Abyssal bottom of the Mariana Trench.

The evacuation process was not too difficult. After making sure that the inspection was correct, Nan Qiyun and No. 1 returned to the submersible the same way.

Han Xian and Chu Han had already returned to the submersible.

"You're back." Han Xian shouted excitedly.

Chu Han patted Han Xian's shoulder. "We weren't able to get inside the ruins."

"The moment we follow you into the ruins, we are separated from you, and then we can no longer move further into the ruins, no matter what way we use it, which direction we change, after a while, we will eventually return to the starting point where we started."

Han Xian nodded. "We probably stayed out for hours before we decided to return to the submersible to standby. Fortunately, your location signal has been stable. ”

"Did you bring it back and see it?"

Nan Qiyun shook his head. "No, nothing."

He folded his wetsuit neatly and brushed the clothes on his body. "I've reported this to my superiors."

Chu Han opened the form diagram of the F layer. "According to the news sent to us by the coalition government, Admiral Frye, the commander of the F floor, was attacked by an unknown attack a few hours ago and has been killed, the defenders of the Himalayas have all retreated, and the government is no longer able to confront the rebels on the F floor, and General Hua Chengyu has issued an order to evacuate all government troops on the F floor to Area 19 to fully guard the safety of the 'elevator'."

"There's a good chance it's rebel territory out there now." He expressed his concerns.

Whether the group's whereabouts were revealed is unknown, but the current situation would be dangerous if the rebels were to target the four men on their mission. Area 19 is separated by a full Pacific Ocean from the Mariana Trench, where the site is located. The safest way is to drive a submersible from the bottom of the ocean across the Pacific Ocean.

The information receiver on the submersible suddenly flashed a point of light.

Qi Yue sent a message.

He ordered the South Qiyun group to move south along the East China Sea, into the Indian Ocean, and then infiltrate enemy-occupied areas to go to Area 15 to meet with government personnel, who needed to bring out an important piece of information. The specific circumstances of the information have been explained in detail by Qi Yue in the order.

Out of an abundance of caution, the submersible continued to dive at a slower pace, arriving at its intended position a day later.

It was not difficult to disguise himself as civilians to infiltrate enemy-occupied areas, but because the anti-government forces had been shrinking the encirclement, the original location of the joint kept changing, and when Nan Qiyun rushed to the newly changed joint location as quickly as possible, nearly three days had passed.

The location is a small apartment on the western outskirts of the 15th arrondissement.

Nan Qiyun confirmed the information sent by the joint staff half an hour ago to arrive at the designated location.

The apartment looks like it's a bit old, most of the paint on the roof has peeled off, and the original owner has left the place in a hurry due to the approaching war.

Nan Qiyun replied to the message that he had arrived at the apartment, and then stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door.

No one responded. He looked at the communicator in his hand again, and the original connector did not send any reply. He suddenly became alert.

The door was not locked, and Nan Qiyun pushed it over with ease, motioning for the other three to be quiet, and then entered the apartment in a fighting state.

The apartment is divided into two floors, the first floor is an extremely spacious living room, and a metal coffee table is scattered with abandoned clothes in an orderly manner. The couch was full of dust.

On the ground floor, there is no one.

The apartment was very quiet and there was no sound. Nan Qiyun used the communicator to send out several messages.

No response was received.

Nor has there been any information on the location of the transfer joint.

He looked up and saw that there was only one room on the second floor, which was connected to the living room on the first floor by a staircase.

He and three others crept up.

The door of the room was ajar and not completely closed, and Nan Qiyun looked in through the only crack in the door.

His pupils contracted violently.

A man lay quietly on the bed.

The white sheets had been stained blood red.

Through the gap, Nan Qiyun saw a huge wound in his throat, almost cutting off his neck directly.

In front of him, there was a black shadow.

At first, Nan Qiyun thought that he was dazzled because he was too nervous, and he rubbed his eyes repeatedly.

The black shadow, without any clear form to speak of, was a frighteningly rich black, and the edges of the body, the black shadow faintly emanated.

It doesn't look like any creature, but rather like a ghost that humans have been talking about since the age of the gods.

It encircled the corpse, its shape constantly changing.

Then its actions sent a chill through everyone's hearts.

It placed a head-like position close to the corpse's severed throat, and the rest of the body slowly attached to the corpse's body.

The black shadow slowly sank, and it actually seeped into the corpse's body little by little.

Its head struggled into its throat until its body was completely submerged in the corpse.

Blood on the sheets slowly flowed back into the corpse, and after a few minutes, a new, identical body was stripped from the original corpse. It slowly stood up, and on the bed, the dead body was still there.

The wound in the throat slowly healed, and the reproduced body opened its eyes, its pupils were an extremely abnormal dark gray, but suddenly returned to normal. It groped its throat and picked up the papers scattered on the bed.

There was a bang.

No. 1 did not hesitate to push the door open and pull the trigger.

The body let out a strange scream, and fell on its back in a pool of blood.

Four men rushed in battle formation.

The fallen body made no more movement. The materials he picked up were scattered all over the ground.

Chu Han picked up the materials on the ground and on the bed and sorted them out.

For the scene just seen, everyone's hearts were extremely shocked. In their cognition, they have never heard of or seen the scene just now, the black shadow, the replica corpse, which is completely contrary to the normal cognition of human beings.

After a short period of deliberation, the four members of Nan Qiyun's group decided to take this strange replica with them and withdraw to the military evacuation point in Area 1 together.

The military personnel who had been connected in advance prepared an off-road vehicle for several people outside the apartment, and according to the original route, the four of them would drive all the way to the original landing port in the Indian Ocean through the former abandoned highway between Zones 15 and 16. After a simple embalming process, they packed the body into a metal box and placed it in the back seat of the SUV.

Driving on the abandoned highway in District 15, Nan Qiyun could see puffs of black smoke rising in the distance, which were left over from the exchange of fire between the government and rebel forces, and a few gunshots could be faintly heard. Most of the places passed by were deserted, except for a few small farmhouses that showed a dark sheen, and the owners of them had already been killed or fled by the war.

Not all soldiers like war, Nan Qiyun is like this, he is different from most of the middle and high-level hawk officers in the coalition government's military, they have spent years in the era of peace, they have long been tired of this monotonous life day after day, they long for war, although there is still a fear of death in their hearts, they long for the glory and power that war brings them, but Nan Qiyun does not like this, he hates war, and even he never thought that there would be war, in this era of permanent peace.

In the overcast sky, off-road vehicles galloped across the plains.

Sector 6, F floor, headquarters of the anti-government forces.

Standing on the Oriental Pearl Tower overlooking the scene of the original Shanghai city in District 6, it is really a unique flavor.

The young man looked at the city that stretched into the distance below, because District 6 was controlled by the anti-government army at the earliest and fastest time, so it was the least affected by the war.

He looked at his own figure looming in front of the glass, straightened his tie, and brushed the two bars and one star on the epaulettes.

"General Chen Yuepeng, the position of the Southern Qiyun group has been locked." An officer walked behind him, reporting to the middle-aged man.

The young man turned his head, and he smiled politely. It is hard to imagine that such a young man could be the supreme leader of the anti-government army, a military genius who is famous all over the world.

"Let them go." He turned his head again, continuing to appreciate the beauty that seemed to belong only to him, "This war, that thing, does not belong to us, and it is useless to gain. ”

The officer hesitated, then hurried away.

"Chen, can we win this war?" A staff officer beside him asked Chen Yuepeng.

Chen Yuepeng patted him on the shoulder.

He suddenly became serious, and his eyes were full of determination and confidence. He replied word for word.

"At least, we can't afford to lose!"

Three days later, the four of them withdrew to Area 1 and landed on the west coast of the former United States of America, where they were immediately taken by military personnel to the headquarters of District 1 around the "elevator" system, which is now the military headquarters on the F floor. They were received by the former military leader of F-Tier 2, who was responsible for escorting some of the dignitaries back to Sector 1, and after the death of Admiral Frye, he was appointed by the coalition government to take over all military command of F-Tier.

They were then returned to the Coalition Government Headquarters on Level A. Nan Qiyun handed over the information he got and the corpse he brought back to the relevant responsible personnel.

In the investigation report afterwards, Nan Qiyun reported to Hua Chengyu and several military and political leaders at the top of the coalition government the entire process of exploring the abyss site and obtaining secret documents, and submitted the relevant evidence he left at that time.

Illusions, murals, traps, shadows. Any incident alone is enough to alarm the government. Now, all of these things are happening.

After the report was over, Hua Chengyu had to give a strong order to make every person present guarantee with their lives that they would not leak secrets to the outside world.

Half a month later, the results of the research and analysis of the materials brought back by Nan Qiyun's team and the corpse were basically completed.

For that twenty years of history that disappeared. General Frye has shown in his writings that there is no way to verify this, but through investigation of other areas, he has found something unusual. In the two decades between 2102 and 2122, the leaders of governments were either assassinated or ousted for almost exactly the same time, and they were replaced by people who had not previously had much prestige or fame in politics. From the comparison of the level of science and technology in the two decades from 2102 to 2122, it is almost in a state of stagnation, while before that, the level of human science and technology has been growing exponentially explosively, and this situation has not improved until after 2122. During these twenty years, all spheres of humanity have come to a state of stagnation that has strangely and tacitly maintained the same rhythm.

Back in 2122, the "Planet Building" plan began to be implemented, why such a plan that shocked mankind was suddenly proposed, and why the human governments that had been fighting openly and secretly for thousands of years reached a consensus of purpose in such a short period of time and took the initiative to form a coalition government, what happened during this period is unknown. General Fry's investigation of the materials was stopped at this point.

In his final report, he pointed out that apart from these almost imperceptible traces of history, this period of history, on the earth, probably has never left any traces. He believes that the absence of any traces is not due to the fact that nothing major has happened, on the contrary, it is precisely because something happened that has finally led to the emergence of this historical fault.

However, the analysis of the replica was not so easy, and it took a month for the researchers to separate the black shadow from the inside of the replicat.

The moment the black shadow emanated from the inside of the clone, the worldview of all the researchers present was almost overturned.

This is the study of human evolutionary history, and it is also a substance that they have never known. After exerting great effort to subdue it, the researchers analyzed the composition and structure of the black shadow.

Three months later, the results of the research and analysis of the black shadow were handed over to Hua Chengyu.

Researchers refer to the substance as "black body". Because Nan Qiyun mentioned in his previous report that similar images were seen on the passage murals inside the prehistoric civilization sites, he took it as a biological research direction at the beginning of his research.

The "black body" has no fixed form, and it took a lot of time and effort for researchers to separate a small part of the tissue structure from this dense black shadow. Combined with Nan Qiyun's previous description of the black shadow, the researchers judged that this gene will make the black shadow have the ability to transform into other biological forms, but because the extracted gene shows the irreversibility of its changes, there is only one chance to transform the body, and it is necessary to sneak into the body of the replicated body to read the gene, and at the same time do not conflict with the gene lock of the organism, otherwise it will be rejected by the duplicated body, and the replication failure will lead to the duplicated body and the "black body" At the same time of death. The "black body" is extremely tenacious, but it is extremely fragile when attacked, and once it dies, the form of the "black body" itself will completely dissipate in a very short time. Due to the rich black nature of the black body itself, it has an almost 100% concealment effect at night, and can sneak into its body without the knowledge of the clone, copy it, once the copy is successful, the copied body will die, and its original existence will be replaced by the "black body".

In response, researchers contacted the 312 incident, and they re-examined the bodies of the deceased in the 312 cases. Eventually, traces of the conflict between the gene lock and the "black body" were found in the genes of the deceased, and the gene chain was broken in pieces, accompanied by a small amount of rich black residue.

The occurrence of the 312 incident is not a human factor, that is, the murderer, not a human being.