When Fangzheng and the others arrived, the entire camp was completely destroyed. The storm had torn apart the wind walls and tents they had built. Only a few tents were intact, and the three drilling rigs that had been erected had collapsed. But that was not the point. The point was the corpses.
Professor Lake's expedition team brought more than a dozen people and eight sled dogs, but now, there were only the corpses of humans and sled dogs in the entire camp. None of them had frozen to death. On the contrary, both the humans and the dogs had been twisted and broken like towels, turning into horrible corpses.
The scene was so shocking that many people were stunned for a long time. Fangzheng coughed softly.
"I'm sorry, but I think... should we bury these people first?"
"Ah, yes..."
Professor Mike finally came back to his senses when he heard Fangzheng's suggestion. He looked at the camp in front of him with lingering fear in his eyes, then nodded.
"Let's clean up first, let the dead rest in peace, and... figure out the current situation and supplies of the camp..."
"..."
Professor Mike spoke weakly, sounding as rigid as an actor reciting his lines. The others around him did not say anything either. They silently dispersed to do their own things. No one spoke. The whole camp was dead silent. Only the whistling of the wind could be heard. It was as if there was no one there at all.
Fangzheng had nothing to do, so he walked over to a mound not far away. He picked up a shovel and dug up the mound. Soon, strange creatures appeared in front of him.
This was obviously the major discovery that Professor Lake had mentioned when he sent the message. If Fangzheng had to describe it, it would be like putting a huge starfish in the mouth of a vase made of flesh and blood. The starfish had five eyes at the end of its tentacles, and its octopus-like tentacles were tightly attached to the body of the "vase". In the middle of the pentagonal head was a round mouth full of sharp teeth.
On the side of the "vase" was a pair of wings.
Simply put, it looked like a hybrid between an animal and a plant. They were placed vertically, and it was obvious that they had been buried … But who was the one who had buried them ….
"Nimf."
Looking at the monster in front of him, Fangzheng frowned.
"Yes, Master."
"Record the signals of living beings and conduct a comprehensive search. Find the fish that slipped through the net and kill them. Ryoko, you go with her. "
"Understood."
Hearing Fangzheng's order, Asakura Ryoko smiled and left with Nimf. Meanwhile, Fangzheng stood there, leaning on the shovel, squinting at the dead creatures.
He knew what it was. In the memories he absorbed after killing Cthulhu, Fangzheng had seen this creature before.
The Ancient Ones.
They were the first creatures to arrive on Earth. It could even be said that they were the first owners of Earth. They controlled the Earth, building, developing, and growing here.
Until Cthulhu arrived with his Star Kin.
The two sides engaged in a great battle — well, to Fangzheng, this was just a fight between two ordinary alien races. In short, the final result was that no one could do anything to the other. After the battle reached a stalemate, the two sides shook hands and made peace. Cthulhu fled to the Pacific Ocean with his Star Kin, while the Ancient Ones retreated to the South Pole. The two sides never contacted each other again.
At that time, the South Pole was not like it was now. The climate was pleasant, and it was like spring all year round. However, the Ancient Ones would never have imagined that there would be an ice age on Earth. When the cold wind blew, the temperature dropped, and everything was frozen in ice and snow, the Ancient Ones tried to leave, but … a funny thing happened.
Back then, the Ancient Ones were like Cthulhu. They could break through the atmosphere with their bodies and fly around in the universe. However, after hundreds of millions of years of decadent life on Earth, their interstellar flight ability had greatly deteriorated. When the Ancient Ones realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape, they found that they could not even leave Earth's gravity zone!
In the end, the Ancient Ones went extinct in the ice age in despair.
It was the first time in history that a race became extinct because of laziness.
Speaking of which, they were clearly people who could break through the atmosphere and fly through the stars with their bodies, yet they were curled up in a corner of Earth and lived their days contentedly at home. Fangzheng really didn't understand the thoughts of the Ancients.
After all, it was normal for them to be of different races.
In fact, even without using Past Vision, Fangzheng could guess what happened here. The Ancient Ones had been in a state of hibernation ever since they encountered the ice age underground. Since their bodies could ensure that these ancient creatures could travel between stars, they were naturally extremely tough. Even if they had deteriorated, they would not freeze to death in a normal winter.
However, the Ancient Ones who were in hibernation were dug out by Professor Lake's expedition team. They must have used some method to thaw them out — well, in short, those who did not die must have come back to life and carried out a massacre on the entire camp.
This was normal. If Fangzheng slept for a thousand years and watched a group of frogs circling around him with scalpels, he would definitely not be polite.
After all, for the Ancient Ones, humans were nothing. They had never seen humans before. When they were alive, humans probably weren't even apes.
But although the Ancient Ones' experience was worthy of sympathy, Fangzheng did not intend to let them go. After all, the era of the Ancient Ones had long ended, and now it was the era of humans. After these Ancient Ones woke up, they would not continue to find a place to stay, but would find ways to wake up their compatriots, then reclaim their old land or something …. The Ancient Ones would definitely do something like that.
So to avoid this situation from happening, Fangzheng asked Nimf to find the missing Ancient Ones, and then asked Asakura Ryoko to …. kill them.
"Mr. Van Helsing."
At that moment, Professor Mike came over with a tired look on his face. His face was a little sad and uneasy.
"Where's your assistant?"
"They have some personal problems to deal with …. Is something the matter?"
"No, there's nothing …."
Professor Mike shook his head, stroked his beard, and looked at the dug hole at Fangzheng's feet. He looked at the monsters with a complicated expression and did not speak for a long time.
"Everyone …."
After a long time, Mike finally spoke.
"Everyone is panicking … but we decided … to investigate what's going on first. There's also a young man missing. Maybe we can find him and get some clues and information from him …."
"Haven't you ever thought of leaving?"
Fangzheng could not help but ask. He really did not understand why every scientist in a horror story was so stubborn. Could it be that the dilapidated camp in front of them, the corpses that looked like torn towels, and the dissected body parts were not enough to make these mortals retreat?
It was one thing for Fangzheng to be a god, but these people were just unarmed mortals. Where did they get their courage from?
"Leave …."
Professor Mike muttered to himself. Then, he suddenly froze.
"No, we can't leave!"
"Why?"
"We've lost so much, but it's also because of this that we've found something, haven't we? What humans yearn for is the unknown! What we've found now, whether it's the specimens or these creatures, is enough to overturn everything! Biology, geology, human history, the theory of evolution, everything will be overturned! "
Professor Mike's face was already red as he said this.
"We can't just end like this … at least not now. At least … at least I have to go to the place Professor Lake mentioned. I have to see with my own eyes what it is, and then …."
"…."
Hearing this, Fangzheng shrugged his shoulders speechlessly.
It couldn't be helped. The sky wanted to rain, and the woman wanted to marry. If he wants to die, so be it.
While thinking, Fangzheng narrowed his eyes and began to look at the whole camp again. Soon, time began to reverse in front of Fangzheng's eyes. Everything that happened in the camp was presented in front of him. He saw how Professor Lake and his assistants excitedly dug out the Ancients from the ancient rock strata and how they dissected them. At that time, the Ancients woke up and began to attack the "two-legged monsters" in horror. Human attacks were almost meaningless to their bodies.
They waved their tentacles and easily twisted the necks of those people and tore them into pieces. Then, the Ancients seemed to calm down. They began to explore around, rummaging through the things in the camp, trying to find everything ….
"— — — —!!"
Suddenly, at that moment, Fangzheng sensed a gaze.
It was a gaze that traveled through time and space. It was as if something had noticed this while Fangzheng was observing the past and was looking at him!
Who is it?!
Fangzheng turned his head and looked in the direction of the gaze, but he only saw a huge shadow quietly emerging in the depths of the sea of time and lofty mountains.
It looked like a wolf, like a dog, but also like a blurry shadow. Its eyes were cold and gloomy, full of some unknown secret. It stared at Fangzheng, and Fangzheng stared back at it. The two sides stared at each other like this. It was as if at this moment, on the other side of time, in the depths of the Black Forest, a pack of wolves and tigers were facing each other across a stream.
No one spoke. They just stared at each other in silence. After a few moments, the shadow turned around and disappeared into the darkness of the Sea of Time.
Fangzheng withdrew his gaze and looked at the world in front of him again.
But he knew very well that this was not the end.
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