Notebook No. 9

An unsigned letter led SWAT instructor Lu Jing to a deserted village that had been wiped off the map. At the bottom of the well, he found Japanese military experiment records from 1939, and on the same night he encountered something that shouldn't exist - a slow-moving mutant with black blood. He managed to escape, but he was left with irreversible black lines on his left arm, and the hexagonal particles in the blood sample were exactly the same as the investigation notes of forensic doctor Li Zhiwei's late father. The two formed a team and followed the ring snake totem, from Rusty Gate Village to the underground warehouse in Ashmarsh Town, and then to the secret passage deep in the Hollow Village. Each deserted village was a transit node for the research institute during the Anti-Japanese War, and all routes ultimately pointed to the same coordinates - the "Tower of Babel" island. At the end of the passage, Lu Jing found the remains and notebook of his grandfather Lu Chengshan. He was the translator numbered "09" and was executed for witnessing too many. What's more serious is that the entire network is still in operation today. The person who established and maintained it is called Lu Huaizhong, who is Lu Chengshan's nephew. He changed his surname and still controls the passage from Yunyin Mountain to the island eighty years later. Lu Jing put his grandfather's glasses into his breast pocket and returned to the city with Mandrill's testimony, the transportation list from Rusty Gate Village, and the family letter from Gray Marsh Town. The evidence was enough to leverage the international level, and the joint expedition was officially approved. The next stop is the island in the sea, where there are dormant living people, buried evidence, and the last undismantled link in this chain that spans eighty years. Li Zhiwei said to him the night before departure: "I will guard the door for you." He said: "Then I will keep my promise and I will definitely come back."