Pizza Crust 2 No.26

  "How did you know I was here?" I asked Teacher Zhang as I climbed up the rope nimbly.

  Teacher Zhang scolded with a dark face: "Survival training, no GPS on your body, it's actually in your backpack, do you have any awareness at all?!"

  I was catching rabbits, got excited and chased them far away, leaving my backpack at the campsite. When I fell down, there was almost nothing on me, basically a dead man's rhythm.

  "Like you, when it's time to return to the team and you don't show up, you must be stuck somewhere. Your sense of direction and judgment are not a problem." Zhang Yang said with anger while helping me pull the rope.

  Found it, and it's really fast.

  "But how did I end up falling here?"

  "By footprints." Zhang Yang replied.

  Footprints tracking is one of the subjects we must learn. In the eyes of ordinary people, footprints may just be footprints, and with a little more attention, they can tell if it's one person or several, whether they're walking from east to west or from west to east. But in fact, footprints are not that simple, they convey much more information than that.

  An experienced scout can judge a person's height, weight and physical characteristics from their footprints, not to mention things like bowlegs or knock-knees.

  But dozens of us came out, all wearing uniformly issued shoes with the same sole pattern. There were also several girls who were similar in height and weight to me. Zhang Yang actually clearly identified mine from among them, worthy of being a fighter in the criminal police!

  "Your shoe size is too small," Zhang Yang said.

  My shoe size is indeed a bit small, I didn't notice when sending shoes, and only regretted it here because the cramped shoes made me lose a lot of physical strength for no reason. It turns out that this is indeed possible to judge whether the shoe size is suitable through footprints, whether it's big feet wearing small shoes or small feet wearing large shoes, the footprints left behind have subtle differences in characteristics.

  Like me now, in the case of small shoe size, looking at the footprints, the stride will be longer, the forefoot pressure surface will move forward, and the heel pressure surface will move backward. There are also some specific characteristics. In short, if you look carefully, it is indeed possible to find my footprints.

  You're really sharp, even noticing that my shoes are too small, something even my parents can't do!

  I admire the teacher extremely.

  I indulged in wild thoughts, watching as the sky darkened. Unbelievable, now it's the Tang Dynasty, and there's no Teacher Zhang to save me, I can only rely on myself. I thought for a moment, took out the dagger given to me by Master of the Night, and started trying to dig a hole in the wall of the cave.

  One by one, find a foothold and then climb up like rock climbing.

  The hole opened relatively slowly. I made four holes, enduring the pain in my feet and climbed up about three meters, when suddenly a cluster of ghostly fire floated over my head.

  I was startled and let out a scream as I fell backward, landing on my backside with my legs in the air.

  The ghost fire seemed to be attracted by my scream and suddenly appeared in front of me.

  I let out a loud cry and covered my head, curling up in the withered grass at the bottom of the well.

  "What are you doing?" The ghost fire spoke up, right next to my ear, its voice faintly familiar.

  I suddenly calmed down and grasped this familiar feeling.

  "Tonight!" I exclaimed with delight.

  The ghost fire was originally a handheld lantern with a faint flame that cast a beautiful face like a demon.

  My feeling was wrong, it's not night, but autumn!

  Nie Qiuyuan held up the lantern, squatted down, and looked at me with a calm expression, as if it was a perfectly normal thing for me to run out alone and fall into this inexplicable big pit.

  "I...I..." I suddenly tensed up, unsure of what to say next, "I came..."

  It's actually letting him see me in such a disheveled state, crawling on the stone wall like this, just thinking about it is unbearable.

  And he jumped down too, how can we get out now!

  Autumn didn't say another word. I just felt a warmth in my hand, which was tightly held by a warm hand. It was him, gently pulling me up from the ground with one arm. Then, before I could even react, he had already scooped me up in his arms.

  A burning sensation rushed up my cheeks. His breath enveloped me, so fresh, so warm. My heart was beating very fast, extremely fast.

  A flower appeared before my eyes, and a buzzing sound rang in my ears. We had already reached the ground. I forgot that in this world, there was still an unlost "light skill" like this, he didn't need to throw down a rope to pull me up at all.

  Autumn gently put me on the ground, as a result, my foot unfortunately stepped on a stone, so I "ah" and sat down again.

  "Are you hurt?" He slightly furrowed his brow, hesitated for a moment, squatted down, pulled up the pant leg at my ankle, and shone the light over.

  My ankle is swollen and purple. I twisted it when I fell, but I managed to climb up the well wall again, which was pretty good.

  Next to us was a small stream, Nie Qiuyuan thought for a moment and then helped me to the side of the stream.

  "These past few days, have you been avoiding cold foods?" he asked with a furrowed brow.

  I thought for a moment and suddenly understood what he meant. Sprains need to be soaked in ice water as soon as possible to stop internal bleeding. But I'm a girl, and he's asking... about my period, right?!

  My face suddenly turned red to the base of my neck (I felt it myself). This time I wasn't pretending, I bit my lip for half a day before shaking my head and squeezing out two words: "No... objection..."

  You're really a detective, why think about things so seriously? It's a bit...embarrassing.

  He thrust my feet into the icy creek water of late autumn, and I shivered at once, with a stinging pain like needles in my ankles.

  After a while, my feet were numb with cold. Nie Qiuyuan took out a handkerchief from his bosom and handed it to me, telling me to wipe my feet clean and put on my shoes and socks.

  "Come on." He squatted down in front of me, turning his back to me.

  Is this going to follow me? Today is so lucky!

  For some reason, he didn't use his lightness skill, but instead carried me on his back, walking slowly along the mountain path as usual.

  "Brother," I leaned against his warm back, overflowing with joy that caught me, but still couldn't overcome the curiosity in my heart, "how did you know I was here?"

  "By footprints." Qiu replied.

  It made me feel like time and space were all mixed up for a moment.

  But Nie Qiuyuan found me with much greater difficulty than Zhang Laoshi. Because Zhang Laoshi knew I was just around the training grounds, but when I came out of my house, Nie Qiuyuan didn't even know which direction I went in.

  "There's a strange note on your desk with the word 'pizza' written on it, and many other food names are listed above it," Qiu said lightly. The two words "pizza" coming out of the ancient costume handsome guy's mouth brought an inexplicable sense of joy.

  "In the kitchen, there are flour and some purchased meat and vegetables, all listed on the note. Among the things on the note, I don't recognize one and can't find another. 'Mozzarella' I've never heard of, but 'mushroom' I do know. So I'm guessing 'mozzarella' is that block of buffalo milk, and you went to the mountain to pick mushrooms."

  "The nearby mountain, just this area may grow mushrooms. If it's for mushroom picking instead of escaping, walking along the easiest path would be fine. Here, your footprints were easily found, unexpectedly, you fell into that place."

  I felt a bit awkward and coughed twice to break the silence, asking: "Brother, can you recognize my footprints?"

  "Footprints can tell people a lot of things, such as a person's height, body shape, gait, and age. It can give you much more than you can imagine." Nie Qiuyuan said this, but then suddenly paused for a moment, seemingly hesitant. However, he continued: "You, when you're in a good mood, will jump up slightly after taking three steps."

  I was speechless for half a day, I was so surprised that I couldn't speak. Autumn, where did you learn all this from? These are quite modern detective methods, the study of footprints, and he's already mastered so much now?

  And what's more, his powers of observation are really sharp!

  "What's this strange food supposed to be?" Akira showed interest in something for the first time, probably because he really couldn't figure out what "pizza" was.

  I smiled happily and tightened my grip on his neck: "Brother will know when he gets back!"

  I leaned on his warm back, feeling great, and the pain in my feet was all forgotten. I remembered that after the American TV series "The Big Bang Theory" became popular, a sentence also became extremely popular:

  Intelligence is the new sexy, and it's absolutely not bad at all.

  Now, in the darkness, I was found and saved by Akito, who is slowly walking forward with me on his back. He's so sexy that it's overwhelming!