Zhou Lin

It took Rodrigo more than ten minutes to tell him generally what happened after Solid left. During this period, Soldier Two would also interrupt and add a few words from time to time.

According to the professor, when Solid attacked the spire, a burst of bright light suddenly erupted from the metal wall, blinding the people around them... and by the time people regained their sight, Solid had disappeared. The outer wall of the spire is still intact.

After that, everyone searched nearby for a long time, but could not find Solid, and no one dared to touch the spire again; therefore, the professor and Jimenez could only regard Solid as "missing". And the excavation plan was temporarily suspended.

That day was December 7th.

From that night on, the entire excavation team entered a state of having nothing to do and just waiting for rescue.

This relatively peaceful day lasted for four days. On the 11th, exactly one week from the crash, conflicts broke out.

Several workers who had been communicating secretly, and two soldiers who felt that "it should be me who has the final say while Solid is away" launched a mutiny.

The two soldiers wanted to gain command of the group, and the workers... wanted to take the opportunity to kill Jimenez in this specific environment.

Obviously, these guys who were transferred from the marijuana farm by Jimenez were not absolutely loyal to him.

In the "civilized world" outside, these people's criminal records and families... are all held in the palm of Jimenez's hands. As long as Jimenez snaps his fingers, the whole family of these people will die without a burial place, so they naturally have to deal with Jimenez. Menes obeyed his words; however, after a week in this wild land, the feeling of being strangled by someone's power gradually faded away... A sense of luck gradually gained the upper hand.

These workers, or... these "gangsters", almost instinctively thought that in this rain forest, there were countless ways to make Jimenez evaporate and make it difficult to trace afterwards. Once Jimenez is dead... In the long term, they can regain their freedom when they return to the civilized world; in the short term, kill this guy who does nothing but has a lot of supplies and beautiful women. It is also enjoyable for others.

So, on the night of the 11th, the two soldiers and several workers gathered people with prepared weapons, saying that "the current person in charge has seriously neglected his duties, concealed information from everyone, and led everyone in the rain forest." "Waiting to die" as an excuse to take away the actual jurisdiction of this team.

They had quietly disarmed the other soldiers and added some sedatives to the food of Jimenez's two bodyguards in advance... They thought they could control the situation very quickly and smoothly.

But the result was chaos...

The two soldiers did not cause any problems, but the workers incited other workers and Jimenez's entourage; they reached a consensus in a short period of time to kill this guy. And divide everything he is sitting on (mostly women).

They didn't know that the woman named "Mandi" brought by Jimenez was an ability user, and she was also called "Mandala" in Taoism... a master with a font.

A melee broke out between the soldiers and workers who tried to seize power, the soldiers and workers who still retained their positions, and the very few subordinates who were loyal to Jimenez and Mandala.

In the end, those who stood on the "rebel side" were brutally killed without exception.

After the killing, Ms. Mandy, who had already demonstrated her strength, became the actual talker in the camp; and she immediately made a very correct suggestion - before the food and clean water were used up, we had to hurry up Send people out to find rescue.

Although Mandala has never found out the information that Solider concealed, she is not stupid. At this point, she has guessed the truth...

No matter what the reason is, it has been a week now and the federal rescue has still not been found, which means that there must be something wrong with it; instead of waiting for the supplies to run out, it is better to take the initiative.

Unfortunately, there are very few people who are capable of crossing the jungle and are trustworthy...or who will come back after going out to find rescue; the most qualified ones...are Soldier Two and Professor Rodrigo.

Neither of these two participated in the mutiny. They also have the physical strength and intelligence to escape from the rainforest, so they can be said to be the best candidates.

In this way, Professor Rodrigo and Soldier No. 2 took a bunch of equipment needed to cross the jungle and set off towards the north in the early morning of the 12th.

When they set out, they didn't expect that... they would be away for more than three weeks.

The two men who were able to find the north walked all the way north for more than twenty days. Every day they got up early in the morning and walked, stopping and walking, and found a place to rest before dark in the evening.

Because they had all the equipment they had brought with them and the two of them were very capable of surviving in the wild, there was no problem with their eating, drinking, and resting, and there was no possibility of going in the wrong direction; but under this premise, they were at a loss whether to live or die. There is no way out of this jungle.

On the twenty-sixth day, something terrible happened.

After crossing a familiar creek and walking for a while, they...saw the wreckage of a "Gulf Coast 9" plane.

Then, following a man-made path, they came to the familiar highland.

They didn't understand...why they kept walking towards the north and came back here after walking for so long.

The dug-out pyramid spire still stands on the high ground, but the excavation team's camp more than a hundred meters away has been abandoned.

The two went to the camp to search around and found that there were a lot of messy supplies left, but not even a drop of water and food was left.

Of course, there is not a single person left.

By this time, even the word "curse" appeared in Professor Rodrigo's mind. He seemed to be in a horror movie and experienced a period of nearly a month of ghosts beating the wall.

He really hoped that this was all a nightmare. He hoped that he would wake up with a murmur and find that he was lying at home, lying on a comfortable big bed, sweating under the quilt.

But this... is undoubtedly a luxury.

After going through a veritable "big circle", the source of all problems once again pointed to the pyramid.

With the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, the professor and Soldier No. 2 decided to try their luck at the steeple again.

Although this thing has reached the extreme level of weirdness, they are no longer afraid - after people's fear reaches a certain level, they will adapt to fear and even develop a desire for death; because "death"... is also a kind of relief. The ultimate spiritual and physical liberation.

Perhaps thinking that "if you want to die, it will be a happy death", the professor and Soldier Two formulated a very bold plan... They took out the power core from the wreckage of the plane, added some materials they could find, and made it An improvised bomb, intended to blow up the spire.

When Soldier No. 2 traveled with the professor, he did not wear armor because he had no place to recharge power after leaving the camp. Even if he wore the armor, he would have to take it off and abandon it halfway; and when they returned to the camp, But there was not even a set of armor to be found in the camp.

Therefore, when executing this "explosion plan", both people were in an unprotected state.

They placed the bomb, stretched the fuse as long as possible, and lay down behind a bunker. After they prayed to their respective gods, the professor placed the simple but unequivocally powerful explosive device. Detonated.

The explosion triggered a strong light, which was the same as the light that appeared when Solid disappeared. It was cyan... I don't know where the light source came from. In short, it was so piercing that people couldn't open their eyes.

And when the professor and Soldier No. 2 woke up from a moment of trance, they were already in a room made of geometric figures...

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"It didn't take me long to find out about the handprint symbols. After teleporting five times, I met you." Rodrigo paused after saying this, as if he wanted to give Solid some time to digest those things. information.

After listening to this series of stories, Solid really fell into thinking.

After another two minutes, he spoke: "Is it possible... that when you left the camp, rescue happened to arrive and then picked up the people who were left there?"

"That's not right." Rodrigo continued, "If that's the case, they should have left some messages for us in the camp. What's so hard about writing a few words? Besides... the rescue team is here to save people. There's no reason to take away all the food and water, right? But when we returned to the camp, we couldn't find even a single crumb of biscuits... Considering the attrition of the camp, even if we left for more than twenty days, they wouldn't be able to take it away. All the food and water were eaten, so where did the food and water go?”

"Then what do you mean..." Solid asked tentatively.

"Leave aside supernatural assumptions like 'curse'..." Rodrigo was still trying to explain the problem using science and logic. "Could they be waiting for more than ten days and feel that we will not come back? , so we took the remaining food and water and set off together?"

"Then how do you explain that they didn't even leave a word for you?" Solid said.

"If they feel that we have abandoned them and will not come back, then naturally they will not leave a message." Rodrigo responded.

"Assuming your speculation is true, with so many people carrying heavy loads, there will be traces on the ground, right?" Solid asked again, "Have you found any traces?"

"Well..." Rodrigo looked embarrassed, "To be honest... I didn't pay attention." He curled his lips, "When I returned to the camp before, I was completely confused and a little confused. Now I'm with The speculation you mentioned was something I just thought of..." He suddenly raised his voice, "Eh? It's strange. After coming to this space, all the discomforts in my body disappeared, and my thinking seemed to become particularly clear. and calm…”

"It doesn't 'seem', this space does have this effect." Solid continued, "But that's not the point..." He shrugged, "Of course, whether your guess is right or wrong is not the point either... Compared with the whereabouts of those people in the camp, the fact that you walked for twenty-six days and then returned to the camp is even more bizarre and difficult to explain..." He paused and then continued, "Right now, the only important question is one……"