Half an hour earlier, he had spoken with Laura Croft over a video call, ensuring that her expedition team had sufficient supplies to venture deep into the jungle and had not encountered any major mishaps. Ordinarily, Laura Croft would have lost contact with the outside world once she entered the rainforest, but she carried communications equipment from the City of Immortals. A communications satellite hovered above the atmosphere overhead, serving her and allowing her to receive Salomon's call in the hot, humid rainforest. After a brief exchange of greetings, Laura immediately reported the situation—following Sir Richard Croft's notes and the records acquired by the City of Immortals, she had tracked down a ruin in Brazil, just as expected. The remnants of The Trinity might have come here long ago, leaving behind the remains of soldiers caught in the ruin's traps.
"We searched the wrong place. The ruins should be in Peru, not Brazil." Laura's voice brimmed with excitement. Holding up photographs of the ruins she had taken, she talked nonstop before the camera, as delighted as a little girl who had received a new toy. Perhaps due to the Arcanist's intervention, Laura had completely broken free of the shadow cast by her father's death and the wishes he had left behind. She could happily follow in her father's footsteps and speak of her adventures in a thoroughly relaxed state. She showed Salomon the reliefs she had photographed in the ruins, along with the gemstones embedded in murals that formed constellations. It was the clues on those reliefs that had led her to the ruins' true location.
"And we found someone mentioned in my father's notes... He's an archaeologist who studies the pre-colonial era, and apparently he'll be coming to Brazil soon. I've decided to wait for him here. Maybe he