A few seconds later, she saw it.

The two shrieks flew overhead, each carrying something.

She remembered what the ghost had said earlier, that the Obsidian Hunters had provided the Emperor with samples of the "virus", could it be that those boxes in their hands contained this thing?

Joyna didn't have time to deal with them now, and if she did, it would be more convenient for her to go straight to the Emperor's lab to find out.

The heavy alloy gate is in the courtyard next to the building, and it looks like a basement door, without the slightest hint of concealment.

After a few turns, Joyna found that there was no mechanism that could be opened. After thinking for a while, she thought that this gate might not be controlled from the outside, and that the control and mechanical transmission parts should be inside.

"No way! Try it, as long as it's not vandalism, and hopefully it won't trigger an alarm or anything like that. ”

After making sure that no one around her noticed it, she bent down directly, put her fingers into the gap in the iron gate, her arms were slightly forced, and the "clang" sound of the winch and gear rubbing in her ears came from her ears.

She was happy in her heart, and it seemed that she could open it with brute force.

As long as there is a geared mechanism, it can be operated in reverse, regardless of the mechanical force or any other force, the difference is that the force is applied in the opposite direction.

Of course, it is impossible for ordinary people to think of using such brute force to open the door, but Joyna is different, her strength is so great that she can twist the armor plate of an armored car as a towel, and this kind of heavy iron guy is like a child's toy in her hands.

The only thing to worry about was the alarm system, and the power surged in her arm, and a spike grew out of her skin, ready to pop out and smash the alarm device. But this worry was obviously unnecessary, and there was no movement coming from inside after opening a gap.

After forcibly opening the back gate, she propped up the crack with her arm, looked at it, her eyes quickly adjusted to the darkness, saw the situation in the passage, and then flew down without hesitation.

As expected, this passage is one of the many entrances and exits to the underground base.

The not-so-wide road has fluorescent lights flashing on the top wall, and the two cars driving side by side seem a little too narrow, it looks like a side road leading to a main entrance, and from time to time there is the sound of motors and rumbling machinery, which may be vehicles or other mechanical equipment.

Joyna took a few steps forward and shook her head amusedly, feeling that her outfit was too conspicuous.

After thinking about it for a moment, she finally had an idea.

If these above-ground buildings are the residences of engineers or scholars, and the tunnels built in the basement are to make it easier for them to travel and work, then it is expected that you can find such things as protective clothing in the houses.

Not in a hurry to explore, she turned around and returned to the ground building, and went straight to the balcony on the second floor.

There was no one inside, and when I opened the balcony door, I was greeted by a photo wall, and under several large photos, there was a row of tridents and castle-patterned coats of arms, no different from the one I had seen before.

"Well, this guy still has a lot of contributions." Joyna smiled slightly, and her gaze slowly moved to the photos.

In the center of the photo, an elderly *** is in the middle, and there are some people behind him who are also wearing white overalls.

Behind them were undulating knolls in the sand, a building with a faint roof visible, a few date palms next to it, and a huge buried object in the background, almost as majestic as the mountains in the distance.

"Huh? This is not the ...... of a pre-civilization"

Joyna looked at the photos closely, a little surprised.

Absolutely, the buildings in the background were huge, and although less than a third of the wreckage was left on the surface, she still recognized it by searching her memory.

"That's right! This wheel-like wreckage...... Isn't it humanity's first space city, the Americas? It seems that the emperor has increased his technological prowess by excavating these relics. She muttered to herself.

After careful identification, she saw that there were traces of the photograph having been copied, most likely a print, apparently there had been many copies, at least everyone in the photograph should have had one at that time, right?

She couldn't help but think like this, and couldn't help but look around.

The bedroom is a little too clean and tidy, and the owner of the house is almost the same if he doesn't have a cleanliness habit.

Against the wall was a large iron bed, with nothing but the photo wall in front of it, not even curtains in the window, a small table and a chair in the corner.

Joyna's gaze fell on the other side, where what she was looking for was a wooden wardrobe.

The style of this wardrobe is somewhat similar to the one she used at home when she was a child, 2 meters high and 3 meters wide, square, with a somewhat mottled surface of patent leather, and a uniform European flower pattern on the wooden frame and doorknob.

Joyna couldn't help but be a little surprised to see this kind of thing.

She touched the old patent leather with her hand, and couldn't help but laugh out loud - the wardrobe was actually made of metal, and the outside was just an imitation of wood, I wonder if it was copied from the previous design.

Joyna remembered when she was a child, about 6 or 7 years old, because she was afraid of lightning and thunderstorms and rumbling thunder, and in times of strong wind and rain, she would often hide in the closet in a panic, and huddle in the corner shivering.

Her military father will also appear at the door in due course.

As a young child, she covered her ears and buried her head deep in her knees, pretending not to hear the thunder.

"Knock knock - are you afraid of thunder?"

He would gently tap the frame of the closet with his hand, mimicking the knock on the door when a guest arrived, and ask in a deep voice, "Can I go in and take refuge with me?" ”

She was already flustered, thinking that the beating was part of the thunder, and before she could agree, her father opened a crack and smiled at her.

"You know, I've been scared at your age, do you know where that fear comes from?"

She would continue to cover her ears and not want to hear at all, so she shook her head desperately.

"Hehe, fear is caused by ignorance...... There are some things that you won't be afraid of once you understand them! Regardless of whether she heard it or not, her father patiently explained, the voice sounding steady, not at all afraid of thunder.

She spread her fingers in a small slit and stole a few words.

"It's such a terrifying loud sound, why aren't adults scared but I'm afraid?" Young Joyna couldn't help but think so.

"I have a medicine here, the name is 'Dreadnought Medicine', you will know everything after eating it, and you will not be afraid, do you want to try one?" The father's large hand was spread out, and in the palm of his hand was a small pale yellow candy.

"Come, put it in your mouth, and courage will grow out of your body in no time, if you don't believe it, try it."

Joyna let go of a small hand covering her ear, quickly grabbed the candy, threw it into her mouth, and continued to cover her ear with her hand.

Tasting the slightly sour and sweet taste of sugar made her feel a little calmer, and she was really not as scared as before.

Father smiled and squeezed half of his body in.

The sweet taste in her mouth also seemed to relax her fearful nerves, and she began to listen to her father's speech: "A specific area of the human brain, after generating a sense of fear, will become active, and over time it will give people courage. ”

Looking at Joyna's big twinkle eyes, my father grinned: "Scientists have discovered a gene that causes fear, and this gene controls the secretion of proteins in the brain center, an area involved in the fear response. ”

"Then is the 'dreadnought' you just gave me made of it?"

"Congratulations, you got it right! How's that, you're not scared now, are you? ”

Joyna nodded, grabbed her father's outstretched arm, and slowly straightened up and walked out of the closet.

Of course, as she grew up, there is no such thing as a "fearless pill" in this world, and all fear comes from the human heart - complex emotions caused by various unknown factors.

The candy her father gave her was just an ordinary candy, and it did work at the time, perhaps it was more symbolic than practical, and it soothed her young heart.

But later, her father and mother divorced, and she still doesn't know the reason.

After leaving her mother, her father took her alone. Moreover, he began to drink heavily, his temper became worse and worse, and he became much harsher with her.

The main thing is that he no longer comforts her with candy in thunder.

But she has imprinted that sentence deeply in her mind, and "fearless" has become her habit.

Although she is still a weak little girl, when she encounters something that frightens her, she is used to understanding the cause of her fear before solving the problem. This habit remained until she met the man, her first love, who was also a soldier.

As she had guessed, there was an engineer's overalls in the closet in front of her.

She wore her red hair up, put on her helmet, and looked indistinguishable from the real engineers in the mirror.

She was very satisfied with the outfit, it was enough to deceive people's ears and eyes, except for the round chest that was a little tight, the dress was quite qualified, and she gave her new makeup a score of 90.

After some disguise, she pulled a trident badge from the wall and pinned it to her left arm.

Coming to the passage again, the dim fluorescence was very unstable, flickering and dimming. After turning a fork in the road, she saw a downward staircase on the right, and a metal door next to the road.

After a little inquiry, she pulled the lock and walked straight down when she saw that there was nothing abnormal.

It was pitch black ahead, and even the flickering fluorescent lights were gone. The clatter of the machinery and the clanging of the clatter from nowhere were all over the place, and the smell of burning metal was in the wind blowing in the face.

Intuition made Joyna think that there must be a hot scene below, maybe a workshop like a steel mill?

"Well, looks like you've come to the right place! I just don't know what's down there......"

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