Chapter 119 Secret Transport Team
After successfully breaking away from the chasing team, I began to carefully observe the surrounding environment. This place is an underground cave that has been artificially processed. The main reason why it is said to be artificially processed is that the ceiling and walls here are protected by armor plates, and it is also equipped with a large number of lighting equipment. However, the biggest difference between this place and the previous cave is the area in the middle of the cave. There is actually a pier here, but calling it a pier doesn't quite sound like it. This pier is a square pool, about two hundred meters long and less than one hundred meters wide. However, it does not have any external channels, but now there are two submarine-like things parked in the pool.
"Underground waterway?" There are two things like a sealed dock and a submarine. It would be strange if I couldn't guess what this thing is.
The two submarines docked at the pier are both very small, no more than thirty meters in length and more than five meters in width. They look like fat, big cigars. You can tell at a glance that they are cargo submarines. While there was no one here, I searched the entire space. Based on the conditions of the rooms I had seen before, I already had a general understanding of the place. Obviously this is not an important production place for magic crystal steam bombs, but the final assembly factory. This secret base has a production and assembly workshop for the rear propeller and the front detonator of the missile I captured, but there is no production equipment for liquefied magic crystal and that kind of ingredients. Of course, in addition to the missiles I captured, there are many kinds of ammunition here. Their common feature is that they all use liquefied magic crystals as explosives, and they all have basic accessories here. There are no production facilities, but there are no liquefied magic crystals and ingredients.
Maybe the previous alarm caused the staff to run for refuge, and the guards all went chasing luck, so it's very quiet here now. After running to the passage door where Lucky left and seeing that there seemed to be no one outside, I simply came back and got into one of the submarines. As soon as you climb down from the entrance on the submarine, you will see a narrow aisle, with partitions like rolling shutters on both sides of the aisle. The place feels like a scaled-down strip mall, but at night. The rolling shutters on both sides of the passage are like storefronts, and there are metal support pillars as dividing lines between "storefronts" and "storefronts". There was a switch on each of these pillars, so I randomly found the nearest one and pressed it. There was only a sound of mechanical rotation, and a rolling shutter door in front of him rose by itself. Behind this rolling gate is a pile of metal boxes. The outer shells of these boxes have cross-shaped metal reinforcement bars, which are obviously specially reinforced. Looking at the edges of the box, you can see that the thickness of the steel plate of the box itself is also quite terrifying.
Currently, all of these boxes are 'inserted' in a metal frame fixed on the wall. The space behind the rolling shutter I saw only has nine boxes in total, and there is a gap between them, probably to prevent accidents. Surprise! I tried to pull one of the boxes out of the crazy rack, but found that it wouldn't work. After careful observation, I found that the box was locked with several fasteners, but these fasteners did not require keys and could be released by simply turning the handle. Because the box might contain liquefied magic crystals, I didn't dare mess with it. I carefully pulled the box out and put it gently on the ground, but just as I was about to open it, I suddenly heard voices coming from outside. I reacted quickly and restored the box, pressed the switch that lowered the rolling shutter door, and turned over to hide in before it closed.
The voices got closer and closer, and soon I heard someone entering the submarine. There seemed to be five or six people coming down, and one of them said in a voice: "Hurry up, the infiltrator hasn't been caught yet, and he might come back some time. Hurry up, unload your things and let's get out of here."
"Yes." Several others replied.
As soon as the conversation ended, I heard the sound of the rolling shutter door of the compartment next to me opening. The rolling shutter door I was hiding behind was also opened, but I immediately activated the invisibility function on my cloak. Thanks to the large gaps between these boxes, and because of the obstruction of the metal shelves, the other party will not walk in and pull the boxes out. I just hid there motionless and watched the people outside moving the boxes out of the submarine one by one. Then those people left for a while, but I didn't move because I estimated that the submarine came from the 'liquid' It was opened from the Magic Crystal Production Base. As long as you follow it, you should be able to reach that base.
Those people returned to the submarine ten minutes after leaving. I took advantage of the time they left to explain some things through spiritual contact and luck, and then continued to squat here and hide. Those people did not come back empty-handed this time, but with the kind of boxes they moved before, but now the boxes should be empty, because their moving process became very rough, no longer as careful as before, and from their moving From the looks of it, the box is indeed much lighter. After putting the boxes back into the compartment, they closed the submarine hatch directly without closing the rolling shutter door. However, only two people were left, and a few others who were obviously porters.
After the two men closed the hatch, they ran to both ends of the submarine, and then I felt the submarine move. I carefully stretched my head and observed that the two people's attention was not here, so I carefully climbed into the aisle. Although the invisibility function of the Phantom Cloak will be weakened during movement, it will not be completely visible. At most, there will be an area with distorted light, which cannot be discovered as long as you are not paying attention. After carefully moving to one end of the submarine, I observed this side. Because they came back just as I was about to open the box, I didn't have the chance to come here to take a look. Only now did I discover that the bow of the ship turned out to be a cockpit, and it was also a spherical, fully transparent cockpit. There are very few devices in the cockpit, just a few joysticks in total. It seems that the technology of this thing is not very complicated. After observing the situation here, I ran to the other end, and found that the structure here and there were exactly the same. This submarine seemed to have two heads, and both sides could be controlled. Although this structure is not suitable for combat submarines, it is very suitable for small transport submarines. After all, this structure is more flexible, especially in narrow places like secret waterways, where it is easier to avoid obstacles.
After observing the entire operation of the submarine, I ran to the cockpit of the forward end and observed the nearby environment through the fully transparent cockpit. This is obviously an underground waterway leading to the pier just now, but it is much narrower than the square pool just now. Although the two sides of the channel have been simply treated, some parts still have protrusions protruding from the rock wall, and the submarine must carefully avoid these protrusions. The width of the secret waterway is only a little more than six meters. A submarine with a width of more than five meters is almost driving along the edge in such an environment, and it also has to dodge those protruding rocks. If the small submarine was not unusually flexible, it would still be possible. There is really no way to navigate in such an environment. However, although the width of this waterway is very small, the top and bottom spans of the waterway are very large. Even if three submarines are lined up together, they can pass through smoothly. However, this design only allows small submarines to travel in both directions. Large submarines can travel in both directions. You definitely can't get in.
The small submarine advanced slowly in such a waterway at a very slow speed. It took more than an hour to get out of the waterway and enter the open water. At this time, the two people driving the submarine lay down on the armchairs and relaxed almost at the same time. Take a breath. Driving a submarine in a place like this is like walking a tightrope. You need to be highly focused. Being so focused for an hour in a row will make everyone tired.
After entering the open water, the operation became much simpler. The person behind pushed all the control levers to a specific position, then ran to the other end and chatted with another driver, and the other driver He also half-reclined in his seat and fiddled with it from time to time. We sailed like this for about half an hour, and then we saw a large trench appearing on the seabed in front of us. The small submarine following us rushed straight into the trench. This trench was not very deep, and the submarine found a small cave in front after descending for about a hundred meters. The pilot who came over to chat immediately ran back to his post after seeing the cave, while the pilot here carefully maneuvered the submarine into it.
The cave we entered this time was even narrower than the previous secret passage, but the cave was only a few hundred meters deep. After passing through, our eyes suddenly opened up. This is a huge underwater cave. The entire cave is filled with sea water, but the space is very large and a lot of lighting facilities have been installed, making it look quite bright. As soon as the submarine entered here, it started to drive towards the opposite rock wall. There are many metal channels protruding from this rock wall, and each channel is connected to a submarine. The submarine stopped at one of the free passages and docked. As soon as the docking was completed, the two people opened the hatch, and then began to hand out the empty boxes. When the last box was handed out, the two people also climbed out. Since there was no one in the submarine, I simply followed him out.
When I got out of the submarine, I found that I was in a metal channel. The channel was about five meters long. There was a waterproof door at the end of the channel. I carefully opened the waterproof door and got in, then closed the waterproof door again. The sound of deflation immediately sounded in the room. It seemed that this was a pressure chamber. When the deflation was completed, the door on the other side opened automatically, and I quickly got out.
As soon as I got out of the pressure chamber, I was shocked by what I saw. "How can this be?"