In the middle of Poyang Lake, several boats painted with NAC symbols are quietly parked on the lake. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoSoldiers in exoskeletons stand on the side of the ship, armed with rifles, carefully alerting the underwater situation.

In this wasteland, a place with water is always more dangerous than a place without water, and behind every aquatic plant there may be a mireurk crab. These xenos covered in heavy armor will not benefit even if they are touched by dead claws.

Dressed in pitch-black power armor, Jiang Chen stood at the bow of the boat and glanced at the bottomless lake.

The clear surface of the lake slowly ripples with discipline, and no one can believe that such an astonishing secret is buried beneath the lake unless there is conclusive information.

With 2,000 scientists from all walks of life in their research fields, this "treasure" is really important to Jiang Chen.

After a while, a knight walked up behind him and bowed his head respectfully.

"Observers have scanned it with life detection devices, and there is no sign of mirelurk activity within a mile radius. Our guys are also ready to go. ”

"Then let's go now. Jiang Chen ordered.

"Yes!"

The fist slammed into the steel cuirass with a clean sound, and Hu Cheng respectfully gave a military salute, turned around and took the order.

Led by the NAC knight, five soldiers wearing amphibious mechanical exoskeletons quickly assembled at the bow of the ship, and with a command, jumped into the lake one after another.

Jiang Chen stood at the bow of the boat and waited quietly, until the underwater advance team confirmed that the bottom of the lake was safe, and then stepped into the lake.

As an individual armor that can pass through the nuclear radiation area, the average water depth is only about ten meters, which is naturally not a problem for T3 power armor. After a while, Jiang Chen's feet were firmly on the soft bottom of the lake.

One or two mutated small fish swam in, gnawing at the steel shell with crooked teeth, Jiang Chen waved his hand to drive away these self-defeating mutated creatures, and walked towards the location marked in the holographic screen.

Like most shelters, this one is not in preparation, and the entrance to this shelter is a circle more than ten meters in diameter. It's just that it's not embedded in the wall, but at the bottom of the lake, which is overgrown with aquatic weeds.

The years have left no trace of rust on its body, and the shiny alloy is as if it had been cast yesterday. In the center of this giant circular gate, the word T7 is painted.

"That's it. ”

A string of bubbles burst out of the gap in the armor, Jiang Chen looked at the knight who was also wearing power armor and nodded, took out the pendant inlaid with rubies from his waist, and walked towards the center of this steel giant gate.

"Let me do it. Hu Cheng hurriedly stepped forward to stop the marshal and took the initiative to ask.

As a knight of the NAC, how can there be any reason for the marshal to put himself in danger?

However, Jiang Chen just shook his head.

"It's okay, it's unlikely that there's a mechanism here. ”

The entire 118 Vault has been incorporated under the banner of NAC, and Lu Yihua has no reason to lie to himself at all.

Only graves need a tomb guarding mechanism. If it was to send knowledge and hope to the future, then the people who built this shelter simply had no reason to put weapons inside.

In the center of the steel gate, as Lu Yihua described, a circular depression can be seen.

Jiang Chen put the silver disc at the end of the pendant and gently rotated it half a circle to the right.

The ruby set in the center of the disc is the core of the key, and a code of more than 10 grams is engraved into the direction of the shelter through a special gemstone process. Keys made in this way of encryption are impossible to decipher even with the computing power of an experimental-grade quantum computer.

The current follows the silver disc and passes through the ruby.

Strings of bubbles densely emerge from the edge of the circular steel gate, towards the surface of the lake.

With a slight tremor, the giant gate began to sink slowly.

"Something isn't quite right here...... Marshal, please come out first. Hu Cheng hurriedly stepped forward to protect Jiang Chen's side, looking around nervously. The five soldiers wearing amphibious exoskeletons around him also nervously set up their underwater rifles in their hands, alert for possible threats.

"Don't be nervous, it's just an elevator. Jiang Chen shook his head with a smile, reached out and pressed down the muzzle of the gun that Hu Cheng had erected, signaling everyone not to be nervous.

Everyone slowly sank with the steel giant gate, and in less than half a minute, the giant gate that originally protruded from the surface had turned into a deep pit. When the giant gate sank to a certain height, the whole giant gate "clicked" like a bullet into the chamber.

The top of the pit began to retract, like a dome over the heads of the people, sealing the exit.

When the dome is fully closed, the signal lights in the pit light up, lighting up the entire space.

Immediately afterwards, the water level began to drop, and it was not until it was completely emptied that the vertical wall of the well slowly opened a door.

"It turns out that this thing is not a door, it is an elevator. ”

Glancing around, there were steep steel walls everywhere I looked. Hu Cheng put away the underwater rifle in his hand, muttered to himself, took off the tactical rifle at his waist and held it in his hand.

At this time, Jiang Chen had already walked in front of the open iron door.

But just as he was about to step through the door, he stopped with a slight frown.

On the open iron door, he saw a sign of déjà vu.

Reaching out and gently touching the raised badge, the soft alloy covered fingertips followed the lines, sweeping the dust off the outline. If he remembers correctly, the company that owns this trademark has a resounding name.

"East Asia Heavy Industry ......" withdrew his hand, and Jiang Chen muttered the name.

"What's wrong?" Hu Cheng, dressed in steel armor, walked up to him with a dull step, picked up a flashlight and shone into the darkness behind the door, but there was nothing special to see except for a narrow corridor.

"Where's the pendant, take it down and give it to me." Jiang Chen turned his head to look at the knight who had come down with him, and ordered.

"Yes!"

Hu Cheng nodded respectfully, walked back to the center of the circular giant gate, bent down and took the pendant out of the groove, and sent it to Jiang Chen.

Taking the pendant from the knight's hand, Jiang Chen beckoned to the soldiers behind him, motioned for them to follow, and then walked towards the corridor.

Under the leadership of Hu Cheng, the six people held rifles and steadily protected Jiang Chen's left and right.

Soon, the group came to the end of the corridor.

Jiang Chen took out the key again, put it on the card reader of an alloy door and swiped it.

After reading the code in the ruby, the alloy door slowly opened, and the cold light that opened the second time illuminated the dark space. Gradually, he saw the spectacle behind the door, and Jiang Chen's pupils gradually dilated, blooming with amazing colors.

Like terracotta warriors, in a space covering an area of tens of thousands of square meters, there are about 2,000 oval-shaped dormant warehouses. The white shell resembles a life-size goose egg lying diagonally, entangled in pipes as thick as small arms, entangled with the central master computer and life-sustaining device.

It's not a refuge, it's a time machine.

From the past decades ago to the future today, what is carried is the spark of civilization.

"Wait for me here. ”

Leaving these words, Jiang Chen walked towards the nearest giant egg with the indescribable excitement in his heart, and reached out and pressed the button with the words "End Dormancy".

The smooth "bullet shell" opened a neat slit, and a cold white mist erupted from the gap.

As if reborn from a cocoon, the shell of the dormant chamber slowly opened, revealing the girl lying in the bullet casing, her skin as smooth as mutton fat jade.

However, when he saw the man's face clearly, Jiang Chen's excited mood suddenly cooled down as if a basin of cold water had been poured on it.

Suddenly thinking of something, he jerked his head up and looked at the central control computer.

This familiar device......

As if to confirm his suspicions, the cold display slowly lit up, and a man in a suit appeared in the center of the screen.

He sat in an office chair with the night view of Wanghai City before the war.

That expressionless face, as if he was not interested in everything.

"Hello, future friend...... Judging by your expression, where have you seen me?" )