Preparing to Travel to the Ark

The main text of Containment Control Begins with Umbrella, Chapter 703: Preparing to Travel to the Ark. This was in the northern outskirts of Mombasa City.

This was where the urban district met the savanna.

To the south lay Mombasa's high-tech urban center, while to the north stretched a vast African wilderness.

There were bustling patches of short grass, low trees, somewhat barren yellow soil, and a few muddy pits and puddles. All kinds of wild animals could even be seen.

Although Africa was underdeveloped overall, this was probably the region on Earth that was closest to nature.

On the land at the edge of the city, the Engineering Team from Kenya Base was working hard to build a temporary research facility.

Meanwhile, Halsey was leading Ivan, Leng, and a group of younger people aboard a Pelican, circling above the savanna. They seemed to be trying to determine where a large ruin might exist before the base was completed.

However...

Looking out across the land, apart from the uniquely African desert-savana scenery, they had not found anything worth noting.

The terrain was flat.

It was nothing like Göbeklitepe, with its tall earthen mounds, or the Tomb of Achilles, which had been built beneath a world-famous volcano.

With the naked eye, there was no way to detect anything unusual.

Halsey, standing at the edge of the hatch, also knew the reason.

The Forerunners had disappeared more than a hundred thousand years ago. A hundred thousand years was more than enough time to bury everything here.

"If it could really be seen that easily, this ruin would have been discovered long ago. Why would they need me?" Halsey muttered.

Then she turned to glance at Megan, who was sitting inside the cabin, before saying to Ivan beside her:

"Ivan, have your Artificial