When Fang Zheng and his companions arrived, the entire camp was completely destroyed. The storm tore through the windbreak walls and tents they had built. Only a few tents were intact, and the three wells that had been erected had collapsed. But that was not the point. The point was the bodies.

Professor Lake's expedition team brought more than a dozen people and eight sled dogs. However, now, there are only the corpses of humans and sled dogs in the entire camp. They were not frozen to death. On the contrary, both humans and dogs were twisted and broken like twisting towels, turning into horrible corpses.

The scene was so horrifying that many people were stunned for a long time without coming to their senses. At this time, Fang Zheng coughed lightly.

"Excuse me, I think... should we bury these people first?"

"Ah, yes..."

After hearing Fang Zheng's proposal, Professor Mike, who was in the lead, came back to his senses. He still looked at the camp in front of him with lingering fear in his eyes, and then nodded.

"Let's clean up first, let the dead rest in peace, and... find out the current situation and supplies of the camp..."

“…”

Professor Mike spoke weakly, sounding like an actor reciting lines, and the others around him said nothing, silently dispersing to do their own things. No one spoke, and the entire camp was dead silent, with only the whistling sound of the wind, as if there was no one here at all.

Fang Zheng had nothing to do so he came to a mound of dirt not far away. He picked up a shovel and dug up the dirt. Soon, strange creatures appeared in front of him.

This was obviously the major discovery that Professor Lake had mentioned in his previous telegram. If one were to describe it in a straightforward way, one could imagine a giant starfish placed at the mouth of a vase made of flesh and blood, with five eyes at the end of the starfish's tentacles, octopus-like tentacles clinging tightly to the body of the "vase", and a round mouth full of sharp teeth stuffed right in the middle of the five-pointed head.

On the side of the "vase" is a pair of wings.

In simple terms, it's like a hybrid of an animal and a plant. They are placed in a vertical position and look like they were buried... but who buried them...

"Nymph."

Looking at the monster in front of him, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, Master."

"Record biological signals, conduct a full-scale search, find those that have slipped through the net, and then kill them. Ryoko, you go with her."

"clear."

Hearing Fang Zheng's order, Asakura Ryoko smiled slightly, then turned and left with Nymph. Fang Zheng stood there, leaning on the shovel, squinting at these dead creatures.

He knew what it was. Fang Zheng had seen this creature in the memories he absorbed after killing Cthulhu.

The Ancient One.

They are the first creatures to come to the earth, and we can even say that they are the first masters of the earth. They control the earth, build, develop and grow here.

Until Cthulhu came with his star followers.

The two sides launched a great war - well, as far as Fang Zheng was concerned, it was just a fight between two ordinary alien races. In short, the final result was that neither side could do anything to the other. After the battle was deadlocked, the two sides shook hands and made peace. Cthulhu and his star family fled to the Pacific Ocean, while the Ancient Ones retreated to the South Pole, and the two sides never had any contact with each other again.

The Antarctic at that time was not like it is now, with a pleasant climate and spring-like weather all year round. However, the ancients obviously would never have thought that there would be such a thing as an ice age on Earth. When the wind was cold, the temperature dropped, and everything was frozen in ice and snow, the ancients tried to leave, but... a very funny thing happened.

At first, the ancients, like Cthulhu, could physically break through the atmosphere and fly around in the universe. However, hundreds of millions of years of corruption and depravity on Earth had greatly degraded their interstellar flight capabilities. When the ancients realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape, they helplessly discovered that they could not even leave the Earth's gravity zone!

In the end, the ancients became completely extinct in despair during the Ice Age.

This is the first time in history that genocide has been caused by laziness and gluttony.

Having said that, Fang Zheng really didn't understand the thoughts of these ancients, as they were able to break through the atmosphere and fly between stars with their physical bodies, yet they were curled up in a corner of the earth and lived their lives contentedly at home.

After all, they are of different races, so this is normal.

In fact, even without looking over, Fang Zheng could guess what happened here. Those ancients had been in hibernation since the ice age underground. Since their bodies could ensure that these ancient creatures could travel through the stars, they were naturally extremely tough. Even if they were degraded, they would not be frozen to death in an ordinary severe winter.

However, the ancients who were in hibernation were dug out by Professor Lake's expedition team, and then they must have used some method to thaw them - well, in short, those who were not dead must have come back to life and then massacred the entire camp.

This is normal. If Fang Zheng slept for a thousand or eight hundred years and watched a group of frogs circling around him with scalpels in their hands, he would definitely not be polite.

After all, to the ancients, humans were nothing. They had never seen anything like them. When they were alive, humans were probably not even apes.

Although the plight of the ancients was worthy of sympathy, Fang Zheng did not intend to let them go. After all, the era of the ancients had long ended, and now was the era of humans. After waking up, these ancients would definitely not continue to find a place to squat, but would find ways to wake up their compatriots, and then reclaim their old land... The ancients would definitely do such a thing.

So in order to avoid this situation from happening, Fang Zheng asked Nymph to find the lost ancients, and then asked Asakura Ryoko to take action... and kill them.

"Mr. Van Helsing."

Just at this moment, Professor Mike came over with a tired look, his face looked a little sad and uneasy.

"Where's your assistant?"

"They have some personal issues to deal with...anything?"

"No, I haven't..."

Professor Mike shook his head, then stroked his beard and looked at the cave that had been dug at Fang Zheng's feet. He looked at these monsters with a complicated expression and did not speak for a long time.

"Everyone……"

After a long while, Mike finally spoke.

"Everyone is panicking... but we decided... to first investigate what happened. There is also a young man missing. Maybe we can find him and get some clues and information from him..."

"Have you ever thought about leaving?"

Fang Zheng couldn't help but ask. He really didn't understand why the scientists in every horror story were always determined to stop until they hit a wall. Wasn't the dilapidated camp in front of them, the corpses that looked like ripped towels, and the dissected body parts enough to make these mortals retreat?

It would be fine if Fang Zheng was a god, but these people were just unarmed mortals. Where did they get the courage from?

"leave……"

Professor Mike muttered to himself, and then suddenly froze.

"No, you can't leave!"

"Why?"

"We have lost so much, but because of this, we have found it, right? Humans yearn for the unknown! What we have discovered now, whether it is those specimens or these creatures, is enough to overturn everything! Biology, geology, human history, evolution, everything will be overturned!"

At this point, Professor Mike's face turned red.

"We can't end it like this... at least not now, at least... at least I have to go to the place that Professor Lake mentioned. I want to see with my own eyes what exactly is there, and then..."

“…”

Hearing this, Fang Zheng shrugged speechlessly.

There is no way, the sky is going to rain, the girl is going to get married. If he wants to die, let him go.

While thinking, Fang Zheng narrowed his eyes and began to look at the entire camp again. Soon, time began to go back in front of Fang Zheng's eyes, and 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, these ancients woke up, and they began to attack these "two-legged monsters" in fear. Human attacks were almost meaningless to their bodies.

They waved their tentacles and easily broke the necks of those people, tearing them into pieces. Then, these ancients seemed to calm down. They began to explore everywhere, looking through the things in the entire camp, trying to find everything...

“——!!”

Suddenly, at this moment, Fang Zheng felt the gaze.

It was a sight that came from across time and space, as if while Fang was observing the past, something had noticed this and was looking towards him!

Who is it? !

Fang Zheng turned his head and looked in the direction where the gaze was coming from, but he only saw a huge black shadow quietly emerging in the depths of the sea of ​​time among the towering mountains.

It looked like a wolf, a dog, or a vague shadow. Its eyes were cold and gloomy, filled with some unknown secrets. It stared at Fang Zheng, and Fang Zheng stared at it. The two sides stared at each other, as if at this moment, on the other side of time, in the depths of the Black Forest, a pack of wolves and tigers and leopards were facing each other across a stream.

No one opened their mouth or spoke, they just stared at each other quietly. After a moment, the black shadow turned around and disappeared into the darkness of the sea of ​​time.

At this time, Fang Zheng also retracted his gaze and looked back at the world in front of him.

But he knew very well that this was not the end.