Government Building, 24th floor. In the center of the room was a large square table, around which a group of people sat around. At the far end of the table sat an old man with gray hair but good spirits, who was the supreme consul of the coalition government, named Hua Chengyu.

"Have you all arrived?" He asked one of the middle-aged people closest to him.

"The group of Qi Yue's men hasn't arrived yet." The middle-aged man replied respectfully. He was the commander-in-chief of the A-tier military, with the rank of general.

Hua Chengyu pondered for a long time. "Don't wait, let's get started." He waved his hand to the people sitting around the table.

Everyone stopped talking and looked at him.

This is the first time in nearly 100 years that the building has convened a major meeting of the highest military and government on all floors. Due to the serious nature of the 312 case and the 313 bombing case, the building caused a great panic among the people, although the government interfered with the media, but due to the wide coverage of the 312 case, and the police's confidentiality work in the first place was not appropriate, so that the 312 incident quickly spread to the ears of the people on all floors and districts of the building, and some people began to express great distrust of the government. The coalition government tentatively designated the 312 and 313 cases as premeditated crimes of a terrorist nature, and in order to prevent the recurrence of such cases, and to dispel the people's sense of crisis and distrust, the government convened the meeting under the chairmanship of Hua Chengyu.

When Nan Qiyun and the others arrived at the meeting hall, the various leaders in the meeting hall were chattering about how to calm the people's opinions. In response to the emergence of a sense of mass distrust that has been rare for centuries, most senior leaders have shown immaturity in decision-making on such issues.

Hua Chengyu motioned for them to sit down. At the end of the long table, four seats were vacated for the four of Nan Qiyun.

The controversy continued, and it went on for a long period of chaotic speeches, which did not lead to any substantive solution. Hua Chengyu didn't say a word from beginning to end in the process, his brows frowned, and his eyes showed a considerable sigh.

"Alright." He coughed lightly, and then spoke, and the loud voice made the room quiet for a moment. All stopped talking. Hua Chengyu looked at Nan Qiyun and the others again. "A few hours ago, the government building system detected a very strong earthquake in Area 6, and the imaging from the system's exploration of Area 6 showed that the ground surface collapsed in the area around the original '20-00' group headquarters in the Sahara Desert of Area 6.

Nan Qiyun and the others looked at each other. "A week?" Han Xian was the first to exclaim, "Haven't we only been there for a few hours?" ”

Nan Qiyun noticed that the other people in the hall were looking at them with a strange gaze at the moment. Hua Chengyu spoke slowly. "Today is March 31."

Han Xian was shocked. "Impossible." He stood up and turned on the time displayed on the communication device on his wrist.

The time is shown as March 31 at 4 p.m.

Hua Chengyu's face looked ugly. Nan Qiyun and the others' actions were approved by Qi Yue at the suggestion of Qi Yue, because Nan Qiyun himself had a relatively close connection with the 312 and 313 cases, so he entrusted this fledgling young officer with an important task, the purpose was to further reveal the truth of the case. But at this moment, they made such an obvious mistake in such a big meeting, that he had to doubt his decision.

Although he received good psychological training at the Central Military Academy, the strange experiences that followed were still a little unbearable for Nan Qiyun, who originally had a good understanding of the world. He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. He turned on the communication device, and the communication log on it, as well as the current time displayed, indicated that it was now a full week before the mission had set off. The only thing that was wrong was that during the week that Nan Qiyun and the others did not perceive, there was no record on the communication device. But Nan Qiyun clearly remembered that when he was about to run out of the staircase of the underground floor, he sent a distress signal to the military headquarters on the F floor about his geographical coordinates, and the time at that time was displayed as one o'clock in the afternoon of March 24. But now the record has become one o'clock in the afternoon of March 31, which has been delayed for seven days. Nan Qiyun is very sure that from the beginning of the mission to the present, his thinking has always maintained a clear state, and it is impossible for there to be a phenomenon of confusion in memory, including the other three people who performed the task together. But these seven days really disappeared in their cognition, as if they had suddenly traveled from seven days ago to the present. Nan Qiyun really couldn't think of any other reason to explain the situation that the four of them were experiencing now.

"Forget it," Hua Chengyu cut straight to the point, "Report what you know." ”

Only then did Nan Qiyun stand up. He transferred the contents of the stored materials he had brought with him to a projector above the center of the long table in the room, including the current status of the "20-00" group ruins, the remnants of the various floors of the headquarters building, and the stack of new weapons found in the command center. Nan Qiyun focused on supplementing the large number of armed star warships found in the underground space of the group's headquarters.

The high-ranking military and political leaders present all looked solemn. If this is the case, then humanity will suffer a great existential crisis.

Zuo Si was the first to ask. "The building system did not detect the underground layer of the armed forces before, such a large number of star warships, it stands to reason that there should be nothing hidden on the detection system, but not to say that it is the so-called warship, in fact, the government has never heard of or approved, let alone discovered the existence of underground space near the headquarters of the '20-00' group."

Everyone present nodded in agreement, and their hearts did not want to believe this fact. The enormous impact of the Section 312 case and the Section 313 bombing on the coalition government has already left the heads of government at all levels anxious. Floor 6 even erupted in mass protests two days ago. The events described by the Nan Qiyun group have long gone beyond what the coalition government can afford in the current environment. Once the Star Battleship falls into the hands of someone who has ideas about the government, it will not only bring about the subversion of the government, but also the entire human race will suffer a great disaster.

"There is a huge underground magnetic field, and the electromagnetic waves transmitted by the building system will be greatly disturbed." Chu Han took the question. There was an uproar in the room.

In this way, the speculation that that the armed forces are unfavorable to mankind can basically be established.

Hua Chengyu knocked on the table. "The government will further investigate this matter, and no one should be alarmist." It is no longer possible to dwell on this matter, otherwise - the stability of the people's will and the army's will be uncontrollable, and order will fall into great chaos.

"It seems that this discussion will not have any effect, and now it seems that for the 312 and 313 cases, the government's focus should no longer be to investigate the truth of the case, but how to avoid the recurrence of such vicious incidents, I ask the consuls at all levels to dispatch all troops to cooperate with the actions of the police, and conduct round-the-clock inspections of important locations and streets in various districts, so as to ensure the safety of every citizen in the building."

The guard hurriedly pushed the door in and whispered a few words to Hua Chengyu. Hua Chengyu hesitated slightly.

"That's it, adjournment." As he spoke, he then turned his head to look at the four of Nan Qiyun. "You stay."

The crowd dispersed.

"The '20-00' group is gone." Hua Chengyu's voice was solemn. He opened a document report that the guards had sent to the projection control center.

"This is a probe image from a few hours ago when the '20-00' group was sinking deep underground." The jagged line-like graphics in the picture are the collapsed buildings of the group.

"This is what was detected just five minutes ago." Hua Chengyu said again.

The original series of dense graphic patterns disappeared from the screen, without a trace, and if it were not for the contrast of different time periods, it would even make people feel that these buildings did not exist at all.

"We will continue to investigate the situation you just reported," Hua Chengyu changed his words, "Do you feel that there is some kind of interconnection between the many events that have happened in recent times?" ”

Nan Qiyun and the others were stunned and couldn't answer for a while.

Hua Chengyu silently turned off the projector. "I just expressed a suspicion based on my own intuition, and I didn't find any evidence of it, and the events seemed to be relatively independent and unrelated to each other, but they were too close in time for me to have questions."

"If this is the case, then the perpetrator must have some kind of purpose, and it is all moving towards the desired state of affairs."

He sighed. "Peace has been enjoyed for too long, and it is my responsibility that so many days have passed since the incident, and the government has remained helpless and allowed things to develop without doing anything."

"You guys go back first." He concluded.

Nan Qiyun took his parents to his residence on the A floor, and the current situation in District 6 is not optimistic, and he really can't put his mind at ease.

For what Hua Chengyu said, he is not without ideas, everything that has happened so far, looking at it with normal thinking, seems very abnormal, and can even be described as weird. All cases give people a feeling of being closely connected, but there is an important link missing, an important link that connects all the events together, an important clue.

But so far he has found nothing of this missing link, and he seems to be unable to do anything but quietly wait for instructions from his superiors.

(PS: The content of the prologue may be a little longer to prepare for the plot of the main text)