Chapter 17: Abyss Shelter
"The terminals you want, they are all here, and this comes with a positioning function, so I can monitor your location at any time, yellow means that your relationship with the shelter is neutral, green is used by the resident population, that is, friendly relations, and red is hostile, so you are not considered a prisoner, prisoners are all red." Su Qing naturally wanted to explain the meaning of the color of the bracelet.
Meng Xingchen pressed it on the bracelet, it did have the function of a terminal, and nodded with satisfaction, "So where are we going next?" β
"The maintenance department of the headquarters, I'll take a look at your AI first." Su Qing has been fiddling with Meng Xingchen's AI since he entered this dungeon.
Meng Xingchen looked indifferent, looked at the buildings around and asked, "This is your shelter?" β
The environment and architecture are markedly different from the shelter he lived in as a child, more like an underground slum, with low houses and some jet-black metal frames making up most of the area.
"This is the outer area of the shelter, and it is also the extension area, the real shelter for humans to hide from the end is in the core area, isn't the shelter you used to be like this when you were a child?" Su Qing already knew along the way that the seemingly sunny big boy in front of him was actually the same age as himself, and even his birthday was the same day.
Meng Xingchen shook his head and said, "The shelter of the Meng Consortium is actually a starship, and those smaller spaceships that flew to the moon back then relied on that spacecraft as a prototype to rebuild. β
Su Qing just snorted, and then said: "The shelter is almost the same, but the core of our shelter here is not a spaceship, but a large machine similar to a ground drill, so it is called the abyss, because it is very close to the center of the earth, absorbing energy from the center of the earth to supply us." After all, the population will grow, the surface is not suitable for human habitation, and the underground space is limited, so we can only use the vertical distance of the shelter to build the outer area, so we will keep moving towards the center of the earth. β
Most of the outlying areas are inhabited by ordinary poor people, after all, not all rebels are militant, and some ordinary people naturally have their own places to live.
With the multiplication of the population and the gathering of some scattered humans who escaped the end of the world, it became a base camp for the rebels who confronted the surrounding city.
In the center of the dungeon is heavily guarded, and inside is a huge elevator, this backward technology still has its use, that is, to carry large machinery and equipment, people can quickly shuttle through the surrounding teleportation corridors in the outer and middle areas, but the movement of large troops or the transportation of large machinery needs this kind of elevator, the speed is a little slower, but the total amount is large.
Su Qing saw Meng Xingchen looking at the elevator with some curiosity, so he asked, "What?" Never seen a big guy like this? β
Meng Xingchen nodded, although he had never seen this kind of large lift, it didn't mean that he didn't know the purpose and principle of this thing, at least in the lunar base, he had seen lifting equipment larger than this kind of lift, but whether it was speed, capacity and safety, it was several grades higher than this bulky lift.
The four of them walked on a small walkway, which was built on anti-gravity technology and was much faster and safer than the lift.
"Why don't you use this tunnel technology for that lift? Wouldn't this make it possible to transport large machinery more quickly and safely? Meng Xingchen asked with some puzzlement.
The one who answered him was one of the twins, and the actual age of Xiao Lori is not estimated to be very old, and there is still some childishness in the tone of her voice, "The resources have been robbed by the people of your consortium, and the rest of us are not enough for core construction, how can there be extra resources for handling equipment!" β
Meng Xingchen smiled a little embarrassedly, "That, I've been removed from the consortium!" And became an exile. β
"Then you used to be one of theirs too! It's you who have made your home planet full of holes, it's you who ......" Another Lori then criticized, but was stopped by Su Qing waving his hand halfway through the words.
"Xiaoshuang, you talk a little too much today, if you want to follow me, you have to learn to talk less and listen more! There are also good and bad people in the consortium, just like the people in our base, different factions will do different things. Su Qing reprimanded with a cold face.
The twins of the big pair and the little pair can be said to be trained by Su Qing, the twins were originally born with disabilities, and they were basically half-dead when they were discovered, it was Su Qing who brought the two back in a reconnaissance mission and used the medical equipment of the base to cure the physical disabilities of the two, and also taught them skills and took them to complete the task. Although Su Qing was only three years older than them in terms of age, the two sisters treated Su Qing like elders.
"Yes!" Xiaoshuang immediately shut up, not even having the slightest intention of rebuttal.
Meng Xingchen on the side smacked his lips when he saw it, and he even thought of Xiao Fei's evaluation of Su Qing, shouldn't she really like women's style? And this pair and the twin Lori is her forbidden belly? Even he has to make up for this eighteen forbidden scenes.
"I think they're still young, so you don't have to be so serious!" Meng Xingchen felt a little embarrassed in this not spacious car, so he said.
Su Qing said without replying: "You people who live on the moon will not understand those of us who have been living in shelters, the darkness here is unimaginable, the competition is cruel, even naked, everything is for resources!" Resources for survival! You have vegetables and fruits for every meal, and the people here haven't even seen them since birth, and they live on synthetic food. β
Come on! The more the atmosphere eased, the more awkward it became. Meng Xingchen directly chose to shut up, and then began to wander around the world, thinking about some things that didn't matter.
"I guess there will be some people coming in a while, so you'd better cooperate and answer some questions then." Su Qing saw that the speed of the car began to slow down, so he reminded him.
"Are you still going to be interrogated? I knew it! Meng Xingchen replied a little helplessly.
Su Qing glanced at him and said: "It's already polite to be punished without punishment, they want to know that you are a member of the consortium, and you have to walk around the streets without picking up a layer of skin." β
"I said I was ...... Forget it, it's useless to say it many times, do I have two big words engraved on my head? Meng Xingchen was even a little speechless. Why are these rebels so tendonous?
Sure enough, when he was in the middle of the shelter, Meng Xingchen finally found some of the feeling of the former shelter, although the scope here is not as large as the upper floor, but the surrounding metallized technology wind is already full, when the car is opened, there is a group of regular soldiers wearing uniform uniforms.
One of the two people who took the lead was a handsome man of the same age as himself, and the other was a strong man with a similar physique to Uncle Hei, in addition to not being as tall as Uncle Hei, his muscles were even more developed than Uncle Hei.
"Qing'er is back!" The tall man said hello to Su Qing first.
"Hello Uncle Hai, I didn't expect you to come in person, I thought it was just Brother Xiaojun himself." Su Qing was very familiar with the two of them.
The tall strong man's name is Hong Hai, and he is the leader of the middle level of the shelter, and the young man's name is Yin Jun, who is Hong Hai's recognized godson, and he is also the captain of the pro-guard army of this middle-level rebel camp, and his imperial guard has been guarding this shelter, and even the upper guard is an extension of this imperial guard.
Meng Xingchen was arranged in a medical room, yes, it was a medical room, there were some medical equipment here, and the most critical one was a lie detector.
He was all too familiar with this kind of device, using the fluctuation of heartbeat and brain waves to judge the truth of words, this relatively primitive polygraph is the prototype of a new generation of polygraphs, and the Meng consortium has developed many high-tech products with this kind of polygraph.
"Are you sure you want to use this on me?" Meng Xingchen pointed to the polygraph and said.
Su Qing looked at the lie detector, then at Hong Hai and Yin Jun beside him, and then sighed and said, "If you feel that the atmosphere here is not good, we can go to the prison cell, or the interrogation room, it is estimated that the equipment and environment there can make you feel more friendly." β
"Well, your jokes are really cold enough! I began to doubt my decision a little. Meng Xingchen replied a little helplessly.
Hong Hai was doting on Su Qing, but he was serious about Meng Xingchen, "You are from a consortium, even if you are removed, but this is also an indisputable fact, we are a relatively moderate faction of the consortium, if you are sent radically, you will probably have been paraded on the street first, and then tied up on various torture instruments in the torture room." β
Meng Xingchen didn't care about Uncle Honghai's words, but looked at Su Qing and asked, "What do you say?" β
Su Qing rubbed his forehead and said, "I'd rather fight with you again than get involved in this kind of!" Your AI is in my hands, and the people are in our base, do you feel that you can go back with your current equipment and strength? β
Meng Xingchen stared at Su Qing with some disappointment for a while and then said, "Okay, I really can't go back." However, this is not consistent with what you said earlier. But if I can answer you, I will answer, and if I can't, I won't even answer unnecessary questions, as for this kind of thing, you can try it, whether it works for me. β
Yin Jun seemed to have a natural hostility towards Meng Xingchen, although he hid it well, but Meng Xingchen could feel that hostility from the way he looked at him, this was the ability he had cultivated in his secret training, even at a long distance, when someone stared at him with hostile eyes, he could feel that hostility.
"As I said, this kind of consortium dog will not cooperate at all without punishment! Qingmei, you are still too naΓ―ve. Yin Jun looked at Meng Xingchen with disdain.
Meng Xingchen was not angry when he was scolded for being a consortium dog, because he knew when he was on the moon that this kind of remarks of the rebels, and even the people of the consortium used this kind of remarks to stimulate the younger generation of the consortium, so that they would think that the rebels were barbaric and hostile when they were growing up.
"According to the regulations, he was brought back by me, and I have the first right to execute, so I still firmly believe that he is useful to us, and radical means can only vent anger, and will not solve our living conditions at all! The backwardness of science and technology has widened the distance between us and the consortium, and you don't really think that the consortium and us are equal in strength, right? The vast majority of their forces were spent on Jupiter! It's Jupiter, they're already engaged in planetary battles, and we're still nestled in this devastated home planet, pitifully competing with a small group of other troops and exiles for these crude resources! Su Qing said with some anger.