After walking forward for a certain distance, Ella and others arrived at the scene of the incident. There were three large holes of tens of square meters on the ground, surrounded by numerous rocks exploded from the ground and hundreds of corpses.
, died tragically beside the cave in various postures.
However, Bjorn was not here. Ella's pirates roughly pushed Bjorn's men away, went up to search for a while, and then came back to report: "King of Sweden, there are many corpses with their hearts dug out!"
"Aztlan's magic. Tesozomoc is right, it is indeed Izcoatl who is causing the trouble." Ella said, "Check again, have the hearts of all the corpses been dug out?"
The soldiers looked at it carefully and then replied: "No! There is still a small half that has not been dug."
"In other words, Izcoatl encountered a situation when he was digging out the heart and had to stop. I'm afraid it was Bjorn."
"But neither of them are here anymore." Amy was a little embarrassed, "I didn't notice there was any magic power nearby. Where did they go?"
"Izcoatl likes to take tunnels, so there is a high probability that he slipped away through the tunnels."
"Chase along the tunnel? Your Majesty, this will prevent us from deploying our troops! Isn't it a bit dangerous..."
"Yeah, it's a bit dangerous."
Ella glanced around with sharp eyes, and then said to the pirates:
"Look again. Are there any other clues on the ground?"
Nothing was found. Apart from traces of Bjorn's troops stationed there and corpses scattered everywhere, there were only three pits on the ground, one not too much and one not too little.
Ella came to a pothole. A chill came up, making Ella shiver. She looked down, and it was so dark below that she couldn't see the bottom at a glance.
Ella wiped the goosebumps on her skin.
"There is nothing we can do for the time being... let's send a few people down to take a look."
Several pirates used ropes to slowly climb down from the cave. Soon, their shouts rang out in the cave: "King of Sweden, there are many passages around here, what should I do?"
"How many passages are there?"
"Five!"
Ella couldn't help but frown - the situation was much more complicated than she thought.
"Bjorn's soldiers have never seen Izcoatl from beginning to end, so these three caves should be connected. You are divided into five groups, numbered from one to five!" Ella shouted downwards,
"Each group enters a passage and marks which group it is at the entrance. If there is a branch road after the passage, group them again and engrave the number on the entrance of the passage as before. If you reach another cave, stop immediately and shout upwards
Which group are you in? If the two groups meet during the walk, they will retreat to the original intersection of each group, and report to the top after arriving at the new cave! I will try to understand the terrain below based on your report.
clear!"
The soldiers divided into groups to search according to Ella's instructions. Soon, reports came from the other two caves:
"Report! The third and second teams have arrived!"
"Report! The second group, the third group, and the second group have arrived!"
"Report! The first group of the third group has arrived! When passing through a fork in the road, they collided head-on with the people of the first group, the third group, the first group, and then retreated and walked back to the people of the third group, the third group, and the sixth group.
The route reaches here..."
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Amy was dizzy after hearing the complicated report, and she looked at Ella for help. But Ella was also confused by the complicated report, and stood beside the cave at a loss.
"Your Majesty, I don't think this will work." Amy said, "This is just a cave. The terrain below is too complicated. We will definitely get lost!"
"It would be great if Dast followed, he should be able to find out some clues." Glahid complained at the side, "That drunkard, King of Sweden, he thought the war was over after you burned Bjorn's baggage. Every day
I can't even pull myself up when I'm drunk."
"Master, he has helped us a lot this time. Let's let him relax for a while. We can do this level of investigation ourselves. When the search encounters difficulties, the first thing to do is to change our thinking."
Ella tilted her head and thought.
"There were no signs of fighting around, so Izkoatl most likely jumped into the hole and escaped. There were three holes in the description of Bjorn's men, and there are only three holes here, so Izkoatl escaped directly
Jumped down from the dug hole - if it was a newly dug hole to escape, there would be four entrances. Izcoatl could dig underground as much as he wanted during the attack, but there was no room for escape, so the route was
It will be much simpler. If you look for it through the hole where he jumped, the problem will be simple."
"It makes sense, but which hole is he jumping into?"
"Search the surroundings again!" Ella shouted, "Take a look, are there any corpses with half of the heart removed but not all taken out?"
Amy immediately understood Ella's intention: Izcoatl met Bjorn before he had dug out all the hearts, so the body he was digging up at the time might not have time to deal with it.
The pirates searched again according to Ella's instructions, and soon found the only corpse that fit Ella's description - his chest had been cut open, but the heart was still there and had not been completely taken out.
"It seems that this is where Izkoatl was when Bjorn came."
Ella came to the place where the body was and looked around: the three holes were all a little distance from this place, but one of them was the closest, while the other two were several times farther away. She walked to the nearest one
Next to the hole, he pointed down and said: "This is it, the main search is here!"
After this deduction, the workload has been reduced to one-third of the original amount. However, the pirates who had just arrived at the cave through the first cave immediately shouted upward: "King of Sweden, there are eight forked roads here!
We took three when we came here, and there are four left, but the three roads we came on were not fully explored due to lack of manpower!"
Amy couldn't help but stamp her foot: "Is Izcoatl crazy? Does he want to dig a maze underneath?"
"In this case, we can only search the passages one by one, right?" Glahid felt helpless. "Although it takes time, with many people, we can always find out all the passages."
Ella shook her head: "No, we have to support Bjorn now! We can't waste too much time here!"
"But thinking like this now seems like a waste of time..."
"Keep thinking, and you may be able to come up with a quick method. But if you search directly, you will definitely be too late. Sharpening the knife will not miss the chance to chop wood!"
Ella squatted down and was writing something on the ground with her fingers.
"There must be something we haven't considered. If we think about it a little more, we might be able to find a shortcut."