Chapter 103: (Self Edited) Contact
During the night, I went to this road I had gone earlier. Then, I made a simple trap, took a roundabout route and returned to Carol in a circular motion.
Of course, if I returned straight to Carol, the pursuit would end up at Carol. So, I walked to a suitable distance, I carefully stepped on my footprint while illuminating my feet with a torch, I turned back to walk backwards.
A technique used by wild animals to hide the position of their nest from predators, called backtracking.
After a distance of less than 100 meters, I was really tired and went off to the side of the road. In other words, I didn’t return in the form of the O alphabet, but returned in the form of P.
I had already passed the deviated point. To put it simply, there were only a little less than 100 meters left. Their footprints told me that they didn’t notice my backtracking, and they went further. At the very end, I could see a human back in the gap between the trees. The enemy had already arrived at the end point.
My footprints were cut off, so it seemed that they were searching nearby. I quickly hid myself on the spot and observed them.
‘Now… The number of enemies has decreased by one to eleven. I am hiding behind a tree and can’t see everyone, so it looks like they were a group of ten people in total. It seems that they aren’t acting separately. Right now, it seems that they have put all non-armed luggage on the last stop, and are moving to search.’
One of them was heavily armed with plate armor instead of having his subordinates carry his luggage. It looked good because he stood up.