Chapter 986: Dr. Horford's Diary
"Caught a new signal...... It's a backup chain of command! Located in the G15 barracks in the West District...... No, no, it was a false target, and the signal to replace Odin only appeared for a moment before falling silent again...... But after my calculations, it should be in this position! Qin's voice rang out, and at the same time, he also passed over a flat map of the first floor of the Fort Yukon base.
The coordinate point where this new signal is located is right below the bar called "Silt at the Bottom of the Yukon River"!
"Ella, adjust the coordinates immediately, don't give the other party time to react!"
"The goal is locked! Draining the clone's psychic power...... Ready to ...... Launch! ”
Another cannon blasted out, and a second hole appeared in the dome of the clone factory that went straight to the surface, and the new command signal was completely gone.
"Well done! According to the footage captured in the surveillance camera, the dispatch of the base garrison on the surface has fallen into chaos, a few places are even killing each other, the order messages of the subordinate troops are chaotic and disorderly, and there are a lot of conflicts between each other, it can be seen that the mastermind and Xia Xia's agents left in the base should have been cleared by us! Qin said quickly, and there was even a hint of excitement in his tone that was extremely rare on weekdays.
"What's going on with the Mastermind and Xia's side? Any news? Qi Lin hurriedly asked.
"It's not clear from the mastermind's side, but Xia and his elite troops are crossing the Bering Strait, intending to land directly in Alaska! We have a maximum of eight hours left! ”
"Eight hours...... It's enough to turn the Fort Yukon base into our pocket! Just as Qi Lin was thinking about how to rebel against those soldiers who had no one to command, Sophia suddenly walked up to him and Ella, and said with a serious face: "I want to ...... I know what the numbers my father left me were. ”
"What is it?" Qi Lin and Ella's attention was instantly attracted by Sophia's words, and the two of them set their eyes on Sophia's body at the same time.
"It's the password to his safe, and there must be something in that safe that my father wants me to see." Sophia said.
"Where's his safe? Are you sure the safe wasn't opened by the agents? ”
"The safe is in the central lab...... The safe is cast together with an entire metal wall, which is difficult to break even with violence, and the safe also has a self-destruct device, which will destroy everything inside if it is detected. ”
"What about the password? Will this code be deciphered? ”
"Without the help of the main control brain, it is absolutely impossible to crack the password of the safe in a short period of time with a terminal with weak manpower and computing power alone - the workload of cracking is not much smaller than the mental power of collecting clones." Sophia said, "My dad ...... If he still wants to pass this information on to me in that situation, it means that there must be something very important in the safe......"
"Okay, that's it, let's divide our soldiers into two ways, Ella, you cooperate with Qin to invade the radio station of the base, find a way to tell all the people in the base the news of the 'Sword of Damocles' through broadcasting or any other means that can be used, and try to draw the soldiers to our side as much as possible, while Sophia and I are going to the central laboratory to open the safe left by Dr. Horford, as for Ayakui, stay here with Ella, in case there is still lurking in the base." 'Agent', it's up to you to snipe! ”
"Is it enough for just the two of you? The central laboratory must be heavily guarded now, do you want to call for more people? Ella said with some concern.
"It's enough, there are few people and the target is small, besides, the situation is not completely controlled by us now, and this place may still be attacked, and whether this amount of troops can hold the clone factory that has lost its gate is still two words."
"Alright then, good luck."
"Good luck too."
Ella and Sophia hugged vigorously, while Qi Lin picked up a tote bag full of guns and ammunition on the side, and then carried two bazookas behind him.
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Located on the lowest floor of the spiral corridor, the Central Laboratory covers an area almost a hundred times larger than those ordinary laboratories, and in addition to being used for some important experiments, the Central Laboratory also contains a living area of more than 500 square meters, where Dr. Horford and Sophia usually live.
The two of them went all the way down the spiral corridor, due to the confusion of the command system, they were not intercepted on the way, only a few stragglers wandered in the corridor, and these scattered soldiers who had lost contact with their superiors were almost killed by Qi Lin in one face.
"By the way, you know what's in your dad's safe?" Qi Lin changed the magazine of the submachine gun in his hand as he turned to ask Sophia, who was following him.
"Some belongings and personal sundries, a small number of experimental samples that can be stored at room temperature...... Oh, and my father's diary! He had a habit of keeping a diary, and his diary was in that safe. ”
"In this way, nothing else seems to be of much value, and what he wants you to see is his diary." Qi Lin nodded, raised the submachine gun with one hand and fired a burst of strafing, knocking down the three "black-eyed" soldiers blocking the door of the central laboratory, while Sophia quickly stepped forward and entered her iris password and fingerprint password, and finally, gently swiped the magnetic card into the card slot-
The inside of the central laboratory can be said to be a mess, there are traces of destruction everywhere, and the corpses of the soldiers of the "Black-eyed" unit are lying to the ground, and there are basically no external injuries on the surface of these corpses, only a small amount of black bruises spilling out of the seven orifices.
Obviously, these soldiers were all killed by Qin with mental powers, he had been imprisoned in the central laboratory before, and after being awakened by Cooper, Qin killed all the way from here, until he reached the location of the main brain clone located on the fourteenth basement floor.
After Qin left, the "Black-Eye" troops once occupied the laboratory again, and took Dr. Horford who was hiding inside as a hostage, but the time was pressing, and they did not carefully clean up the central laboratory, but only smashed all the main chassis of the laboratory's computers and removed the storage equipment in it.
As for the living area at the back, it is even like a house that has been raided, even the large bed in the master bedroom has been split, and the mahogany floor on the ground has been pried open.
However, the safe cast inside the wall was still intact - the soldiers who had turned the entire central laboratory upside down had apparently been informed that the safe contained a self-destruct device, so they did not violently open the safe.
"Are you sure that number is the password? If you make a mistake, I'm afraid the contents will be ruined, right? ”
"OK...... That string of numbers must be ...... It can only be the password to this safe, since my father and I moved to this base, except for the destroyed and discarded parts, all his remaining personal belongings have been stored in it. Sophia took a deep breath and typed the numbers into the safe one by one.
There was a soft sound of mechanical gears turning, and the door of the safe made a soft noise.
"The lock is open." Sophia said, pulling the tab and opening the cabinet door.
The safe didn't contain much, except for an exquisitely crafted M1911 pistol and a few 0.45-inch cartridges, a few photographs and documents, a dozen finger-thick gold bars, and a diary with a badly worn leather cover.
Sophia took the diary out of the safe, but before she could open the diary, something that was clipped inside the diary had already slipped out, but fortunately, Qi Lin was quick and reached out to catch it.
It's a palm-sized disc with a date written on the back of the disc.
This date is exactly four months from now, a month before Ella discovered the "Sword of Damocles".
"Turn the diary to this page." Qi Lin told Sophia the date on the CD, and Sophia quickly found the corresponding diary.
On this page, there is also a circular indentation, and it is clear that this disc was originally sandwiched on this page.
"XXX YEAR XX MONTH XX DAY, WEATHER, CLOUDY, MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE 4 DEGREES Celsius, MINIMUM TEMPERATURE -12 DEGREES CELSIUS.
The construction of the cloning plant is nearing completion, and the six large cloning pools have been commissioned, and in the following experimental process, as long as this detailed genetic data is available, a steady stream of clones can be obtained for in vivo experiments...... Although there are many differences in the data of clones compared to real humans, they also have advantages that natural human samples do not have......
Engineer Justin showed me the revised construction drawings, and we discussed some details that needed to be modified for the completion of the main body of the factory, but I found a problem, the space occupied by the cloning factory was very different from the reserved space in the original design, that is, a large part of the space that should have belonged to the cloning factory was diverted to other purposes without the knowledge of the institute.
Based on the blueprints, it is assumed that the space that was diverted for other purposes is located directly above the cloning factory.
After lunch, I made an excuse to leave the institute and sneaked into the place along a construction passage that had not had time to be blocked.
The combination lock here is at a 'forbidden area' level, and no one in the entire Fort Yukon base has permission to enter it, but fortunately, it is also not completely completed here, and there are still a lot of loopholes in the security system, so I was able to fool the permission verification system.
There's a near-finished satellite, an improved version of the Longinus-class, an attack satellite that can carry strategic weapons, but I haven't seen the weapons this satellite is going to carry here.
I wonder if the war is over, and it won't be long before all of humanity will enter the 'utopian world' constructed by the mastermind...... And none of the mutated creatures on the surface can threaten the existence of the mastermind and the 'utopian world', why does the mastermind spend so many resources to build such an attack satellite?
Who is this satellite targeting? Or is it just a strategic reserve? And what is the weapon it will be carrying?
Not only did I have doubts, but I also had a hint of foreboding...... Perhaps, I should ask the Mastermind to transfer my consciousness to the utopian world after the first monitoring session......
Maybe it's all my crankiness, but I don't know why, I always have those idioms that I learned when I was studying in China......
'Birds hide their bows', 'Rabbits and dead dogs cook'...... and, 'unloading the mill and killing the donkey'.
There is no clear arrangement for us to stay as a monitor, and I don't know how many more years we will have to work for the mastermind...... I always think of all the terrible things that I don't dare to think about, or even write them down here......
But, just in case, I copied the control program and key of that Longinus-class satellite...... If the worst of the imagination happens, I can at least fight for the last chance of life for myself and my daughter.
But I hope that never happens.
Don't tell Sophia about this...... Perhaps, all this is just my heart.
I hope so. ”
This was the end of the journal, and the handwriting at the end was a bit sloppy, and it was evident that Dr. Horford was in a very complicated state of mind when he wrote these things, and at that time he may have sensed some clues, but because of the lack of evidence, he preferred to attribute them to his own suspicions.
"No wonder...... It's no wonder that after Ella and I passed on the message of the 'Sword of Damocles', my father immediately believed it, it turned out to be ...... He discovered the existence of Satellite Factory before Ella! Sophia clutched the journal tightly and closed her eyes hard, a tear squeezing out of the corner of her eye and sliding down her face to her chin.
And Qi Lin was staring at the disc in his hand - if what Dr. Horford wrote in his diary was true, then the content of this disc was naturally the control program and key of the Longenus-class satellite carrying the "Sword of Damocles"!
How do you say that sentence - "There is nowhere to find when you step on iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them!" ”
Although Dr. Horford paid a huge price in order to put this disc in Sophia's hands, his original "multi-hearted" move was to directly stuff a card into their hands that was enough to affect the final win or loss!
[PS: The new book "Embers of the Old World" has been postponed for a period of time, and the plots of the two books are often mixed up if they are double-opened, which affects the efficiency, so I decided to finish the "Wasteland Survival Code" as soon as possible, and then write a new book. As for the specific end time, it should be this week. 】()
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