When he heard "Divine Source", Jacob's body froze. But unlike the angry Sophia, he didn't show any special emotions, just said lightly:

"Yes, noble lady. I know what you're here for, so can I know your name? ”

"Laura Crawford, an explorer, just call me Laura."

Laura retracted her armor into space and landed lightly in front of Jacob.

Seeing her hand, Jacob had his own thoughts.

"Dear explorer, thank you for saving my daughter Sophia. As a token of appreciation, I would like to invite you to visit our village as a guest. ”

"It's an honor."

Laura nodded, and was led by Jacob and his daughter into a hidden cave.

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Abandoned military base, the temporary headquarters of the Holy Trinity.

After losing contact with the two pursuing squads, Konstantin immediately sent three more squads and kept in touch with each other.

Half an hour later, the reinforcements finally returned useful information.

"Commander, we've found the pursuit team, they're all dead."

"Roger, check how they died, if there are any enemy bodies nearby."

There was a cacophony of voices over the communicator, and a few minutes later the voice rang out again:

"Report to the commander that of the twenty people in pursuit, the machine gunner Alyosha had a strange large hole in his chest, and the rest were killed in close combat. Several pools of blood were left at the scene, but no other bodies were found. ”

"Strange big hole? What do you mean? ”

"Report, the provisional diagnosis given by the medical corps after examination is that Alyosha was pierced in the chest by high temperature, and it is suspected that it is a high-temperature armor-piercing bullet, but I have never seen any ammunition that can cause such a wound."

Konstantin thought for a while before giving the order again:

"Then bring their bodies back, and be careful not to cause secondary damage to their wounds during transportation."

“Yes，sir。”

"Wait, dig up some of that pool of blood and bring it back, and most importantly, keep the communication!"

“Yes，sir！”

Half an hour later, the support team returned to the camp, where Konstantin ordered them to take the blood they had brought back to the makeshift medical room for examination, and the body to a relatively intact warehouse on the base.

After walking into the makeshift morgue with Anna, he first examined the bodies of Mars and the others.

"Their fatal wounds were in the carotid arteries, temples or chest. The wounds in the carotid artery and chest are not very flat, as if they were caused by an unedged knife, but the wounds in the temples are cut open on the back, what kind of strange weapon is this? ”

The creeps in the house looked at each other, and it was okay for them to kill people, but the scar analysis had not been studied.

Konstantin didn't expect any answer from the guys trained as cannon fodder thugs, and he walked over to Alyosha's corpse while thinking.

As the medic said, Alyosha's wound did have obvious signs of heat burning, but it did not look like it was caused by existing incendiary or armor-piercing shells.

Anna also came up, and she said what she thought:

"Konstantin, could it be the same guys you met earlier? I remember talking about the use of energy weapons in one of the encounters. ”

"Before, our soldiers disappeared directly after being hit by those energy weapons, but it's not certain that they only have such an energy weapon, so this is by far the most likely guess."

Konstantin wasn't entirely sure, and at this moment, the communicator on his waist rang.

"Commander, the results of the blood samples sent for testing have been released, and the source of the samples is a Siberian brown bear."

"Bear?"

"Confirmed by the genetic sequence, yes."

Anna thought for a moment and continued to analyze:

"Is it possible that the pursuit team was first blocked by hostile forces, and then unfortunate enough to encounter a brown bear that was not hibernating? Under the ambush of unknown forces and the sudden fury of wild beasts, the whole army was finally wiped out. ”

Konstantin thought for a while after listening to this, and he felt that there were many unreasonable things in his sister's analysis, but he could only arrange it according to this idea first.

"Send out three more squads to strengthen the patrol around the camp, and at the same time send helicopters to conduct aerial reconnaissance, if there are other forces nearby, then quickly find them out!"

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Laura had already arrived at the remnant village by this time, and she found that many of the buildings on the ground of the village were built against the mountain, and many hidden measures had been taken.

There are a lot of intricate tunnels dug underground, and Siberia has always been a sparsely populated bitter cold place in the eyes of outsiders, and all kinds of military satellites in the sky are too lazy to glance at this side, so these remnants have been able to hide in a low-key manner for so many years.

The clothes on the villagers are also very primitive, all coarse cloth with various animal skins concocted.

Weapons are even more varied, from stone spears and iron knives to lever shotguns to AK47s, a weapons exhibition hall can be built, and Laura is most curious about how their logistics are responsible for the supply of so many different types of ammunition.

With the hostile or calm and more curious gazes of the villagers, Laura, dressed in black inner armor, followed Jacob and his daughter into a wooden house.

"Please sit down and have something to eat together, we are short of food here, but the wine we brew still tastes good."

Jacob poured himself and Laura a glass of wine, then broke open a large potato and handed half of it to his daughter.

Sophia took a hard bite of the steaming potato, reached over the flask on the table, and took several sips, all the while looking at Laura defiantly.

Laura only felt that this little girl's behavior was quite naïve, completely different from the mature and steady female warrior in her memory, and she could only sigh that it seemed that she had begun to use inertial thinking again.

"Thanks, Jacob, but I'm not hungry now, can I get down to business?"

Throwing half of the potato in her hand to Sophia, Laura said.

Jacob smiled and turned his head to gesture.

Sophia, who was on the side, understood what her father meant, walked out of the house with potatoes and a flask, and closed the door with her feet.

Jacob threw his head back and took a sip of the wine, then let out a comfortable breath.

"So, what is your purpose in seeking the Divine Source?"

Laura sat up straight, looked at the man in front of her, and said in a serious tone:

"My father used to seek the Divine Source to save my mother, but he is no longer there.

I don't have the same idea as him, I just look for it to help a friend solve a troublesome matter.

Most importantly, I don't want fanatics like Trinity to get their hands on something that could throw the whole world into chaos. ”

(PS: I got off work tonight and found out the classification recommendation message pushed by the assistant!) As a newcomer, I was so stunned! Finally, the milk canopy is the first in the world! ）