Chapter 34
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Chapter 34: Stealth Reconnaissance
Luo Yong and Luo Jin, are just about the same age, Luo Yong is 26 while Luo Jin is 23.
They can almost be said to have grown up together, so their relationship is naturally quite close.
Coupled with Luo Jin’s adaptable personality, after they chatted aimlessly for a while, Luo Yong’s mood, which had been a bit gloomy, clearly improved significantly.
Just then, Luo Jin’s voice, halfway through speaking, suddenly paused.
“Wait!”
“What is it?”
Luo Yong subconsciously gripped his twin axes tighter and tensed his nerves.
Without saying more, Luo Jin quickly moved two steps closer to the front left with agile movements, then crouched down.
“Footprint.”
“Footprint?”
Luo Yong, who had also moved closer, looked at the snow and furrowed his brow.
“Why can’t I see it?”
“It snowed last night. This footprint is mostly covered, but it still left a very shallow outline. You can see it if you look closely.”
As he spoke, Luo Jin’s gaze scanned the surroundings, as if searching for clues.
“Could it be yours from yesterday?”
Although he said this, Luo Yong’s tone clearly became much more serious.
“Impossible.”
Luo Jin shook his head decisively.
“We didn’t come over here at all yesterday, and this footprint leads in that direction…”
As he spoke, Luo Jin, who had already determined the direction from the traces left in the snow, quickly pointed in one direction.
“Someone from another tribe probably came here after we left yesterday.”
Hearing this, Luo Yong’s breathing immediately quickened.
Discovering people from another tribe meant a potential battle was imminent.
An opportunity to make contributions was right before his eyes!
As if realizing something, Luo Jin quickly glanced sideways at Luo Yong, his tone carrying a hint of warning.
“Hey, don’t do anything stupid. Unauthorized actions without orders will result in heavy punishment. You haven’t even made any contributions yet and you already want to be punished?”
“Uh.”
Luo Yong’s expression clearly stiffened upon hearing this.
“Then what do you say we do?”
“You go back first and meet up with the other wolf warriors, and protect the people you brought. I’ll sneak over and take a look by myself.”
“Hey, Luo Jin, you just told me not to act without authorization, and now you’re going to act without authorization yourself?”
To this, Luo Jin righteously stated.
“What do you mean, unauthorized action? I’m the captain of the scouting team. The chief said that if we discover enemies or other tribes, I have the authority to decide whether to conduct reconnaissance!”
“Then take me with you.”
Luo Yong said, unwilling to give up.
“Stop messing around.”
“You don’t have any reconnaissance experience.”
“Besides, you’re so big, taking you would just increase my risk of exposure, wouldn’t it?”
As he spoke, Luo Jin pushed Luo Yong again.
“Hurry back and protect the others.”
“If anything unexpected happens, I’ll send a signal.”
“Also, once I confirm the location of the enemy tribe, if there’s a battle later, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to prove yourself.”
“So what are you anxious about?”
After much persuasion, he finally managed to convince Luo Yong to go back.
Luo Jin, relieved, quickly pulled out a large white animal hide from the bag on his back and draped it over himself.
Luo Ji had specifically had this animal hide made by the tribe and issued to their scouting team.
In their chief’s words, this was called protective coloring.
As long as they wore this white animal hide and lay on the snow, enemies wouldn’t be able to discover their presence if they didn’t look carefully.
Luo Jin, draped in the white animal hide, lowered his body and slowly tracked the footprints left in the snow.
Throughout this process, his mood remained calm as he quickly got into the zone.
His ears carefully catching every sound around him, and his gaze constantly shifting.
“People!”
Along with a series of faint sounds, Luo Jin’s heart tightened.
He quickly lay down on the ground, almost blending into the snow with the white animal hide covering him.
His shifting gaze cautiously observed his surroundings.
He saw two barbarians walking dozens of meters away.
The opponents did not discover Luo Jin, who had the advantage of higher ground.
After seeing the two barbarians walk away, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Maintaining his posture lying on the snow, he slowly crawled forward a distance using his arms…
“I see it.”
Looking into the distance, the opponent’s tribal camp was only about the size of a fist, but Luo Jin’s face was filled with seriousness.
“I really didn’t expect there to be a tribe in a place like this.”
“The one-way journey between this tribe and ours is only half a day.”
“If the opponent discovers our tribe and suddenly launches an attack…”
Thinking of this, Luo Jin’s facial muscles twitched uncontrollably.
“Damn it, it’s my mistake.”
“After discovering the white radishes yesterday, I was eager to go back and report to the chief.”
“And neglected to search the surrounding area.”
“I don’t know if they noticed the footprints we left yesterday.”
“If they did, then our existence might have already been exposed.”
“What should I do?”
“Should I retreat immediately now and report the situation here to the chief, or should I go deeper and scout the situation of this tribe?”
Luo Jin’s current position was quite far from the opponent’s tribe, he could basically only see the outline of a camp and couldn’t see anything else.
This delicate situation put him in a dilemma, his mind in a mess, unsure of what to do.
“Hoo—”
Slowly letting out a long breath, Luo Jin forced himself to calm down.
“Calm down, calm down!”
“The protective coloring the chief gave me is very useful, and this area is basically all snow.”
“With the cover of the protective coloring, it should be fine to get a little closer.”
“After confirming some basic information, I’ll immediately find an opportunity to retreat.”
“Yes, that’s what I’ll do.”
“There will definitely be no problem!”
Holding his breath, Luo Jin cautiously crawled forward.
Throughout this process, he did not choose a straight line, but rather intelligently took a circuitous route.
As he circled around, he slowly approached, ensuring that he always maintained the advantage of higher ground, and also avoiding his tracks in the snow being easily discovered by the barbarians of the opposing tribe.
The distance grew shorter and shorter, and the tribal camp, which was originally only the size of a fist, continued to grow larger in his sight.
When he approached a certain subtle distance.
The sense of danger that his body instinctively generated made him stop approaching further.
Luo Jin did not doubt his intuition.
His intuition had saved him and his scouting team many times during reconnaissance missions.
Lying motionless in the snow, he was suppressing his presence, even making his breathing unusually slow and even.
His eyes are constantly scanning the opposing tribal camp.
It was impossible to confirm the number of warriors and the population of the opposing tribe in a short time.
To do that, he would need at least a full day of stealthy observation.
But this kind of long-term close-range lurking was too dangerous.
Therefore, he soon thought of a method and that is counting the tents.
Tents wouldn’t run or hide.
As long as he counted the number of tents, he could roughly estimate how many people were in this tribe!
