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Jiang Sen frowned, and seeing Wang Haiyang take the rope from the group of people on his own, he said, "I'll go down with you!"

"Be careful!" Hu Zhiqing cautioned.

Jiang Sen nodded.

The educated youth tied one end of the rope to the tree, gave Wang Haiyang and Jiang Sen two bundles to carry on their backs, and watched as they grabbed the rope and carefully descended.

When the rope is almost at the end, tie a knot in the rope around your body and attach it to the rope, then continue downwards.

When the second rope was almost finished, they reached the bottom of the canyon.

Jiang Sen loosened the rope and shouted upwards, "That's the bottom!"

"Be careful!" Hu Zhiqing replied from above.

In the dead of night, they were incredibly brave, never considering the possibility of encountering wolves or tigers; their only thought was to find the person.

Wang Haiyang took the flashlight from his waist and shone it around, observing the surroundings.

Jiang Sen said, "Be careful, there are many animals in this kind of place, including wild boars."

Wang Haiyang nodded, softened his movements, and looked at the marks on the ground. A series of footprints extended to the left.

"She's not injured, and she can walk!"

Jiang Sen nodded. "Let's go!"

The two followed the footprints to the left again.

The canyon is teeming with wild herbs and medicinal plants, and the trees on both sides are ancient and robust.

The wild grass in the middle has been trampled and is lying down, making it easy to spot.

Jiang Sen frowned slightly. "Can I borrow your flashlight?"

Jiang Sen took the flashlight from Wang Haiyang and turned to shine it on the spot where they had come down.

Wang Haiyang followed over, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Sen pointed to the messy snow on the ground and said, "Look, this is where we came down, and this is where she must have fallen down."

"Is there anything wrong?"

What would it look like if someone rolled down from above?

Wang Haiyang stroked his chin and thought for a while, then looked up and saw that it was twenty or thirty meters high.

He then made a rolling motion with his hand and took two steps behind him.

“Oh, I see!” he said. “If she rolled down, she should have continued rolling this way at the speed she was going, but there are just messy footprints here, which means she didn’t roll down, but slid down on her own.”

Jiang Sen nodded and looked up.

The place where they came down was already hidden by trees and bushes, and only a short distance could be seen.

However, the downward slope is very obvious; there are three lines.

The three marks are very similar.

If Lu Xiu had rolled down the mountain before, the tracks he left wouldn't be so similar to theirs; there would definitely have been broken branches and blades of grass.

No.

"Why did she come down here by herself? Is she that bold?" Wang Haiyang was very puzzled.

Jiang Sen didn't understand either.

Lu Xiu gave him a very strange feeling on the way from Kyoto.

First, she kept pretending to be bullied, then she acted as delicate and innocent as a white lotus flower, and then she wasted food by using poisonous herbs...

Now, they are using Jiang Sen's name again to lie to Ho Chi Thanh and follow him into the mountains.

why?

These fragmented clues, like a tangled mess, left Jiang Sen feeling quite agitated.

"Never mind, let's find them first."

The two continued following the trail left by Lu Xiu, heading deeper into the canyon.

Rabbits and pheasants, startled, occasionally appeared nearby.

The calls of unknown birds and animals created a unique sense of solitude in the mountains, instantly sending chills down one's spine.

After walking for a while, we heard the sound of water ahead; it was a stream flowing down from the mountain.

When the two arrived here, they could only see a few footprints left in the snow, which disappeared here.

"We're doomed!" Wang Haiyang exclaimed. "There are no footprints, how are we supposed to find them?"

Jiang Sen scratched his head and once again picked up the flashlight and shone it around.

This is a crevice between two mountains, with a stream flowing down the mountainside and disappearing around a bend.

The trees on both sides were very dense, and there was almost no snow below. Only further up could you see the remaining snow on the trees.

Suddenly, Jiang Sen returned to the spot where he had been and shone his light into the woods. Wang Haiyang followed suit.

"There are houses there!" Wang Haiyang shouted, pointing to a spot not even halfway up the mountain.

"Keep your voice down!" Jiang Sen said. "It's normal to have hunter's huts here. Don't attract any more wolves."

Wang Haiyang immediately shut up; the shadow left by the wolf pack was still lingering.

They walked in that direction and soon saw footprints again under the thin snow.

"They're really heading this way!" Wang Haiyang said in a weak voice.

Jiang Sen waved his hand, and the two entered the woods.

After climbing uphill for a while, we came across a small wooden house.

It was indeed a hut where hunters rested.

The lights were on inside, and when the door opened, a person came out.

They quickly turned off their flashlights and crouched down.

The person who came out was backlit, so his face couldn't be seen, but judging from his figure, he was a man.

He turned around, said something, and then walked in the other direction.

After a while, the lights in the cabin went out, but no one came out.

“Let’s go, let’s go take a look!” Jiang Sen said, a glint of shrewdness in his eyes.

The man who just came out wasn't speaking Chinese, but Japanese.

devil?

How could there be Japanese soldiers here?

Is this Lu Xiu a human or a ghost?

The two quietly approached the hut and peered inside through the crack in the window.

It turned out that after the lantern inside was turned off, it wasn't completely dark; a candle was still lit.

A woman was sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) getting dressed; it was Lu Xiu.

Wang Haiyang blushed and felt very uncomfortable.

At the prime of his life, seeing such a scene suddenly made him squat down.

Jiang Sen, however, felt nothing. He had seen too much of this before, and the moment he saw Lu Xiu, his previous doubts suddenly became clear.

He squatted down as well.

Wang Haiyang gestured and asked, "What should we do?"

Jiang Sen lowered his eyes and thought for a moment before saying, "Don't disturb her yet."

"What to do?"

Jiang Sen beckoned to him and retreated downwards.

Once they were outside, by the stream, the two began to talk.

“She came here on purpose to meet someone,” Wang Haiyang said. “The man spoke Japanese at the end, saying he would come back in a few days to hear from her.”

"You understand?" Jiang Sen was surprised.

“I can also speak English and Russian!” Wang Haiyang said with a little pride, but then sighed helplessly. “My family forced me to learn them when I was little. Even if I didn’t learn them well, I could still know a little bit of the simple ones.”

You're being too modest!

Jiang Sen felt that Wang Haiyang's family was probably more than just people in the military.

At this time, very few families have the opportunity to let their children learn multiple languages.

There's no time to think about it now; we need to figure out how to bring Lu Xiu back first.

"Lu Xiu! Lu Zhiqing, where are you?" Jiang Sen suddenly shouted, startling Wang Haiyang.

"what are you doing?"

"Looking for someone!" Jiang Sen grinned and continued shouting, "Lu Zhiqing! Where are you?"

Soon, Wang Haiyang understood Jiang Sen's intention. Only in this way could Lu Xiu not suspect that they had seen what had just happened.

So he joined in, calling out, "Lu Zhiqing! Lu Zhiqing! Where are you?"

"Lu Zhiqing! Lu Xiu! Where are you? Hey, there are footprints here, let's go take a look!"

"Great! She must be here! Quick!"

Soon, the two returned to the hunter's cabin.

"Was she rescued by a hunter?" Wang Haiyang deliberately said loudly, "Lu Zhiqing, are you inside?"

Jiang Sen gave him a thumbs up, "Lu Zhiqing! Lu Zhiqing?"

The two pushed open the door and shone their flashlights inside, where they saw Lu Xiu huddled in a corner of the room, her face covered in tears.

Upon seeing who it was, she burst into tears and ran over to Jiang Sen, throwing herself into his arms. "Jiang Sen, why did you take so long to come!"