Meeting of the Chiefs of the General Staff.

After receiving the news, Yang Fanglie immediately proposed at the meeting of the chiefs of general staff that a reconnaissance plane carried by representatives of various member countries of the Planetary Defense Council should be immediately dispatched to Amsterdam Island and asked Stark to withdraw the US reconnaissance plane. Because Sergeyev had already proposed that the sudden disappearance of the Y celestial body was related to the United States, Stark could only adopt Yang Fanglie's proposal in order to win over Yang Fanglie.

In the same way, in order to win over Yang Fanglie, Sergeyev could only agree to discuss topics related to the sudden disappearance of the Y celestial body at the meeting of the chiefs of general staff after the reconnaissance plane sent by the Planetary Defense Council arrived on Amsterdam Island and learned more about the situation on the island.

At this time, on the island of Amsterdam.

Wrapped in a special cloak resembling a raincoat, Williams stood on the edge of the sinkhole, staring intently at the bottomless cavern.

Having received the message, the MV-22 fleet slowed down its flight.

The attack on the Shadow Force by the two Doomsday Warriors was expected by Williams, but what he didn't expect was that in less than half an hour, the Shadow Force would be wiped out, and even Colonel Thomas was not spared. Fortunately, Plan B has prepared for this situation.

No matter how powerful the Doomsday Warriors are, they only get super infantry.

The A-10C fleet was the first to rush to Amsterdam Island, and B-1B bombers from the continental United States will also arrive. In Williams's view, no matter how powerful the two doomsday warriors are, they will die under the bombardment. As for the total annihilation of the Shadow Force, Williams did not pay attention to it at all. In the amount of combat power assigned to his command, the shadow troops are not even a supporting role.

However, the situation still greatly exceeded Williams's expectations.

At the time of the incident, the MV-22 fleet was about 150 kilometers from the island of Amsterdam.

When the pillar of light that eclipsed the sun suddenly appeared, piercing the sky like a sharp sword, Williams knew that something was wrong.

This is accompanied by extremely strong electromagnetic interference.

If it weren't for the fact that the eight MV-22s had been specially modified, that there was a mechanical control system for use in emergency situations, that there were more than 100 kilometers from the island of Amsterdam, that the electromagnetic interference lasted less than a second, and that the MV-22s were in level flight, Williams would have been more than lucky.

At that time, the inhabitants of attack aircraft and bombers over the island of Amsterdam were so lucky.

Six A-10Cs and six B-1Bs crashed into the sea immediately after the light column appeared, due to the damage of electronic equipment and the failure of the fly-by-wire control system.

It's clean, at least much better than falling onto the island.

MV-22 flies over the sinkhole, and Williams' fears become a reality, the Y object has disappeared, and the sinkhole has become a bottomless hole.

Could it be that the Y object left the Earth with that beam?

Williams thought it was unlikely. Y objects can land adrift, and even if they want to leave the Earth, they will not leave a bottomless hole in the ground. Besides, the Y object followed the 2014X1 asteroid to Earth, and it is impossible to stay on Earth for only a few hours.

The MV-22 did not land, and Williams took Colonel Campbell to the ground, leaving the other X-Warriors and scientists on the plane.

If the Y object did not leave the region, where did it go?

Looking at the bottomless cavern, Williams thought quickly. The Y object either dissipated abruptly or went deep into the earth's crust.

What's next?

Staying, obviously, will do more harm than good.

The disappearance of the Y celestial body means that it is no longer possible to fully obtain the advanced technology of extraterrestrial civilizations.

As a result of the strong electromagnetic interference that had begun, the electronic warfare aircraft responsible for disrupting communications and jamming reconnaissance satellites had crashed, and the various members of the Planetary Defense Council would soon find that the Y object had disappeared and that there had been fighting on Chirodo Island. If Williams and other American personnel stay on the island, it will only be a matter of truth. When the time comes, no matter what Stark explains, no one will believe his nonsense.

"Professor?" Colonel Campbell reminded Williams.

Although the cloaks on the two of them made them look like two rocks standing on the edge of a sinkhole, they couldn't stay here forever.

Williams looked back and glanced at Campbell.

"I just received information that the Council of Chiefs of General Staff has passed a resolution that a reconnaissance plane will be sent over, and we have to get out of here as soon as possible."

"Even if the reconnaissance plane is dispatched now, it will take six hours to arrive, so there is no need to rush."

"But ......"

"How deep do you think this cave is?"

Campbell glanced into the cave, then shook his head and said, "It's bottomless, maybe a few kilometers, maybe a dozen kilometers." ”

"Will it go all the way to the center of the earth?"

"This ......"

"I bet the cave is perpendicular to sea level and points right to the center of the earth."

"Even so, the Y object is gone, and we ......"

"Gotta send someone down to take a look."

Campbell nodded, indicating that he would go down.

"No, let Locke go down."

"Professor......

"No one knows what's under the road and what kind of danger it will encounter." Williams let out a long sigh, "You can't take risks. ”

Campbell didn't argue, and pressed his right index and middle fingers to his temples.

After a while, an MV-22 flew over, neither slowing down nor reducing altitude. As the hatch opened, an X-Soldier jumped straight down.

This is an unusually tall and strong guy, more than two and a half meters tall, with angular muscles under a taut oversized military uniform, and weighs more than two hundred kilograms even by normal standards. It's just that, looking at the deep smash he made when he landed, the weight must be more than that.

"Major Locke."

"Professor!" The ground shook as the giant approached. Don't look at him with a fierce face, but he is unusually obedient in front of Williams.

"You go down and take a look, and no matter what you encounter, don't act rashly."

"Yes!"

Locke slipped down the edge of the sinkhole, and Williams and Campbell closed their eyes. It's just that the eyes of both of them are rolling.

After a while, Williams' expression changed and he opened his eyes suddenly.

Campbell seemed to feel something, and opened his eyes at the same time.

"Professor......

Williams pressed his hand and leaned over to look at the bottom of the sinkhole.

After about half a minute, there was a slight noise in the sinkhole.

"Locke is dead!" Williams said lightly.

"I'll go down right ......"

"No!" Williams stopped Campbell, "It's useless for you to go down." ”

"But ......"

"You're right, we need to get out of here." Williams let out a long breath and said, "Locke didn't die in vain, at least let us know what's underneath the road." ”

A short time later, an MV-22 flew over, hovered over the heads of the two men, and lowered a sling.

Entering the airport, Campbell ordered the return flight, while Williams sat in the corner of the cabin. On the way back, Williams remained silent. Back at the sea base, he ignored the officers who came to pick him up, told Campbell not to be disturbed, and went straight back to the cabin.

There is a lot of electronics in the room, as well as a scientific research platform mounted on a gimbal swivel stand.

Williams leaned onto the platform, the glass cover next to him closed automatically, and a helmet-like device was placed on his head. It is a consciousness reading device that reads information from Williams' brain, which is then processed by a computer to generate video and audio signals.

More than ten minutes later, the glass cover opened and Williams walked out.

Seeing the image displayed on the screen, Williams frowned. Those images are exactly what Locke saw in the sinkhole!

Unit X is a superpowered force, and Professor Williams is the commander of this force.

Every X-Soldier has one or more superpowers, but Professor Williams is not an X-Soldier, and his only superpower is to establish a psychic connection with the selected X-Warrior, and to experience first-hand everything that the X-Soldier sees, hears, smells, tastes, and touches. If necessary, Williams can also directly control the X-Warrior's brain, thus controlling the X-Warrior's behavior.

In the picture, the point of light is gradually increasing.

After a while, the point of light turned into a glowing sphere, only much smaller than the Y object, and the light emitted was even more dim.

The sphere was suspended in the air, almost a hundred meters from the cliff face.

The screen flickered a few times, and the sphere suddenly and rapidly increased. Obviously, Locke didn't listen to Williams' instructions and actually pounced on the orb.

Williams sighed, and Locke was killing himself.

When he was about ten meters away from the sphere, a beam of light suddenly shot out of the sphere, shot straight at it, and then disappeared. Obviously, the speed of light shot into Locke's head, and even pierced Locke's head, and directly caused Locke's death.

Williams thought back for a moment that the spiritual connection with Locke had been interrupted after the beam appeared.

It all came so fast that Locke was dying as soon as he screamed.

Sacrificing an X-Soldier is nothing, and Williams was mentally prepared to treat him as a victim before letting Rock go down.

The question is, what the hell is that sphere?

Locke's death was not meaningless, and in addition to probing the glowing orb in the pit, he also gained some extremely valuable information before he died.

That is, there was a very short period of time between the beam of light touching Locke's forehead and piercing his brain.

Although it was less than a thousandth of a second, in this extremely short period of time, Locke must have felt it firsthand, but he didn't know what to do.

Williams called up the last thousandth of a second and began to play it repeatedly.

Williams then returned to the consciousness reading device and used the stored information to repeatedly experience how Locke felt in the last thousandth of a second of his life.

Williams knows very well that the key to spying on the mysteries of extraterrestrial civilizations is this thousandth of a second.

Even if nothing is gained in these thousandths of a second, Williams is not empty-handed, because he at least knows that the glowing sphere can sense changes in the surrounding environment, sense the danger that exists nearby, and have the awareness and ability to defend itself.

It was a living being, and an intelligent living being!