Lin Yue never imagined that the most thrilling adventure of his life would happen on the subway ride home from work.
A flash of white light, and when he woke up, he was no longer in the carriage. Towering trees blotted out the sky above him. Beneath his feet lay a damp, rotting carpet of leaves. The air was so hot and stifling it felt like a steamer, and mosquitoes swarmed at his face like a black veil. Insects shrilled deafeningly in his ears, while the distant growl of some unknown beast echoed through the forest.
He had fallen into the Amazon rainforest, the most dangerous place on Earth.
There were only five women with him.
Their plane had crashed deep in the rainforest, and they were the only survivors. They were young and beautiful, dressed in torn uniforms. Su Man, the calm and composed head flight attendant. Ye Ting, a retired military medic with deft hands. Lin Ruoxue, a cool beauty with skin so fair it seemed to glow. Bai Wei, a tearful girl with a round face and short hair. Gu Xiaoyu, an optimistic girl with a ponytail. They looked at him as if he were the last piece of driftwood keeping them afloat.
He was the only man. He had to get them out alive.
But the Amazon never lets anyone go.
Piranhas waited in the river, churning into a frenzy at the scent of blood. Army ants swept across the ground, leaving nothing but white bones in their wake. Anacondas coiled in the branches overhead, thicker than a man's waist. Jaguar tracks lay just three meters from their camp. Mosquitoes spread malaria and yellow fever, and the swamp could swallow them at any moment. A bullet ant's bite hurt for twenty-four hours, so badly you'd want to cut off your own arm.
And more terrifying than any of these was the patch of blue-violet flowers deep in the rainforest. A heartbeat-like throbbing came from within the flowers. When Bai Wei heard it, she would go
