Plantation
"Had you found any leads on Academy Under Heaven yet? Could they be hiding in some unknown world, like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?"
Li Bai furrowed his brow. Five action teams had converged on the Brazilian Amazon. Institute 507 had sent nearly all its elite forces, yet they still hadn't found a single lead on Academy Under Heaven. The Nine Provinces Xuan Association's defectors were certainly good at hiding.
"The Brazil action team used the simplest method of elimination. They divided the entire Amazon rainforest into sections and searched them one by one, combing every inch. They even brought in small planes and drones, and they're preparing to apply for satellite remote sensing."
Zhao Ziwu explained the situation. In other places, the defectors had fought to the death, but the group that had fled to Brazil had vanished without a trace. They hadn't even launched a single attack or tried to interfere. They'd disappeared completely, like turtles hiding in their shells.
With no other options, the Brazil action team had been forced to spend a great deal of time and energy searching the Amazon rainforest. This wasn't something they could finish in a day or two, and they would likely encounter plenty of dangers along the way.
The dangers came not only from the rainforest's harsh terrain, extreme weather changes, all kinds of snakes, insects, rats, and ants, and ferocious beasts and birds of prey, but also from Indigenous tribes and illegal armed groups. All of them might ambush the Wizards from China, causing unpredictable casualties.
The van braved the wind and rain and soon arrived at a plantation on the outskirts of Manaus.
Manaus, the capital of Brazil's Amazonas state, had a population of around 1.5 million. It was far smaller than the provincial capitals of