Volume 1 Chapter 5 Cockroaches

January 2, 438 A.D

"That's a bit too much, Ergou." Zovi looked at the machine gun fortifications and asked?

"There is an enemy in the base, the situation is unknown, and of course we are responsible for our own safety. This floor is the eighth basement floor, and the elevator hall looks up and all the warehouse doors are closed, so the most likely enemy situation is this east side of the military warehouse that is about to be opened. ”

Ergou swore and said.

"Oh yes, you have the building structure drawings of the base, I want to see them!"

"Yes, you can use the beep bracelet to see it, and I will pass it on to you. Let's eat first! Looking at this cautious guy, Zuo Wei felt a little more secure in her heart.

Bacon omelette, whole wheat bread, milk, and even oranges on the table, looking at all this, Ergou has a deep sense of unreality.

"How is this possible? Don't you say more than 30 years after the war? How could this underground base still have these? ”

"Yes, in order not to waste it, I only used the minimum ration and synthesized food. Now that I have you, I want to have a luxury, which can be regarded as a test of the real operation of the base! Zovi explained.

"And then?" Ergou was still full of doubts.

"Then you also saw it, the result is satisfactory, the original design and planning of the base, stationed 5,000 people, do not rely on external materials, and operate independently for more than 100 years.

However, the project was not fully completed, and 2,500 people were actually stationed, but all the preliminary preparations were in place.

In other words, theoretically, as long as the existing materials are not deteriorated and damaged, it is enough for 2,500 people to live self-sufficient and independent for more than 200 years. ”

Zo Wei said and began to taste the bacon omelette as well.

"And how are these eggs and fruits preserved? This preservation technique is a bit appalling. Ergou asked.

"Hey! This brings me to my field of study. Zuo Wei said proudly: "The genetic projects of this base include human animal genes, as well as plant microbial genes, covering almost the entire biological field, and the ecological farm is one of the projects, hehe~"

"Ecological farms? So powerful, you're saying that all this fresh food is provided by ecological farms? Ergou got the answer.

"Yes, there are four fully automatic biosphere farms at the bottom of the base, and the kitchen side of the room will give orders for the ingredients needed, and the ecological farms will deliver the ingredients through the distribution port.

And we can still eat fresh meat, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables, which means that everything is working normally! ”

Zove's face radiated with joy and a sense of accomplishment.

"If the original design target is 100% completed, one ecosystem will be enough to feed no less than 500 people, and with the genetic modification of my crops, the yield will continue to increase."

"Technology is productivity." Ergou ate with a mouth full of oil: "In this case, bring me another plate of bacon omelette!" ”

In order not to waste, Zovi usually doesn't cook a lot of food. directly gave more than half of himself to Ergou, and Ergou also gladly accepted it and ate unceremoniously.

After a nap after dinner, maybe it was because of the previous emotional mobilization, after chatting with Ergou for a while, Zuo Wei fell asleep on Ergou's bunk, while Ergou sat at the table to study the structure of the base.

The base building is indeed very large, completely underground, almost hollowing out a mountain.

It was built from the halfway point of the mountain, extending more than 350 meters underground, and there are at least 60 floors according to incomplete statistics.

And Zuo Wei's room is on the eighth floor underground, and there are at least more than 500 functional warehouses in the entire base, some large and some small, with perfect functions, and this is only the first phase of the project.

Of course, for Ergou, the most useful information at the moment is about the east side of the Hyokura.

It turned out that the east side of the barn, like the other barn structure, was also a two-room layout, a dormitory for ten guards, plus a soldier's sleeping room.

However, there is also an exit on the easternmost side of the dormant chamber, a fireproof staircase that connects the entire base, and it seems that the enemy situation is very likely to appear in the fireproof staircase.

After reading the base structure map, Ergou was ready to act.

Zuo Wei on the side slept very soundly, and the second dog gently picked her up, this girl's physical development is excellent, and the visual bust is at least D. (You have to ask how a person with amnesia knows so much?) Ergou will not hesitate to tell you that this is common sense, common sense of male animals! )

Looking at the rippled D, Ergou sent Zuo Wei to the bedroom bed to cover her with a quilt, and reluctantly left.

Close the door, grab the equipment, and go straight to the barracks on the east side.

The first bedroom was opened, and engineering lights were erected to illuminate the interior space, which was nothing out of the ordinary, just a little cluttered.

Next, it's time to open the dormant room of the barn, use the dilator again, the structural diagram shows that there is no K5 installed in the room, so there should be no danger this time, as the dilator works, the door slowly opens to both sides, and the gap is also expanding little by little, and the engineering light line behind the second dog shoots out.

"Squeak~squeak~"

A few slight sounds came into the ears of the second dog, and the second dog looked in through the crack in the door.

"Nima! What is this?" the scene in front of him made Ergou exclaim.

I saw several mutilated corpses lying on the outside of the door, bones to be exact, and there were at least five or six huge cockroach-like creatures lying on the bones, and the "squeak" sound was made by them.

The large ones are sixty centimeters long and twenty centimeters wide, and the small ones are forty or fifty centimeters long.

They were visibly startled by the light coming in through the crack in the door, and the tentacles on their heads danced.

Ergou is not afraid of insects, but the first time he saw such a huge cockroach, he was still shocked, and his body couldn't help but retreat.

"Squeak ~ squeak ~ buzz ~ buzz."

In the next second, these giant cockroaches exploded their nests one after another, fluttering their wings and pounced on Ergou's face.

"Bang! Bang! ”

The second dog behind the crack in the door was frightened and fell to the ground on his back, but fortunately, the crack in the door was not open enough, and the cockroaches hit the door one after another.

"Squeak squeak ~ squeak knock"

The dilator is still working its own, and the cracks in the door are constantly expanding......

After a short period of confusion, Ergou quickly got up and kicked away the dilator of work.

In his right hand, he had already picked up the dagger at the calf.

"Bang la" frantically stabbed at the cockroach behind the crack in the door.

For a moment, the sound of the dagger hitting the door scraping metal, the sound of piercing the body of the cockroach, the squeaking of the cockroach and the sound of flying and banging on the door, were mixed together.

This is not the end, and after a while, there will be another "zila" sound.

Ergou stopped attacking, he was looking at the dagger in his hand, because his dagger was being corroded by liquid, slightly emitting white smoke, accompanied by a pungent smell.

Ergou's beep bracelet also flashed red, and the warning sounded "Radiation source and corrosive liquid detected, please stay away." ”。

Apparently cockroach body fluids have a certain acidity, can corrode metal, and are even radioactive.

Ergou hurriedly threw away the dagger, retreated to the fortifications he had set up earlier, picked up two silenced pistols, and shot frantically behind the door.

After a coherent and compact slight gunshot, the sound of cockroaches behind the door also disappeared, and the world finally fell silent.

Ergou stood in place, trying to calm his heart, radiating mutant cockroaches, the name formed in his heart.

Turn on the tactical flashlight on the pistol, carefully inspect the crack in the door, and confirm that the six cockroaches are dead.

Restarted the dilator and continued to open the door, during which Ergou went to the medical cabin to inject himself with anti-radiation drugs.

When Ergou came back, the door of the dormant barn was just opened, but Ergou, who had just entered, retreated, lay in the corner of the wall and vomited, and vomited directly from what he had eaten earlier.

The room was full of corpses, dried bloodstains, mutilated bones, cockroaches' pulp corpses, the putrid smell and the corrosive stimulation of cockroach body fluids, the two dogs couldn't stand it, and the work could only be temporarily stopped.

As for the radiation, it didn't seem to have much effect on Ergou, and when he returned to Zuowei, Ergou filled himself with a cup of hot cocoa.

......

At this time, Zuo Wei, who realized it later, also woke up.

"It's nice to wake up and see you!" Zuo Wei didn't notice the strangeness of the second dog.

"It's good to see you every day, I have two pieces of news for you, the good news is that our enemies may not be human, and the bad news is. The occupants of the building on the east side should all be dead. ”

Ergou whispered about his discovery.

"The enemy should be radiation mutant cockroaches, and the natural number of cockroaches is incalculable!"

"Hmm!" Maybe it was because she had just woken up, and Zuo Wei didn't react as violently as she imagined.

She came to Ergou, took the cup from Ergou's hand, and poured a big sip of hot cocoa.

"You are saying that there are radiation cockroaches, if it is not entered by the outside world, it means that there is a radiation leak at the base, and most likely, the nuclear fusion core of the power generation compartment is damaged or the explosion causes a radiation leak.

The power outage of the building on the east side of the base also illustrates this problem, the base was not completely destroyed when it was attacked, and the scale of the explosion shows that it was only attacked by conventional weapons at that time, not nuclear weapons! ”

Zo Wei analyzed.

"There was a leak in the nuclear power silo at the bottom of the base, and the cockroaches inside the base have mutated over the long years?

After that, the fire escape was occupied, and the fighters of the barracks on the east side were awakened by the dormant barn due to the depletion of energy.

Trying to explore the base, the elevator hall at the west exit was damaged, hindering their movement, so it was inevitable to open the fire escape on the east side, but they were attacked by a swarm of mutant cockroaches there.

At the last moment of his life, the indiscriminate attack of the K5 defense machine gun was activated, and all this was explained! ”

Ergou frowned, thinking about the next work.

"So, the question is, how many radiation mutant cockroaches are there in the east side of the fire escape?"