He dared not venture forward recklessly anymore. Doing so would be equivalent to gambling on luck, and a true hunter never gambles on luck.
He lowered his body, using a rock as cover, and crawled forward extremely slowly for about ten meters, until he reached another bush with a better view.
Then he stopped, using his eagle-like eyes to conduct a carpet search of the most suspicious slope ahead.
Lin Yu'an mentally divided that slope into countless small squares, systematically and repeatedly scanning each one.
He was searching for any discordant detail, unnatural contour, slight color variation from the surrounding environment, or any shadow that shouldn't have been there.
This was an extremely taxing process on the mind and eyes; the cold wind made his eyes somewhat dry, but he deliberately slowed down his blinking.
After finding nothing in the first sector, he would crawl forward another ten meters to the next observation point, repeating the earlier search process.
