Zhou Lin

South America, Amazon basin.

There are 40,000 square kilometers of tropical rainforest here, which are the last uninhabited areas on earth.

Frequent rainfall and a year-round hot and humid climate have nurtured thousands of rare species of plants and animals. Under the ancient and fertile land are buried many mysterious countries that once flourished before the rise of modern civilization.

As early as the beginning of the 21st century, that is, during the period of the last empire, mankind has reached a high degree of consensus on the issue of "environmental protection." The form of global integration and the continuous exploration of new energy have caused mankind to stop focusing on this issue. The destructive development of similar areas; only the poaching situation has never been solved. After all...where there is business, there will be killing, and where there are people, there will be business.

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On December 5, at noon, a "Wangan 9" luxury passenger plane flew over the rainforest.

Although this team received a so-called "archaeological" mission, at least the three people in charge on the plane knew very well that this journey would never be that simple.

"So...you mean, you don't know where to land?"

In the cabin, after listening to Rodrigo's explanation of this operation, Solid asked this question without thinking.

"Uh... you can put it that way." Rodrigo responded with a shrug.

He was also helpless, because the order he received was to "find a ruins in the designated area and start excavation." But the "area" given by the superiors was ridiculously large, and there were no survey clues or reference coordinates.

"Then can I think..." Solid asked tentatively after receiving the answer, "This will evolve into a long-term mission?"

"It's possible, because I don't know when I can find the right place..." Rodrigo responded, "My plan is to patrol the area above the area first, and then use my experience to locate a place that may be buried. Then we unloaded supplies and equipment, set up camp... and dug while searching."

"Based on experience..." Solid repeated these words and continued, "With all due respect, Professor, your resume shows that you do not have any degree in geology, and it does not seem like you are in Longjun has learned how to read Feng Shui...are you really not just guessing?"

"Well..." Rodrigo showed an embarrassed expression, hesitated for a few seconds, and replied, "Okay... this is just a wild guess."

"Hey...are you admitting it so easily?" After hearing this, Jimenez, who was hugging several beauties and lying on a spacious sofa, immediately joked, "By the way...Professor, You’ve been digging for so many years and you don’t understand geology?”

"Yes, who made the excavation and analysis technology so advanced and convenient these days... When I was in college, my tutor told me that in this era, if you still want to engage in geology and paleontology... then Why don't you go lie down in the museum by yourself." Rodrigo curled his lips and replied.

"Ha!" Jimenez laughed dryly, took a sip of the champagne that the beauty next to him brought to his mouth, and then said, "So...don't we have to dig around like headless flies until we dig As far as what you want to find above?"

"There's nothing I can do." Rodrigo spread his hands and said, "This mission is a 'direct order' from Christo City. It tells us to turn over all the soil in this rainforest, and I have to do it." no?"

"Did you hear that? Beauties." Jimenez was still laughing at this point, "Our 'picnic' time may have to be extended this time."

"I hate it~ Why is it different from what I promised?"

"No one brought a change of clothes."

"Darling~ You can call a plane and send a few top-of-the-line outdoor living cabins (transportable mini homes, derivatives of the RV concept, with built-in water, electricity, wireless network, furniture, home appliances and other facilities, usually including one bedroom and A bathroom with a shower; it was originally a product provided to some pseudo-camping enthusiasts to meet their needs of "enjoying urban life in nature". For some reason, it later became popular among the rich, and many luxury models appeared) Would you like to come?"

After hearing the bad news, Jimenez's female companions began to act coquettishly with him, but it seemed from their tone that they did not understand the meaning and seriousness of Jimenez's words.

Going to the rainforest for a few hours and staying for a few days are two different things.

And if this "a few days" turns into "a few weeks", that's another story.

"Julio." A few seconds later, Solid said again, "For your safety and health, I think... you and your entourage will not need to get off the plane for a while, and just follow the crew back."

"Don't be so cold, Mr. Wilson." Jimenez still had a playful smile on his face, "I am also one of the three responsible persons 'named' by the superiors. If I had gone back without even getting off the plane, I would There will definitely be a few thorns among those 'fellows' who will use the situation as a excuse...to report to their superiors in the federation...that kind of situation would be much more troublesome than me feeding mosquitoes here." He said this rightly. It's quite playful, but the content is full of sinister atmosphere, "So... no matter what, I have to stay for a day and a half before leaving, so that I can do business easily."

After hearing this, Solid thought for a moment and was about to respond to him, but unexpectedly...

At this moment, a soldier in the cockpit suddenly said something through the internal communication channel in the armor: "Sir, there is something going on here. Please come to the front immediately."

This sentence was heard by several soldiers wearing full armor, but everyone else on the plane...except for the two pilots, did not know that something was happening.

"Excuse me." Solid was very calm. Although he could tell from the soldier's tone that the matter was urgent and possibly serious, his tone when he said these four words to the two people in front of him was not the same. Anxiety and panic.

When Rodrigo and Jimenez saw this, they looked at each other, not knowing what was going on. They wanted to guess the situation from the expressions of the other soldiers in the cabin... They all covered their faces.

Ten seconds later, Solid had walked into the cockpit and closed the door.

"Say." As soon as the door was closed, he said to his men.

"Sir, look here..." The soldier then pointed to the console in front of the two pilots.

Solid looked in the direction of his finger, and his eyes quickly settled on a certain screen.

"Are we being followed?" With Solid's ability, he naturally knew what the various instrument dials and displays on the plane were used for, so he found the problem at a glance - according to the detection device on the plane, at this moment , at a height close to the horizon, a large flying object was following them more than a hundred meters behind.

"It should be," the soldier replied, "and... the thing following us is weird."

"Strange?" Solid asked suspiciously.

The soldier understood what the officer meant, and he immediately turned to the pilot and said, "Show sir the picture you just showed me."

Before he finished speaking, the pilot cut a blurry image to the display screen at his hand, and explained: "This is a picture taken with an automatic maintenance robot embedded in the tail of the aircraft..."

After Solid saw what was on the screen, he was silent for two seconds, then opened the armor's mask and got closer to confirm it again with his naked eyes.

After he was convinced that what he saw was really a giant robot painted in scarlet, he squeezed out a sentence: "What_the_hell..."