A figure stands on the street under the sea, among the dilapidated high-rise buildings, as if going through the day's daily activities.

The spotlights shine through, and against the backdrop of the dilapidated buildings with doors and windows that look like black holes, it looks like a ghost domain.

It is unknown how long it has been here, and the ground is covered with thick seafloor sediment and even huge whale skeletons.

But judging from the furnishings and structure of the entire complex, it looks like it has just fallen silent yesterday.

"My mother...... If I hadn't known that this was the bottom of the Amundsen Basin, I would have thought that this was the ruins of some town...... It looks a bit like an abandoned industrial city in the former Soviet Union......" Kong Yan muttered.

A trace of trance flashed on the face of Ivan, a member of the Xiong State scientific expedition team next to him, and he sighed in Russian:

"yes...... Kind of like Chernobyl...... It's like a place where ghosts live......"

Qiao, a member of the Eagle Country scientific expedition, also looked embarrassed, and said in not very fluent Chinese:

"Last time, we controlled the unmanned submersible period to come and sneak fishing, but we didn't have time to check it on the spot, and here, all this is really weird and beautiful......"

Kong Yan couldn't help but roll his eyes, are you embarrassed to say? What is the difference between this behavior and rushing to eat......

Jiang Bing looked at the surrounding situation, turned on the communicator, and said to the base above:

"The dragon has arrived at the predetermined location, please answer whether the signal is smooth. Complete. ”

After a few seconds, the voice of the command room of the Ruins Investigation Base was heard from the communicator:

"The signal is smooth, the picture is clear, and the expedition can continue. Complete. ”

The footage taken in the submarine is now being transmitted by cable to the research base on the ice sheet above, and then transmitted to the command headquarters of the joint scientific research operation in Reykjavík, Iceland, via satellite signals.

The screen wall played a picture of the deep sea, looking at the black buildings and the quiet crowd, and the entire headquarters hall was also quiet.

This scene is really shocking, although many people have heard of the existence of underwater ruins before, but they thought it was just a broken wall, but they didn't expect that there was a complete building complex!

And the number of stone statues below, where the light can reach, is hundreds, thousands, and there are many faint in the darkness in the distance, which stretch all the way to the bottom of the sea, as if it is a silent army.

Li Tongchen and Lu Ran were also in the hall of the command headquarters at this time, and they were the medical advisers of this operation.

After all, despite the vaccine and the near-complete quarantine measures, no one knows if there will be any emergencies.

The screen shook suddenly, and the submersible began to temporarily detach from the main cable, dragging the secondary cable into the underwater structure.

A few bright spotlights tore through the darkness that had existed for tens of thousands of years or hundreds of thousands of years, illuminating this underwater structure transparently.

"Judging by the naked eye, the materials of the building here may be ...... Water...... Cement structure!? ”

Kong Yan's voice sounded in the picture, with incredible surprise.

If the building was on the ground, he really had to suspect that it was a modern complex.

"Oh God...... Could this be the legendary Atlantis? The sunken Great Western Continent? Joe said equally dumbfounded.

However, Jiang Bing and Ivan were relatively calm and began to debug the instrument to record hydrological data.

The command came from the communication channel:

"Extract a portion of the building materials and try to salvage a stone statue at the same time. Complete. ”

"Hidden Dragon received." Jiang Bing replied, and at the same time ordered Ivan: "Ivan, prepare to operate the robotic arm to extract samples of building materials." ”

Although they did not plan similar activities for this maiden voyage, the plan was not as fast as the change, and since there was a new order, it had to be executed.

At this moment, the camera feed showed a slight ripple, and then returned to normal.

Shen Feng's consciousness tentacles have been connected through the communication of the scientific expedition team, and quietly appeared in the control system of the submarine.

Looking at everything under the sea through the camera, silent.

Naturally, everyone in the scientific expedition team did not notice this, after all, although there is wired communication in the deep sea, it is normal for signal interference to occur.

The ordinary diving module itself is just a large metal ball, and there is no power system, and under the weight of the deep sea, the ordinary propeller will directly twist and deform.

However, Qianlong 9 itself is the most advanced deep submersible, and this time it has been specially modified for the mission, and a compressed gas propulsion system has been installed, which can be regarded as having a certain range of activities.

The submersible locked onto a nearby high-rise building and began to continue its descent.

Since it was not known whether the high-rise building would still be able to bear the load, it hovered directly in front of the building via a secondary cable.

Ivan held his breath, manipulated the robotic arm, grabbed a corner of the building, and gently broke off several fist-sized pieces of building materials and put them into the pocket of the collection net.

Although the surface of the building is covered with various marine debris and silt, the outline and structure of the building can still be seen.

The beams of the spotlights shone through, revealing several corridors and rows of rooms through the broken windows.

At this time, everyone found that among these buildings, there are also many stone statues standing!

These statues are similar to those on the ocean floor outside, with panic on their faces, and seem to have been turned into stone statues in a very short period of time.

"This ...... What the hell is the place? In the headquarters, Li Tongchen and Lu Ran glanced at each other, and they both saw shock in each other's eyes.

Equally shocked, there were several other medical advisors.

The architectural structure of this place looks a lot like ...... A hospital!

At this time, after Shen Feng saw the building clearly through the tentacles of consciousness, his heart also set off turbulent waves.

He was familiar with the building.

In the last days of the stone statues, he had seen the structural drawings of the CDC.

The building in front of me is a certain CDC in the apocalyptic world of the stone statue!

What the hell is going on?

Could it be that the end of the stone statue is really the past of the earth?

But why is there no other information about the remains of the Amundsen Basin in the Arctic alone?

At the same time, several members of the scientific expedition team also fell into deep doubts.

The carbon-14 test doesn't lie, this relic is indeed a relic from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

But the strata are also not deceiving, and this is the first time that the remains of such a highly developed civilization have been discovered.

What went wrong?

"From the perspective of genetic anthropology, our population of Homo sapiens shrank to just over 1,000 people tens of thousands of years ago, and there are many blank places about the evolutionary history of human beings during this period, because there are no relics such as bones and fossils......

Jiang Bing's face was calm and said slowly.

"You mean...... When Homo sapiens was still evolving in obscurantism, there was a highly developed civilization in this world? It's just that why didn't they carry it on? Why aren't there large-scale remnants left? Kong Yan muttered, his knowledge system was strongly impacted at this time.

Jiang Bing steered the submarine back and said, "I didn't say anything, I was just stating a known anthropological fact. ”

It's just that this sentence was captured by Shen Feng's consciousness tentacles, but it made him feel like he was struck by lightning.

The Homo sapiens population was once reduced to just over a thousand remainers......

There are less than 2,000 cerebral apes......

Could it be that the cerebral ape is the ancestor of modern humans?

It's just that Shen Feng immediately denied this assumption.

No, the time is not right, according to the carbon-14 detection here, this ruin has been hundreds of thousands of years old, and the time when Homo sapiens was almost destroyed was 70,000 years ago.

There is also the most critical evidence, stratigraphy.

The strata don't lie.

Jiang Bing's words made the members of the scientific expedition fall into deep thought, and the entire submarine was quiet, and everyone had their own thoughts.

By this time, the submersible had already dived again, to the bottom of the sea, among the thousands of stone statues.

The robotic arm poked out, ready to salvage a stone statue for study.

The robotic arm poked out steadily, encircling a stone statue, ready to collect it.

At this moment, there was a sudden "rustling" sound in the communication system, as if it was being interfered with by some signal.

The members of the scientific expedition team in the submarine looked at each other, and the people in the headquarters and the base were also puzzled, and even Shen Feng didn't understand what was going on.

In the next instant, a strange and distorted voice suddenly came from the communicator, as if thousands of people were chanting in a low voice:

“…… Billions for one, one for billions, everyone for me, I for everyone...... The future is one, the past is one, and the present is one......"