Chapter VII: The Chaotic Situation
As she walked through the jungle, Laura made a simple gilly suit from local materials, put it on, and came to the vicinity of the mercenary camp.
After a brief look around, she found a high ground with her back to the sun, pulled out her binoculars and began to look at the camp below.
The camp was built temporarily on the basis of a base left by the Japanese army during World War II, with a total of 16 tents, a sentry at the entrance, and a closer look found that there was a secret sentry in the overgrown deserted bunker in the east, and the sentry was armed with an M4 carbine and a military dagger pinned to his chest. This look is in stark contrast to the cult spots of the previous Savage tribes.
Turning the focus, Laura began to observe the tent.
The largest tent in the middle and the three small tents in the northwest are black, with the Holy Trinity logo on the top, while the other tents are the usual army green, and there are no special markings in sight.
After observing for a while, the personnel entering and exiting the tent of the Holy Trinity were wearing their armbands, and their weapons were basically MP5 or M4 carbines.
Although the personnel in the ordinary tent were also fully armed, they did not wear armbands, and their weapons were varied, and Laura even saw a bald man holding an AA12.
It seems that this should be a mercenary hired by the Holy Trinity.
The firepower of this camp is indeed strong enough, and the personnel are more professional. Laura didn't want to mess with them just yet.
Just as he was about to withdraw his gaze and leave, he glanced at two men with familiar faces and fixed his eyes.
"Agent Ward, and crossbones?"
"What's going on? S.H.I.E.L.D. also got involved? ”
Laura's eyes followed the two men to the southern corner of the camp.
After looking at them again for a while, she noticed that the two men did not have the S.H.I.E.L.D. Eagle emblem on them.
"It doesn't seem to be S.H.I.E.L.D., it's possible that the Snake Shield sent them to be undercover. After all, Hydra is also very interested in supernatural powers. ”
The two men in sight seemed to be talking in the corner, and Crossbones looked back in Laura's direction.
Laura quickly withdrew her gaze and dodged into the grass next to her.
"What's wrong with you? Did you find anything? ”
Ward asked, looking at Crossbones.
"I seem to sense that someone over there is watching us."
Crossbone replied with the gun at his waist.
Hearing Crossbones say this, Ward also used his right hand to block out the sunlight and look in that direction.
"Backlight, the vision is too poor, so let's go over and take a look."
The two of them cooperated with each other and soon found out where Laura was before.
After gesticulating, Ward was on guard with a gun, and Crossbone crouched down to check through the grass.
"There was someone here just now."
As he spoke, Crossbone pulled out a dirty bandage from among the weeds.
Ward glanced at it and said, "It looks like the barbarians again." ”
Crossbones agrees with this statement, and after infiltrating the mercenary team of the Holy Trinity, they have exchanged fire with the Brotherhood of the Sun many times after landing on the island, and the cultists are all in tattered clothes, and they are held in place by these bandage strips.
The two searched the neighborhood again, but found no one, only a herd of deer grazing not far away, and two of them even looked up at them.
"Let's go, go back and talk to the commander of the Holy Trinity, and let their sentinels keep an eye on this position, I said a long time ago that two sentry posts in this kind of rainforest are not enough."
Complaining about the leader of the Holy Trinity, Crossbones and Ward turned and walked towards the camp.
After a while, the deer slowly left, and the grass suddenly moved, revealing two eyes.
After confirming the safety of her surroundings, Laura cautiously left the jungle.
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In the evening, Laura returned to the hideout with a cleaned rabbit and re-lit the campfire, roasting the rabbit while thinking about the next move.
The island now has the largest forces of the three parties, the Brotherhood of the Sun, the Holy Trinity Mercenaries, and the Storm Guard.
The goal of the Solar Brotherhood is to find a suitable body container for the Sun Queen Himiko, lift the storm curse in the waters around Yamatai Island, and leave.
The goal of the Holy Trinity is certainly the source of the Sun Queen's power. The Hydra who are part of the mercenary team should be aiming for the same.
As for the Storm Guards, the gang of Zi Hanhan is to expel and kill the intruders, and kill anyone they see.
By the way, there is also the new Aoki group who was shipwrecked, they are passers-by refugees, no weapons and no equipment, I can only hope that they will be blessed with great lives.
I tore off the roasted rabbit leg and took a bite, and my mouth was full of oil and meat, and a few drops fell on Laura's chest. She didn't pay attention to it, and took out a wild fruit picked on the road from her pocket, wiped it, and bit it.
As a result, the juice splashed on his chest a few more times.
"Ah, it's so annoying, I finally know why those girls are hunched over and eating."
"Wait, girls, women, Japanese women... Sun Priest! ”
Laura threw the gnawed pits into the campfire, wiped her hands casually, and lay down.
"Looks like I'm going to have to go find Aoki and them tomorrow, maybe those three women have the container that Himiko needs."
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After Aoki and Laura separated, they walked around the island for most of the day in fear, and finally found the team that had been separated before.
"Aoki? That's great! You're alive! What about Shirou? Didn't he get taken with you? ”
Aoki hadn't had time to be happy when he saw someone he was familiar with, and his mood went down again when he heard this.
"I'm sorry, I'm alone, Shirou was beaten to death by those devils, and I was rescued by a mysterious woman."
The joy of reunion is diluted by the sadness of losing a friend.
After Aoki returned to the team, there were only 7 people in this refugee team, 4 men and 3 women, Shirou died, and a crew member named Sosuke was missing, and the captain Shuichi did not survive it.
They are now short of food, lack of clothing, lack of medicine... Gradually, the atmosphere in the team became solemn.
"Aoki, you said you were rescued by a woman, and she gave you food. We can go to her, so that we can eat, drink, and wear. A tall girl in the team said.
Aoki glanced at this girl, who was usually a little pretentious, and sighed helplessly and said, "Saki, I don't know who she is or where she is, we separated after we left the settlement." ”
The woman named Saki was about to speak, but a fish-eyed girl next to her directly interrupted her: "People saving Aoki may not save you, and besides, you have to save a dying person." ”
"Xue Xu. Don't be rude! ”
The woman sitting in the center said.
Glancing at Saki, Xue Xu walked over to the woman and sat down next to her. Holding her arm, he said:
"Got it, Mariko-sama."
After a moment of silence, the group shared the compressed biscuits that Laura had given Aoki, then clumsily lit a bonfire in an ancient temple and soon fell asleep.
Meanwhile, in one of the largest Brotherhood of the Sun stronghold, Matthias, armed with a strange scepter, asks the kneeling man, "You mean, the three women in your team are all Japanese?" ”
"Yes, yes, yes!"
The kneeling man hurriedly nodded in reply.
Matthias reached out and pulled him up: "Welcome, Sosuke brother loyal to the Sun Queen." You're going to lead us to the Queen's container, and now, get all of us together and go! ”