Chapter 123: First Encounter with the Resistance
Hearing Hong Chengdong's words, Chen Fan raised his head again and looked at the concrete dome above.
After a careful inspection, he frowned immediately.
Just as Hong Chengdong said.
Behind the seemingly bright and beautiful appearance, there are actually a lot of pipelines that have been damaged due to lack of maintenance and care.
Not only pipelines, Chen Fan even saw that many high-power fluorescent lamps have become dim.
It is reasonable that the fusion reactor cannot be maintained. After all, hundreds of years have passed, and the knowledge of these prosperous times may have been forgotten, but how can such a simple operation as replacing pipelines and light bulbs...
Perhaps seeing the confusion in Chen Fan's heart, Hong Chengdong began to explain: "I heard that before the construction of the underground city, many senior engineers died in the intelligent machine crisis."
"Of course, this is just a rumor I heard. No one knows the specific situation."
"After the construction of the underground city, the elites who survived by chance died and were injured because of the problems of the mechanical sect."
"This has been passed down from generation to generation. Now almost no one can understand the equipment in this underground city."
Chen Fan nodded thoughtfully.
Thinking of the diary left by the rebels hundreds of years ago, Chen Fan had some enlightenment in his heart.
Perhaps, this is the purpose of the intelligent machine.
On the one hand, it constantly suppresses the living space of human beings, while targeting the intellectuals of human beings and completing the technological blockade of human beings.
On the other hand, it builds a large number of cities like Varela to "feed" human beings on a large scale.
With the superposition of the two, in just a few hundred years, human beings have completely become the fuel for the "goddess" to achieve self-evolution!
...
Following Hong Chengdong, Chen Fan and the other two bypassed several huge load-bearing columns with a diameter of more than three meters and entered the outer area of the underground city-strictly speaking, the area where they just got off the mine car is actually the outer area of the underground city, but almost no one lives in that area.
Like Varela City, the ground of the underground city is also paved with cement.
After hundreds of years, although there is no erosion of wind, frost, rain and snow in the underground city, under the daily trampling of generations of residents, a large number of potholes and cracks have appeared on the cement paved road.
There are not many pedestrians on the road, and most of them are wearing the same coarse linen clothes as Hong Chengdong and others.
In comparison, the coarse linen clothes of Hong Chengdong and his group were relatively intact - the clothes on these pedestrians, if not ragged, at least had a lot of traces of mending.
In such an environment, Chen Fan and his two companions, wearing exquisite clothes, naturally became eye-catching outliers.
Every salvager cast a curious look at Chen Fan and his group.
"At this point, almost all salvagers have gone to work on the ground, so they seem to be very free."
"If it weren't for our good luck today, I guess we would still be working on the ground now."
Hong Chengdong explained to Chen Fan softly: "The law enforcement team will not come to the outer area of the underground city at this time. After all, there is nothing to get at this time."
Thinking of the forks he saw in the passage, Chen Fan nodded silently.
On the side, Hong Chengdong nodded with a smile on his face to several salvagers who cast surprised eyes at him.
"Hey, Brother Dong, what are you doing today..."
A passing salvor smiled mischievously at Hong Chengdong: "Did you catch a big fish?"
"Go away!" Hong Chengdong waved his hand unhappily, "I have never done such a despicable thing."
"Also, be more respectful in your attitude. Can't you see that this is a big shot in the inner city!"
"If you keep talking nonsense, be careful..."
As he spoke, a murderous look just appeared on Hong Chengdong's face.
The salvor who spoke to Hong Chengdong trembled slightly, glanced at Chen Fan fearfully, and after seeing the exquisite clothes he was wearing, the salvor turned around and left without saying much.
Hong Chengdong's nagging voice came from the front again: "The outskirts of Kukan Underground City are basically the territory of salvagers and hyenas."
"There are very few hyenas."
"They are very good at disguise, just like the salvager who just talked to me. I heard from some people that what he did behind the scenes was actually the work of hyenas!"
"It's better to be careful when walking here, just in case you are targeted by hyenas..."
Before he finished speaking, Hong Chengdong remembered the combat power level of the three people behind him.
He laughed dumbly.
Chen Fan couldn't help but smile a little.
If you are really targeted by hyenas, you don't know who will be unlucky!
"We're here."
Hong Chengdong stopped and pointed to a simple shanty in front of him: "The two people who claim to be the rebels are here."
...
In the shanty, a thin man in a uniform made of linen raised his head and looked at the low ceiling, and sighed deeply.
"I told you before that we should dig in a different direction. There are no signs of any intelligent machines in this damn place."
Next to him, a man in uniform couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect this to happen!"
"It's really weird. After digging tunnels for so long, this is the first time I've heard of running into those rats in the underground city!"
"Brother, you are really my brother!" The thin man's face changed suddenly, "Liu Changhe, you must not say those two words again!"
"If someone hears us again, we will be in trouble!"
"Don't forget, how did we get caught in this damn place?"
"So what..." The tall man named Liu Changhe's face fell, and he muttered in a low voice, "Didn't those people in the underground city call us moles? What's wrong with me calling him a rat?"
"Hiding underground every day, aren't they rats!"
"I don't know when we can leave this underground city, our mission has not been completed yet!"
"Mission?" The thin man rolled his eyes in annoyance, "Are you still thinking about that mission?"
"If you ask me, we are lucky to be able to survive this time!"
"Then what do you say we should do?" Liu Changhe looked at his comrades with a gloomy face, "Why don't we escape now?"
"These rats in the underground city should have gone to the surface by now. If the time is right, they should be able to escape!"
Before the voice fell, accompanied by a creaking sound, the tightly closed door suddenly opened, and a familiar and hateful face appeared in front of the two.
"You... want to escape?"
Listening to Hong Chengdong's somewhat gloomy tone, Liu Changhe's face froze.
How come these rats came back so soon? !
Seeing his comrades looking at him for help, Liu Changhe closed his eyes helplessly.
Send!
"Sir Chen Fan, let me introduce you."
Just as Liu Changhe was ready to die, Hong Chengdong's voice sounded again.
Liu Changhe opened his eyes carefully and met the deep eyes of a young man in exquisite robes.
"The stronger one is Liu Changhe, and the other one is Lu Nan. They are all members of the resistance army."
Hong Chengdong coughed lightly: "Of course, these are all self-proclaimed, and I have no place to verify."
Liu Changhe stared at the young man in front of him in a daze, and then turned his head to look at his comrades.
Like him, Lu Nan's eyes were full of confusion.
But he noticed a very key piece of information from Hong Chengdong's attitude - this brightly dressed young man is likely to be their savior! !
Thinking of this, he hurriedly opened his mouth and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "This... Sir, do you have anything to ask?"
"We will definitely cooperate!"
...
Chen Fan looked at the two men in front of him.
Although the clothes they were wearing were also made of coarse linen, they were obviously standard clothes, which added a bit of credibility to their identities.
In addition, the man named Lu Nan had a flattering smile on his face, but Chen Fan could still see the firm look in his eyes.
Liu Changhe on the side naturally needed no further explanation, and he even put on an attitude of being willing to die but not humiliated.
He did not speak, but took out the electromagnetic pistol given to him by Xu Huai from his pocket, and shook it in front of Lu Nan and Liu Changhe.
In just a moment, the emotions of the two suddenly became excited!
"This is an electromagnetic pistol!"
Liu Changhe's face flushed slightly, and he growled at Chen Fan: "You dare to kill the senior members of the resistance army!"
"Damn it, you rats will pay the price for this!"
Not to mention Liu Changhe, even Lu Nan, who had a flattering smile on his face before, had a bit of anger in his eyes: "How did you get this electromagnetic pistol?"
Seeing the reactions of the two, Chen Fan was relieved.
It's done.
It is certain that the identities of the two resistance soldiers are definitely not fake!
He turned to look at Hong Chengdong who was watching the show on the side and coughed lightly.
Hong Chengdong, who came to his senses, instantly understood what Chen Fan meant. He turned around and left the shanty house without hesitation, and closed the thin iron door with his hand - the more you know, the faster you die. After being in the underground city for so long, he naturally understood this simple and easy-to-understand truth.
"Since you know this electromagnetic pistol, do you know the awakening plan?"
Facing the eyes of Liu Changhe and Lu Nan, Chen Fan did not explain much, but asked directly.
"Awakening Plan?" Liu Changhe shook his head without hesitation, his clear eyes showing some confusion, "I haven't heard of it."
Lu Nan, who was standing beside him, fell into deep thought after a brief moment of confusion.
"I seem to have heard of it."
After thinking for a long time, Lu Nan whispered to Chen Fan with a look of expectation, "This seems to be a plan made by the rebels when they were just defeated."
"I don't know the specific content, but..."
"This plan seems to have completely failed."
The anger in Lu Nan's eyes gradually dissipated, replaced by deep confusion: "Who... are you?"
(End of this chapter)
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