After eating Fatty's cooking, the Dodge Team began to look for the advance team.

The advance team had a total of five people. Surely they couldn't have all met with misfortune? They should be able to contact at least one person.

During this time, Derek continued to try to contact the advance team using the communication device, but no one on the advance team responded.

Previously, the advance team had discussed with Derek that if they encountered danger, they must immediately contact the other party.

The current situation could only mean that the advance team had encountered a very tricky problem.

The worst possibility was that all the members of the advance team were already dead.

Derek and Zoey found Ayi and asked her to help them search together. Ayi then asked the tribal chief for instructions. Having received so many benefits from Fatty and Zoey, the tribal chief naturally gave his full support.

Ayi then led four or five tribal brothers, along with Dodge, Derek, Fatty, and two mercenaries, to search deep into the rainforest for the whereabouts of the advance team.

Zoey was left in the tribal camp to take care of Jennifer.

Before Fatty left, Zoey taught him a few gestures to communicate with Ayi.

The tribe had sentries in the rainforest. When Dodge and Fatty were captured and disarmed by the tribe, the person who hadn't come down from the tree was a tribal sentry stationed in the rainforest. Their task was twofold: to watch for intruders and to provide early warning of invading beasts.

When Ayi led everyone into the depths of the dense forest, she imitated two bird calls. Immediately afterward, the same bird call came from a nearby tree, as if responding to Ayi's call. Soon, a person climbed down from the tree.

Ayi used gestures to communicate with the person who came down from the tree. The person from the tree seemed to have discovered something. He pointed in a direction, wanting to take Ayi to see it.

Led by this person, everyone pushed aside the dense, low-lying plants and thick, large leaves, and moved forward slowly.

Fatty noticed that although the people in the tribe were naked, their skin was rough and thick, and there were thick calluses on their hands and soles of their feet. They moved freely and silently among the sharp thorns of the plant stems and the serrated edges of the layered leaves.

The tropical rainforest had tempered the tribe's physical bodies.

When they arrived in front of a patch of low, broad-leaved plants, the person leading the way suddenly stopped and immediately made a gesture to stop moving forward.

Ayi quickly told the people behind to stop. They lowered their bodies, using the plants to shield themselves.

Fatty squatted behind Ayi, looking in the direction of Ayi's gaze.

Through the gaps in the leaves, Fatty saw a primitive man in the distance, dressed very similarly to Ayi. He was using a stone ax to carve symbols on a tree.

Derek widened his eyes, pointed at the symbols the man was drawing, and whispered to Fatty, "These are the symbols I agreed upon with the advance team. How does this person know about them?"

Fatty gestured to Ayi, asking what was going on.

Ayi looked clueless. He didn't respond to Fatty, but quietly led the strong brothers in the tribe to sneak up on the person carving the symbols.

This person was too focused on carving the symbols and didn't notice anyone approaching.

Almost in an instant, he was pounced on by Ayi and several others.

Ayi took the opportunity to strike the back of his head, and the person was knocked unconscious on the spot.

Fatty was shocked by Ayi's decisive and efficient style.

Ayi didn't explain much. He made a gesture to return and urged everyone to quickly return to the tribe's camp.

Back at the camp, Fatty learned from Zoey, through her communication with Ayi, that the person they had brought back was not from their tribe, but from another tribe.

The two tribes had always been at odds, and had had many conflicts and "wars" over the decades, with many deaths and injuries on both sides each time.

Primitive tribes only had a simple sense of territory. If they could win, they would fight. If they couldn't win, they would run. Neither tribe had been able to wipe out the other.

If people from the two tribes met while hunting, conflicts would inevitably occur, but the conflicts wouldn't last long. The weaker side would run away if they couldn't win, and the winning side would be afraid of ambushes and wouldn't dare to pursue deeply. Therefore, serious casualties generally didn't occur.

Ayi tied the captured prisoner to a wooden frame and prepared a sharp knife.

The primitive tribe's methods of dealing with prisoners were simple and brutal. After Ayi woke up the prisoner, he began to skin the prisoner without saying a word.

This action startled the Dodge Team. They didn't expect Ayi, who was usually so cheerful and positive, to be so cruel to his fellow humans.

The skinning started from the fingers. The sharp knife easily cut open the skin on the prisoner's little finger, and blood began to seep out between the dermis and epidermis.

Due to uneven force, the peeled skin still had muscle and blood vessels attached to it, exposing the bone stub of the finger.

After Ayi peeled off the skin of the prisoner's little finger, he sprinkled some grayish-white powder on his wound. The pain of having one's fingers connected to the heart was excruciating for the prisoner.

Dodge, Derek, Fatty, Zoey, and others watched from the sidelines, breaking out in cold sweats.

Zoey felt uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but in order to find out the whereabouts of the advance team, she had to stay, because she was the only one in the team who could communicate smoothly with the tribe.