In an office building in a city.

"Xiao Zuo, have you done what I asked you to do?" A man stands in front of a floor-to-ceiling window, watching the setting sun and making phone calls. "Well, I know, this matter must be kept secret, kill all the people who know, and leave no one!"

The man quickly dropped the phone, then pulled out the calling card, broke it in two, and threw it aside.

"It's time to start planning... It's time for humanity to usher in a new era..."

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August 8, 2025.

"Zhao Gong! Hurry up! The spaceship that lost contact before was searched and rescued, let's hurry up and take a look! ”

At the launch base, two men who looked fairly tough were running towards the plaza, where a broken ship was docked, and shockingly, the surface of the ship was covered in a white cocoon, for unknown reasons.

There were a lot of people around the ship, including the pilots who pulled the ship back, engineers, biological researchers, and experts in various fields.

And the two of them, as the makers of this spaceship, also have a reason to come here to observe the situation.

"The spaceship is pulled back, what about the two pilots? Where are they? At this time, a tall, but a somewhat bald middle-aged man suddenly asked.

"Report to the Director, we didn't find them outside the ship," said the pilot in charge of pulling the ship back. It could be inside the ship, but we couldn't get in, or it could be that we were dragged somewhere by some unknown creature, and we wouldn't have anywhere to verify..."

The middle-aged man was the director of the Aviation Academy, responsible for all things, including spaceship construction, overhaul, takeoff, pilot assignment, training, orbit selection, and so on.

And this accident, he also bore the brunt of the accident, and he needs to find out the cause of the incident, otherwise he may be blamed again.

"What about Zhao Gong and Wu Gong? Hurry up and call them over and see what the hell is going on?! ”

"What about this! What about this! Hearing that the director was looking for them, the two hurriedly greeted them.

"It's just in time, let's see what's going on with this spaceship? Then find a way to fix it! ”

The two of them hurriedly stepped forward to check on the dilapidated spaceship.

"Zhao Gong, look here, there seems to be something wrong with this fuel tank, it seems that there is a gap..."Wu Gong blinked, poked the hole with the pliers in his hand, and said softly.

"Well, this is indeed an opening, and it may be because of this that they were killed!"

"And, most importantly," Wu Gong said softly. The hole in the fuel tank seems to be man-made..."

As soon as Wu Gong's words came out, the audience instantly fell silent, and they were all a little shocked by this situation, after all, no one would have thought that who would be so desperate to destroy the spaceship.

It was clearly an attempt to kill the two poor pilots.

"This is murder," Wu Gong whispered, and then slowly stood up, ready to find a way to enter the spaceship. If I'm right, those two pilots are still in the ship..."

"Really?" The director said in surprise. "Then hurry up and take a look!"

Although pilots sign confidentiality agreements, high insurance, and even government subsidies when conducting exploration missions, once they die, these leaders must also give them an explanation, which is the basic criterion.

"Alright, let's go back!" The director shouted. "That, the doctor and Lao Wang will stay for a while, and the others will go back first!"

The crowd did not linger any longer, and although they were very curious, they still did not dare to resist due to the director's order, so they could only leave in a huff, leaving only a man and a woman standing in place.

The woman has long silky hair, but not shawl hair, but a small braid, tied at the back, which looks intellectual and at the same time very capable.

She wears a red-framed glasses on the bridge of her nose and a white coat on her body, her bewitching figure, if she doesn't wear that white coat, she may be a big beauty with a hot body.

And the man standing on the other side also looks heroic, with neat hair, although some gray hair, but this also shows the temperament of the old school.

And he wears a neat suit without any dust, which can also be seen that he is a meticulous and very clean person.

The two did not speak, but followed the director directly, as well as Zhao Gong and Wu Gong, to the spaceship.

"How? Did you find anything? The Director asked softly.

"Look here..."Zhao Gong took a folding knife, cut a piece of silk thread, and then handed it to the director. This is a very ordinary silk thread, and judging by the softness, it should be about the same as spider silk..."

"Show me!" The old man took over the silk thread in Zhao Gong's hand, and he was the old king in the mouth of the director. "It's really just ordinary threads, could it be that these things were made here?"

"Impossible... Now it is only a week since the last detection, and it is impossible for such a dense silk thread to appear in such a short period of time..."Wu Gong said softly. "It's probably something we don't understand..."

Everyone gasped, but they didn't show it, and Wu Gong had already picked up the cutter at this time, intending to forcibly destroy the silk thread and reach the inside of the spaceship.

With a hissing cutting sound, all the silk threads in front of him were cut in half and placed on both sides, revealing the door of the ship.

"This silk thread still looks very sticky, it should have just appeared not long ago..."Wu Gong frowned. There's a lot of danger here, so be careful..."

The director hurriedly retreated to the back, after all, he was relatively timid, if it weren't for his identity, he would have already known where to run.

"Zhao Gong! You're good at prying on the door, come on! ”

Wu Gong quickly gave him a place, and Zhao Gong was not polite, hurriedly walked up with the toolbox, and immediately opened the lock.

It didn't take long for him to make a gap in the ship's door, enough for a person to enter sideways.

"Alright, let's go inside!"

Zhao Gong cleaned up the tools on the ground, let the door out, and looked at the people behind, but they didn't seem to have any intention of going in, and they didn't know what they were thinking.

"Zhao Gong, isn't this door a little smaller?" Lao Wang frowned. "Doesn't that mean there's danger inside? With such a small door, how are we going to get out if we do hit something? ”

"What danger can it be?" Zhao Gong smiled softly. "Don't scare yourself, it's all psychological, right? Let me go first? ”

Zhao Gong spread his hands, and seeing that everyone had no intention of taking the lead, he had to go in first to see the situation.

Seeing him enter, everyone else followed, first Wu Gong, then Lao Wang, a beautiful doctor, and finally the director.

As soon as they entered the ship, they smelled a heavy smell of engine oil and a smell of rotting flesh, which mixed together to make people sick.

Zhao Gong, who was walking in the front, took out a flashlight and illuminated the inside of the dark spaceship, and then he realized that the ground was covered with a thick layer of oil.

"That's a lot of leaks, huh? But why is it leaking in? Isn't the fuel tank outside the ship? The director asked suspiciously.

"It's a reaction force...," Wu Gong explained. Although the fuel tank is outside, there is a pressure pump inside, which needs him to operate and deliver fuel to all parts of the spacecraft so that the ship can move, so if the fuel tank on the outside leaks, especially in outer space, the oil leaking in is far more than the oil leaking out..."

The director nodded, and the group walked slowly forward, skirting the long corridor and arriving in the cockpit.

There are no people here, not even any traces of a fight, just a thin layer of ash on various instruments, which also shows. Those two pilots may have been killed long ago.

"The smell seems to be coming from here..."At this moment, the beautiful doctor suddenly sniffed and pointed to the room next to her. The smell of rotting flesh was strong, maybe those two people were there..."

The rest of the people hurried over there, which was the rest room, usually a place for pilots to rest, and if they were, it was likely that something had happened while they were sleeping.

Zhao Gong cautiously opened the door, but after opening the door, he found that the situation inside seemed to be more serious than the outside.

The room was covered with silk threads, a white expanse, piled up from the inside to the door, all filled with silk threads, and the smell coming from there was indeed the smell of rotten meat.

"Looks like we're going to take coercion..."

Wu Gong took the toolbox in Zhao Gong's hand and took out a sprinkler from it.

If you know this, you will know that this is a sprinkler head connected to a flamethrower, which is generally used for smoking or welding.

And the reason why he took out his was also very obvious, that is, he wanted to use this to quickly clean up the spider silk in this room.

"You don't think you have a flamethrower, do you? Why don't I pick it up? Zhao Gong said softly.

"It's okay, I'll use this the same..."

I saw Wu Gong take out a lighter from his pocket, then put the sprinkler on it, tied it with a rope a few times, and fixed it before lighting the lighter.

I saw a thin flame slowly ignited, although it was not as strong as the flamethrower's flame, and the strength did not seem to be large, but a little flame could still be seen.

"Come on, borrow it!" Wu Gong took the small flamethrower in his hand, came to the front of the room, and leaned his hand over.

The flames instantly ignited the silk threads in the room, and the flames spread rapidly, burning all the silk threads in the room in a short time, and also allowing them to see the situation in the room.

"Sure enough... Sure enough, here they are..."

Wu Gong was the first to walk into the room, followed by the beautiful doctor, and finally several others.

"Xiao Li, you're better at this kind of thing, so let's do it..."

After Wu Gong came to the two who had died, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, he was just an engineer, and he didn't understand these things at all, so he had to hurriedly make way for the doctor behind him.

The beautiful doctor didn't say much, after all, he came here to do this, hurriedly came to the two of them, took out the cutting knife he was carrying, and began to carefully observe the two people lying on the ground.

"There are corpse spots on the surface of the body, and it is confirmed that they are dead, probably more than 24 hours old, but strangely, their skin is still very fresh, and the surface is smooth, is it because of the silk thread?"

Xiao Li frowned, and gently slashed the body of one of them with a knife, but after the cut, her brows furrowed even more, because the situation in front of her was really a bit beyond her cognition.

"What's wrong?" The director came over and wanted to ask Xiao Li what was going on.

"Look..."Xiao Li took a knife and slowly picked open the man's wound. This man doesn't have any fluid in his body, what is the reason for this? ”

Xiao Li got up and came to another person, and looked at this person's body in the same way, and it was the same situation.

"Could it be that the blood was sucked dry?" The Director asked softly. "And, looking at the threads from here before, it's likely that they were made of something we hadn't touched..."

Xiao Li could only nod, after all, she couldn't understand why the deaths of these two people were so weird.

In addition to the dried up of the liquid all over their bodies, they all had a fist-sized wound on their chests, but because the corpses had shrunk, they couldn't see what was going on in their bodies, so they could only decide to get the bodies of these two people out first and hand them over to Xiao Li to deal with, and then Wu Gong and Zhao Gong studied the problems of the spaceship, and Lao Wang and the director went to deal with the problems of the deceased's family.

Several people quickly disbanded, and each went his own way, leaving only Wu Gong and Zhao Gong still in the spaceship, looking at the dilapidated room.

"Zhao Gong, what do you think?" After a while, Wu Gong suddenly asked Zhao Gong next to him.

"Thoughts? Isn't this just a normal detection accident? At best, they encountered some strange events, and it is possible that they did touch something on the moon as the director said, and that's why they died..."

"You know, that's not what I'm talking about..."Wu Gong said in a low voice, and then turned his head to stare at Zhao Gong tightly. Now it's just the two of us here, and you honestly tell me, is this spaceship your hands and feet? ”

"How is that possible?" Zhao Gong hurriedly argued. "This means nothing to me, I have no grievances with them, how can I make such a dead hand?"

"The final maintenance of this spaceship is the responsibility of the two of us, such a big gap in the fuel tank, it is impossible not to find it, and I remember, you are in charge of this part..."

"Are you doubting me?!"

"I don't want to doubt you... But now that the situation and clues are pointing to you, I hope you can refute my idea..."

Wu Gong's eyes were full of distrust, but this was also an unintentional move, after all, if such a big thing happened, anyone would have suspicions, and he himself knew that this was just his own blind guess, but judging from the current evidence, it was indeed Zhao Gong who had the best chance to do this.

Zhao Gong was very angry, but whoever he was might not be able to endure this grievance.

"I will definitely catch the murderer of this matter! Prove my innocence! Just wait! ”

Seeing him rush out angrily, Wu Gong may also realize that his words were a bit heavy, but he didn't chase Zhao Gong, but wanted to see if there was anything missing in this room.

At this moment, the spaceship suddenly shook violently, and the ground suddenly tilted, which also made him suddenly lose his footing and fall to the ground.

The ship was still tilting, and it was still squeezing, and when the ship stopped moving, he was also pressed between the two sleeping bags, unable to move.

"It's... What's going on?! ”

At this time, outside the spaceship, Zhao Gong was quietly looking at the spaceship that had been crowded together, and smiled slightly.

"You forced me... I didn't mean to kill you... It's all your fault! ”

Wu Gong never thought that his guess was actually right, the most dangerous thing is often the people around him, and this spaceship accident is what he is doing to obstruct it.

"It seems that the experiment has been successful, and the test subject has finally brought those things back, and now it's time to move on to the next step..."

Zhao Gong snorted lightly, turned around and left here, for the Wu Gong who threatened him, he didn't plan to get into trouble, and this method of directly killing him was the most effective.

The two corpses had been transported to Xiao Li's operating room and placed on two separate beds, and Xiao Li was going to dissect them all to see if he could find any clues.

"The tissues are all intact, there are no other traumatic injuries, the fatal injury should be this wound in the chest, but what caused it?"

Xiao Li gently cut the wound with a scalpel, and a strong pungent smell instantly hit his face, smelling like a metallic smell, but he couldn't recognize what the specific smell was, he just felt pungent.

After cutting the wound, it was pitch black inside, and she couldn't see anything clearly, so she had no choice but to follow the normal dissection steps and cut the entire chest open, so that she could see more clearly.

After all the incisions were made, a very strange situation reappeared, there was nothing in the corpse's body, in other words, all the organs in the body were gone, replaced by a faint layer of particles.

Xiao Li lightly scratched the spoon a little, put it on the tray, and took a magnifying glass to observe it carefully, and his brows furrowed even tighter.

"It's... It's sand... What's the situation?! ”

Xiao Li quickly raised her head, this series of problems already made her a little unsure of what to do, this is no longer something that can be solved with ordinary medicine.

It is very likely that this is an alien civilization that they have not yet come into contact with and are still exploring, and this is also very likely to be their gift to Earth...