Chapter 34 Abandoned Camp
When it was dark, Chen Nuo and the others, who had not had a long rest all night, took all their important belongings and carried food and drinking water to quickly move.
For Chen Nuo, it is very normal to run away if he is in the limelight. So often, if there is any strategic change, Lei Xin asks Chen Nuo to lead the team. The reason is very simple, that is, Chen Nuo is very good at escaping. If it weren't for this, Chen Paopao's nickname wouldn't be so famous.
Even in the forest where the direction is difficult to identify, Chen Nuo, who led the team, still dragged everyone to quickly move away from the appearance of the goblin. In less than two hours, it was in places with very lush trees and it was difficult to walk in many places.
But even in such a place, Chen Nuo still took everyone to move quickly. He could always find the most suitable road. In fact, according to Chen Nuo's expectations, they could run at least twenty kilometers.
But he forgot to calculate the physical strength of Ma Liu and the others. Ma Liu and the others had not had a good rest at night, and they were not like Chen Nuo and the others who had ripples and Qigong to strengthen their bodies. With Chen Nuo and the others' strength, they could walk on flat ground even in bumpy places, but Ma Liu and the others could not do it.
Not to mention walking on the flat ground, as he ran, at least three of Ma Liu and the others sprained their ankles. They could only limp and follow behind. Fortunately, they stopped behind and dealt with them, otherwise their feet would have to be scrapped.
However, it is basically impossible for these people to stop and rest in a short period of time, and Chen Nuo cannot throw them away directly.
The reason is very simple, even if you are throwing the burden, you will not be throwing it now. The most important thing is that when there are injured people in the transferred team, those beasts that find that the team will attack first will not be the injured people. Don’t think that Chen Nuo is insidious. Compared to threatening brothers like Shen Rong and others, Chen Nuo would rather bear the infamy and say that the dead are useless.
"Brother Chen! Take a break! Running like this is not a solution. I just saw at least three leopards following us!" Shen Rong lowered his head and said in a low voice. He licked his lips and felt a slight thirst gradually spread. He knew that this was a sign of the gradual dehydration of the body.
"We also have to find a stream! Otherwise, we will not carry enough drinking water! Although there seems to be some snow in the forest that has not melted, I just checked that the snow is dirty and cannot be used." Cheng Kai also had dry lips because they did not carry too many kettles when they went out.
Although they had saved a lot of snow in the camp before, they could only carry a little bit when they were evacuated. Compared to food and water, they were actually the most fatal problem, especially when they were running for a long time, sweat would take away the salt and moisture that was not much in their body.
Of course, Chen Nuo and the others actually don’t carry much salt, but you can eat it for at least ten days with a little control. At the same time, drinking the animal’s blood can also replenish a certain amount of salt. Drinking blood can also absorb water, but Chen Nuo and the others will never drink blood directly before the situation is bad, because that will bring more variables.
So Cheng Kai's words are actually not good. They do need to look for streams. But Chen Nuo is most worried about this. Everyone knows that water sources are important, both for them, for animals, and even for monsters. Because if you don't care about it, you will encounter danger when you are not careful in the process of finding water sources. This is also because Chen Nuo tried to store the snow melted snow water in the camp and boil it.
But things are unpredictable. Chen Nuo originally thought that it would take only two days to widen the trap to cover 500 meters around the camp. In this way, even if they encountered the Goblin governor's troops, they could deal with each other. Unfortunately, they only won one centurion and did not dare to meet the troops behind them.
Therefore, whether to find a stream or water source immediately made Chen Nuo hesitate for a moment. He looked at the unknown sun in the sky covered by the air wall, emitting warm light. As for why it was unknown, the reason was very simple, that was, the sun seemed closer to the ground when the air wall was outside the air wall.
So Chen Nuo didn't know if the sun was the one they had seen in the past, but everyone could clearly feel the abnormal temperature. The snow had just melted two days ago, but the temperature felt that every place was different. You could still see dirty snow under the shade, but the sun was shining in the sun in the place without shade.
This is actually why Chen Nuo and the others are so thirsty. The extremely strange and hot sunlight makes everyone wearing heavy clothes sweat profusely.
But once you take off your clothes, you will feel frozen enough to catch a cold once you enter the shade of the tree. This strange alternation of cold and heat makes everyone uncomfortable. This was the same in the camp before. It was better during the day, but at night, the cold feeling seemed to be unable to dispel even if the bonfire was lit.
Ma Liu and the others didn't know this situation, because after dark they all hurried in the camp. But Chen Nuo and the others knew very well that they even had a cold breath several times. However, the powerful life fluctuations of Rippled Qigong and the special effects like sunlight allowed Chen Nuo and the others to easily resolve this cold breath.
This is something that Ma Liu and the others have not known these days. If they knew that their lives were actually hooked on the sickle by unknown existences several times, they would probably be even more scared.
However, no matter how weird the environment is, this is the case in front of Chen Nuo and the others. Either choose to find water sources or die of thirst due to lack of water. The most important thing is that you cannot turn around while finding water sources, otherwise it would be a very deadly thing to bump into the goblin you caught up with.
Although they have tried to eliminate the smell, and have started a period of the road and traveled separately from both sides, trying to interchange the roads to confuse each other. However, the goblins with coyotes as mounts can definitely drive the coyotes to track Chen Nuo and the others, after all, the coyotes have a very developed sense of smell.
Of course, Chen Nuo is more aware of the speed of the Goblins's troops transfer. They may have about a whole day or even two days to transfer. After all, reality is not a game. Unless the large tribe migrates, the troops in the entire Goblin tribe will not be concentrated in one place to squat.
This is why there is only one powerful Goblin troops that ran at night. It is obvious that this centurion came to attack with a small Goblin tribe. If it was a regular army of a large tribe, there would be at least four or five Goblins of the level of the tenth chief, that is, infantry wearing simple armor, as the guards of the centurion.
It would be easy to dispatch the troops of regular large tribes, especially the Goblin Supervisors. After all, it is difficult for the Goblin tribe, which is still in the tribe system to support a group of soldiers who are not engaged in production. What's more, the Supervisors need to mobilize at least five or six hundred troops. With the Goblin tribe's movement power, it would be a miracle to be able to dispatch within one day.
Although goblins are basically a race where all the people are soldiers, when small tribes become large tribes, a detailed division of labor will gradually appear. Old and weak naturally become lower-level collectors and food suppliers, while strong ones become upper-level combatants.
Of course, this is just Chen Nuo, or Lan Xing’s guess about the goblins’ racial action. After all, most people will be foolish to study what the situation is in the Goblin tribe. If there are such a stupid person, the ending must have been thrown into the pot, the literal kind of pot.
Chen Nuo didn't want to be thrown into the pot, so even if he guessed that it would take more than one day to transfer the Goblin, he wouldn't bet, let alone that it was not bet on his life alone, but on the life of dozens of people in his family.
With dozens of people on his shoulders, Chen Nuo naturally would not make the decision to search for streams and water sources so easily. However, after looking at the cracked lips of the people around him, he had to make up his mind to find the water sources.
"Search for the water source!" For orphans who are struggling to survive in troubled times, they are good at finding water to dig food. Because this is related to their wealth and life, even if they are anxious when they run away, Chen Nuo and others will carry some carbon blocks. The reason is very simple, that is, after finding the water source, they quickly filter it with carbon blocks.
Although it may not be as effective as activated carbon, it is better than none. When most water sources are contaminated, a piece of activated carbon that can filter water sources is sometimes more important than a piece of fried chicken.
After Chen Nuo finished speaking, everyone who was extremely thirsty began to search for traces of water sources around. Of course, they would not focus on the unfusion snow. Because these unfusion snow were basically very dirty, even if activated charcoal was filtered and drunk, they might get sick.
The easiest way to find water sources is to listen to the sound, because the surging streams will make a rustling sound, and then look for low-lying places on the hillside. As for the forest, the former is basically the one. Of course, if you find reeds, yellow flowers and other water-loving plants around you, you can basically find shallow water quickly as long as you dig down.
However, Chen Nuo and the others don’t have so much time to dig pits, so they choose to find streams. In addition to obtaining water sources, because streams are relatively long, unlike lakes, they are likely to gather biologically. The probability of replenishing drinking water around the stream is much lower than that around the lake.
If you walk along the stream at the same time, you may be lucky to encounter a gathering place for humans. As for why Chen Nuo thought he would encounter a gathering place for humans, the reason is very simple that the Goblins were not surprised when they attacked them, and some of the weapons they collected had traces of forging.
Even if the Goblins formed a large tribe, it would be difficult for them to forge weapons, not to mention that the armor was obviously modified from the original human-shaped armor. So Chen Nuo estimated that there should be a gathering place for humans within this air wall, of course this was just his guess.
Chapter completed!