Pressing down the excitement and excitement deep in his heart, Lin Xiang re-entered the cumbersome ninety-eight "s"-level password. When his finger pressed the last number "0" heavily, his fingertips slowly retracted from the surface of the metal square, and the closed steel door suddenly buzzed a low buzzing sound. The deep cave was filled with a dull and depressing mechanical roar. As the aged dust and rust accumulated on the surface of the door wall continued to collapse, the thick steel gate began to separate to both sides, slowly sinking into the interior of the mountain, revealing a narrow passage with a width of more than ten meters and completely paved with cement.

The steel door retracted inside the mountain has a thickness of more than two meters, but this cannot be the core of attracting Lin Xiang's attention. The moment the steel door opened, he had seen dozens of automatic control weapon terminals hanging high above the zenith on the inside of the passage, and distributed successively. Although the light was dim, it could barely identify the dual-mounted machine guns with a thick exit diameter, as well as high-intensity lasers that have lethality to armor and heavy vehicles. They were densely distributed on both sides of the tunnel and the top of the cave, forming a fire-capped network without any dead corners.

Standing silently at the entrance of the open tunnel, Lin Xiang had no idea of ​​dodging. He was like a statue that instantly petrified. Except for the heart that kept jumping in his chest, all the cells in his body fell asleep at this moment.

The Nine Star Parasite has powerful strength that ordinary people can't imagine. Especially the speed of bursting in the best state has completely exceeded the limit of human observation with naked eyes, and can only leave a glimmer or afterimage on the retina. However, this movement method exceeds the sound, and must be calculated by Mach, and it cannot be compared with the light of 300,000 kilometers per second. Even if it can avoid the powerful joint machine cannon on the weapon platform, Lin Xiang will be instantly torn apart by the terrible laser.

Like the deep and dark tunnel, all weapon platforms are as cold and dead as stone tablets in the cemetery. There is no infrared ray device used to detect strange entry bodies, nor is there a series of video light films that trigger the weapon terminals. Only countless thick and round metal pipe openings are firmly aimed at the entrance of the tunnel, but they can never enter the shooting state, releasing a terrifying death energy.

They have long lost the necessary energy supply - without electricity, no matter how powerful the weapons are, they are equivalent to scrap iron.

“…Let’s go”

Lin Xiang looked at the dense weapon platform that stretched into the depths of the tunnel, sighed softly, shook his head, raised his right foot, stepped on the partition rising from the bottom of the metal steel gate, and slowly and heavily walked into the passage like the belly of a giant beast.

This is a very large base.

The bent and twisted tunnels are well connected. In the circular residence halls that serve as the linking ports of the area, you can see from time to time the "Sixth Living Area", "Arsenal No. 18", "G-type Food Production Workshop", and even "Carriage Manufacturing Factory" are embedded on the walls, with eye-catching yellow and black arrows as metal nameplates. The walls in the center of each residence hall are equipped with electronic maps made of polymerized waterproof resin and special alloys. Although there is no energy supply and it is impossible to see the tiny words marked on the image in a dark environment, under the illumination of the strong white light, you can also see the lines connected to the residence hall, dragging slender lines, and red printed fonts are used as the indicated rooms and areas.

Lin Xiang lowered his head and glanced at the reading of the oxygen meter hanging on his left waist. This base has been forgotten by humans for nearly a hundred years. The passage is filled with turbid gas. For ordinary people, it is definitely a fatal environment. Without enough oxygen supply, it cannot penetrate into its interior.

Now, they only entered the level closest to the surface of the base, and according to the marks noted on the picture, there were more than twenty layers of empty and huge spaces in the gloomy and dark ground.

"No traces of the existence of mutated creatures were found, no shooting, no fighting, and nothing like corpses——"

A parasitic guard who stood beside him and had been using an infrared night vision device to carefully observe the surrounding environment came up and said seriously.

Lin Xiang nodded silently. This should belong to the central area of ​​the entire base at its core, and the defense measures are far from comparable to the annexed areas surveyed a few years ago. In other words, the base controllers may have decisively closed the main imports and exports to the central area while discovering the abnormal situation, and sealed all valuable materials together with themselves in the dark and deep underground.

"The central control room must be found in order for the entire base to resume operation----"

......

Canned oxygen can only maintain normal use for up to three hours. However, from entering the tunnel until now, Lin Xiang's counting time on his wrist has exceeded five hours, while the oxygen usage on his belt is still three-quarters.

The physical characteristics of parasites are completely different from those of ordinary people. They can control blood flow speed and muscle movement ability, and maintain physical energy consumption at an extremely low level near pause by slow movement or reducing the frequency of heartbeat. In this way, they can move for a long time in an oxygen-deficient environment.

The huge circular halo shines on the hard wall opposite the passageway, showing a "twenty-five" number covered by a thick circle of two meters in diameter, reflecting a striking red fluorescence.

This is the bottom floor of the base. According to Lin Xiang's understanding of military buildings in the old era and his experience as a commander of a special combat force, he instinctively chose the deepest part of the base as the main search area.

The map on the wall of the stay room is still huge, with hundreds of rectangular grids densely packing the entire picture. Unlike the previous layers, most of the annotations in this layer are mainly research and military facilities. As an indispensable personnel lounge, there are only three distributed on the east and north sides.

Through the passage made of huge metal partitions, according to the direction marked on the map, Lin Xiang and others walked quickly towards the oval space in the center of the level without any words. - He subconsciously felt that there should be the central control room he was looking for.

The corridor in the dark is dark and deep, as if it is a bridge of death connecting the world and hell. The powerful incandescent halo can barely illuminate the road surface about a hundred meters, just like an invisible monster that is invisible to the naked eye, devouring this rare light from the human world.

Lin Xiang turned around and faced the cold and hard walls. According to the location marked on the map, this should belong to the East Second Rest Area and is also the closest straight connection point to the central control mobile phone viewing room.

Close your eyes slightly, and a grid-shaped three-dimensional image of the building space immediately appeared in your mind. The dispersed thinking consciousness quickly passed through solid obstacles that the body could not overcome. With Lin Xiang's body as the core, it formed a circle with a radius of more than 200 meters towards all directions. Every object contacted by the energy wave will be fed back into a complete shape in the consciousness space. Just north of the person's spacious lounge behind the wall, a metal gate that also needs to be opened with password input, firmly blocked the road to the elliptical central control room.

Lin Xiang's muscles suddenly tightened. He took a step back, clenched his right hand into a fist, and retracted naturally and smoothly, swept out suddenly with violent force enough to destroy everything. An invisible shock wave suddenly spread. The fist point in the center of the wall instantly sunk, and dense cracks quickly spread around with this center. In a moment, a group of circular cracks with a diameter of more than two meters appeared on the entire wall. When Lin Xiang slowly retracted his right fist and returned to a calm and silent state, the wall, whose internal structure had been completely destroyed, completely lost its last support, collapsed and scattered into countless messy bricks, rubble and metal fragments.

There is no energy supply in the entire base, and even if it is damaged to a more serious extent, the alert system will not react at all.

Shaking the sand and stones falling on the clothes, Lin Xiang stepped through the corridor covered by dust and floating soil, lowered his head, and bent down under the shaking lights, he bent down and entered the room covered by darkness.

Dozens of beds are neatly arranged along both sides of the wall.

He reached out and twisted the small spotlight on his shoulders, adjusting the light to the best angle that his eyes could observe, and Lin Xiang slowly walked to the edge of the bed closest to him.

This is the most common single alloy bed in the army and research institutes. The light concave design can make people feel comfortable enough, and the light gray alloy material is light and easy to carry. The shaking quilt covers two-thirds of the area of ​​the bed, and just on the upper part of the iron bed, a long-standing hardened body lies in a crooked manner.

The entire head muscles completely atrophy, and the wrinkled skin was squeezed tightly, forming layers of corrugated bulges in the eye sockets and lips. The soft tissue that completely lost moisture contracted into a fixed shape, revealing two rows of dark yellow teeth. His mouth slightly opened, and the dark brown scalp surface still had fine and fragile hairs. His eyes were closed tightly, although they looked terrifying and gloomy, but they always felt like they were still alive and just sleeping temporarily.

Pulling open the quilt covering the mummy body, Lin Xiang's eyes immediately gathered on the left chest of the corpse's gray-white uniform—under the plastic film bag covered with countless mold spots and dark dust on the surface, and a personal identification card that could barely be seen as representing the identity of the deceased.

"Chen Baoguo, forty-six years old, second-level staff member, administrative rank - Lieutenant Colonel."

The card was very light. When he was pinched in his hand, Lin Xiang suddenly felt a long-lost sense of familiarity. He silently recited the text on the identity card, occasionally raised his eyelids, and compared the smiling middle-aged man in the photo with the cold and hard mummy lying on the bed. Although there was no similarity between the two at all, he still wanted to find a little part that could overlap with each other.

The body was very complete, and the expression on the deceased's face was very peaceful. It can be seen that he died easily and without any pain, as if he had left the world forever in his sleep.

Gently putting down the magnetic card in his hand, Lin Xiang turned around, and his keen eyes quickly swept across the other beds in the room. He was surprised to find that on each bed were the same cold and shrunk mummies, as if this was a huge artificial cemetery, and the neatly arranged beds were the coffins that accommodated the remaining bodies of all the dead.

The air should be filled with disgusting odor, or something else... But the nostrils on the head are tightly covered, and only a strong and pungent smell of rubber can be smelled.

For some reason, Lin Xiang only felt an indescribable heaviness in his heart. He wanted to shout, to pull off the oxygen mask, and breathe freely. However, reason told him that in this closed environment where air has not flowed in nearly a hundred years, breathing directly is equivalent to suicide.

Forcefully suppressing the dull urge to vent his heart, Lin Xiang squeezed his sweaty hand hard, strode through the room, approached the steel gate that sealed the opposite wall, stretched out his wet fingers, and ticked back and forth on the cold metal keyboard.

There is no imagined difficult and awkward sound of gear friction. Driven by mechanical trigger force, the thick all-steel protective doors are diverted to both sides, which is more than three meters wide. This shows that the control system inside the base should be kept intact and the oxidation and friction loss of parts is not high. For those who urgently need to get the materials stored therein, there is nothing better than this.

The oval room is very spacious. Where the lights shine through, you can clearly see that more than 90% of the area surrounding the wall is occupied by screens that tilt vertically or downwardly. Around the room are large instruments that seem to be used for control, just on the shelf near the side of the door wall, and leaning against dozens of m5g43 assault rifles stuck in steel troughs.

The floor and walls in the room are made of high-strength alloy, and the outside is covered with a layer of composite material as a pad. They are very strong and can withstand a considerable impact. Even the steel gate entering the control room has an astonishing thickness of hundreds of centimeters.

The shaking light shone back and forth in the room, carefully observing every object that the naked eye could see. A few minutes later, the strong light illuminators in everyone's hands gathered on a high-backed chair surrounded by many instruments in the center of the room.

The chair was facing Lin Xiang, and from his perspective, he could not see what was on the seat. Four guards with parasitic strength were arranged around the chair. Although the faces opposite Lin Xiang were blocked by an oxygen mask, they could see the doubts, fears, feelings and indifference that emerged from their eyes through the polyester wall.

Walking forward, reaching out to hold the back of the chair, and slowly rotating... A mummy curled in the depression of the chair also entered Lin Xiang's sight.

He wore an olive green wool uniform unique to the old Chinese/soldiers, and his dry body leaned against the armrest of the chair. Through the open collar, he could see a dark gray combat suit made of composite materials. The close-fitting uniform and atrophic muscles were hollowed out, and the shriveled and ugly head was covered with a wide-brimmed military cap with obvious water stains and corrosion.

Lin Xiang's eyes subconsciously avoided the dry and gray-brown corpse and looked at the military rank badge representing the identity class on the shoulders of the deceased.

On the gray-green epaulette, a five-pointed star surrounded by semicircular spike leaves was embroidered with golden silk thread. According to the old military system, the deceased should have been a major general.

Lin Xiang walked around the chair and approached the desk made of alloy next to him. On the table facing the deceased, there was a note book with a black soft leather cover. Next to it, there was a blue-gray fountain pen.

Looking silently at the notepad on the desktop, Lin Xiang's eyes were faintly gloomy——The entire control room was very neat, with no signs of fighting or chaos at all. Even the dead in the bed in the rest room outside looked peaceful. These people who had been underground for nearly a century seemed to feel the cruelty of the wasteland world at all, but quietly entered a permanent sleep in a very enviable way.

People who are dying usually have some real words that will be preserved.

Lin Xiang picked up the note book and opened the already hardened black cover. The slightly yellowed surface of the paper page, familiar square-shaped handwritten words, suddenly came into view.

This is a diary.

“On January 1, 2016, the weather was unobservable.”

"Three days have passed since the nuclear explosion, and the entire base has entered an automatic closed state. We have lost all contact with the outside world, no information, no radio signal, everything comes so suddenly, we have no defense at all. After the inventory, there were 167 survivors inside the base, most of whom were research and equipment maintenance personnel. There has been no signal from the annex to the east of the base, and it may have been completely captured by mutants. The war and chaos were completely unexpected. We cannot save them, nor can we save ourselves, and there is no way to save anyone..."

“On April 17, 2016, the weather was unobservable.”

"The initial chaos has gradually calmed down, and food and water are very sufficient. Using geothermal energy for energy conversion can provide enough electricity to the entire base. According to the calculations of chief engineer Shen Mingchong, the various materials stored in the base are enough for us to use for a long time. Unfortunately... human life span is limited after all."

“On November 9, 2016, the weather was unobservable.”
Chapter completed!