Ambush
Seeing that everyone had died a quick death, Xue Wei heaved a heavy sigh of relief. After looting and burning the corpses, he gestured for his friends, and all of them changed their location from where they had been hiding in ambush for a long time to another part of the forest, where they would put up another kind of ambush.
Before, the patrols had walked through a specific pattern, and thus they were simple to ambush at the same location, but now there would be no more patrols; they would enter the forest in an attempt at finding the culprits behind the disappearance of the patrols.
Their new ambush place was located closer to the camp, and they waited for the people to come here.
According to Lan, when the chaos ensued, they would not send everyone out at once, but dispatch a few stronger teams with the purpose of locating the men who had gone missing.
These teams would be sent out one after another, and thus Xue Wei would have time to deal with each team as he wanted.