Chapter 189 Base 17 (1)

On the day when Chen Yang returned to the East China Sea, somewhere in the distant mountains of western Sichuan, a Z-9 multi-purpose helicopter slowly landed on the apron. The wind and waves picked up by the rotor rolled back the grass.

Cheng Pan carried a gray password box and jumped down from the open hatch. Immediately, two officers who had been waiting for a long time stepped forward.

"Is it Colonel Cheng?"

"I am."

"Hello, Colonel Cheng. The leader asked us to wait for you here. He is already waiting for you at the base."

"Well, okay, let's go first."

Cheng Pan nodded and followed the two officers to the car in the driveway outside the tarmac.

After sitting in the back seat of the car, the first thing Cheng Pan had to do was to put the gray password box under his feet. At the same time, he held the box with his right hand at all times to ensure that the box would not leave him for a moment, and then he looked out the window.

This base is located in the mountains of western Sichuan. On the surface, it is under the jurisdiction of the Chengdu Military Region. In fact, the affiliation is not as simple as it seems. The military region has no jurisdiction over this base.

In order to prevent satellite reconnaissance, the ground infrastructure of this base is not much different from other military bases. At least Cheng Pan looked around and could not see much of a problem just from the surface.

However, after the car drove for about ten minutes and gradually approached a tunnel in a large mountain, the surrounding martial law became more obvious. Before entering the tunnel, not only Cheng Pan's identity had to be verified again, but also the other two officers in the car. You also need to verify your identity before you can enter the tunnel.

As a soldier, you should never ask more questions than you should, but Cheng Pan didn't even bother to ask, just relying on his own eyes. It can also be seen that this long tunnel should be an underground facility built in the 1960s to prevent nuclear attacks.

However, it should now be renovated and reinforced to ensure that the tunnel is more stable.

The car continued to drive forward, and the tunnel became deeper and deeper, until it stopped in front of a checkpoint after driving for a full eight minutes.

The so-called checkpoint. In fact, it is a steel gate that blocks the entire tunnel. The identity must be verified again before the small door can be opened to allow vehicles to enter.

Cheng Pan had only seen this strict inspection method in a certain confidential base in Qinghai, but that was a nuclear weapons base, not here.

No, strictly speaking, this base preserves things. More important than nuclear weapons!

After patiently waiting for fingerprints and irises to be checked, Cheng Pan finally stepped into the core of the base.

This time the vehicle stopped after not driving for long. Two officers took Cheng Pan into a passage. After walking for five minutes, the two officers stopped and turned around and said: "Colonel Cheng, next we need to disinfect and change clothes." Enter the base.”

"OK, I see."

Cheng Pan didn't feel dissatisfied at all. He took off his clothes and disinfected his whole body according to the procedure. Then he put on a prepared military uniform and then followed the two of them through a passage and truly entered the core of the base.

"This... is so big!"

The core of the base was beyond Cheng Pan's expectation. The first thing he saw was a deep hole with a diameter of hundreds of meters and a bottomless depth. And surrounding the deep cave, there are floors built one after another from top to bottom.

Cheng Pan's contact with the top secret level was very high, and he was even one of the persons in charge, so the two officers explained to him: "Base 17 starts from our top level. It is divided into forty-nine floors below. The depth exceeds two hundred meters, and with each level you go down, the top-secret level becomes higher and the disinfection requirements become more stringent.”

"And there are lounges, libraries, shelters, recreation rooms and laboratories on each floor to ensure the mental and physical health of researchers here to the greatest extent."

After hearing the explanations of the two men, Cheng Pan couldn't help but nod.

To build such a large underground base, unless the super rich are willing to spend most of their property to build it, only national power can support it, and only big countries have the strength and funds to build it. Generally speaking, Medium-sized countries simply cannot afford such huge expenses.

While explaining to Cheng Pan, he led him through the corridor to the conference room on this floor. A man of about sixty years old was sitting at the head of the conference room.

"Hello, Chief..."

"Hello, Chief..."

Cheng Pan saluted and then sat down respectfully.

Although this old man may not be looked down upon, he only holds the rank of lieutenant general, but he is one of the leaders of Base 17 and must not be underestimated.

"Haha, Xiao Cheng is here... I have long heard that you are young and promising, but I didn't expect you to be so young."

Indeed, Cheng Pan was able to climb to the rank of colonel when he was in his thirties, which is enough to be called a young and promising person, but what he relied on was not his connections, but his truly excellent skills.

"The chief praised me."

To be modest, Cheng Pan placed the white password box on the table and pressed his thumb on the fingerprint reader. After a while, there was a "click" and the password box opened automatically.

Cheng Pan took out a document inside and handed it to the old man respectfully.

Liu Yanqing, who had the rank of lieutenant general, took the document with a slight smile, looked through it carefully, and said, "Well, it seems that the higher ups are really going to transfer you here. This place is not as boring as the place you stayed before. Freedom, are you mentally prepared?"

"Chief, Cheng Pan is ready at any time. As long as the country needs it, there is no place he cannot go!"

Cheng Pan said seriously.

"Okay, I just need this spirit."

Liu Yanqing praised it and handed over another document on the table: "It's just right. Take a look at this too."

"Uh, this is..."

Cheng Pan lowered his head and saw that the four characters "Blackstone Project" were printed on the cover of the document, and below it was the line "Top Secret Document - Anyone who reads or leaks the contents of this document without permission is illegal and may be transferred to a military court and sentenced to life imprisonment." .”

Of course this line is false. How could it be transferred to a military court for trial? It’s just a joke. If this secret, which is different from ordinary top-secret documents, is really leaked, the person who leaked the secret will be gone from this world within twenty-four hours. Completely evaporated, there is absolutely no chance of being transferred to a military court for trial.

The actual level of this national top-secret document is already higher than that of ordinary administrative top-secret documents. Once leaked, it will cause very serious damage to national interests. Even if it reaches the military rank level, it cannot be read without relevant permission, otherwise it will be Treason treatment.

The entire document file was about fifty pages long. Cheng Pan flipped through it and found that there were text explanations and corresponding photos. It turned out to be an explanation of the origin and construction of the entire base from beginning to end.

It is also the reason and explanation for the origin of the entire "Blackstone Project".

I touched the first black and white photo, which was taken when the base tunnel was completed in the late 1950s. The more I turned back, the photo gradually changed from black and white to color, from unclear to clear, and Cheng Pan became more and more aware. Learn more about the reasons for the construction of this base and the "Blackstone Project".

After flipping through more than a dozen pages, Cheng Pan was surprised when he saw a certain photo.

It was a second-generation leader of China who was about 1.5 meters tall and had a smile on his face. He was taking a photo with a group of researchers.

"Have you finished reading?"

Liu Yanqing took a sip of tea.

Carefully putting down the documents, Cheng Pan replied: "Chief, I've finished reading."

"What do you think?"

"Well……"

Cheng Pan thought for a while and replied seriously: "The Blackstone Project must continue to be implemented. This is very important to the future of our country."

"Well, you are also someone who has been exposed to this aspect for a long time, and you should also understand the importance of it."

Liu Yanqing sighed: "Base 17 is no better than the special research institute you stayed in before. The research here is really too important, so the responsibility on you is also heavier. I believe you are mentally prepared for this. I will No more words."

"On the other hand, your military rank will not change, but your level will be raised by one level. You can go to all other places in this base except the forty to forty-ninth floor."

"yes."

Cheng Panshi was still surprised in his heart. He used to be in the Special Research Institute, but he was one of the people in charge. His level was high enough and he had access to many top secrets that even ordinary central leaders could not access. However, he did not expect to come to Base 17. , he moved up a level, but was still unable to enter the forty to forty-ninth floor.

The meaning of this is huge. It not only shows that there are more important things in the entire base that he cannot touch.

And it also means that some things are more than simply involving state secrets.

Putting aside these thoughts, Cheng Pan came to his senses and found that Liu Yanqing had already asked an officer to take him to his lounge.

His lounge is on the first floor, just because the disinfection inspection on the first floor is the most relaxed. It only disinfects when entering and exiting the base, and there are no other excessive inspections. It is definitely much more convenient for life.

Walking in the corridor, I saw many people coming and going. According to Cheng Pan's analysis, about 80% of the members of the entire base should be researchers, with less than 20% being soldiers, and the rest of a certain type of people. That is a death row prisoner.

Some of the prisoners who need to be executed in prisons on the western plateau will be "lucky" selected and become the "guinea pigs" for the final clinical trial here.

Anyway, the number of people executed every year is a state secret. No one knows exactly how many people will be executed. If a part of the people are selected, there will be no leakage at all.

Moreover, the death row prisoners will still be sentenced to death after all, so why not contribute their last bit of strength to the country here?

This can also be regarded as atonement for the sins committed during life.

No one would feel pity for these death row prisoners, and Cheng Pan was no exception. On the contrary, there were more than ten people who died in his hands, and it was impossible for him to have even a trace of sympathy. (To be continued...)