The members of the exploration team quickly confirmed the location of the ore found, and then left the mark. Whether the ore veins can be found next depends on the skills of the two geologists from the geological exploration team.

Just as everyone was excited about the harvest, a gangster short spear soldier in charge of the escort task suddenly shook his ears, and then he suddenly shook out the gangster short spear in his hand in one direction!

All this happened too quickly, causing the members of the Exploration Team who were excited the moment before to have no idea what had just happened.

As they turned their heads as they listened to the movement, they saw a white figure quickly fleeing to the distance in the snow.

"What's it?!"

The white shadow in the snow pile was wearing a natural protective color. Everyone felt a flash of sight. Before they could see anything clearly, the figure ran away.

The dog-headed short spear soldier who threw out the short spear, after almost a few steps, bent down to pick up the short spear that he had stuck in the snow, and then frowned.

"Centurion Wang, what happened just now? What is that white thing?"

Then everyone who reacted trotted and chased after him. After he took a breath, the members of the investigation team asked Wang Yuan, the centurion who had discovered the situation before.

Faced with this question, Wang Yuan shook his head and replied: "It's not yet certain. The white guy is not easy to see clearly in the snow, but..."

While speaking, Wang Yuan's words turned slightly, and then his eyes fell on the remaining footprints.

"Judged from the shape and spacing of the footprints, the other party should be walking on two legs, and I'm afraid it's an orc living in this area."

After reaching this conclusion, everyone's nerves subconsciously became tense. After all, last year, they were chased by orcs in this bitter and cold land.

But Rowling and the others never expected that there were other orcs outside this bitter and cold land.

The unknown threat is terrifying, especially when the other party is so good at hiding traces.

After thinking for a while, Wang Yuan spoke again: "But there is no need to be nervous. Look at these footprints. Judging from their size, the owner of the footprints should be small and medium-sized orcs like wolves or dogs. As long as their number does not exceed 200, I am confident that I can keep you safe."

This is not Wang Yuan’s arrogant, but that’s the truth.

The fully armed kobold short spearmen, facing these orcs with backward equipment and similar sizes, is confident that they can fight against two or even three.

Then Wang Yuan said again: "It's better to do this. I'll take a group of soldiers to catch up and see if I can figure out the other party's background."

Rowling was obviously also aware of the trouble of unknown threats, and she found out the orcs here, and was already in the scope of the investigation team's work, so she nodded and agreed without thinking too much.

"That Centurion Wang, thank you for your hard work."

After hearing this, Wang Yuan nodded and chased him up with fifty dog-headed short spear soldiers.

After chasing for a while, Wang Yuan soon found that the footprints in front of him suddenly separated, one left and one right, actually extending in two different directions.

There is no doubt that the other party stayed to confuse them, and the white guy was really cunning.

Wang Yuan sniffed, but found that the scent of the other party was left in both directions.

Wang Yuan was a little hesitant. The troops it brought out this time were limited. If it was to look for them separately, the risk would be too high. After thinking for a while, it reached out and pointed to the right.

"Go here!"

Following the footprints on the right, they chased for about a hundred meters. Then, the footprints broke, and it seemed that the footprints on the right were just a cover.

Wang Yuan, who quickly returned, followed the footprints on the left with his soldiers.

However, after they walked away, they suddenly began to shake in the snow pile not far away where a kobold was standing, and then a white figure emerged from the snow.

Immediately afterwards, the white figure quickly fled towards the direction when Wang Yuan and the others came.

After chasing for a while, Wang Yuan found that the footprint on the left had also been broken. Only then did he realize that he had been fooled by that cunning guy!

Wang Yuan felt so angry, but it was impossible to continue looking for it, because the snow around him had been trampled on by them.

Although he was unwilling to accept it, Wang Yuan could only take the soldiers back to the camp.

After returning to the camp, listening to Wang Yuan’s narration, Rowling and others frowned. According to this statement, it was really difficult for the other party to deal with it.

But no matter what, their exploration work cannot be stopped.

Since you can't catch the other party, you can only strengthen your defense.

While the exploration team was conducting geological exploration and searching for mineral veins, the snails and northern soldiers all evacuated around to ensure that those cunning guys did not lurk under their noses silently.

Faced with such a guard, the members of the Exploration Team did not see those white guys again in the following period.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the other party appears, but they have no possibility of discovering it.

As the days passed day by day, after a week of exploration and confirmation, they finally figured out the approximate location of the ore veins.

At the same time, the ore I brought back to the camp for inspection has been confirmed to be copper ore.

Although there are already several copper veins in Daxia, Xia Qi naturally hopes that the more copper, the better.

The most important thing is that before setting off, in order to increase the enthusiasm of the exploration team, Xia Qi also specifically said that he would give him a reward for every time he found a mine vein.

So, after learning the good news, the members of the Exploration Team decided to celebrate.

The camp chefs rolled up their sleeves and walked into the tent where supplies were placed, intending to prepare a sumptuous dinner to celebrate the achievements of the past two months.

"Huh? Where is the salt? Where is the bag of salt placed?"

One of the chefs looked left and right, but after rummaging over and over, he couldn't find a bag of salt.

In the supplies tent, another older chef replied casually: "Don't the salt be placed in that corner?"

"Here? No."

The chef searched in that corner, but found nothing.

As he spoke, a cold wind blew, and the biting chill made him tremble.

"What a hell, this broken place is so cold. Wait..."

The chef suddenly realized that he was in the corner of the tent. Even if the wind blows in from the door, it will not be possible to blow here.

After the chef moved the debris in the corner, he realized that there was a hole in the tent!

He only felt his heart beating half a beat slower.

"Uncle Wang, come quickly, this tent has been opened with a hole!"

Hearing this, the chef Lao Wang hurriedly came up and looked at the big hole behind the tent. His face turned black.

"Call everyone over and count the supplies! Check the other tents that stockpiled grain!"

The movement here soon attracted the attention of other members of the Exploration Team.

It happened that Rowling returned to the camp at this time. Seeing this, she called a soldier and asked, "What's going on over there?"

"Report to Captain Rowling, the chefs found that several tents stocking up food had holes in the back and were counting supplies."

"A hole was opened?"

Rowling, who heard the news, raised her slender eyebrows immediately.

"After you have the result, report to me immediately."

Because of this, the entire exploration team's joy in discovering the ore veins was also reduced a lot.

Food and food resources are related to the survival of hundreds of people in the camp ahead. It can be said that it is the top priority. If something goes wrong, what's wrong?

The counting results came out soon. After Rowling finished reading it, her face suddenly became gloomy.

At the beginning of this month, the food and food supplies that the grain transport team had just sent were reduced by one fifth!

You know, this is the food for hundreds of people a month, and it is easy to imagine how much the loss of one-fifth is.

Rowling took a deep breath, then called the scout captain, Wang Yuan, Arora and others in the exploration team.

Although she is the captain of the Investigation Team, it is obviously not her specialty to investigate such things.

After a while of discussion, the thorough investigation of the food theft case was handed over to Wang Yuan and the captain of the scout Chuck.

As for Arora, she continued to be responsible for the escort of their exploration team.

Wang Yuan and Chuck, who took on this temporary job, walked around the back of the camp and planned to confirm the traces of the scene first.

However, in this bitter and cold place, snow is accumulated all year round, like footprints, smells and other traces. As long as a period of time, after the wind and snow, you will basically be unable to find anything.

"Centurion Wang, have you noticed anything on your nose?" Chuck, who found nothing, turned his head and looked at Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan shook his head and replied, "No. We don't know when the other party moved his hands. The wind here is too strong. Generally, the smell will be blown away for more than half an hour."

Although the dog-killer has a keen sense of smell, their noses are not omnipotent. The smell is blown away, which is also impossible.

After telling Rowling this result, Rowling's mood couldn't help but get worse.

"Then what should we do now? There is no clue, how should we check it?"

"Maybe we can try to wait for the thief to come to him."

Just listened to Chuck standing in the tent and spoke slowly.

"This batch of food was just delivered at the beginning of the month. The thief stole so much food in such a short time, which means that the other party urgently needs a large amount of food."

"If my speculation is correct, the thief should come again to steal food in the short term."

Faced with Chuck's speculation, Rowling frowned slightly.

"What if the thief didn't show up again?"

"That means that the thief is a person in the camp, and there is an inner thief in the camp!" Chuck said this with a firm look on his face.

After everyone was stunned, they also reacted one after another.

That's right, if the thief was a person in the camp, and now the entire camp has known about food theft, the other party will definitely stop in time to avoid being exposed.

But if not, they just pretended that nothing had happened, and the thief would probably come to steal food again.
Chapter completed!