Zhou Lin

One o'clock in the afternoon, Amazon jungle, somewhere.

After the emergency landing, the Gulf Coast No. 9 luxury passenger plane fell into a tilted state with its head high and its tail low on the broken trees and slightly undulating terrain.

Although Solid had personally confirmed that there was no risk of the plane exploding, considering that the fuselage might suddenly break or slip due to pressure after a period of time, he still asked everyone to get out of the cabin.

Of course, even if he didn't make this request, no one would be willing to stay on the plane.

First, the air conditioning system on the plane has been damaged. Even if it is not broken, it is equivalent to useless when there are many holes in the fuselage.

Secondly, people died in more than half of the cabins, and the deaths were quite tragic.

Imagine...a person, without a safety belt, is thrown around in a rapidly falling large iron can, and interacts with various sharp, blunt, hard, and harder corners. A heavy collision... What kind of tragic situation will it be like after this collision? It is no exaggeration to say that having the bones poked out of the body is considered better than death. The kind where the brains and blood cover half of the wall, and then are sucked out of the machine through a small hole by the vacuum force is the real thing. awful.

Those sitting in the cabin behind the cab were lucky, because this cabin was equivalent to the "first class" on the plane. There were not many people in this cabin at the time of the incident, except for Professor Rodrigo. Apart from Jimenez, the only ones left were the three female companions brought by Jimenez, one attendant, two pilots who came out of the cockpit, and four soldiers under Solider; on the one hand, they There are fewer seats and more seats. On the other hand, those few soldiers will urge everyone to obey Solid's orders and fasten their seat belts immediately. Therefore, everyone in this cabin escaped danger.

But the people in the cabins at the back were not so lucky... people working in the galley (yes, there is a kitchen on this aircraft, and it is quite well-equipped), people smoking secretly outside the cargo hold, people in the toilet people, and people drinking and playing cards in ordinary cabins... Not everyone will respond positively to orders issued by Solid and execute them quickly; there are also people who want to execute orders, but they happen to not be around. Seats with safety belts will also suffer.

All in all, although this emergency landing saved the lives of some people, more people still died in the process of falling; now 70% of the plane is not only without air conditioning, but also full of internal organs and blood. The smell is something no one wants to be around.

Therefore, under the organization of Solid and Rodrigo, the survivors set up a temporary camp more than 200 meters away from the emergency landing point. The shocked members of the excavation team and the people brought by Jimenez were able to rest, treat their injuries, replenish water, and develop relationships with many mosquitoes as big as fingernails.

And Solid and his soldiers... still have a lot of things to do.

They had to call for rescue, inventory supplies, and rely on manpower to add refrigerant to the power core in the plane. They also had to move all the bodies they could collect off the plane in a relatively complete manner, identify them one by one, bury them on the spot, and then take out the corpses they had just collected. Compare the list of living people in the camp and make a list of the survivors, dead and missing as soon as possible.

It was not until 2:30 in the afternoon that Solid and the others returned to the camp.

At this time, Soldiers No. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 who were acting with Solid were all so tired that they were about to fall down. Only Solid was still standing upright and could not even hear the tone of his voice. Showing no trace of fatigue.

By the way, Soldiers No. 5 and 6, who had been missing before, were also found by them; Soldier No. 5 failed to fasten his seat belt in time in order to help others during the incident, and was injured and fainted during the emergency landing. He passed by, but fortunately with the protection of armor, he was able to save his life, but there were many fractures on his body.

And No. 6... was not so lucky, or in other words, all his luck was used in other ways; when Solid told everyone on the plane to fasten their seat belts through the radio, Soldier No. 6 was talking to Ji in a toilet. One of Menes's female companions flirted with him, no doubt... He took off his armor at that time, so after the crash landing, he was already a corpse.

"Sir Wilson." When he saw Solid return, Jimenez put down the spoonful of caviar in his hand (he asked his entourage to get it from the cargo hold), walked forward and said, "Although I also want to get rid of him as soon as possible. The current situation, but... I think you should take a break, even if you don't take a rest yourself, at least let your subordinates..."

"I'm just letting them rest now." Solid interrupted before the other party finished speaking.

While he was speaking, the five soldiers had indeed stepped out of their armors one after another, ran into the camp and started drinking water.

Although they are very thirsty, they do not drink quickly. They all know that it is not advisable to drink too much after exercise in hot weather, otherwise it will put a greater burden on the heart and cause loss of electrolytes.

"Haha... That's it." Jimenez wasn't angry, he just smiled and said, "What about you, sir? Don't you need to take a break?"

"It's not necessary." Solid replied these three words in a very calm tone, then raised his voice and shouted to Rodrigo who was more than ten meters away, "Professor, please come here."

A few seconds later, Rodrigo came over and said, "What's the matter? Sir."

Solid opened the mask, looked at the two people in front of him, and then said: "Only the three of us know the next words. After we discuss them, we will decide how to convey them to others... Understand?"

Rodrigo and Jimenez are both smart people, and they can understand a sentence like this with a meaning in it. To put it bluntly, what Solid means is-"The current situation is not good. The three of us The person in charge will first discuss how to handle it internally, and then decide what information can be shared with others and what cannot be shared... to avoid any inconsistencies in the tone of the matter."

After exchanging glances, the professor and Jimenez both nodded to Solid.

After receiving the response, Solid lowered his voice and said: "In this area... there is an interference wave of unknown origin, which blocks all communication signals. If we make the worst assumption... the plane sent out a distress call before making an emergency landing. The signal probably didn’t get out either.”

"That is to say..." Jimenez showed a rare serious expression, "The outside world probably doesn't know our current situation, right?"

"Yes." Solid replied, "But... before I came, I was given the order to 'report the mission progress every four hours unless there are special circumstances'. It has been nearly three months since my last report." Hours, and in another hour or so, we will find on the summit that our team has lost contact, and the signal of the aircraft can no longer be found... By then, they should take action."

"That's okay. Rescue will still arrive, just a little late." Rodrigo continued.

"Ah." Solid responded, "In a situation like this where there is a loss of communication, the normal approach is to first find out the last coordinates before the signal disappeared, and then use this as the center to send a certain number of drones to conduct surveillance on the surrounding area. Aerial search; the destroyed Wangan No. 9 is an obvious landmark, there is no reason why it cannot be found, but...it is hard to say how long it will take to find it. After all, we cannot guess how big this 'shielding zone' is. They When did we lose our signal?"

"That doesn't matter, right? Everything in the cargo hold should be fixed with rope nets. Except for things like champagne in glass bottles, most of the other supplies can still be used. It can be supplied to us at least. It will take five or six days," Jimenez continued.

"It's twenty-six days." In the next second, Solid corrected the other party with a precise number. "I have already gone to the cargo hold to check. Due to our serious attrition, we could have consumed about a week's worth of supplies for the entire crew. , now it can last twenty-six days.”

"Uh..." Jimenez was stunned for two seconds and then said, "So...so, with so many supplies, there is nothing to be afraid of."

The reason why he was in a daze was because he didn't expect that Solid would settle the score to this extent, but for Solid, it was natural to "prepare for the worst" like this.

"I hope so..." Solid pondered for a while, paused for a second, and then said, "But no matter what...'The communication signal is interfered, unable to contact the outside world, and no one knows when rescue will arrive.' It's best not to tell others this information too clearly, so as not to cause panic..." At this point, he put on the armor's mask again, "My suggestion is to tell them... the supplies are still sufficient. , so the excavation mission will continue as planned; rescue and supplies are already on the way, but they will not arrive so soon, so we need to wait patiently."

His suggestion is certainly correct.

In this environment, the "human heart" is the more terrifying thing than those objective factors; unknown and uneasy will breed fear, and fear will cause violence, abnormality and all kinds of stupidity.

Solid is a person who has witnessed and experienced many lives and deaths. He understands people's hearts and understands human nature better... He knows how heinous things humans can do in extreme environments in order to survive or purely to seek "security" Come, so from the beginning he had no intention of respecting anyone's right to know. Only those who he thought were OK had the right to get the information he gave.

"Okay, I will tell the workers what you want..." After a moment, Rodrigo scratched his bald head and continued, "But I seriously doubt that after experiencing this kind of situation, Then they were still willing to continue the work.”

"If you don't want to, just add more money; it doesn't have to be too much, just keep it within three times of their original remuneration... Anyway, their number is only one-third now, right?" Solid continued. , "If there are still people who refuse to do it even with triple the pay, then you can be tougher and give those people a hint."

"What does it imply?" Rodrigo asked suspiciously.

"Suggesting to them... 'If you don't cooperate, the officer named Wilson will probably throw you into the river to feed the fish'," Solid replied.

"Well... when you say 'suggestion', do you actually mean 'intimidation'?" Rodrigo replied.

"It's up to you to understand it, Professor." Solid didn't bother to defend himself on this matter. "I'm just here to ensure that the mission is completed smoothly. You can question my approach, but I believe you will be happy to accept the consequences. the result of."

"What...I have no objection!" Seeing that Rodrigo seemed to be going to argue, Jimenez quickly came out to smooth things over, "The people I brought will not disobey my orders, and I won't explain anything to them. It's okay." After he said this, he changed the topic, "By the way...Sir, there is something you haven't told us yet..." As he said this, he turned his head and looked to both sides, and then He said softly, "Why did we fall? Is there anything that can cut off the entire wing flatly like that?"

His question is what many people on the plane want to ask; because these passengers cannot see the situation outside the plane through equipment like Solid, and even the two pilots who know that there are giant robots tracking the plane cannot. Imagine that the opponent has something like a "ship-cutting knife".

"You just need to know that we were attacked by a large aircraft. As for what it was..." Solid replied, "Huh... I also want to find someone to ask."

At this point, Jimenez also understood that regarding this topic, even he, the "responsible person", was classified by Solid into the category of "does not need to be clearly informed". In this case, forget it...

After the conversation ended, Rodrigo and Jimenez followed Solid's instructions to communicate with their subordinates, and Solid was not idle for a moment. He took advantage of his subordinates to rest. During this time, a man left the camp and walked to higher ground along the slope of the terrain, preparing to survey the surrounding terrain.

He was not worried that the robot would come after them, because he knew very well that if the other party wanted to kill the people on the plane, it would be impossible for him to complete the emergency landing - he should have been chopped into pieces when he was in the sky. .

Based on this speculation, the enemy's purpose is probably to "make the plane crash without killing the people on board"; this conclusion seems a bit baffling on its own, but if it is an equally baffling 'emergency excavation mission' they are performing 'Taken together... things become very intriguing.

While thinking about it, Solid walked up a small slope. When he almost reached the top, he stopped, carefully observed the surrounding situation, and then walked out of the armor, using his brisk and skillful skills to fly quickly. Climbed a big tree.

He poked his head out from the tree cover and looked up.

Under the afternoon sun, there are endless dense forests and tributaries and rivers. This beautiful scenery seems to be massaging his eyeballs, and the slightly moist fresh air pouring in from the nose is also washing his lungs.

At this moment, Solid felt relaxed and happy, and for a brief moment, he even felt a little absent-minded.

However, just ten seconds later, a sudden "vision" made him gasp in shock.

At that moment, Solid saw... in the very far sky, an eagle with spread wings, seemed to fly behind an invisible wall... and suddenly disappeared into the sky.