The steel climbing frame on the slipway was already rusted beyond recognition, but one had to admit that even during World War II, Japan's smelting technology was still very good. The steel climbing frame, which was originally as thick as a thumb, although looked overwhelmed, was still able to support Yang Jing as he carefully climbed onto the slipway.
After getting on the slipway, Yang Jing did not take off his mask. The air here has been sealed for at least half a century. Who knows what kind of toxic gas is contained in it.
The slipway is very flat. On the ground in the middle near the pool, there are two large hoisting devices. Between the two hoisting devices, there is a railway leading to the depths of the base.
The entire Maogesi Island is oriented from north to south, so the maximum east-west width of this base is the large pool that Yang Jing has seen so far, which can accommodate submarines, and the slipway, which is more than 100 meters wide from east to west.
As for the length from north to south, Yang Jing didn't know. However, the entire base was slowly rising as it extended toward the north, so the most important warehouse in the base must have been at a higher place.
Since this is a secret base, there must be a large generator inside the base, otherwise where does the electricity for lighting come from? The most important thing is, how to open the heavy door? It can't be opened by manpower, right?
Except for the area illuminated by the spotlight where things can be seen, the rest of the area is still pitch black. Yang Jing hates this darkness very much, so the top priority now is to find a power hub similar to a generator.
Yang Jing did not continue to observe the environment here, but walked forward along the railway track. However, the further he walked, the narrower the base became. When Yang Jing walked more than a hundred meters, the base, which was originally more than a hundred meters wide, had narrowed to about seventy or eighty meters, because when Yang Jing looked left and right, the spotlights could already illuminate the reinforced concrete walls on both sides.
Along the way, except for the empty slipway, there were more houses after leaving the slipway. These houses seemed to be built of reinforced concrete, and they should be warehouses for storing the property looted from various places. They looked very solid.
These houses have no windows, and the only doors are almost all tightly closed. Without exception, all the doors are made of heavy-looking steel, and the ground in front of the doors is also clean, which makes Yang Jing feel increasingly depressed.
After walking about 150 meters, a row of reinforced concrete houses blocked the way ahead. These houses were connected to the side walls of the base on the left, right, top and bottom, blocking Yang Jing's way.
Looking around, Yang Jing discovered that this row of houses was about fifty meters long, with a total of six huge glass windows and three steel doors, all tightly closed. However, on the west wall of the row of houses, Yang Jing discovered a row of wiring bridges extending from a square hole in the wall of the house. The thick cables were obviously power cables.
This discovery made Yang Jing a little happy. It was obvious that there should be a generator or something in this row of houses.
All three doors were closed and locked from the inside, but this did not pose a problem for Yang Jing. He controlled his thoughts and directly used the storage space. The steel door in front of him immediately disappeared.
This door seemed to have never existed before. Even if Chris and the others saw it, they would not suspect the storage space.
Yang Jing walked into the row of houses and found that they were very spacious and filled with many desks, office chairs and other things. It was obvious that this row of houses should be the command center of the entire base.
These houses were connected by doors. However, none of the internal doors were closed, or some were closed but not locked, which allowed Yang Jing to easily walk to the westernmost room. Sure enough, in this 15-meter-wide house, there were four large diesel generators. Four cables as thick as an adult's leg extended from these four large generators and finally converged into a large control cabinet at the southwest corner. Then, seven or eight cables extended from the control cabinet and extended out through the square hole in the wall. In addition, there was a thinner cable extending from the north wall. Obviously, there should be a place to use electricity on the north side of this row of houses.
In addition, each of the four generators has a steel pipe as thick as an adult's thigh extending from the north wall. These four thick steel pipes should be the air intake pipes of the four generators.
The room was quite dry. Even though it was in an underwater base and no one had been here for decades, it was still quite dry. Although Yang Jing had not taken off his mask, he could still feel it through his exposed skin.
Because the room was dry enough, the four generators, although covered with dust, still looked good and seemed to be able to work.
After checking one of the generators, he found that the diesel in the tank was long gone. Yang Jing took out a bucket of diesel from the storage space and poured it into the tank. Then he found the crank of the generator and began to prepare to start the generator manually.
This generator had not been started for at least half a century, and the battery inside had long been dead. However, this generator produced more than 70 years ago could be started manually, just like the old tractors in the countryside of China, which were started by cranking.
It's amazing that the Japanese's manufacturing technology is really good. Even though this generator has not been started for at least half a century, after Yang Jing shook it for more than twenty times, it finally started up with a "thump thump thump" sound.
After the generator had been running for a while, Yang Jing found the control switch. After turning it on, most of the base lit up, and the row of houses also lit up.
The coming of light is always a very comfortable thing.
This row of houses has three steel doors facing south, which is the direction of the slipway, but only one door facing north. Yang Jing opened the door and walked out of the house, only to find that the base seemed to end about seven or eight meters behind the house.
The entire wall here is made of thick reinforced concrete, unlike other places in the base, where only a small part is reinforced with concrete. Yang Jing estimated that the reinforced concrete was used around the base to reinforce it. Including the few steel bars that Yang Jing had seen on the sea level, they should be the reinforced concrete used to reinforce the cave. As a result, he accidentally discovered it, and then followed this clue to finally find the base.
However, the wall in front of him, which was five or six meters high and fifty meters long, was made entirely of reinforced concrete. In the middle of the wall, there was a round steel door, which looked a bit like a watertight door on a ship or submarine.
How could there be such a well-sealed steel door on this wall?
Yang Jing stood in front of the round steel door, stroking his chin and thinking for a while, and decided to open the door to see what was behind it.
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