Although the base was no longer shaking, the darkness outside seemed to be spreading, and it was getting darker and darker as seen from the surveillance footage.
Could it be that the polar night is coming? But it's still far from the polar night.
In the monitoring room, everyone frowned.
They detected several areas of immense stress on the ellipsoid, but there was no water around it or nearby.
Everyone guessed that the earthquake had caused cracks in the seabed, allowing water to seep in. However, the ellipsoid was stable for the time being, so Bai Shuang and Lu Yu went home to rest.
Just then, Mr. Wu came to see Bai Shuang and told her that the Yuwen family had hired the Kang family father and son to be their personal doctors.
Bai Jiu: "Birds of a feather flock together."
Bai Shuang also said, "A petty person is a petty person. When the country is in trouble, instead of working together to overcome the difficulties, they only know how to scheme for their own benefit."
Let them be; they're not worth our attention.
But Bai Shuang had to be careful about what Mr. Wu said next.
"Go check out your pharmaceutical factory; it seems someone has been there before."
"Someone's actually stealing chickens and dogs? Let's go check it out."
Bai Shuang led Bai Jiu and the other two, along with the snow leopard, outside.
Lu Yu went home to change his clothes and then went to the military camp; he still had work to do there.
The three people and one dog knocked on the door of the pharmaceutical factory. The snow leopard sniffed at the ground, and Bai Shuang quickly put a muzzle on it.
Before the earthquake, when the hospital and pharmaceutical factory were on holiday, no one was left to guard them. This was to make it easier for me to collect supplies and to allow them to go home and reunite with their families, so that they wouldn't be separated from their families in case of special circumstances.
As for the door lock, it can only lock up gentlemen; it cannot lock up scoundrels.
Bai Jiu: "Miss, thankfully we collected everything we needed to."
"Therefore, the saying 'a ship sails on a ship with caution for ten thousand years' is an age-old truth."
As they walked further in, they noticed that some things, though still in their original places, had been disturbed.
In the herbal medicine preparation room, Bai Shuang collected everything else, whether it was finished or semi-finished products, and didn't even keep the pharmaceutical equipment.
There were only some commonly used medicinal herbs on the table inside the room.
This was deliberately left by Bai Shuang, but strangely, the medicinal herbs had not been touched.
But there were still signs that someone had rummaged through the drawer next to it.
In the final pharmacy, Bai Shuang left a small amount of medicine, but only a few boxes of cold and diarrhea medicine were missing; the rest remained untouched.
Both Bai Jiu and the other man were puzzled. "They didn't come here to steal medicine?"
When they arrived at Bai Shuang's chairman's office, the safe had been pried open, and everything had been ransacked, even the corners of the walls.
The snow leopard barked incessantly when it saw the ransacked house.
Bai Shuang looked at Bai Jiu and the other person, "Do you know their purpose?"
"Stealing prescriptions."
The two spoke almost in unison.
Bai Jiu reached out to touch the safe, but Bai Shuang quickly pulled him back, saying, "There's medicine up there."
"Anyone who has ever touched a safe will experience unbearable itching all over their body before they even get home, and then they will break out in rashes all over their body. The itching and pain will not get better for less than a hundred days."
Bai Chang: "So, we don't need to solve the case."
Bai Jiu: "Is there an antidote?"
"Yes, otherwise what if our own people come across it? But only I have it, no one else can make it."
Bai Chang: "Was it done by the Yuwen family? That's why they hired the Kang family father and son to treat the illness."
Bai Jiu: "Possibly."
"Whether it is or not, it's enough to give them a hard time."
Call Mr. Wu and ask him to keep an eye out for people who are sick and have rashes all over their bodies.
The group then went to the hospital for a check-up, found nothing wrong, and went home.
Within half a day, Mr. Wu called, saying, "Besides the second young lady of the Yuwen family being sick, Wang Ming, the son of Commander Wang, also seems to be feeling unwell."
Two other of Wang Ming's subordinates seemed to be very ill, but no one else appeared to have any major health problems.
"Okay, thank you."
Lu Yu went to see the military camp, made some arrangements, and then returned.
Bai Shuang and Lu Yu were exhausted from working in the monitoring room. After taking a shower, they rested for a day and then cooked several delicious meals with Bai Jiu and the others.
With the situation outside the base still unclear, and unable to put their minds at ease, the two went to the monitoring room again.
The snow leopard eagerly wanted to go with them, but Bai Shuang thought about it and decided not to bring it. It was their workplace, and now was the perfect time to keep an eye on them, so as not to offend them.
Bai Shuang patted the snow leopard's head. "Good boy, snow leopard. Stay home. We'll give you something good to eat next time you come back."
It was still reluctant, but Lu Yu gave it a warning look, and it finally lowered its head in grievance and walked back.
The two arrived at the monitoring room, where the atmosphere remained gloomy and the screens were still completely black.
Ling Liyuan was on the phone reporting to his superior, "I suspect the base is stuck in the crack. I suggest opening the top cover to verify the situation."
Hearing this, Bai Shuang and Lu Yu also became alert, and then they heard their explanation.
Grandpa Lu's voice came from the other end of the phone.
What dangers would there be if the upper exit were opened?
"Based on the monitoring, it is speculated that the top is empty, and there should be no danger when it is opened."
But we'll have to open it to find out the specifics.
Old Lu: "What will happen if we don't open it?"
"As for the internal problems, the base is currently suspended in the air, away from the sea. If it's not opened, it will soon run out of water..."
Regarding food, thanks to the recent seafood harvest, the reserves are good, and there shouldn't be a shortage anytime soon.
But the planting platform needs supplemental lighting, and how long can the energy supply last?
"What's even more terrifying is the external threat. It's one thing if there's a physical entity beneath the base, but the most likely scenario is that it's a bottomless abyss."
The slightest misstep could cause it to continue sliding, or even fall to the Earth's core.
Moreover, a major earthquake has just occurred, and the Earth's crust is unstable. If there is another crustal movement, the ellipsoid could very well be crushed.
No matter how hard an ellipsoid is, it cannot be harder than the natural force of crustal movement.
When it was built, all kinds of surface conditions were taken into account, including heat, cold, hurricanes, tsunamis, and even volcanic eruptions.
This is the only situation I haven't considered.
Lu Yu: "Uncle Ling, if the Earth's crust doesn't move again and the ellipsoid remains as it is, how long can it last?"
"If the Earth's crustal movement stops, the ellipsoid will not explode."
The original design was modeled after the Earth, but it also mimics the principle of an eggshell (the arched structure of an eggshell helps to distribute external pressure evenly, thus reducing pressure per unit area).
Therefore, it is particularly resistant to pressure.
But then again, after a major earthquake, the Earth needs aftershocks to heal itself. Can the movement of the Earth's crust stop?
The base members cannot be trapped here, so we must find a way.
But now every decision is crucial to the survival of the entire base, so the base has convened an emergency high-level meeting, which includes leading figures from various industries within the base.
This was Bai Shuang's first time being invited to such a meeting. She was a leader in the base's medical community and an honorary soldier who had received a special merit award.
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