Volume 1 Chapter 55 Ruins
At the end of the old calendar, the footprints of human civilization spread to almost every corner of the world. Some of the products of this glorious civilization have not been eroded and melted by time, but have survived into a new era.
At the beginning of the new calendar, the pace of human exploration of the unknown land was not smooth sailing, and countless cities and strongholds were established and then destroyed, and these abandoned strongholds and old calendar sites are collectively referred to as "ruins".
In this day and age, it is not easy to search for ruins, and how to "open the door" after finding the ruins is another difficult task.
Because those ruins that can be easily opened have long been lost in the long river of time.
Those who are not afraid of time have their own way of escaping the world.
And the ruins that Mo De and Mu Qing broke into by mistake this time were successfully "opened" by the coincidence of that wind salon.
After the two of them rested, one holding a torch, ready to explore the ruins and find the exit.
After making a round, the two of them found themselves in what appeared to be a large deep well, covered by something above it, and presumably beyond was the desert where they had stayed earlier.
There was a passage at the bottom of the well that led deeper into the ruins, and the dark and deep hole was not wide enough to even allow two people to walk side by side.
Mo De was in front, Mu Qing followed, and the two entered the passage and headed deeper.
The crackling torches can only dispel the darkness in front of them, and the limited light seems to trigger infinite fear. The silent passage echoed with the monotonous footsteps of the two.
But Mo De was not afraid, because he had experienced more dark and cramped environments. However, at this time, he didn't talk to Mu Qing like usual, because he needed to pay full attention to the road conditions and watch out for the traps and traps that might appear at any time.
As for Mu Qing, there will be no little daughter emotions such as fear. In the clear vision brought by the brown sunglasses in front of me, the darkness no longer exists, and everything is unobstructed. At this point, she was just a little bored, because the pathfinder was too nervous to be distracted and chatter with her.
After groping their way forward for about twenty minutes, the scene in front of them finally changed, and a bronze door was separated at the end of the passage, blocking the way forward.
After knocking on it and making sure that there was no mechanism behind the door, Mo De began to use the strength of his new body - directly condensed two metal filaments, and penetrated into the keyhole of the copper door by the light of the fire.
While holding a torch to help Mo De light up, he held back his desire to complain. Mu Qing really hasn't seen it, who has just broken through and is excited to use his own ability to slip the door and pick the lock.
However, the door in front of him looks very different from the door of the villa before, and I wonder if this guy is sure that he can poke it open with only two wires.
Hearing a muffled "click" in his ears, Mu Qing knew that he was too worried.
Mo had to turn around and signal Mu Qing to stand farther back, then put his hands against the door panel, tied his feet forward and backward, and began to exert his luck, pushing outward.
Fortunately, the place is under the desert, the air is very dry, and the copper door keyhole and door shaft are not very oxidized and corroded. As Morde's figure slowly moved forward, the bronze door was finally pushed open little by little.
Mu Qing had already extinguished the torch in his hand and held his breath like Mo De. Because they weren't sure if the air deposited elsewhere within the ruins would still be breathable after all these years.
Holding his breath and pushing the bronze door open, Mo suddenly sensed a breeze flowing from the opposite side, and it seemed that the air circulation inside the ruins here was quite normal.
After putting away the extinguished torch and using it to boil water and make tea next time, Mu Qing, who was a thrifty housekeeper, took out two glowing sticks from his storage ring. After bending it slightly, Mu Qing handed one of them to Mo De in front of him.
With the help of the cold light reflected by the glowing rod, Mo De found himself in the same hall at this time.
The hall was empty, and on the floor, except for a few cabinets lying on the sidelines, it seemed that the people here had been rushed over when they had evacuated.
Leaning over the toppled filing cabinets, he didn't have to check the cabinets. Mu Qing, on the other hand, was wandering around the hall, looking for other clues.
As expected, several cabinets were empty, and even the outer signs were taken off and removed. Presumably, the people here have taken all the information with them as much as possible before evacuating. Now it's a bit of a headache.
"There's a door over here." Mu Qing found an alloy door at the other end of the hall and beckoned Mo De to come over.
"Is there a way to get this out?" Mu Qing squatted by the door, raised his head and looked at Mo De and asked.
"This thing doesn't even have a keyhole, how can I possibly open it." Mo De glanced at the card reader next to the door, and said angrily.
Not to mention the two wires in his hand, even if the key card of this door was in front of them, they couldn't open this door.
The reason is simple, this ruin, which has been buried deep in the desert for an unknown number of years, has long been out of energy, and the access control device naturally falls into a locked state after the power is cut off.
"I just looked, and there's just a door in the hall that leads to the depths. This place was supposed to be something like a lounge or a small warehouse, with no valuable clues. Sandwiching the glowing rod in his armpit, Mu Qing put his hands in his sleeves and looked the alloy door up and down.
"It's pretty sturdy." The tip of the toe lightly kicked the alloy door, and the lower end of the door was only slightly deformed after a muffled sound. Mu Qing turned his face to look at Mo De, ready to see how he could handle this thing.
Morder first stepped forward and knocked on the alloy door, then turned back to the access control device and tapped again.
"What's the matter, you still want to talk to it and let it let you go?" Mu Qing was a little curious about his actions at this time.
"You don't have to negotiate it, just make a hole." The metallic luster covered and wrapped his hands, and he retreated with a lunge, and his palm was like a knife, and he stabbed straight into the access device.
"It has to be an ability to use, if you do it so brutally before, the last thing to suffer is the nails." While lamenting the durability of the metal gloves he generated, Mo had to turn his palm into a claw and use the access control device as a breakthrough to start tearing down the wall.
Mu Qing was stunned and watched Mo Deyun claws flying, tearing open a hole in the broken instruments and lines, and then rounded his arms, and smashed and dug up the concrete walls one by one with his bare hands left and right.
This guy really doesn't follow the usual path, and if he can't open the door, he chooses to find another way and cut a big hole directly from the wall next to the door. People are digging walls to steal light, and you are directly breaking the wall to open the way.
The last kick was used as a finish, and Mo had to make a large hole in the not-so-thick wall. Clapping his hands, Mo had to turn around and beckon Mu Qing to follow him. "Luckily, this is the interior of the ruins, and the walls are made of old-fashioned reinforced concrete. If the walls were made of the same material as the door, it would be a bit of a problem. ”
"The reason why people make the door so strong is to prevent it from being broken in. Besides, if the entire base were made of that alloy material, it would be very expensive. Following Mo De, Mu Qing stepped through the pile of rubble and walked into the room behind the wall.
This is a passageway, which extends from a narrow width to the inside, and ends in a three-way intersection that leads to three rooms.
The three portals are exactly the same, and there is no difference on the surface.
"Which one to choose?" Mo had to tilt his head to ask for Mu Qing's opinion.
"Whatever, I don't know where these doors lead." Mu Qing shrugged his shoulders and said that everything was arranged by Boss Mo.
"Count the saffron, count which one is which......" reciting the recipe for choosing the road passed down by Li Changsheng himself, Mo had to tap the three doors in turn with his fingers, until the last word was spit out, and his fingers stopped on the door on the far left.
"Let's go." To put it succinctly, Mo had to put his hand up and down the wall again, quickly breaking a large hole. Mu Qing felt that this guy's burrowing action was becoming more and more smooth, and he was afraid that practice made perfect.
New room, old view. Following the light and checking them one by one, the ground was still empty. It's just that in this room, Mo De and Mu Qing found two alloy doors again. And this time, a smeared sign on one of the alloy doors caught Morder's attention.
Xu was evacuated in such a hurry that the person in charge of destroying the sign only had time to erase the handwriting on the sign, but the small pattern that followed could not be completely erased.
I don't know how many years have passed, a little green is still lit up in the dark, and the direction pointed by the broken arrow is exactly where Mo De and Mu Qing entered the door.
"Any clues over there?" Seeing Mu Qing walking back from another door, Mo De asked while moving his wrist and fingers.
"Nothing, it's cleaner than your face." Mu Qing searched for a while by the door, but found no clues. "What the hell is this place for, how can I wander around for a long time and not even have the excitement that a little ruins should have, and I just lose the face of the word "ruins". Mu Qing thought that this journey would be as exciting as entering a dungeon adventure, but he didn't expect that this place would be empty, and not even a piece of paper was left.
"From here, you should be able to reach the real core area." Mo De pointed to the incomplete turquoise pattern, then turned around and continued to open the hole.
"Emergency exit?" Mu Qing, who was well-informed, also quickly recognized the meaning of the broken green pattern. Although it is now abandoned, the fluorescent green emergency exit signs are still widely used in public and private places at the turn of the old and new calendars. Specially formulated fluorescent pigments can point the way to evacuees in the dark when the power supply is cut off.
In order to ensure safety, the evacuation route generally leads straight from the core area to the outside world, so that all personnel can evacuate the scene as quickly as possible in the event of a dangerous situation.
In other words, if you go back against the escape route, you will most likely be able to find the deepest part of the core of this place.