It was hard to imagine what had happened that would cause a veteran who had lived in the area for many years and was very familiar with the forest to follow in melgen’s footsteps and disappear quietly in the forest.
If it was a wild beast, this veteran had brought a Lafu spear into the forest. Even if he encountered a black bear or a cougar, he could still fight it. Unless he encountered a brown bear with its Cubs … That would be really dangerous. However, as a veteran and an experienced Hunter, he would not make such a mistake.
To be honest, the weirder things were, the more confident Zhang Zian was. There was an 80% chance that there was something unspeakable hidden in this forest. Melgen and Mike might have seen something that they should not have seen, so they met with an accident. The only thing that could make two living people disappear without a sound was a human.
The elves were also listening attentively to Mrs. Miller’s story, attracted by the mystery of the disappearance.
Zhang Zian quietly extended a leg to block snowy Lionet, because it always moved to the fireplace to enjoy the warmth and dryness of the fireplace. However, if it continued to move like this, it would become a charcoal Lion.
Mrs. Miller looked at him. He was still so young. If he disappeared like melgen and Mike, his parents would be so sad.
“Child, thank you for your kind intentions, but this forest is really strange. You’d better consider your decision carefully. Even if you decide to quit now, I can understand,” she persuaded, enduring the pain.
“Don’t worry, I’m someone who walked out of the devil’s Sea in the Sahara Desert alive!”He said.
The atmosphere was too depressing. Zhang Zian laughed and showed her the photos and videos he had taken during the Sahara trip, including the selfie he had taken when he almost died of thirst in the desert during the return trip. At that time, he had really realized that he was going to die, so he made an excuse to record a farewell video when he went to the bathroom. It was the first time that even the elves had seen this video.
Mrs. Miller didn’t understand Chinese, but looking at his dry lips due to the lack of water and his face peeling from the sun, as well as the desire for life in his eyes, she could fully understand his despair at that time.
She didn’t expect this young man to have such rich adventure experience. No wonder she felt that he had a different temperament from ordinary people. This was the calmness that could only be possessed by those who had experienced the test of life and death.
“No matter how dangerous this forest is, it can’t be more terrifying than the devil’s Sea.” “And I’m not going into the forest alone,” Zhang Zian encouraged her.
“Ah? You have a companion?” Mrs. Miller was stunned, thinking that there would be friends coming to meet him. That was good, the more people the better.
Zhang Zian whistled, and famous’s barking came from outside the house in response.
He opened the door. Famous was wet from the mist, and its hair was almost all stuck to its skin.
Mrs. Miller was startled and stood up, but when she saw that it was a German Shepherd and that it was meekly lying by the fireplace after entering the house, she was relieved.
When Zhang Zian went to the visitor center, he didn’t bring famous with him. It was already dark, so Mrs. Miller didn’t notice its existence. Later, Zhang Zian drove and followed her here. Before getting out of the car, he told famous to stay outside and see if there was anything unusual around. This place was too remote, so he had to be wary of others. He couldn’t blindly trust Mrs. Miller just because she was pitiful. What if she was a liar who made up stories to gain the sympathy of fools, and there was an accomplice of the perverted murderer lying in ambush nearby?
Famous patrolled around the wooden house and didn’t smell any fresh scent left by other people nearby. It happened to hear Zhang Zian’s Secret signal, so it responded.
“What a great dog! What’s its name?” Mrs. Miller had also raised a dog before, but she had stopped after she died of old age. She took out a comb and tried to comb famous’s hair, which was wet and knotted by the mist. Seeing that it didn’t resist at all, she liked it more and more.
“Famous.” Zhang Zian said,”it will enter the forest with me to help you find your daughter. So, do you have anything that has the smell of melgen? It’s best if it’s something like clothes. ”
“There are!” Mrs. Miller immediately nodded and found a wool hat from a pile of junk.”They found this in the forest. I’m sure it’s my daughter ‘s, but they said this kind of hat is too common and can’t be used as evidence.”
Zhang Zian took the wool cap and put it in front of famous’s nose for it to smell.
“It’s a hat for young women. ” Famous said. To Mrs. Miller, it only barked a few times.
“During the search and rescue, the forest patrolmen also brought police dogs, and more than one, but they said that it was a heavy rain, and the smell was washed away …” Mrs. Miller said worriedly.
Zhang Zian smiled with confidence.”The rain will indeed wash away your daughter’s smell, but I’m not trying to track her smell. With all due respect, your daughter has been missing for more than two weeks. Even without the rain, I’m afraid there’s not much of her smell left.”
“Then, you …”
Due to the lack of sleep, Mrs. Miller’s mind was in a mess, so she didn’t react for a moment. It was not until her eyes touched the furnishings in the cabin that she suddenly understood.
“Argh! You mean you want to track Mike’s smell?”
“That’s right. ”
Zhang Zian nodded.”There hasn’t been any heavy rain in the past two or three days, right?”
“No, I didn ‘t! I don’t have any!”
Mrs. Miller felt as if she was grasping at a life-saving straw. Her heart suddenly opened up, and she nodded excitedly.
Melgen had been missing for too long, and her scent had long dissipated. Moreover, they were not clear about the exact location where she had entered the forest. It was too difficult to find her scent in the vast forest. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack. However, Mike’s scent should still be around. His starting point must have been this little house in the forest. If he followed Mike’s scent, even if he could not find melgen, he could at least find Mike.
As a veteran who had retired from the battlefield, Mike’s smell characteristics were very obvious, much more obvious than that of a young girl. The strong smell of tobacco, alcohol, sweat from not taking a bath for a long time, and especially the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke and gun oil were mixed together. Zhang Zian had smelled it when he walked into the room. He believed that these smells would exist for a long time in the windless forest.
This forest was too dense, and the dense forest would become a natural barrier for the wind, so there was almost no wind in the forest. The fog would not dissipate for a long time, and so would the smell.
The almost extinguished fire of hope in Mrs. Miller’s eyes seemed to have been injected with new fuel, and it shone again.
Mike’s disappearance might be related to melgen’s disappearance. If they could find Mike, they might be able to find more clues about their daughter’s disappearance.
The dark clouds that had covered the sky for days finally revealed a ray of light.
