Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Strange color

Outside the ink village.

Moyun Forest is located in the east of Mo Village.

After walking the mountain road for a while, Mo Chi stopped.

"This shoe print!"

There are two small shoe prints on the muddy surface.

"Is it Xiaohuba's?" Luo Xingchen asked.

"It belongs to Xiao Huwa, but why wasn't it on the way here? Only here, and it doesn't seem to be in front of it."

Mo Chi looked solemn, with a strange look in his eyes.

"There's more than one person, little tiger baby, it's very likely that he didn't come out by himself." Zi Yan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said.

"Master Zi, why are you so sure?" Mo Chi asked doubtfully.

"On our way here, it's not that there are no shoe prints, but that the shoe prints are too shallow. If you don't look carefully, you can't see them at all."

Zi Yan took out a cloth bag, grabbed a handful of emerald green dust from it, and sprinkled it towards the way it came from.

Not long after, many shallow emerald green shoe prints began to appear on the ground.

Only then did Mo Chi and the others really believe it.

"Without Master Zi's medicinal powder, we really wouldn't be able to see it. After a rain, the shoe prints will completely disappear." Mo Chi's face was heavy.

It is not a good thing that Zi Yan's words are verified.

You know, in this way, Xiaohuwa's disappearance was not his own behavior, but was taken away by someone.

"This shoe print doesn't look like a man's, and it's so shallow, can this be the shoe print of an ordinary person?" Mo Chi said.

"Only a master of qinggong can achieve such a shallow shoe print. Looking at the size and shape of the shoe print, it is more likely that the shoe print belongs to a woman. Of course, it may also be a short man." Zi Yan thoughtfully road.

"Qinggong is so good, I'm afraid I won't be my opponent." Mo Chi frowned.

"Mr. Mo, let Ah Niu and the others go back. They won't be able to help you if you don't know martial arts, and you may become the other party's hostage." Zi Yan said lightly.

Mo Chi gritted his teeth and said decisively: "A Niu, take the others back and tell my father to organize his staff and seal off the entire village, preventing anyone from leaving or entering."

"Ah, then let's go back first."

A Niu nodded in agreement, and the others followed A Niu back without saying anything.

Luo Xingchen really admired Mo Chi, those people didn't ask any more questions, and just listened to Mo Chi and went back to the village.

Perhaps this is the authority of the village head.

After everyone left, only Mo Chi, Luo Xingchen and Ziyan were left.

Mo Chi looked at Luo Xingchen and said: "Master Luo, you and Master Zi should go back. I can go on my own."

"The words of Village Chief Mo are off the mark. We also want to do our part!"

"You don't need to worry about us, we are all martial arts practitioners, and we have the ability to protect ourselves, Village Chief Mo can rest assured." Luo Xingchen said.

"Okay, let's go together."

Since Luo Xingchen and Ziyan talked about this, Mo Chi had no choice but to agree.

The three continued to walk forward, Zi Yan said: "I'll go ahead, I can see the shoe prints on the ground."

Both Luo Xingchen and Mo Chi couldn't see the shoe prints on the ground, unless Zi Yan kept spilling green powder on the ground along the way.

But that is impossible.

Ziyan has a limited amount of this special fluorescent powder on hand, and it is used for marking, not for wasting in this kind of place.

Zi Yan walked in front, speeding up a bit.

Zi Yan only needs to glance at it to determine the direction of the shoe print.

There is a large gap between every two shoe prints, which shows that the owner of the shoe prints has extremely superb lightness skills, which can be called Treading Snow Without Traces.

There are not many people who can do this, most of them are old-school martial arts masters who have been famous for a long time.

"Is it Mo Yunlin in front?"

Zi Yan saw that after turning around a bend, there was an endless forest in front of him.

"That's right, that's Mo Yunlin." Mo Chi nodded.

"The shoe prints disappeared." Zi Yan frowned.

"Then what should we do?" Mo Chi was a little confused, the situation was so complicated that he was at a loss.

"Let me take a closer look." Zi Yan looked nearby.

"Based on the location where the shoe print disappeared, it is very likely that this person has entered the woods."

Ziyan flickered, grabbed the branches with both hands, and stood on the top of a tall pine tree with two or three strokes.

"That's right, it entered the woods and left from the tree." Zi Yan said loudly.

"Sister Ziyan, has that person already left the forest?" Luo Xingchen raised his head and asked.

"Definitely left."

Zi Yan jumped down from the tree, and there was already a piece of bark on her hand.

"Mr. Mo, look at the shoe prints on the bark." Zi Yan said.

Taking a closer look with the ink ruler, you can see that there is half a shoe print on the bark, which is the front half.

"The shoe prints shouldn't have appeared, but the person walked through the mud, and the soles of the shoes were sticky after all... Some of the wet mud was printed on the bark, forming this incomplete footprint."

Zi Yan pursed her lips, and then asked: "Mr. Mo, do you have any enemies? Otherwise, why would that person arrest Little Huba?"

"It's impossible to have enemies. Our Mo Village doesn't make enemies outside, and my family is even more kind to others. Even if there are some small conflicts, it won't be easy for people to arrest Little Huba."

Mo Chi thought hard, but couldn't think of any special enemy.

"What's behind Moyun Forest? Can you leave the Jade Belt Mountains? I'm worried that the man took the little tiger baby out of the mountains and left."

Purple flue.

"Yes, behind Moyun Forest, there is a trail leading to the outside." Mo Chi thought that his son might have been taken away, and his body was trembling.

How should I explain to my wife and father when I go back now?

"To the outside of Yudai Mountain? There is really a way." Ziyan said.

"It really exists, it's a secret path, and not many people know about it." Mo Chi said dejectedly.

"Take us to have a look, maybe we can find some clues." Zi Yan said.

"Okay, I'll take you there."

Mo Chi stepped into the woods first, he raised his hand to take off the bow hanging on his back, drew out an arrow, put it on the bow, and walked in step by step.

There is a vague road in the woods, like a snake, winding and extending inward.

It's just that both sides of the road are covered with thorns, and many climbed onto the road.

"This road, the villages near us, the hunters take this road. After a while, someone comes to clean it up. We take turns coming from different villages."

Mo Chi explained as he walked.

"Do they all know the secret passage on the other side?" Zi Yan asked.

"There are a few people who know about it, and those who know about it won't tell the outside world, mainly because they are worried that outsiders will sneak into the mountain through that road and hunt down all the prey..."

"We mountain people rely on prey for our livelihood. The fields we plant do not have high rice yields. We cannot support us by farming alone." Mo Chi explained the reason.

"It's human nature to rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to eat, and hunters naturally rely on hunting." Luo Xingchen nodded.

(End of this chapter)