Prediction-On the mountain

If I would made a prediction about what comes next, I would say firstly that they wouldn't die. Why? Because it's a novel and the main character does never die before changing something in a story! Stanley hadn't changed anything yet and so we could easily understand that he would survive. There would be three options: Either they would find a way to arrive to a civilization without boiling on the desert, they would find an entrance unter the 'thumb' which opens to a huge cave system and they will find the people from the destiny of Agartha (to prevent  confusion: The destiny of Agartha doesn't have to do anything with the novel.) or they would walk back to the camp. I have predicted that Stanley would survive and Zero would die, after he had said he was the great-great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni and he had forgived him and his descendants due to Stanley's helping efforts to him. And then, when he had no more hope, he would find something in the mountain that will rescue him from all those and bring him back home. His character and physical power would be improved considerably and he would remember Zero for his entire remaining life.-or maybe not, in the event he would get rid of the curse!

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Poor Zero.