There seems to be a faint thundercloud surging along the coastline, and a heavy rain is coming.

The surface of the huge red fireball burned with chaotic flames, and the fiery magma was evaporated by the ultra-high temperature, forming a beating bright red tongue of fire, almost similar to the surface of the sun observed by humans with probes.

But this strange sight does not appear on the surface of the earth, or in people's field of vision, but in the pupils of a black-headed horseman.

There was a bird that stopped in the air and did not move, its wings extended, and it hovered in mid-air without moving.

Oh my! What kind of seabird is this?

The soldier who was watching the seabirds with his scope saw that the black-headed hemp owl was burning all over his body.

The flames were not visible to the naked eye because of the distance, or rather the flames were not real, and the soldier guessed by the black smoke that appeared on it.

Now, standing behind him, another soldier who didn't use a scope, knew that something was wrong with the birds: not only did they fly in strange shapes, but the contours of their bodies seemed to be constantly changing, losing their definite edges and outlines, and becoming much larger than they had just seen.

"What's going on? Those birds...... Am I reading it wrong? The soldier lowered his gun, rubbed his eyes, and turned to look at the other man.

But the other party did not answer him immediately, still tilting his neck and looking at the sky without blinking.

After looking at it for a while, the soldier lowered his firearm.

It's early in the morning? Was it just dazzling?

"! This place is so incomprehensible, you keep watching the birds, I'll have to go down and have two cups of crushing shock! ”

With that, he put the gun on his back, turned his head and walked down, and under the staircase was the temporary rest room of the crew, where the captain had hidden many precious special brews.

"I ......"

Just as he was about to step into the hatch with his leg raised, he suddenly heard the bird watcher behind him seem to speak.

"Huh? What happened to you? He stopped and turned to look.

In between, the soldier's head and neck slowly drooped, almost bent to his chest, and the center of his body fell forward, and he was about to fall.

"Huh?"

Noticing that his movements were somewhat abnormal, he immediately stepped forward and reached out to support his shoulders.

"Hey, what's wrong with you? Seasick, or what? ”

"I ......" The guy with his neck down shook his head again and looked up.

At this moment, the soldier with the gun on his back saw clearly, the guy's eyes were empty, and his pupils had turned pure black, dull, dazed, and dull, as if his brain had been emptied by something.

"Hey, hey! Don't scare me, what's wrong with you? ”

“……”

The eyes of the soldier with the gun on his back darkened, and his eyes became empty at the same time.

A muffled, chaotic voice flooded his mind, countless tangible and invisible spaces were squeezing towards him, and the unpleasant noise and rhythm of snowflakes filled his entire nervous system, making him feel his own heartbeat.

"Tom!"

"Tom!"

"Tom!"

An almost uncontrollable sound shook the small space of time and space.

No, it might not be the sound of a human heartbeat, so heavy and slow that it oppressed all his senses, but the sound of the body's rhythm of the nameless "Awakener".

The soldier with the gun on his back, who was deprived of his mind, fell down in a daze, "Goodong! With a thud, his body slammed into the deck, and under his ribs was a military dagger that was pierced diagonally from behind.

The other, dumb-eyed, slowly took the soldier's hand with his hand, threw the soldier's arm off his shoulder, threw the gun strap at his side behind his back, slowly got up, and walked step by step towards the middle of the ship's spiral staircase.

Empty eyes, staggering steps, like a person who has lost his soul.

At this moment, none of the soldiers of the ship who were still sleeping noticed that there were more and more black-headed hemp owls in the sky, like a woven gray net churning on the surface of the Red Sea.

To the occasional early fisherman, the birds appear out of nowhere and fly in a haphazard manner, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, high and low, like headless flies.

They didn't know that if they looked from above, the birds seemed to form a human-recognizable symbol in the air, like a smiling expression.

"Boom!"

In a small village not far from the sea, villagers who were busy removing fishing nets from wooden racks heard a loud explosion.

The fishermen, who had stopped what they were doing, looked out to the west in the morning light. The sun shines on the surface of the sea, making the view unusually clear.

Some people ran out of their houses and saw a puff of smoke rising from the sea more than 10 kilometers away, and something was burning. Then they saw a huge wave in a circle, spreading out from the smoking surface of the sea.

"What's going on over there?"

"Is there a shipwreck? Was that an explosion just now? The villagers inquired about each other and began to discuss.

It didn't take long for the bewildered villagers to hear a loud engine noise not far away, and followed the sound. A few huge trucks that looked like they were used in a mine, with only the front of the trailer removed, dragged the dust and ran over the muddy ground outside the village, leaving deep and wide tire marks.

The car is so huge, a tire alone is as tall as three adults.

There are no markings or license plates on the vehicle, and it appears to have been camouflaged to some extent, with all marks removed.

But even villagers in remote areas know that these special vehicles are giant trailers used to carry heavy loads, and they are only equipped by the army.

Sure enough, behind them, they saw a massive, metal mesh shrouded in countless thick cables.

It looks like there's a big guy wrapped in it. There are also villagers with sharp eyes, and they see that the canvas on the car is not tightly covered, and occasionally there are figures.

When the car drove away, I looked at it from another angle, and it was a heavily armed man in black wearing a strange helmet and tightly guarded.

The villagers stood dumbfounded, watching the vehicles leave and head for the coastal road. The dust raised in the sky obscured the sunlight and it took a long time for it to completely fall.

……

Somewhere near the outskirts of the city, the lights that represent the bustling city are just as dazzling as the depths of this base, and even brighter than in the city.

The steady "buzz" gradually slowed down, and on one of the largest helipads of the base, two people jumped out from under a military helicopter that had just landed, bent over and briskly walking towards the brightest lighted building.

As soon as they got off the plane, they saw a red point of light flickering in the sky not far away, and it seemed that a helicopter was also flying towards them.

"Hey, Dr. Sue, wait a minute!" A military hitchhiker sped by, and on board was a base orderman in a dark blue navy uniform.

"It's Dr. Sue, right? I've been here for a long time, so please get in the car. After speaking, he saluted Su Zhe.

Su Zhe nodded and jumped directly into the car.

Instead of heading towards the building, the car drove down a small road that said "No Entry" written everywhere.

The headlights illuminated the front, and he vaguely saw that there were more sentry posts at the end of the road, and after the guard at the last sentry pressed the button and removed the electric spur speed bump, Su Zhe had a chance to see the face of this place clearly.

It was a huge culvert, and the cold wind blowing in his face made him his collar and wrap it tightly from the nose down.

Before entering, Dr. Su had already sensed something: this base was the place where he had worked for most of his life, but he didn't know about this newly built culvert.

"When was this place built?"

"It must have been about 3 years since you left here for Antarctica, right?"

"Oh! It's been 3 years......"