When the alarm sounded, Father Cabul had just kissed his wife, to be exact, his wife's portrait, and then, the transponder installed at his door also rang, the priest looked up at the call from the central control room, frowned, and listened to the rhythm of the alarm, before gently putting down the portrait, walked to the transponder and pressed the button, without waiting for the people in the central control room to speak, and said in a cold voice: "Close all the gates, the base is under martial law, and all living creatures that appear in the corridor will be shot, Transferred the main surveillance image from the control room to my dorm computer. ”

A bunch of fools, it's not the first time that the epidemic has leaked, it's just a matter of doing things according to the rules, what's there to panic about? At most, a few zombies are active in the base, even if the living person is infected and has not become a zombie, the brain has become a paste, and there is no IQ at all, can it still fly to the sky? Besides, now that everyone in the base is epidemic prevention, regular injections of boosters, as long as they are not bitten to death, they will not be zombieized at all, what is there to worry about?

"Father ...... You might as well come to the control room for yourself. ”

Father Cabul was stunned for a moment, and an ominous premonition crossed his heart, could it be that the infected had run outside the base? How can it be? Well, what if you run out of base? This is Procida, surrounded by the sea, jump into the water to feed the sharks? With this in mind, Father Caboul rushed to the control room, and only then did he learn the news that Joshua had escaped!

“…… Father, we combed through the surveillance footage, and the Joshua brothers did not return to their dormitories or other places after sending the body to the incineration room, but returned to the laboratory, he took out the exoskeleton soaked in the nutrient solution and put it on the pushing bed, and after pushing it to the surveillance corner, it disappeared, and we checked and found that the surveillance of the E4 access control of the base was broken, and the last user was Joshua. ”

With the introduction of the administrator, Father Cabul carefully watched the replayed video footage, the Procida base was established after the outbreak of the second epidemic considering the safety of the virus test, using the Procida Island National Prison, which has been closed for many years, the security is still guaranteed, there are indeed many deficiencies in the monitoring, even the resolution of the monitoring equipment is not high-definition, fortunately it is enough to judge from the relatively blurry video that the person who stole the exoskeleton is Joshua.

Watching Joshua completely disappear from the surveillance video, Father Caboul frowned, he couldn't help but be a little puzzled, if it was peacetime, Joshua might use money to explain this, how to say that the black technology of exoskeletons is the object of pursuit by all countries, even if it is only a semi-finished product, it is not a problem to sell it for hundreds of millions of dollars casually, but now it is the end of the world, who can Joshua buy if he steals these exoskeletons? United States? Russia? Even if they were willing to buy it, Italy was a long way from Russia, not to mention the United States, which was separated by the Mediterranean Sea and the entire Atlantic, and it would be a rather difficult task to transport the physical goods away.

Wait a minute! The current Roman Republic does not have the strength to blockade the sea and the air! Whether it is Russia, the United States or even China, as long as a nuclear submarine is sent to meet outside the island, the task can be easily accomplished! Even nuclear submarines are not needed, long-range seaplanes will do! Could it be that Joshua really sold the exoskeleton?

Thinking of this, Father Cabourg, who had no concept of military espionage operations at all, also felt cold in his hands and feet, and said fiercely: "Martial law is lifted!" All the security personnel in the base immediately went out to find Joshua's traces! Pay special attention to the movement on the sea! Patrol boats are all up for me! If there is a suspicious object, shoot first and then report! ”

After a pause, Father Caboul took another deep breath and continued: "Pick me up Bishop Paetri, and I'm going to speak to him personally. ”

“…… Don't be cranky, Father Cabourg, I can tell you for sure that there won't be any seaplanes or nuclear submarines around your base! I suggest that you send out your men to search carefully, especially for the external transportation on the island, and if you find a ship missing, inform me of the model number, oil stock, etc. as soon as possible! ”

Of course, Bishop Payetri will not tell Father Cabur everything about the theft of exoskeleton samples by the United States and Russia? Just kidding, if they knew that the Illuminati had this thing in their hands, they would just like China, and they would just open their mouths to ask for it! Steal? There is no need to be so troublesome at all, it is one thing to check and balance each other between major powers, and it is another thing to beat and squeeze weak countries, and at a time when there is no international public opinion and domestic opposition jumping around, the Illuminati that have lost their nuclear weapons as a deterrent are like beauties who have lost their clothes, as long as the United States and Russia are willing, they can poke as much as they want.

Therefore, Bishop Payetri was almost certain that if this was really the work of a little assistant, that assistant would probably have a secondary disease attack or heroism, thinking that he was the chosen son and could obtain the power of an exoskeleton and would not go crazy like a primitive adult.

According to the instructions of Bishop Payetri, Father Cabo sent most of the men outside the base, and the flares continued to shoot into the sky, focusing on searching the port area and checking the situation of the ships.

The search soon paid off, and there was indeed one less speedboat in the port, fortunately, according to the sailing records, the speedboat had less than one-third of the fuel in its tank, and even the oldest sailors could not reach land with this amount of fuel, and it is estimated that the speedboat piloted by Joshua had run out of fuel and was drifting on the sea!

Father Cabur was secretly glad that there was still room for redemption for this unwarranted disaster, and he did not want to face the wrath of Bishop Paetri, so he hurriedly ordered his men to go out to sea to search by boat, even if his vision was not good at night, he did not want Bishop Payetri to postpone his evening study and sleep for such a little assistant.

After waiting anxiously for half an hour, a search ship came with a report, "Father! Found the speedboat! But there was no one on board, and no exoskeletons were found! ”

Didn't find it? Could it be that Joshua realized that he couldn't escape, threw the exoskeleton into the sea and swam by himself? Father Cabo was about to order the speedboat to continue searching the surrounding sea, when suddenly the lights in the control room went out, followed by the sound of electricity, and the dim yellow indicator light indicating the activation of the backup power supply came back on.

Generator down? Father Cabur knew that the castle, which was originally used as a prison and turned into a research base, did not have a backup generator set in the real sense, because after the public power grid was paralyzed, the power generation equipment they used was the original backup unit of the prison, so a set of wind and solar power storage units was temporarily installed as a backup power supply, if the power of the backup battery pack was exhausted, according to the security process of the prison, all iron doors would be automatically locked, and then people outside could not enter, and people in the base would not want to go out, plus the refrigeration equipment failed. That's a big problem!

"Immediately arrange maintenance personnel to check the generator and electrical circuits, and cut off the power supply to all unnecessary areas, even the lights are cut off, and only the lowest voltage output of the emergency lights in the corridor is retained! Make every effort to ensure the operation of the refrigeration equipment! ”

(End of chapter)