Word by word, the sound was firm and resonant.
The office fell into a brief silence, then suddenly.
"How dare you!" A member of the think tank stood up, glaring at Lin Fan. "Do you know where you are? Do you know who this is in front of you? How dare you say such things as the nation will fall?
Deities? How could such things exist? Are you here just to joke around?
Heh, young people these days..."
The think tank members looked coldly at this audacious young man, their fists clenched.
Each of them possessed rigorous and comprehensive scientific knowledge, how could they believe in deities?
Moreover, this young man dared to say, in front of this elder, that the nation would fall?
"Old Jin," Chen Yan's emotions did not fluctuate much, he merely glanced at Old Jin, "Did you come here just to make a joke?"
Old Jin stepped forward slowly.
"I don't want to admit it either. But what he says is very likely true. I believe him!"
This will be a war!"
Jin Minsheng clenched his fists.
The old man, who had spent half his life in the military, spoke with an unquestionable tone at this moment.
For a moment, all the think tank members widened their eyes, Old Jin's expression was not fake at all, it was very serious and solemn!
"Old Jin is right," Lin Fan said heavily, "This will be a war, a war beyond all our previous understanding, and in the future, a war we have already lost.
Gentlemen, I am a reborn person from fifteen years in the future, one of the Guardian Gods of Great Xia!
This war, to you, is a vague future, but to me, it is a history I have personally experienced! Fifteen years of bloodshed! I witnessed the extinction of humanity!
This time, our opponents are deities! Various deities!
In three months, the descent of the gods will occur, and if we do not prepare in advance, everything I have experienced will happen again, with endless suffering and the nation on the brink of collapse!
National Leader, everyone!" Lin Fan clenched his fists, looking at everyone with a serious expression, "I know all of this sounds unbelievable, but please believe me!"
Every word, Lin Fan spoke through gritted teeth, each word filled with blood and tears!
With his current status, only by gaining the trust of these high-level officials can Great Xia be prepared!
A member of the think tank sneered, "Heh, fifteen years..."
"If," Chen Yan, however, did not have a trace of mockery in his eyes, instead, he was very serious, "if what you say is true, how can you prove it?"
True researchers never shy away from bold hypotheses, nor do they avoid the worst possibilities.
It is precisely because of the existence of such people that Great Xia can become humanity's last hope in the future!
Chen Yan, truly a national hero!
"Last night, Lin Fan provided a coordinate, located in the deep-sea trench at the junction of the Eurasian Plate and the Pacific Plate, east of Ludong."
Old Jin respectfully walked to the National Leader, handing over a USB drive with both hands, "At a depth of 5,564 meters, an unmanned submarine captured this strange video."
Before long, the projection screen displayed the footage.
The pitch-black seawater churned.
The heavy sound of water was suffocating.
Beneath the deep sea was extreme darkness, in which even the searchlights of the unmanned submarine could only illuminate less than ten meters.
It was an extremely oppressive, despair-inducing feeling.
Even though nothing had appeared, Chen Yan, sitting on the sofa, still frowned, feeling as if a large stone was blocking his heart.
The deep sea has always been unknown.
No one knows what lies beneath that darkness.
And humans can only rely on that small searchlight to explore the darkness.
Suddenly!
"What is that?"
"What thing?"
Two think tank members looked astonished.
The next moment, as the unmanned submarine approached, the blurry object in the footage rapidly enlarged, and the office fell silent.
Not a sound could be heard!
Only the sound of trembling breaths remained.
On the screen, a gigantic skull appeared!
What an enormous skull it was, even the ten-meter illumination range could not fully reveal it, and the most advanced wide-angle camera could only capture half of the head!
The gleaming white bones lay motionless on the seabed.
The video continued, with the unmanned submarine exploring bit by bit.
Neck.
Body.
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Arms.
Legs!
It was a colossal humanoid skeleton in a standing posture!
Finally, the footage stayed on that gigantic skull, its dark, hollow eyes appearing in the video, seemingly staring at everyone through the screen, the sinister skull seemingly smiling.
Even though everyone present was a high-ranking official of the Great Xia Nation, at this moment, a sense of insignificance rose in everyone's heart. Like ants facing a giant whale.
Facing such an unimaginable existence, even though it was already dead, it still made everyone feel a soul-deep shock and tremor.
This was a condescension from a higher life tier.
"This... this is a human body..." Chen Yan's voice was dry, "But how could humans..."
Another think tank member's voice trembled, "Estimated height, two hundred meters."
"They are not humans. They are beings beyond humans." Lin Fan exhaled, "If you want, you can call them deities. These will be our opponents in the future."
"It, they?" Chen Yan's hair stood on end, "You mean..."
"That's right, these guys, there is more than one." Lin Fan seemed to be recalling something, speaking softly, "The key point is, three months from now, some living deities will remember this forgotten plane and descend here."
For a moment, the scene was silent.
"No, no! It's all just your word!" A think tank member stood up, staring directly at Lin Fan, "I'm not targeting you, but for such matters, the source of information must be confirmed!
You must provide solid evidence! A mere video could also be fabricated!
This is about being responsible for Great Xia, and for the people of Great Xia! Because once this matter is confirmed, do you know what it means?"
Indeed, with current technology, fabricating such a video is not impossible.
And this matter is indeed of great importance.
"The video is real," Old Jin stood behind Lin Fan, his tone firm, "It was transmitted directly by the unmanned submarine I dispatched. But since you want evidence."
"Chen Yan," Old Jin looked at Chen Yan with his hands behind his back, "Half an hour ago, I sent an unknown fragment to the Great Xia Research Institute under your name for urgent analysis, is the result out yet?"
Chen Yan recalled that white unknown fragment, suddenly turning to look at the video, stunned, "You mean, that fragment..."
"That's right, it was found on the seabed around this skeleton." Old Jin nodded, "You can understand it as the bones of a deity, if those beings can really be considered deities."
Chen Yan trembled as he took out his phone, "I'll make a call right now!"
But.
Before he could make the call.
The office door was already being knocked.
The head of the Materials Analysis Division of the Great Xia First Research Center, without even changing out of his lab coat, walked in quickly holding a thick stack of documents and a white object, his expression serious!
The analysis result was simply too shocking!
Even behind him, the head of the Biological Research Division, the head of the Historical Artifacts Division, and the head of the Chemical Analysis Division all walked in with tense expressions in their lab coats.
"Mr. Chen, the item you asked me to test..." The head of the Materials Analysis Division's fingers were trembling, "Does it really exist?"
Chen Yan's face turned serious, "What's wrong?"
"After testing by multiple departments, this item's hardness exceeds the current technological limits! It's simply not man-made!
Moreover, some elements within it are ones we've never seen before, not even on the periodic table!
The most bizarre thing is, after structural analysis, we preliminarily identified it as biological bone!
But the Biological Department cannot identify what kind of creature it is, and the Chemical Analysis Department, after carbon isotope testing, found that this creature... dates back five thousand years!
Five thousand years ago, just when dinosaurs went extinct, early humans were in the ancient period, and even the Great Xia Civilization was just beginning... But how could such a creature with such strong bones appear at that time...
The discovery of this species is enough to overturn our previous understanding, to overturn our understanding of this world!"
The heads of various departments reported their findings, each with disbelief on their faces!
Old Jin suddenly interrupted, "If such a creature exists, how do we respond?"
The head of the Materials Department wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with a pale face, "If such a creature still exists, then... just with this skeleton, they would not fear any firepower attack! Unless, nuclear weapons!"
"What!"
Hearing this, even Old Jin couldn't help but exclaim.
Unless nuclear weapons?!
Has this life form become so powerful?
"This..." Chen Yan's expression was complex as he touched the bone fragment, cold and hard.
"Now, I have proven the existence of deities." Lin Fan said slowly, "Next, gentlemen, I will let you know the truth of the world.
Welcome to the world in the eyes of the deities."
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