The Mystery

Lorna looked at Luo Jun with her beautiful narrow eyes, soft like water in his arms.

"Mr. Luo, thank you."

Lorna gave Luo Jun a deep kiss, the tenderness and emotion in her eyes impossible to conceal.

Luo Jun stroked her fair neck, gently lifting her exquisite chin.

He looked at her delicate lips with a complex smile.

"If you really want to thank me, you should know to tell me some secrets." Luo Jun felt now was a good time to probe for information.

When conquered by a man's tenderness, a woman would even give everything for him.

This was the complete opposite for men. Physically conquered, their enthusiasm would quickly fade, rationality swiftly occupying their thoughts.

This was one of the survival abilities evolved over the ages.

"What do you want to know?"

Lorna snuggled against Luo Jun and asked.

"Everything about this island." Luo Jun said directly.

Lorna's eyes changed slightly, gazing at the horizon complicatedly.

"I know very little about this island, only that over a hundred years ago, top biologists and physicists from eight countries were gathered here, as for what they researched I really don't know. Afterwards, the island was permanently sealed off!"

Lorna said.

"It's impossible for all countries to keep it secret so tacitly?" Luo Jun couldn't help but doubt.

"This isn't difficult, because the island doesn't belong to any country. Even if interests exist, there is no political motivation to leak anything. If a country isn't afraid of threats or damaged interests, revealing the island's affairs, wouldn't that be self-destructive?"

Lorna's words hinted at another layer of meaning.

That was, the affairs on this island could threaten any country, including the US.

In that case, there were two possibilities: one, the organization protecting the island's secrets had infiltrated the top levels of every country, and could discipline any leakers at any time!

Two, the island was an independent "nation." The benefits it produced were exceptionally enormous, and advantageous for any country. Once ordinary people knew the secret, that country would lose the right to those benefits.

Luo Jun wasn't a politician, he could only guess this much. The true reasons remained unknown.

"In short, any fishing boats or planes approaching the island would inexplicably vanish or crash." Lorna said with a complicated expression.

"Isn't that the same as the Bermuda Triangle? That stuff is just to fool kids!" Luo Jun laughed.

"The Bermuda Triangle is just a smokescreen to divert attention. The real incidents occurred here! Even the most secretive affairs will have some rumors leak out, diverting those rumors to the Bermuda Triangle is perfect. Ordinary people also lack the ability to investigate, books say whatever they say."

Lorna's words gave Luo Jun a shock.

Diverting attention was a tried and true political maneuver for humans.

"Damn it, can only hope this island isn't some biochemical weapons base, or we'll really be done for. After things stabilize, I'll observe the situation on this island."

Luo Jun cursed, feeling an inexplicable fear towards the island.

"We shouldn't be far from the California Peninsula. Do we have a chance of leaving?"

Lorna asked Luo Jun.

Luo Jun shook his head. "I can't answer you for now. I have to observe the weather around the island first, and whether there are arms on the island. The weather can still be dealt with. If there are arms on the island, we may be discovered before even leaving."

After speaking, Luo Jun looked at Lorna in his arms again.

"The troops stationed on the island shouldn't be US troops either, or that transport plane wouldn't have been shot down."

Lorna nodded.

Luo Jun took a deep breath. The US military didn't even dare occupy this island, what was the reason?

Could the island really be contaminated with biochemicals?

"Nevermind, let's head back first. The sun's nearly set, the weather will turn cold soon. You can rest in the shelter, there will be many mosquitoes and bugs at night. I'll go make some mosquito repellent."

Luo Jun and Lorna got up from the sea.

Li Shi watched the two from afar, unwillingness in her eyes. Seeing them approach, she bit her lip without greeting.

Clearly this girl knew what Luo Jun and Lorna did by the seaside.

Luo Jun didn't care about his wet clothes, axe in hand he entered the woods. Earlier when chopping wood, he had discovered a huge termite mound over there.

He didn't have time to deal with it then, now he decided to go "steal" a large piece of the termite mound to burn.

Soon, Luo Jun arrived near the termite mound. The flat land around was bare, the meter tall termite mound towered like a small mountain beside a pine tree.

This mound had already been abandoned, no termites left inside.

While the woods weren't completely dark yet, Luo Jun took his axe and chopped the mound down. Burning the mound itself wouldn't repel mosquitoes, but the white clumps formed from termite excrement could.

Chopping the mound, Luo Jun was very careful, worried that army ants had occupied the vacant nest.

Army ants marched their whole lives, without fixed nests. After hunting an area clean, they would move to the next place. These completely blind creatures were extremely ferocious, often seizing the nests of other ant colonies.

This termite mound may have been an army ant nest they left behind after occupation.

After getting the mound down, Luo Jun also picked many pine needles from the pine trees around.

Crushing these needles into juice and applying it on the skin could make mosquitoes and bugs avoid them.

By the time Luo Jun dragged these things back, the sky was completely dark. The sea winds blew fiercely, the clouds in the sky blown clean. The stars were even brighter than big cities with light pollution.

"Uncle, what are you going to use these things for?"

Seeing Luo Jun carrying a large bundle of pine needles and a white termite mound, Li Shi curiously asked.

"Burning this mound at night can repel mosquitoes. Also laying some of these pine needles in the shelter to sleep on, and crushing some into juice to apply on skin to prevent mosquito and bug bites."

Luo Jun explained.

Lorna and Li Shi knew nothing about this. Hearing Luo Jun, they looked very shocked.

"Uncle, you're quite demanding about living!"

Li Shi felt mosquitoes weren't a big deal. Eating their fill was good enough, but Luo Jun solemnly shook his head.

"This isn't for comfort sleeping. Mosquito bites can easily lead to malaria here. Even a minor illness could be very troublesome in this place."

Hearing Luo Jun, the two women became nervous.

They probably never camped out like this in the wild before. Even if they tried it for a day or two, it wouldn't affect them, and they had transportation. Rescue was easy if anything happened. Things were very different here, isolated from the world.

The two women came over to help prepare the shelter, and lit the mound.

Smoke from the burning mound drifted around them. Luo Jun started making the pine juice.

On the other side, Jack and Jenny leaned by the bonfire resting. They didn't catch any fish, but gathered some shellfish on the beach to add to the coconut meat cooking soup in the helmet.

Hearing the insect calls from the island woods, along with some strange cries, Jenny felt no sense of security.

Jack himself wasn't very bold either. Only ignorance made him feel surviving on the island wouldn't be too difficult. Now he was also very afraid, unable to give Jenny any sense of security.

He could only self-comfort, saying rescue would definitely find them.