Lin Huoxiao felt that he was about to die, and death had never been so close.

As he was swept into the air by the swirling storm, Lin Huoxiao saw a man below the point of light, it was his father, who was forever frozen in the age of 36. His father smiled at him as before, and the smile that had traveled through time and space made him forget about death and leave behind his fear.

"Fire, Dad came to see you."

When the voice of 20 years of absence rings in the ears, the dusty memories open like a thick photo album, one by one, and the voice that can only be heard in dreams is in the ears.

Father!

Lin Huoxiao opened his mouth wide but couldn't make a sound, he felt that his throat was blocked, his eyes were round, his blood was coagulated, and his limbs waved in vain. Some people say that everyone will see the person they miss the most during their experience, and Lin Huoxiao believes that this is true, and he met his father. But in just an instant, my father's figure was engulfed by the storm, and the blood-red points of light broke my father's body into pieces, then into powder, and finally sucked into the world in the red dots.

No!

Lin Huoxiao watched all this with tears in his eyes, and he stretched out his arms to hold on to something, until his vacated body was grabbed by a pair of hands, "Hold on!" "The storm of destruction disappeared in a continuous muffled sound, without light, and darkness fell all around. Captain Qiao let go of the stunned forest fire and got up to check the casualties.

After a long time, Lin Huoxiao woke up from this unattainable dream, and he tried to control himself from thinking about the scene he had just seen. The communicator is broken, but the oxygen filtration system is fine. He looked around with the help of the night vision feature in his helmet. The room was in shambles, with shattered walls and badly damaged surfaces of several pillars, revealing the steel bars within. The dozen or so remaining warriors and scientists were slumped on the ground, their bodies slowly undulating to let them know they were still alive. The survivors felt as if they were in a dark box, and muffled cries and muffled coughs rang out.

"I can't hold on anymore, I want to go back!"

"Me ...... too"

"It's hell! Boss, Captain Joe, let's go back! Natural and man-made disasters, this kind of weird thing is not something we can deal with at all, leave it to the state and the army to manage! ”

The scientists were shouting, and only Captain Joe's fighters were silent.

"Say no more!" Captain Qiao leaned against the pillar in frustration, he gasped, and slammed his fist on the pillar wall, making a loud noise, and the cement debris was shaken down a lot, and the crowd suddenly fell silent.

"If you don't come, you're coming, you want to go back, can you see if it's possible?" Captain Joe pointed to the dark passage, "The roads are all ruined, and the thermal conduction map is gone here." We had to keep going down to see if there was an escape route ahead. ”

The crowd fell silent again.

After a five-minute rest, Captain Joe came to the only undamaged metal door in the hall. He turned his back to the crowd for a few moments, and the half-foot-thick metal door slowly opened with a click. He looked inside, made sure there was no movement, and then pulled the door open completely. He gestured and cautiously walked inside the door with his gun in hand, and the few surviving warriors followed suit.

"Wait for us!" Immediately there were scientists shouting. Everyone's communication equipment seemed to have been damaged by the storm, and they could only speak through protective helmets. The fighters didn't seem to hear him. Seeing that the person was gone, several scientists hurriedly picked up Lin Huoxiao and chased after him.

Lin Huoxiao's brain was extremely confused. He didn't expect to see his father again. When he was 9 years old, his father was specially recruited by the army to join the scientific research department, and since then, the father and son have been together less and more apart. My mother quarreled with my father more than once and persuaded him to leave the army. Father seemed to have many unspeakable secrets, and that was the first time Lin Huoxiao saw his father crying in his mother's arms. Later, my father came home less and less, he looked thin and weak, and his mother would cry when she saw him, and she would cry when she couldn't see him. Later, the communication between relatives turned into letters that no one had used for more than a decade. The young man who delivered the letter for the first time, who claimed to be surnamed Huang, was a soldier in the logistics department. He brought with him a letter from his father, as well as a medallion. The young soldier said that his father had made a meritorious service and that the state had awarded him a prize. His father gave this medal to Huo Xiao, hoping that it could replace him and always be by Huo Xiao's side.

When she was 13 years old, her mother read her father's letter to herself for the first time. My mother was very happy, because my father said in the letter that the project was about to be completed, and he had become a big hero in the team, and he would return with glory. The mother also said that when the father returned, he would never leave. Lin Huoxiao felt that it was the time when he longed for one thing to happen in his life. Time passed slowly, and this longing turned from joy to torment, then to anxiety, and finally to fear. My father did not return, and even the letters disappeared. The mother went crazy to find out where his father was, but no one knew where he was. When his mother found the warrior surnamed Huang, he began to keep his mouth shut, and later, under his mother's frenzied pleas and pressing, he told his mother that his father was missing, missing in his laboratory.

The well-meaning soldier secretly showed the surveillance diary to his mother, but the video diary seemed to have been processed. The video suddenly went black, and then resumed a few seconds later, at which point the father, who had been lying on the research table examining the specimen, disappeared. The out-of-control mother smashed the monitoring equipment to pieces, she didn't believe it was true, she thought that someone had killed her husband in order to take away the research results that belonged to him. However, she didn't know what the results were.

The mother was arrested, and they said that the mother had committed a great crime against the state and would be sentenced to a heavy sentence. The teenager was forcibly placed in foster care with an American couple in their sixties. They say that the old man, who had no children and no daughters, were experts in human genetic engineering and had dedicated their lives to science. Therefore, to allow oneself to be inspired by them and to be a useful person to society is also the only pride of my father.

Lin Huoxiao, who grew up, excelled under the teaching of the American couple, and published a number of academic reports on genetic engineering and geological exploration, which was widely recognized by the society and was recognized as a leading figure in the younger generation of theoretical physics. After becoming famous, Lin Huoxiao formed his own team, and with the support of several scientific bigwigs and Uncle Huang, who has been secretly helping him, he started his own group. Lin Huoxiao finally brought his mother home from prison through layers of relationships. She did not have a good time in prison, she was 50 years old and half gray, and she was suffering from increasingly harsh conditions.

Mother said that over the years, she had seen it. She lost her father, but she didn't want to lose him again, and told him not to do stupid things again, and never to investigate what happened back then. There are some things that ordinary people can't touch. Of course, Lin Huoxiao was unwilling to let his mother suffer so many years of grievances, and he privately launched dozens of investigations into his mother's imprisonment that year, but the clues would always be inexplicably broken. This made him really have no way to start, no way to investigate, as if in the dark, there is always a group of people who are against him.

At a scientific seminar, Lin Huoxiao got acquainted with a **** physicist named Park Eundong. He inadvertently mentioned a mysterious disappearance in the chat, and the situation turned out to be the same as his father, and after a brief monitoring failure, the person disappeared. Due to the disappearance of an important scientific researcher, the **** government attaches great importance to this matter, and has spent a lot of energy to set up a special investigation team, and finally made a breakthrough in the recovery of surveillance video logs. Park Eun-dong said mysteriously, the moment the screen entered the black screen, there was a gray-looking figure standing behind the scientific researcher, the gray figure's feet and the missing person's feet coincided, only the upper body was separated. Lin Huoxiao was creepy when he heard this, but then Park Eun-dong told him that it was not the missing person's own soul, because the gray shadow was clearly dressed differently from the missing person, and the gray shadow hid its face in the hood of the jumpsuit......

"Stop!"

Captain Joe said softly, and there was silence all around, and his voice sounded muffled but clear through the hazmat suit. Lin Huoxiao patted his two companions and motioned for them to go. The few remaining fighters were armed with electromagnetic rifles, carefully guarding the surroundings.

Lin Huoxiao originally thought that the back of the metal door should be a winding passage, or a large and small laboratory, conference room or specimen storage room, but he never imagined that behind the door was actually a dense jungle, located in a strange forest six hundred meters underground. With the help of the night vision function, Lin Huoxiao saw six soldiers guarding around him and the others, and Captain Qiao was half-squatting on the ground, holding his gun motionless. In the direction the muzzle of the gun was pointed, the rustling sound was faint, like stepping on fallen leaves.

But there are no fallen leaves here, and the ground is mostly muddy puddles, and Lin Huoxiao does not know where the water comes from. The puddle was full of unseen plants and trees four or five meters high, crowded and intertwined, with trunks the thickness of an adult's thigh, but not straight, crookedly arranged together, as if deliberately covering what was behind them. The viewing distance under the night vision device is very short, and it is still pitch black even at a distance. Everyone stared with bated breath in the direction of the sound, and the strange forest seemed unusually oppressive under the green vision, but there seemed to be nothing here except crowded trees.

"Sir, do you want me to go over and have a look?" A daring warrior slowly moved to Captain Joe's side. Captain Joe glanced at him, nodded, and made a few more gestures to the crowd, motioning for the other warriors to stay where they were, and then moved after the daring warrior towards the place where the sound sounded.

"Don't, don't go!" Immediately, scientists tried to stop the two men, but at the same time, someone among the fighters whispered at him as a "coward".

As the two approached, the strange rustling sound disappeared, and everyone pinched a cold sweat for the two.

"Captain, come back, let's continue to find the exit!" Lin Huoxiao took a few steps forward, leaned over and beckoned to Captain Qiao, signaling him to hurry back.

Captain Qiao made an OK gesture, turned around and was about to walk back, when the rustling sound behind him sounded again, and at the same time, the expressions on the faces of Lin Huoxiao and the others suddenly became extremely frightened!

"Run! Behind you! ”

Captain Joe was shoved and threw himself into the muddy water, and the screams of the daring warriors were heard behind him. He quickly rolled over and got up, and under the night vision goggles, a palm covered with thin black barbs slowly grasped the bold warrior. The palm of that hand was more than a man wide and did not have a thumb. The remaining four fingers seemed to enjoy the process of killing very much, and they slowly pressed together, clenching, rubbing the bold warrior in the palm of the hand into a blur of flesh and blood!

The warriors opened fire almost simultaneously with a fierce fire, flickering arcs of energy that tore the murderous palm to shreds. The palms that were broken into several large pieces twitched and rolled to the ground, emitting thick white smoke. Two murderous palms popped up again in the woods, they slowly opened like blooming buds, and the black sharp barbs seemed to tremble slightly with excitement. The soldiers' gunfire poured down on them, and before the palms could fully unfold, they shattered into several pieces.

More than a dozen people moved quickly in the strange jungle, and the dejected Lin Huoxiao was protected in the center of the team, all kinds of killer palms opened around, and the team frantically strafed and wiped out. The killer's palm does not seem to carry a blow, and a soldier only needs 3 to 5 shots to tear it apart and burn it. But it was numerous, and the ground was covered with outstretched barbed palms, and the visual shock was immense.

Everyone fled in a hurry through the dense forest, and the murderous palms were endless, but fortunately they did not move, but could only burrow into the dirt to hide themselves. The dazzling arc of electricity illuminated most of the space, and Lin Huoxiao strangely discovered that the trees in this underground jungle were pink, and the palms of the killer were also pink! Their surfaces are covered with sinuous black lines, like thick blood vessels, like evil tattoos.

Lin Huoxiao, who was running, suddenly tripped and fell, he struggled to get up from the muddy water, pressed the palm of his hand supporting the ground on a hard object, and when he looked down, he instantly remembered the huge box he saw in the passage on the negative third floor, which seemed to be used to hold this thing.