After finding the "trace" clues, the rest fell into place. Ordinary people might think they had concealed well, but in the eyes of tracking experts, flaws were everywhere.
Footprints stained with soil, randomly broken branches, moss rubbed off tree trunks... as conspicuous as signposts.
The six-member adventure team, along with Aiven and Olivia who joined in the fun, turned onto another branch of the forest river network with more abundant water.
Splish splash...
Amid the murmuring stream, the number and size of various frogs increased.
At the same time, traces of human activity also increased as they progressed, evidently more than one person had entered and left this dense forest via the river. The most likely explanation in this context was that the owners of these traces had taken the missing girls away.
"The Kunsai City Guard is useless; the missing girls were obviously kidnapped and they couldn't find out. When we bring them back, we must seriously embarrass them."
