Chapter Twelve Twenty-six Days
It took Rodrigo more than ten minutes to tell the latter about what happened after Solid left. During this period, Soldier No. 2 would interfere from time to time to add a few words.
According to the professor, when Solid attacked the spire, a strong light suddenly burst out from the metal wall, which made the people around him unable to open their eyes... When people resumed their vision, Solid was gone, and the outer wall of the spire was 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 Jimenes could only regard Solid as "missing" and temporarily stopped the excavation plan.
That day was December 5th.
From that night, the entire excavation team entered a state of nothing to do and waiting for rescue.
This relatively peaceful day lasted for four days. On the 9th, the day after the crash, the conflict broke out.
Several workers who had been secretly communicating something, and two soldiers who felt that "I should have the final say when Solid is away" launched a mutiny.
The two soldiers wanted to gain command in this group, while the workers... wanted to take the opportunity to kill Jimenes in this specific environment.
Obviously, these guys who were transferred from the cannabis farm by Gimenes were not absolutely loyal to him.
In the "civilized world" outside, the criminal records and family members of these people... were all held in the palm of Jimenes. As long as Jimenes snapped his fingers, the whole family would die without a place to die, so they naturally had to obey Jimenes's advice; however, after staying in this wilderness for a week, the feeling of being strangled by others with power gradually faded... The mentality 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 evaporate the world of Gimenes, and it was difficult to trace afterwards. Once Gimenes died... Go far away, they could restore their freedom when they return to the civilized world; go closer, killing this guy who doesn't do anything but has a lot of supplies and beautiful women is also welcome to others.
So, on the night of the 9th, the two soldiers and several workers gathered the people with weapons that had been prepared long ago, and wanted to take away the substantive jurisdiction of this team on the grounds that "the current person in charge was seriously dereliction of duty, concealed information from everyone, and led everyone to die in the rain forest."
They had quietly disarmed the other soldiers and added some sedation to the food of the two bodyguards in Gimenes in advance... They thought they could control the situation very quickly and smoothly.
But the result caused chaos...
The two soldiers did not cause any problems, but the workers went to incite other workers and Gimenes's entourage; they reached a consensus in a short time to kill the guy and divide everything he had (mainly women).
They didn't know that the woman named "Mandi" brought by Jimenes was a capable person, and she was a master with a font size called "Mandala" by Daoer.
The soldiers, workers who tried to seize power, soldiers and workers who still retained their positions, and a very small number of subordinates who were loyal to Jimenes and Mandala, a melee between the three parties.
In the end, the person standing on the "murder side" was brutally killed without exception.
After the killing, Ms. Mandi, who had shown her strength, became the actual person in charge of the camp; and she immediately made a very correct suggestion to send someone out to find rescue while the food and water were not used up.
Although Mandala never found out the information that Solid concealed, she was not stupid. Now that things have come to this, she has guessed the truth...
No matter what the reason is, it has been a week since the federal rescue has not been found, which means that something must have been wrong. Instead of waiting for the materials to run out, it is better to take the initiative.
Unfortunately, there are very few people who are capable of traveling through the jungle and trustworthy... or who will come back after finding the rescue; the most qualified ones are Soldier 2 and Professor Rodrigo.
Neither of these two people participated in the mutiny, and they also had the physical strength and intelligence to escape from the rain forest, which can be said to be the best candidate.
In this way, Professor Rodrigo and Soldier 2 brought a bunch of equipment needed to travel through the jungle and set out to the north in the morning of the 10th.
When they set out, they didn't expect that... it took more than three weeks to leave.
Two people who could find the north, walked all the way north for more than twenty days; every day they would get up early in the morning, stop and stop, and find a place to rest before dark in the evening.
Because they brought complete equipment and the two of them had strong ability to survive in the wild, they were not a problem with eating, drinking, and resting, and there was no possibility of going in the wrong direction; but under this premise, they could not get out of this jungle without even leaving.
On the 26th day, something terrifying happened.
After crossing a familiar stream and walking for a while, they... saw the wreckage of a Bayshore Nine aircraft.
Then, following a path opened up by man, they came to the familiar highland.
They didn't understand why they kept walking to the north, and after walking for so long, they returned here.
The spire of the pyramid that was dug out still stood on the high ground, but the excavation team camp more than 100 meters away was abandoned.
The two went to the camp to search and found that there were still a lot of messy supplies left, but there was not even a drop of water and food left.
Of course, there was no one left....
At this time, even Professor Rodrigo's mind had the word "curse". He seemed to be in a horror film and had been hitting the wall for nearly a month.
He really hoped that all this was a nightmare. He hoped that he could wake up in a whisper and find himself lying at home, lying on the comfortable big bed, sweating in the bed.
But this... is undoubtedly a luxury.
After pursuing a veritable "big circle", the source of all problems once again pointed to the pyramid.
With the feeling of being a dead horse as a living horse, the professor and Soldier No. 2 decided to go to the spire to try their luck again.
Although this matter has become extremely strange, they are no longer afraid that when people reach a certain level of fear, they will adapt to fear and even develop a desire for death; because "death"... is also a kind of liberation, a spiritual and physical ultimate liberation.
Perhaps because they felt that "if you want to die, you'll be happy", the professor and Soldier 2 made a bold plan... They took out the power core in the wreckage of the plane, and added some materials they could find at hand to make a simple bomb, intending to blow up the spire.
Soldier No. 2 was not wearing armor when he followed the professor, because he had no place to replenish his power after leaving the camp. Even if he had worn the armor, he had to take it off and abandon it halfway; but when they returned to the camp, they could not even find a set of armor in the camp.
Therefore, when implementing this "blasting plan", both of them were in an unprotected state.
They placed the bomb, pulled the lead as long as possible, and lay behind a bunker; after they prayed to their own faithful gods, the professor detonated the simple, but unambiguous explosive device.
The explosion caused a strong light, just like the light that appeared when Solid disappeared, it was blue... I don't know where the light source came from, but in short, it made people unable to open their eyes.
When the professor and Soldier No. 2 woke up from a loss of consciousness, they had already arrived in a room made of geometric figures...
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"It didn't take long for me to discover the handprint symbol. After teleporting it five times, I met you." Rodrigo said this, paused for a moment, as if he wanted to give Solid a certain amount of time to digest the information.
After hearing this series of stories, Solid was indeed caught up in thinking.
After another two minutes, he spoke, "Is it possible... when you left the camp, the rescue happened to come, and then the people who stayed there were taken away?"
"No, right?" Rodrigo continued, "If that were the case, they would have left us some information in the camp. What's the difficulty of writing a few words? Besides... the rescue team came to save people, and there was no reason to take away the food and water, right? But when we returned to the camp, we didn't even find any biscuit residue... Considering the reduction in the camp, even if we left for more than twenty days, they would not have eaten all the food and water. So where did the food and water go?"
"Then you mean..." Solid asked tentatively.
"Putting aside the supernatural assumptions like 'curs'..." Rodrigo was still trying to explain the problem with science and logic. "Will they waited for more than ten days and felt that we would not come back, so they took the remaining food and water together to set off?"
"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, they will naturally not leave any words." Rodrigo responded.
"Suppose your speculation is true, so many people are carrying weight-bearing actions, there will be traces on the ground?" Solid asked again, "Have you found the traces?"
"Well..." Rodrigo looked puzzled, "To be honest... I didn't pay attention." He curled his lips, "When I returned to the camp before, I was completely confused, and I was a little confused. What I said to you now was what I just thought of..." He suddenly raised his voice, "Eh? It's strange. After coming to this space, all kinds of discomfort in my body disappeared, and my thinking seemed to have become particularly clear and calm..."
"It's not 'as if', this space does have this effect." Solid continued, "but this is not the point..." He shrugged, "Of course, your speculation is right or wrong, nor is it the point... Compared to where the people in the camp went, it was even more weird and difficult to explain..." He paused and said, "At present, there is only one important issue..."
Chapter completed!