When the forbidden zone came up, both Mo Fan and Xu Zhaoting remembered the middle-aged man who had appeared there to warn them that it was off-limits.
"Tell me more. What did he look like?"
Hearing that they had a lead, Ling Ling immediately pressed for details. Mo Fan racked his brains while Xu Zhaoting began describing him.
"He was covered in dust, had yellowish-white hair, and stood about six feet tall. He was really muscular, with lots of calluses on his hands."
Jiang Shaoxu immediately added:
"He smelled strongly of saltpeter!"
"Saltpeter... I remember there being a mine somewhere nearby in Peru!"
With that crucial piece of information, Ling Ling immediately pulled out her laptop and searched, eventually finding the Yalie Undersea Mine.
"Found it! The nearest mine here in Peru is called the Yalie Undersea Mine. The person who actually angered the Nazca Reaper was most likely one of its miners!"
After connecting all the clues, Ling Ling immediately deduced the truth, then began screening personnel through the information available online.
"Fuck! That bastard general! Someone from his own country caused this mess, and he pinned it on us! Fuck your ****!"
Once they had pieced everything together, Mo Fan exploded. They had been completely innocent all along! Yet that bastard had still stopped them! He launched into a string of curses, most of them involving the general's mother.
"Just you wait! Even if I have to cross the entire Pacific, I won't let that General Mott get away with this!"
Jiang Shaoxu was furious too. She would not have been this angry if they had actually done it, but they were innocent and had still been kicked out. Who could put up with that crap?
While they discussed their deductions, Nan Jue successfully restarted the barrier. A