“…Cordillera Azul, in the Perù’s Andes. That’s the location most likely depicted in the painting. It’s place of very high mountains, dense forests, pretty much unexplored. Satellite’s images are not helping much, because it’s a very humid location, always under clouds. And the infrared shots shows only trees.”
I stare at Kit. “You are saying that you are sending four manned teams in Pennsylvania and Germany, while in the asshole of the world we are going in just two?”
Everyone become silent. Nobody expected me to react this way.
“No, Ed, you will have Ameristar and Drax, with you. They seems the best suited for the mission…”
“And where are they, NOW?”
“In… another facts-gathering mission. She said to know a place where information about Cuccubao are kept. And it’s a place actually on the route that Cuccubao should have taken to go from the Atlantic coast to the Cordillera Azul.”
Chance looks at me, and then says: “We rendezvous with them, check anything Jackie could have discovered, and then we head for the mountains.”
I sit back, silently.
Kit sigh, and then he says: “Chance is field leader. Your team takes the Hovercraft, the rescue mission has been a good test for it, it performed flawlessly; the other teams will go by plane…”
