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The two murals in the secret room in Josetown suddenly turned the topic between Zhu Jue and Olivia to a deeper issue.

How long have the mental pollution monsters existed?

"Remember the ancient fish in the Gobi Desert? What caused that phenomenon was not the geological environment or something like the official explanation later. How do you put it? It was some special phenomenon caused by the interaction between moonlight and electric ions in the air? "

Now that the topic was brought up, Zhu Jue didn't mind chatting a little more. He took the initiative to mention the only video released by Weird Studio that did not have any monsters that caused mental pollution, and then said,

"In fact, what caused that situation was a certain intelligent source of spiritual pollution. We cannot simply describe him as a monster. That guy was also an intelligent race, and it was hundreds of millions of years ago. They are similar to humans to a certain extent. Same, experiencing a real monster invasion."

Things about the great race were naturally no longer a secret after he returned to his own time through time and space.

It's just that Zhu Jue said this fact casually, but the people who listened almost smashed the porcelain bowl in his hand.

"Are you lying to me?"

After a long silence, Olivia asked with a strange expression.

Not only was she present at the time, but she also witnessed the entire occurrence and end of the battle. However, all she could remember was the magical sea of ​​ancient fish. She didn't even see a single monster that was a source of mental pollution, let alone an intelligent race.

Moreover, what Zhu Jue said is really beyond common sense. To use an analogy based on the current situation, that is, one day when you and your friend were eating burgers at KFC, your friend suddenly told you that he had an affair with an alien a few years ago. Through communication, it turns out that the Loch Ness Monster is a large water fish raised on earth.

That's probably what it means.

If it were you, would you believe it?

"Haha, yes, I just lied to you."

Zhu Jue didn't explain. It wasn't because he was lazy, but because he really didn't know how to prove that the great race was running around in the time tunnel like a walk. He couldn't demonstrate it, so he simply took a bite of the chicken leg and laughed.

"It's really strange. When you say that, I feel like you didn't lie to me. Let's take it as the truth. Since you have dealt with these intelligent races, have you obtained any information from them?"

Regarding Zhu Jue, Olivia felt that no matter how strange things happened to him, no one would be surprised.

"Didn't I just say that they are also facing the invasion of monsters, so from this matter we can infer that the monsters appearing on the earth today are not, or not all, the alien creatures that experts say. Among them In fact, there are also some residents of the earth who are older than us. In ancient times, they fought against monsters that were the source of mental pollution. And in the subsequent history of mankind, there were no monsters for a long time. Judging from this incident alone, , does it mean that they defeated those monsters in ancient times?"

Zhu Jue would occasionally think about something. He took a large piece of chicken breast and dipped it in the sauce and stuffed it into his mouth. He puffed up his cheeks and said vaguely,

"I have excavated one in Songmu Mountain in Yecheng before, and then in Greenland. I don't believe that your Archaeological Association has not discovered any special relics in these years. I have said so much, you have to come up with some solid information. .”

The remains of the ancients in Greenland were discovered by the Archaeological Association five years ago. This is enough to prove that the Archaeological Association has actually been paying attention to these things from a long time ago. Five years later, the Archaeological Association only knows more!

"Ultimate Northern Civilization!"

Olivia pursed her lips and suddenly proposed a term.

"What?"

"This title comes from the "Book of Eben" found by the Archaeological Association a few years ago, which records events hundreds of thousands of years ago. Yes, this book was left behind hundreds of thousands of years ago. It sounds very strange. Unbelievable, isn’t it? This is what I overheard above, from the chatter of several scholars.”

Speaking of this, Olivia pointed to the top of her head. According to the departmental distribution of the Archaeological Association, the higher the floor, the higher the status. Naturally, the top of the field department is the senior management of the association. She only went up when she was giving a report and stayed no more than 5 minutes. For several minutes, all I heard were fragmentary sentences.

Even so, when she recalled the content at that time, her expression was still a little strange. At that time, she couldn't help but feel strange. Human civilization has only been around for a few thousand years!

"Then what?"

Zhu Jue is not surprised by this. Since the great race existed hundreds of millions of years ago and possesses technology that humans cannot understand at all, the emergence of other civilizations hundreds of thousands of years ago is not only not surprising to him, but also somewhat reasonable. should mean.

"No, then, do you think I can have access to this information in my current position? Special relics are the responsibility of the archaeological team. They are absolutely confidential. If you want to participate, you have to sign a confidentiality agreement. Although our field department is often involved in some affairs, , but it is only responsible for the battle. Once it enters the follow-up archaeological investigation stage, a more professional team will come forward within the association. The investigation team, also known as the archaeological team within the association, consists of a group of people who participated in several top-secret investigations in the early stages of the association's establishment. The project is composed of expert professors, and your supervisor, Professor August, is one of them!”

She shrugged helplessly. Olivia was the leader of the field team. This position was not low, but she was not qualified enough to have access to core secrets!

"It's interesting. It seems that the choice of joining the Archaeological Association is more valuable than I expected."

Zhu Jue was very interested in these things and wanted to know more, but he had never found a good way. Now the Archaeological Association gave him a chance. He lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then continued,

"Hey, do you know how to join the inspection team?"

The Archaeological Association was originally established to investigate the origin of monsters that are sources of mental pollution. This core theme has never changed.

Over the years, who knows how many secrets this organization has uncovered around the world?

Will there be races similar to the Ancient Ones or the Great Races among them? If so, do their civilizations also have Ancient One Crystals or a secret method similar to liberating the soul?

"You want to go up?"

Olivia looked at Zhu Jue in surprise and asked.

"Of course, just as a consultant, I get a monthly salary of 150,000 federal coins and so many privileges, not to mention a higher position. According to what you just said, if I can join the archaeological team, can I also get in touch with it? Those mysterious things buried in the dust of history?”

After drinking the last half bowl of chicken soup, Zhu Jue suddenly stood up and walked to Olivia. He followed her example and leaned on the edge of the desk. He turned his head and looked up and down at Olivia, who was wearing a women's black suit. When the latter felt uncomfortable, he came closer and lowered his voice and said,

"Whether you want to be promoted or not, as long as you follow me, the credit will definitely be great, as long as you are willing to pay a small price~"

Ten minutes later, Zhu Jue walked out of the Archaeological Association holding his stomach and waved to the rental boat on the roadside. He was full of chicken soup and felt uncomfortable being hit by an uppercut at close range.

Leaning on the lamppost by the road, he looked back at the woman carrying a bag a few meters away: "I just want you to help me find out some inside information. If you are so cruel, can we still be friends in the future?"

"snort!"

Olivia obviously did not accept Zhu Jue's explanation, held her head high, snorted and turned around to leave.

It was already 11 o'clock at night when we returned to the residential building No. 13 in Heywood District.

Zhu Jue was lying in the bathtub. There was a bamboo board in front of him with a few popsicles and two bags of potato chips on it. The light screen extended from the wall on the side was playing the popular movie "Deep Sea Horror". 》, the steaming fog does not affect the viewing experience.

The wind chime rushed in from the door, plunged into the bathtub, and rested on Zhu Jue's knees for a while, and then competed with the little yellow duck next to him like a doggy style.

When countless tentacles began to appear in the deep and gloomy sea water, the bathroom connected to the light screen adjusted its mode at the same time. The lights on top became flickering, and even the water flow in the bathtub began to simulate the rough waves of the sea, with water splashing everywhere. .

"It's high technology after all"

With half his face buried in the water, he blew bubbles and pretended to be a "bathtub monster". He looked over and turned over to expose his belly. With the "waves" of wind chimes floating in all directions, Zhu Jue was quite satisfied with the newly bought bathtub. .

"New news, from Suzi."

The message pushed on the light screen broke the "horror atmosphere" in the bathroom. The "bathtub water monster" got up, grabbed the popsicle, chewed it, and clicked on the message.

"We haven't determined who is from the 'Zero' organization in the video, but we have found information on several of them. They are all underground racers. Will we go to the underground racetrack tomorrow to investigate?"

"Um."

After replying directly with one word, Zhu Jue, who was completely uninterested, wiped his body and left the bathroom.

Standing at the window with a glass of iced milk, looking out at the night view of Heywood District, my mind inevitably returned to the conversation I had with Olivia at the Archaeological Association.

Zhu Jue was very strong, but he never thought that he had no rivals. The overwhelming terrifying meatballs in the dense jungle valley and the amorphous monsters in the freezing glaciers had warned him five years ago. alarm bells, not to mention the more terrifying existences that have appeared all over the world in the past five years.

Not many people in the world have a greater sense of urgency than Zhu Jue, a man who has witnessed all kinds of unspeakable horrors.

No one knows what will happen in this world in the future.

The annihilation of civilization hundreds of thousands of years ago is nothing more than a topic of conversation after dinner in the eyes of today's people.

However, who can guarantee that current human civilization can continue for a long time?

Who can guarantee whether they will become the talk of people hundreds of thousands of years from now?

It may be a bit hypocritical to say this, but Zhu Jue thought about it and felt that it was probably a bit unfounded. After all, when civilization is really destroyed, personal power is nothing.

"But it's good to be alive."

Zhu Jue wants to live, even if "the sky falls and the earth falls" in the future.