keeping within the range that the other party could not detect. Sure enough, now the results are finally there!

That roar, she was almost sure, was Chen Feng's voice!

I don't know how long she chased it, but she suddenly realized that something was wrong, and immediately stopped and lowered her body.

In the grass in front of the left, there was the sound of a soo.

Zhixiu took out the dagger with her backhand, and she was fully vigilant.

In order to avoid being known by Nangong Hai that she was following behind, she would not use a very moving gun unless it was in case. The movement at this time is clearly a living thing, and a dagger is enough.

The sound of the stalk quickly burrowed from the front left to the back of her left and stopped.

Zhixiu turned over and avoided behind a big tree, poked her head slightly, and squinted to look over there.

In the dark, she can only faintly see things, but she is still sure of distinguishing between "movement" and "stillness". As soon as the other person moves, she can immediately capture their figure.

What would that be? Beast? Still is...... Chen Feng?!

When this thought flashed through her mind, Zhixiu's heart was shocked, and she immediately made a decision, and raised her voice: "Chen Feng? I'm Ah Xiu! ”

If it was really Chen Feng, then he should know that he was a friend and not an enemy when he heard this name; If it's a beast, it doesn't matter if you hear the name; If it were other people with ill intentions, they wouldn't be able to understand who she was when they heard "Ah Xiu".

There was no response over there.

A moment later, there was another shout, and a figure came out from behind the grass.

Zhixiu behind the tree took out a strong light flashlight with her other hand and shone it towards the other party.

Under the light, a person with unkempt hair and a smudge on his face was Chen Feng!

Zhixiu was overjoyed and jumped out from behind the tree: "It's really you!" ”

Chen Feng seemed to be startled by this light, roared, raised his hand to cover his face, stopped his steps, and took two steps back at the same time.

Zhixiu immediately turned the direction of the flashlight and shone it on her face: "It's me!" I'm Ah Xiu! ”

Chen Feng put down his hand, his eyes lit up with a strange light, he muttered lowly, and suddenly approached her.

Although Zhixiu was excited, she did not lose her vigilance, and realized that his demeanor was wrong, so she immediately turned the flashlight again and shone it on him: "Don't move......"

Before the words fell, I saw Chen Feng piercing to the left, avoiding the light of the flashlight, flashing into the blind spot of the flashlight, and rushing towards her like lightning!

Zhixiu's surprise was not trivial, and the dagger in her left hand was immediately pulled horizontally. This time, she was merciful, and the place where she landed was only the position of the other party's waist and ribs to avoid serious injury.

Call!

Chen Feng was so fast that she couldn't believe it, grabbed her dagger and jumped in front of her body to a close-range position, grabbed her left wrist with a tiger claw in his right hand, and then twisted, wanting to break her hand!

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