The lieutenant turned on the holographic projection to show the two of them an unsettling discovery:

"We found this strange stone sculpture in the shipwreck together, and the specific process cannot be announced yet. There are authoritative scholars from the Academy of Sciences and the Museum who are confused about the nature and origin of the stone sculpture. Since we could not find any clues, we extended the scope of our investigation to the mystical community."

The statue in the holographic projection was the one that the lieutenant brought to Luo An not long ago when he visited Luo An and asked him for advice - the squid head, a bloated humanoid body, and a squat statue with deformed wings.

The lieutenant continued: "At first, we thought this was a crude evil thing from a certain cult group, which was a style we had never seen before. Based on well-known historical reasons, we have always maintained a high-pressure situation for organizations like cult groups. However, the materials of stone carvings are so old that they are even longer than the history of human beings, as if they come from outside the world."

Luo An's internal organs twitched. As long as he thought of some unknown fear lurking under the distant starry sky and ice caps, the evil filth from ancient times was permeating into reality, and the incarnation of disasters that would be liberated and awakened from his sleep, he wanted to turn around and escape. However, after this fear and uneasiness, he felt very curious, and vaguely felt that some fate that must be witnessed with his own eyes and that no matter what, he was waiting for him.

The assistant professor disliked this specimen that went beyond his cognition and experience. He said with a serious look: "Be careful, something happened during the last base experiment. The accident investigation found that someone had invaded the system and had a very clever technique. I don't know what he did."

Luo An immediately asked: "You are the highest-level laboratory, who can invade? Could it be that those alien lives did it?"

"No, I haven't said that," the assistant professor shook his head repeatedly. "There is no evidence that they live in our world or wake up from the abyss. We think it's our own people doing it. This is what we need to be wary of."

"Why do you say that?"

"A power outage occurred during the experiment, which scared everyone to death. The security system was also restarted, and the intruders used this method to bypass the firewall. Fortunately, the experiment itself did not cause an accident with the support of the computing power of the auxiliary system," the assistant professor pointed to the intelligence lieutenant, "Even he was investigated."

"I have no bad intentions," said the lieutenant calmly. "There are opinions that the ancient civilization is trying to return to this world, and they have quietly developed their believers in the crowd. Come on, the elevator is ready, and we put on protective clothing and go down for a walk."

The lieutenant brought several sets of protective suits and handed them to the two. This kind of sturdy equipment is more like armor than clothes, which can not only resist the cold and low temperatures, but also provide considerable defense. If it is damaged by attack, the armor will automatically spray out nanomaterials to repair the wounds of the human body and armor.

"The positioning and survival devices are very reliable. If you accidentally fall into the ice sheet fault, don't be afraid. As long as you don't die on the spot, we will save you!" the lieutenant said, opening the hatch door.

The violent Antarctic ice and snow storm roared into the cabin, making Luo An unsteady standing and almost leaning down.

The scene outside brought a strong visual impact to everyone. The majestic and barren vast land extended toward the infinite white sky. At noon, the hazy sunshine poured on the white snow, the sky blue ice layer and the distant black rocks. The chaotic wind and snow swept across the wasteland, and the wild rhythm of the flute sound mixed in the wind.

This wild music made Luo An extremely uneasy and even a little scared. It seemed that as long as he walked out of the cabin door, he would step into a dangerous abyss that could not turn back. He grabbed the handrail and asked, "Why don't these foreign lives leave relics in better places?"

"How do you know they don't?" The lieutenant's answer was laughing. "It is a childish behavior to understand these alien creatures from a human perspective. Research on specimens found that they did not even have an organ for communication. However, both in the coalition government and the fleet, they were willing to understand them in the social form of our human beings.

"Think about it, when these beings came to this world across countless light years, we were all monkeys, and the information was one-way transparent to them."

...

All scientific research facilities are placed in deep pits underground, with only the airport and some transfer facilities on the ground. The three of them came to the entrance of an abyss and looked down from there.

The early exploration work has cleared hundreds of meters of ice and snow, and further excavation is carried out on exposed soil and rocks. The ground has been dug out a deep pit with a radius of one kilometer, like the throat of a giant beast. In the extremely deep darkness, flickering welding arcs can be seen, from several elevators and observation stations being built on the rock wall.

They took the elevator with a group of staff to enter the bottom. This was an abandoned palace, surrounded by no longer uneven rocks, but tall and mottled stone walls. The arc sparks hanging from dense scaffolding seemed to be the vines decorating the palace.

The strong wind whistled and whispered at the hole above the head, like a crazy giant beast gasping. But what is even more amazing is that the stone-carved murals on the huge rock walls can vaguely identify the appearance of stars, earth, and rivers. Among the stars, there is a particularly huge sphere, with the center of the sphere made of a giant eye composed of ocean or cyclone. It runs along its orbit, crossing the boundary between light and darkness. When it reaches its end, the images on the mural also outline the scene of ashes, as if everything is to nothingness.

The deeper the abyss under the ice cap is, the stunning mural is so huge. At first, the other people who were traveling with them were talking and laughing, but the laughter quickly slipped away. They were shocked by the remains beyond the world and human understanding, and were shocked in their hearts by the fact that they were not the only civilization that exists on the planet.

Luo An looked at his companions around him. The assistant professor looked leisurely, while the lieutenant had a calm expression and was even a little cold. The lifting speed was very fast, but the abyss was too deep, so the process of descending seemed a bit boring.

"Hey guys, I'll ask you a serious question," the assistant professor suddenly mentioned as if he was relieved. "If alien civilizations come, what are you going to do?"

“This question is too broad.”

"And it's not serious at all!"

Luo An said with the lieutenant.

Hearing the opposition from his companions, the assistant professor curled his lips: "Just talk, we are standing in the ruins left by an ancient foreign civilization, and we have not even recognized the most obvious surface. However, this ruin has been sleeping under the ice field for so long and has not been discovered until recently. We even rely on the discovery in it to create a 'biological processor' through reverse engineering. Please note that gentlemen, it was reverse engineering rather than invention, and we activated it without even knowing the principles of it."
Chapter completed!