The Prison-Made Queen novel Chapter 486

It had been agreed upon beforehand. Only after she cured Payton’s poison would he reveal the truth to her. But now, she hadn't needed to cure him. Payton had already given her the answers.

The night wind swept through the courtyard, causing the shadows of the plum trees to dance on the ground like formless hands trying to grasp at something, only to release it in vain.

Leilani took a deep breath and tucked the pendant into her pocket. Regardless of the cause of Paulina’s death, and regardless of the dangers hidden at those coordinates, she would get to the bottom of it. She would do so at any cost.

That night, Leilani lay awake again.

Her desk was strewn with documents and maps. She entered the coordinates from the pendant into her computer, cross-referencing data across multiple platforms. Her fingertips flew across the keyboard as she zoomed in on the digital map, comparing it against various databases until she finally locked onto a specific location.

It was a mountain range shrouded in dense rainforest, deep within the hinterlands of Savage Mountain. This coordinate was located approximately 120 kilometers south of the border. The terrain was treacherous, perennially shrouded in fog; on satellite maps, it appeared only as a blur of green.

Leilani carefully combed through historical records, piecing together fragmentary clues in her mind.

Savage Mountain, also known as "Ghost Mountain." Due to its complex topography and poisonous miasmas, it had been a forbidden zone for explorers since ancient times. The indigenous Kinring tribes believed in a Mountain Spirit and spoke of legends regarding "Snake Cave that swallowed men whole," from which no one returned.

Scattered intelligence from recent decades indicated that in the 1970s, foreign powers had secretly established a military base there, which was later abandoned for unknown reasons.

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