By the Lake
There was not only no one around, there was not even a road.
If not for relying entirely on satellite navigation to reach the latitude and longitude coordinates, it would have been extremely difficult to find this place. It was like an abandoned indigenous village.
This was already inland Africa. Although there were plenty of Black people, many parts of Africa were still sparsely populated despite their vast territory, remaining in a primitive, uncivilized state almost completely cut off from the civilized world for hundreds of years. Indigenous tribes were scattered everywhere, and some people had never even seen a mobile phone or television, let alone heard of the United Nations or the five permanent members of the Security Council.
Li Bai pushed open the door and jumped out of the cab, then looked around the vehicle.
Lake Victoria's pale blue waters lay in the distance. The constantly rolling waves reflected glittering ripples of light. All around was utterly silent. Apart from the faint sound of the wind, there was nothing else.
If one traveled west from here, it was at most a little over a hundred kilometers to Kasese Town, the last major town in southwestern Uganda.
It was also the terminus of the main railway line between Kenya and Uganda.
To the north was Tanzania.
Li Bai was currently in South Buganda Province of the Republic of Uganda, beside Lake Victoria—the greatest jewel of the East African Plateau. The lake's surface stood 1,134 meters above sea level, and it was also the world's second-largest freshwater lake.
The Samos Family's backup biological laboratory on the African Continent was nearby. Yet, judging solely from the surface, there were only a few ramshackle thatched-roof houses. Some had even fallen into disrepair and collapsed. It looked exactly like an