In the summer night sky, there is a galaxy of stars, and the Atlantic Ocean at night is like an endless thick black satin, swallowing the stars into it.

The town of Cape May was brightly lit, and Lin Fan and his party arrived at Dr. Jonathan's seaside cottage at the appointed time, a blue-gray Victorian villa surrounded by shrubs, and behind the house was a sandy beach, and the sound of breaking waves could be heard constantly coming from the seaside.

Ji Yutong stepped forward and knocked on the door, and there was a sudden barking of dogs in the house, and soon the door was opened, and Dr. Jonathan and the big black and white dog named "Poppy" appeared at the door, Jonathan saw everyone and waved his hand: "You guys are here, come in." ”

Lin Fan, Ji Yutong, Nishimura Lingzi, Xue Panru, Chen Bo, Wu Lingling, First Officer Li Gang, and agents of the National Security Bureau Chen Ming and Ye Wei followed Jonathan into the house one by one, and the big dog called "Bobby" followed everyone around and sniffed everyone's trouser legs. Jonathan's home is very simple, except for the simple furniture, the rest is basically bookshelves, which stand in the hallways and around the room, and are full of books.

Jonathan ushered the group into a spacious living room with light wood floors, simply painted stone walls, a fireplace on one wall, and old European wooden tables and chairs. Jonathan motioned for everyone to sit casually, and Lin Fan and the others sat on the wooden chairs and stools around them.

Jonathan apologized slightly: "I'm sorry that the place is a little simple, there is tea here, everyone please take care of yourself." He gestured to the kettle and cup on the coffee table, then sat down on a wooden chair near the fireplace.

Jonathan's dog "Bobby" also followed him to his chair, half-curled down, looking at everyone with blazing eyes, Jonathan lowered his head, held the teacup in one hand, and slowly touched his dog with the other, half silent, everyone looked at him worriedly, Ji Yutong took the lead in breaking the silence and asked: "Dr. Jonathan, what do you mean by 'lost civilization' today?" What does this have to do with the research of Sid and Li Dong? Can you tell us? ”

"Hmm...... Yes, I'm going to tell you the story about it," Jonathan stroked Poppy's head, "but where to start?" ......" Jonathan pondered, Bobby seemed to feel the contradiction of his master at the moment, licked his hand, Jonathan finally raised his head, looked around at everyone and said in a calm tone: "I, Sid, Li Dong, Linda, and all of you, everyone's current situation, all of this, all of this has to start with a scientific discovery in the last century. He looked out the window at the sea, "It was 1967, in the southeast of the Florida Peninsula, on a sea at 20-30 degrees north latitude......"

"I see! It's the Bermuda Triangle! Xue Panru shouted, Lin Fan, Wu Lingling, and Chen Bo immediately gave him a closed look, and Xue Panru hurriedly retracted his head.

"That's right, it's the Bermuda Triangle," Jonathan smiled and continued, "When a U.S. Air Force pilot was on a low-altitude flight mission around Bermuda's Bahamas, he suddenly noticed a huge rectangular object under the sea near Bimini Island, which stretched for miles under the water, like a city wall, and he took a picture of it with his camera and went back to report it to the military, but the military ignored it at the time. Somehow, in 1968, Manson Valentine, the director of the museum in Miami and a professor of archaeology at Yale University, found out about it, and after seeing the photo taken by the pilot, he thought that the rectangular object was likely to be an ancient city wall, so he did not hesitate to organize an expedition to the area around Bimini. ”

"The expedition was a great success," Jonathan said, puffing his goatee and looking more and more interested, "Manson Valentine's expedition found the huge rectangular object that the pilot saw under the water near Bimini, a 30-centimeter-thick "wall" that stretched nearly 2 kilometers from the shore of Bimini into the sea, with obvious traces of man-made masonry. This discovery made Manson Valentine, a professor of archaeology, realize that there were likely to be relics of ancient civilizations on the seabed near the city walls, so he immediately began underwater archaeological work, and the expedition team explored under the water of Bimini Island for many days, and as expected, they found huge stone buildings on the seabed around the island, which seemed to be the remains of ancient cities, and there were wide and flat stone streets on the bottom of the sea, and the expedition also found the remains of docks, port equipment and marble statues. They bear a resemblance to the prehistoric remains of Stonehenge and the Tillint Walls in Salisbury, southern England. ”

Professor Valentine was so excited by the discovery of the remains of this underwater city that he was eager to announce the discovery to the archaeological community immediately, so he simply explored the shallow waters near Bimini and ended the expedition without exploring the deeper waters of Bermuda. After Professor Valentine returned to Miami, he immediately began to sort out his findings and announce them to the outside world, which caused a sensation in the archaeological community at the time, because no one had ever seen the artifacts that Valentine brought back from the ruins of the underwater city, and through the analysis of carbon elements in some of the underwater city ruins, it was found that these buildings were at least 12,000 years old, which was 5,000 years earlier than the Sumerian civilization, the earliest known civilization in the world, and there was no record of civilization 10,000 years ago in all the history books of human civilization. ”

"Although this scientific discovery brought Professor Valentine a supreme reputation, it also brought him endless problems, because he did not know which ancient civilization he had discovered, so he could not further testify to his discovery, and he could only name the section of the city wall first discovered by American pilots as the 'Bimini Wall', and the name of the undersea city he excavated was uncertain."

"The archaeological community was arguing at the time, some said that the city was a remnant of the Sumerian civilization, some said that it was the ancient Egyptian civilization, and some said that it was a civilization created by the ancestors of the ancient Mayans...... An even more interesting point of view was put forward by a Greek-American scholar, who said that this undersea city is actually Atlantis, an ancient civilization destroyed by the sea and flames mentioned by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato in his book "The Ideal Republic", this scholar is named Nicholas Sid, who is the father of Dr. Thomas Alvar Sid, the current leader of the "Poseidon Project", and is also my former best friend and predecessor. Jonathan said lightly as he looked at the dim chandelier in the living room.

Everyone was surprised, partly out of surprise at the hypothesis of Atlantean civilization, and partly out of surprise at the name Sid, "That Dr. Sid's father is actually his friend?" Xue Panru and the others whispered.

Dr. Jonathan looked back from the chandelier and continued: "Professor Manson Valentine died shortly after discovering the underwater ruins of Bimini, which interrupted the expedition to Bermuda's undersea cities, and ten years later, Nicholas Sid, the scholar who proposed that the undersea cities were the remains of the Atlantean civilization, in 1978 formed a well-equipped underwater expedition to Bimini to explore the underwater cities there. ”

"Nicholas explored more deeply than Professor Valentine before, they went all the way to the seabed along the ruins of the underwater city in the shallow sea, into the deeper seabed, and finally in the hinterland of the Bermuda Triangle, they made a major discovery, under the dark seabed at a depth of nearly 500 meters, they found a larger underwater city ruins than before, this underwater city has countless huge city walls, which are distributed in a ring to divide the city, and the buildings inside are tightly structured, and the streets are criss-crossed. There are some rectangular or polygonal stones arranged in various patterns on the pavement...... And in the heart of this undersea city, they found something even more amazing. Jonathan swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "It is a graveyard of sunken ships, and there are countless ancient and modern ships piled up in it, which are integrated with the ruins of the underwater city, lying quietly on the bottom of the sea, and in the center of this sunken shipwreck, there is a huge pyramid!" This pyramid is a perfect four-sided cone, all made of boulders, with a base of more than 400 meters wide and a height of nearly 300 meters, which is larger than the largest pyramid in the world, Churula! What's even more amazing is that there is a large hole at the top of this spire, and the sea water will flow into the hole at a very fast speed, and then flow out of the four holes in the base of the pyramid, so that the sea water forms a very strong vortex at the top of the tower, and at the same time causes a strong undercurrent around the tower, so that the submersible probe can not approach at all. ”

The discovery of this large underwater city convinced Nicholas that he had found the legendary Atlantis, because it was completely consistent with Plato's description that the Atlantean civilization sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean 10,000 years ago, and that the underwater pyramid, surrounded by undercurrents and inaccessible to no one, probably contained artifacts that corroborated the existence of the Atlantean civilization! Nicholas would never miss this opportunity, so he went on a multi-faceted journey, and in 1980, he finally brought in the forces of the U.S. military to explore the pyramid in the heart of Bermuda's undersea, and I was fortunate enough to be a part of it. ”

Jonathan said with an awe-inspiring expression: "This exploration can be said to be a watershed for the entire human civilization, because the content it found reconstructs our understanding of the history of human civilization. ”

"In November 1980, during Bermuda's least stormy season, we and the U.S. Navy went to the sea where the underwater pyramids are located, this time with cruisers, submarines and frogman special forces to excavate the pyramids at the bottom of Bermuda. At that time, the navy used submarines and cruisers to work together on the surface and underwater, first sealed the big hole at the top of the pyramid with huge stones, intercepted the undercurrent around the pyramid, and then dispatched the submersible detector, the submarine exploration team successfully approached the pyramid, and found an entrance that could be entered in the upper part of the pyramid, after they entered the interior of the pyramid, they found a huge stone chamber inside, and there was a huge six-sided crystal in the center of this stone chamber...... "Lin Fan's heart tightened, and everyone held their breath at the moment, Listen intently as Jonathan speaks, afraid to miss a word.

"That crystal is a regular hexahedron, two or three meters high, the inside and outside of the crystal shines with a white brilliance, extremely bright, reflecting the entire stone chamber, the diving team at that time didn't know what this crystal was, but felt that it was special, so I didn't want to move it out of the pyramid stone chamber."

At the same time, in a secondary chamber behind the stone chamber, the exploration team also found a sarcophagus surrounded by a row of black Erlenmeyer flasks, which were neither ceramic nor metal, and the bottles were hard and completely sealed. The frogmen removed the flasks and opened the sarcophagus, revealing that there were no human remains inside, and that the only thing at the bottom of the coffin was a trident spear, which was made of bronze-like metal and was so heavy that it took the strength of several people to pick it up. ”

"The diving team removed the hexahedron crystal, the trident spear, and some black Erlenmeyer flasks from the stone chamber, and when these things were salvaged out of the sea, the whole Bermuda was violently windy, and the originally clear sky was suddenly obscured by heavy dark clouds, lightning and thunder did not stop, and the whole sea seemed to roar, and everyone was terrified, some people said that it was these things that we took that angered the sea god, so it attracted its warning, but Nicholas did not pay attention to these statements at all, and insisted on bringing these three things back to study, And it was these three things that started the later 'Poseidon Project'. ”