Cen Yu attached the lighting fixtures directly to the nearby wall, then stepped back slightly to look at the glass display case in front of him.
Upon closer inspection, he discovered that many of the trees and plants were decorative... more like a specimen box for people to view than an terrarium.
"Could this be a secret underground laboratory on Planet Nott?" Cen Yu muttered to himself, looking at the broken glass.
Cen Yu tried to turn on the communicator again, but there was still no signal. It seemed that there must be a very strong signal jamming device installed underground.
The entire underground space was surprisingly large... Because he was unsure if there was any danger, he remained vigilant, but found that apart from the glass, there seemed to be nothing else in the room.
There was an iron storage cabinet in the corner, but it must have been in a great hurry during the retreat, because the drawers were scattered all over the floor and the documents inside were gone.
It looks exactly like a basement in a movie where secret experiments are being conducted.
...
When Li Chonghe saw the skeleton that had been moved aside, he knew that they had arrived nearby.
The other two members of the team were responsible for moving supplies, while they chose to search for Cen Yu. Chi Jiazhen, who was on the communicator, suspected that there was a more powerful signal jammer underground, which was why they could not receive any signals related to Cen Yu.
When they actually entered that underground space, Li Chonghe looked around, and Wen Xihe observed carefully as well.
"Something's not right," Wen Xihe said. "Should there be something like this underground on Planet Nott?"
Li Chonghe instinctively knew he shouldn't have done this.
He was just a teenager, or rather a child, when the incident on Planet Nott happened... He didn't know much.
This place is far from the Star Capital, and apart from space pirates and insectoids, there seems to be nothing that likes to visit it. The only thing that attracts people is probably this kind of mutated beast in the desert. Therefore, in the past ten years, Li Chonghe has not heard any news about Planet Nott from other people.
It was clearly not an underground fortress built in a day; it seemed to conceal other dangers.
"An underground bunker?" Chi Jiazhen asked on the communicator. "The scan results show that it is an underground bunker with approximately five floors."
“It’s not an underground bunker,” Wen Xihe said immediately. “It’s not an underground shelter either.”
They had all seen other underground shelters on Nott, and this shouldn't be like this... He looked up at the almost meticulously sealed passage, everything here was specially reinforced.
He knew this material was incredibly expensive, and few people would spend so much on decorating an underground shelter.
Clearly, there are significant problems here.
"What was this place used for before?" Wen Xihe asked. "We need to report this."
He realized something was wrong, and it was extremely dangerous...
"Sizzle sizzle...you guys...sizzle sizzle..."
Chi Jiazhen's voice on the other end of the communicator began to crackle, as if it were being blocked by something.
Wen Xi cursed under her breath, then said into the communicator, "Report this to the instructor now! The passageways here are all made of rare metals; even some spaceships aren't this luxurious!"
"Sizzle sizzle sizzle..."
There was no response from the other end of the communicator.
Li Chonghe took off his headphones. "Why don't you go back first?" He looked at Wen Xihe, seeking her opinion.
As the other party said, the metal used for these underground passages is quite expensive. Even civilian spaceships would not be willing to pay such a high price if they wanted to defend against the Zerg. There is no reason why an underground structure on the planet Nott could be so luxurious.
Wen Xi frowned. "Let's go find Cen Yu first."
The underground building can't be moved anytime soon, so it's more important to find Cen Yu, who has disappeared without a trace.
...
Cen Yu was still wandering in the underground space.
He wasn't lost either; the earpiece that had previously disconnected started playing Chi Jiazhen's voice again—
"Xiao Yu?"
Chi Jiazhen asked softly through the earpiece.
"Hmm." Cen Yu replied and continued to explore the underground space.
After leaving the room that resembled a specimen box, Cen Yu continued exploring the third basement level.
One of the doors had a crooked sign with a few illegible words written on it—
[Confession Room]
"...?" How come he remembered that the empire was full of atheists?
"Are you still in the underground space?" Chi Jiazhen's voice continued to ask.
"Yeah, still on the third basement level." Cen Yu touched his earpiece, then glanced at the communicator. "Where are the others?"
"They are still dealing with other people for now."
Cen Yu didn't say anything, but discreetly took off his earphones and put them in his pocket.
The voice still echoed in his ears—
“The underground space is quite large,” Chi Jiazhen continued. “I suspect they may have stored the supplies at the very bottom.”
"The fifth floor."
Cen Yu glanced at the communicator, but there was still no signal... He had just taken off the earpiece again, but the sound was still clear, obviously not coming from the earpiece.
"I'll check out the third floor first." Cen Yu ignored the voice's instructions.
Chi Jiazhen seemed displeased that Cen Yu was completely disobeying his orders, but he seemed to have no other choice but to say, "...We don't have much time, it would be better to go underground as soon as possible."
“Recognize your own identity,” Cen Yu suddenly said. “I never take orders from Betas.”
"..." The voice seemed surprised that someone would say such nonsense at such a critical moment, and was momentarily speechless.
Do you know what's on the fifth underground level?
Are you sure there are supplies down there?
Cen Yu began to accuse Chi Jiazhen, "Did you have a conflict with me and deliberately try to lure me to the fifth basement level so that I would lose contact?!"
"..." The voice was also surprised by Cen Yu's sudden attack. He gritted his teeth and finally said, "...I just hope we can win."
"Then shut up and stop interrupting my train of thought," Cen Yu said again.
The voice fell silent, it was unclear whether it was thinking of something else or truly not intending to bother Cen Yu any further.
Cen Yu glanced at the confessional room, then kicked the door open...
He had expected to find a cross or anything religious in the confessional, but there was nothing there.
It was as if the group of people were afraid of others discovering some secret when they ran away, so they hid every trace of their escape.
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