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Before any more words can be exchanged, Balogh enters the loading bay with the rest of your team, looking as grim as the situation that you're facing right now. "All right. We're the last ones out of here, so we get the final spot to search," he says, and your suit beeps, indicating that you've received a file. You activate the HUD and take a look at the area that you're going to scout: it's a small forested area that's about fifty clicks from your base.

"There's a forest growing there?" Larry asks curiously, peering into your suit at the HUD. "That's kinda fast, isn't it?" she asks, and everyone looks at her. "I mean, look at the size of that forest and compare it to when Lemuria came out of the Atlantic. If I'm not mistaken, it should take maybe what, seventy years to get a decently growing forest up, but this place looks to be growing fine and all. Looks kinda odd, doesn't it?" she points out, and Balogh shrugs at her observation.

"Can't really be the judge, since I'm not a plant expert," he says gruffly and turns back to everyone. "Okay, sorry for the second patrol, kids, but I'm sure you all know what's at stake here," he continues. "So let's go out and check out this place as quickly as we can, and if we're lucky, we won't run into Lee and whatever it is that she's doing." Everyone nods their head.

In a few minutes, you're back in the Armadillo and driving towards your destination.

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