Berlin in 1943 has become a prisoner of war.
The rumbling sound of artillery fire tortures the city day and night. The former prosperity and elegance have long been swallowed up by gunpowder and fear. The air is filled with suffocating anxiety and uneasiness, and the shadow of death is like a maggot attached to the bones, lingering.
However, in a hidden underground laboratory at the University of Berlin, there is a strange fragrance that is incompatible with this solemn atmosphere. This fragrance, ancient and mysterious, seems to come from a distant time and space, with a power to calm the mind.
Dr. Ebert Karasen, a young German-Indian chemist, is immersed in this strange fragrance and is concentrating on a secret experiment.
He is thin and wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. His eyes behind the lenses flash with wisdom. However, deep in that light, there is a lingering melancholy.
Dr. Ebert is a rare genius. He is not only well-versed in chemistry, but also obsessed with ancient alchemy and lost technology in ancient India. He firmly believes that in the ancient wisdom buried by time, there is a power that can change the fate of mankind.
For many years, he has devoted himself to studying ancient books and documents, and conducted countless experiments to try to reproduce the glory of ancient civilization. He has developed many new drugs, and even in some areas, he has touched upon areas that modern technology cannot reach.
However, war, this catastrophe of mankind, makes Dr. Ebert feel deeply disgusted and powerless. Witnessing countless lives disappear in the gunfire, his heart is filled with grief and helplessness.
"What is science for?" He often asks himself.
Is it to create more powerful weapons to take away more innocent lives? Or is it to satisfy the ambitions of a few people and push the world into the abyss of destruction?
No, this is not the result he wants.
Dr. Ebert longs to find a power that transcends war and hatred, a power that can truly benefit mankind.
So, he devoted all his efforts to the study of ancient Indian civilization. He believed that in those ancient wisdoms, there must be the key to human peace and happiness.
On the experimental table, an ancient Indian statue exuded a faint light, as if silently responding to his expectations. The statue is made of an unknown black metal, with a strange shape, like a human but not a human, full of unknown mystery. It is said that it comes from a strange legendary ancient Indian civilization 800,000 years ago, and is the only relic left to him by Dr. Ebert's late Indian mother.
For many years, Dr. Ebert has been committed to studying the ancient wisdom recorded in the ancient Indian Sanskrit scriptures, trying to find the answers to the puzzles that modern science cannot explain. And this statue is the key to his solution.
According to the records in the scriptures, Dr. Ebert carefully injected several special herbal extracts into the grooves of the statue base in a specific proportion and order. The lights in the laboratory flickered, and the statue's faint light suddenly became extremely bright, and the strange fragrance became more intense, as if time and space were distorted at this moment.
An inexplicable uneasiness surged into Dr. Ebert's heart. He felt that the air in the laboratory became unusually heavy, as if an invisible force was accumulating.
Suddenly, two dazzling lights flashed in the statue's eyes, and everything in the laboratory began to tremble violently. The tables and chairs shook violently, the beakers and test tubes ping-ponged, and the dust on the ceiling fell.
Dr. Ebert staggered back and the experimental record book in his hand fell to the ground. He was horrified to find that the two lights turned into two invisible energies, like two giant hands, dragging him and the statue into a vortex...
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