It was already late at night on the island of Minos, which has a two-hour time difference from Bulgaria.
The base located in the east of the island is like a small city.
Most of the recruits had already turned off the lights and gone to bed, but the class with the lowest score was working with the instructors to stay up late and clean the toilets.
In addition to those unlucky ones who are last at the base, there are actually many night shift employees in the base, armed security guards on patrol, and Sui Bian who likes to work until early morning.
In the living room of the exclusive dormitory.
Sui Bian, who was sitting in the middle of the sofa, was dressed casually, with black short-sleeves and casual trousers, and no gel. After all, he had just washed up.
The red queen sitting on the far left of the sofa is still wearing the employee uniform, but it is not a long uniform like a suit jacket, but a white long-sleeved shirt and a black work skirt that just goes above the knees.
Several holographic screens placed in the living room are playing the helmet camera of Task Force 141, as well as relevant information compiled by the Red Queen.
Not long ago, when Crawford used a satellite phone to contact his father, the conversation was monitored by the Red Queen, who specializes in anomalies.
She captured the key points of the "Glowing Lake" and the "Temple of Artemis", so she directly contacted the nearest Hope, sent the positions of George and Tom to the captain of the Hope, and asked Pule Si led the 141st Task Force and technical personnel to deal with it.
At the same time, the Red Queen also asked Brea, one of the London supervisors, to lead intelligence agents to the manor outside London to contact Crawford's father, Earl Richard Crawford.
After arranging the above, the Red Queen determined that this abnormal event was likely to be related to the ancient gods.
So the Red Queen immediately left the lounge where she and the White Queen were, went to the next door, and reported to Sui Bian in person.
The holographic screen at this time showed that 141 had initially ruled out the possibility of danger near the lake, but continued to expand the scope to ensure that technicians had a green on-site environment.
Seeing that a dozen fairies were not hostile to humans, the technicians did not treat them rudely, but patiently guided them to undergo inspection.
At first, the fairies were very afraid of the lifeless Yugull and Cassowary. Seeing that the technicians and 141s had no "malice", their curiosity outweighed their fear and they cooperated in the inspection.
As for the five college students, they have completed the physical examination and are now being interrogated by Ghost and Soap.
"..." Sui Bian remained silent while watching the interrogation.
Among the five college students, Lara Croft deserves his attention.
Whether in appearance or life experience, Lara Croft is similar to the heroine of "Tomb Raider" that Sui Bian is familiar with.
Of course, it's not the new version of the game, let alone the movie version, but Lara Croft from the original game.
"The Red Queen." Sui Bian, whose eyes did not leave the holographic screen, said to the Red Queen: "Help me pay attention to that Lara Croft. She should have the potential to become a qualified intelligence officer."
"Yes." The Red Queen still replied as usual, but she also took the initiative to suggest:
"Sir, his father, Earl Richard Crawford, is well-known in the archaeological community and has extensive experience in archaeology.
Therefore, I propose that the company's intelligence department should set up a team responsible for excavating ancient ruins on the earth, and we can recruit Chad Crawford to join this team to serve the company. "
"Well..." After seeing Hong, he took the initiative to propose to him. Sui Bian just pondered for a few seconds and nodded in agreement:
"Then set up such a team. You will select and recruit professionals from inside and outside the company. Queen Bai can also assist you if necessary.
By the way, I remember discovering that Göbekli's old professor was also very good. I sent an intelligence agent to get in touch with that archaeological leader, and if his physical condition allowed, I also tried to recruit him. "
"I will take care of it, sir, please rest assured." The Red Queen replied with the same expression.
Sui Bian stopped talking to the Red Queen and focused on the screen.
The Red Queen is using her super "multi-tasking" ability to focus on the Artemis Temple site and monitor all parts of the world. At the same time, she has begun to prepare an archaeological team under the intelligence department.
It didn't take long.
Sui Bianzao's technicians discovered in one step that the strange language spoken by the group of fairies was ancient Greek.
Although Sui Bian was not good at mathematics, physics and chemistry, he never gave up studying, including various ancient characters and languages. After all, the company affairs were assisted by the red and white empresses, so he still had more free time to study.
This group of fairies chattered to the technicians, "Are you humans or gods?", "Has the demon been destroyed?", or "Can you save my Lord?" and other words.
demon? save?
Sui Bian frowned slightly when he heard the key words.
Immediately afterwards, the group of fairies began to dance and gesture with something. Even without translation, you could guess that they wanted to lead everyone to a certain place.
Seeing this, the technical staff applied to the Red Queen to follow, and the Red Queen forwarded the application to Sui Bian.
"Follow them." Sui Bian had no objection to this: "Tell Captain Price to allocate the manpower."
"Yes." The Red Queen promised.
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at this time.
Standing in the ruins of the temple, Price unfolded his power armor helmet and lit his cigar. After receiving Sui Bian's instructions from the Red Queen, he raised his left hand to hold the cigar, took a breath of smoke, and opened the communication command:
"Soap, Xiaoqiang, you two will lead the team and stay here to guard and ensure the safety of the five college students and the airship. The rest of you will follow me."
"Copy that." Soap responded.
"..." Xiaoqiang didn't say anything.
Finished issuing the order.
Price stubbed out the cigar and put it back in his mouth, closed his helmet again, held the commander-shaped beam rifle and left the ruins.
Next, led by Price and Ghost, a total of forty 141 escorted five technicians and followed the group of fairies to leave the lake and go to the dense forest east of the temple.
Entering the dense forest, Price and others walked eastward for more than ten minutes, then circled around to the north of the cliff, this time walking westward for more than ten minutes.
Finally, the fairies led Price and others to an entrance that could lead to the inside of the cliff.
From the outside, this entrance looks like a natural crack in the cliff. It is only three meters wide. With the European spruce trees growing around it, no one will care about this crack-like entrance at all.
Price also opened the map on the helmet screen and discovered that the crack was opposite the temple.
Then, the fairies waved their hands to everyone and took the lead in flying into the crack.
Seeing this, Price made a warning gesture to Ghost and 141, guarded the five technicians in the center, and entered the crack in a row.
The first half of the crack is very narrow and dark. Even with the assistance of night vision equipment, it is still extremely unfriendly to people with claustrophobia.
However, as everyone went deeper and deeper, the above situation turned 180°, and the space became spacious, even filled with a large number of luminous plants.
