This was the sixteenth mission for the D909, and yet I was still surprised when we reached the coordinates for the lost city.
“So… this is it, huh?” Patterson drawled.
I’d seen museums that would make your jaw hit the floor. I’d seen jewels and gold that only a dozen sets of eyes had ever seen. I’d touched mummies, walked into tombs, hidden in catacombs, and camouflaged a temple the size of an Egyptian pyramid, from sight.
None of that compared to the nothing I was looking at right then. There was no gold shimmering in the sunlight or giant temples peeking out of the ground. There weren’t booby-traps or even a stray beam of sunlight. If anything it was the most uneventful thing I had ever seen.
More jungle.
But the map said this was it. So Antonia and Masters moved to the front of the convoy. He pointed at something that looked kind of like a tree. Or maybe it was five trees. I’m really wasn’t sure at this point because everything in the Amazon had started to look like trees covered in trees, tangled up with vines. I wasn’t so sure we needed any of the junk we’d hauled out here. No one would be able to find this place without coordinates.
But after a minute or two Antonia pulled the knife off of her belt and started cutting at something. Then she pulled the vines away and underneath was a 7-foot piece of stone, and on that stone was some of the most beautiful carving I had ever seen in my life.
“Holy cow!” Sophie whisper-yelled.
There were a few whistles from the crowd.
Then Antonia turned around, a gorgeous smile on her face, her cheeks red with excitement. “We’re here boys and girls. Let the games begin.”
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