Matthew couldn’t help but frown at Salazar’s words.
Salazar was more familiar with these people, so if even favonovel.com said that, then things were certainly not as simple as they seemed.
What on earth did Melvin have to sacrifice for the Damrons to agree to give me a week?
Noticing the worried look on Matthew’s face, Salazar said, “Matthew, I think you shouldn’t be splitting your focus right now. Regardless of what it took, that old con artist has managed to get you a week…”
“Make good use of this time to find Lord Voodoo and the others first and resolve the crisis you’re in at the moment. We can worry about the rest when we get back!”
Matthew mulled it over and nodded slowly. “That’s all that we can do for now!”
The two men rested for a short while before dashing through the forest again. Matthew created a special concoction just for the sake of locating Lord Voodoo.
The scent of cursed bugs was left behind wherever Lord Voodoo passed through.
The concoction that Matthew had created would react in response to the traces of cursed bugs. Thus, favonovel.com could use it to follow their scent. However, the usefulness of this concoction was limited. Once the scent of cursed bugs dissipated, favonovel.com would not be able to chase after Lord Voodoo anymore.
In other words, if Lord Voodoo and the others left the forest and got into a car, then favonovel.com had no way of going after them.
Starting from where Falconn’s body had been found, Matthew used this concoction to follow the trail of the cursed bugs’ scent.
At first, favonovel.com wanted to track the route and see where the trio exited the forest. Then, favonovel.com could use his influence in Eastcliff to procure the surveillance footage from all over and send out large swaths of men to go after the three.
However, after following the trail inside the forest for a while, favonovel.com realized that Lord Voodoo and the others didn’t leave the forest area at all. They kept running inside the forest instead.
Matthew found this rather strange. He thought that the three would leave the forest at once and ride a car back to Eastcliff.
He never thought that they would remain in the forest. It seemed that they were afraid that Matthew’s men would find them if they ran out. Matthew had to admit that Lord Voodoo and the other two were very careful.
It was a large forest. There were no signs of people around. Thus, no one would be able to discover the trio if they stuck to the forest.
That being said, they probably wouldn’t even have dreamt of the possibility that Matthew would create a concoction that could be used to track the cursed bugs.
Matthew and Salazar kept sprinting through the forest since afternoon. Now, the sky was dark and the entire forest was almost pitch black. Just then, they realized that the trio had started moving out of the forest.
“Looks like they planned on leaving the forest at night to find a vehicle and leave in secret!“ Salazar surmised grimly.
Matthew nodded. He found the logic reasonable enough. After all, there were less likely to be noticed if they left the forest at night.
Furthermore, they had been running in the forest for an entire day and were no longer within Eastcliff territory. Matthew had less command over this area. Thus, it was safer for them to exit the forest here.
“Let’s try to keep up first,” Matthew said. “We’ll see where exactly they exited the forest, and then we can send people to investigate.”
The two continued following the scent of the cursed bugs. After running for over an hour, they suddenly caught a whiff of a burnt smell in the air.
“What’s that smell?” Matthew piped up curiously.
Salazar wrinkled his nose. “It smells like the stench of burnt fur. Did they start a fire nearby?”
Matthew nodded. “They’d been running for the whole day, so they must’ve been hungry. It stands to reason that they stopped and ate something.”
“Come. Let’s take a look!”
“The smell’s still in the air which means they’re not far off.”
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