Chapter 119: Settlement 4
In the place where the priest was supposed to preach the divine grace, an entrance of about two meters was opened, and there was no lighting on the gentle slope downward.
"The electricity here is much tighter than in our settlement, and it is charged." Jack explained, and walked down first.
Qian Xiao walked to the entrance for the second time and looked down, and then not from the big bag behind him, but from behind his buttocks, he took out a flashlight that made Qiu Yu feel familiar, and followed Jack to light the way.
The space utilization rate of this underground shelter is the worst that Akiha has ever seen, not to mention that compared to the one when dealing with the lizardmen, it is also much worse than the underground warehouse where the scientist is located. After walking out of a few tens of meters, there is still only a narrow passage. After seeing the patterns and words on the walls under the shaking of Qian Xiao's flashlight, Qiu Yu was almost certain that this underground shelter was actually an abandoned mine.
The air is fairly circulating, but the top of less than two meters is depressing just to walk on, and then it feels like it's not even so smooth to breathe.
It wasn't until after walking a hundred meters that there was a light source for illumination, but most of them had been damaged, and a few electric lights were like sparks floating in the endless darkness, stingily collecting their own faint light in a small area.
Separated by light and darkness are separate rooms made of hollowed-out mines, all of which are sealed with cement, leaving only a small door for people to enter and exit. It seems that it was designed before the war.
The further you go, the more forks in the road and the rooms there are, but all of them have one thing in common - the dust on the door is already quite thick and seems to have not been used for a long time.
Jack also seemed to know what the other three were thinking, explaining, "Having a room of your own means that you have the right to live here. But no fool would find it more comfortable to live here than on the ground, so the rooms here are just a status symbol. ”
Qiu Yu and Qian Xiao were easy to understand, but Coulomb kept shaking his head, saying that he really couldn't understand this strange behavior that didn't help him survive.
Qian smiled and said, "Then what are you bringing us in, won't you want to show us some old antiques who refuse to leave here?" ”
"Antique? That's a more apt word. Jack nodded, "There are always people who don't want to leave here, probably because they think it's safer than the ground. ”
As he spoke, Jack suddenly sped up and walked to a door similar to the rest of the room, just about to knock on the door, but after Qian Xiao's flashlight shined stronger than the surrounding light source, Jack stopped knocking on the door again.
The curious Qian Xiao took a closer look and immediately understood the reason. The dust on this door is no less than anywhere else.
"What is this?"
Jack looked around again, as if to make sure he had gone through the wrong door, "This is the best of the five managers to talk to, but he shouldn't be going to leave here." ”
Qian smiled, "People change, maybe he is not in good health when he is old, so he found a comfortable place outside to recuperate." ”
Jack instinctively wanted to refute, but felt that there was still such a possibility, so he took a few more people around a few times, but all the rooms he saw next did not look like they were uninhabited.
"How do you think it's not just the person you're looking for, it's anyone else, and I haven't seen any of them. It can't be a trap for us. Qian Xiao said very frightening things in a relaxed tone.
When Qian Xiao said this, Jack suddenly reacted, and then kicked open the closed door in front of him. Qian Xiao cooperated with the moment the door was kicked open, and threw the light of the flashlight into the room.
Looking at the empty room, Qian smiled and pouted, "It's all empty." ”
As if stimulated by something, Jack kicked the door open one by one, but the scene was the same in every room.
"We were cheated on by the woman in the bar?" Coulomb didn't understand the current situation, but he remembered that Rebecca had a few of them come here to find the plane, and if everything was emptied, there was no way that something as valuable as the plane would still be left behind.
"Oh! Are we here looking for planes? Qian Xiao didn't seem to know the purpose of coming here until now, "But can the plane get in from that place just now?" You can't mean toy airplanes, right? ”
Qiu Yu set his eyes on the emotional Jack, "So, there should be another entrance here." ”
Hearing Qiu Yu's words, Jack suddenly turned his head and walked towards another passage, and after a distance of at least two hundred meters, a dead end suddenly appeared in front of him.
As soon as Qian Xiao was about to speak, Jack had already started to cut a layer of dirt on the ground, and under the soil, there was a whole baffle more than half a meter square, and after pulling it up, there was another road that didn't know where it led.
"No, I'm still having to drill holes in such a big bag."
The flesh on Qian Xiao's face immediately collapsed. However, in Qiu Yu's opinion, his size is the bigger obstacle than the big bag.
"Then let's just wait here, I don't think it's the way to another entrance." Qiu Yu sat down on his bag and sat down.
Jack was silent for a few seconds before he said, "yes, I don't know if there's another entrance here. Here's a secret stash I stumbled upon, and I just thought someone was going to be there......"
After saying these words, Jack didn't stop any longer, and quickly entered the hole. Culomb hesitated, but ultimately didn't follow.
It took a lot more time than Qiu Yu expected, and ten minutes later, Jack walked back again.
"Why did you drive you away a few years ago, and why are people gone...... You've got the answers, right? ”
Jack looked at Qiu Yu in surprise, "You already knew?" ”
"How is it possible, just guessed a little, after all, in this era, it is understandable that one or two people insist on the status of nobility and the like, but it is a little strange that all the people in a shelter are like this." Looking at Qian Xiao's questioning eyes, Qiu Yu shook his head and turned to Jack, "But even after you go in and take a look, you can't be sure whether everything they do is selfish or selfless, but there is no answer to the matter, I hope you can think on the bright side." ”
Jack was silent and put the baffle back down, and buried it completely with dirt, "There are still a lot of people living out of here, and my judgment doesn't matter. ”
Qiu Yu smiled indifferently, "At least we've found something to achieve our common goal, right?" ”
Jack nodded and headed for another passage.
Qian Xiao couldn't hold back his curiosity, "Master, what is the reason why people don't see you?" What's in there?
Qiu Yu sighed in a low voice, "How can people not see, it's just that most of the people who value the present have gone to the top, and a small number of people who value the future have gone to the bottom." So what's underneath is the future in their hearts. ”
Qian Xiao felt that Qiu Yu's words did answer his question, but if he thought about it carefully, it was the same as not saying it at all. But knowing that Qiu Yu wouldn't say it more clearly, he changed the direction of attack, "You said that the woman in the bar asked her to come here to find a plane, could he also know what happened here?" ”
"It's impossible to know the answer except to ask her directly, and the value of any item is different in different time periods."
Qian Xiaogang opened his mouth, but listened to Qiu Yu continue, "Don't take the initiative to get involved in things that have nothing to do with us, otherwise the entanglement between fates will make us never return to the right path." ”
Qian Xiao rubbed his face desperately, "Alas...... Forget it, you can't go wrong with listening to you...... However, I still want to know......"
"Here we are."
The journey was surprisingly short, and in less than two minutes Jack had stopped in front of a goal.
Qian Xiao's curiosity came and went quickly, and he was immediately transferred to this door, which was no different from other rooms, "Could it really be a toy airplane?" Or is it another secret passage? ”
Jack didn't answer, but simply inserted the key in his hand into the lock, and the sound of a machine turning followed. This time, without waiting for Qian Xiao to speak, Qiu Yu explained, "A very delicate design, only by opening it with the right key can the entrance hidden above the room be lowered. Otherwise, whether it is a broken door or a normal door opening, what you enter is a room used for disguise. Moreover, the activation mechanism of the mechanism is on this door, so once the door is violently broken, the mechanism will never be activated properly. ”
Qian smiled and wiped the sweat from his head, "Then Jack broke so many doors just now, if there happened to be this one, then we won't see the plane again?" ”
Qiu Yu said, "It's just that it can't start normally, and there are many other ways to start." ”
The mechanical sound stopped, and Jack opened the door.
Qian Xiao immediately stepped forward and studied it.
This is actually a fairly simple mechanism, descending from the roof of the room is a metal staircase with a plastic disguised as a rock at the bottom, fixed to it with a pulley, and after the key is inserted and turned to the end, the iron tongs hidden in the door bite the wire holding the staircase in place, and the pulley begins to rotate, lowering the staircase.
This is a design that can fool the big accident, and for those who know about this mechanism, even if they don't have a key, they can tear down the stairs with a little effort.
When Coulomb and Jack were worried about Qian Xiao's big bag, Qian Xiao had already pushed it a little harder, and threw the bag into the aisle more than two meters high and connected to the metal staircase.
Coulomb quickly jumped up the stairs and carried the bag, his face full of shock when he realized that he couldn't even move it.
After Qian Xiao was a little proud, he continued to show his curiosity, "Master, you said, this plane is not maintained, how long can it be managed?" By the way, doesn't a nuclear explosion destroy electronic components? Do you think the airplane can still be used? ”
Qiu Yu climbed the stairs and looked forward, there was no light source in this passage, and he couldn't see the front at all, "That can only depend on whether fate still favors us." ”
Qian Xiao fell silent suddenly, as if his violently fluctuating IQ suddenly appeared and heard something.
Well, there will probably be smart guys who think this chapter is a little weird. So I explained that I originally wanted to write a warm story in the last days, but considering that it has little to do with the main line, it will affect the compactness of the plot, so I reluctantly cut about 7,000 words