Chapter 429 Abandoned Base
Underwater secret harbor for nuclear submarines. Lin Xianyuan had never expected that there was such a heavyweight military base under the Haiyan Prison.
"No wonder, if it's such a large military base, it's not surprising that people from the Holy City hide here and use it as a base." KIKI looked surprised.
"Since the Quds Organization had already prepared to snipe us, how come this place also fell?" Ning Jing frowned and asked, "Or has this stronghold been destroyed?"
"It's very likely." Lin Xian said in a deep voice, "But I just checked the situation of the zombies in the prison, and it seems that none of them are from the Holy City Organization. This means that they haven't been entrenched here for a long time, but have only appeared here recently."
KIKI nodded: "Something must have happened here, so this shelter fell, and the underground passage was also invaded by strange entities."
Brother Huo crossed his arms and said, "Then wouldn't it be a wasted trip for us?"
Lin Xian's eyes narrowed slightly: "At least I have a rough idea of how that group of people came and how they plan to leave."
"You mean, submarine?" Kiki asked.
Lin Xian looked at the drone that had been released to monitor the warehouse sinkhole, ensuring that the black worm monster hadn't emerged. He then said, "But the middle-aged man who used the forbidden object hasn't been found yet. Also, submarines travel in the deep sea, which logically should be more dangerous than on the surface. This doesn't make sense..."
KIKI's face was filled with worry. "I wonder how things are going with Sister Chen, and whether the Dark Mark has been removed. Otherwise, these strange entities attracted by the Holy City might devour our Infinity alive."
Lin Xian's expression darkened slightly when he heard that. His cross-sea communication drone was unable to contact Chen Sixuan, which made him a little uneasy. His original plan was to attack the Holy City's lair directly to prevent them from attacking the Infinity again after nightfall. In this situation where the giant beasts were besieging the city, a simple attractant would very likely put them in a desperate situation, so Lin Xian decided to let Chen Sixuan lead the team to move to another location to eliminate the mark, while he would lead people to chase after him. The guy who used the forbidden object to escape made Lin Xian uneasy.
Unexpectedly, before entering the underground nest, it was blocked by a strange invisible creature lurking in the passage with an explosive concentration of dark aura. Although the monster lurking in the passage was large in size, it was far smaller than those special-level or even A-level monsters. However, judging from the threat, Lin Xian felt that this thing might be close to the S-level dark invasion concentration, otherwise Abai would not have been affected so strongly.
"That thing is blocking the passage. We definitely can't get in, but..." Ning Jing said at this time: "Could the people below be gone too?"
"It's a good thing they're gone," Kiki said. "We're just worried about being attacked again after nightfall. As long as tonight's over, we'll leave this damn place. We're not interested in this base or anything like that."
Lin Xian was lost in thought. A fragment of Gu Zheng's consciousness flashed before his eyes again, causing a headache. At this moment, he heard the muffled drum-like sound and suddenly opened his eyes. He said in a deep voice:
"I was wondering what that sound was, and it turns out... it was inside a submarine!"
"Captain Lin?" Ning Jing looked at Lin Xian.
"In addition to the surface team, the Holy City also has a submarine force." Lin Xian frowned, his expression sharp. "Strange, the Falcon Sea Group doesn't dare to travel freely in dangerous waters, but they can, and they even dare to sneak in the deep sea..."
KIKI looked at Lin Xian and said, "Do you suspect they have a way to avoid the strange body?"
Lin Xian shook his head and looked at KIKI. His expression was serious. He said, "If the Holy City Organization really has exchanges with the Dark Civilization, and the Advent Cult is the Dark Civilization's opposition organization among humans, it makes sense that they would have such means."
"That's true. They've been treated as traitors. The dark civilization might give them some kind of pass..." said KIKI.
"A pass?"
"I just described it casually, but that's roughly what I meant. If the dark civilization treated them as friendly forces, would it really be possible to protect them from attacks by strange entities?" said KIKI.
Ning Jing frowned: "But in the afternoon, this group of people were obviously attacked."
"There's no point in discussing this," Lin Xian interrupted the two and said directly, "Now that we're here, we have to investigate this submarine base. It's better to take the initiative than to passively wait for these minions of the Advent Faction to attack us. Besides, we might be able to find something useful in a military base like this."
"For example, nuclear submarines?" Xiaoqing beside her responded quietly.
Lin Xian said, "Or perhaps some kind of forbidden object, a disaster plant."
"But...how do we get in?" Ning Jing asked.
"There are many ways to get in." KIKI quickly operated on the mobile terminal and soon figured out the general layout of the base.
"This submarine port has no outer harbor, indicating it's a highly secretive inner harbor. In other words, it's built inside the mountain on the outlying island. You see, the mountain's topography is very unique, with a large underground cavity and a deep-water cliff. It's an ideal and secret inner harbor base. No wonder it was built here. If submarines were to resupply and conduct maintenance here, satellites wouldn't be able to detect them at all..."
Kiki pointed to a valley on the offline map and said, "There's a secret passage here, like a mine tunnel, but it's sealed off. It's actually the real entrance. The Haihong passage beneath the prison is the backup entrance, located beneath Prison Building 1. The hole beneath this warehouse must have been accidentally blown open. Besides these two routes, the only other way in is the submarine's deepwater floating harbor passage."
"Forget about the deep-water floating port. Let's find a way through these two shore channels." Lin Xian said.
"There is a monster in the passage over here. Can we only try to enter from the entrance of the mountain over there?" Ning Jing said.
Lin Xian and KIKI analyzed the blueprint and found that the building level of the entrance was very high. However, this secret submarine port should be some years old. Since the establishment of the federal government, the secret armed forces of major regional powers began to be centralized with Dragon Country as the leader, and the Interstellar Army was born in this context.
"The tsunami discharge channel and the submarine base are a whole, which are used to divert high tides and deal with extreme situations. If the channel is infiltrated by strange entities, it means that the inside of the base is not safe either." Lin Xian frowned. He has always been against taking actions in the dark, because once marked, even if it is only a level one mark, it is extremely dangerous. But now they are surrounded by an island, and the Giant Ocean God is likely lurking in the nearby sea or airspace. In this case, knowing that he is being targeted by the Advent Sect, how can he sit and wait for death?
What's more, Ryan from the Falcon Sea Group also mentioned a taboo that might affect the Garland underwater volcano. Now it seems that it is very likely related to the middle-aged man who ran away. Lin Xian feels that this hidden danger must be clarified.
"Don't worry. It's inconvenient to move around in the dark. This island may not be big, but it's definitely not a safe place. The trouble is that Viola isn't here. But I'll use a robot to explore there first and scan the soul-draining values at the waypoints. That's a safer bet."
KIKI nodded: "That's right."
Lin Xian raised his hand and the Black Star Forge flickered. At this time, Lin Xian took out an ACT mecha that was the same as Qianxu Xun. This mecha was used by Lin Xian to experiment with the neural interaction system to adapt it to super-large mechas. For this purpose, some remote improvements were also made. It can do many things that flying drones cannot do. There was no other way at this time, so Lin Xian took out this thing to replace Viola for remote exploration.
Lin Xian handed the operation task to KIKI. The girl immediately took over and began to design the path points. Soon, on the prison tower in the dark night, a sensitive humanoid mecha fell from the high building accompanied by several reconnaissance drones, and then rushed into the woods at a very fast speed. The sudden movement immediately startled the attention of many zombies in the woods who had escaped from the prison before. For a while, howling sounds were everywhere, gathering in the dark night.
At the same time, Lin Xian began to use drones to rebuild the information link towards the main island. Although the sea waves were turbulent at this time, those drones guided at low altitude were very likely to be destroyed by surges or strange bodies, but he could not care less now. The drones could be rebuilt if they were lost, and those strange bodies could not lock his position through the drones. Now his most urgent task was to try to contact Infinity to ensure that the base camp was safe.
The prison tower was dark and silent. The team members communicated through the power armor light screen. Only the energy lines outside the armor emitted a faint fluorescence. The surroundings were dead silent, but in the dark night, everyone was very experienced. Those shadows in the open areas were extremely dangerous. Even if they were just C-level or D-level monsters, they would be quite troublesome in the dark night.
In KIKI's operating screen, she has fully connected to the control of the ACT mecha, and is sneaking all the way at high speed, following a winding mountain road to the northwest foot of the island. In the screen, a seemingly abandoned military outpost appears in the night vision goggles, and then the ACT mecha goes straight through a fence and comes to a huge mountain gate that looks like an air-raid shelter.
This is a huge explosion-proof door. KIKI walked forward and opened the door lock terminal cover on the small door on the side. An aging access panel appeared in sight.
"It seems like it hasn't been used for a long time..."
KIKI muttered as he operated the ACT robot to connect to the terminal and began to power on and unlock the door. The sound of the emergency circuit breaker came from behind the rusty door. "The door is open." KIKI's voice sounded in the communication channel with a hint of tense excitement.
The ACT robot stood in front of a huge explosion-proof door. The emergency circuit on the side of the door had just been activated, emitting a low hum. The rusty metal hinges slowly turned, and the side door opened with a harsh friction sound, revealing a deep passage.
Immediately, the side door slowly opened, and a huge space came into view.
"There's a lot of junk piled up in here. No one's touched it for at least decades. The outer door shows signs of forced destruction. It must have been done by some survivors, but they couldn't open the blast-proof door..."
Lin Xian stood in the shadow of the prison tower, staring at the real-time images sent back by the ACT robot controlled by KIKI through the light screen of the power armor. The robot's night vision system transformed everything in the darkness into cold gray-green images, as if the whole world was covered by a layer of dead silence filter.
"Air composition test—low oxygen, high humidity, trace amounts of hydrogen sulfide." Kiki quickly reported the data: "This place has been sealed for too long. There may be accumulated water or corrosive gases inside."
Lin Xian looked at the synchronized footage and said in a deep voice, "Strange! Could it be that I guessed wrong? There's no sign of anyone passing through this main channel. Could it be that those guys really took the flood discharge channel?"
The ACT robot stepped in, its metal soles rustling softly on the dusty floor. The emergency lights on either side of the passage had long since been disabled, leaving only the robot's own searchlight to illuminate the path ahead. As the beam swept across, dust particles slowly drifted through the air, like some invisible ghost wandering in the darkness.
"Garage area." KIKI whispered.
In the robot's field of vision, rows of military trucks and armored vehicles were parked neatly, but their tires had long been deflated and their bodies were covered with thick dust. The doors of several vehicles were half open, as if someone had left in a hurry and never came back.
"These cars have been parked for at least a few decades." Kiki's voice was a little tense, "Even the paint has oxidized and peeled off."
Lin Xian did not respond, but just stared at the screen. The robot's camera slowly swept across a military jeep. A faded military uniform was hanging on the driver's seat, and a blurry number could be vaguely seen on the cuffs.
"Supply warehouse." The robot continued to move forward and passed through a heavy blast-proof door.
The place was filled with wooden boxes and metal shelves, but most of the supplies had rotted and spoiled. The food packaging bags were shriveled and moldy, and the cans were so rusted that the original labels could not be seen. In the corner, several barrels of fuel were leaking, and the black oil stains condensed into sticky traces on the ground.
"There is also a hangar here." KIKI switched the robot's perspective.
The hangar space is more open than the garage, but it is also dead silent. Several hypersonic fighter jets are quietly parked on the parking spaces, the paint on the wings has long been peeled off, revealing the rusty metal skeleton. Beyond the hangar, there is a half-floor equipment warehouse, where a large number of weapons are placed, including rifles, pistols, and ammunition boxes. But again, except for the weapons placed in special containment devices that seem to be still usable, most of them have lost their original deterrent power. The metal parts of the guns are severely rusted, and the bullets in the magazines have even been oxidized and deformed.
"It looks like... just an ordinary military base that's been abandoned for years. Even if there's something there, it's rotten and unusable."
"Didn't those survivors who were hiding in the prison come here to search? If there were no military guards, they should have found a way to get in here." Ning Jing raised the question at this time.
KIKI controlled the ACT robot and several drones to quickly scan the environment. At this time, Lin Xian suddenly spoke
"Stop."
"What's wrong?"
"At 2 o'clock, the viewing angle is raised."
He asked KIKI to adjust the perspective. At this time, the picture was facing upwards, and a sign suddenly appeared on the wall of a huge passage. Although it had faded, Lin Xian and others still recognized it at a glance.
Nuclear radiation sign!
At the deepest part of the base, a huge lead door appeared in the night vision.
At the same time, the Geiger meter readings of the ACT robot began to rise continuously, exceeding the level that is absolutely dangerous for the human body!
"Now we know why..."
The night was as dark as ink, covering the entire outlying island.
Lin Xian, along with Kiki Shizhi and Ning Jing's team, had already arrived at the long-abandoned military base. Looking at the numbers on the Geiger monitor, Lin Xian said solemnly, "Coming here without full-body power armor is simply suicide. However, this radiation concentration doesn't look like a large-scale nuclear leak."
"Strange, is there still nuclear fuel here?" KIKI said as the group followed the path explored by the robot and came to the closed gate inside the military base.
Lin Xian looked at the mechanical door in front of him, raised his hand and waved it, and the mechanical heart quickly took control of the dusty door of the folding fan. With the sound of the machine opening, the door slowly opened.
The people behind him retreated into formation with alert expressions. The moment the door opened, a surge of air suddenly blew out from inside, and dust rose up for a moment. As the door opened, a scene that was completely different from the outside appeared in front of everyone.
Behind the door was an area enclosed by steel doors and barbed wire. There were also track lines on the ground. Lin Xian swallowed it up casually and found that it was a small passage. The ground here was spotless and the passage was lit, which obviously showed that there were people moving around here.
"Be careful, this might be the base of those guys."
Lin Xian raised his hand to let the team get ready, and then let the drone take the lead. The group carefully explored in. But as soon as they came out of the passage, the scene in front of them shocked everyone.
Walking out of the passage, a huge four-arm mechanical device appeared outside, standing in a deep pit with a diameter of more than 300 meters. Four ventilation ducts went straight down, looking very majestic!
"What...is this?" KIKI asked in surprise.
Lin Xian shook his head and walked down the stairs. When they reached the lower level, an even more shocking scene appeared before their eyes. The huge mechanical column went straight to hundreds of meters underground, all the way down to a red lava pool at the bottom. The lava pool was divided into multiple regular areas, and a huge changing device above it covered it like a lid. As soon as they entered here, Lin Xian and others found that the temperature of the power armor was constantly rising, and heat waves were rising!
"It looks like some kind of geothermal device, but... why is the radiation so high?" KIKI said at this time.
Lin Xian shook his head. The scene before him was beyond his expectations. There was no nuclear fuel leak here, but the huge device before him was definitely not just a "stronghold".
"This thing doesn't look like a military facility..."
(End of this chapter)
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