After two hours of high-speed driving, the carriage finally came to a slow stop, and they came to a completely new area. It's wet and cold, the air pressure and oxygen levels are similar to those of the ground, and the air is filled with a special fragrance. If you look around, it looks like an abandoned subway station, built in the style of a nuclear shelter twenty or thirty years ago, with walls and pillars reinforced with almost metamorphosis, steel frames exposed, and old equipment, but an abundant and stable power supply that keeps them functioning. Judging by the theodolite, they are on the coast of Alaska in the Bering Strait, 1200 meters underground. In just two hours, they traveled more than 1,300 kilometers.

Blake and his party stepped out of the car in a search formation, where the satellite signal was shielded cleanly, and it took some effort to pinpoint it. Taking advantage of this time, Blake divided the team into four groups and searched in different directions.

"What is Dr. Houghton doing in the Bering Strait?" Blake muttered, a vague feeling that Dr. Houghton was indeed hiding something.

These corridors are full of twists and turns, and overhead are densely covered with pipelines. As a rule of thumb, the black cables bundled together with a capital red letter "D" should be connected to a large set of filters, the white pipe with a diameter about the width of an A4 sheet of paper and a capital yellow letter "C" on it should be part of the gamma-ray array energy supply circuit, and the blue pipe with a man-thick orange capital letter "R" on it is not known for what it does.

These are the knowledge of laboratory engineering. Laboratory engineering is an emerging discipline that emerged after the 50s of the 21st century, and its purpose is to adapt to cutting-edge scientific experiments with increasingly complex operations and larger equipment. Laboratory engineers used 26 English capitals and 24 Greek letters with 11 colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, gold, silver, black, and white to mark the pipeline.

Blake has dabbled in the subject, but not deeply. He vividly remembers that this marking method could mark up to 12,100 large pipelines, of which the League of Nations had defined only 9,600 when it established this set of standards, in other words, the remaining 2,500 marks were meaningless, and the blue pipe marked with the orange letter R was one of those 2,500 meaningless marks. That is, that pipe is nothing, but how is that possible?

Walking forward, Blake vaguely felt a little dizzy in his head, the light in front of him didn't seem quite right, so he ordered his men to turn off the flashlight and the lights in the corridor, everything in front of him actually emitted a strange blue light, as if someone had deliberately plated a layer of metal radium on the surface of things. Blake had never seen anything like it, and three other groups reported the same. Blake didn't dare to slack off, he immediately ordered everyone to assemble at the carriage, and released a small drone to find a way out.

(Author's note: Radium, a radioactive metallic element that glows blue in dark conditions, can be used as a medical radioactive source to treat tumors, but long-term exposure can induce leukemia and even cancer.) ）

Strange things are happening more and more, and this must not be an ordinary place!

"The positioning results are in." Virgil held the tablet and said, "We're ...... Unfortunately, we are directly below the headquarters of Olympus. ”

"What did you say?" Hearing this, the squad leader snatched the tablet, "This is impossible, how could we come to such a place, God, I'm afraid we can't escape." ”

"Sir, think of a way, as far as I know, there are at least two full armed guards on the ground waiting for us." Bruce said.

"Quiet!" Blake said, "Give me the drone's reconnaissance data." ”

Blake knew in his heart that in the face of this absolute disparity in strength, even if he had great ability, it would be difficult for him to escape. Now there was only one question on his mind, what was the purpose of Dr. Houghton building such an underground passage to Olympus' headquarters? Could it be that he was secretly collaborating with Olympus? No, no way, Dr. Horton had the impression that Dr. Horton was a man of great integrity, and that he would not be in league with a club of madmen like Olympus.

"There's a passage in the direction of 6 o'clock, maybe to the ground, and we'll go." Blake handed the tablet to Bruce and ordered.

At the moment, there is no other way but to be a dead horse doctor and gamble, but I hope they have taken the right path. However, the good news is that there is a high probability that the Olympus headquarters has not found them yet. As a result, they still have plenty of time to trial and error before encountering the Olympus soldiers.

After walking along the passage for a while, the group came to a device shaped like a vault door. Everyone's nerves were tense to the extreme, and no one knew whether they would be greeted by a safe escape route or countless heavily armed Olympus soldiers who opened this door.

Under Blake's command, the group formed a defensive line, and 128 submachine guns were pointed straight at the gate, and if there was any abnormal movement, they would open fire with all their might. Virgil volunteered to crack the code of the gate, and Blake hesitated for a moment, but agreed, and held a pistol behind Virgil while he concentrated on his calculations.

Cracking the door was not a difficult task for Virgil, and in just three minutes, the whole device was turning, and a red light came through the crack of the door.

"What the hell is that?!"

The things in front of me don't look like they can be made by the creatures of the earth......

As the door slowly opened, you were greeted by an extremely large underground space, with a titanium dome dozens of meters high, a granite surface that was repaired to an extremely flat surface, and a layer of extremely complex pipelines and circuits on it, and various processing equipment connected to the nodes of the pipeline, like a super city. In the center of this huge space, there is an icosahedron made of vanadium-tungsten alloy plates, and at each vertex is mounted a ray gun about fifty meters long, all of which are aimed at the bright spot located in the center of the iscohedral body, and that bright spot radiates two rapidly rotating red pulses outwards - that is the fully activated Kuiper source crystal!

"I think we found it, and this is the so-called 'shuttle' system, the 'shuttle' system that killed hundreds of thousands of Wehrmacht soldiers." Blake said.

At this time, Morant's voice sounded in space: "Scientists, it's a pleasure for us to meet again, you are the elite of Olympus, and the elite of all mankind, and we hold the future of this galaxy in our hands." Five months ago, using this device before your eyes, we succeeded in dropping a thousand 'Tsar Bomba' energy on the borders of the Group of 64, helping us to achieve a decisive victory. Now that the enemy has been destroyed, we should have a higher goal. More than 100 years ago, Albert Einstein told us that mass and energy are equivalent, so since we can transmit energy, we can also transmit mass, and once we can transmit mass, it means that the space folding technology has been officially conquered, and human beings will officially become an interstellar species! No more reliance on bulky rocket engines, no more reliance on dangerous chemical fuels, and interstellar travel will become the norm! ”

(Author's note: The Tsar Bomba, a hydrogen bomb made by the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, was originally planned to explode with a yield of 170 million tons of TN T explosives, which was later reduced to 58 million tons, and was tested on Novaya Zemlya on October 30, 1961, and the explosion caused the entire Eurasian continent to drift southward by 9 millimeters, which was equivalent to 3,800 times the yield of the Hiroshima atomic bomb and 10 times the yield of all bombs used in World War II combined.) ）

Before the words fell, there was a cheer.

"Now I announce the start of the second upgrade experiment of the 'Shuttle' system!"

"Close the damn door, get back to the carriage, and run!" Blake shouted hoarsely.

Everyone ran to the carriage, Blake looked around and found that Virgil did not follow, he shouted Virgil's name and wanted to go back to look for it, but was stopped by a team leader, telling him that the radiation value had exploded, and now he was looking for death. Blake, of course, knew that Virgil's chances of survival were infinitely close to zero, and he cried bitterly and fell to his knees weakly, blaming himself for not bringing Virgil with him in the first place.

By this time, Virgil had quietly touched a platform within the 'Shuttle' system, climbed into the cockpit of a fighter plane with all his might, and then passed out......