About thirty minutes after Song Heping and his team had left, a group of exhausted Revolutionary Brigade soldiers stumbled into the area where they had just been resting.
"Wait!"
The leading scout raised his hand, signaling everyone to stop.
He went to where Song Heping and the others had just been staying, looked around, turned on his flashlight, and shone it on the ground.
Then, he saw a large area of the sandy ground had been wiped clean of something.
The scout squatted down, sweeping the flashlight back and forth across the ground.
He had followed the footprints all the way here and then noticed a patch of grass flattened ahead, realizing someone had stopped here.
However, in such a place, it could also be one of their own.
After a careful inspection, he concluded that those who had stopped here were not their own people but the two Americans and the traitor Rabbani.
Because the footprints were different.