Chapter 370: Strange Tracks (2/2)
”What are you doing?” After seeing Bai Luochu's vulgar actions, Pei Rumo was shocked. He felt that her actions were unacceptable. Let alone playing with soil, a well-bred lady in the capital city would even disdain their feet getting wet when it rained. Pei Rumo never expected Bai Luochu to disregard her image just to gain some clues.
Pei Rumo didn't know if it was a good thing that Bai Luochu didn't give any regards to her own image in front of him. She might even be treating it as though he wasn’t there.
As for Bai Luochu, she didn’t care about Pei Rumo’s impression of her. After all, the only thing that mattered was clues about the Desolate Region.
Bai Luochu wasn't able to find anything and she quickly moved over to another location. When her clothes changed from a pristine white color to that of brown dirt, she finally made some progress.
”Your First Highness, come over here.” Bai Luochu reached out her hand and beckoned for Pei Rumo to come over. She then pointed at what she discovered, ”Look, there are hoofprints and footprints.”
Pei Rumo squatted down to take a close look and discovered there were indeed signs of hoofprints and footprints. He then commented, ”That doesn't prove anything...”
Bai Luochu shook her head and said, ”Why don't Your First Highness take a look at the path that we came from and see if there are tracks left behind?”
Pei Rumo did as Bai Luochu suggested and turned back to where they came from. He wasn’t able to find any clues even after some time. Without a choice, Pei Rumo imitated Bai Luochu and used his hand to fiddle with the surface of the soil. When he was still unable to find any tracks, he ran back and asked Bai Luochu, ”What is going on? There are no tracks from the direction we came from! This isn’t logical!”
”There is nothing illogical about it.” Bai Luochu stood up and explained, ”This is the Desolate Region and the soil here is very loose. The path that we took earlier definitely wouldn't leave behind any tracks. Even if we dug a pit in the ground right now, it would be quickly covered by the sand and dirt. There is something different about this spot.”
Bai Luochu muttered for a moment before continuing her explanation, ”Someone passed through the Desolate Region in the rain. After the rain stopped, the temperature of the Desolate Region rose and the moisture in the ground evaporated. The tracks were imprinted into the ground and after looking at the messy tracks, we can conclude that a large group of people entered the Desolate Region in the past.”
”It seems like those people are more knowledgeable about the Desolate Region than us.” Pei Rumo couldn't help but sigh with sorrow.
They didn’t know that their actions were noticed by Lu Wenshu.