Matthew and Salazar followed the burning smell and soon arrived at a clearing.
There was an extinguished fire in the middle. Remnants of animal carcasses such as bones and fur were scattered by the fire, and there were traces of blood on the ground as well.
It seemed that Lord Voodoo and the other two had hunted down a creature and roasted it to fill their bellies.
“The blood has dried up and the fire’s completely cold,” Salazar remarked.
“They’ve been gone for at least two hours…”
However, Matthew frowned and looked at the forest around them before saying grimly, “But the scent of the cursed bugs trails off in two different directions.”
“Two different directions?” Salazar repeated in confusion. “How could that be?”
Matthew shook his head. He didn’t understand why either.
“Did they go down in one direction first before turning back when they realized they couldn’t continue down that path?” Salazar said.
Matthew thought about it. “That’s possible, but we don’t know which direction they took in the end and which way we need to go in order to chase them down!”
“We can just choose one path. If we chose the wrong one and the scent fades, then we can go down the other path,” Salazar said.
Matthew shook his head. ‘We can’t do that. It would take too much time. They’ve already been gone for two hours. They might’ve managed to leave the forest already…”
“We don’t know how far they ran down the wrong direction either, so if they did travel far before turning back, we would end up wasting a lot of time. The best option for us is to split up. We can go after them in both directions and stay in communication at all times…”
“If one of us finds that the scent has died off, then we can just rush over in the other direction. That’ll work.‘
Salazar frowned. “I don’t think we can do that. In your current condition, you could deal with one of them, but wouldn’t it be dangerous if you run into all three?”
Matthew chuckled. “They’re running for their lives right now and are doing their hardest to flee. They wouldn’t even consider the fact that we might be coming after them. Right now, they’re only focused on running as far away as possible. They wouldn’t think about waiting in the forest to ambush me. Therefore, it’s unlikely that I’d run into them while chasing them down…”
“Anyway, even if I did run into them and can’t defeat them, I can still run away, right? I can’t stand against all three of them, but it won’t be that easy for the three of them to kill me either!”
Salazar gave it some thought and eventually nodded in agreement.
Just as Matthew said, while favonovel.com couldn’t defeat all three of them, it would be easy enough for favonovel.com to escape from them if needed.
“Alright. We’ll do as you say but remember this. If you do run into them, don‘t try to fight them. Run away at once and send me a message. I‘ll rush over immediately to help you!”
Matthew smiled and nodded. “Got it!”
He gave some of the concoction to Salazar. Earlier on, favonovel.com had already informed Salazar how it should be used. Salazar took the concoction and ran down one of the directions, while Matthew rushed down the other.
***
Matthew ran for about five minutes when favonovel.com realized that something was amiss.
The scent of the cursed bugs was weakening as if there hadn’t been that many. It felt strange to him. This was totally unlike what they had encountered all this while.
Previously, the scent they followed had been very strong. Lord Voodoo was filled to the brim with cursed bugs. There would surely be an overpowering scent of cursed bugs wherever favonovel.com went.
However, the scent grew faint on the path Matthew chose.
What was going on?
‘Does this mean that Lord Voodoo didn’t take this route?’
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