Jessica took the photo I handed me and looked at it, and immediately a look of surprise appeared on her face, I could understand why she had this look on her face, but it was not enough to be surprised now, we had to find out what the truth was behind all this.

"The square in this photo does look very similar to the square where the FA2 team stayed in the videotape just now, and there seems to be a very blurry handwriting at the bottom of the photo."

I took the photo and looked at it carefully, and found that the bottom half of the photo did have a series of very small text, and I tried to carefully distinguish what was written in this text, but they were too small.

At this time, Jessica walked into her parents' room, and after a while she came out of the room, with a small magnifying glass in her hand, and a smile appeared on the corner of my mouth.

Jessica handed me the magnifying glass, I took the magnifying glass and looked at it carefully, after some careful observation, I found that these small words seemed to be some kind of very old hieroglyphs, obviously I had no way to understand these words, but what I am thinking about now is whether these words were there when the photo was taken, or if someone processed the photo and got these words on the photo.

I handed Jessica the magnifying glass and asked her to look at the text as well, and she took the magnifying glass and looked at it for a long time, and finally came out of her mouth a few words in fits and starts, but what she said was a little choppy and oddly pronounced.

"Jessica, what are you talking about, can you read these hieroglyphs?"

"How is it possible, I must not be able to read these hieroglyphs, I just wonder that these hieroglyphs don't look like they are in this photo in the later period, but it is still strange that they appear so abruptly in the lower part of the photo."

I looked at Jessica suspiciously, trying to tell if she was lying, but judging from her expression and face, there was no nonsense at all, didn't she know what she had just said?

"I'm also very curious about this, if it's really the later artificially added this text, then what kind of purpose is the person who did it, and if it's not artificially added in the later period, but the place where this photo was originally taken has some hieroglyphs like this, this logic doesn't feel very valid, because the angle of these hieroglyphs is very strange."

"What's so strange?"

"You see, this picture has a certain shooting angle, so if these hieroglyphs really exist in this shooting place, it will definitely not be from this angle."

Jessica looked carefully at the place where the hieroglyphs were on the photo, and nodded to me, agreeing with me.

"If that's the case, it means that someone has added these hieroglyphs to the photograph, and a new question arises, what is the purpose of doing this, does he want to make some annotations or do he want to convey some additional information to others?"

"Jessica, can you tell which civilization left these hieroglyphics behind, and if we can know the true meaning of these hieroglyphs, then maybe we will be able to know the real purpose for which they were left here."

However, Jessica shook her head slightly, indicating that she did not understand this kind of hieroglyphs, and I continued to look under the photo to see what the caption under the photo said:

The central square of Jericho was once a place where they worshipped the ancient gods, where they sacrificed, where they danced, where they sang and shouted, where they were born again, and where they died.

As blood flowed from the highest point in the center of the square down the blood tank to every house in the city, the power of blood bound everyone together.

The ancient Canaanites believed that in this way they could gain the power of eternal life, of course no one could really gain the power of eternal life, birth, old age, sickness and death are one of the most basic laws of nature, and no one can reverse this.

I saw that at the bottom of these notes was written a date: August 7, 1932.

"August 7, 1932, this is probably the time when this picture was taken, or maybe just the time when these notes were left."

"The world pattern in 1932 is very special, at this time it has been two years since the Great Recession in the United States in the 30s, although the First World War has been over for a long time, but with the passage of time, the world's science and technology and economy continue to develop, a new world pattern has emerged, and it is accumulating strength for the occurrence of World War II."

What does this point in time mean? At this time, the Jews had not yet established a state, and it is best to find out which state was under the control of the city of Jericho at this time, which is the area around present-day Palestine and Jordan. ”

"It's really not too easy to check, but now that the ancient city of Jericho is located in Palestine, then it should have been in Palestine at that time, and the priority thing we need to figure out now is what kind of things in this ancient city attracted people to go to at that time."

"Jessica, let's record this first, and wait until we have more clues later, should we move on to the next tape?"

Jessica nodded, pulled out another videotape from another black box, and put it in the VCR.

After watching so many videotapes, Jessica and I found that there doesn't seem to be a direct connection between these tapes, and no matter what incredible content is in them, it often leaves us with more mysteries in the end, but even then we still have to keep watching, because only after knowing what mysteries we are still facing can we better carry out the exploration mission in the future.

The tape was in a black screen for a long time after it was put in, but because there was always a sound of the tape turning and playing, Jessica and I knew that the black screen was because this part of the tape was so dark.

Finally, after about five minutes, a bright light appeared in the middle of the picture, and it was an oncoming light.

"Help, hurry up, we're here."

The camera began to shake incessantly, and it could be seen that the person in the camera seemed to be tied to some kind of object, whether it was a stake or a large tree, but he was at least able to make a cry for help.

Soon a middle-aged policeman-like man came up to him with a flashlight and began to prepare to loosen the rope from the tied man.

"Why are you still staying in this place, I warned you the first day you came, if you stay in this place all the time, your life will definitely be in danger."

"I'm sorry I didn't listen to you, but I came here as a last resort, and if I can't find the kind of thing they want, no matter where I flee, I will only die a miserable death."

The sound of the rope falling off the ground was heard clearly, and the man took a small metal hammer from the middle-aged policeman's hand, which looked like a very ordinary hammer used to hammer nails.

"You follow me now, if they find you, then you have to go on your own, and it's hard to say if I can get you out on Mass."

"Thank you, thank you, I promise that everything is under your command, and I will believe everything you say now."

Seeing this, Jessica pressed the pause button.

"What's wrong Jessica?"

"I'm a little scared."

Jessica threw herself into my arms and looked like a gentle and cute kitten, but I really didn't think there was anything particularly scary about this video, especially considering the content of the previous videos, which to be honest there really wasn't anything to be afraid of, that is, the surrounding environment was dark.

"There's nothing to be afraid of, I've never seen you so scared when I saw the flying monsters in Jericho before."

"I'm scared not because of this."

"What's the reason for that?"

I asked, but Jessica's eyes jumped a little, as if she didn't want to answer my question.

"That policeman, he has a problem."

Jessica's brainless words made me fall into a certain state of confusion, I don't know what she really meant, this policeman has a problem with him referring to the possibility that he may be a bad person?

"Where did you tell there was something wrong with this policeman?"

"There's no black eye in his eyes, don't you see it?"

Hearing Jessica say this, I was stunned, I really didn't seem to have paid attention to such a question just now, did that policeman really have no black eyes in his eyes?

For this reason, I rewinded the tape again, and when I watched it again, I couldn't help but gasp, maybe because the surrounding environment was too dark, so I didn't notice these details, and now I look back and find that it seems that there is really something wrong with the eyes of this middle-aged policeman, as for whether he really doesn't have black eyes, it's not easy to say, in fact, no matter from which angle his eyes are in shadow, even if he can see, it's only a very vague state, It is difficult to clearly tell whether there is a dark eye in his eyes.

"Jessica, is there really no black eye in his eyes?"

"It's really not, am I still going to lie to you, can't you see it yourself?"

"To be honest, I didn't clearly see that his eyes didn't have black eyes, could it be that your eyes were really so much better than mine?"

"Maybe, maybe it's because we girls are a little more sensitive in color than you boys."

"Is that really what it looks like?"

I didn't believe it and reverted to this paragraph, but this time I didn't say I found it

The policeman's eyes really didn't have black eyes, but he found another problem, that is, the pace frequency used by the middle-aged policeman when he walked over was a bit problematic.

In order to confirm my own thoughts, I rewind the video again, and Jessica looked at me in confusion, wondering why I was so stupid, a very simple question that needed to be watched so many times.

"That's right, this middle-aged policeman does have some problems."

"You finally see it?"

"Well, you see the way he walks and the frequency he walks, it's obviously very different from normal people, I don't believe normal people will use this kind of walking pace."

"Yes, he does seem to use the same hands and feet when he walks, and his whole body is a little stiff, as if some joints in his limbs are very inflexible."

"That's not all, if a normal person moves forward with this kind of stride, there is no way to maintain the balance of the body, this guy must have a problem, combined with what you said that he doesn't have black eyes in his eyes, could he be a zombie?"

"Zombies? That's something. ”

I just remembered that the United States in this era was not popular in the future, so it is understandable that Jessica doesn't know much about zombies. And "Resident Evil", a game against zombies, has just been launched by Konami Games in Japan this year, and there really doesn't seem to be any cultural elements related to zombies.

"Zombies are human beings or animals that are attacked by the zombie virus, and then resurrected in an unconscious state after dying first, people or other animals in the zombie state do not have any subjective consciousness, only rely on the most basic unconditional launch for predation and attack, they will bite other living individuals who have not been infected by the zombie virus, and the zombie virus will also be transmitted to them through biting, thus generating a large number of new zombie individuals."

"Wow, is that scary? But aren't the zombies you said have no independent ideology, then they must have no way to speak, and the policeman just now spoke, so it's certain that he won't be the zombie you said. ”

"Well, that's true, but it's also possible that he was infected with the zombie virus, and then he was in a transformation process, which is why his body looked so stiff."

"I don't know, but my intuition tells me that there should be other reasons for this, it can't be the zombie virus you said, you see how remote and weird the environment around here is, most of it is a sparsely populated place deep in a mountain village, and there is a high probability that there are some terrible customs and religious beliefs in these small remote villages, and maybe this policeman himself is also a victim of some kind of cult worship."

"Where did you hear about this kind of thing?"

After listening to Jessica's words, I couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"I saw it from my parents' previous adventure notebook, which recorded some weird religious worship in remote areas of the United States, they were once trapped in one of the small villages when they were young, this story is a bit long, and I will tell you slowly when I have the opportunity in the future, now let's continue to watch this video first."

I nodded slightly in agreement.

The man followed behind the middle-aged policeman with a strange walking posture, and seemed to think that the policeman's walking movements were very strange, and even went to learn the policeman's walking posture and took two steps, but he only learned a few steps before he fell to the ground, and his ankle was almost sprained.

"What's wrong with you?"

The middle-aged policeman heard the movement from behind, when he turned around and found that the man had fallen to the ground, a trace of displeasure appeared at the corner of his mouth, I looked into his eyes at this time, and found that his eyes were not without eyes, but the color of the eyes was particularly light, so that if you didn't look carefully, you might really think that he didn't have black eyes, but it was the first time I saw such a light eye color.

I told Jessica what I had discovered, and she nodded slightly, saying that I was really good at observing.

The man who fell to the ground immediately got up from the ground after seeing the middle-aged policeman's face, and then said sorry, and then they continued to walk forward.

"Jessica, where do you think they're going, why is it so quiet around here, you can't even hear the sound of birds chirping and insects."

"It's a bit too quiet, and the most important thing is that there are so many tall trees around them, and it looks like it's close to the primeval forest, and many animals will go out to forage at night, and it is absolutely impossible to be so quiet."

In the shot, the man is still following behind the middle-aged policeman, but the middle-aged policeman's speed is getting faster and faster, and even gradually the man can't keep up with his pace.

Before Jessica and I continued to think deeply, a huge stone wall suddenly appeared in front of us, to be precise, this is a huge open space, behind the open space is half of the hill, but this side of the hill is very smooth, and the places where the middle-aged police flashlight shines are very flat, giving people the feeling that it is more like a cement stone wall specially shaped by artificiality, rather than a natural rock wall.

The more incredible thing was still to come, with a loud noise, the whole stone mountain actually began to form layers of cracks from the middle, and then slowly separated to the two sides.

Eventually, under the rumbling sound and the dust, a huge cavern hidden deep in the mountains was revealed, and the height of the cave was at least nearly one or twenty stories high when viewed with the naked eye.

Jessica and I looked at each other, and deep down we both thought that this huge cavern, which took up almost half of the space in the hills, was definitely not naturally formed, but should have been excavated by man.

The footage continues to play downwards as the man follows the middle-aged policeman towards the cave, and when they enter, the door behind him slowly closes again.

The cave is full of traces of man-made construction, and there are many wall lamps hanging on the two walls to provide the necessary light for the cave.

"Where is this place? Will they still find me? ”

The man's voice trembled, and it could be seen that he must have some kind of unspeakable fear in his heart at this moment, and this fear is probably more because of the fear of the unknown, which is a characteristic shared by all of us human beings.

"You don't have to worry, since I am willing to take you here, then it means that in the future it means that you are very likely to become one of us, we are quite good at treating our own people, as long as you can prove your worth, you may even get the power and power that you never dreamed of."

"How can I prove my worth?"

The man's voice was still a little shaky, and it could be seen that the words of the middle-aged policeman could not give him a sense of peace of mind.

"You don't have to ask too carefully about this, you will naturally know when you need to know, and it will not do you any good to know too early now."

The tone of the middle-aged policeman's speech has changed a little, but the tone of his current speech is more in line with his image, so it seems that the tone of his speech before was deliberately pretended, in fact, he may not be a middle-aged policeman, although his true identity is still unknown, but I guess it must be a pretty powerful character.

The man trembled and followed behind the middle-aged policeman, and continued to walk deep along a passage, in fact, it was very open, but it seemed a little too open, and the huge altitude and depth were very strange, and the space here was probably no problem for placing aircraft carriers.

"Is this a military base in the mountains?"

The man's voice was a little calmer, and he no longer seemed as frightened as before.

"Have you heard about District 52?"

"District 52? I don't even know about District 51, how can I know what District 52 is! ”

"This is the 52nd District in the United States, and like the legendary mysterious 51st District, this is also a place you won't find on maps or satellites, in fact, it is pruned deep underground, and it exists for only one purpose."

The middle-aged policeman's voice stopped abruptly, as if he wanted to see the man's reaction, but the man didn't react at all, probably because he was scared enough before, and now he got used to it a little after hearing something quite illusory.

"Don't you want to ask something?"

The middle-aged policeman continued to ask.

"What can I ask? Didn't you just say that it is no good to know too much? ”

"Haha, I didn't expect you to be quite good, it really won't do you any good to know too much, but now I need to let you know these things, because soon you will be assigned a great mission."

"A great task? But why am I the chosen one? ”

"No one is chosen, and you are no exception, so you need to prove your worth, and if you can prove your worth, you have a chance to become a hero, and if you can't prove your worth, you will have to die."

The last sentence of the middle-aged policeman obviously dragged out his tone, and his voice was very low, and the man couldn't help but tremble after listening to it, and he didn't know if he was deficient in calcium, and he couldn't walk steadily, and the road under his feet was actually quite gentle.

"Okay, I won't scare you anymore, in fact, of course you have an irreplaceable important role in others, otherwise why would I spend so much effort to save you from their hands, watching you being torn to pieces by those things is actually the result I want the most, but who called you have a certain value, the people above don't let you die like this, of course, whether you can let your own potential play out is also a very critical issue, if you can't do what we want you to do, Then then I will be torn alive than I am

A much more tragic death awaits you. ”

The man's trembling figure became even more obvious, as if he was about to say something, but after the words reached his mouth, he swallowed them back alive.

I don't know how long they walked, but an elevator appeared in front of them, there was only one elevator here, and the number displayed on the elevator at this time turned out to be -2000.

"This -2000 represents the place where it is parked at minus 2000 meters above sea level, and we are now at an altitude of 1700 meters, and we will have to take this elevator from here to the depths of minus 2000 meters above sea level, and you may experience some physical discomfort at that time."

Jessica and I waited for about five minutes before we were sure there was nothing to do before we pulled the tape out of the recorder.

Jessica read as she jotted down the contents in her notebook.

"Jessica, do you have any ideas for this tape?"

"I don't know, I feel a chill in my back after watching it, how many mysterious special military zones do you think there are in the United States? I hadn't even heard much about District 51 before, but now there is a District 52, and I wonder why these tapes are in my home, who recorded these incredible videos, and who can bring them to my home? ”

"It's possible that it's not your parents, at least my intuition shows that your parents don't have such magical abilities, but if it's those humans from outer space, it's a little far-fetched, the AI does admit that they have made some cuts to these tapes to protect the two of us, but there is no direct evidence that these tapes are what they took, in fact, if it was really the tapes made by those guys, it would definitely not be of this quality."

"It's true that the quality of many videotapes is terrible, even if it is a candid shot, it shouldn't be so bad, and it is not easy for us to have the patience to watch so many videotapes."

"Well, what you said reminded me of one thing, some of these tapes are from the angle of candid shooting, some are from the angle of normal shooting, and some are from the angle of surveillance, which means that the original shooting tools of these videotapes are different, but in the end they are all stored through the videotape."

"But what does that mean?"

"This really says a lot, at least one thing we know now, that is, before or at the time of shooting, those who experienced these things seemed to know that something important was going to happen, so they left these precious footage."

"Do you mean that the content of these tapes is fake, that these people are deliberately performing in order to make these tapes that look like documentaries?"

"It's not right to think so, you think, even if it's Hollywood's special effects technology, there is no way to achieve some of the picture effects in these videotapes, if someone really made these videotapes as some kind of documentary, then all this cost is too huge, not to mention that the content in many videotapes can correspond to the real place."

"Yes, like Sir Faustin's manor, and the exploration of the ancient city of Jericho in the book we read earlier, I don't believe that these things were made by forgery, at least the pictures in that book I don't believe anyone can make a fake."

If so, it's even harder to tell what kind of motive they had when they made the tapes, and did they leave them to prove something to others? Or is it to leave some kind of important evidence? ”

"Maybe we are thinking in the wrong direction, but many things seem to be a little bit close to being able to figure out, maybe there are some more critical points that we have overlooked, if we reorganize and review these videos we have seen, will we be able to find some important clues?"

"Maybe, but do you remember the tape we first watched?"

Jessica shook her head, and I shook my head, and then I closed my eyes and went into meditation, trying to see if I could recall something through meditation.

In the end, we still couldn't fully remember the content of the video we watched before, after all, we have encountered a little too much in this period of time, and today is actually not enough, and we have seen enough videos in the past two days, so we decided to wait until next time to have extra time before watching the previous video.

In fact, we really need to make a detailed summary of all the things we have encountered during this period of time, only by sorting out what we know and what things we need to understand, and making a reasonable classification and summary, can we have a way to make a most reasonable plan in the busy life and competition, and proceed in an orderly manner according to this plan.

"Jessica, do you remember the problem we had when we investigated Sir Faustin's estate, which was the material we didn't finish reading at the Los Angeles Museum of History, if only there was a place to find it?"

"Well, we definitely don't have access to more in-depth information about this case now, after all, the FBI and CIA have been involved, which means that the security level of this case is already very high, and if they find out that we know so many things, it will definitely cause a lot of trouble, so we better keep a low profile, these things are more and more indicative of the depth of the water here."

"What you said is quite reasonable, especially since the CIA has always been the kind of unscrupulous style of acting to achieve the end, my status as an NBA player can help us attract most of the attention of the outside world, but it would be nice to be able to get help from other people, I was thinking that your family should have quite a strong force, why is it now that you are the only one left to fight alone."

"Our family is very large, but because of this, our family is divided into different camps, and the ancestors you see about me are actually just one branch of our family, but the other branches also have considerable influence in their respective fields, which also leads to a problem, several branches of our family have been in a situation of mutual restraint and confrontation after splitting many years ago. Although they have been in a state of relative stability and equilibrium for hundreds of years, it is difficult to say that this equilibrium will not be broken one day, and even I feel that this equilibrium has actually been broken after my generation, because there are almost no people in my branch who can help me. ”

"Jessica, I really didn't expect your family to have such a large system, but do you know what realm the other side branches of your family are in?"

"I really don't know this very well, and they won't be willing to let me know about them, you know, my parents have tried their best not to let me get involved in the field they and my grandparents are involved in in terms of my educational attitude, so they are also reluctant to tell me the specific things about other branches of the family, and some of the information is only slowly known after I knocked on the side and added my own speculation, but the specific information about them is too little."

"However, where could your parents have thought that in the end, all the burdens and missions can only fall on your shoulders, and if they could have thought of this, they may not have made those previous choices."

"I don't know whether to thank them or hate them, I really hated them when I was young, I felt that they must be the most ruthless parents in the world, and they could abandon their daughters at home and school alone, and I couldn't see them all year round, but now I understand their hardships but I don't know how to deal with this family affection, I can only convince myself that they are just to protect me, in order to let me have a normal child-like childhood, But I still don't have a normal child's childhood, how can a child who can't see his parents all year round have a normal childhood? ”

Jessica said that tears were already full of eyes, I hugged her tightly into my arms, but I didn't say anything comforting, just let her tears keep down my back, maybe let her speak out and cry out is the best way, in order to release her deep pain, grievances and pressure, so that her emotions can completely return to normal, I know that her parents must still have a very important position in her heart, Otherwise, she would not have chosen to resolutely embark on the same path as her parents, and bear the inheritance and burden left to her by her family.

This is also the reason why I love her deeply, her stubbornness, her intellectuality, her vulnerability, her strength, her beauty, I love everything about her, so I am willing to face the storm with her, who knows, maybe there are some unknown parts of my own life experience.

Thinking about what the AI said to me yesterday, and all those broken memories of my past life, I don't know how to think about myself, can I refuse the AI's request?

In fact, I really can't, I'll definitely find a way to find the mystery behind all this, that artificial intelligence tells me what the supreme law in this universe is, but can I really understand his words?

Maybe none of this matters anymore, and I'm even starting to feel that basketball is no longer the most important thing in my life, even though I used to think it is, but is it because I really love basketball so much, or is it because I was reborn as Kobe that I feel that I should love basketball as much as Kobe Bryant?

Now I don't know what my answer is, and every time a memory of Kobe Bryant comes to my mind, I feel like I'm really Kobe, or that Kobe's soul has never left, and he's still in my body.

I remember that the artificial intelligence also said, Kobe's soul is actually still in this body, but it is temporarily sealed, although Kobe's soul will not have problems in a short period of time, but I don't know if this body will eventually become a state controlled by two souls, if there is really such a day, then how should I choose?

Or maybe Kobe Bryant's souls and I can merge into one, and then one of our souls will be consumed by the other and eventually become a human being, whatever the case may be, I know that at least now I am not prepared to face all of this.