On his way back from the high ground, Sollid met soldiers four and seven who were approaching, and after a brief explanation of the situation, the three of them returned to camp together.

Like the sky vision observed yesterday, Sollid did not tell anyone about the encounter with an unknown creature today; He simply told the professor and Gimenez about the uplift in the ground, and suggested that the excavation team dig from there.

While it is not a reasonable choice to start construction from high ground, it seems that in the face of such anomalies in the changing terrain, it seems that there is little need to follow common sense......

So, at about eight o'clock in the morning, the excavation team set off again.

This time, they also brought a lot of supplies and prepared to set up a digging camp.

By the time the team returned to the wreckage, the two mechanics had already finished charging the Kemera; After the excavator operator took the load and debugged it, he also said that the machine was ready to start operation.

In this way, under the leadership of Solid, the group began to advance towards the goal.

As mentioned above, the excavation technology of this era was very advanced, and "Kemera", as its name suggests, is like a strange beast, which can also destroy and decay in the undulating, grassy rainforest.

Of course, in order to save time and reduce the damage to the environment as much as possible, they avoided the trees that could not be knocked down, so the final route was not exactly "straight line".

After nearly four hours of hard work, the excavation team finally came to the bottom of the "small hill" that Solid had previously discovered.

Don't look at the fact that this distance can be completed in only a few minutes, if you let an ordinary person walk, it may take more than half an hour, and to carve out a path here, it takes four hours is not much.

After arriving at the destination, the workers were basically tired; In addition to transporting supplies, they are also responsible for removing foreign objects from the path with tools, because the road "pushed out" by the excavator is not smooth, leaving a lot of messy debris along the way, some of which are sharp and erected debris that will become a safety hazard and must be dealt with for the convenience of future traffic.

Although it is just a simple treatment, it does not need to be done very smoothly like a real paving, and it does not need to be done in a hurry, just follow the excavator slowly, and do it while walking, but it takes nearly four hours...... Still working in the hot rainforest, no one can bear it.

Therefore, when he arrived at the place, Rodrigo immediately ordered everyone to eat and rest, and announced that they would not have to work in the afternoon, and that they would just set up camp.

At lunchtime, Sollid didn't eat with the crowd, he just grabbed a frozen chicken sandwich and walked away alone; Half an hour later, he came back alone and told Rodrigo...... He had already completed the survey of the surroundings and found no danger, so the people and supplies from the temporary camp could be transferred.

In the afternoon, while Rodrigo and the workers were packing up on the high ground, Sollid and his men turned back to the makeshift camp and began to transfer the wounded and supplies with the help of Gimenez's men.

It was imperative to move the camp next to the excavation site to make it easier for the workers to start work, and to have people all in one camp for easy management.

Because the road has been opened, it is much more convenient for the people behind to pass, most of the materials can be folded and taken away, and many of the heavier materials are also designed with training wheels.

In short, everyone was so busy and busy, ushering in the dusk.

Except for Gimenez and his female companions, who did not do any work, everyone else was more or less helpful; At the end of the day, the members of the excavation team were tired enough, but in fact...... The real "digging" work has not been touched by a shovel.

That's what it's like to work in the rainforest – you have so much less time to work and less work to do during the day than you think. In an air-conditioned office, you can work more than twelve hours with two bowls of instant noodles, but in the rainforest...... If you just sit there and do nothing, you're going to consume a lot of energy, and a little bit of work will deplete the calories you can't use up in a day in the city.

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Night, once again, came.

By the time the city's nightlife had just begun, the crowd of people who had wandered into the jungle was exhausted.

Most of them returned to their tents shortly after dinner, and many fell asleep with their heads on their pillows.

We humans are proud, and the progress of science and technology has given us this pride, making us take many things for granted.

We can fly freely like birds, thinking that if we make up our minds, we can go to the other side of the world; We can communicate with people who are far away in the world, thinking that our hearts can be easily conveyed; We can light up the night sky with bright lights, thinking that we have conquered the night and holding a starry sky of our own.

But we rarely think about it...... These "taken for granted" things actually come at a price, and when these things are taken away from us, most of us immediately recall and experience them...... The humility and powerlessness of man as a living being.

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"The above is what we have done today, and there are still a lot of things to be done tomorrow, especially the supply of materials, because it has been consumed and moved, and the statistical work has not been completed yet, and it must be done tomorrow."

At this moment, around this bonfire, the three leaders of the excavation team gathered together again and held a small meeting about the affairs of today and tomorrow.

Rodrigo took an I-PEN that had been disconnected from the internet, crossed it out in the memo, and went through the day's affairs with the two of them.

Solid listened attentively, but Gimenez seemed a little distracted.

"Anyway...... Your plan seems to be going well. When business was almost done, Gimenez spoke, and said to Solid.

"Which plan are you talking about?" Solid asked.

"The one who withheld the information." Gimenez replied, "You see, it's been a day, and no one asks about the rescue, as if they have forgotten about it." ”

"I don't know about your people, but for those workers...... They were ready to start working here for a long time. "At least when supplies are sufficient, it makes no difference to them whether help comes or not." He paused, "At this stage, the only people who are more concerned about when the rescue will arrive are the wounded, but fortunately, there are no dying people among the injured people at present, so this matter can be delayed and pressed...... However, in any case, if after three or four days, there is still no shadow of the rescue, some people will definitely find it strange, and then rumors and doubts will arise. ”

"Hey...... Don't say as if rescue really won't come in three or four days, right? Gimenez laughed, "Didn't you say before that the drones would find us sooner or later?" ”

"I'm just making reasonable assumptions." Sollid still hadn't intended to tell the two men about the "anomaly in the sky", he just replied quietly, "It's always right to think about the worst-case scenario, so I'll warn you first...... In the unlikely event that the rescue arrives on the fifth or sixth day, or longer, something may happen in the meantime, so that you should be prepared. ”

"Let me ask...... Rodrigo suddenly spoke, his expression changing slightly, "If the situation really gets bad, there won't be anything wrong with your soldiers, right?" ”

"It's hard to say, it depends on how bad the situation is...... Solid replied, "soldiers are human beings, and although they are trained, willpowered, and disciplined than the average person, there is a boundary...... Once this line is crossed, they will collapse as well. He paused for two seconds, as if to remember something, and then added, "If help doesn't come, and when we run out of supplies, there will be a shortage of food, and people will start starving and refuse to do their duty...... At this point, there will be a strong sense of frustration among those who are still doing their duty, and they will feel that it is pointless for them to continue to stick to their principles and to give; At this time, people will no longer serve the rules of the civilized world, and they will use all the resources at their disposal to act for their own survival and interests. ”

"Hmm......" Rodrigo took a sip of his tea, "to put it simply...... When the situation comes, one of your soldiers may kill us all, just to give himself an extra bite of food and live one more day. ”

"No, not one of my soldiers." "It's everyone...... Including you and me. He shrugged, "Also, in my experience, this kind of behavior is generally not initiated by a single person, but by a small group of several people; After all, the risk of a single person doing this is still too great, and the brains will trick those who can be used to achieve their own ends, and betray the exploited before they can pose a threat to them.

"So what could really happen is not 'one person kills everyone,' but a few people banding together to kill all the other men in the camp first, dividing up the rest of the food and the girls that Gimenez brought, and when the rest of the food is also bottomed out, these people will start killing each other for leadership, women, and food."

He said this calmly, but it attracted the strange gaze of Rodrigo and Gimenez.

"Well......" Gimenez stood up after a few seconds, "though I don't know what a horrible story you have behind that phrase 'in my experience,' and I don't mean to inquire...... But I have a pretty good idea of what the 'worst-case scenario' might look like......" he said, stretching his back, "Two, if there's nothing else to discuss, I'll go back to the tent." Before leaving, he turned his head and said to Solid in a joking tone, "Oh, sir, if you are going to pull the hill and kill it one day, don't forget to call me, and make sure to use me until the last moment......"

After he left, Rodrigo smiled, "Huh...... When it comes to scaring people, you're really good at it. ”

"Who said I'm scaring people?" Unexpectedly, Solid replied, but the next second, he changed his words and continued, "Of course...... I'm not going to let the situation get to that point, and if we don't get in touch with the outside world when we're halfway through the supplies, I'm going to set out on foot to find help. ”

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December 5th, morning.

Before five o'clock, the workers came out one after another to assemble.

After yesterday morning's mosquito incident, today they choose to respect the alarm clock.

After breakfast, the excavation work finally began.

While the workers were digging in the soil, two mechanics and three soldiers carried a few storage boxes to the wreckage to recharge; In addition to the camp's power supply, Kemera's electricity will later be transported through these storage boxes, which will require more manpower, but it will be easier than driving a bulky excavator around every day.

By eight o'clock in the morning, the excavation had progressed, so to speak...... Encountered a problem.

What's the problem? "Hit a wall".

After digging a small distance, the excavation team dug into something so hard that even the drill bits and buckets on the Kemera could not dig with granite; If it weren't for the experienced operators who stopped the machine in time, I'm afraid that their last excavator would have been scrapped.

At this point, it was time for Professor Rodrigo to come in; The experienced scholar walked to the pit in two steps, took a shovel from one of the workers himself, and brushed away the dirt, revealing the metal beneath it.

"What is this? Tower? ”

"Why is there a tower buried in the ground? Or is it made of metal? ”

"yes, and what the hell is this black metal? It's so hard? ”

The workers began to talk, and the professor crouched down as if no one was around, and began to scan the material of the metal spire buried deep in the earth.

As the data on the analyzer flowed, Rodrigo's expression gradually changed, and a subtle flash of excitement and frenzy flashed through his eyes......

A moment later, Solid came up to him and asked, "How?" What did you find? ”

"Unknown metals, from the analyzed data, have a lot of similarities with net alloys, but ...... In terms of molecular structure, the one in front of us is even more superior. Rodrigo continued, "If you want to be parable...... The net alloy is like tea that is frozen into ice cubes, and this one is tea leaves that are compressed into lumps. ”

The professor said as he continued to dig through the earth by hand to expose more of the metal.

"What do you think it is? Pyramid? Solid asked again.

"Quite possibly." The professor replied, "You see, there's a text-like texture engraved on it...... This texture has some traces of Mayan inscriptions, not ...... It should be said that there are some traces of this kind of writing in Maya! His voice trembled a little as he said this, "I'm sorry, I'm a little excited...... What we have in front of us is most likely the remains of a super-ancient civilization that is older than all the ancient civilizations known to man, as an archaeologist...... It's hard to put into words how I'm feeling at the moment. ”

Not only was his voice trembling, but even his hands and body were trembling slightly, and it seemed that he was really excited.

"Well......" but Sollid remained calm, "then...... Although we can't keep up with the head to confirm now, can we speculate...... Our mission this time is to find this ruin? ”

"It must be!" Rodrigo quickly replied, "Of course! The problem now is that we can't tell how big the pyramid really is, how deep we have to dig and how long it will take us to find its entrance...... Do you understand? Perhaps the spire extending underground would bring out an entire city's ...... Huh? Halfway through his words, he suddenly found something, and he quickly dug the soil with his hands a few more times, and moved the analyzer down a few points, "Strange, the composition of a piece of metal here is different from the rest of the place, you see...... Even the colors are different, it's like ...... It seems to ......"

Solid also saw the anomaly in the piece of metal, so he picked up the professor's unfinished words: "It looks like someone once made a hole with some kind of ballistic weapon, and then refilled it......"