When I woke up the next day, I found Jessica standing in front of me, and I had a blanket on my body, but the room was actually heated, and in terms of my physical fitness, I didn't feel that cold even if I didn't turn on the heat.

I saw that Jessica's eyes seemed to be filled with tears, and I took her into my arms and gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with my hands, and I didn't know if she had suffered any grievances, or for some other reason.

"Jessica, when did you wake up?"

Jessica broke free from my arms and whispered:

"Is that guy still with us?"

"I guess so, when it possessed you last night, were you conscious the whole time?"

"Well, I can sense what I'm saying, but my brain can't control my body, it's a terrible feeling, I never thought that such a thing really existed in this world."

"You think you can believe the incredible things it told me last night."

"I don't know, I'm scared right now, I don't know who I can trust but you, but fortunately you are by my side, otherwise I would really want to die."

"Don't worry, as the so-called boat to the bridge is naturally straight, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, we just have to do what we can do, now that we have gotten up, let's go and have breakfast first."

"Well, I've already made breakfast just now, so you can eat it when you get up."

"Well, you're so good, I've found Jessica that you're really getting cuter."

I couldn't help but rush up and hug Jessica, and we lingered together for a moment before we went to Jessica's breakfast.

I have to say that since Jessica cooked, it seems that her interest in cooking is increasing day by day, and I believe that she can become a real good wife and mother in the future.

While thinking about it, I ate Jessica's breakfast, the Western-style breakfast is still very unique, there are milk, eggs and some vegetables, I need to supplement a lot of protein, so I eat a lot of egg whites, Jessica cooked about five eggs for me alone, to be honest, this amount is actually not too large, if I let go of eating, it may be no problem to eat ten egg whites at a time, but I don't want my muscles to develop too early.

In fact, overdeveloped muscles sometimes bring some side effects, such as reducing the body's sensitivity, which is reflected in many professional fitness enthusiasts, their muscles seem to have a large latitude, but the flexibility is often insufficient, and the huge muscles will also consume too much body energy, in the long period of aerobic exercise, excessive weight is very detrimental to the maintenance of exercise capacity.

Speaking of which, I have to mention Shaq, this guy in college and when he just entered the league, he still looks a little different from now, of course, in fact, he hasn't fully become his fattest now, maybe after a few years in the Lakers, Shaq will become the Big Mac who is over 350 pounds, and now he may weigh between 300 and 315 pounds, of course, this weight is very large for his athleticism, in terms of the actions he does in the gameSuch a large weight would greatly burden his body, making him more susceptible to injury and less prone to recovery.

Of course, it is impossible to make Shaq lose weight, and in his own opinion, the huge weight can help him destroy the basket more easily in the league, so he is unwilling to lose weight, even if it is more beneficial than bad for him.

"Jessica, the breakfast you made is already delicious, I really hope to be able to eat the breakfast you made in the future."

"If you like to eat, if you have any other type of breakfast you like, you can also tell me that you usually consume too much energy in competitions, and you must eat a little more to recover as soon as possible."

"I'm fine, I'm still young after all, as long as I develop good living and eating habits, but we still have a lot to do today."

"What kind of arrangements do you have for today?"

"Tomorrow our Lakers are going to Philadelphia to play a game against the 76ers, so we have to fly to Philadelphia tonight, and yesterday I had a chat with Jerry West, the general manager of the Lakers, and he made an exception to give me a privilege, which is that I don't need to follow the team's special plane to the game team every time, as long as I can get to the team's hotel on time, which means that I can fly with you to the away game from now on."

"Is that really good? After all, wouldn't there be a better environment in the team plane, so that you can get a better rest before the game? ”

"There's no such thing, our Lakers guys often do things on the plane, of course it's more comfortable to be with you, I kissed Jessica on the forehead again, and her cheeks showed a slight flush."

"So what do you have to do during the day today?"

"Let's watch some more tapes this morning, we can watch as much as we can, no matter what, we have to make good use of the information we have, if what the AI said is true, then we may indeed only be able to rely on our own efforts to complete these exploration tasks, as for the afternoon I may have to attend an interview and negotiation about the endorsement event, if this endorsement is taken down by me, we can have a brand new car."

"Wow, you've only been in the league for a short time, and there are already sponsors willing to buy you a car?"

"It seems that yes, in fact, they wanted to talk to me a week or two ago, but you also know how busy we have been in the past two weeks, so I haven't answered those sponsors positively, but today I may not be able to shirk it, so I just go and talk to these sponsors, although my agent is not particularly reliable, but the ability to work is really good, after talking to them, I see if there is any time, it is best to take an hour or two to go to the stadium to practice, I didn't touch the ball that day, and I felt itchy in my hands. ”

"You've got a lot of work to do this day, so you have to take time to practice in the gym?"

"yes, as an NBA professional player with a dream, I have to try to find time to practice, and by the way, when I sign a bigger endorsement contract, I can go back and buy us a new house, and then I want a big yard with a standard basketball court in the yard."

"Your requirements are so low? A basketball court will do the trick. ”

"Let's do this first, and then I'll think about what kind of things I want."

Then Jessica took out a videotape from her parents' room, we may still be able to watch a few videotapes this morning, I hope there is still some useful information in the videotape we watched today, yesterday the artificial intelligence has admitted that the information in this videotape has been deleted a lot by their outer space humans, but even so, the information in the remaining videotapes still contains a lot of content, if Jessica and I can analyze and summarize these videotapes well, It's still quite possible to find some important information.

Jessica put the first videotape into the VCR, I put my arms around Jessica and lay down on the sofa, this sofa is the kind of sofa that can be folded or spread out, Jessica's parents have a unique vision when choosing furniture, many of the furniture is very historical, but also has innovation and agility, through these furniture I can almost know what kind of character Jessica's parents are and what level of their taste.

The tape slowly began to play, and this time Jessica and I both focused our attention on the TV screen in advance, hoping not to miss a single detail.

Jessica even had the notebook at hand, and she was smart enough to keep a pen down on what she saw on TV.

"FA2 Squad Leader calls HQ, FA2 Squad Leader calls HQ, and again, FA2 Squad Leader calls HQ."

At the beginning of the video, the camera is constantly shaking, and it is obvious that the person holding the camera is in a state of rapid walking, and there is quite a lot of yellow sand floating in the lens, and it seems that the surrounding environment is a bit desolate.

There are about four or five sturdy adults in the camera, judging by the body type, three of them are men and two women, their bodies look much stronger than ordinary people, and they are quite tall, I judge according to the ratio of their heads to their bodies, men are basically above six feet tall, and there is even a guy who looks close to seven feet, you must know that seven feet tall is the height of a big center in the NBA, and the height of two women is also close to six feet.

These guys were tightly wrapped up and down, or rather heavily armed, and each of them had a weapon in his hand that looked pretty stylish, I don't know what it was, some of them looked like American rifles, but some of them looked like weapons from the future in a science fiction movie.

Jessica and I both gasped when we saw this, we didn't expect such a surprising scene to appear in this videotape, you must know that these people look very much like American special forces from what they are wearing, but they are certainly not ordinary American special forces, and they don't know what kind of secret operation they are carrying out at this time.

And what kind of team is the FA2 team mentioned in the video just now?

"Captain, what should we do now, if there is no way to contact the headquarters, will our operations be temporarily stopped?"

"No, we can't give up this mission because we can't contact the headquarters, not to mention that we only have one chance, who will bear the responsibility if we miss this opportunity!"

"But Captain."

"Nothing, the soldier's mission is to carry out the orders sent by the superiors, and I am now your direct leader, so you must obey the orders, understand? Soldier! ”

"Yes, Captain, but.

The guy still seemed to have something to say, but the captain didn't give him a chance to continue, and immediately gave the order for everyone to continue moving quickly.

There is no doubt that the camera of this videotape must be that kind of portable, because it is impossible for a team to carry a huge camera in this kind of mission, not to mention that the place where they are going to carry out the mission must be very dangerous.

"Jericho is an ancient city that is very famous in the Bible, and its existence has always been a great secret, and you must understand how important the mission we are here to carry out."

The city of Jericho? Some images came to my mind, but everything was very fragmentary, and I had a sense of déjà vu about the term, but I really couldn't remember where I had heard it for a while.

I looked into Jessica's eyes, and she didn't seem to have any feelings for the term, and we moved on.

The entire team is a total of six people counting the people with cameras on their bodies, I don't know if they are four men and two women or three men and three women, and there is no way to tell from the height of the camera alone, because the people in this team are generally very tall, and even the height of the women is not much shorter than the men.

The speed of the team was fast, but the sand and dust around them were getting bigger and bigger, and soon the visibility had dropped to less than ten meters, or even five, three, or one meter, and in this case, they had no way to continue to move forward against the dust.

Although the visibility is very low, from what you see along the way, this is indeed an ancient city with an unknown number of years of history, full of broken walls, and in the long years, the wind and sand have reduced most of the city's buildings to dust, leaving only some remains of buildings that have not been fully weathered for the time being.

The leader of the FA2 team led the rest of the group to find a large hole, which looked like it led underground, and through the light of the searchlight, a large part of the cave in the underground had been buried in the yellow sand, which must have been not uncommon in the past.

But fortunately, the remaining space in this underground cave is barely enough to provide them with a place to hide from the wind and sand, but their size is relatively too tall, so they can only bend over and bow their heads and half-squat in it, which will definitely be very uncomfortable after a long time.

However, at this time, the video suddenly became a mosaic, and I was about to walk over to check if there was a problem with the TV, and the picture in the TV suddenly cut to another place.

"Anna, what's going on over there?"

The scene before me was chaotic, and there was a terrible scream, like the sound of some kind of giant bird.

The person with the camera appears to be talking to a man named Anna on a walkie-talkie.

"No, there are too many of them, and if support doesn't come soon, then we'll have to collect the corpses. Ahhhh.......h

"Anna? Answer me, Anna? Hurry up and answer! ”

However, on the other end of the intercom, there was only the sound of electricity, and there was no longer the voice of the woman named Anna.

Jessica and I became nervous when we heard this, and it looked like the members of the FA2 team had been separated, and some of them had been attacked by some kind of terrifying creature.

"Da-da."

The sound of machine-gun fire came from a distance, and the camera lens shook again.

"They're coming, we have to get out of here now, don't worry about that thing anymore, we can't take it."

I saw a figure covered in blood stumbling from a distance, he was the tallest soldier in the team, that is, the guy who looked to be about two meters tall.

Looking closely, I saw that the entire arm of his left hand had been amputated from the shoulder, and the top was black, and it seemed that the blood that flowed out had coagulated, and from the cross-section of this wound, it was really hard to imagine how he survived.

As soon as he walked in front of the camera, he fell to the ground and couldn't get up anymore, and some large and small bugs crawled out of the wound on his arm, these bugs looked really disgusting, but they didn't seem to have the ability to attack directly, they just liked blood very much.

"Da-da."

Dense gunfire came from all directions, and the man with the camera took a very long gun from the fallen man's hand, but it doesn't feel too accurate to say that it was a gun, in fact it looked a lot like one of those laser energy weapons in science fiction movies, but it is unknown whether it is or not.

At this point, the camera lifts up, and there are indeed many bird-like creatures hovering in the air, but when these flying creatures fly closer, you will see that they are not any type of bird, and their wingspan looks larger than that of any bird in the world.

And the speed of their flight is also very amazing, they can make some sudden stops and starts in the air, and they can even hover in mid-air, which is not at all like the actions that ordinary birds can do, such a huge body has such a high agility, what kind of creatures are these strange birds.

Jessica paused the videotape, and there was an indescribable look of fear in her eyes as she looked at me, I knew what she was thinking deep down at the moment, but I don't think it's easy to judge all of this, but we do need to pause and relax with a little saliva.

This is not the feeling of simply watching a horror movie, we all know that horror movies are fake, but these tapes are different, although their content is very weird, but they are basically shot on the spot, which has to make people feel chilling, what kind of place is this ancient city called Jericho?

"Jessica, do you know anything about the ancient city of Jericho? What kind of place is that? ”

"You make me think about it for a moment."

Jessica held her chin as if she was in deep thought, and after a long time, her eyes suddenly radiated something like light.

"I don't know what the city of Jericho is, but I do know where I can find a record of it, and I've thought about it for a long time."

"Really?"

I looked at Jessica with some suspicion, but from the look in her eyes, she seemed to be really confident in it.

"Well, I have a book at home about the ruins of ancient cities around the world, and this city called Jericho sounds like the name of an ancient city, and we should be able to find the information we want on it."

Jessica trotted to her parents' room at once, and then I don't know from which cabinet she took out a book that looked old, the pages were a little large, and the material of the paper seemed to be different from modern paper, and I couldn't tell for a moment how old the book was.

"The book itself may be an ancient artifact."

"Actually, it's okay, don't look shabby at all, it's mainly because it's been through a lot of things, which is why this book has become what it is now."

Jessica slowly opened the book with her hands, and a thin layer of dust slowly floated into the air, but Jessica and I didn't care about this, but looked for the page numbers about the ancient city of Jericho through the table of contents.

When Jessica opened the page that recorded the ancient city of Jericho, I was immediately stunned, it turned out that this was not so much a book, but rather a photo album with an introduction, the pages were full of real photos, and then behind the photos will be written the time, place and corresponding research results of the photos, many of this information seems to be from the scene of first-hand information, no wonder Jessica said that this book has experienced a lot of things, it turns out that this book is a field research notebook.

What shocked both of us even more was the information displayed in these photographs, which fully proved that this ancient city of Jericho was indeed quite a simple existence, and Jessica and I patiently looked down one photo after another.

Many of these photos are the results of the on-site exploration of the ancient city of Jericho, but the introduction mentions that this exploration operation is not actually official, so they often operate in the evening or early morning, and there are no Jessica's parents among the participants, but there are a few people we have seen in the photos of his ancestors that Jessica showed me before, and it seems that this incident should have been at least decades ago.

"Jessica, look at this description: We took advantage of the full moon and moonlight tonight to go to the south of the ancient city of Jericho, which is not far from where we have been, and we do not know how far we are from the miraculous walls of the Bible, but we believe that with God's guidance we will get what is ours. What do you think they are most likely referring to when they say something that should have belonged to them in this passage? ”

"There's definitely no way to guess directly just by looking at this sentence, but don't you see that there are some other photos and introductions that can be used as references next to this photo?"

I followed Jessica's gaze, and sure enough, there were some things in the other photos that could correspond to this photo, including one of the photos that read:

After thousands of years of waiting, our people finally have the opportunity to reclaim the relics that have been taken by the pagans.

It was such a simple sentence that surprised me and Jessica, and I didn't understand the identity of the person who wrote the record of these photos, and it stands to reason that this book should also be the notes that Jessica's ancestors used to record information about the scene when they went on expeditions around the world, but why did they write this note under this photo?

The annotated photo looks very ordinary, just a statue resembling an ancient soldier, and the only thing that is a little special is that most of this samurai statue has been removed

The color is weathered, but the face is exceptionally well preserved, and you can feel the faint luster emanating from the statue's face from this black and white photograph.

"Let's take a look at this introduction to the entire city of Jericho: Jericho City, also known as Jericho City, is a city in present-day Palestine, quite close to Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, and it is also the lowest inland city in the world, more than 300 meters below sea level."

"The city of Jericho was the first city in the Bible to be conquered by the Jews led by Joshua after crossing the Jordan River, and it was one of the earliest documented settlements in human history before being destroyed in the second half of the 14th century B.C.E."

"It's no wonder that this city is so close to the holy city of Jerusalem that it is a prominent place in the Bible, but why did they go to this city, and what kind of secrets are buried in it?"

"We'll take the book out and look at the tape and look at the contents of the book, maybe we'll find some additional discoveries."

I agreed with Jessica, so I took the old-looking book to the living room and spread it out on the coffee table, and we continued to look at the contents of the tape while looking at the photos in the book.

The tape continued to show at this point, and as the strange flying creatures in the sky increased, the FA2 team became more and more panicked, and they gathered in an ancient square, each holding a heavy fire weapon in his hand, shooting at the flying creatures in the sky.

"Jessica, what do you think this is?"

I reacted quickly and pressed the pause button all at once, then pointed to a black shadow on the screen and asked.

"How can I see such a dark shadow?"

Having said that, in this era, the resolution and pixels of TVs and videotapes are quite limited, and there will be a certain delay blur state after pressing pause, so I can only see a black shadow at this time, but what I just saw is definitely not just a black shadow.

Elm Tree I was only able to rewind the tape a little bit and play it again, hoping to see what was passing by before our eyes this time.

However, when I rewinded the tape and played it again, I found that the black shadow that was supposed to be in it was completely gone, not to mention the relatively clear appearance I saw before, and even the blurred black shadow that followed was suddenly gone, which was really weird.

Jessica didn't see what I saw, but then the blurry black shadow was at least seen, and when I put it back at this time, it was gone, how can I explain this?

Jessie pulled me a little dazed, but I gently pinched my nose with my hand, and found that I still had obvious pain, it wasn't a dream, what I saw just now was actually a bit like a figure, but this figure was passing through the sky at a very fast speed, but I didn't believe that anyone could fly through the air at this speed.

At this moment, there is no trace of this figure in the tape, no matter how many times I rewind the tape, there is no way to see this shadow again, so does this shadow really exist?

It became a mystery, and it haunted me until that day came, and of course all that is for later, so I beg your pardon for not being able to spoil it.

After replaying it over and over again about a dozen times, I finally gave up, it seems that there is really no way to find the black creature flying in the air like a human again, if it is really a figure, then all this is really quite terrifying, does this mean that there is a superpowered human with the ability to surpass ordinary people?

But then I remembered that the artificial intelligence just told me so many incredible things last night, including that there is a group of humans from other time and space in outer space now, and they want to help them find answers to some questions through me, but I always think his words are very nonsense, so powerful future humans, why do they need to find the so-called answers through my hands! Do I know something they can't?

But then again, I really can't think of any other guy who can do this kind of thing except them, and it stands to reason that it is normal for these humans from other time and space to have some superpowers, after all, according to that artificial intelligence, those humans have a terrifying lifespan, so it is very likely that their bodies have already undergone special genetic modification, or mechanical modification, so that the original ordinary** has become a very terrifying mechanical body or a genetically modified super human.

I told Jessica about my idea, and Jessica said that she didn't understand what it was all about, but she would record them in her notebook, and when we went back to the notebook, we might be able to connect all the mysteries and form a more scientific chain of evidence.

After all, the artificial intelligence also said last night that many things that we don't know the answer to, those things that we can't understand, are not necessarily metaphysical or theological can explain, but we humans know too few things, if I can grasp enough evidence and clues, maybe I can explain all this.

We'll just have to keep staring at the tapes, at least to watch them, but I don't know if this tape will also be modified by those alien humans in some way like other tapes, and yesterday the AI has admitted that they did modify these tapes, although I don't know what their purpose is, well, if you look at the AI, they even did it to protect me and Jessica.

I'm almost going to believe this guy's nonsense, no matter what kind of secret they have behind them, Jessica and I will definitely find a way to find out the truth.

In the videotape, the entire FA2 team is running towards the outside of Jericho while firing, they keep firing, as if there are countless terrifying and dangerous creatures around them, but at least from the videotape, there is no existence of those dangerous creatures at all, only some huge strange birds hovering in the air, and they are not attacked.

At this time, I thought of the member of the highest FA2 team just now, the tragic scene of his death is still vivid in my mind, that half of the arm is like being torn off by some kind of monster with great power, for example, you usually tear a chicken leg from a whole roast chicken, it is hard to imagine what kind of creature can tear off a full arm of such a strong person, it is simply beyond the scope of our normal logic.

The speed of the FA2 team's retreat is getting faster and faster, and in the process, another member of the team is sacrificed, and his whole body is covered with all kinds of long tear-like cuts before he dies, as if he was caught alive by some kind of very sharp claws, isn't it really miserable, but the question arises again, who caused these cuts, the existence of these guys is not visible in the tape at all, is it possible that they have the ability to be invisible?

Therefore, even if the FA2 team has powerful weapons, they can only retreat one after another, because their enemies are not detected by the naked eye, so what do they rely on to judge the enemy's position when shooting?

I don't believe that a well-trained special forces soldier would shoot based on his senses alone, but when I looked closely at the helmets above the heads of these FA2 team members, it became clear that they must have some kind of glasses in their helmets that can see hidden creatures, and that there is some light in this world that the human eye cannot see.

Maybe there really is some kind of unknown creature**The spectrum reflected by the ** is not perceptible to the naked eye, then it is possible for them to be invisible, but if you think about it carefully, this theory seems to be untenable, because as long as these monsters are physical, then it will definitely lead to the reflection of light, so that ordinary light will also be reflected, so that they cannot be invisible, only if it is a completely transparent material, it is possible.

However, in the real world, even if there are some substances that can be completely transparent in the pure matter, it is still difficult to appear in a completely invisible transparent state in the air full of impurities, just like when it rains, the rain should be transparent, but because of the impurities in the rain and the existence of dust and floating objects in the air, it will still reflect some of the light, resulting in the rain will not be completely transparent.

I can't continue to think about this anymore, so I can only continue to watch the situation in the videotape.

The FA2 team didn't know how many streets of the ancient city they had traversed before they finally came to a clearing outside the ancient city, when there was a noise in the sky of helicopter propellers turning, which seemed to be a helicopter that had come to pick them up.

However, just when Jessica and I thought they would be able to evacuate from the ancient city of Jericho smoothly, the helicopter hovering in the air began to spin in place, and in a short period of time, the American helicopter that seemed to be also a Black Hawk series was spinning and falling down at a very fast speed.

All members of the FA2 team instinctively threw themselves to the ground, and the helicopter landed in an open field about a few dozen meters away from them and exploded, the shock wave and heat wave of the explosion were clearly visible, and the rolling up of the debris and dust made a large circle around the area fall into a very low visibility.

Jessica and I looked at each other again, feeling a kind of heartfelt emotion at what we had just seen, maybe we really wanted to go together, after all, we had really cultivated some kind of tacit understanding between us over this time, even to the point where we could read each other's thoughts with a single look.

Jessica silently took out the tape and put it in a black box, along with the other tapes we had been watching recently, and then she carefully wrote down the contents of the tape in her notebook.

We still had the old book in front of us, and I suddenly saw something familiar to me in one of the pictures.

"Jessica, look, isn't the square in this photo the square where the FA2 team was just now?"