The tropical rainforest was filled with danger; venomous insects, snakes, extreme heat, and humidity. This place only had two seasons all year, the rainy season and the slightly less rainy season. The torrential downpours came without warning and without negotiating with anyone.
Several people were sitting in a stilt house deep in the dense forest, with no mood for playing cards, entertaining women, or indulging in drugs. Everyone was anxiously waiting for news, but the updates they received were not as good as they had hoped. Their counterparts on the outside were losing contact one by one, with many gone without a trace, dead or alive, and a good number of their informants were uprooted overnight. The strongholds on both sides of the China-Myanmar border had also mysteriously vanished.
"Relax, this is the Golden Triangle. No one can get in here except the official military."
