The next day, the three of them woke early and continued their journey, only this time they headed toward the camp the poachers had built.
Finding the poachers' camp without a map would have taken a long time, but with Li Xing guiding them, it became much easier. Although she had been injured and unconscious for a long time, that dangerous experience had etched her escape route clearly into her memory.
After half a day of travel, Chu Xin and the others reached the place Li Xing had described, but they found nothing there.
Chu Xin jumped out of the vehicle and stared blankly at the empty site. It did not look as though anyone had stayed there at all.
"No way. Li Xing, did you remember it wrong? I don't see any sign that anyone stayed here!"
Li Xing was surprised too, but she had always trusted her memory.
"This is the place. This is exactly where I saw them before!"
Ai Xing and Chen Huan got out of the vehicle as well, with Vespiquen following beside Chen Huan.
Ai Xing and Chen Huan inspected the surroundings, and Ai Xing soon found a discarded cigarette butt.
"Someone definitely stayed here, and they were foreigners. Look at this cigarette butt. This brand isn't produced domestically, so people really did stay here. They just left afterward."
Meanwhile, Vespiquen sent its Combee followers out to search the surrounding area.
"Bug-type Pokémon can collect pheromones from their surroundings, and my Vespiquen and Combee are no exception. Gathering those pheromones lets them make a more precise assessment."
After a while, Vespiquen returned to Chen Huan's side.
"It looks like people did stay here, for quite some time, and there were quite a few of them. But they left too long ago for Vespiquen to