Just like a dormant beast, when it is motionless, everyone does not feel its horror, but when this giant beast opens its eyes, even if it is only a slight tremble, the power it brings can make people feel its horror. After Lu Yuan had to give up handling the alien corpse and stay away, time was still passing, and four or five hours passed in a flash.

Looking west from the small mountains of Donghai City, thousands of kilometers away in the southwest of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, the endless mountains are the most common scenery in this area, and it is really tiring to see too much.

Along a winding road below the mountain, an off-road vehicle drove slowly on the road, and there was no second car except for this endless road. Originally, Qinghai Province was sparsely populated, not to mention that in this remote area, except for the wild donkeys and antelopes that happened to pass by, there was not a single figure to be seen.

It was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, close to dusk, the orange sun fluttered and hung in the western sky, sprinkling a large piece of golden gown for the entire wasteland, the reckless and boundless wasteland under such a unique beauty, it was particularly shocking and moving, this is a scenery that can be taken as a wallpaper from any angle, pure and immaculate.

Bypassing a bend, the off-road vehicle suddenly entered the gap between the two mountains, and on both sides of the canyon, which is about hundreds of meters wide, dense barbed wire and thorny bushes suddenly appeared, which were obviously deliberately repaired, resulting in many years later, at this moment, it is like a wall full of barbs, even if it is a rat, it will fall a layer of skin if it is drilled over.

"Military restricted area, no entry!"

The eye-catching sign was inserted on the side of the road many years ago, and the big red characters have been peeled off in some places, and the text can barely be recognized. Placed on this crumbling sign, one can't help but worry that the next moment it will fall completely to the ground with a strong wind, and it will no longer be used as a warning to visitors.

Ignoring the sign, the off-road vehicle drove past the sign unimpeded and continued along the road carved out by the canyon. Quickly move forward.

About a kilometre or so, the sign, apparently only installed in recent years, stands brand new on the right side of the road, eyeing every passing car.

"Military restricted area, no entry!"

Compared with the previous signage that is not known for many years, it is obvious that the deterrent effect brought by this new signage has greatly increased, and the large characters painted with red paint are not surprising when each is taken apart separately. Together, however, they produce a formidable and formidable force.

Only two kilometers behind this sign, barbed wire, high walls, high-voltage electricity, and sentry suddenly appeared in front of me, and sentries wearing military coats and carrying bayonets and steel guns looked vigilantly at the approaching off-road vehicles, and the surrounding sentries pressed on the sirens, ready to fire the alarm at any time.

In fact, there are four cameras installed on either side of the gate. Even if the sentry doesn't have time to press the alarm, the 24-hour guard in the monitoring room will sound the alarm.

Attention. Salute!

The sentry saluted the stopped buggy and walked over and shouted, "Please show your ID." ”

The driver in the driver's seat handed over the ID, the sentry took it and looked at it carefully, then inserted the ID into the plastic box in his hand and handed it in, "Please press your fingerprint." ”

This time it's no longer a driver. The man sitting in the co-pilot seat took the box casually and pressed the thumb of his right hand, only to hear a "ding" sound, and the word "pass" appeared on the display screen of the box.

"Hello chief."

The sentry saluted again. Nodding to those behind, the gates blocking the road slowly opened to the sides, allowing the buggy to pass.

Basically the same as the ordinary military camp, in this canyon, three and four stories of buildings and barracks stand on the open space, straight roads lead in all directions, both office buildings and training grounds, rows of soldiers patrol by, carrying steel guns on their backs, their expressions are extremely serious.

The man in the passenger seat motioned to move on, following the middle road directly to the end of the base.

It was the end of the canyon, and it was also a mountain under a high mountain.

At this point, the number of inspections that need to be faced has been raised by two levels.

Not only did the driver need to get out of the car and search his whole body, but the man in the passenger seat was not spared, and he was searched on his body with a metal detector, and after confirming that the two did not carry any communication tools, there was a military sightseeing car waiting here, and he drove into the hydraulic metal gate with the two of them.

That's right, every time he came here, he couldn't help but sigh at the strength of those warriors back then, and he was also shocked by those passionate and burning years.

At present, outsiders think that the Fuling 816 underground nuclear project is "the world's first artificial cave", this underground nuclear project in Chongqing began construction in 1967, and when the construction was stopped in 1984, 85% of the construction work was completed. The total length of the 816 underground nuclear project is 21 kilometers, there are 18 large and small caverns, and the amount of stone excavated is as high as 1.51 million cubic meters, and almost the entire mountain has been hollowed out.

However, Chongqing's Fuling 816 underground nuclear project is only part of the state's public declassified project, and until 2002, it was a top-secret project.

But the man knew that compared to the nuclear engineering base he was about to step into, the 816 underground nuclear project was just a small thing.

Qinghai 717 underground nuclear project began to be built in 1965, two years earlier than the 816 nuclear project, and was not completed until 1986. During the construction of this project, even though it was a special decade, many people were panicked, but the construction and maintenance work here still did not stop, and the central government allocated a full 2 billion yuan, which was nearly three times that of the 816 project.

The 816 project mobilized 60,000 troops, and tens of thousands of people were sacrificed due to landslides, fatigue, dust, and accidents, and how many people were sacrificed in the 717 project, the man did not know, but he knew one thing, the number of people mobilized was specially approved by Prime Minister Enlai, and two troops in the border area were mobilized, and more than 100,000 people were mobilized to build it.

Especially in that era, the allocation of 2 billion yuan, which was an astronomical amount, was not for the high level of the state to attach great importance to it, and it would definitely not continue, until now it is a top-secret project.

Now, except for a few retired veteran cadres who stepped into the coffin and participated in the tasks of the year, even the core seven members of the current ruling government, not everyone is qualified to know about this 717 underground nuclear engineering base.

After driving nearly thirty kilometers in the tunnel dug in the belly of the mountain, it took more than an hour to finally finish the road, and the man breathed a sigh of relief and stared solemnly at the metal gate in front of him.

The gates, which weighed more than fifty tons and had to be opened hydraulicly, took three minutes to open all of them, but fortunately they didn't have to open them all to accommodate a small number of people, and they waited a while, and after being informed, the door was raised a little bit to allow them in.

When the 717 underground nuclear project was first built, it was only an inconspicuous one of the hundreds of nuclear bases on the land of China, but the reason why it can become a top secret project is not because of how important the research is here.

In fact, the man can still remember that seven years ago, when he first came here and saw that thing, the shock he experienced had a huge impact on his entire outlook on life and worldview, so much so that for more than a month, he could not recover from that shock.

Therefore, the 717 underground nuclear project, after the discovery of that thing in the early stage of construction, immediately turned into a top-secret project that only a few people can know, and its importance is far higher than that of other nuclear projects.

Because of this, the original purpose of the underground nuclear project was greatly changed, and many functional facilities had to be overturned and rebuilt, so that the appearance of the place was greatly changed, and the construction period was delayed for ten years.

Everything revolves around "that thing", codenamed 09. (To be continued.) )