Chapter 233 The Mysterious Passage

Chapter 233: The 'Mysterious' Passage

"What did you find?" I shouted as I jumped down. After passing through the big hole pierced by Scot, we continued to fall for more than ten meters before hitting the ground. What is surprising is that this is actually a mechanical room in the elevator room. That is to say, from where we are standing now, There is an elevator downstairs.

There is a set of electrical cable retracting and retracting equipment in this power room, and there is a large electric motor next to it. Dozens of cables are shuttled and dragged through pulleys and winches to the four corners of the room, and then passed through four holes on the ground to the space below. middle. Obviously this is a small cargo elevator, because an elevator dedicated to loading people does not need such a large space, and large cargo elevators do not use cable suspension structures but mechanical gear transmission.

"You all come down." I shouted to the top, and the people above jumped down one after another. Scott and I found a metal cover on the floor and opened it. This cover is about the same size as a manhole cover. Below it is an elevator shaft that goes vertically downward. Directly opposite the cover is a hanging ladder that goes vertically downward. From here, it is hundreds of meters deep.

"Where do you think it will be down there?"

"No matter where it is, it must be important." Xiaochun said.

Wei Na suggested: "I think we should get the necessary information first, and then go down to explore the environment below."

"There shouldn't be much defense there. Ling, you, Yeyue and Xiaochun go get the things back and come back as soon as possible."

"Understood." After receiving the order, the three of them, Ling and Xiaochun, jumped back up along the passage we just jumped down from, while we observed the situation below. Although the elevator shaft is relatively dark, this does not affect us.

"I'll go down and take a look first." Lingling grabbed the armrest of the cover and wanted to jump down, but I pulled her back. "Let Bailang and Xiaobai go down first. They have an advantage over us in this kind of place."

After hearing my proposal, Xiaobai and Bailang immediately tore a huge crack in the hole in the ground, and then jumped down. Although the elevator shaft is vertically downward, Xiaobai and Bailang can run along the wall as if they were on flat ground with the help of their strong limbs and sharp claws. If you turn the camera sideways to shoot, you won't be able to tell that they are Act on vertical walls.

Lingling jumped in immediately after Xiaobai and Bailang went down, and Scott and I quickly followed. This passage is very deep, but we don’t have to climb ladders like ordinary people. Instead, we bounce left and right along the wall. Each time we bounce, we can drop more than ten meters. After more than ten bounces, we finally landed successfully.

This is not a solid ground, but a small freight elevator. This elevator has no ceiling or walls, only a floor made of steel wires and a few supporting beams. Four steel cables are connected to the four corners of the elevator, leading all the way to the power room where we were just now. However, although we arrived at this elevator, we did not find the elevator exit. We had already seen it when we came down the wall just now. There is no door in the upper passage, which means that it is a sealed passage. I looked down through the steel wire under my feet. The elevator was only five or six meters away from the ground below, and the section below was completely sealed. There was no exit to the elevator shaft at all.

"This seems to be an abandoned elevator." Wei Na pointed to the rusty floor and said. "Based on the rust, it looks like no one has been in there for at least a decade."

After hearing this, I immediately shouted to the people above: "Don't rush down yet, scan the entire passage to see where the original exit is."

As soon as the people above heard this, they immediately stopped running downwards. Instead, they took out their short weapons and inserted them into the wall to fix themselves in the passage. Then everyone began to scan the passages in their own height areas. Soon Someone found the original exit. It turns out that there is not only one exit. There used to be a door about six meters down from the elevator room above. As long as you stop and look carefully, you can see that there are very obvious traces of repairs on the wall. No matter how you adjust the cement used to block the door, there will definitely be some difference between the cement used for the door and the original cement, so the joints will look obvious. About thirty meters down from that door is the second door, and then there is another door at that distance, and then there is a completely enclosed access, until the elevator we are standing at is the bottom one. Door. The openings of the four gates are all in the same direction. Obviously, there is a huge underground building at the same depth as the elevator shaft. Otherwise, it would be impossible to leave an elevator shaft in such a deep place.

"Do you need to open it to see what's going on over there?" Scott asked me.

"Of course, but we can't open them all at the same time. Let's go in from the bottom. You take a few people back first, destroy all the monitors on the lower floors of the base above, and then find a way to block the passage leading here. I don’t want anyone up there to cause trouble for us when we go down.”

"Understood." After Scott took the people there, I started digging holes in the wall with my sword. The cement wall has a very low marking, and it will basically be completely powdered with just a little force. However, there is a brick wall behind the cement wall. After we dug out the bricks, we encountered an anti-corrosion protective layer. Behind this plastic-like protective layer is a relatively thin alloy armor plate. The armor plate is then Behind it is a layer of concrete wall, but this layer of concrete is much harder than the outer layer of cement, and there is also very thick steel woven into it for reinforcement. However, it is useless for us to reinforce it. Unless it is a high-temperature-resistant material, our laser cutting sword has the same effect on cutting anything. After all, it does not cut objects by hardness, so hard materials and soft materials are not suitable for it. It's all the same.

Because we were afraid of being discovered by outsiders, we cut the walls very carefully. When Scott and Ling came back from completing their tasks, we had just cut through the reinforced concrete wall. There is something behind the concrete wall, but it is just a very thin layer of cement, and even an ordinary person can break it open with a little force. When I dug through this layer, I knew it must have been dug through. This layer of cement was probably the outermost layer of material that finally played a smoothing role on the wall, so it was so thin. I first carefully scanned the situation outside with an electromagnetic force field, and after confirming that there was no one or alarm system on the other side, we opened the thin cement. After passing through the cement wall, we actually entered an environment that looked like a sewer.

This is a cement passage two or three meters wide. There are a lot of pipe facilities densely arranged on the wall where we came in. Because we were afraid that damaging these things would trigger the alarm, we had to dig down. Out of that wall. The walls on both sides of this passage and above our heads are almost filled with pipes of various calibers and uses. The pipes on the wall look like gas or liquid transportation pipes, while the ones above the head are wires of varying thicknesses, but there are more of them, and they look densely packed with wires.

"Is this...the pipe layer?" Yeyue asked, touching the pipes on the wall.

"It doesn't look like it." Scott said: "The elevator doesn't need to be connected to the duct level, and it doesn't look like it was renovated later."

"No need to guess." Shuangxue suddenly pulled an iron sign from the wall next to it. "The passage we just came down is for construction. Behind this is a base. We are in a pipeline ditch!"

"Base?" Xiaochun took the iron plate in confusion and asked, "Isn't there a base on it? Why is there another base here?"

"Probably only the Americans know this!" Ling said and walked forward. "There's airflow here, and there's probably an outlet."

We quickly followed it, and after passing through a passage, we found a door. However, the metal door was completely rusted, and we had to cut it off entirely. Going through that door is still a simple cement passage, with rocks even exposed in some places. The entire passage looks more like a mine tunnel than a research base. The only difference from the outside layer is that there are not so many pipes here.

"What the hell is this place?"

"The devil knows."

We walked straight ahead along the passage, and after walking for about two kilometers, we came across a rest stop-like place on the edge of the passage. In fact, this place just widened the passage a little bit, put some tables, chairs and benches, and nailed some nails on the wall. There were a few large flashlights that were almost rotten hanging on them. There were a few excavated items scattered on the ground. Tools, a table and a dusty ceramic cup.

"Why do I feel like this doesn't look like a research base?" Wei Na picked up the cup on the table and looked inside before saying.

"I think so." Xiaochun agreed.

"No matter where this is, I think it conceals a huge secret. The weird defense strategy of the experimental base above may be due to this." Ling said, taking the lead and walking deeper into the passage, and we had no choice but to follow.

The passage seemed to be winding forward endlessly. We walked for more than a kilometer in one breath before finally stopping. What appeared in front was a collapsed passage. The entire passage was buried by rubble, but our strong perception told us that the passage was open, because wind blew out from the gaps in the rubble, but it was very Just weak.

"Do you need to dig it up and take a look?" Scott walked to the rock and asked me. I nodded, and he immediately waved over the ring knights and started moving the rocks. Although clearing the passage should be very time-consuming, we are very strong. Moving rocks is like emptying cardboard boxes, so the speed cannot be compared with human digging with bare hands. We soon cleared a passage out of the rubble, but this five-meter-long strip of rubble kept collapsing downwards. We had to use an electromagnetic force field to support the ceiling in order to continue the excavation. Fortunately, only this five-meter-long section will collapse, so there will be no problem in the past.

After passing through the collapsed passage, we walked forward for more than ten meters, and suddenly found a light in front of us. Could it be that we had arrived at the real experimental area?