The Dangers of Life

To disguise their escape route, Luo Jun first led several women moving northward along the reef beach, where there was sand.

The sand could leave footprints.

After arriving at the place where the footprints disappeared, Luo Jun then ordered everyone to walk back in reverse.

Finally, on the ground of the woods, unable to leave footprints, they hurried into the woods.

"Uncle, can we fool them to track northward this way?" Li Shi asked.

"That's the first step,"

Luo Jun said while shining his flashlight forward to explore the path, and holding a hiking stick in the other hand to avoid traps.

"What's the second step?" Li Shi still curiously asked.

"This can make it difficult for them to clearly determine how many people we have. We have too few people. After walking back and forth twice this way, it will be very difficult for them to ascertain our number, which serves to confuse the enemy. Even if they find our route again, they will not dare to act rashly because they are uncertain of our number, which will buy us some chance to escape."

Luo Jun gave a professional explanation that made Li Shi feel enlightened.

The tension in Lorna and Jenny's hearts also eased a lot.

Humans have a natural tendency to submit to authority. Luo Jun's battlefield experience is authority, which can bring a strong sense of security to ordinary people.

It's completely different being with someone who has been a soldier compared to ordinary people.

The resilience and righteousness of soldiers will make people consciously convinced in the face of crisis.

Walking in the forest, everyone's vision was very limited, only able to see the space in the range of light ahead, which felt very depressed, as if the surrounding pitch-black environment was hiding beasts or unknown dangers.

At this time, humans' fragile psychology would be infinitely amplified, keeping them highly vigilant.

The instinct to survive could also be aroused.

Although Luo Jun was an experienced mercenary with much battlefield experience, he still didn't like traveling at night.

Because there were too many uncontrollable factors in this kind of environment.

If the enemy was hiding in the dark, they would become live targets.

So he could only hope that the route they were taking would not coincide or get too close to the route of those mysterious people, otherwise it was highly likely that they would be ambushed on the spot.

At the beginning, the women still had a lot of questions.

Luo Jun also answered them one by one, but after walking for half an hour, Luo Jun asked them to remain silent so as not to be discovered by possible nearby enemies.

This area was also a cold current zone, and it was early winter, so the temperature in the forest was also very low, and there were no snakes to be seen every three to five steps as when walking at night in summer, which was very fortunate.

But there was misfortune accompanying the good fortune.

Because of the winter food shortage, those large wild animals tend to be more active at night!

If it was an ordinary island, Luo Jun would not have to worry, because ordinary islands would not have large animals, but this island had bears and pythons.

So it could prove that the ecological environment of this island was quite large.

With such a large ecological environment, it was possible that there would be ferocious felines, just like the corpses in the transport plane, it was possible that they were torn apart by some felines.

The reason those corpses could still be seen was probably because the felines had eaten some corpses, got full, and did not eat the remaining corpses.

After walking for two hours, Jenny's wound bled again, but she did not make a sound, afraid that Luo Jun would abandon her.

Luo Jun had no choice but to find a clearing for everyone to sit down and rest.

"How much further do we have to go?"

Lorna asked Luo Jun softly. Luo Jun took a deep breath and said, "At this speed, we still need to walk three or four hours at least."

When the women heard this, they couldn't help but fall silent.

Three or four hours of mountain trails and even wilderness seemed too agonizing to them.

"It will be almost dawn when we arrive. Stay calm, it will be very safe there when we arrive,"

Luo Jun comforted.

Because they couldn't see the starry sky while walking in the dark, Luo Jun had a good sense of direction, but it was still difficult to find the small stream directly.

But Luo Jun was still confident in himself.

While resting, Luo Jun analyzed again why the mysterious people had chased them to the shelter.

They were most likely there during the day to check if their traps had caught any prey, then followed Jenny's blood trail to the shelter.

They should have been unsure how many enemies there were, so they came to investigate at midnight.

What really worried Luo Jun was that they were so careful with an injured person, which proved one thing, that they had been maintaining a combat state for a long period of time.

The only possibility for them to maintain a combat state for a long period was that there were other enemies or terrible unknown dangers on the island besides them.

Otherwise, an organization stationed on an island without danger and warfare could not possibly maintain such high vigilance.

Luo Jun observed that the M16 automatic rifle he had was new, while the mysterious man killed by the sharp stakes was like someone who had lived on the deserted island for a long time.

So, Luo Jun inferred that this M16 should be the weapon of the soldiers on the transport plane.

Then the question was, since they had anti-aircraft guns to shoot down the transport plane, they shouldn't lack these two rifles, right?

Could it be that they were armed men from two different islands?

Thinking of this, Luo Jun took a deep breath.

After resting for twenty minutes, they hit the road again. After that, they rested for ten minutes every two hours. Jenny still managed to pull through this time, but a lot of blood had flowed from the wound dressing, and her thigh was also a little swollen.

All the way, the women's legs were bitten by insects and cut by grass.

Fortunately, they were wearing shoes, otherwise their feet would have been wrecked after walking for hours on the rugged path.

At dawn, Luo Jun had already seen bamboo.

They were overjoyed, and the previous fatigue seemed to disappear, their steps becoming brisk.

They followed Luo Jun downhill, walked for twenty minutes, and finally saw the big rock, with the sound of gurgling water coming from under the big rock. They couldn't wait to take a sip.

"That's the clearing I cleared over there. Everyone go over there to rest. I'll build a bamboo shed later for everyone to rest well,"

Luo Jun said to the three women.

His words gave the women hope, smiles of hope blooming on their faces.

Without resting, Luo Jun took advantage of the time to start chopping bamboo to build another underground shelter like the one on the beach, otherwise it would be very difficult to keep an elevated shelter warm.

Besides, the smokeless stove was a must. Otherwise, food could only be roasted at night later on. This way they couldn't eat fresh and tasty ingredients.

The women all saw hope again, only Luo Jun felt depressed in his heart.

Because he knew that the danger on the island was far more than what they had seen tonight, and even greater dangers lurked where they couldn't see.

Too much unknown made Luo Jun feel like there was a big stone pressing on his chest, and he couldn't breathe. Let's see what the situation is tomorrow before making new survival plans!