Chapter 23: Underground Passages

At 4:46 a.m., before the sun rose, a group of soldiers in Olympus uniforms was carrying dozens of large silver boxes on the main road on the outskirts of Haydn. They walked in a hurry, their hands and feet were nimble, and after a while, they came to the outside of a five-story luxury villa.

The inside and outside of the villa are heavily guarded. More than a dozen tactical groups are divided into open and dark sentry posts, and patrol alternately 24 hours a day; More than 20 fixed fire points were carefully arranged to control the entire area within a few hundred meters of the villa; Radar and various sensors are always on to monitor the entire airspace within a radius of several hundred kilometers; There are also countless anti-aircraft missiles that stand tall and will be destroyed with maximum firepower if any hostile force attempts to break through.

The soldiers came to the outlying outposts, talked with the sentries for a while, and then passed through the security gates one by one. The dozens of large silver boxes were moved into a separate small room and examined one by one.

In the room, the box was fed into the X-ray machine, but there was a shield inside, and the internal structure could not be detected. So several safety officers grabbed a crowbar and rudely pried open the lid of the box, which contained miscellaneous parts such as hoses and cables. The safety officer was not at ease, so he pulled out a large bundle of cables, shook them horizontally and vertically, and put them under the X-ray machine to take a photo, and there was nothing else. At this time, the head of security also arrived, and he looked at the pryed box and the lid that had been thrown on the ground, and his eyes rested on a blue letter "T" - it was the logo of the Olympus's core industrial department. He grabbed a security officer by the collar and scolded him, and walked out of the room with a smile on his face.

When he came to the soldiers, the officer at the head didn't say anything, punched him hard at the bridge of the nose, and then led the team into the villa quickly, and no one dared to stop him......

The soldiers took the elevator to a steel door on the twelfth basement floor, where there were no guards, and everyone's tense nerves could finally relax for a while.

"Many years ago, I was secretly involved in Kuiper source crystal research, and Dr. Houghton set up a secret laboratory for this purpose, which was permanently closed after the research was terminated. If I'm not mistaken, this is the entrance to the lab. Virgil, you said you taught yourself hacking, let me see how good you are. Blake took off his Olympus uniform and said to Virgil, "It's hot here." ”

"Piece of cake." Virgil dismissed it and pulled out the keyboard with his hand.

"Don't underestimate this access control system, it has hundreds of billions of password combinations, and ordinary algorithms can't crack it." Blake reminded.

"Don't bother me." Virgil frowned, his eyes fixed on the monitor.

Blake didn't have much hope, he didn't expect an eleven-year-old to crack the access control system designed by his teacher in a short period of time. The reason why Virgil came to try it was because he had his purpose......

"Well, it's not that complicated."

With a muffled sound, the steel door slowly slidied, and everyone present was surprised. Blake's eyes widened, and he had to admit that the kid in front of him was indeed a genius. In addition to being surprised, Blake seemed to remember something, and said, "By the way, Virgil, do you know Crusoe?" ”

"What Crusoe? How would I know? Is it an individual? Virgil was bewildered by Blake's sudden question, and didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

"That's a hero from the Aston mythology. Let's go in and move faster. Blake turned his head to the side and said.

"Boring." Virgil muttered a whisper and followed everyone into the lab.

The space in the laboratory is very large, the ceiling is about ten meters high, the ground is about 1,500 square meters, and the whole is rectangular. In the very center of this rectangular space is a hollow vanadium-tungsten alloy ball with a radius of about 1.5 meters. At the equator of the spherical shell are six ray guns, each about 3 meters long, mounted at equal distances. Directly below the alloy ball, there are three layers of concentric annular metal pipes, and some red particles remain on the inner wall of the pipes. No one has been to this laboratory for 12 years, but all the equipment is still as clean as new, thanks to the ultra-clean environment in the laboratory.

Blake walked to the console, put his hands on the touchscreen, and verified, the vanadium-tungsten alloy ball opened, bursting with a dazzling red light.

"Do you see that blood-red gem in the center of the sphere, it is the Kuiper Source Crystal that has not been fully activated." Blake said.

"It's beautiful, like a blood diamond." Virgil was fascinated, he had never seen anything like it.

"It's much more precious than a blood diamond. At that time, Dr. Horton and I were able to accurately probe the structure of the Kuiper source crystal, an 11-dimensional ore with a dual conformation......"

"I remember you said the night before yesterday that the Kuiper source crystal is a high-energy ore with a KV2D11 structure, so the 'KV' here should represent the conformational number, the 'D' should represent the dimensionality, and the 'KV2D11' together should mean the meaning of 'double conformation 11 dimensions', am I right?" Virgil interjected.

"Clever." Blake said approvingly

"Let me guess again, KV should be the initials of the names of two people who jointly came up with a full-fledged theory of topological conformation in the 2040s."

"Exactly, it seems that you know a lot about the history of science."

"Small Meaning"

"The Kuiper Source Crystal, its structure is so delicate that we once suspected that it did not belong in this universe. Twelve years later, it's still amazing. Blake looked at the source crystal carefully, like a devout believer, "That's weird, since the source crystal is still here, where did the source crystal in Olympus's hand come from?" ”

"Wait, you just said you worked with Dr. Houghton?" Virgil asked suddenly.

"Yes. I know you're interested in Dr. Houghton's business, but there are some things I can't tell you right now. The DH-1 fighter you were flying, I found a lot of information about Dr. Horton and the assassination in the Southern Ocean in its main unit, it seems that you have done a lot of research, which is very good, and has answered many doubts for me. You are very curious, but sometimes too much curiosity is not a good thing, and it can put you in a lot of danger. ”

"Who the hell is Dr. Houghton?"

"He is my father-in-law and my mentor. You know enough. ”

"I've got to figure it out."

"People sometimes have to be a little confused, and it's not necessarily a good thing to understand everything."

"You don't understand, I'd rather die soberly than live in a daze." Virgil's rhetoric was fierce.

The two were silent for a while......

A loud bang broke the silence. It turned out that the large silver box that everyone carried when they entered the door was actually a camouflaged bomb, which was connected to a life detector and would be detonated immediately if the density of surrounding enemies exceeded 25 people per 100 square meters. Blake and his party specially placed dozens of large silver boxes at the checkpoint, dozens of bombs were enough to blow a big hole in the villa's outer defense circle, and at the same time remind those who had infiltrated the villa that the enemy was making a big move.

The head of security, who had just been punched hard by Blake, was directing a large number of enemies to rush towards the twelfth basement floor, and this place should not stay for long, and must be retreated immediately. But from the map, all the retreats have been blocked.

The soldiers suddenly tensed, and they clenched their assault rifles and set up their defenses at the entrance of the laboratory, ready for a final fight to the death.

However, Blake didn't panic at all, he typed in a piece of code, and the five sides of the giant steel plate moved, sealing the laboratory tightly.

"These steel plates are made according to the standards of nuclear shelters and can withstand direct bombardment by L-1 missiles, and they will not be able to get in for a while." Blake said.

"But how do we get out?"

"That's a problem." "However, I remember Dr. Houghton telling me that this lab is connected to an emergency passage, and that in case of crisis, I just need to pull down this handle......"

The lab shuddered, and the surface began to fall. It turned out that the entire laboratory was built on a single lift, no, in one carriage to be exact. The laboratory descended some distance and came to a steady stop, visible through the glass, and they followed the huge carriage to a black hole tunnel, and the tunnel floor was paved with railroad tracks, and they didn't know where it led. This underground passage is unknown to Blake, the motor starts, the carriage accelerates, and it will be a completely unknown journey......