Section 267

Steep and towering peaks form a undulating line at the edge of the horizon.

Although it is already summer, the green formed by dense plants is rarely seen in the mountains. Large pieces of hard rock cover almost every part of the soil on the surface of the mountain. Before the rainy season has entered, withered and dried dead plants still remain in the cracks on the surface, but this does not mean the end of life or the desolation that will last forever. As long as enough rainwater that soaks the earth again falls in the sky, the seeds buried in the cracks of the rocks will quickly grow new rhizomes. The rainy season in just a few months is enough for them to complete the evolution and cultivation of the next generation. Before the cold winter comes, the new seeds that fall off will enter dormant like their previous generations, until the warmth and moistness of the next year, repeat the entire process of growth and death again.

Lin Xiang pushed open the off-road vehicle door with bulletproof armor. The moment the rubber military boots came into contact with the rough ground, the skin of the soles of the feet immediately felt the coldness and hardness of the sharp stones poking back through the thick protective layer.

At the rear of the car is a winding old road. The asphalt paved on the surface of the road has been dry and cracked, and it is forked into dense gaps like fibrous roots of plants. From time to time, gray-white broken bone pieces can be seen in the semi-dried grass on the roadside, perhaps the remains of humans or dead animals in the wilderness. Judging from the appearance alone, it is impossible to know which race they belong to - the hungry humans and beasts wandering in the wilderness will not easily let go of anything that may be used as food. Even if the muscles are completely licked and torn to pieces, they can also suck the nutritious mastiff oil and bone glue.

This area belongs to the ruling area of ​​Sosbia, but on the exploration map, there is no way to find any way to this place. Even the old road under your feet that is barely intact and extends towards the westward Emma City, in the corresponding coordinates and positions on the map, is also covered by a black triangle representing the severe radiation area and the mutant forest. Under normal circumstances, except for the mob, ordinary people cannot pass through this terrible area full of death rays.

Lin Xiang raised his head and looked at the end of the road covered with light sunshine. He opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to speak, but in the end he failed to issue any syllables.

Xiao is a woman who keeps her promises.

The underground space of Galgassoni Castle is so huge that it is terrifying. Apart from the dungeons piled up dead bodies and wild animals, the water pipes and rooms that are as complex as a maze are enough to make any outsider who has just entered it trapped to death. However, the wealth buried in the basement is so rich that it can completely offset Lin Xiang's strong and enthusiastic possession**.

Six tons of gold, more than thirty tons of purified silver, two sets of treatment equipment collected from the ruined hospital, eleven small fuel generators... The most surprising thing is that in the castle, the largest central storage room, there are two kilograms of iridium packaged in lead buckets, and a nuclear power reactor that has not yet been put into use, has good maintenance and can be disassembled and assembled at any time.

The capture of Sosbia allowed Lin Xiang to gain a large population. In addition to the citizens in major cities and settlements, there were also slaves distributed in various mines, major grain bases and forest resource areas, with a number of up to 320,000. These people had very complex identities—Prisons of war, bankrupt citizens, voluntarily became slaves, seeking to obtain the most basic supply of food and clothing, as well as mercenaries convicted of various crimes such as murder, rape, and theft, as well as mobs from the wilderness and purchased at low prices from slave hunters, together forming this huge labor combination. Like the situation in Bloodstone City, they could only get water and food that could only survive. Sosbia obtained the supplies they needed from underground slave gangs by controlling the amount of food supply. Regarding the current situation of these people, Lin Xiang entrusted Wang Biao and Gliffiz to handle it with full power.

Even slaves can squeeze out enough profits and value.

Lin Xiang could clearly feel Xiao’s anger and hatred towards the Luton family. Whether in the old era or the wasteland world, grudges, love and hatred are always topics in human society. He didn’t want to care too much, and he was even more unwilling to intervene. Since he did not capture Bergson, the only attraction of the Luton family to him was left, leaving only those wealth hidden underground, only members of the direct family knew the specific location and quantity.

In addition to the precious metals and various machinery obtained from the underground of Galgasone Castle, the most valuable one is that the picture on Lin Xiang's hand is covered with waterproof film, which is comparable to the military maps of the old era. Detailed symbols and lines indicate the survey maps of every corner and available location in the ruling area.

This is not a rough map that can be bought casually among cities, but an original exploration map that belongs to Sosbia without any disguise or intentional modification. Just like now, there is another drawing on the off-road vehicle seats, including at least fifty key locations and areas, all covered by red heavy radiation triangle signs representing extreme danger.

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Two armored vehicles that were in alert, with the help of the undulating terrain, blocked the road leading to the end of the mountain from the left and right. More than 20 soldiers in light gray combat suits were scattered between the rocks and gullies. Each of them was equipped with a large-caliber Barrett sniper rifle, and the warning range also expanded along the road to the parts that were inaccessible to the edge of the mountain. For the soldiers, these long-range focal aim weapons with a fearful appearance were actually optional. They were all in the indigenous people of Yinyue Town who had undergone the pure blood transformation of Lin Xiang and were incorporated into the direct guard. Among them, the worst strength was also a four-star parasite.

Claude is right———When the strength reaches a certain level, whether the nerve reaction speed or the strength of the body muscles will far exceed the damage caused by machinery or bullets. For them, the Barret sniper rifle is actually equivalent to an optional decoration or even a toy. But for ordinary people... it is a terrible weapon that is fatal.

This is just a tightly guarded inner guard circle. Within five kilometers of the old highway towards the west, the entire mountain range has been surrounded by two thousand fully armed Yinyue soldiers. In addition, the number of soldiers in several main directions is more than three to four hundred. Even the remaining armed forces in Sosbia cannot approach the mountains under such a tight alert state.

Dried branches and dense shrubs form a natural barrier, growing from the uneven surfaces of mounds on both sides of the road, concealing and blocking the old asphalt road with a width of more than five meters, covering nearly half of the area.

Lin Xiang slowly walked to the entrance of the tunnel connected to the highway, and was engraved on the rocks. The red paint on the surface had been spotted and lightened red five-pointed star marks, which still existed silently like when he came a few years ago. The smell of damp mold came from the depths of the tunnel, but there was less fearful blood. Instead, it was a stream of desolate and old that permeated the desolate mountains and fields, pressed by the dark radiation clouds, making people dull desolate and old.

Five guards with parasitic power surrounded Lin Xiang's side to form a small warning circle. The two people near the middle each carried a strong light illuminator that used a small battery as energy supply. The bright and white circular halo immediately shone a piece of light that tore through the darkness in the deep tunnel. The slightly convex and upright small stones and various obstacles on the ground formed a long and inclined black reflection under the light. As the footsteps sounded at the entrance of the tunnel became heavier, the two round white light sources that were as dazzling as the sun gradually expanded, and countless shadows were densely spread on the tunnel road surface, like invisible invisible magic hands, grabbed their bodies hard, and were dragged back and forth from a distance, cringing directly under the hard blocking object, leaving only a little faint black that changed direction as the light shines.

Lin Xiang picked up the oxygen mask hanging on his chest, pulled open the crossed black rubber straps hard, skillfully fastened the square cushion at the back of his head, and held the goggles that covered the entire head. From the filter in the shape of a pig's nose, a gas that was very uncomfortable but had to be inhaled to maintain the gas that was not suffocated due to lack of oxygen content.

The exhaust gas conversion device deep in the tunnel has long cut off the energy supply, and the inflowable air still maintains the same sticky and rotten mold as when I came last time. They contain suffocating toxic ingredients and do not carry small oxygen supply equipment and cannot penetrate the base at all.

On the ground, piles of black and erratic bulges were scattered. The shaking light shone through the surface, and you can clearly see broken ribs connected to the main spine, as well as bones of different shapes and sizes distributed around them. Hundreds of scavenging insects with similar shapes and sizes gathered beside them, like small sand dunes moving, surrounded by bone fragments that emit disgusting and rotten. They are obviously used to the dark living environment, and the strong light makes these small reptiles feel unprecedented danger immediately. They quickly drill into cracks in the corners of the wall, or hide in spaces under the bones that are enough to block their bodies, gently shake their slender and flexible tentacles, and carefully observe these powerful humans with vigilant eyes.

Lin Xiang squatted down and silently stared at the skeleton lying across the ground, tightly covered by an oval halo, barely remaining intact. The overall appearance of this thing is similar to that of humans, but the femurs of the legs below the pelvis are extremely thick, especially the small phalanx scattered nearby and dragged by insects everywhere, both in number and length, which are twice as many as normal humans.

“…they are those frog-shaped mutants.”

When I entered the tunnel with Locke and Quinnier a few years ago, all the mutant creatures in it were killed. Now the remains of the corpse inside the tunnel are the remains that have been preserved since that time.

The map captured by Galgassoni Castle clearly marked the coordinates of this base that had been buried for a long time. After being captured by the Luton family, Glifiz once explained some so-called "secrets" that seem important but actually do not have much value in use. This old-age base, which was marked three eye-catching red "?" on the map, is one of them.

After taking a deep breath of gas with a strong rubber smell, Lin Xiang put the small oxygen tank in his hand on his right shoulder, tightened the miniature strong light spotlight fixed to his chest with a belt, raised his feet, and strode towards the depths of the tunnel covered by endless darkness.

The white beam of light seemed to be the magical scepter of Moses who could break through the sea in the old legend, and tore out a road that was enough to pass through. Countless frightened little bugs quickly crawled through the cement passage and hid into the gaps between the walls and the edges of the road, causing a numbing sound of scalp but not much threatening.

Since the last exploration, a long time has passed in counting "years". However, the number of residents in this abandoned base has not increased at all. The corpses of the dead frog-shaped mutant humans have completely rotted and hard, and the edible parts have been scrambled by large animals. The worms and oysters that like to live in bones and rotten dark environments are the most common things here.

At the end of the tunnel, the thick polygonal metal doors were still as tightly closed as they did when they came last time, and dust and rust stains covered all corners of the door wall. Because the time has been going on too long, fine cracks that can be seen clearly by the naked eye on the arc walls on both sides of the steel doors have appeared. The range of cracks is very small and the diameter is limited to about five meters. In the old days, humans were mostly perfunctory in pursuit of benefits and profits. However, as far as base construction is concerned with such military purposes, the construction quality is obviously higher than that of ordinary civilian buildings.

The moment the fingertips of his right hand, wearing thick canvas gloves, came into contact with the steel door, and a hard and cold metal texture came from the surface of the skin with more than ten millimeters of protective layer. He tried hard to erase the dust and rust stains covering the steel door wall, and suddenly a piece of mottled stains that were corroded by acidic liquid, which was slightly dents and grooves.

Lin Xiang silently looked at a ten-centimeter square, slightly shallow arched polygonal protrusion on the right side of the door wall. There was a red five-pointed star with a vague and rust edge, but he could barely judge the rough outline. Like the mark hidden at the entrance of the tunnel, in the most conspicuous part of the center of the red star, the words "August 1" outlined with bright yellow paint and black lines are arranged up and down.

Pull out the multi-functional tool on the trouser leg belt, insert the tiny flat groove into the edge of the partition, and press down hard. With a light "bang", the square cover with a red five-pointed star mark immediately pops upwards and tilts outwards.

Removing the metal plate that had lost its concealment effect, Lin Xiang's eyes were fixed on the input keyboard that had just been /naked / exposed / came out, with ten Arabic numerals and all English letters, took off his heavy gloves, raised his slightly trembling fingertips, driven by countless psychological effects such as hesitation, anxiety, excitement and hesitation, he finally... slowly, but firmly pressed the first number that matched the password in his brain's memory.

Time can erase many of the pains that must be forgotten in human memory, but it will preserve those things that are worthy of eternal cherishment and will never disappear. Parents, lovers, friends... every face that constantly emerges from the depths of memory is constantly wandering between blur and clarity.

During the Chengdu defense war, General Xie Zhiping used his life to buy enough time for the fugitive refugees. The legacy he left to Lin Xiang was not just a veteran's understanding of the responsibility and tenaciousness of the military, but also a set of multiple combination passwords that senior officials in the old era could only use. Although the country destroyed in the war had countless problems such as the construction of important institutions and the configuration of passwords, it still maintained sufficient loyalty and follow-up.

Lin Xiang slowly pressed the cold metal keyboard, and the tiny squares in the flat trapezoidal shape repeated the monotonous process of settlement and bounce under the force. After a few minutes, the complete fifty-six-digit password had been entered. However, the thick and cold metal door in front of everyone was still motionless. Only a few small insects that were illuminated by the strong light were forced to hide in the gaps in the walls. While shaking their tentacles back and forth, they whispered in the narrow shadows, as if they were laughing at the fact that these humans, who were much larger than themselves, had no wisdom at all, and they actually wanted to break the eternal darkness and silence in the old base.

"As expected, this should be a "S"-level military base."

Lin Xiang's face was not visible at all, and the eyes released from his black jade-like clear eyes were filled with almost fanatical expectations and tension.

There are two sets of all-mechanical start-up passwords given to him by General Xie Zhiping. Since the input of the fifty-six-digit password is invalid, it means that if you want to open this metal gate, you must use a higher-level ninety-eight-digit password. Although it is cumbersome and long, the difference is obvious. Only those combat bases with highly confidential and large amounts of materials will set up difficult-to-decipher high-level encodings in key parts of the internal space.
Chapter completed!