"Good, we are fucked. It was a pleasure to meet you all!" Robert Oz had been ranting like a madman for more than half an hour, creating considerable discomfort for his son who tried in vain to calm him down. The other scientists were more composed, but still their eyes betrayed their concern. Jocelyne couldn't blame them. All those people were convinced that if the dinosaurs had become intelligent humanity would have faced disaster; they had been convinced about it for many months, in Robert Oz's case for years. So now that she'd shown them satellite images of herds of dinosaurs all marching together in the same direction, there was no chance they would remain indifferent. Ian Malcolm's voice calmed everyone's mind. "Let's all calm down, we mustn't jump to hasty conclusions. It is true, based on what we know and what is happening, the situation seems extremely dangerous. But that's not a good reason to panic. We have no certainties, only hypotheses, even if they are quite convincin
Abe reached Cartago after a full day's drive. The city was more than 1200 kilometers away from Serapode, the capital of Odaria where the Jersey family resided, so even driving at 100 km/h he took hours to reach it.Once there he made his way to what he knew was the expedition center in the forest. Anyone wishing to enter the uncolonized area had to register there, provided he wanted to do something legal. But of course, Abe knew that there were other ways to go into the deep forest.Once inside he already knew who his target was. He quickly walked over to a skinny man who was playing with his cell phone leaning against a wall. "Hello, my name is Abe" he introduced himself."Carver" grumbled the man without looking up. "What do you want?""Join next week's expedition"Carver finally looked at him, and his gaze was not good. "It's an exclusive government-funded expedition, man. Few well-armed people will go and outsiders are not allowed. Go away, I d
When Markus Jersey finished to work it was already late at night. Looking at his prized wristwatch, he realized it was after three in the morning. He let out a grunt: he really needed to settle down. As his wife continually pointed out, working so hard was not good for his health at all. The house was extraordinarily quiet. Even if hardly any sounds were heard even during the day due to the size of the villa, at night that silence seemed to condense and become even more oppressive. Markus left his study and, after locking it, headed for his bedroom. His wife surely had already fallen asleep for some time, or at least this was what she hoped for her: he didn't crave the idea of finding her awake waiting for him ready to give him a groom on the importance of a good rest. However, as he walked through the corridors, he noticed that one of the windows was open. For a moment he thought of an oversight, but the servants would hardly ever forget to close it and especially the guards woul
Near the lake two pyroraptors, two dromeosaurs with reddish plumage, were walking quietly. And one of the two couldn't stop talking. "You should have seen me! I jumped on that stegosaurus and got it from the back of my head! In a real fight he would have died! So I got promoted and...""Yes, Echo, I was there too! They promoted both of us!" the other pyroraptor growled. "Now stay silent! We are on patrol, we mustn't be distracted!""Uff. You are such a curmudgeon, Delta!""I'm not a curmudgeon, I'm professional! Unlike you, I know what 'responsibility' means!""I can be responsible too!""Then shut up!"The two pyroraptors were both two-star warriors, and in fact had two yellow lines on their cheeks. Given their rank they had been assigned to the reconnaissance section and had the task of controlling the boundaries of the lands of the herd. They weren't exactly high up in the pack hierarchy, but they weren't at the lowest rank either.
When Dreyfus saw Malcolm returning from the expedition break into his office without even knocking and shouting 'we need to talk' he knew something serious had happened. However, nothing could prepare him for what he learned of.Dreyfus was one who thought he had seen everything in his life. He had seen rich people begging for alms just for the sake of feeling poor and poor pretending to be rich to swindle companies and earn enough to escape and support themselves. He had seen the worst suffering and the worst dilemmas. I had seen oil gushing from the most unthinkable places and plants growing even in the most desert areas. But never, never would he have thought he would see one of his better men than him so upset and hear him talk about something so absurd. After Malcolm told him about talking dinosaurs he struggled to believe him; had it not been for the fact that he knew his friend well he would have already called the medical service to give him an electroencephalogram.
As expected, the news raised a fuss as it reached the dinosaurs. When Rambo and his partner returned to the lake that evening, the debate broke out. The dinosaurs had gathered around Sobek and were arguing heatedly while waiting for their pack leader to decide what to do. The spinosaurus for his part remained calm and sought a solution to that problem. "We must attack now!" Carnopo roared. "Before they attack us!" "It's right! If humans invade the forest up to here then we will lose acres of land!" Buck gave him support. Many dinosaurs gave their assent. But Old Li was of another opinion. "We're not ready" he pointed out. "We don't have the numbers to defeat the entire human army. We are still a long way from that goal" Sobek knew that Old Li wasn't wrong. Currently following him were more than 200,000 dinosaurs which amounted to at least an army of two million humans. With such an army he could have fought on an equal footing with two human superpowers. But Eden had five superpow
If there was one thing that Sobek didn't lack, it was inventiveness. One of the few things he had inherited from the human part of him was the art in which human beings best excelled above all other creatures: malice.Humans knew how to exploit the feelings of the masses in their favor, especially the powerful. The people were an important weapon, perhaps the most important, and with the right words it was easy to incite. Or with the right actions.Sobek knew that in an open fight he and his army would lose miserably. They were by no means ready to face a coalition made up of all human armies. If they just revealed themselves, it would all be over in no time. But if the people had sided with them... then things changed.Sobek was aiming for this. He had devised a cunning trap not to get a victory, but to force ordinary people to take sides with him, even if unwittingly. Unbeknownst to them, they would have kept the politicians from making their moves… and
"I think that there are many more than one hundred" Dreyfus said with a tone halfway between mocking and worried. His old face was crisscrossed with tension lines and even through his thick glasses Malcolm could see the concern in his eyes. It was rare that Dreyfus was so anxious, but after all in this situation it was more than justifiable.Malcolm stared at the dinosaur pack. They were motionless in their positions, there in front of the walls, and all of them had not very reassuring expressions on their faces (or snouts?). At a guess, there must have been at least two thousand. There were of all kinds, herbivores and carnivores. And before them, kneeling in plain sight, were the thousands of workers who worked in the various mines, sawmills, factories, oil wells and so on scattered throughout the colony. "Did they catch them?" he whispered.Dreyfus nodded. "It is clear that they want to make some kind of demonstration. I don't know if they want to kill them in front