He's right...... If we fail, more people will die...... Even...... The history of the human species will end here......" Qi Lin sighed and took over the conversation.

"Boom." George couldn't help but swallow a big mouthful of saliva, "If we fail...... Mankind...... Humanity...... Is it really going extinct? Just like in those disaster movies? ”

"yes...... When I used to watch those movies, I always felt that the end of the world was so far away...... Until now, this burden of saving the world has fallen on my shoulders, and it still feels a little unreal. Qi Lin shook his head slightly.

"Don't worry, buddy, according to the plots in those disaster movies, since the task of saving the world has been handed over to you, you will definitely have the aura of the protagonist." George suddenly pulled out a somewhat obscene smile.

"Borrow your good words......"

Protagonist...... Are you the protagonist? …… Even if it's ...... Not all stories end happily, the real world is not a commercial film, and no one knows whether it will be a happy ending or a bad ending in the end......

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The next day.

It seems that there is really a "protagonist aura" at work in the dark, Qi Lin and they not only did not encounter a blizzard, but they did not even collide with the polar mutant creatures, and easily climbed over the Alaska Mountains like a moat, and when the sky darkened again, the outline of the ruins of Anchorage had appeared on the horizon at the end of the field of vision.

"It's so completely ruined...... I can barely find a complete building......" George sighed, holding a telescope in his hand.

"Of course...... While Anchorage wasn't bombed with a hydrogen bomb, the aerial bombs dropped on the city were enough to wipe it off the map......," Harvey said.

"Why isn't there a shelter built underground in Anchorage? I'm curious about that. Qi Lin turned his head to Harvey and asked, as the largest city in the entire Alaska, there is not a single underground shelter within two hundred kilometers of Anchorage, which is not only puzzling, after all, at the moment of the outbreak of war, it is impossible to have time to carry out long-distance transfers, even if there is no shelter directly under the big city, then there should be some temporary shelters or underground passages in the suburbs...... But none of this is available in Anchorage.

"In the early days of the war, Anchorage was indeed the stronghold of the Alaskan Army, and the battle for the Anchorage Guards under the command of General Constantine took place here...... However, later in the war, most of the troops stationed in Alaska were transferred to Fort Yukon, and most of the underground shelters were built near Fort Yukon, and Anchorage became a shelter for civilians...... At the same time, it has also become a false target to attract enemy bombing. Harvey said.

"Using civilians as bait...... They're crazy, aren't they...... I remember that the United States claims to be the most dish-boiled country in the world, and this kind of human rights abuse ......" The corners of Qi Lin's mouth twitched slightly, and he knew far less about the inside story of this war that had passed than Harveys, who was a senior military officer at the time.

"At the time, it wasn't made public, and people thought it was just a tragedy because of an intelligence error...... Of course, after the Vault era began, organizations and conglomerates released a lot of classified information like this in order to take power away from politicians, and these things became the straw that broke the camel's back...... At the same time, it also sent those consortia to the pinnacle of human social power in the new era. Harvey continued.

"But now they are our enemies...... I'm curious, if in the end I win and close the mastermind, then the time will come...... Who will be the rulers? ”

"Who knows...... But chaos is certainly inevitable. Anyway, do you want to be an emperor? ”

"Emperor?" Qi Lin was stunned for a moment.

"Occupy the mountain as the king, establish the order of the new era, and become the ruler of the new era...... Don't you want to? ”

"To be honest, I'm not interested, I've never thought about this kind of thing." Qi Lin shook his head.

"Don't talk too much, people change."

"Perhaps. Okay, it's time for us to separate for the time being, there's the radiation zone ahead, you wait for me here, I'll be back as soon as I can. Qi Lin took a few steps forward, turned to Harveys and said.

"Okay, but if you don't come back within forty-eight hours, we'll find another way."

"Hmm." Qi Lin nodded, and walked towards the ruins of Anchorage with the equipment he had put together......

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On the outskirts of the city of Anchorage was a five-kilometre-deep cluster of bunkers, of course, now in ruins, covered in a thick layer of snow on the grey concrete, and thick steel bars crisscrossed like dead branches, stretching crookedly from the ground to the sky.

Qi Lin cautiously walked between the ruins of the bunker, but just as he turned over a fallen anti-aircraft turret, a very faint, dull sound of metal friction suddenly came into his ears not far away, through the thick snow and fortifications, this sound was easily ignored, when Qi Lin's perception ability, but in an instant, it locked the direction from which the sound came.

"There's something in the bunker down there?"

Qi Lin immediately raised his vigilance, took off the sapper shovel, and began to dig up the thick snow under his feet.

In less than ten minutes, a path just enough to accommodate one person appeared at Qi Lin's feet, and at the end of the path, a rusty bunker iron gate was dug out by Qi Lin.

The sound of metal grinding came from behind the door.

The door lock had been rusted and very fragile, Qi Lin pulled the deadbolt off with a slight tug, he held the gun in one hand, and gently pushed the iron door open with the other.

A faint smell of corpses came from inside the crack in the door, and through the crack in the door, Qi Lin saw a similarly rusty power armor pestle in the center of the first floor of the bunker, and the sound came from inside the power armor.

“…… Is it a zombie? ”

Qi Lin pushed the door open completely, stepped over several corpses lying on the ground, walked in front of the power armor, and gently tapped the helmet of the power armor with the grip of the pistol-

"Bang bang!"

There was a knocking sound from inside the power armor in response, and it was clear that something was trapped inside the power armor, which had lost its energy source.

Qi Lin took out a saber and pried open the face of the helmet, and the face of a living dead appeared in front of his eyes, and when he saw the living man, the living dead trapped in the power armor struggled violently, opened his mouth to reveal his mutilated teeth, and made a "ho-ho" sound from the depths of his throat.

Glancing at the living dead's yellow-white cloudy eyes, Qi Lin shook his head with some disappointment, this was an unconscious zombie, not a zombie that could communicate.

Holding the pistol against the zombie's head, Qi Lin pulled the trigger, ending its struggle.

The model of this power armor is T-11, or T-13, in short, it is a very early model, at that time, power armor has not even been installed in the army on a large scale, and this very early power armor has no radiation protection function, which will cause the person wearing it to be mutated into zombies by radiation.

The Alaska theater was one of the first theaters in the United States to put power armor into actual combat, and it is not surprising that such an old antique will appear here.

Walking around the bunker, Qi Lin didn't find anything valuable, the electronic equipment in the bunker had basically been scrapped, and there was no important information in the officer's combat records, as Harvey said, at that time, the Anchorage bombing incident was completely regarded as a tragedy caused by intelligence errors.

And the troops stationed here, as part of the decoy themselves, naturally cannot obtain real information.

Glancing at the corpse of the officer in the lieutenant's uniform, Qi Lin dropped the yellowed battle notebook beside it and walked out of the bunker.

Anchorage was bombed almost ten hours before Fort Yukon, and the deaths of a million people bought the garrisons at Fort Yukon and elsewhere enough time to successfully move into underground shelters before the next round of nuclear strikes...... At that time, the politicians of the United States were still thinking about preserving their military strength as much as possible and preparing for the war that would inevitably break out after returning to the surface, but even they didn't expect that all this would not only ruin their future, but even the preserved power would make a wedding dress for others.

And those big conglomerates are the ones who profit the most...... Now, of course, these forces have been subsumed into the organization...... Brought under the mastermind's umbrella.

Passing through the bunkers and over a ring highway that had also been buried by heavy snow, Qi Lin finally entered the city of Anchorage.

Before the outbreak of the war, Anchorage's permanent population was about 300,000 to 400,000, but later due to the influx of war refugees, this number expanded to 1 million.

"The coordinates of the safe stronghold given by the mastermind should be in this area...... But where is it? ”

Qi Lin looked around, but the clues provided by the mastermind had been cut off by here, and as for where the safe stronghold was, Qi Lin himself didn't know anything.

Do you want to search the ruins of this area inch by inch...... In that case, with Qi Lin's efficiency alone, I'm afraid there will be no drama at all in ten days and half a month.

"I just lost contact at this critical moment......"

Qi Lin was a little annoyed in his heart, raised his foot and kicked up a puddle of snow on the ground, the white broken snow flew out far away, and the light gray cement pavement was immediately revealed.

"Huh?!"

Seeing the cement pavement exposed under his feet, Qi Lin suddenly held his breath - the snow in this place seemed to be much shallower than in other places!

This means that the snow should have been cleared once not long ago...... And who will clear the snow from the ruins of this city with no living people?

That's the clue left by the mastermind!

Qi Lin immediately waved the sapper shovel, centering on the position where he was standing, and shoveled away all the snow around him.

The snow is shallowest in the northwest, and the farther you go in that direction, the shallower the snow becomes!

Qi Lin raised his head and looked in the northwest direction, only to see that there was a tall building not far from the northwest, although this building was blown down by nearly a third, but the remaining part still looked very grand, more than a dozen marble pillars with three or four people hugging each other stood on the steps, looking from a distance under the white snow, it looked like the remains of a temple of a lost civilization.

“…… Federal Reserve Bank building? Is it safe to be in here? ”

With a hint of curiosity, Qi Lin walked to the front of the bank building.

The bank building, which was supposed to be a key defensive target for the U.S. military in the old days, was covered with barbed wire and barricades, and sandbags were piled up at the gate...... And near the steps, Qi Lin casually swept away a little snow, and there were a large number of human bones underneath.

Presumably, when Anchorage was bombed, the sturdy, military-protected bank building was naturally used as a good refuge for panicked civilians, and many people flocked to it, while many who failed to squeeze into the bank were killed alive outside.

Pushing open the dilapidated door, Qi Lin stepped into the lobby of the bank, which, as he had expected, was covered with a layer of corpses of refugees who, though not killed by the bomb, had died from the radiation contamination caused by the dirty bombs that had subsequently dropped there.

"Sure enough, this place has been cleaned up......"

Although the corpses in this place have not been removed, there are thousands of people who have died here in a huge bank hall, not to mention thousands, but Qi Lin has not seen a single living dead, not even their corpses, which is impossible with the normal radiation mutation rate.

Even a small motorcycle club and a thug stronghold of a dozen people can have mutants, and these thousands of people have been killed by radiation, how can there not be a single living dead?

Aside from the traces left by the shrapnel of the bomb, there are no signs of human violence in the bank's door, so the possibility of mutated living dead leaving the place is also ruled out, and in the absence of external stimuli, zombies rarely choose to leave the enclosed space, they will enter a state similar to dormancy......

But here...... Nothing!

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