Chapter 11 Tracking (3)
After walking a distance, Ella and others arrived at the scene. There were three large holes of dozens of square meters on the ground, and there were many rocks blown out from the ground, as well as hundreds of corpses, who died tragically by the cave in various postures.
However, Bjorn is not here. Ella's pirate roughly pushed Bjorn's subordinates away, searched for a while, and then came back to report: "The King of Sweden, the hearts of many corpses have been dug out!"
"Aztlan's magic. Tessosomok is right. It is indeed Izkoyater at work." Ella said, "Confirm again, is the hearts of all the corpses dug up?"
The soldiers looked carefully again and replied: "No! There are still a small part of them that have not been dug up."
"That is to say, Izkoyatel encountered something that had to stop while digging his heart. I'm afraid it was Bjorn."
"But they are not here anymore." Amy was a little embarrassed. "I didn't notice the magic around me. Where have they been?"
"Izkoyatel likes to walk on the tunnel, and most likely slipped away from the tunnel."
"Chasing along the tunnel? Your Majesty, our troops cannot be deployed in this way! Isn't it a bit dangerous..."
"Yes, it's a bit dangerous."
Ella glanced around with a sharp look, and then said to the pirates:
"Look for it again, are there any other clues on the ground?"
Nothing was found. Apart from the traces of Bjorn's troops stationed and the corpses everywhere, there were only three pits on the ground, one was not many, and the other was not many.
Ella came to a pit. A chill came up, causing Ella to chill. She looked down and it was pitch black below, and she couldn't see the bottom at first sight.
Ella wiped the goose bumps on her skin.
"There is no other way for the time being... I'll send a few people down to take a look first."
Several pirates used ropes to slowly climb down the cave. Soon, their shouts rang out from the cave: "King of Sweden, there are many passages around here, what should we do?"
“How many channels are there?”
"Five!"
Ella couldn't help but frown—the situation was much more complicated than she thought.
"Bjorn's soldiers have never seen Izkoyatel from beginning to end, so these three caves should be connected. You are divided into five groups, numbered in one to five!" Ella shouted to the bottom, "Each group enters a passage, and indicate which group is the entrance. If there is a fork behind the passage, then group it again and engrave the number at the entrance as before. If you arrive at another cave, stop and call up the group of people. If the two groups meet during the walk, each retreats to the original intersection of each group, and report upwards after reaching the new cave! I will try to understand the terrain below according to your report!"
The soldiers searched in groups according to Ella's instructions. Soon, the report sounded from under the other two caves one after another:
"Report! The third and second group have arrived!"
"Report! The second group of the third group of the second group of the second group has arrived!"
"Report! The first group of the third group has arrived! When passing a fork in the middle, he collided with the people from the first group of the third group of the third group, and then retreated and walked the route of the third group of the third group of the sixth group and arrived here..."
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Amy was dizzy when she heard the complicated report. She threw a look at Ella for help. But Ella was also confused by the complicated report and stood by the cave and was at a loss.
"Your Majesty, I don't think this will work," said Amy. "This is just a cave. The terrain below is too complicated, and we will definitely get lost!"
"It would be great if Dust followed him, he should be able to find a clue." Graheide also complained, "That drunkard, King of Sweden, after you burn Bjorn's baggage, he thought the war was over. I couldn't even pull it up when I got drunk every day."
"Master has helped us a lot this time, so let him be relaxed for a while. We can do this level of investigation by ourselves. When searching encounters difficulties, we must first change our thinking."
Ella was pondering on her head.
"There is no sign of fighting around, and Izkoyatel is likely to jump into the hole and escape. There are three holes in the description of Bjorn's subordinates, and there are only three holes here, so Izkoyatel jumped directly from the hole he dug - if he escaped with a new hole, there will be four holes. Izkoyatel can dig underground freely during the attack, and there is no room for escape, so the route will be much simpler. If you look for the hole he jumped down, the problem will be simple."
"It makes sense, but which one is the hole he jumped down?"
"Search around again!" Ella shouted, "Look at, are there any corpses that have been dug halfway through the heart, but not all of them?"
Amy immediately understood Ella's intention: Izkoyatel met Bjorn without digging all his hearts. Then, the body he was digging at that time might not have time to deal with.
The pirates searched again as Ella's instructions, and soon found the only corpse that fitted Ella's description - his chest had been cut open, but his heart was still left and not completely taken out.
"It seems that this is where Izkoyater was when Bjorn came."
Ella came to the place where the corpse was and looked around: the three holes were a little distance from this place, but one of them was closest, while the other two were several times farther away. She walked to the nearest hole, pointed to the bottom and said, "It's here, mainly searching for this!"
After this inference, the workload had been reduced to one-third of its original work. However, the pirates who had just arrived through the first cave immediately shouted to the top: "King of Sweden, there are eight forks here! We walked three of them when we came, and there were four left, but the three roads when we came were not fully explored because of insufficient manpower!"
Amy couldn't help but stomp: "Is Izkoyater crazy? Is he trying to dig a maze underneath?"
"Since that's the case, we can only search one by one, right?" Grahaide felt helpless. "Although it took time, we had a lot of people and could always find out all the channels."
Ella shook her head: "No, we are going to support Bjorn now! You can't waste too much time in this place!"
"But thinking like this now seems to be a waste of time..."
"Continue to think about it, maybe you can think of a quick way. But if you search directly, it will definitely be too late. Sharpening the knife will not delay the chopping of wood!"
Ella squatted down, with her fingers writing something on the ground.
Chapter completed!