The Collection of The End

——AD.2158.12.24——

Earth, 70°11'15.77"S, 77°32'19.06"E

The cold wind howled, the snow flakes flying, the vast ice cap area and the occasional frozen ground area all reflected the white light.

This is Antarctica, one of the areas that humans have not fully controlled even though they have already marched into the universe.

The other two places are underground and deep sea.

In almost all colonial stars developed by humans, these locations with harsh environments, scarce resources, and difficult development are abandoned by default.

However, after it has been clearly known that there is only a small amount of territory that humans can explore in the universe, and there are only two ways to expand, such as war and trade, this kind of "waste" behavior may be hated by future generations.

Passing over the ice sheet was a Chinook helicopter.

Normally speaking, it is impossible for ordinary transport aircraft to fly in this extremely cold weather, let alone the ultra-long range of direct flights to the South Pole, but due to the existence of the "mass effect shield", many of them could not be explored. The location has also become a thoroughfare.

Even so, the cost is still a big issue, spending the precious "zero element" only for prospecting in Antarctica? That must be crazy.

There are three members on the transport plane. They are a driver with windproof goggles, a bearded face, a gray-haired man in a suit and leather shoes, and a clever black leather jacket who seems to be able to pull out a gun at any time. Red-haired woman.

"Perhaps, those ‘only land parties’ are correct..." the man said to himself as he looked at the white snow outside the cabin and seemed to be touched.

"What stupid thing to say!" The woman slapped him on the back and almost slapped him: "If it wasn't for her own people, you would be miserable, you know?"

"..." The man re-sit up on the front chair with his hands: "It's because I'm all my own, I'll say it."

"Hahaha! I said why Eva is a good driver, so I have to call me," the driver in the front seat laughed, "It turns out that I can't make a move."

"What are you talking about!" The woman slapped the man again.

"Let's just say a few words, William, she won't beat you if she isn't familiar with you, it's just me who is unlucky." The man looked like he wanted to hide.

The two who were flirting with each other were naturally Jack Harper and Eva Kuhl. After the initial dust settled on the "Ability Network Incident", they were ordered to return to Earth and search for a place belonging to the "Guardians of the Earth". Scientific research station near the South Pole.

The driver was called "William Dyer", and it seemed that Governor Crowder was under the earth and was responsible for their return to earth this time. Jack did not ask about the specific identity, and there is no need to ask.

Now that I know that Eva is an "excellent driver", it is quite a core member.

"Seriously, according to the information I collected, due to the discovery of element zero and mass effect, that scientific research station has been abandoned for many years, why did you come back from the aliens to explore there? Even if you have valuable information , Is it outdated now?" William asked while driving.

"..." Jack and Eva looked at each other: "Since we are here, I tell you that it should be fine."

"There may be living people there..."

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In the "Abnormal Network" incident that broke out about half a year ago, Lingke Daoye was just a small fish obsessed with research. Starlink smoothly caught a lot of "guardians of the earth" and planted them in various colonies. Star's undercover.

The force mainly develops the earth, but the movement of penetrating the colonization star is faster than anyone else, which makes people wonder what to evaluate for a while.

What's more troublesome is that these people are actually useless.

On the premise of not violating the laws of the Star Alliance, the governor of any colonial star cannot be arrested just because they support the Land-only Party and have connections with members of the Land-only Party.

Because the "Wei Land Party" is only a trend of thought, and the members of the "Guardians of the Earth" who are actually judged to be illegal organizations have not caught a few at all, and occasionally they are arrested, even Xiao Xiami can't be called.

Of course, that's just a problem with other colonial stars. For Europa VII, it is hostile by the superpower group. They have no choice but to flee. If they have to bite the bullet and use "not breaking the law" as an excuse Over there, the students of supernatural powers will let him know what he can do without breaking the law.

In this process, Governor Crowder's adopted son seemed to play a very important role, but it did not appear in relevant intelligence and internal announcements.

According to Jack's own knowledge, the teenager seems to have established a supernaturalist organization called the "Father's Worry Alliance" and claimed that if the applicant cannot make his father feel worried, he is not eligible to participate.

As for the current members...Jack thought about it, Kaos, [■■], [■■■], Misaka Mikoto, Lena Oxton, Hannah Abbot, Cedric Albert, Yi Liya Kamsky, Lingke Yuriko, all of them made him and his father worry.

But the father of the teenage CEO seems to be missing, so there is no need to worry about it.

No, pulling away, Jack gathered his divergent thoughts.

During the search of the infiltrators of the Provokers, the Star Alliance found more evidence, some of which are still marginal, but some are clearly illegal, and they can be thrown into prison as long as they are found. .

This time I came to Antarctica to confirm a very bad "evidence". If it is exposed, not only will the only party be verbally criticized, but also the poorly-supervised Star Alliance will be inseparable.

It just so happened that Europa VII, whether it is a fleet or a superpower, is in its peak state and does not need much supervision, so he and Eva were sent to deal with this matter.

It was built in 2077 with the support of the Land-only Party. An Antarctic research station named [Chaldea] is responsible for monitoring the meteorological data of the entire Antarctic and comparing it with the meteorological data of other continents. Infer the possible future climate change and even climate disasters.

It did have some significant results and saved many people from the early warning of climate disasters, but with the discovery of the "zero element" and "mass effect", it became meaningless-in the ability to travel the universe Under the circumstances, who cares about the Antarctic climate?

And the scientific research station that was barely considered the merits of the only land party was gradually marginalized or even forgotten under the thought of "the goal is the stars and the sea"-it is a real forgetting.

According to the information found from the members of the only land party who clearly violated the law, the last message sent by the Chaldean Observatory in 2138 was: "Due to the long polar storm, we missed the opportunity to supply supplies and had to enter collectively. The dormant warehouse waits for it to stop. It is estimated that it will last more than half a year, my God."

"and then?"

"No more."

"You mean..." William Dell hesitated for a moment, and said incredulously: "The personnel at that scientific research station have been frozen for twenty years?"

"Yes." Jack nodded.

"And the guys from the Weidi Party just forgot about them?"

"……Correct."

"And you just said that the Only Land Party is correct?!"

"Uh, I didn't mean that." Seeing that William was about to drop the joystick and hit people, Jack continued to comfort him: "I mean, if the Star Alliance does not focus on opening up the universe, these accidents are OK. Avoided."

"'These'?! Are there many similar accidents?" William's beard curled up.

"Not much, maybe more than 20, but most of the projects without logistical support have been disbanded on the spot after confirming that they will not receive support, such as the Antarctic research station is actually relatively rare," Eva prevented Jack from continuing to speak , Reached out and patted William on the shoulder: "We are here to solve the problem, aren't we?"

"...Huh," William seemed to be suppressed in anger: "If it weren't for my daughter who was also attending school in the college city, I would definitely give you a punch."

It must be a physical mutation system, right? The words turned around on Jack's mouth, but in the end he didn't say it.

"Anyway, we went to get them back," Eva said. "They probably didn't expect that, after only twenty years, let alone the supply convoy, the helicopter can cross Antarctica."

"Hey, I don't like to listen to these words. Although there is no problem with the hardware, I fly over smoothly along the way. The skill of the driver is very important." William began to boast.

"Yes, you are amazing." Eva responded immediately.

"..." Jack looked at the two exchanges with an unbelievable expression. Is this still the Eva who swears and hits people anytime and anywhere?

Approximately perceiving Jack's gaze, Eva turned her head and glared at him. The message contained in this look is also very clear: Seeing my old lady in this way will kill you.

Okay, I see, this is an external business model, and Jack silently turned his head and looked out of the cabin.

Then, he saw the helicopter passing by a circular white building on the halfway of the snow mountain.

"William! We flew past!"

"Hmph, it's you guy who said good things about the only land party, which angered me." William replied badly and controlled the helicopter to turn around.

It's Eva... well, it's me.

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The Chinook’s landing process was not difficult. Although the apron has not been used for nearly two decades and piled with thick snow, it is meaningless to the helicopter's mass effect field.

For the same reason, the three people who got off the helicopter did not wear thick winter clothes at all. The mass effect shield that comes with the universal tool integrates functions such as cold and wind protection, which is the lack of air in space and seabed. The environment is not fixed.

"Here...the design is pretty good." William commented.

Compared with the traditional observation station built on the plain, the "Chaldeans" ingeniously hollowed out a small hill, and the entire disc-shaped structure only exposed less than 120 degrees outside.

This degree of concealment may be the reason why scientific researchers have the confidence to hide in the dormant warehouse and wait for rescue, and do not worry about building damage due to disastrous weather.

"They may have sent a signal later, but the outside world obviously couldn't receive it." Jack looked around the inspection station and quickly noticed the signal tower in front of the station that had collapsed in half.

"The basic functions of the research station are still running, and the identity verification... passed," Eva went straight to the door while operating the universal tool: "Very well, it seems that the facilities inside are still running at the lowest power. We don’t have to worry about seeing situations where we can’t stay dormant because of insufficient energy.”

Are all members alive? It's not impossible. Jack followed while observing the surroundings.

In terms of income, the deaths of all staff are naturally the lowest. In the absence of witnesses, only the Land Party can push this matter clean with them.

If all members survive, although it is worth celebrating, the only land party will have no responsibility.

Only part of the death and part of the survival will maximize the income, but this is the most difficult to achieve, unless something goes wrong with the dormant warehouse, then it is not the responsibility of the party only.

"The test equipment is still running, the daily necessities are well stored, everything is in order," Eva walked in the arc-shaped passage first, observing the cabins one by one and explaining: "Um...I am not familiar with the structure here, Where is the dormant warehouse?"

"In the main energy room, go through three more doors in front of it." Jack looked at his universal tool: "You only need the identity verification procedure when you set out, but you don't want the station map?"

"Why? No?" Eva turned her head and stared at him.

"Why not?" Jack answered immediately.

"You can wait for flirting," William interrupted their conversation with a frown. "Did you two hear anything?"

"Who flirts with him!"

"sound?"

Jack tried to listen to no avail, then used a universal tool to amplify the sound in the environment, and finally heard a whisper that was as thin as a hairspring:

【Thai——Li——】

Who is calling someone named Terry?

"It seems to be coming from the dormant barn," Jack looked up and looked in the direction of the voice: "Maybe our move in triggers the wake-up mechanism?"

"Then we'd better respond," Eva put away the fist that seemed to want to give Jack: "You can't use the same rehabilitation methods for half a year of dormancy and 20 years of dormancy."

"Then what are you waiting for?" William strode directly in that direction.

Ok? He only heard about the things here today, why is he so active?

Jack was a little strange, but for a while he could only feel sympathy for these people who had been dormant for twenty years, so he quickly followed with Eva.

【Thai——Li——】

【Thai——K——Li——】

As several people approached the dormant barn, the calls became clearer and the syllables changed slightly.

Could there be a couple in this scientific research station? I just woke up and couldn't move around easily, so I kept calling each other's name?

"Don't shout! Don't shout! You--"

William, who ran the fastest, rushed into the dormant barn first, yelled for a while, and froze.

Ok? What surprised him so much--

Jack, who entered the door following William, was halfway through his thoughts, and his head instantly went blank.

Here is the energy warehouse, and also the dormant warehouse. A row of twenty dormant frames are arranged in a ring against the wall. In their center, there is an energy column emitting a light blue light.

And on the energy column, there is an indescribable "thing" that looks like a huge mass of mud, with a faint light shining on the surface, thousands of them constantly emitting green light, composed of pus His eyes keep moving, decomposing, and forming again on its surface.

This "thing" is roaring frantically at Jack:

[Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! 】

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