When the otter plane flew back to the base, they reported the situation to Xiao Ao at the base, and they thought that since they had already sent them supplies, there was no problem for them to persevere, but Xiao Ao heard the pilot's report and asked in disbelief: "Did you really see them appear inland?" ”

"Yes, that's right, they're moving inland toward the coastline, an area of black cones." The pilot was also a little strange why they appeared there, thought about it and added: "They looked very embarrassed, they lost a lot of equipment, Wang Xingguo sent us Morse code, we needed guns, ammunition, food and water, so we threw away all the supplies on the plane." ”

"And the area is empty underground, and most of the supplies fell into the ground, but when I came back, I saw that they had picked up a lot of supplies." The radio operator also said.

"But why did they go through the interior?" Xiao O was puzzled, according to the expected route, they went around the coast, avoiding going deep inland to meet the cannibals.

"Then we don't know." The pilot shrugged, "Anyway, they're not in good shape, but they did move towards the coast and agreed with us to evacuate along the coastline." ”

"Well, they're very close to their destination, but we don't see a passage...... Why should they go far and near? The radio operator added.

"They've been out of touch for days, and they don't know what's going on with them these days." Xiao Ao was worried, although the pilot felt that it was normal for such a thing to happen on the expedition, many explorers who spoke boldly before setting off, lost their equipment halfway to reduce their burden, and encountered some unexpected situations, Xiao Ao who was more embarrassed than this has seen it, but Xiao Ao felt that things were not so simple.

Although Crusell and Sharjah Jean are not professional, they specially invited Mr. Min's team, how could they leave their equipment and enter a barren land?

"You're sure you have a radio conversation with him?" Xiao Ao asked again, and now any detailed information can tell what happened to the expedition.

"Uh...... Yes, but they didn't say anything else. The pilot hesitated and lied.

The radio correspondent glanced at the pilot in bewilderment, and the pilot gave him a look, and he had no choice but to remain silent and acquiesce.

"We'll take off early tomorrow morning, I'll fly with you, and I'm going to talk to Crussell to find out what's going on." It was useless for Xiaoao to be anxious at this time, so he had to wait for the dawn to come.

Normally, the expedition team will not be in danger, for the final safety and security, will leave a route map to the base, in the actual expedition they will strictly follow the established route, even if the route is changed, the base will be notified, this is done in case of a situation, the search and rescue team can find them as soon as possible, but this expedition team is very strange, after they landed on the island, Crussell deliberately blocked the contact with the base, the last time he contacted Xiaoao repeatedly asked about their location, Crussell refused to answer.

Do they have a secret to tell? Xiao Ao couldn't help but think so.

But all the speculation now can't solve the doubt, and only the next day Xiaoao himself flew to the island with the search and rescue plane to find out what happened.

Although Xiao Ao is only a base commander, but he doesn't want any accidents in his team, when Crussell found Xiao Ao and said that he was going to Tinian Island to explore treasures, Xiao Ao hesitated, and Xiao Ao was skeptical of Crusel's professional skills, but Crussell packed the ticket and said that Xiao Ao only needed to wait at the base, and he would be responsible for the search and rescue in case of a situation, and offered a high price of 500,000 US dollars, Xiao Ao took over the job, starting from the preparations, Xiao Ao felt that Crossell and Sharjah Jean seemed to have something to hide from him, but they were the bosses, and they didn't want to ask too much, since they went to the island, Xiao Ao hadn't slept well, and then they lost contact again, and now they finally found their traces, but they appeared in places where they shouldn't be.

There are only a few situations where this happens: they are lost, but Xiao Ao and Chen Badai have talked about it, although Chen Badai's field exploration level is not top, but they will never make such a low-level mistake, the second is that they deliberately deviated from the original route and cut off the contact, and the third is that they don't know why they deviated from the line and broke into the territory of the cannibals, the latter two possibilities, no matter which one, are extremely dangerous in Xiao Ao's opinion.

A detail in the pilot's words made Xiao Ao's worries even heavier, he mentioned that Wang Xingguo asked for supplies with guns and ammunition, and the usual expeditions would not bring guns, and guns were dead weight in the wild, but in their preparation list, Sharjah Jean and Crussell deliberately added guns and ammunition, Xiao Ao once raised a question, Crussell just said just in case, if the gun is so important, why did they discard the guns when they went to the island? Could it be that they were really attacked by cannibals and had to turn to dodge, so that they crossed the interior?

Xiao Ao tossed and turned all night without sleeping, before dawn Xiao Ao got up to drive people to load the equipment on the plane, when the first rays of morning light appeared on the horizon, Xiao Ao couldn't wait for the pilot to start the engine, Xiao Ao hoped to find them before noon, to find out what was going on.

However, the otter plane flew not far from the base, and the speed of one engine dropped, and finally it stopped in the air, and the plane could only fly to 120 kilometers per hour under the traction of one engine, and the pilot had to turn around and fly back to the base to repair the plane.

There were spare parts for the plane on the supply ship, and by the time the plane was repaired, it was already past eleven o'clock, and at Xiao Ao's repeated insistence, the pilots reluctantly took off again, and during the day they could reach Tinian Island, but when they returned to the sea, it was half the way to get dark.

It is very dangerous to fly in the dark on the ocean, the otter plane is a product of the 70s of the 20th century, the navigation system is seriously backward, there is almost no ability to fly at night and under complex meteorological conditions, usually pilots will not carry out night flights when there is no tower navigation, Xiaoao can not take care of so much at this time, and he can figure out the situation a little earlier if he finds Crossell earlier, he has stayed enough in this small forward base, and quickly withdrew the people, which is not only related to the life safety of the expedition personnel, It's also about his professional future, after all, Xiao O has a good safety record for wilderness exploration, and he doesn't want this record to be broken by two laymen, Krussell and Sharjah.

However, when Xiao Ao flew to Tinian Island in the afternoon, the war on the ground had ended, and Wang Xingguo and the other three had returned to the treasure cave, and they were confronting Tchaikov at this time, how did they know that Xiao Ao had flown over their heads? Xiao Ao looked down from the air at the expected rendezvous point that the pilot said, but saw nothing, as if nothing had happened on the ground, if it was really as the pilot said, they were already very close to the coastline from the inland, then they should have arrived today.

After flying a few laps along the coastline, still not making any contact with the expedition, Xiao O let the plane fly inland, searching for the black rock cone that the pilot had said, where many subsidences and holes were indeed found, and some debris discarded by the expedition when it left.

The pilot looked at the time, he didn't want to fly too long in the night, at Xiao Ao's insistence, the pilot flew low along the edge of the cliff, just when the plane was about to pull up, Xiao Ao saw a green backpack in the pile of rubble on the ground, Xiao Ao looked at it with a telescope, it was one of the spare materials that he personally packed and put on the plane. But Xiao Ao didn't find any bodies, if their equipment appeared here, it would normally prove that the person was not far away, but why had there been no contact? Xiao Ao vaguely felt that something was wrong, maybe the worst had happened.

"If we don't sail back, we're going to crash into the sea!" The pilot pointed to the fuel gauge and shouted to Xiao Ao.

Xiao Ao put down the binoculars, did not answer the pilot's words, and muttered to himself: "Could it be that the whole army has been destroyed?" How is this possible? What's going on? ”

The pilot felt that he didn't need to listen to Xiao Ao anymore, unless they wanted to change from rescuers to rescuers, so he pulled up the plane and flew back.

When the otter plane returned in the dark in the night sky, Wang Xingguo and the others also took advantage of the moonlight to walk through the rock cone, thanks to Wang Xingguo's amazing memory, he remembered every hard place in the volcanic rock cone when he came, and their speed was much faster than when he came.