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Chapter 799 Hell is always the same

 In a dark tunnel. (Due to caching reasons, please visit the browser directly.\nCOM website to watch the fastest chapter updates)

A dozen Wilant soldiers wearing protective clothing used flashlights and carefully searched every shadow-covered corner around them while cautiously advancing forward.

The air here is filled with a suffocating depression, and there seems to be a pair of coveting eyes hidden in the darkness... It is the coveting of the living by the dead.

Because this space is too quiet, any slight sound will be abrupt and unusual. Therefore, everyone has reduced communication intentionally or unintentionally, and will only talk to each other when necessary.

It has been an hour since the thousand-man team led by Favre discovered this tunnel, and a full hour has passed since this exploration team went deep into the ruins to search.

However, until now, they still have not explored the end of this tunnel. So many people can't help but start to wonder if they are going in circles.

Don't blame them for thinking so.

After all, this tunnel is as long as a black hole.

So the deeper they explored, the stronger the feeling of uneasiness in everyone's hearts became.

It's as if if you stay in here for a long time, you will never be able to get out again...

"Damn...where did those diggers find this unfortunate tunnel?"

"The devil knows..."

"The ruins of a settlement more than a hundred years ago... I just want to know what's the point of exploring this thing? Are there still living people here?"

"That's enough, shut up!"

Telling ghost stories at this time has no benefit other than scaring yourself. The man who was scolded by the captain smiled and stopped talking.

Others involuntarily closed their mouths, and the eerie silence returned to the bottomless tunnel.

Finally it was time for the routine report.

The Wilant soldier standing at the front of the team took a deep breath, took off the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder and spoke in a deep voice.

"This is the 'sled'... everything is normal down there, and no suspicious targets have been found yet."

After a brief rustle of electricity, the superior's voice came from the communication channel.

"Continue searching."

"……yes!"

Obviously.

There is no way their superiors would allow them to come back empty-handed.

Until they find a valuable enough target, they can only continue searching in this bottomless tunnel.

The captain of the Valantians who led the team hung up the communication, gestured to his teammates behind him, and then continued walking deeper into the tunnel with the demoralized people.

After passing through a crooked steel bar, everyone crossed a half-collapsed ventilation duct, and the space in front suddenly became spacious.

Seeing that the situation ahead had finally changed, everyone had excited expressions on their faces, and they all quickened their pace and continued to move forward. Soon they arrived at a small square of about a hundred square meters.

I saw a square stone monument standing in the center of the square, and crooked chairs were arranged around the stone monument.

Most of these chairs are empty, but remnants of clothing and several completely weathered skeletons can be seen near them.

Enduring the discomfort in his heart, the Wilante captain walked to the stone monument with a flashlight and followed the flashlight's light around him.

"This is the 'sleigh'... We found a square, which should be a gathering place for local survivors."

After a pause, he pointed the flashlight at the stone tablet and found lines of small words engraved on it, so he continued.

"There is a stone monument in the center of the square. We found some engraved writings on it, which seem to be the names of local residents... Wait, there seems to be a line of writing at the bottom of the stone monument."

After carefully identifying the small handwriting, he said with difficulty.

"'Our world has ended, and we will start a new reincarnation'... I don't understand. Is this some strange religion?"

Voices continued to come from the command post.

"Is there any geographical information about this settlement on the stone tablet? Like a name or something?"

"Nothing was found... Before confirming the place name, I'll just call this place 'Stone Tablet Town'."

The Wilante captain had an expression of interest on his face, and walked around behind the stone monument with the flashlight in his hand.

Because his attention was all on the stone tablet, he didn't notice his feet at all. It wasn't until a crunching sound came through the soles of his boots that he subconsciously lowered his head. Only then did he realize that he had stepped on it.

A human skull.

It was at this moment that he saw a scene he would never forget.

In the open space behind the stone monument, densely packed corpses were growing like weeds. The head he stepped on was just an insignificant one among them. The human bones were piled up into a small mountain in this not-so-large space.



This doesn't look like a settlement at all.

It looks more like a worship place for some kind of cult.

What the hell is going on here?!

Even though he was used to seeing the carnage of mountains of corpses and seas of bones on the battlefield, he still unconsciously felt a trace of fear about this strange death in his heart.

"Oh shit……"

Swallowing hard, he couldn't help but take a step back until his shoulder hit the stone monument behind him.

At this moment, he was not the only one. The other Willant soldiers who followed him deep into the tunnel also discovered the situation behind the stone tablet, and all of them felt the coldness of their hands and feet.

The command post at the other end of the communication channel seemed to be aware of the abnormality of the situation below, and a hurried voice soon came from the earphones.

"This is the headquarters, what did you find?"

"dead……"

"dead?"

"That's right... there are dead people everywhere here. Starting from behind the stone monument in the square to the streets that are suspected to be buried in garbage, there are at least thousands of bones lying here. It feels like..."

The Vallant captain swallowed once again, looked around at the devastated mess, and said in a hoarse voice.

"It's like hell..."



At the same time that the Valant soldiers were exploring deep into hell, at the refugee camp established by the alliance a few kilometers away, two vertical take-off and landing killer whale transport planes slowly landed in the open space near the camp.

There are tens of thousands of survivors stranded there. Haibei City, which is still surrounded by the Kingdom of Heaven, is obviously not a suitable resettlement site. Both the transportation of supplies and sanitation are a big trouble.

Therefore, the Alliance Army Command issued new instructions to the frontline troops, requiring the troops stationed locally to move survivors to the coastline a hundred kilometers away for resettlement.

There is a temporary alliance camp there, as well as a temporary dock that allows cargo ships to load and unload supplies, which is more than enough to accommodate 10,000 survivors.

However, since the "Overlord" transport aircraft independently developed by the alliance must rely on the runway to take off and land, the task of transferring refugees can only be entrusted to the corporate aviation fleet.

Looking at the long line of survivors waiting in front of the tarmac, the pilot sitting in the driver's seat couldn't help but clicked his tongue and said to the Alliance soldiers who came to take over the work.

"No offense intended...are you guys picked up from hell?"

People with missing arms and legs are everywhere here, and it is almost impossible to find a complete person.

And it's more than that.

Many people have rotten scars on their bodies, and they look twisted and ferocious, making it unbearable to look at.

"Almost, after all, we just crawled out of hell."

Murderous Dagger grinned, looked at the fussing pilot, smiled, and joked casually.

"Mutants like to eat alive. They often eat half and throw away the other half. If they can't finish eating, they throw the rest back into the dungeon to be raised... These survivors who have eaten the fruit basically don't have to worry about wound infection. The rotten meat will interact with them.

The new flesh on the body grows together, and finally it becomes what you see."

The pilot sitting in the co-pilot's seat retched, and after a long time, he raised his head with a pale face, looked at the murderous dagger standing next to the cockpit, and protested.

"...That's enough, stop talking!"

That description made him feel physically uncomfortable.

Murderous Dagger shrugged, threw the personnel list into the cockpit, and patted the pilot on the shoulder with a smile.

"There are still more than 17,000 targets that need to be transferred, and the prisoners from the Weiland people are also planned to be handed over to us... The task is difficult, but it is left to you anyway, come on!"

Watching the soldier turn and leave, the two pilots sitting in the cockpit looked at each other and couldn't help but whisper to each other.

"I suspect that these people are mentally disturbed...otherwise how could they not feel any discomfort at all?"

"I completely agree with your point of view..."

After explaining what happened here, Murderous Dagger patted the cockpit hatch, then turned around and went about other things.

While the company's transport plane was busy transferring survivors to the coastline, two Viper transport planes carrying researchers from the Alliance scientific expedition team flew over from the direction of the coastline and stopped not far from the killer whale transport plane.

A group of researchers in white coats quickly got off the plane and, escorted by a group of players with live ammunition, quickly headed to the entrance of Vault 20.

Currently, the entire shelter is still under the control of the Alliance's Burning Corps. The nearby streets have not only been replaced with brand-new monitoring equipment, but drones are also arranged to patrol the area 24 hours a day.

This shelter will not be disclosed to other members of the Clicommunity for the time being until an inspection of the data stored in the shelter is completed.

Chu Guang is not the only one who is paying attention to the latest progress of the investigation. Fang Chang, who is very interested in Vault 20, is also paying attention to the latest investigation progress of the scientific expedition team.

While he was waiting for the results of the investigation, Lao Bai, who came back from patrolling outside, brought him unexpected news.

"I have good news and bad news here. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Fang Chang coughed slightly when he heard this treacherous statement.

"Just start with the important one."

Lao Bai grinned and said.

"Remember those Wilantes from before? They really dug something out of the position we gave up before."

Fang Chang was stunned for a few seconds when he heard this, and then looked at Lao Bai in disbelief.

"real or fake?"

Lao Bai nodded and said.

"It's the news given to me by my brother from the battlefield. It shouldn't be wrong."

Fang Chang asked immediately.

"What about the good news?"

Lao Bai said with a grin.

"The good news you just heard is good news. As for the bad news...it's a pity that our friendly forces were not very lucky and found nothing except corpses."

Fang Chang frowned slightly.

"...Nothing was found except corpses?"

Lao Bai nodded and continued.

"Yes, the passage they dug seems to be the entrance to a certain settlement, but that settlement has been abandoned for more than a century, and there is nothing inside except the bodies of local survivors."

Looking at Fang Chang who was deep in thought, Lao Bai paused and continued.

"But talking about that settlement is also very weird. According to the Weiland people who went to explore the ruins to investigate, they found that the entire settlement seemed to be buried in an instant."

"A large number of corpses of survivors gathered in the square at the entrance of the settlement. No trace of resistance was seen at the scene... Those survivors seemed to have accepted their fate. They engraved their names on the stone tablets and at the same time

At the end, a prophecy of doomsday was written, and finally the final death was greeted calmly."

"The entire ruins exude an evil smell from head to toe, and what's even more evil is that I heard from the veterans at the battlefield that there was something mentally wrong with the Wilant soldiers who came back from below. They seemed to have been trapped.

They seemed to be frightened by something, and became suspicious... Logically speaking, this is abnormal. They are all experienced warriors, and they would not be so frightened by a few corpses."

Fang Chang nodded in agreement, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly raised a possibility.

"Could it be a psychic interference device or the influence of some kind of bacteria?"

Lao Bai shook his head and said.

"That's not clear. In fact, I was thinking about asking the legion to ask for a few 'wounded people' to come over and cooperate with our research. But the problem now is... we obtained the information through abnormal means. They

If you don't take the initiative to explain, it won't be easy for us to open up."

Fang Chang sighed and said.

"Indeed... However, based on the clues dug up by the Weilant people, it can support some of the conclusions of the scientific expedition team."

Lao Bai's heart moved and he asked in surprise.

"Is there any result from the scientific expedition team?"

Fang Chang nodded and spoke slowly.

"According to the investigation opinions of the scientific expedition team, the administrator's log of Vault 20 should have been deleted manually, and it was after a catastrophic experimental result."

Lao Bai asked with a frown.

"Disastrous experimental results?"

Fang Chang nodded and continued.

"The main research direction of Vault 20 is the development of outer space. According to the two technical ideas they designed for 'returning to space', they considered two sets of plans in the twenty years after Wasteland Era 51.

.”

"The first plan is to use limited resources to build a non-orbital space elevator, step by step, to re-walk the path that the People's Union has taken. The other plan is to find a new way to launch thinking to the outer layer.

The space is still working on the space equipment of the People's Internet era, thus completing the rescue from the outside to the inside... This can also be regarded as a disguised overtaking in a corner."

"According to the investigation conclusion of the scientific expedition team, it is very likely that Shelter 20 abandoned the plan from the technical feasibility demonstration stage after imagining the first set of plans, and put all the chips on it from the beginning.

As for the second plan... we can’t find any specific experimental plan for the first plan on the shelter’s server. It’s for this reason that they have never tried it from the beginning.”

Lao Bai frowned.

"Does this mean...the orbitless space elevator plan won't work?"

"No," Fang Chang shook his head, "How can you say that something that has not been tried does not work? If that thing is really a technology that cannot be realized in principle, it will not be turned into a plan and appear here.

In a shelter.”

Lao Bai asked in confusion.

"Then why did they just give up?"

Fang Chang recalled what he just heard from the NPC for a moment and continued.

"The opinion of the scientific expedition team is... At that time, the residents of Vault 20 judged that the material cost and time cost required for the first set of plans were beyond their ability to bear. If they forcibly pushed forward the plan, they might spend fifty years

Or even longer.”

Lao Bai said thoughtfully.

"Fifty years...that doesn't sound unacceptable."

"In our opinion, this is so, but to them at the time, this time was too long... In fact, from their perspective, it is not difficult to think that it would take such a long time to return to outer space.

We don’t know how long it will take to restore the territory that the People’s Federation had at its peak.”

After a pause, Fang Chang continued.

"The scientific expedition team speculates that due to various factors, they will most likely directly choose the second plan as the direction of their efforts...Placing all their hopes on the cost seems to be cheaper, but there are more uncertainties

Factors’ Thought Projection Techniques.”

Lao Bai couldn't help but ask.

"Then they...succeeded?"

Fang Chang sighed softly.

"Didn't I say that the administrator's log was deleted after a disastrous experimental result..."

After a pause, he continued.

"We have no way of knowing what they did in the 21 years from 51 to 72 of the Wasteland Era, but if the corpses dug up by the Velantians were left behind by them, then the results of that experiment are self-evident.

…The residents of Vault 20’s eagerness for success had ultimately disastrous consequences, turning the entire experiment into a desperate mass suicide.”

Listening to this cruel inference, Lao Bai's Adam's apple moved up and down, and finally shook his head, holding back only one sentence.

"It's really crazy..."

Fang Chang nodded and said after a moment of silence.

"Indeed, that is another group of lunatics. They belong to different eras from the Torch, but their madness is exactly the same."

"So much so that it's hard not to wonder whether the Torch was inspired by the experience in Vault 20 to do so many outrageous things..."

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