Chapter 16: The Wilderness

Ninety kilometres south of Rio is a hilly area where the bed of the Yarrow River suddenly widens, and the rushing river slows down like a tired galloping horse and continues its steady southward journey.

At 3:35 a.m., with a sound of water, a black object emerged from the water and floated slowly towards the shore on the right side of the current, looking like a giant turtle shell.

Under the turtle shell, Anton's legs paddled hard, until his feet stepped on the soft bottom of the river, and his heart fell to the ground.

Opening the exhaust port in the boat, Anton shrank back from the sneaking boat, letting the big guy sink into the water with bubbles, dragging a huge waterproof bag and struggling to the shore.

This simple stealth boat is made of special fabric, which can be folded on weekdays, and it is hard when it is wet, and it becomes a submarine shape, and its strength can completely resist ordinary impacts, and it is the only weapon for underwater sneaking.

The reason why it is called simple is because this thing has no power except for an airbag that can control the lifting and falling, and can only go with the flow, and it is almost impossible to control, so it has extremely high requirements for the user's physical fitness.

It wasn't until his head was completely above the water that Anton spit out the oxygen-rich tablets in his mouth, and greedily breathed in the fresh air, and the boredom in his chest and abdomen was suddenly relieved.

After rolling and sneaking in the rushing river for more than an hour, even if he was as strong as him, he couldn't stand it.

Stepping across the muddy riverbank, Anton did not stop, dragging his tired body, and continued to walk towards the large dark bushes in the distance.

There are few people in the wilderness, but drones are always coming, and the firepower of this thing is no joke!

Anton is well aware that his chances of survival have greatly increased by escaping here, but this does not mean that he is absolutely safe.

This is the wilderness, the wilderness full of dangers!

After entering the Age of Interstellar Discovery, the resource and population problems that plagued humanity no longer existed, and the population on each habitable planet was extremely sparse.

A medium-sized planet like Rogue has a total population of less than 600 million, and a total of eighty-three cities occupy only about 30% of the land area.

The rest of the land is called the wilderness, which has not been developed by humans, and is still in its most primitive state, with an intact biosphere.

The electronic alert towers that surround the city perfectly divide the city and the wilderness into two worlds.

The Federation does not prohibit humans from entering the wilderness, yet very few people take such risks.

Compared with the fierce beasts in the wilderness, the human body is too fragile, and if there is no heavy fire protection such as mechas, it is difficult for normal humans to survive in the wilderness, which has been confirmed by countless people with their lives.

Difficult does not mean impossible, at least for the base, and Anton is well aware of this.

When each wind chime makes a retreat plan, the goal is only to break through the city defenses, which means that the base must have a meeting point in the wilderness, at least to ensure the supply of the wolf fangs.

For the sake of secrecy, the location of these contact points can only be controlled by the wolf fangs in charge of the operation, and they will only be issued before the operation, and as for the wind chimes, it is impossible to access these high-level secrets.

The base has never been like this today, the wolf tooth in charge of the operation hanged, but Anton, the wind chime, completed the task alive, so everything can only be done by himself.

Stopping under a slightly taller wild palm tree, Anton glanced left and right, and sat down on the soft rotting leaves, exhaling a long breath.

"It's so tiring......"

Although he was very tired, Anton did not rest for too long, only dragged the package around him for a while, and soon there were three more mobile phones on the ground, as well as two piles of severed fingers.

Picking up his phone, Anton felt a little uneasy in his heart, he still couldn't figure out what was going on in the sewers, if the phone didn't work, then he would have a lot of fun.

There is no doubt that the retreat route must exist in the mobile phones of the two wolf fangs, and as wolf teeth, the security level of their mobile phones is naturally not open with just a few broken fingers, so Anton must use his own mobile phone.

"God bless ......"

Anton muttered in his heart, pressed the genetic lock of his mobile phone, and then the prayer turned into a sigh, "Jiao, this is over......"

The familiar picture of green mountains and green water has disappeared, and what appears on the lit screen is a colorful group of light, from time to time there are several bright lines flying out from the light group, and then re-throwing into the embrace of the light group after drawing a wonderful mysterious pattern on the screen, one after another, endlessly, but giving people a very lively feeling in the silence.

But where is Anton in the mood to appreciate this at this time?

The only mobile phone that can be used is also infected with the virus, which means that Anton can't get the coordinates of the connection point, and it is delusional to want to wander blindly in this dangerous wilderness!

Anton leaned back weakly, looking at the sky with a glimmer of light through the gaps between the branches and leaves, his heart was at a loss, he fought for a long time, and in the end he still ended up like this, and he didn't know what else he could do now.

Just when Anton was stunned, a crisp and moving female voice suddenly sounded, "Hello, is there anything I can help you with?" ”

"it!"

Anton jumped up like a spring, glanced in all directions vigilantly, and then reacted, looking at the mobile phone in his right hand in surprise, and then remembered that the voice was the electronic synthesis sound of the mobile phone assistant!

The phone was still on, and those beautiful lines were still jumping, as if nothing had happened, but Anton was sure that the voice just now was not an auditory hallucination, and a little fire of hope suddenly arose in his heart.

As a wind chime, Anton is extremely familiar with electronic devices and viruses, and because of this, he will despair as soon as he turns it on.

Hacker attacks are roughly divided into two kinds, one is to steal information, just like Anton once did, this kind of course has to be done silently, and the other is to destroy the other party's electronic equipment as the goal, such hackers usually leave their mark after they succeed, just like the light on the screen at the moment.

This time, Anton's mobile phone was infected by an unknown virus, and the boot screen also changed, which is obviously more in line with the second hacker's style of acting, so he is desperate.

The boot assistant can still be used, which means that the phone has not been completely scrapped!

"The road to heaven and earth, ......"