"Damn it, then even if we want to throw away this broken stone now, we can't throw it away." The hound glanced at the spent nuclear beacon with some annoyance. When he remembered that he had just objected to discarding the beacon, he said

The words he cursed at my mother were brewing for a long time and then I swallowed them hard.

"The top priority now is to find a way to contact Ke Lan. Only he can change the settings of the Yagunaktor console... As for the decommissioned nuclear beacon, there is nothing we can do with it now." Zhuoligtu Shen

He said, "But if there is really no other way... then we have to prepare for the worst."

"Worst plan?" The hound raised his head and looked at him.

"Without being able to modify the route, our destination is China Sea. Once we reach the sea area, things may take a turn for the better," Zhuoligetu continued.

"I understand what you mean." The Hound nodded, "But there are nearly 80,000 people on Yagunaktor. What are they going to do?"

"If Yagunaktor will hover above the sea, then we will leave these people in the boat." Zhuoligetu paused and then said, "If Yagunaktor takes all the

People have entered the underwater city, and even reached the mysterious desert island that Ke Lan mentioned... Then we can only choose to resign ourselves to fate."

"But at least one thing is that compared to the 776 Special Forces Team back then, at least we will not be helpless against the Seed of Corrosion..." Layton continued, "After all, the only monster Ke Lan encountered on the island was the Seed of Corrosion.

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Tower of Babel, second floor.

Ke Lan looked at the dark screen in front of him and was a little confused for a moment.

"What's going on? The connection is disconnected?" Thirty-three asked from the side.

"Yes, it's disconnected." Ke Lan nodded, "And the moment before the connection was disconnected, I saw that Yagunaktor's route was modified."

"The route was modified? Could it be that the operating system was invaded? Where was the route changed?" Thirty-three's reaction was almost the same as that of Hound and the others before, "Did the undead crew do it? Is the new destination near the Ark?"

Or a suitable location for an ambush?"

"No..." Ke Lan shook his head with a complicated expression, "The destination of the new route is a sea area in the middle sea... Under that sea area, there is a sunken city."

"Are you talking about the eighteenth S-class ruins...the undersea city?" Thirty-three's expression suddenly became wonderful.

Although the underwater city has been banned by Ark's top brass, it has still been certified as an S-class ruin and is numbered "S-018" in the order in which it was discovered. The original No. 18 S ruin bottomless sinkhole is

It is automatically postponed one digit backward, and the number becomes "S-019".

"Didn't you explore that ruins once?" Thirty-three asked.

"To be precise, I am the only one who has explored it...and the extent of exploration is extremely limited." Ke Lan sighed.

There seems to be an invisible boundary between the Undersea City and the sea area. Only by breaking through that boundary can one enter the territory of the Undersea City. During that exploration operation, Ke Lan passed through without noticing it at all.

This is the boundary, but Liao Zilang, who was traveling with him, could not even touch the boundary, and was forced back to the surface by the turbulent undercurrent.

Ke Lan's experience was completely opposite to Liao Zilang's. The entire dive was calm and calm, not to mention the undercurrents that were strong enough to sweep people away, and there were not even slightly abnormal changes.

Ke Lan remembered that at that time, he had just scanned the seabed directly below with his sonar. Based on the return time of the sound waves, he could determine that they were still far away from the seabed... But just when he told him the results of the sonar scan

When Liao Zilang looked up, he happened to look into the big dark green eye carved on the stone pillar.

From this moment on, Liao Zilang seemed to have disappeared from the world and never responded to Ke Lan's call.

But just a second ago, Liao Zilang was within ten meters of Ke Lan.

The maximum communication distance of the AF-6 radio communication equipment in the middle sea water is 22 meters. If Liao Zilang was swept away by the undercurrent in an instant, it would make sense... But the problem lies in what happened next

.

Neither the shipboard sonar on the Pioneer icebreaker nor the portable small sonar carried by Ke Lan and Liao Zilang had ever scanned the city built on the sea platform below the stone pillar statue.

There is indeed a city ruins of Alpha Civilization on the seabed in that sea area, but it is not the one Ke Lan arrived at.

If the underwater city discovered at the beginning was called "City No. 1", then what Ke Lan saw should be "City No. 2".

"City No. 1" is located on the seabed three thousand meters deep. With the diving equipment Ke Lan was wearing at that time, it was impossible to reach such a deep place. And the purpose of his initial dive was only for exploratory reconnaissance.

I never thought about getting close to the underwater city.

If you want to reach "City No. 1", you must use a deep submersible. The deep submersible suit alone cannot withstand the pressure equivalent to hundreds of atmospheres.

Speaking of the deep submersible, Ke Lan thought of the diving cabin on the "Pioneer" icebreaker that was dismantled with only an iron shell left - no one who rode in this diving cabin survived. Ke Lan joined the Undead

After the crew meeting, they also checked the files on this matter in the black well. The cause of death recorded in the files was not "attack by unknown creatures" but "parasite by flesh-eating worms."

When Ke Lan entered the undersea city "City No. 2", he also found the body of a diver that had been parasitized by flesh-eating worms - from this point of view, the "undersea city" that the diving capsule arrived at was most likely also "undersea city".

"City No. 2", not the "City No. 1" located on the seabed three thousand meters deep.

As for the initiator who destroyed the diving cabin into that state... it was probably the fusion body dormant in the abyss hatchery?

There is a saying, if this diving cabin really escaped from the fusion body, then these people's luck is really not very good... But maybe because they used their luck to escape, these people

In the end, no one was able to return to the surface alive - no one knows how the flesh-eating worms entered the sealed diving chamber and how they parasitized the occupants.

Moreover, the short English phrase engraved on the inner wall of the diving cabin, "Leave the bed"... This was the first time that this "secret phrase" appeared in front of Ke Lan's eyes. Later, Ke Lan also appeared in many places and on many occasions.

I saw or heard this sentence again next time, and even the heretical bishop who tried to initiate self-sacrifice of the Holy Word reacted to this sentence - but until now, Ke Lan has not understood it.

the meaning contained.

Ke Lan knows each of these three English words, and he also knows the three words connected together... But it is obvious that the message that this sentence wants to convey is by no means as simple as the literal meaning.

In addition to the undersea city, there is also the desert island, the nameless desert island where the flow of time is completely different from that in the normal world, and day and night are constant.

As far as Ke Lan knows, he and the 776 Special Forces Team are the only two groups of humans who have arrived at the unknown desert island. However, the two groups of people who were separated by 48 years arrived at the deserted island in completely different ways.

The 776 Special Forces Team was "teleported" to the island after the hydrogen bomb exploded, while Ke Lan fell into a coma after falling into a liquid cliff, and woke up on a deserted island.

During the time when he lost consciousness, he must have been teleported...

The entrances to the two transmission channels are thousands of miles apart, but they have the same exit...

Is it a coincidence? Or is it a pre-arranged result?

Ke Lan prefers the latter.

One thing is certain now, the Alphas have been trying to create powerful biological weapons...or to put it more bluntly, powerful monsters.

In Ke Lan's opinion, these extremely suicidal behaviors seem to be the most important things to Alpha Civilization. Whether it is the hatchery in the abyss or the laboratory under the nameless desert island, they are obviously all for this "

It was built as a "death plan".

According to the memory fragments in his mind, the Alpha people even imprisoned a creature that was suspected to be a prehistoric species underground on an unknown desert island... That thing was not suitable for keeping as a pet, so there was only one explanation.

They are trying to parse and copy prehistoric species.

In this way, it is connected to the Leviathan incident - the red flesh worms that make up Leviathan's body should be the research results of the Alpha people. However, the progress bar of the plan has not yet been filled up, and the Alpha civilization will start from here.

disappeared from the planet.

Otherwise, maybe we can really make them produce a mass-produced wild species.

Why does Alpha Civilization create monsters? Is it to participate in the war between "gods"? No... no, that is the content of prayers, and according to the information on the floor tiles of Babel Square, those prayers are just a prayer

A means used to conceal the truth.

At least those "Night Watchers" are by no means devout believers. They are always thinking about breaking away from the control of the "Great God"...these plans to create monsters should be the same.

These monsters are not the Praetorian Guards used to support Him, but the resistance forces prepared to overthrow Him!

After sorting out all these things, Ke Lan suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment - although there are still many mysteries that have not been solved, at least half of the main body of the "iceberg" has surfaced.

It was an inconspicuous corner.

Alpha Civilization's plan is a failure.

Before they could even wait for the moment of duel with the gods, they were wiped out from this world by some mysterious force.

Ke Lan couldn't help but think of a metaphor: a group of ants, fearing the power of humans, decided to secretly accumulate strength and overthrow human rule of the earth. They spent countless generations of life and an extremely long time for ants to accumulate food and develop

Groups, training of warriors... Finally, when the most powerful individual in the ant colony was finally able to fight off a dung beetle, a heavy rain poured down without warning, washing away the entire ant nest and drowning all the ants.

Ant.

Human beings will not know that in the corner of the playground, an ant colony that once harbored "ambition" was destroyed in a late summer rainstorm... Those children who rushed out of the classroom would only breathe greedily.

In the fresh air after the rain, even if someone notices the dead ants wrapped in the moist sand, they won't have any special thoughts.

Perhaps only biologists and documentary directors would pay attention to a group of ants drowning in the rain. Perhaps only a writer with a weird imagination would write a "great story" about this group of ants trying to resist humans.

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But no matter the biologist, the director of the documentary or the writer, from beginning to end, they never felt that a group of ants would have any impact on them, let alone be a threat.

The gap between gods and mortals is really too big. Even though the Alpha civilization has been ahead of human civilization by countless levels, in front of "him", it is still no different from a group of ants... No wonder the words recorded on the floor tiles

I would be so desperate and depressed.

When an ant understands the truth about the world, can it still muster the courage to overthrow human rule of the earth?

Ke Lan felt that if an ant could have such an understanding, it would probably go crazy as long as it saw the daily life of humans, let alone the truth of the world.

Just like those "forbidden knowledge", knowledge itself is harmless, but if an individual who is too weak tries to absorb "knowledge" that he cannot bear, the consequences will be terrible.

Perhaps, in some parallel world, there are no humans on the earth, and ants have developed their own civilization and become the rulers of the earth... But here, ants are always ants.
To be continued...