After confirming the presence of a mole, Rouyi, Fatty, and Han Yu were immediately excluded from suspicion, and the focus of suspicion fell on Jennifer and Lide Cha.

Rouyi and Lide Cha had been good friends since college. After Rouyi returned from the Himalayas, Lide Cha had been helping Rouyi in his work and life. He couldn't be the mole either, Rouyi could vouch for that.

Only Jennifer, who had just joined the team, was the most suspicious. Perhaps she had informed them in some way, or perhaps she had deliberately left some clues.

Faced with everyone's questions, Jennifer shouted desperately, "It wasn't me!"

On the contrary, Fatty, who had been at odds with Jennifer from the beginning, stood up to defend Jennifer. Perhaps it was because people who had been in the army especially valued comradeship.

General Potter didn't give them time to find out who the mole was. Under General Potter's threats and intimidation, Rouyi and the other four had no choice but to abandon the submarine and board General Potter's ship instead.

When everyone decided to abandon the submarine, General Potter changed his fierce appearance and personally took the five people from the submarine to the ship with a kind smile, and shook hands with everyone kindly.

Jennifer recognized General Potter at a glance. The white officer in front of her was her superior when she was in the military.

Jennifer habitually stood at attention and saluted General Potter, who then returned a salute to Jennifer. Their relationship was already unclear, and with the two saluting like this, the other four had a conclusion in their minds about who the mole was.

Fatty rubbed his forehead with a headache, thinking to himself how he could have been so wrong.

But in reality, Jennifer and General Potter were not familiar. Jennifer had only served under him. After Jennifer saluted, she asked General Potter, "General Potter, what brings you here this time?"

General Potter said with a fake smile, "A submarine from the Roosevelt Road Naval Base was stolen by a serving officer. I don't think this has anything to do with you, does it?"

The others quickly shook their heads, saying that it had nothing to do with them. But Jennifer was suspicious. How could General Potter be so sure that the submarine was stolen by an officer? This was clearly a deal.

"Thank you very much for assisting our military in recovering the submarine," General Potter said.

Rouyi and Fatty looked at each other, not understanding what General Potter was up to. Because anyone with eyes could see that they had clearly stolen the submarine, and they had been caught red-handed. Why did the officer in front of them suddenly shift the point of conflict?

"Then, please allow me to send you back to shore," General Potter said, once again showing his hypocritical smile.

After speaking, General Potter sent someone to invite Rouyi, Fatty, and the other five to the lounge inside the ship's cabin.

After everyone left, General Potter quietly instructed his deputy to send someone to retrieve the black box from the submarine, and then destroy the submarine in international waters.

Two days later, the North Atlantic Special Military Operation ended, and the U.S. military superiors received General Potter's report on the operation.

In his report, General Potter mentioned that they had discovered the escaped submarine in international waters in the North Atlantic, but the submarine repeatedly broke through the military's interception and returned fire with force. Commander General Potter had no choice but to order the submarine to be destroyed in international waters. As a result, the submarine sank, and the black box was lost. Dick Beale was also on board, with no chance of survival. The operation successfully sank the escaped submarine at the cost of losing a submarine chaser, and the operation ended there.

…

General Potter did keep his promise. He did not make things difficult for Rouyi and the other four, nor did he pursue them for the crime of stealing military equipment.

The ship eventually docked at a military port on the east coast of the United States, near New York. Rouyi and Lide Cha had a company in New York, so General Potter sent a special car to take them to New York.

The driver was from the military. Because the military was present, Rouyi, Fatty, and the others didn't talk much. Who knew if the American soldiers were listening to them? Even if they did talk, they only talked about unimportant things.

Since returning from the ocean, Rouyi and Han Yu had a very bad attitude towards Jennifer, clearly treating Jennifer as a traitor. Jennifer also deeply felt the exclusion of everyone except Fatty, but she couldn't explain herself. The submarine was her idea, Dick was her contact, and General Potter was her former superior. With all kinds of coincidences put together, she was a well-deserved traitor.

Fatty, who had been dealing with Jennifer the longest, actually wanted to defend Jennifer, but he couldn't find a reason to defend her. He couldn't say that the arrogant Jennifer had deliberately arranged for others to violate him in order to infiltrate the team, so that Fatty could play the role of a hero saving a damsel in distress, and then use this as leverage to make Fatty the guarantor for Jennifer's entry into the team.

The most important thing was that Fatty believed that Jennifer's feelings for everyone were genuine, not fake. This was in line with Jennifer's carefree personality. Jennifer was not the kind of person who was very scheming and could hide things.

Thinking about it from another perspective, if all of this was Jennifer's plan, then what was her purpose?

This was the most complicated question Fatty had ever thought about in his life. He felt that his brain was not working and rubbed his temples frantically.

Jennifer couldn't stand this suspicion and questioning, so she asked to get out of the car halfway. Jennifer separated from Rouyi and the others with anger. Before getting out of the car, she glanced at Fatty, without saying a word, while Fatty's eyes revealed a look of guilt.

After Rouyi, Fatty, Han Yu, and Lide Cha arrived at their destination, they rested for a few days. After getting enough rest, they began to review the underwater adventure, and Fatty once again described in detail what happened in the underground fortress.

…

"You saw a living giant python that was dozens of meters long in the pyramid with your own eyes?" Rouyi asked.

Fatty nodded very firmly, but of the three people who had seen the giant python, one was dead and one was being ostracized, so Fatty could only say whatever he wanted.

"According to Fatty, the content on the leather scroll basically corresponds to the history of Stone City," Rouyi said.

Now that the leather scroll was destroyed, and there was no physical evidence, Rouyi could only rely on her memory to restore this piece of history that had been buried in the dust.

Rouyi told Fatty the content on the leather scroll in complete detail, and Fatty slowly came to his senses and realized the strangeness of Stone City.

Fatty thought to himself that he had almost become food for the giant python, this Stone City was too damn evil. After muttering to himself for a while, he suddenly thought of something. After pondering for a long time without a clue, he said, "When I returned to the underground fortress for the second time, I saw Shao Ye with broken bones all over his body and covered in blood. The giant python was also paralyzed on the ground for some reason, and seemed to be dying. I have no clue what happened there while I was away."