"What's wrong? What happened?" The team leader immediately turned around and saw one of the team members fall to the ground.
"It's okay, I just don't know why my foot suddenly slipped, as if I stepped on something." The person who fell was a white girl. She was the youngest in the team, only 21 years old.
After the black man next to her helped her up, the captain came over, squatted down and took out the detection equipment to scan the place where the girl fell.
When he saw the scan results, his expression became strange.
"Why are there skeletons here?"
"Skeleton?" These people are either engaged in scientific research or soldiers. A corpse is nothing to them, but combined with the current situation, things become a bit intriguing.
After the captain finished speaking, he handed the detection equipment to the team members on the side, and then put his hand at the approximate location.
After a while, a complete human skull as pure as white jade was unearthed.
Wu Shutong stood on the periphery and only saw the side of the skull, but she also felt that it was unusual... because although it had the shape of a human skull, its color was really abnormal.
"Luthor, come here and install it."
"Here we come." A member carrying a large backpack quickly came over, holding a portable sealed package bag in his hand.
After the skull was installed, the captain said: "Everyone, pay attention to the surroundings and see if you can find bones in other parts."
After hearing this, everyone took out their detectors and scanned the surroundings. It didn't matter if they didn't scan. Once they were scanned, they would instantly give people a creepy feeling.
Because there were many human skeletons scattered around each team member, white jade-like skulls similar to those before were also fished out one after another.
Wu Shutong did not find the skull, but she found many broken bone fragments buried in the underwater mud and scattered in radial patterns.
With the help of Ji Zhou, Wu Shutong lifted one of them and pointed it in the direction of the light.
"These bones are very strange... They were gray-white before they came out of the water, but after encountering the light, they turned into the color of white jade now, and their texture is very hard... Hiss... I don't believe it at first.
It's human bones..." After saying that, Wu Shutong put away the bone fragments, and then turned on the detector, probably wanting to look for it again.
However, the detector suddenly sounded an alarm and then shut down without warning.
Wu Shutong thought it was just her own equipment that had a problem. However, when she looked up, she found that everyone seemed to have the same problem, and there was a problem with their equipment.
And it was at this moment that the world in the picture became quiet.
Li Shaoan was startled, thinking there was something wrong with the tablet in his hand, but after adjusting the volume, he discovered that it was not the case... but that this was the real record.
Wu Shutong seemed to be speaking, but she couldn't see the shape of her mouth and could only roughly tell it from the expression of the person opposite.
But the other party seemed to be unable to hear the sound. He frowned, opened his mouth, and when he was about to come over, Wu Shutong suddenly raised his finger and pointed at the "door" not far away.
The man who was talking to him turned his head suddenly, and before he noticed anything was wrong, his body rose into the air.
Wu Shutong reacted very quickly when she saw this. She turned around and ran towards the way she came. However, after running only a few steps, she also jumped into the air, and then suddenly
Falling to the ground.
The camera was submerged in water. It seemed that Wu Shutong was thrown into the water by a mysterious force without even a chance to resist.
Later, Wu Shutong tried to get up several times, but every time she raised her head, she was pressed into the water again. After repeating this three times, when the rescuers coming from a distance in the picture arrived nearby, Wu Shutong
I could never raise my head again.
The whole process seemed to have been muted, with no sound at all.
After Li Shaoan read this record, he felt extremely sad... and also felt a shudder at the same time.
What exactly rushed out of the door? Why didn't Wu Shutong's front camera record it?
With these doubts, Li Shaoan came to the laboratory in the center of the camp, where experts and professors from various countries were analyzing and restoring the human bones brought back by the team.
Jon Connor, the person in charge of the US area, was also here. When he saw Li Shaoan, he didn't smile as usual, but walked over with a serious face.
"Director Li, I think it is necessary for us to activate the highest emergency plan."
Li Shaoan thought so too. He nodded and replied: "I have already reported the matter. Minister Chen and others have sent elite personnel from the National Security Department to come for reinforcements."
Jon nodded, took a deep breath and said: "We are going to evacuate this area in an hour and then establish a blockade. You should also be prepared in advance. After all, no one can guarantee that those things will not rush out again.
"
Li Shaoan heard this and said, "Have you discovered 'them'?"
Jon shook his head, but he took out a few photos: "No, but they left these things on the bodies of the victims."
Li Shaoan took a look at the photo and couldn't help but take a breath.
In the photo, the body of the naked white male was covered with various red handprints of different sizes, as if many people had slapped him hard on his body.
The same fingerprints also appeared on Wu Shutong's body, but there were fewer of them and they were concentrated on the back.
"What the hell is this?"
Jon shrugged: "I don't know, but what is certain is that 'they' do exist and have human characteristics."
Li Shaoan knew that asking was in vain, so he said thank you, then turned and left.
After leaving the laboratory, Li Shaoan said to his deputy: "Let me know, everyone will be evacuated within an hour."
"yes."
…
"Director!" There is a separate isolation room away from the camp, which is built one kilometer away from the "door".
Li Shaoan nodded and took a young girl into the isolation room.
The girl's name is Chu Yanran, and she is the granddaughter of Chu Hongjun. Although Chu Yanran, who grew up with her grandfather, is only nineteen years old, she is a real genius scientist, and she is not limited to one aspect. She is almost an all-rounder, so Chu
The Red Army has always pampered her like a treasure.
It wasn't until he was selected by the National Security Department that he left Chu Hongjun's compound and joined Li Shaoan.
Facing this "door" that suddenly appeared, the first person Li Shaoan thought of was Chu Yanran, because he had a hunch that he could not open this "door" with limited scientific knowledge.
Only those who are truly talented and have never been bound by science because of their pursuit of science can do it.
After several purification procedures, Li Shaoan and Chu Yanran put on bulky isolation suits, and then they met the survivor.
She curled up in the center of the isolation room, like an unborn baby, naked and breathing evenly.
Before arriving, Li Shaoan already knew that the survivor was the white girl who fell first. Her name was Betty Jones, a graduate student in physics at the University of Cambridge in the UK, and one of the candidates selected by the National Security Department's "Project Blue".
This time she came to Antarctica to participate in discovering the secret of the "Gate". On the one hand, it was an arrangement by the National Security Department, and on the other hand, it was her personal petition.
"Betty? Betty?" Chu Yanran has a good relationship with Betty. When Betty visited the construction of "Tai Chi No. 3" in China last year, she was also a guest at Chu Hongjun's home for more than a month.
Seeing her best friend like this now, Chu Yanran felt sad from the bottom of her heart.
Betty was probably asleep, she didn't respond, she just curled up like she was cold.
Li Shaoan asked the medical staff who were following him: "Why don't you dress her?"
The doctor replied: "It's not that we don't give it, but her skin is too fragile now. Not to mention wearing clothes, even pressing it with a little force may cause harm to her... so..."
"Then...did she say anything before?"
The doctor shook his head: "Miss Betty was in a state of confusion when she was brought here, and her heart rate exceeded 300. Her body temperature also exceeded the theoretical endurance limit of the human body, reaching 49 degrees. According to normal circumstances, Miss Betty
It was impossible to survive, but... these abnormal phenomena did not kill her, but allowed her to survive the dangerous period. Now her body has basically returned to normal, but she has remained in this semi-sleep state and has not awakened.
.”
After hearing this, Li Shaoan let out a long sigh, and then said: "Let me know when she wakes up." Then he took Chu Yanran and left.
After leaving the isolation room, I saw several rotorcraft flying into the sky from a distance. Judging from the numbers, they should be from the American sector. They were already retreating.
Li Shaoan looked at the "door" in the distance, then got in the car and said to the driver: "Go to the temporary airport."
…
The time is 3 a.m. on November 12, 2023.
There is no night in Antarctica, which is in a diurnal state, but the sky in Lake Don Juan is terrifyingly gloomy.
The blockade is being established, personnel from all major areas of the National Security Department have basically arrived, the new camp has begun to take shape, and a large number of personnel and materials have been transported.
Among them, the Chinese side not only had personnel from the China Region of the National Security Department, but also many military personnel arrived.
The main purpose of these soldiers coming here is to deal with catastrophic events that may occur at any time... In this regard, the United States also has the same considerations, so while the Chinese military responded, they also dispatched an aircraft carrier fleet nearby
The sea is on standby.
Li Shaoan hadn't slept for a long time. Things were almost arranged now. He was about to take a rest when the door was pushed open.
"Director, Director Chen and the others are here."
Li Shaoan was stunned for a moment and thought to himself: 'It's so dangerous here, why do these old people have to come here in person?'
But people had already left, and Li Shaoan had nothing to say, so he quickly put on his clothes and went to greet them.