Chapter 161 The Secret of the Underground Shopping Mall
After the door was completely locked, Su Wanqing stood there for a while, allowing everyone to take a short break.
The copper-colored light streamed down from the backup lamps, making everyone's faces look yellow.
No one took off their backpacks. They were still carrying their belongings, but there was some ease in their movements.
Lu Zhao first took down the portable host and walked towards the sub-control room on the east side.
He always kept the hard drive close to his body, fearing that anything might happen to it.
He found the spare server in the corner, checked the sockets row by row, unplugged the original data cable, and replugged his own data cable.
He said softly, "Restore the communication first. Once the server is powered on, we can restore some of the original data."
The only sound in the room was the low rotation of the computer fan. Lin Che took the medical kit, put it in a simple arrangement, and placed the basic medicines on the temporary medical table in the main hall.
There was still a note on the folding table written by the last person who stayed there. The edges of the paper were curled up and the contents were blurred.
Xiao Ran handed the remaining signal sticks to Lin Che, who kept them for himself, and walked to the gate with his gun.
He muttered, "It has electronic controls, airlocks, and physical locks. The innermost iron door is double-layered. It took a lot of work." He opened his backpack and checked the ammunition. Then his shoulders sank. "I'll go out and check all the guard points."
Su Wanqing didn't look back, but whispered: "Check all the quick routes and backup channels, we are ready to withdraw at any time."
Xiao Ran took two steps out of the main hall, with the butt of his gun lowered and his breathing became steady.
The underground shopping mall had a wide passageway, and someone had actually drawn faint marks on the floor. He observed along the wall while memorizing the location of each exit.
When he walked to the east and west ventilation shafts, he noticed a new track embedded in the wall, leading to a small emergency passage not far away.
He approached the stone wall, took out his knife, and knocked on the rail with the back of the knife, feeling the shock was solid.
The door lock at the back was new. He squatted down and touched it. There was no rust on the iron door, indicating that someone had maintained it recently.
Xiao Ran's mouth curled up unconsciously, "There are three emergency passages leading to the outside world here, which really makes people worry-free."
He marked each exit with red patrol signs and returned to the main hall.
On the other side, Lu Zhao entered the final command, and the backup server made a slight clicking sound.
Cool air came out slowly, and the screen ran line after line of code during self-test.
Lu Zhao held the USB drive and recovered the data skillfully. He held his breath for a few seconds, then inserted the mobile hard drive into the mother machine and typed a series of recovery commands.
The external power was relatively stable, so he simply took out the blood sample processing box, took out the girl's blood sample, and put on gloves.
On the table was a microcentrifuge and a bottle of preservation solution.
Lin Che walked over to him and leaned over to say, "Do you want to speed up the analysis? The set of plans you kept won't be missing, right?"
Lu Zhao's expression was indifferent: "It's all here. There is a backup tutorial. I will first test the active reaction between the pendant and the sample. If the power is not cut off, the first set of data can be obtained tonight."
Lin Che nodded, said nothing more, and turned back to pack up the medical equipment.
At this time, the girl with a childish voice didn't say anything. After looking around for a few times, she walked straight to a side room deep in the passage.
The door was not completely closed, so she raised her hand and pushed it, and it slowly opened. There was a single bed inside, with a dust-free mattress, and an old cloth box under the foot of the bed, with a few colorful children's books on it.
There is a small bookshelf at the innermost wall of the room, with some picture books and painting books on the bottom layer of the bookshelf.
The bed fit perfectly against the ground and was the right size for the little girl's height.
She reached out and touched the head of the bed, took off her backpack without hesitation, tried the softness of the bed, then blinked, looked around, and sat down on it.
Su Wanqing's expression showed a hint of doubt. She followed the girl's footsteps, raised her hand to hold the door frame, and asked in a low voice: "Do you know this place?"
The girl with a childish voice didn't look up, but whispered, "I had a dream when I was a child. I dreamed that there was a bed and books inside. But I can't remember it all."
Su Wanqing didn't say anything after hearing this, but leaned against the door and checked the room. She bent over and walked to the small bookshelf, took out a few old books on it and looked through them carefully.
Two of the books have common children's stories on the cover, and the other three are hardcover notebooks.
She opened one at random and found that it was completely blank. On the title page, there was a line of words written in light blue ink: "A little note for me."
There were no traces of erasures or page damage in the book, as if someone had made the record specifically for the child.
Su Wanqing stroked the cover with her fingertips and frowned instinctively. She handed the book to the girl with a childish voice and asked, "Have you seen this?"
The girl looked at it for a while, hugged the book, and didn't answer. She slowly put the book under the pillow, then curled up at the head of the bed.
She didn't say anything more, just looked out the door with a calm look.
In the lobby, Lin Che stuffed his gloves into the medicine box and lowered his voice, "This place is very well prepared. The functions are divided so finely, and there is a complete set of defense and medical distribution. There is also an independent generator."
Su Wanqing nodded and unfolded the map again and spread it on the dining table. "The backup power supply is in the compartment under the service well at the western end, and the main oil and electricity are still arranged according to the original air defense project.
I brought the circuit diagram." She turned to Lu Zhao and said, "Don't connect all the main equipment to one line. Give priority to breaking through the medical team and the database."
Lu Zhao plugged the mobile power socket and ignored other instructions, doing the calculations on the operating table himself.
After the terminal stabilized, Lu Zhao carried the luggage while adjusting the blood samples. "The blood sample processing and pendant testing are all under my jurisdiction. Don't touch them."
He drew a small tube of blood from the girl with a childish voice and put it into the centrifuge with quick movements.
Then he took out the pendant from his pocket and connected it to the micro scanner. He integrated the analysis results with the previous data and wrote down the key points at the bottom left of the screen.
Lin Che returned to the medical station to check the medicines. While checking the anti-inflammatory drugs and basic bandage supplies, he asked casually, "How many sets of samples do you plan to use for comparison?"
Lu Zhao didn't look back. "Three groups, but the most important thing is the connection between the abnormal frequency and the pendant signal. I have a separate code to track the transmission point."
Lin Che muttered, “Don’t be too late. Everyone has limited energy. Keep some spare energy.”
At this time, Xiao Ran pushed the door open, shook off the dust on his hands, and kicked a wooden wedge into the door.
"There are three exits outside, and there's an emergency wall escape shaft over there on the airlock - convenient for running. There are no danger signs outside, at least no one has come to move in the past few hours."
Su Wanqing handed him a map and pointed to two red dots: "These two places are the deepest, and the ammunition is stored halfway. You can evacuate people first and leave some signal interference."
Xiao Ran nodded and divided the ammunition into two. "I have also set up an alarm on the defense line over there. If there is any disturbance, a signal can be sent over."
He turned and walked to a corner of the hall, picked up a heavily worn steel plate, and took a quick look at it.
On the west wall of the main hall, below the word "Good Night", there was a newly carved line of small characters.
The ink stuck to the seam of the iron sheet and burned into it bit by bit: "The last refuge prepared for you, my angel."
Xiao Ran rubbed it with his sleeve, but didn't dare to touch it any further. He turned around and whispered, "Have you read that line of small words? It's written very carefully."
Lu Zhao poked his head out from the data desk, glanced at the words, said nothing, then lowered his head to record the buffer data.
Lin Che stood beside the table, staring at the wall in silence, without making any noticeable movement.
He pulled out a piece of medical cloth from the medicine box, folded it mechanically, and put it back in the drawer.
Su Wanqing walked over and stared at the line of small words for a while without any reaction.
She put her hand on the closet door, "No need to clean, just divide up the work first. Organize the medical and technical staff in the main area, and patrol the passages in rotation according to the plan."
Lu Zhao took a pot of cold water and poured himself a glass, then rested his chin on his hand and looked at the device detection interface.
The saved data was filled in one by one, the data of the blood samples was refreshed, and the pendant response was scrolling synchronously.
He ignored the silence in the room, switching the sample to the next test tube and continuously writing down the results.
The girl with a childish voice was lying on the bedside beside the pile of books, holding a blank notebook. She touched each blank page with her fingertips, tapping the edge of the title page with a pencil from time to time.
She asked outside the house: "Who lived here before?"
Su Wanqing didn't answer directly, but said: "Someone should have made special preparations for the child."
Lu Zhao's testing progress was more than halfway through, and the energy level curve in the data analysis began to decline.
He looked up and said, "The equipment is running stably, and the pendant and blood samples are all within controllable range. Most of the data will be available by tomorrow morning."
Lin Che hung the last bag of energy supplements on the hook on the side door of the small counter, then reached under the table leg and pulled out a spare signal antenna, which he casually plugged into the back of the device.
"Two more patrol teams will form the safety line."
Xiao Ran put down his backpack behind the iron gate, took out his gloves, and sat sideways on the folding chair near the door.
"Nothing unusual. I'll be able to get a few hours of sleep tonight."
No one said anything more. The only sounds in the hall were the hum of equipment and occasional footsteps.
Su Wanqing leaned against the edge of the table, closed the blank notebook in her hand, and put it into her backpack.
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