Laura's Beautiful Journey

When he heard "Holy Source", Jacob stiffened. But unlike the angry Sophia, he did not show any special emotions and just said lightly:

"Okay, distinguished lady. I understand your purpose of coming, so may I know your name?"

"Lara Croft, an explorer, just call me Lara."

Laura took the armor back 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. To express my gratitude, I hereby invite you to our village as a distinguished guest."

"Honored."

Laura nodded and walked into a hidden cave under the leadership of Jacob and his daughter.

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Abandoned military base, Holy Trinity's temporary headquarters.

After losing contact with the two pursuing teams, Constantine immediately dispatched three additional teams and maintained communication at all times.

Half an hour later, the reinforcements finally sent back useful information.

"Commander, we have found the pursuit team, and all of them have been killed."

"Copy that, check how they died and whether there are enemy corpses nearby."

There was a noisy voice from the communicator, and a few minutes later the voice sounded again:

"Report to the commander, among the twenty people who were chasing, machine gunner Alyosha had a strange big hole in his chest, and the rest were killed in close combat. There were a few pools of blood on the scene, but no other bodies were found."

"Strange big hole? What do you mean?"

"Report, the provisional diagnosis given by the medical soldier after examination is that Alyosha's chest was punctured by high temperature. It is suspected to be a high-temperature armor-piercing bullet, but I have never seen any ammunition that can cause such a wound."

Constantine 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 a minute, dig out part of that pool of blood and bring it back. The most important thing is to keep communicating!"

"Yes, sir!"

Half an hour later, the support team returned to the camp. Constantine ordered them to take the blood they brought back to the temporary medical room for examination, and the body was transported to a relatively complete warehouse in the base.

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

"Their fatal injuries were on the carotid artery, temple or chest. The wounds on the carotid artery and chest were not very smooth, as if they were caused by an unedged knife, but the wound on the temple was made on the back. What on earth is this? Strange weapon?"

The soldiers in the room looked at each other. It was okay to let them kill people, but they had not done any research on wound analysis.

Constantine didn't expect any answers from these guys who were trained as cannon fodder. He walked to Alyosha's body while thinking.

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

Anna also came forward and expressed her thoughts:

"Constantine, could it be the guys you met before? I remember it was said in the meeting that energy weapons were used in a certain confrontation."

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

Constantine wasn't entirely sure either. At this moment, the communicator on his waist rang.

"Commander, the results of the blood sample sent for testing have been obtained. The source of the sample is Siberian brown bear."

"Bear?"

"After genetic sequence confirmation, yes."

Anna thought for a while and continued her analysis:

"Is it possible that this is the case: the pursuit team was first blocked from communication by hostile forces, and then unfortunately encountered a brown bear that had not hibernated. Under the ambush of unknown forces and the sudden fury of the beast, the entire army was finally annihilated."

After listening to this, Constantine thought for a while. He felt that there were many unreasonable aspects in his sister's analysis, but he could only make arrangements according to this idea first.

"Deploy three more teams to strengthen patrols around the camp, and send helicopters to conduct aerial reconnaissance. If there are other forces nearby, quickly find them!"

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Laura had already arrived at the village of the survivors. She found that many of the ground buildings in this village were built against the mountains, and many concealment measures were taken.

There are many intricate tunnels dug underground. In addition, Siberia has always been a sparsely populated and bitter cold land in the eyes of outsiders. Various military satellites in the sky are too lazy to glance here, so these survivors can hide in a low-key manner. So many years.

The clothes worn by the villagers are also very primitive, made of coarse cloth and various processed animal skins.

Weapons are even more diverse, from stone spears and iron knives to lever-action shotguns and AK47s. You can build a weapons exhibition hall. What Laura is most curious about is how their logistics is responsible for supplying so many different types of ammunition. Yes, Ah San and African warlords would definitely be scrambling for such talents if they were put out there.

Under the gazes of the villagers, who were either hostile or calm but more curious, Laura, wearing black underwear, followed Jacob and his daughter into a wooden house.

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

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

Sophia took a hard bite of the steaming potatoes, reached for the wine bottle on the table, and took several sips, all the while looking at Laura with provocative eyes.

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

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

Laura said as she threw half of the potato in her hand to Sophia.

Jacob smiled and turned his head to signal.

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

Jacob raised his head and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, then let out a sigh of relief.

"So, what is your purpose in finding the source of the divine?"

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

"My father once pursued the sacred source in order to save my mother, but he is no longer here.

I don't have the same thoughts as him. I'm just looking for it to help my friend solve a troublesome thing.

Most importantly, I don't want fanatics like Holy Trinity to get their hands on something that might plunge the entire world into chaos. "

(ps: I only discovered the category recommendation message pushed by the assistant after I got off work tonight! As a newcomer, I was really shocked! In the end, Naipeng is the best in the world!)

Laura's Beautiful Journey