This spring, farmers living in Chiba Prefecture said the mountains seemed to be haunted. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It was from the beginning of March, when rumors first spread from some villages deep in the mountains that many elderly people swore to hear the voice of the Lord of the Land when they lived alone at home.

Of course, the rumors are getting more and more mysterious, but many people are gradually discovering that in the dead of night, they can always feel that the mountains seem to have undergone some changes. It's hard to tell where the changes are, it's not frequent earthquakes, it's not volcanic eruptions, it's not landslides and mudslides, it's just that according to many old people, these mountains seem to have life.

"Do you hear me? The dirt is breathing. ”

"The earth under our feet is becoming stronger every day, and it is the land lord who expresses his dissatisfaction with our land reclamation!"

"Fly, fly, see that flock of birds? ”

"Recently, the sea has been rough and the waves have been high, so it can be dangerous to go out to sea to fish. A few days ago, Yoshida in Gassho Village was slapped into the sea by a big wave, he is an old fisherman who hasn't had an accident in 30 years!"

Many people can't remember whether the rumors first came from the mountains or from the coastal fishing villages, because a few intellectuals in hospitals and schools did not bother to trace them to their origins, but they are worth noting. Chiba Prefecture is not Tokyo Osaka, and many of the staff in local schools and hospitals are directly locals, and since it is something that the old people first spread, it is not easy for them to think about it.

Ito, whose hometown is in Chiba Prefecture and is now studying at the University of Tokyo, is interested in these rumors. He is not one of those boys who travels back and forth between Ginza and Akihabara every day, and in addition to studying hard, he is also very concerned about the situation in his hometown. As a student at the University of Tokyo, he professionally asked his father to collect the rumors and then print them out at school.

I don't know if I don't know it, I was shocked when I saw it, and in just two months, hundreds of rumors have accumulated. It's not just a few hundred people who say it, but there are hundreds of things to say, Ito was stunned, this is obviously a big deal!

There were books on geology and the biological environment in the library, and Ito studied them together after inviting two fellow students who were also interested in them.

Birds often fly in flocks, farmers lazy in their daily work, and the recent rush of the sea, many clues point directly to the change of address. Ito's argument is that the Chiba Peninsula may be experiencing high-frequency and low-intensity earthquakes, such as 12 20 earthquakes a day.

This idea that first popped up sounded very reasonable, but it was also immediately ridiculed by the three of them themselves. Japan is indeed located in an earthquake zone, but isn't it delusional that a small Chiba Prefecture has been hit by a large number of earthquakes of magnitude 2 or 3 for two months?

But if the various rumors that have spread throughout the county recently, if they don't really appear, aren't they also delusional?

Ito's rhetorical question blocked everyone's mouths, so after thinking about it carefully, it's all spare time to be idle anyway, so let's go to the office of the professor in the relevant major and take a stroll!

The University of Tokyo is so big that it can't afford a set of instruments to detect earthquakes?

So soon, Ito and his friends were frightened again.

The conclusion that they regarded as delusional had already mobilized the teachers and students of geology?

The senior who greeted them also said, "You guys are just in time, we are going to Chiba Prefecture tomorrow with Professor Mikami to investigate the causes of the frequent low-intensity earthquakes there, why don't you go and see it too?"

So, the school organizes group tours at public expense?

I'm going back to my hometown, but why not!?

In fact, when the three Ito got the news, many people in the school knew about it.

Even most of Japan - theoretically.

Since the beginning of April, Fuji Television has set up a special program with a large number of experts and scholars to explain to the public the anomalies in Chiba Prefecture during this time. Local farmers in Chiba Prefecture don't pay much attention to media columns, but Tokyo's population of 10 million is different, and the show became a hit as soon as it was launched.

In Chiba Prefecture, there are more than a dozen earthquakes of the second to third level every day for dozens of days in a row, what is the situation!?

Is it a precursor to a major earthquake!?

Therefore, with the start of the program, the sales of some related products have also ushered in a peak, and the earthquake emergency kit is a product on the shelves in Japan.

After all, Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture aren't that far away, aren't they?

Gradually, in particular, the earthquake seems to be expanding......

"Hey, Alice, did you hear that?"

At the University of Tokyo, in the school café after class, Aiko, a classmate in the same class, excitedly said, "Recently, there has been a bit of an earthquake in Tokyo Bay. Yesterday there was a little news in the newspaper that there was a coffee shop by the dock, and there have been several times of such gentle vibrations recently!"

"Is the surface of the coffee rippling?"

"Oh yes, it's amazing! Hey, you see we have coffee in our hands now, why don't you stare at it too?"

"That's not necessary, it's going to be fine now. ”

"How do you know this? Stare at it, in case there is a sudden earthquake in the underground of our university, isn't it the peak period recently!"

"You can stare at it if you want, I'll stare at yours, I'll drink it." ”

"Huh...... It's not a shock at all...... It's really not face-giving. ”

"Hmmm......"

Aiko admires Alice a lot, and not just because of her achievements. Obviously she is also a biology student, and she is obviously the same grade and age, but Alice has already learned all the knowledge she had to study in her senior year! That exam, which was witnessed by the whole class, she answered all the questions so quickly. It's not that no one doubts the leak, those who doubt it will be tossed to death by their roommates the next day, and they can't stir up any waves.

After drinking coffee, Alice said that she was going to leave the school, Aiko thought about it again and again, and said, "Alice, do you think I have a chance to intern at the umbrella?"

"As long as the level is enough, of course you can. Even if it was a classmate, Alice had no intention of giving the green light: "Of course, if you only plan to go to the stage, then I didn't say it~"

Although it is a very cure-all answer, Aiko can only accept it when she thinks about it. The umbrella is a pharmaceutical company, and she is majoring in biology, unless she really applies for an irrelevant position, isn't it just talking with real kung fu. It's not a place that a layman can hold onto.

Leaving her classmates to continue her thoughts, Alice walked out of the university campus and immediately drove to the Umbrella Science Park at the northeastern tip of Tokyo.

The destination was soon there, and instead of heading towards the thirty-storey main building, she made a half-circle along the road and paused in front of a fence.

The doorman stepped forward to greet him, then the automatic door opened, the car accelerator activated, and accelerated into the park.

After another two months of construction, all six buildings in the park have been completed. The seven-storey building resembles a university teaching building, with researchers coming and going, and security measures are tight, and mercenaries directly under the umbrella patrol the surroundings around the clock.

Since the beginning of March, the company has been recruiting technicians from all over the world, and Alice has the advantage of being a student in the East of Tokyo, and it is also very convenient to select suitable personnel from the previous seniors. Although it has only been two months ago, the total number of researchers in this park, including those who moved from the United Kingdom, has reached more than 200.

Buildings A and B have been in use for a long time, and Buildings E and F are also under the control of Evan Delov, and Buildings C and D are the focus of the current HR department as comprehensive drug research and development centers. Mr. Miyano had already proposed a plan to build Buildings G and H, and the vacant land had been set aside, so he would be able to build them as soon as he needed them.

The car drove slowly in the calm park. The smell of asphalt still seems to be on the newly paved road, mixed with the scent of plants on the flowerbeds and lawns on both sides, and this place is really close to the atmosphere of a university, so that people instinctively do not want to honk their horns. As the car moved forward, the sound of the waves on the pier behind the building seemed to be more pronounced as it approached Building E in front of it.

The car stopped in front of Building E.

As Alice stepped out of the car, she deliberately glanced at the probe in the doorway.

A trusty mercenary stepped forward and took the key she had thrown at her.

"Thank you. ”

With the only words left, Alice walked briskly to the door, the bulletproof glass door was closed, and she pressed her big finger in the open and easy position.

The door opened, and the empty vestibule was empty, not even a reception. The employees were all upstairs, and Alice didn't mean to disturb them, and after entering the elevator, she pressed directly on the B-2 floor.

The elevator quickly swept past B-1, where the monitoring room and water network management offices are located, to the parking lot.

Apparently it is an underground parking lot, but here in Buildings E and F, they are separated from the outside world by stainless steel fence gates, and are equipped with hidden probes and sophisticated induction alarms.

Use a modest key to open the modest "cleanroom" door.

Use a modest key to open the modest "utility room" door.

Isolated from the outside world on two floors, there is an elevator door disguised as a utility cabinet door.

This secret passage hidden in the city is believed that even the most astute spy, or journalist, or any possible government agent, will have to think of it last.

The elevator went all the way down, and there were no numbers showing the floors beating, silently, and for a long time, the layman would be furious, but Alice knew exactly where it was underground.

Minus 492 meters, there is still no floor display, and when the elevator reaches this altitude position, it finally opens.

A freshly built underground space is immediately revealed to the outside of the ladder box.