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From Jiang Chen carrying Sun Jiao into the bathroom, to the bedroom bed, the "squeak" sound stopped and calmed down, and the hour hand had already passed the twelve o'clock position.

Leaning on Sun Jiao, who was sleeping like a cat in his arms, Jiang Chen raised his hand to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and lay down on the pillow after letting out a sigh.

casually turned off the lamp on the bedside table, and Jiang Chen pulled up the quilt.

From the time he took a bath, he quickly fell asleep because of the consumption of a lot of physical strength.

Nothing was said all night.

In the early morning of the next day, after having breakfast with the women, Jiang Chen, Sun Jiao, and Xiaorou went out together.

Sending the second daughter to the community center, Jiang Chen took a slight detour when he was heading to the tarmac, and walked in the direction of the warehouse group of the fish bone base.

Although the Fishbone Base is technically a military zone, with the increase in population and the natural buff of the NAC "capital", it is growing at a rate no less than any economic zone within the NAC territory. And the concrete manifestation of this development lies in the ever-expanding warehouse complex and the people who walk through the warehouse area.

In Jiang Chen's memory, at the beginning, there were only a few small warehouses where the materials he had transported from the present world were stacked, but now the area around this place has completely turned into a distribution center for goods second only to the sixth block market. Not far away, the two steel skeleton airship harbors are moving their thick mechanical arms, loading cargo for a helium airship that is about to go to Hongcheng.

Most of the supplies sent to Hongcheng were munitions, and some were canned food, grains, and so on produced in the Garden of Eden.

The young man in charge of piloting the Yunzhi-51 immediately raised his head and gave a military salute when he saw him, and then jumped into the cockpit with his hands and feet to start the engine, and flew him in the direction of the sixth block.

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Heavy snow has halted population growth, but not the prosperity of the frozen Sixth Block.

Looking down from above, the area of the entire Sixth District has expanded compared to last year, and its territory covers almost the entire Jiading District, and the southernmost point has even spread to the north of Qingpu. The trade, which had been interrupted by heavy snowfall, was revived by this belated spring breeze, and the wasteland traders who traveled between the north and south of China flocked to the market, making the market particularly lively after the beginning of spring.

After getting off the helicopter, Jiang Chen went to the parliament building.

At this time, Chu Nan, Zhao Chenwu and other councilors from the sixth block were in a meeting, and Jiang Chen did not disturb them abruptly. After a few words of conversation with the sheriff on duty, he went to the marshal's office on the top floor of the parliament building.

Except for the janitorial staff, who come to clean regularly every day, the office is usually empty, located in the middle of the top floor of the Parliament building, and exists as a symbolic place, next door to the offices of the President and the Executive.

As if she had taken out a small can of coffee beans from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, Jiang Chen casually threw it to Chu Nan's office secretary, asking her to make a pot of coffee and send it to him, and then go and find the new director of the shelter.

He didn't have to wait long, and soon a pot of fragrant coffee was on his desk.

Jiang Chen slowly took the cup and poured a cup for himself. Before the veil-like white mist had dissipated, there was a polite knock at the door.

"Please come in. ”

The door opened, and a young man walked in. His eyes widened in surprise when he saw the pot of coffee on the table, but he quickly recovered from his surprise and walked to the opposite side of Jiang Chen.

"Just sit down. Jiang Chen said with a smile, making a gesture of please to the chair next to him, and at the same time poured him a cup of coffee.

"Thank you. The young man nodded politely, sat down and took a sip of coffee, and said with some emotion, "The nostalgic smell reminds me of the morning before the outbreak of nuclear war...... This thing should be very expensive in the last days. ”

"That's right, after all, more than 20 years later, even if the things related to food are well preserved, they are almost out of date. Jiang Chen said with a smile, "I heard that you want to meet me?

The young man bowed slightly.

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Lu Yihua, the director of Vault 118. When the doors of Vault 118 were opened, we met the emissary you sent and learned about what was happening on the surface. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Yihua paused and said with some emotion.

"Before the door opened, we imagined the end of this war, but we didn't expect it to be like this...... There are no victorious countries, and there are no defeated countries. ”

"It was all more than twenty years ago," Jiang Chen said with a smile and glanced at the wall clock on the wall, "Are you going to tell me that's all?"

Lu Yihua shook his head.

"Nope. To be precise, I'm going to give you something. ”

As he spoke, he removed the pendant from his neck and gently placed it on the table.

Jiang Chen leaned forward slightly and looked at the pendant on the table. I saw that the silver ring was carved with strange patterns, and in the center of the ring was inlaid with a ruby the size of a grain of rice.

No matter how you look at it, this is just an ordinary piece of jewelry.

A hint of confusion appeared in Jiang Chen's expression, and he didn't understand why he wanted to give this thing to himself.

"What is this?"

"It's a key. Lu Yihua looked at Jiang Chen and said, "It's also the mission of Vault 118." ”

"Can you elaborate?" Jiang Chen asked.

"Unlike most shelters for social experimentation and for the preservation of populations, we exist only to leave a little hope for a potentially dark future. As he spoke, Lu Yihua stretched out his index finger and pointed at the table, and gently pushed the key in front of Jiang Chen, "At the bottom of Poyang Lake next to Hongcheng, there is a completely dormant shelter, numbered T7. In the dormant chamber of the vault lie 2,000 researchers, specializing in 167 fields ranging from particle physics to aerospace technology. They will spend the long river of time in slumber until someone opens the shelter and awakens them and their knowledge from beneath the ruins. ”

"In the T7 Shelter No Longer Evacuation Project, the construction party is the Pan-Asian Cooperative Scientific Research Institute, and the project is called 'Civilized Flame'. In the past few days in the Sixth Block, I have indeed seen the germ of civilization, and I hope you can make good use of these researchers to revive the glory of civilization on this land. ”

The ruby the size of a grain of rice emitted a faint arc in the sunlight outside the window.

Picking up the pendant from the table, Jiang Chen said solemnly, "Thank you." ”

"You're welcome, I need to say thank you, I was already ready to make it an heirloom and pass it on to a hundred years later. I didn't expect that I would be able to complete my mission in my lifetime. Lu Yihua stood up, bowed slightly to Jiang Chen, turned around and left the marshal's office. (To be continued.) )