When a geological survey team drilled through a coal seam dating back 300 million years, they accidentally awakened a dormant alien spacecraft.
> The ship’s activation set off a chain reaction: giant dragonflies with two-meter wingspans swooped down to attack, while centipedes plowed through the camp like trains.
> Humanity discovered in terror that the Carboniferous Period was no result of natural evolution. It was a vast biological weapons arsenal built on Earth by an alien civilization.
> Only when the ship’s core transmitted a coordinate signal into space did we understand:
> The “harvest plan,” interrupted all those years ago, had begun its countdown again.