Chapter 35 The Waterlogged Pathway
Talia is pointing out a pipeline, because we're not engineering people, and we don't know what this pipe is for just looking at this picture. But it does connect to that coal mining site, and it doesn't look very far from this dock we're in.
The problem is that if this thing were to be done with a narrow ventilation duct, I immediately thought of the task force who died in the elevator ventilation duct, and it would be interesting if we were to be like that.
"Don't do nothing, just think about this and that." Chen Zaihai slapped me the back. "This place is not going to look at it, so I know."
"The diagram shows the passage in the corner of a workshop in front of it." Talia looked at it for a long time before she said. "Chen Zaihai is right, let's go and see."
Of course, I didn't have any reason to object, so I immediately put on my gear and followed Talia to the front. The narrow corridor came to an end in a few moments, and a slightly rusty iron door appeared in front of us.
"That's the workshop ahead, and it's supposed to be the place where some hull parts are assembled." Talia said.
The iron door was not locked, and after such a long time, it had long lost the effect of airtightness. It took us a lot of effort to open it. Even so, I still think it's a little strange, I thought this door must not be able to turn, why can we still push it open?
After passing through the iron door, I turned around and crouched down, and began to observe the door shaft with a miner's lamp. Sure enough, I found a lot of rusty scraps in the small space near the door shaft, and the door must have been forcibly opened by someone recently, so we were able to come here so easily.
"Old Su! What are you doing squatting? Chen Zaihai's puzzled voice came from behind him. What's so nice about a broken door. ”
I immediately got up and caught up with them in three or two steps, and by this time they had gone far away. This place is indeed a huge workshop, and according to the structural diagram, it is a circle larger than the dock we just stayed in. All kinds of huge lifting robot arms and other types of machinery can be found everywhere.
When the two of them saw me catching up, they asked me what I was doing, and I had to answer truthfully. Talia said that there was nothing to doubt about it, Ivan had come before us, and he had already led people to explore this area, and this door should have been opened at that time.
The diagram shows that the iron door is located on the north wall of the workshop, and the passage is at the south corner, and we have to go through the whole workshop to find it. Although it was the shortest distance to walk directly through it, we decided to walk along the wall after discussion.
It's a big and messy place, and there's nothing obvious in the middle that can be used as a reference, so it's easy to get into trouble when you walk in in the light of day. And those rows of mechanical booms and devices that I don't know what to do make me feel very uncomfortable, and I always feel that they will fall off suddenly.
There was something similar to a distribution box next to it, Chen Zaihai walked over and carefully opened it, there was a ball of red, green, and green wires and a sluice gate that could be opened. The wires were all entangled, and Chen pulled the gate several times on the sea, but there was no response around. I don't know if it's because the power system in this place is incomplete, or if the distribution box itself is broken. Soon we lost interest in it.
There are also many icons and pictorials on the walls, all of which are mottled in Japanese and cannot be read at all. We quickly got used to ignoring them, and after walking for about half an hour, Talia told us to stop after a corner, and she began to study the structure carefully.
She said that the pipe shown on the picture should be around here, and we immediately looked around and soon found a very obvious black shadow. As soon as I realized what the body of this thing was, I knew that the channel on the diagram must be right here.
It was a power distribution station, exactly like what we had seen several times in the tunnels, with a pitch-black exterior and nothing on all sides that could be called a door. There are a lot of cables plugged into one side, and there is an iron ladder on the other side. The Japanese are really obsessed with the design of the power distribution station, why do they have to open all the doors on it?
"It seems that this is the right place, but I didn't expect this passage to be used for cable maintenance." Chen Zaihai sighed.
Talia looked at the structure diagram for a long time, and finally determined that the passage on the diagram was indeed in this power distribution station. We've seen this thing many times, and it's no longer taboo. The three of them climbed inside without taking notes, and as soon as we entered, we found that the emergency lights inside were actually on.
"Chen Zaihai, you give us a little honesty." Talia immediately admonished. "If you're messing around, turn on the power and lure those rat women over, it's over!"
Chen Zaihai said that he was not a fool, how could he have been falling in the same place all the time. But I'm not 100% convinced of that, and I'll have to keep an eye on this guy's movements when I get inside. The second floor is not much different from what we have always seen, and we made it to the ground floor without much effort.
The layout inside is the same as the power distribution station in the tunnel, just in case Talia goes around the cabinet full of cables, for fear of accidentally turning on the power. The emergency lights in this place are still on, which means that there is still electricity passing through, so be careful.
Soon we found the passage for repairing the cable in a similar corner, and Chen Zaihai and I reasonably lifted the lid on it, and Talia then jumped down first with the miner's lamp. Then we suddenly heard an exclamation, and the light of the miner's lamp below suddenly became chaotic. Chen Zaihai and I looked at each other and knew that something might have happened to Taria, and the two of them immediately jumped down.
The sound of the water reached my ears, and I felt a chill under my feet, and I almost slipped. Is this place flooded? And it's not diving, and the water level is almost knee-high. Chen Zaihai was also taken aback, and at this time we found that Talia who was sitting on the ground, she obviously didn't expect this to be the case below, and slipped directly.
Talia's clothes were soaked, and the two of us pulled her up as soon as we got to our feet. As soon as she came together, she couldn't stop shivering, and Chen Zaihai took off his military coat in time to put it on for her, which was a little better. I shook my head and said Talia, you are really, you are so well prepared, why did you forget to wear a few more clothes.
"Do you think I don't want to wear more?" She glanced up at me. "There are no winter clothes in the supplies, and my father said that the next wave of support will be brought in."
"Then again, why is there so much water in this place?" Chen Zaihai took a miner's lamp and shone around. "It's a cable channel, right? What should I do if there is a leak? ”
Talia twisted her half-wet hair and said, after all, this place is still a super shipyard after a long time, and there is such a big underground river next to it, it is strange that it does not seep water. Since we haven't been electrocuted now, it means that the main power here has not been restored, and maybe the power of the emergency lights has nothing to do with it.
I looked at my feet, and the water was quite clear, and I could clearly see the rusty iron floor. On the left and right are thickly painted annular walls, which are very different from the passage we first escaped from the power distribution station, and there is not a single cable in sight.
"It's weird, did this place know it was going to be flooded when it was designed?" Chen Zaihai knocked on the wall curiously, and his voice was muffled. The walls are very thick, if not solid. It's covered with paint and you can't tell what kind of material it's made of, so can't those cables be buried in it?
"The design here is somewhat similar to the water tank of a submarine." Talia muttered. "I really don't know what the Japanese do when they bury cables in the water."
After thinking about it for a long time to no avail, we saw that Talia was no longer trembling, and then we started to hurry again. The feeling of stepping on the water is very uncomfortable, the resistance is very high, and the speed of progress is much slower all of a sudden.
The road was very gentle, there was no big drop, and the water level was always like this. It didn't take long for us to start sweating, and according to Talia, the length of the passage was about three or four hundred meters. We should be in the devolved part of Camp Ivan right now.
"There's not just one exit to this passage, you two keep an eye out for anything like a hatch around here." Talia explained as she walked. "Let's go out at the three exits of the ground, don't count wrong."
When she said this, we had to stare at the walls around us. Without a while, the sharp-eyed Chen Zaihai found the first one. When we got closer, we saw that it was a round hatch that could accommodate one person, and it was filled with a rust-proof turntable that could be rotated. I went up and tried to turn it twice, it wasn't dead, and as soon as I turned it, there was a crunching sound inside, and it seemed that there was a power-assist device.
In this way, we found the remaining two very smoothly, and Chen Zaihai and I worked together to open the hatch leading to the coal mining site, and the three of us climbed up the ladder above the hatch.
As we predicted, this was another power distribution station, and as soon as I went up, I saw a lot of familiar equipment, and the emergency lights were on.
"I didn't expect it to go well." Chen Zaihai, who took the lead, patted the rust on his hand and said.
"Don't get carried away again." Talia, who was the last to come up, immediately reminded. "Our goal is to find the survivors of the task force, we don't know what dangers await us in this place, you all be careful."
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