Chapter I

John was invited by the police to assist in completing a "mirror" death case, more than 60 people died, this emergency is a major incident, medical personnel are involved, and John is a foreign criminal investigation expert, who came here to investigate because the incident is extremely strange, the local police force has no way to start, and there are several local residents who are also assisting the police, who are the families of the victims of this incident. When the police asked what this kind of devil was, they only knew very little about it, and they had not really seen it, and said that they worshiped a kind of god, a witch god. Due to the special nature of the incident, medical personnel had to perform autopsies on the deceased.

John rushed to the hospital in the city, and before leaving, he said to his colleagues: "Things are not as simple as we imagined, you are looking for clues at the scene of the crime, this case is bizarre and weird, it doesn't seem to be caused by human factors." ”

"Yes, Captain" Xiao Zhang filmed the dead body that appeared at the scene of the crime, and carried the body from the field to the car. Xiao Zhang found that these corpses were as if they had been killed by some kind of despair, and their expressions of horror, despair, and even fear were preceded by their deaths, which made Xiao Zhang and the police force take this case very seriously.

The eerie atmosphere spread throughout the village. At night, the pale moonlight shrouds the breath of death, and ghosts lurk around the ancient trees, making people feel a biting chill, and bizarre cases are still slowly fermenting and brewing.

After some time, the medical staff learned from the autopsy report of the deceased that the deceased did not die of external factors such as severe injuries, these people seemed to see something before they died, their pupils were dilated, and then their brain marrow was drained instantly, and there were no traces of damage and other traces on the outside, it was definitely not a human factor, when John read the report, he was contemplative by all kinds of predicaments, he thought: "It's not a human factor, what should it be?" What did those who died see before they died? "Such a case has never happened, and he has rich experience in criminal investigation in previous cases, but this time he has almost never seen it." Brain taken away? And there's no human factor, which doesn't make sense. ”

With all his doubts, John wanted to get some clues from the local residents, hoping to find some clues from them.

The next day, John asked the local people again to find out what they meant by the witch god, and learned from a villager that the local people had a strange custom that after death, they would hang themselves on the ancient tree, saying that they would worship the witch god, so that the soul could go straight to the earth and belong to the earth. The witch god will collect the soul of human beings, and send the soul to heaven or hell respectively, the ancient tree is the gate of hell, sometimes the witch god will directly send the evil people to hell, it is like a god of death, holding the life and death of the people in this village, before I saw a group of people roaring in the wilderness there, around the big locust tree teeth and claws of the carnival, and then there was no news of them, after a while the villagers learned the news of their death, because of the large number of deaths, they luckily survived. John never believed in the existence of gods or ghosts in this world, he believed in science, and he felt that any gods or ghosts were the work of the human heart. So he decided to go to the mysterious ancient tree to observe, hoping to find some clues to the mysterious death.

After understanding the situation, John and the others drove to the big locust tree of the god they worshipped, they saw the big locust tree full of corpses from a long distance, after the car arrived at the location, John and the detachment got out of the car, they carefully observed the ancient tree, carefully observed the surroundings, and from time to time took criminal investigation equipment to take samples, where there were dozens of rotting dried corpses hanging upside down on the branches, emitting a foul smell. John touched the dried corpses with his hands, and in the case of no result, John lowered his head and fell into contemplation, judging from the perspective of occupation, the witch gods they spoke of were probably a contagion, the inhabitants of these villages were superstitious and fearful of ghosts, which may provide a soil for the spread of the plague, because to make these people die in large numbers, it is not just a matter of drinking water, there is no highly polluted factory nearby, and at the same time, the corpses are still stored in the air like that, which exacerbates the escalation of the plague disease, Due to the lack of hygiene and the spread of mosquitoes, the witch god they call the life and death of the villagers can only be a very dangerous infectious disease that has never been discovered. So John decided to take blood samples from some of the bodies of the big locust tree with the accompanying medical staff and take them back to the laboratory for laboratory testing.

These corpses are concentrated in the laboratory of the medical police, after the analysis of the medical police Xiao Liu, there is a mysterious virus that seems to be deliberately hidden so that people can not observe them, they are sometimes similar to the appearance of cells, sometimes they flow rapidly, when these mysterious virus characteristics are linked to brain cells, they are revealed, sure enough, the blood of these corpses are a virus called Ebo variant, they are like human brain nerves with a diameter of 22 nanometers, no envelope, spore-like, pearl-like arrangement, They are viruses with infinite reproductive ability, and only by combining them can they show their original form under the microscope. The Ebo virus is now circulating in an unknown form, and the symptoms of infected people are not visible in the short term, and the number of infected people is even more unknown! But the fatality rate was extremely high, and John hurriedly talked to the epidemic prevention station on the phone: "Quick! , Quarantine and disinfect the people of this village, there is an unknown virus spreading! A large number of people quarantined the village. And these infected corpses all require collective cremation to prevent the virus from spreading to others. These viruses are extremely contagious, they are a new type of virus, they are very hidden, they have not been heard of before, and in recent years the virus began to spread in large numbers. And the patient is already infected before he is even aware of it. The organization of the CDC was carried out in the relevant regions of the region, and all those involved in this were examined.

Five years later, when people thought that the Ebo virus was gone, everyone relaxed their vigilance, and the Ebo virus disappeared from the public eye.

On this day, a college student named Bill came to a big city, he was amazed by the landscape there, he had never seen such a developed city, the streets were dressed in bright girls, rows of cars were walking in the circular tunnel, 100-meter-high buildings rose from the ground, the sky was full of drone robots, he recorded these buildings in detail and investigated the layout of the city, he took out a miniature drone robot from his backpack to take pictures of the surroundings, and the people around him thought he was from the countryside, and looked at him disapprovingly, He turned and turned away. People like him are all over the streets of the city, they are like a group of foreigners who come to the city to find a place to stay, they are everywhere, they are like voyeurs, they are mysterious, they don't know what they are doing, the police see their whereabouts secretly, and arrest Bill among them.

When Bill came to the police station, his face became pale, as if he had a compliment, he kept coughing, he didn't say a word, he was in a trance, like a dying patient, in order to understand them, the police began to find out the identity of this person, but in the incident about him, he had already died in a car accident in 2017, the police felt that the matter was getting more and more strange, and things were not so simple, so they began to pay attention to these foreign "people". The police began to investigate these people who entered the city, and the next day those people died inexplicably, Bill also died in prison, his death was the same as these people, they were all infected with some kind of virus, and these dead people are the world's advanced intellectuals, the police felt suffocated by this incident, they realized the seriousness of the matter, so they reported the matter to their superiors, and the superiors extracted files from the database, analyzed the "mirror" incident that happened two years ago, and found that their deaths were strikingly similar to that case, There is the "Ebbo" variant of the virus! John immediately set up a task force to investigate, and they suspected that there was a potential threat to reduce or even destroy humanity, and these viruses were resurrected and constantly evolving!

Intense work began, and all departments put disease prevention and control in the first place.

At this time, the space agency sent a notice for the political commissar to go and observe, because the incident was more stressful than the epidemic prevention work.

Ballmer is a cosmos observer at the Institute of Astronomy and a member of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Exploration Team. Recently, he discovered that a group of gamma rays was unusually active at the boundary of the solar system, and the Observatory's Institute of Physics combined the observed data to find a space-time vortex, whose huge gravitational pull distorted the surrounding space, forming a tunnel leading to an unknown space. The commissar looked at these fears in his heart, this terrible phenomenon lasted for two weeks, so the scientists of the observatory proposed to the commissar to send a probe to detect this space-time vortex, hoping to explore this mysterious phenomenon, and soon the project was supported by the commissar, and the superiors attached great importance to this project. So the manned exploration began, and Ballmer, the head of the space department, was in charge of it.

Steve, who has a background in astronautics, has a wealth of experience in spacecraft piloting, and the head of the space agency arranges for Steve to go to the edge of the solar system to conduct a survey. Due to the continuous maturity of space technology, the probe took only a week to complete the development, the probe was delivered to the launch pad in January, and the spacecraft will be officially launched in the middle of the night, because the Earth's orbit is slightly farther away from the sun during this time, this space flight is mainly manned exploration, because of the load problem of the spacecraft, only a senior old astronaut can be sent, so Steve is the first choice, he goes to the edge of the solar system as the main explorer. When everything was ready, Steve and his wife had a short goodbye before parting, the spaceship was about to set sail, he waved goodbye to the people who saw him off, and said "I will be back soon, maybe I will see my neighbors outside the solar system~" Of course, this is just his joke, if he really encounters an accident in space, his body will be adrift in space forever, because this is only the first time that humans have sent people to the border of the solar system, once there is any mistake, there is no return, people are moved, I look forward to him bringing good news to humanity, and at the same time hope that he can return safely. The space-time vortex is accelerating towards the Earth, and the Institute of Astrophysics has simulated the trajectory of the space-time vortex and concluded that the space-time vortex will hit the Earth in another 10 months, and scientists are worried about this. Plans are being discussed, and the probe is soon heading towards the center of the space-time vortex, whether Steve lives or dies is a mystery, but people admire him as a brave and sacrificed hero, because he explores this strange vortex alone, and it would be good if he could come back safely, but if he encounters all kinds of complicated situations... The fate of the entire human race will be rewritten, and no one knows what this mysterious vortex can bring to the world, and the potential danger is approaching the earth.

Ballmer was a friend of John's, and on this day John invited Ballmer to his house as a guest, and it was already night, and Ballmer was embarrassed to refuse and agreed to him, thinking that he must have encountered a difficult problem before coming to him for help, which is John's usual style.

When they arrived at John's house, John's face was so bad that he could see that he was not having a good time, so they decided to go out on the balcony to get some air, and they were discussing the strange things that had happened recently, and John made his bold guess: "What do you think of the resurrection of those who have died?" I think they seem to have something to do with the recent activity at the edge of the solar system, but I can't figure out what it is. It was just his gut telling him.

Ballmer was silent for a moment, he knew that John was mired in recent events, he hadn't slept well for two days and two nights, and Ballmer hoped that he could change his mood and said comfortingly: "Don't think about this big question yet, hey, our probe will enter the space-time vortex the day after tomorrow, where mankind will make major discoveries, maybe we will see advanced intelligent civilizations, and human beings may have more new discoveries in outer space, aren't you surprised?" ”

John said worriedly: "I am not optimistic, mainly because something unusual has happened on Earth recently, there has been no progress in the case I have worked on, those people are not clear about their deaths, and those who infiltrated the city have their brains taken by accident, and their files are obviously dead...... The only common feature is that the body also carries a new type of virus, which has caused me some trouble, who do you think I should turn to for help in this case? In my 20 years as a criminal investigator, I have never seen such a murder in this way. ”

Ballmer said: "What if they were perhaps not caused by human factors? They may have died of some kind of supernatural technology, or a new type of genetic weapon developed by a certain country, or maybe there is a theory that has become very popular recently, discovering multidimensional space life, they are hidden in another space-time latitude, they cannot be seen by our eyes, but they can observe and study us human beings all the time, I think it is these people who have been taken away by multidimensional beings for research. ”

John smiled: "This is a bit incredible, a bit of nonsense, this is just the conclusion of your mad scientists, we have no solid evidence, you mean that these multidimensional creatures in the earth world began to study us humans?" Did you work before the invasion on Earth? But we haven't found out that aliens have ever been to Earth~ After all, everything still has to be considered from reality. But John thought about it again and felt that what he said was reasonable, this is indeed the best explanation for the mysterious death of these people, but there has been no news recently, and there are too many mysterious events that cannot be related.

Ballmer on the side said, "Reality? You say these people were killed? The common feature of these people's deaths is that their brains have been removed, could it be that some perverted murderer likes to collect human brains? I've heard of a psychopathic murderer who likes to collect corpses, and he puts dead heads in the basement to make taxidermy to see, especially women. John thought that this might be the answer, but then he thought, "And how did he do it this time?" Our surgeons can't take the brain out of thin air, so what is the connection between the virus in these people's bodies? There is also the question of how to explain the strange resurrection of the dead in the archives, lurking in various cities, and some of whom have not yet been discovered by us? ”

Ballmer was silent, he had been guessing that it was the multidimensional space life that studied the human brain of the low-dimensional life, Ballmer sighed and said: "Stop the case you are investigating, stop thinking too much, maybe find something in the future, anyway, those people are already a dead ghost, as long as these people who have come back from the dead are arrested, they can be investigated immediately, as long as they do not threaten the survival of you and me, this can only be an unsolved mystery for future generations to guess." ”

"I must investigate this matter clearly, or it will always be a knot in my heart."

Ballmer smiled: "I wish you success!" They chatted briefly and then went home.

In the village, a little girl said to her grandmother, "Grandma, why are you back?" ”

"Grandma misses you, let grandma hug you." The old man entered the girl's bedroom at night.

"Grandma, aren't you dead? How did you get home? The girl asked curiously, and at this time "grandma" had a strange smile on her face......

It has been six weeks since the spacecraft left the earth, the experts of the observatory carefully observed the orbit of the probe, the probe arrived at Jupiter and directly entered the space-time vortex orbit through the gravitational slingshot, as expected, the probe successfully entered the space-time vortex, the scientists happily hugged each other, and then carefully observed the data transmitted by the probe, the super cosmic radiation in the space-time vortex turned dark in an instant, and the experts' nerves began to tense up again, The space agency strictly monitored all the data, the probe rushed into the center of the space-time vortex with maximum power, everyone held their breath, after a period of turbulence, the aerospace plane came to the space-time vortex to circle around, launched a spherical probe, launched four small unmanned reconnaissance aircraft from both sides of the probe, at this time the reconnaissance aircraft from the vortex of the image, the signal was transmitted to the ground satellite as scheduled, after receiving, people were shocked by the vision screen, there is a planet in the vortex that looks exactly the same as the earth, Regardless of size, the mass is similar to that of the earth! The scientists were in mixed moods, and Ballmer told them not to be too happy too soon and let the experts continue to observe the transmitted data. The U2 drone enters the atmosphere, and the probe lands safely on the sand, and the drone begins to search for important information. The U4 drone detects the quality of the atmosphere and the rock structure, and from the sampling and analysis of the probe, it is known that this is a habitable planet, with a thick atmosphere and water resources, and the surrounding frozen life seems to be covered by cold glaciers. Suddenly, the U2 drone saw the same city as New York City from the air, this city is almost exactly the same as the one on Earth, scientists were shocked into a cold sweat, and felt awe of the world as never before, and the pictures taken of the planet from space showed that all the geological structures and ocean divisions were completely opposite to the Earth, experts began to discuss, some people speculated that this is likely to be a mirror world, and it is unknown how it appeared near the solar system, and scientists calmly observed on the sidelines, Everyone seemed to be no longer stable, and then the U3 drone discovered a miraculous phenomenon from the ground, that is, in the melting ice, the single-celled organisms that make up simple lives gathered one by one, and then formed new life, and then a large number of humanoid species emerged from these creatures, and in the blink of an eye, new humans began to appear in the extremely large building complex, Ballmer magnified the image 200 times, and found that these people were all people who had died in the past! "Oh my God, this is incredible!! I have to tell my journalistic friends about it, it's the greatest discovery of the 21st century! The parallel world has been confirmed!! Ballmer frowned, seeing that the men were blank in their eyes, but still building their honeycomb nests. Ballmer observed for a moment and then fell silent, his instinct telling him. "No, these creatures aren't us humans. Their purpose is to invade us! "There was a dead silence, even fear. Hurry up and tell the army about this and take all defensive measures!!

It only took 5 minutes for the image to be transmitted to the Ministry of War, and Wilson, the scientific advisor on the side, said: "This may be the world of clones, as for the builders behind the scenes, I guess it may be a high-level civilization, only they can simulate an identical earth, which is obviously higher than human civilization, and their purpose in doing so may never be clear to us." But we must be cautious, because the encounter of two different species has confirmed the word law of the jungle in the earth world, and they are trying to replace us? But why do this? The staff of the space agency were silent, "Don't worry, we need instructions and arrangements from our superiors!" ”。

Steve disembarked from the probe and wandered around, carefully surveying each area, he used advanced equipment to explore, "Headquarters, the situation here is fine for the time being, but there is always a sense of loss when you arrive in this city. I don't know why? It appears to be the remains of an ancient civilization, and the detector shows that these humanoids, which are made up of multiple cells, appear to be controlled by a virus. ”

Space agency Ballmer said: "You look up what virus they have. ”

"I've looked up these people who die and decompose as soon as they lose the control of the virus, and I don't know why," Steve said. I think these viruses are the main components, and as far as I know, the information about this virus sample may be similar to the Ebola virus on Earth. ”

"I see, if Steve encounters danger, please return immediately, there are only three days for you to move, pay attention to safety."

"Understood, HQ." With that, Steve continued to probe forward, and the creatures around him seemed to deliberately provide him with directions. Suddenly, there was a horrible laugh around him, and Ballmer thought he was hallucinating and continued to run around.

Scientists are at a loss for what to do, and more and more mysteries haunt these top minds. As Steve said, "These viruses are the builders of that mirror world".

Regarding this parallel world, some scholars from the Academy of Sciences believe that the universe is a multiverse wrapped in many space bubbles, and the parallel universe we are facing today is a space separated from Universe 3 after the Big Bang 18 billion years ago. And since all matter in the universe is made up of quanta, these scientists speculate that since each quantum has a different state, it is possible that the universe is not just one, but many similar universes, which explains how this world came to be. That world is just one of the multiverses, and as for why there is a space-time vortex connecting the two worlds, it may be because of a wormhole in the universe that connects the two worlds. The world virus is the master of the planet, this species composition is just the opposite of humans, they can kill the tissues on the human body, and will hide their whereabouts, which is a threat to humans, scientists are worried that the world built by the new Ebo virus threatens the safety of humans at any time, they are too mysterious, scientists want to study these humanoid creatures. ”

The superior said that the threat is greater than the research value it brings, because this virus human beings have no cure for it at all, the arrival of this alien species is a potential danger to human beings, once it is not well controlled, there may be a scene similar to the zombie crisis, so it was decided to discuss a meeting to discuss the problems to be faced, Ballmer proposed: "First take the valuable samples back to the earth, and then focus on research, and then eliminate the threats one by one, only by force, in order to ensure the safety of human beings themselves. This proposal was agreed by the people on the ninth floor of the venue, and the plan began to be implemented.

At the same time, with the help of the data and patterns transmitted by Steve, John's case has also made new progress, the alien biological viruses on that planet have spread to the earth world through meteorites, and they found that these Ebo viruses have used the intelligence and body of dead humans to build a new life form that is almost exactly the same as human characteristics, this alien species sneaks into the earth world, comes out at night to activities, obtains human DNA and brain data, and people who come into contact with them will slowly die, and after death, they, It is the new target of the ancient alien virus to disguise human beings, these virus puppets are imitating the development of the human world, from the "people" they sent to Bill are all viruses on the earth's tentative observation, they are also beginning to explore the human world, observe the structure of human beings, and even can replicate a species exactly like humans, these alien viruses are obviously intelligent, and can think, this creature subverts John's perception of aliens.

John's research has results, and they immediately reported the relevant situation to **, **After discussion, they ordered the destruction of this planet similar to the earth, and the specific plan was to spread this world with a disinfectant, and at the same time bomb the planet with tens of millions of tons of *** equivalent**. The world in which the mirage of the past appeared in the vicinity of the Earth, and now it is observed, and the mirror world moves with the Earth's orbit, shrouded in a mysterious and strange way.

Three days later, Steve returned to the Ministry of Space on a manned spacecraft, where he received a wealth of valuable information and geological samples. The plan for the implementation of the plan that followed is coming, the deployment of the various ** of the military department has been completed, just waiting for the officer to order the implementation, the old officer looked at the distant planet and hesitated for a moment, sometimes he wondered why human beings didn't move to that new planet to live? This is the new planet that mankind has been waiting for for a long time, and it is also the most recent at present, but he also considered that this planet is about to come into contact with the earth, and the consequences are obviously complicated, at that time, the entire human race may die due to the epidemic of viruses, and these viruses are tenacious enough to survive in space, and threaten the survival of mankind! The only solution is to destroy the planet and make them disappear completely, so the old officer Li Hongwei pressed the launch button, one after another, these new nuclear weapons weighing 10,000 tons of huge lethality have a place to use, their target is 65 million kilometers from the earth space-time vortex, these nuclear warheads fly into space, forming a starlight, this scene is rarely able to watch, they are so spectacular, one by one ** straight into the sky, towards the deep sea of the universe, Their mission was to completely destroy the planet, and in the next half hour, people saw brilliant spots of light blooming in the universe from the ** explosion. Then the explosion was like a blazing sun, and the light it released flickered on the endless earth, causing the whole earth to tremble, and the planet in the vortex of time and space quickly turned into ruins, and the fire of hell burned on that planet, burning the last life of that planet.

None of the people on Earth know what happened, but the second "sun" formed by the explosion was dazzling. People thought it was a solar halo, and each took pictures to commemorate the second "sun", and then the "sun" disappeared completely, and meteors scattered the earth and various planets, and brilliant fireworks filled the entire sky, this kind of spectacle is rare, and this phenomenon is concealed by the superiors.