"Then should we split up or what?" Xing Mengjie asked.
Lao Yandou touched the silly girl's head and said: "Can you please stop memorizing your lines? Haven't you heard that if you go too far, something will happen? And look at the four of us, A Li needs someone to take care of her now, and Aya is alone.
I guess we can’t deal with the trouble, so how can we separate our outfits?”
Xing Mengjie's face turned red: "Then... what should I say?"
"How can I put it, it's simple, let's go together." Lao Yandou said and adjusted the exoskeleton's auxiliary system to a low-power consumption mode. This mode will greatly reduce the kinetic energy assistance capability of the exoskeleton and make it bulky, but considering
This may be a long-term job, so I think it’s better to save some money.
Xing Mengjie sighed, walked up to Aya and said, "I'll do it, and you'll be in charge of guarding."
Aya was wearing only a simple civilian-grade exoskeleton, which was more than one level inferior to Xing Mengjie's Rambler-grade kinetic energy weapon, so she consciously handed A Li over to Xing Mengjie's care, and she escaped from her mind.
pistol.
When the four of them were ready, they began to search the underground base.
On the way, Aya briefly explained the general structure of the underground base.
It is in the shape of a semicircle, and the middle part is connected to the elevator passage of the deep shaft. The left and right ends are the work area and the living area respectively. At the end of the working area on the left is the entrance that Zeng Jin can enter the bunker world, and at the end of the living area on the right is the water circulation
and oxygen supply system.
These two systems are the guarantee systems for the underground base to maintain operation and are the top priority.
The other two key systems are the gravity system and the central data system.
"According to my understanding of the engineers who originally designed and built Tai Chi City, they were used to building the gravity system and the central data system together and burying them underground. They also connected the maintenance channel to the maintenance staff's lounge, so that once
If there is a problem, the maintenance personnel can go to the fault point for repairs as soon as possible." Aya said while trying to recall what she saw and heard when she visited the underground base when it was first built.
"Well, this is quite reasonable, but what happened here? Why can you see scratches everywhere, like an animal cage?" Xing Mengjie became more and more frightened as she walked inside.
Lao Yandong also frowned. He took off the pulse rifle behind him and always remained vigilant about the surrounding environment.
Aya glanced at the scratches on both sides of the passage leading to the living area and said: "I don't know...but it seems that there was a big battle here before the base was abandoned, but there is one thing that makes me confused."
In the first half of the sentence, Aya is not needed to explain that everyone understands it very clearly, but what about the last sentence?
"What can't you figure out?" Xing Mengjie asked.
"Where's the body?" Aya turned around and said.
Xing Mengjie was stunned.
Yes, where are the corpses? If there really was a fierce battle here, and even the deep well had to be blown up in the end, there would definitely be corpses left behind. It is impossible for the entire base to be empty. And even if the corpses are easy to rot
, but bones can be preserved for many years. Xing Mengjie does not think that they will travel to an age where bones will be weathered.
Old Tobacco was walking at the front. He saw the lights in the living area in front of him gradually dimming, and could faintly hear whistling sounds in the passage, so he raised his hand to signal a few people to stop.
Xing Mengjie immediately held her breath, Aya raised her pistol and said on guard: "What's wrong?"
Lao Yandou didn't speak. He restarted the exoskeleton's combat assistance system, and then moved forward gently, trying his best to explore forward without making a big noise. The lights in the passage were very dim, and it seemed
It looked like there was insufficient energy supply. Considering that the normal lifespan of civilian-grade fusion cores is only about twenty-five years, Old Tobacco Pipe could probably guess how many years had passed, but he did not tell the three people behind him what he was thinking.
Girl listen.
After looking at the ceiling to make sure there was nothing lying on it, Lao Yandou noticed that there was actually an artificial intelligent butler operating in the corridor, but its legs were stuck in the cracks in the ground. That's it.
I have been trapped in place for who knows how many years.
As if sensing someone behind him, the anthropomorphic artificial intelligent butler turned his head, looked at the old pipe with a metal face and said: "Hello, do you need any help?"
The four of them almost burst into tears when they heard this.
You must know that they were thinking about saying goodbye to this world more than ten minutes ago, and now the world is making a sound to them to stay.
After confirming that there were no other suspicious targets, Lao Yandong put away his weapon and walked over.
After arriving in front of the artificial intelligence butler, the iron lump, which had been rusted due to depletion of lubricating oil, emitted bursts of whistling sounds like the wind blowing from its abdominal cavity.
Aya walked over and checked it and said: "The energy is almost exhausted, but the memory chip is still intact."
Xing Mengjie was happy when she heard this. She immediately said: "Then take out the chip quickly and let's see what happened!"
However, Aya was not in a hurry to do so. Instead, she covered the maintenance case of the mechanical housekeeper. Xing Mengjie couldn't understand: "Hey? What are you doing?"
Aya said: "If you remove the chip, it will be completely broken. Moreover, the motherboard of this Alpha 9000 intelligent mechanical housekeeper has an anti-snooping auxiliary chip built into it. If we directly remove the memory chip, then it will definitely be in our hands."
All the data in the memory chipset was deleted before."
Xing Mengjie grinned after hearing this: "Then... let's fix it first?"
Aya nodded: "Get it out first, and then find the maintenance room. As long as you get the maintenance voucher code, it will complete the repair work by itself, and then we can use it to find out how many years we have traveled through time, and what other people are in the base."
what happened."
After saying that, Aya lowered her head and started trying to help the housekeeper get its legs out of the crack in the ground.
But after so many years of struggling, this guy has almost embedded his legs in the ground. No matter how hard Aya and Lao Yandou try, they can't guarantee to save it without further harming the iron lump.
Xing Mengjie looked on anxiously, and said, "Why don't we just remove its legs? Anyway, he should have spare ones when he gets to the maintenance room later, and he can replace them by himself."
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words were spoken, before Aya and Lao Yandou expressed their opinions, the omnipotent manager suddenly raised his head and glanced at Xing Mengjie. Although it was only a glance, the sight made Xing Mengjie tremble with fear.
For a moment, Xing Mengjie actually saw a murderous intent in that cold eyes. Although it was short-lived, Xing Mengjie was very sure that she was threatened by this robot! At that time, Xing Mengjie got angry, raised her foot and kicked the robot.
She looks like an omnic butler.
There was just a "bang" sound, and the poor omnic butler was kicked several meters away, and his leg was broken at the knee. Don't be too "cruel"!
Lao Yandou and Aya were both startled, obviously not expecting Xing Mengjie to suddenly take action.
Even the weak A Li looked at Xing Mengjie in shock. Xing Mengjie raised her chin and said, "Ang! Who told him to glare at me just now? He's so courageous!"
When the omnic butler, who probably would never learn "not to mess with women," was turned over by the old pipe, his expression was constantly changing, and it looked like some component had been damaged.
Seeing that it was still running, Aya said, "Okay, the maintenance room should be right in front."
With that said, she and Lao Yandou dragged the omnic butler deeper into the living area. Along the way, Xing Mengjie watched the omnic butler wink at her. At first, Xing Mengjie thought it was ridiculous, but slowly, when she realized
When the omnic butler with an uncontrollable expression kept looking straight at her, she immediately gave him a more hateful look. At that time, the omnic butler was so frightened that she closed her eyes.
Xing Mengjie laughed when she saw this, which made A Li and others confused.
The maintenance room was indeed not far away, but seeing the twisted and deformed door of the maintenance room, several people were in trouble again.
"It's okay to say that a safety door made of Ustana alloy that is made of one piece like this is fine before it is damaged. All you need to do is turn off the power and then dismantle the entire door and frame. But this thing was obviously smashed before the power was cut off.
, As a result, all the anti-locking devices around it were stuck, and the only way to remove it was to rely on violence." Lao Tobacco seems to be very knowledgeable about breaking into doors.
Aya said: "Maybe you can find useful weapons in the living area." After that, Aya walked deeper, and Lao Yandou hurriedly followed.
The mechanical butler was left in front of the door, with Xing Mengjie standing there.
She looked at the safety door that seemed to have been smashed by something with strange force and murmured to herself: "Is there any danger in here?"
Just as Xing Mengjie finished speaking, Aya screamed.
Xing Mengjie's expression immediately changed, and she followed the sound and rushed over with A Li, constantly asking along the way: "What's going on? What's going on? What's going on?"
No one responded to her. When Xing Mengjie rushed over, she saw Lao Yandou and Aya standing side by side at the entrance of a large room at the end of the living area.
Xing Mengjie walked up behind Lao Yandou and asked, "What did you see?"
Lao Yandou turned sideways and said with a solemn expression: "I think... we have found the body."
Xing Mengjie was shocked when she heard this. She followed the searchlight on Lao Dui's shoulder and looked into the house. After seeing the scene in the house clearly, she couldn't help but take a breath of air!
In this room located at the end of the living area, a pale ancient tree made of human bones stood in the center of the huge space!
Old Tobacco frowned and his face looked very ugly.
Aya also didn't expect to see such a horrific scene in her lifetime... She didn't even dare to think about the horrific scene these corpses looked like before they rotted into bones.
Lao Yandou glanced at the room and made sure there was no threatening target, so he walked in first.
The temperature in the room was obviously lower than that in the passage, and the humidity also increased slightly. Aya followed Lao Yandong and said as she walked: "Is this some kind of ritual?"
Lao Tobacco wanted to answer her, but he had never seen such a scene in his experience.
"Maybe..." Old Tobacco Pipe said as he circled the ancient tree of human bones. After going around in a circle, he sighed and said: "I probably counted more than a hundred skeletons, and most of them were men's skeletons."
.”
Xing Mengjie has been standing there, and now her legs feel a little weak.
A Li frowned and huddled in Xing Mengjie's arms, as if she was in pain.
Aya also noticed this, but she found that the human bones here were very clean, as if the corpses had been packed and piled here, and everything on their bodies when they were alive was gone.
"I'm getting more and more confused. If these corpses really belong to the guards of Taiji City, then the equipment on them would be piled up as big as a hill. But I didn't find anything." Lao Yandou said and paid attention.
The power was also transferred to the operating table in the room, and he was very familiar with these things.
However, the operating table was covered with dust, and I couldn't figure out how to operate this thing for a short time.
Aya smiled bitterly and said: "But the underground base is only so big. When it was originally designed and built, no more extra rooms were reserved. The living area only provided long-term residence for some special service guards. When we passed by those rooms just now, I
I've checked everything, and it's empty inside. I don't know how many years it's been abandoned."
"So I feel very strange... who killed them, and where did the things go? Tsk..." Old Tobacco Pipe found a rag on the operating table, and then began to clean it.
Soon the dust was awakened, and the whole room became smoky.
Xing Mengjie stood at the entrance and exit holding A Li, and she said: "Aren't we looking for something that can contact the outside world? As long as we can contact the outside world and go out, why do we care so much?"
This is the key point.
The old pipe cleaner laughed. He threw away the rag and pressed it lightly. Then the lighting system of the entire room was activated, the darkness was dispelled, and finally it became less depressing.
At this time, looking at the pale ancient tree made of human bones in the middle of the room, it was no longer as weird and terrifying as before, but its style was still a bit hard to accept. Xing Mengjie adjusted to the light and said in surprise: "The system is still the same
Intact?"
Lao Yandou lowered his head, checked the data, and said with a wry smile: "It's in good condition, but this place is just the comprehensive ecological management system operation room of the underground base, and it has no function of contacting the outside world at all."
Xing Mengjie was surprised when he heard this: "Ah? Isn't it? Such a big room and so many equipments are just an ecological control room? Don't you think it's a waste?"
This sentence indeed reminded Lao Yandou, but after some inspection, he found nothing unusual. He could only conclude that Taiji City was rich and wealthy, so he didn't really care about waste.
But Aya said: "No, this is not a waste. Every project in Tai Chi City is designed and supervised by top structural professors from the Supreme Academy of Engineering. They will not make such low-level mistakes unless..."
"Unless this base is also a yin and a yang, and what we see now is just its yang side." Lao Yandou followed Aya's intention and expressed his thoughts.
Aya nodded: "It's very possible."
Xing Mengjie was a little confused: "Hey? I thought the name Tai Chi City was just chosen casually, but I didn't expect it to have such a deep metaphor? Having said that, even if the underground base has a larger scale hidden in the dark, what about the entrance?
?”
"The entrance is here, miss."
A very sudden voice suddenly sounded next to Xing Mengjie.
Xing Mengjie was startled and almost screamed.
Aya and Lao Yandou were also frightened by the sound, but they were relieved when they saw that it was the physically disabled but strong-willed omnic butler.
Although he lost his legs, the omnic steward actually climbed to the door of the control room with both hands. He seemed to have solved the problem of losing control of his expression, and he also heard the conversations of several people.
At this time, his eyes were one blue and one red. The blue one was the normal vision module and the red one was the holographic projection.
After the structural diagram appeared in the room, Aya muttered to herself in disbelief: "How could..."
Lao Yandou came over and scanned the structural diagram and synthesized the complete underground base structural diagram in his own system. Then he discovered that the fact was just as he expected. There was a hidden structure in this underground base, and it was in the deep well.
Below. However, the deep well is blocked by huge rocks at this time. It is impossible to enter deeper from there. However, the omnic steward has marked a very winding road, which seems to be some kind of maintenance channel route.
"Sir and Miss, do you want to go to the training room?"
"The training room?" Xing Mengjie wondered: "What training room?"
The omnic housekeeper looked at Xing Mengjie and said, "This is a training room used to synthesize mutation factors and create children of the old gods."
Xing Mengjie became even more confused after hearing this, but the four people present soon realized the same thing! That was the monsters that had attacked them in the bunker world! Those bodies were thin and pale, without eyes, noses and ears, but
There is a monster hiding a bloody mouth!
Don't those things already exist in the bunker world, but are they artificially cultivated?
In shock, Lao Yandou pointed his gun at the omnic butler and asked in a cold voice: "Who are you? How do you know so much?"
The omnic butler looked up at the old pipe and said: "I am the Alpha 9000 artificial intelligence butler. I have an independent thinking core and a heart with a sub-morphic fusion core structure. My normal life span is one hundred and fifty years.
The batch number is 003gz272500911z31, and the official activation time is marked as April 1, 2739 AD. It has been working here for sixty-one years. The current damage to the body is 49.3%, and the remaining core storage capacity is less than 2%."
"What?! What year did you say you were activated?!" Xing Mengjie looked at the Alpha 9000 smart butler in shock.
"April 1, 2739, miss." Alpha 9000 repeated.
"2739... How many years is 2739 plus sixty-one years? Ah? Uncle?" Xing Mengjie was a little confused.
Old Tobacco's face was ugly, and he replied: "It was the year 2800..."