Chapter 349: Darkness
"Can you show me there?" Ace seemed to be very concerned about this, he said.
Looking at him with some surprise, Barrett was very embarrassed, he didn't want his parents' last residence to be discovered by these people, but how to fool him?
He said it had collapsed, but it still couldn't seem to stop him.
"I'm sorry, I have my mission, I'm going to find Maqiao Town first." Barrett shook his head, his meaning was clear, I had to complete my mission first.
After completing the mission, Barrett naturally will not continue to stay on Earth, and everything has nothing to do with him.
"............" Ace was silent for a while, and could only accept the result.
"And how are you going to find it?" Jason leaned over and asked.
He's still working on his idea of teaming up, and as long as he can make money, he doesn't care where he's going next.
Barrett thought about the way forward for a moment, and he said, "I'm going to earn some money and then I'll go to Kandahar." ”
Actually, it was just because there might be some clues to Project X there, and he was interested in how Bass had the technology.
"Four thousand miles? Are you really going?? Nightblade's eyes widened suddenly, he knew Jason's intentions, and he was afraid that he would have to follow him if he continued like this.
"Well, I don't have any other goals anyway, just find Maqiao Town." Barrett replied.
"Wait! I'll ask you first, if you find Maqiao Town on the way, or if Maqiao Town is nearby, you ............ "Nightblade can only make the best plan, that is, you don't have to really run to Kandahar to hell."
Barrett nodded: "That's fine, the most important thing for me is to find Maqiao Town, everything else is just clues." ”
This was a relief, and Nightblade didn't object to anything more.
"What are you doing in Maqiao Town?" Ace asked coldly again, it seemed that he had been waiting for this question for a long time.
Jason and Nightblade both inhaled, why does this guy have no brains, this kind of thing is also to the bottom of the matter? It really annoyed Barrett, people patted their butts and left, you still play a fart!
However, Barrett was not angry, he just looked at Ace carefully for a while, but unfortunately the cloak was very tightly wrapped, and he did not find anything worth noting.
"Find something, maybe a person. Maybe just a few words. To be honest, Barrett didn't know what he was looking for, he only knew the hint "seventh", and he didn't even know what this seventh meant.
But combined with the previous burial, it should be an item, right?
said that half of it was hidden and half of it was learned by Barrett, but I have to say that it was all fake, it was too easy to be recognized, and it was all true, and he couldn't put his mind at ease.
It was only by this time that the four of them gradually quieted down, and the slight sound of water coming from the working surface outside, as well as the howling of wild beasts, reached their ears.
It also reminds them that there are still a lot of things waiting for them outside!
Gradually, the novelty of seeing something magical wore off, and they had one more problem to face---- the torch was running out.
"Damn, there's not even a thing to burn in this place." Jason complained.
Looking at the flames that were about to go out, he knew that without the fire, it would be difficult to get out of the pit.
After all, even in the daytime, there is no light at all.
And tomorrow morning, the passage will be full of damned beasts, hunters in the dark.
They have kerosene, and strips of cloth are not difficult, but sticks are not easy to find.
"I didn't expect this pit to be quite well preserved." At first, Barrett thought it was one of those precarious caverns with seepage stone walls everywhere.
"Because there's wild beasts here. Gold diggers can't get in. Nightblade said, lighting the last torch, and the four men were almost burned with the torches.
Barrett stood up, and he said, "I'll go look for it, you're waiting for me here." ”
Seeing him walking towards the corner, Nightblade hurriedly stood up and tried to hand him the torch.
Shaking his head, Barrett said, "I can see it without it, you can keep it for yourselves." ”
With that, Barrett grabbed the iron fence of the ventilation duct and pumped it out, and he got into the ventilation duct.
“………… If I had known, I would have saved some effort......" Jason sighed, he was different from ordinary people, he always crushed the enemy in strength, but this time he had to admit that this pervert was even stronger.
"I can see it at night, and my strength and accuracy are far beyond ordinary people, this guy is what those people say?" Nightblade also voiced the suspicions in his heart.
It is said that before the war, humans once developed some super soldiers to fight against certain people's weapons.
"The ghost knows, but it's good for us, as long as we can get along with this guy, I'm afraid that there will be no money to make?" As long as the hunter can hunt the prey, then he will not worry about life.
Ace sat quietly on the sidelines, not joining in the whisper.
After all, he and Jason Nightblade are not on the same path, and he is not a professional hunter.
On the other side, Barrett crawled down the pipe, and soon he found another room.
The rain was pouring down from the main ventilation duct, but it didn't hurt to hear the water, there was an outlet under the ventilation shaft.
Eyes searched in the darkness, and this was the rest room where the workers waited to go to work.
There are several internal phones on the table, and there is a console in the middle, which seems to be used to control the grabs in front.
A row of white lockers stood next to the wall, which appeared to be for the personal belongings of the workers.
Reached out and grabbed the cabinet door and tugged at it, there was a lock.
It's just that this kind of shoddy iron cabinet has no real secrecy at all.
Barrett pushed slightly, and the door was distorted.
Rummaging through a few times, the old weathered clothes, rubber boots.
Barrett found a helmet with a headlamp, but after trying it, the headlamp was no longer powered.
After looking around, Barrett didn't find anything useful, but found a metal lighter, which was barely usable.
"After all, more than 100 years have passed............ "Time can destroy many things, and human life is one of them."
Walking towards the console, Barrett finally found something useful.
A flashlight that uses a decay battery.
In fact, it is an adjustable portable light, not a flashlight in the conventional sense.
Heavy and cumbersome under-mounted power supply with a lamphead that can be adjusted up and down 70 degrees.
After opening it and measuring the battery, Barrett was surprised to find that it was not bad, and there was still a little less than half of the battery.
Turning off the power, Barrett hung the lamp around his waist.
Opening the door to the break room, Barrett stepped into the barbed wire passage for work.
At the end of the passage is the glide cable car that descends to the working face, and a few hundred meters down is the real mining area.
Now there is no point in going down there.
Barrett shook his head and returned to the break room.
Crawling down the ventilation duct to the other side, and after a considerable detour, Barrett found a room again.
It's not like the common room outside, it's obviously for some people.
There is also a computer on the table, and the desk is also a more elaborate table.
When I opened the drawer, there wasn't much useful stuff in it, but there was a lot of currency that I used to use.
It's a pity that these things are not even as good as waste paper now, after all, they are a little hard to wipe their butts.
Opening the cabinet below, Barrett was surprised to find that the computer was still powered.
Perhaps because of the two lines, the computers in this office are still in a working state.
Soon, the computer screen lit up.
There wasn't much useful stuff in the computer, except for two emails, and the rest was a blank slate.
These two emails were clearly posted when the mine had already been attacked.
The first is a safety warning, from the headquarters of Electrolux Mining.
To put it bluntly, it was a safety warning that asked the mine security personnel everywhere to pay attention to the movements of the miners and ensure that the pit did not get involved in the war.
The second is the reply from the security officer to the company.
"It turns out that the mining companies at that time were still counting on neutrality." After reading the email, Barrett was a little puzzled, originally most of the human race had been evacuated, and the earth was far less crowded than it was at the beginning, so why did there still be a war?
Is it really to seize the so-called power? But looking at what these emails say, the mining company, or the controllers behind it, don't want to be involved in the war at all.
Smart people know that people who can control hard currencies such as minerals, oil, electricity, and weapons are definitely not small people.
They all have some background in it, so why do they avoid war?
Maybe the start of the war itself was not a so-called power struggle at all? Rather, someone wants to unilaterally exterminate all of humanity?
Judging from the results, there is still a great possibility, the so-called destruction weapon recorded in that book is the tool used to erase living things in the original ruins.
Turning off the computer, Barrett walked to the dark room in the back, which must have what he was looking for, since it was the security officer's management room.
At that time, the record, or the weapon, could get the decay core that could still be used.
In the darkroom, the first thing that catches your eye is a skeleton.
He had a pistol in his hand, and the target of the shot was clearly himself.
Suicide? What happened?
Fortunately, the doubts did not last long, and on the workbench, Barrett found a page of paper, which was not badly weathered because it was kept in a dark room.
"It was I who gave the order to deal with the workers, but then what? Close the gate back to the work face and they'll all die inside. How do I explain this to their families? ”
"Damn, those guys are going to blow up the floodgates, what am I going to do? Do you want to use that? ”
"Jeno, I can't get out of here anymore............"
At this point, the text ends.
Barrett looked at the shattered plastic casing on the outside of the button marked with the word emergency, and he understood what was going on.
The man killed all the miners, and no matter what method was used, none of them left the depths of the mine.
Maybe it's poison gas, maybe it's something else.
In the end, perhaps with a troubled conscience, this pathetic guy chose to commit suicide.
"There is no sign of destruction outside, and this mine should not be involved in the war." Barrett couldn't think of why he killed the workers in the pit, maybe they knew some secret?
But they certainly weren't slaughtered because of the war.
As for Jeno, Barrett can't figure it out now, because he finds that someone has come down outside.
"Kama's people?" At this time, entering the pit is simply looking for death, Barrett thought to himself.
Sure enough, the beasts roaming in the darkness soon spotted the guys trying to enter the mine.
It's easy to get in from the outside, after all, the beasts have been eliminated by Barrett and them along the way, and the hunters who were supposed to go out are also blocked here at the work surface.
But getting here means that the home of these terrifying hunters has arrived.
Habitually said to the wrist: "Withdraw!" Don't come down! ”
But Barrett soon realized that he didn't have any way to contact Ben now.
Closing his eyes, sensing the hunters approaching in circles, Barrett's mouth soured.
Without picking up the pistol in the skeleton's hand, Barrett rushed out of the dark room.
Soon, Barrett crawled back into the room.
The three of them were startled, they thought that the scream was Barrett's.
"I'll go, brother! I thought you were hanging. Jason said with a grin.
"Kama's people are almost dead." Barrett shook his head, and he talked about the situation outside.
"What are we going to do? Rushing out through the passage cleared by the people of Kama outside? Nightblade suggested.
Now is indeed a good opportunity to attract the attention of the hunter with the help of Kama's people.
Jason's face suddenly became very ugly, and he was in pain.
He knew that if he ran out like this, he really had no fart, and he couldn't clean up the hunters below, and he didn't have a penny.
The expression of his huge face was very obvious, and the other three people saw it.
"At this time, you are still worried about money, do you really have to wait until tomorrow to go outside to clean up?" Nightblade's face was depressed.
"Where's the torch?" Jason ignored him and asked Barrett.
He needs a reason to stay here now.
Barrett removed the portable lamp from his waist.
"This thing provides light, but it doesn't scare away the beasts." Indeed, Barrett said, the beast was not afraid of light, but of temperature.
Instinct allows them to dodge the flames that burn them, but the lights don't do much.
Frowning, Jason was engaged in a fierce battle inside.
After a while, he raised his head and said, "I'm reluctant to give up the money outside!" Wealth and danger are sought! ”
Nightblade rolled his eyes, and he shook his head and sighed, "I knew you were the bird. ”
Ace didn't say a word, he just looked at Barrett.
"I think it's best to act together." Barrett did not object to Jason's choice, after all, the four of them walked together, and the possibility of going out was the greatest.
The four of them glanced at each other, and Barrett said softly: "Then recharge your energy, and we will withdraw tomorrow morning." ”
Flipping through his pockets, he poured out the jerky, and divided some of them, Barrett said, "It depends on your ability to bring how much you can bring, I don't think Karma will have the idea of fighting this pit again after this trip." ”
He was the only one who saw the vast number of adult beasts, but in fact, four people were lucky, and they were not dealing with the real main force of the beasts.
If the fight continues, sooner or later those leaders will break through the blockade of the planks, and who will be the real hunters when the time comes............
The screams faded away, and either Karma's men were dead or they fled.
But can they really escape?
In this darkness?