From Robinson Crusoe

[Top Secret Document of the USSR Council of Ministers' Defense Committee No. 0042-КГБ/СА]
(For informational purposes only to personnel on the special catalog list)
Violating the ban on dissemination will be prosecuted as treason under Article 64 of the Criminal Law.
Subject: Investigation Report and Follow-up Disposal Instructions Regarding the Unidentified Remains of Humans (Code Name 002) in the Pripyat Military Restricted Area

1964年7月12日05:33（莫斯科时间），苏联国家安全委员会第13特种作业支队在执行夜间战斗值班期间，于普里皮亚季东北（坐标51.45108，30.16971）侦测到不明强辐射。

Following exploration, the first reconnaissance of the target was conducted at 09:30 on July 29th, based on the target's radiation trajectory.

[On-site Investigation Record No. 0005-КГБ/СА]
• The unidentified life remains, codenamed 002, are located 73.4m underground. The main structure is composed of unidentified blue crystals. There are no national markings or conventional biological tissues on the outside. Rare isotope helium-3, heavy isotope oxygen-28 and unknown radioactive isotope radiation were detected in the surrounding area.

• The remains could not be dissected.

Surviving eyewitnesses from the special operations detachment confirmed that the unidentified remains periodically emitted a blue glow.

该遗骸于7月31日00：31释放脉冲式强光，导致22名研究人员即时蒸发（现场找不到任何人体组织残留，详见附件调查报告№274-к）】

[Response Measures]

The remains of the unidentified life form, codenamed 002, have been transferred to Chernobyl for preservation.

• The Special Research Committee (codenamed "Slavic Tundra") was jointly led by the KGB's Fifth Directorate, the Institute of Biophysics of the Academy of Sciences, and military researchers from Unit 10003 (see Annex 1 for the committee member list).

• Hypnotic/drug interrogation of surviving witnesses is strictly prohibited (directive based on KGB Presidential Order No. 886)

……

The frozen time, every millisecond of flow was stretched into a transformation of mulberry fields that seemed to span millions of years.

It was still that feeling of lifelessness; everything I could perceive was covered in dense snowflakes, hissing and crackling, like a television that had lost signal in my childhood.

The shattered torrent of information flickered in that long instant.

The top-secret document that Ivan saw was among them.

Through those yellowed secret documents, Chen Zhou gradually unearthed the causes and consequences of everything from the dusty history—

In the final moments before the collapse of the Soviet Union, KGB Chairman Kryuchkov, along with Soviet Vice President Yanayev, Defense Minister Yazov, and others, organized and led the world-shaking "August 819th Coup" in an attempt to preserve the Soviet Union.

However, behind this 72-hour coup was a secret plan that had been brewing for many years by successive Soviet leaders and Unit 10003.

Research on codename 002 began in the 1960s.

Although the technology available at the time was not advanced enough to damage the remains, the skeleton, buried under the primeval forest for tens of thousands of years, still profoundly impacted the surrounding environment.

Through archaeological excavations in the Siberian Plain and the Arctic Circle, the 13th Special Operations Team has successively discovered a number of biological specimens of great research significance and a systematic theoretical model that far exceeds the knowledge of the Academy of Sciences.

This includes the initial sample of “aphasic” individuals and the so-called “Slavic Tundra 13 Confession Room”.

In fact, the "confession room" project itself is a combination of the special committee's code name and the 13th Special Operations Team. Only the "confession room," which can control the mind and induce hallucinations, has practical significance.

Numerous prehistoric relics form a fragmented clue—

A very long time ago, to be precise, perhaps around 12700 years ago during the Quaternary extinction event, the ancestors of modern humans had their first contact with unidentified creatures, represented by the 002 remnant.

Climate change, the spread of disease, and impacts from comets and asteroids led to the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna.

The rise of the last glacial period brought early humans to the brink of extinction several times.

Just when they were at their wits' end, a contact with an unknown creature brought a glimmer of hope to humankind.

In the photographic materials, the excavators outlined the specific process in the murals beneath the Arctic ice cap.

Several tribes selected strong enough warriors to go in batches to the blue-glowing cave entrance, and after a short while, some of them returned from it.

Those who return possess extraordinary knowledge and strength, and are often able to lead their tribes out of danger.

However, most of the time, the warriors who entered the cave never returned, just like the researchers who evaporated, forever disappearing into unknown dimensions.

Contact between unidentified creatures and humans has continued intermittently for thousands of years, and batches of "returnees" have even established thriving small civilizations by relying on the technology they brought back.

Contact between humans and the unknown creatures was completely severed only after the blue-glowing cave entrance collapsed, and the returnees dug it open to find a torn crystalline corpse.

The tides of time will take everything away.

Continuing from the long Ice Age, humanity gradually embarked on the path of dominating the Earth, and its technological level also advanced by leaps and bounds through successive reforms. The vast and sparsely populated wilderness of northern Eurasia remained untouched until the period of the US-Soviet rivalry, when this history, buried for tens of thousands of years, was unearthed.

The Soviet Union once attempted to analyze 002 and reconstruct the "Blue Hole".

However, with the current level of human technology, it is still like an ant trying to shake a tree when faced with issues involving time and space; it is far too presumptuous.

Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the research progress failed to meet the expected goals, and countless experimenters who suffered from unknown radiation died tragically and were sealed in lead coffins.

Furthermore, the "aphasic" and "confessionals" are out of control, and the so-called "super-sighted" and "super-hearing" individuals produced by the other reform programs are even more useless, lacking the ability to turn the tide of the battle.

After Andropov's death, Chernenko briefly transitioned the Soviet political situation, and Gorbachev eventually took over, the Soviet Union lost its last chance to fight the United States, and gradually headed towards collapse.

Beset by internal and external troubles, the KGB was constantly on the move.

As a result of Gorbachev's economic reforms, the Soviet Union experienced negative economic growth.

The experimental funding for Unit 10003 was repeatedly cut, making it difficult to sustain. It wasn't until the genetically modified organisms on the third floor of the base rioted that this camel, which had been carrying countless straws, finally collapsed, leaving behind a mess.

Unexpectedly, the "key" to what the Soviet Union had failed to accomplish despite its national efforts was brought to it by Ivan, this madman.

The "door" that opened half a century late took Ivan away, and Chen Zhou, the lock-picker, was naturally not spared either.

……

As light and shadow shifted, my blurred consciousness gradually became clear.

Through the invisible barrier, like frosted glass, Chen Zhou saw a massive building painted silver-gray with a Soviet-style design.

A dozen or so high-ranking military leaders sat at the front of the building, and below them, in a tiered hall, stood a group of tall soldiers.

A faint blue light shone down from the top of the building, enveloping everything.

Inside the silver-gray building, only the crossed sickle and hammer under the gold star shines brightly against the bright red flag.

As the song "Unbreakable Alliance" played, hundreds of warriors vanished into thin air in the hall, and only after they all disappeared did the blue light from the building's dome completely dissipate.

……

"This seems to be another Soviet Union in a different timeline."

The research was successful, and the Soviet Union did not disintegrate…

As Chen Zhou's self-awareness gradually returned, he looked at the scene behind the barrier and couldn't help but think.

Before his thoughts could continue for long, his invisible body experienced a strong sense of weightlessness, which then shattered the invisible barrier, propelling him forward at high speed through a dazzling stream of information.

The speed of their advance was so fast that Chen Zhou felt as if everything had come to a standstill.

The colors he could previously see blurred into pure white, and in this blinding white world, he saw a group of familiar figures—

Those blue humanoid creatures.

Unlike the half-dead remains on Earth, they are all "alive," with tiny blue squares on their bodies constantly moving and changing.

They huddled together, watching Chen Zhou from afar with indifference, conveying to him either doubt or interest.

This familiar-sounding crowd lasted only a moment before all the white, like sand flowing from the top of an hourglass, suddenly vanished.

The world spun around him, as if he had been kicked from the modern era back to ancient times. After countless rolls, he finally regained control of his body.

Immediately, a surge of information poured into Chen Zhou's brain.

The sensations of weightlessness, dizziness, hearing, smell, touch, and sight return.

It felt as if ten thousand years had passed, and he once again experienced the feeling of being grounded.

This time there was little pain or a long adjustment period. After compiling the data on the modified base, Chen Zhou immediately encountered new information that abruptly appeared in his mind—

Content regarding the "Prehistoric Survival Challenge". (End of Chapter)