[231] The world outside the net bottle mountain
The "manager" looked at the strong man with disdain: "It's been several years, and you're still afraid that they will live?" ”
"That's not accurate, in the dead of night, you can often hear movement in the cave!"
"You didn't even think about letting go of a hole and killing them all?"
"How dare you?! What to do if you get the virus! ”
"Alas, you bastards, frightened!"
"Whatever you say, I'm never going back to the cave anyway......"
The conversation between the two broke up unhappily, and the "manager" returned to Nantes with a small notebook of records, only to hear a completely different story.
What Pang Qingshan said to Nantes was a little illogical.
In his mouth, before the outbreak of the apocalyptic virus, Baijiabao near Jingping Mountain was a hidden but prosperous town, serving as the logistics base of the 404 nuclear fuel production enterprise, this place has its own social system, hospitals, schools, shops, restaurants, and all kinds of services necessary for life.
There is only a narrow two-lane road to the outside, and once a week supply convoys bring supplies to take away the garbage, and the entire area of Jingping Mountain is an isolated military control zone.
When the apocalyptic virus broke out in the outside world, the senior management of Factory 404 got the news and led everyone to save themselves.
They cut back on food and clothing, open up farmland, and store water, striving to be a paradise in the last days.
Nuclear reactors provide a constant supply of energy, and they started out like a decent one, turning the mountain into a monolith, and even if mutants roamed over, they were all wiped out, leaving no trace.
As the situation in the world deteriorates day by day, the senior leaders can no longer be contacted, the supply convoy has not come for a long time, all the supplies in the town are out of stock, and prices are skyrocketing.
Rumors spread rampantly among the crowd, inspiring major contradictions, and people rallying to overthrow the older generation of leadership and implement a system of employee autonomy.
"It's ridiculous to say that the human world is dying, and under this small hill, people are still arguing over a broken factory director's position, and for banknotes that are worse than waste paper!"
Pang Qingshan's words made Nantes deeply touched, whether it is a large circle or a small circle, as long as there are people, there will be uneven interests, which will lead to disputes and frequent civil strife.
Soon, the old generation of leadership was taken down, and the new leader came to power only to find that the food reserves were not enough for everyone to survive, so they began a brutal slaughter and reduction of mouths.
Pang Qingshan was one of the people killed, but he sensed the danger and left the cave early to escape.
Later, when the massacre was revealed, the people were completely disorganized, and most of them began to flee the caves, and the destruction process was initiated.
Nantes interjected, "What destruction program?" ”
Pang Qing
The mountain squatted down and drew a schematic diagram on the ground with a branch: "There is an underground river inside the cave, which was introduced to cool the nuclear reactor. The destruction process was to seal the cave completely, cut off the exit of the underground river, and fill the cave with a flood of water. ”
Nantes had a big head for a while: ", you mean, this mountain belly is full of water?" A nuclear reactor has been scrapped? ”
"Almost, the whole Pure Bottle Mountain is like a bottle full of water now, you must not try to open the cave, otherwise a large amount of river water will rush out, and the whole mountain will collapse." Pang Qingshan's expression was solemn.
The "manager" who was listening to the story on the side laughed: "Yao Jiakuan didn't say that!" ”
He briefly repeated what Pang Qingshan said to Nantes, and Pang Qingshan was anxious: "He knows a fart, he is a security guard, and he is not qualified to enter the cave at all!" ”
Nantes: "I have a question, who is the head of this place between you two right now?" ”
Pang Qingshan: "Yao Jiakuan was just promoted, and the previous village chief was taken away by the grass wolf. ”
Nantes: "Then why did I call you out too?" ”
Pang Qingshan: "Uh...... How do I know! ”
"Hmph, on the surface, Yao Jiakuan is in charge, but behind the scenes, everyone listens to you, you deliberately don't be the leader, there must be some danger, such as the former village chief was killed by a wild beast."
"I can't see that you are young, and your eyes are quite vicious."
"Although you have a lot of eyes, you can't hide my eyes after all, now I ask you again, who is right between you and Yao Jiakuan?"
Pang Qingshan gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't lie to you, the cave is indeed full of water, and it must not be opened!" ”
The "manager" scratched his head: "Why don't I go find a few more villagers to ask?" You can always get an accurate answer. ”
Nantes was noncommittal, but asked a different question: "How thick is the rock enclosed by the cave?" ”
"I don't know, it has to be about four or five meters."
"Can't be opened from the outside?"
"Permanently closed, it can't be opened inside and out."
Nantes looked at Pang Qingshan's eyes and smiled weirdly: "Okay, you can go and rest, I will ask someone to get you more food, and follow me into the cave in a while!" ”
"What?" Pang Qingshan's body froze halfway, a little unbelieving his ears.
Nantes ignored him and walked straight to the cave at the back of the village.
The cave was smaller than the main entrance they saw, and he pressed his head against the stone wall, his eyes closed as if listening to something.
But in fact, he was guiding the spirit to infiltrate the rock with the help of Sister Hua's power.
The process is slow and difficult, but the perception stretches little by little, as if an earthworm is burrowing through the dirt.
After 10 minutes, the pressure suddenly lightened, and his consciousness finally penetrated the barrier of the stone wall, and there was
Completely dark, but dry, no water at all.
This confirmed his judgment, from Pang Qingshan's account just now, he felt that the other party was lying, there was no evidence, just an intuition, for the safety of the soldiers of the Flying Locust Army and the other two troops, he came to verify it.
Now it seems that Yao Jiakuan's statement is more reliable, but there is nothing to be afraid of, isn't it just one or two thousand mutants, or the primitive low-level kind, they have an army in hand, there is nothing to be afraid of.
After his investigation just now, the wall of this gate is only four or five meters thick, and it is made of reinforced concrete. ”
Professionals do professional things, he arranges for mandrills to blast, and the task of exploring inside has to let Yao Jiakuan and Pang Qingshan lead the way.
Ma Xiaoxuan and Liu Feifei did not agree with Nantes to take the risk personally, after all, everything in this cave is unknown, he is a legion leader, and there are so many people under him, how can he personally take the lead.
But Nantes is still not at ease, he has the assistance of Sister Hua, and he can predict the danger in advance, which is much safer than ordinary soldiers to enter.
The cave that was blown up was an artificial tunnel, the kind that could be entered by car, and there was nothing to worry about when a huge team drove into it.
The two girls were afraid of the dark, but they were worried about the safety of their sweethearts, and they didn't want to be preempted by the other party, so they had to follow up with their arms left and right.
They called it "protecting" Nantes, but in fact, Nantes was caught in the middle, and it was difficult to run when something happened.
Nantes had no choice but to ask the "chief manager" to bring a regiment to go in with him to listen to the reality inside, and the other troops were on guard outside to maintain communication and contact at all times.
The biggest danger of entering the cave is the landslide, followed by the mutants that may be encountered, and the troops of the "manager" are drones and various insect robots as soon as they make a move, and they are densely scattered into it, and the detection range is farther than Sister Hua.
Pang Qingshan and Yao Jiakuan were tied to a rope and walked in front, like a defeated rooster, walking in front with their heads drooping.
In order to take care of the two girls and to facilitate the entry of the follow-up troops, an emergency energy-saving lamp was plugged into the cave every 5 meters, which was powered by batteries and remained on for 48 hours.
Under the illumination of the lights, the Flying Locust Army began to have an intuitive understanding of this cave, which is really fucking big!
Many of the fighters came from the Camel Mountain Arsenal, and their place was also a base that had hollowed out the belly of the mountain, but compared to this nuclear base, it was much smaller, and it was the difference between a goat and an elephant.
The cave was a mess, with wooden boxes, buckets, rags, rocks, and mechanical parts and the like everywhere, and even the two "natives" walking in front of them stumbled.
A few hundred meters into the cave, there have been no corpses and dry bones, and there are no so-called mutants attacking, but Nantes is walking, and it feels wrong: "Why are the soles of your feet slimy?" ”