city ​​of the end

Chapter 289 Dungeon (I)

For Fei Lun, walking in the shadows is a very interesting experience, even though he has done it more than once, but whenever Fei Lun enters the shadows, it is like a fish entering the water, it seems Very comfortable.Walking in the gap of the shadows, the biting cold wind blowing head-on was nothing more than a ray of breeze to Faerun.And now, beside him, there was another companion.

Krona, who was wearing a shadow cloak, held Faerun's hand, and walked carefully on this road that looked neither long nor short, neither wide nor narrow, neither past nor future. .But Krona is not worried. When she received Faerun's gift of divine power, she also gained the ability to walk in the shadows just like Faerun.When slaughtering those mutated monkeys before, Krona used the power to shuttle through the shadows, which can be regarded as a kind of practice.

But now, following Fei Lun, Krona has another completely different feeling...

The slight sense of weightlessness disappeared in an instant, and when the two of them stepped on the hard floor again, it was still pitch black in front of them.The air looked extremely dull, and even had a bit of a foul smell.Normally, this kind of air is not something humans can breathe, but fortunately, Faerun and Kulona don't need to breathe in this way.Their whole bodies are covered by shadows, and the air they breathe also comes from the shadow plane, which means that under the isolation of shadows, they are basically like dead people in reality. It can only be futile to find them by other means—this is another reason why Krona was not found by them when she killed the monkeys.

Because they are not in the same world at all.

"Dong dong."

Krona stretched out her hand, and gently placed it on the wall not far from her. Soon, a gleam of light flashed, and the next moment, white wall lamps lit up in the originally dark corridor, dispelling the light in front of her eyes. of darkness.Immediately afterwards, with the sound of a slight "buzzing" gasp, the dark and heavy air, which was originally filled with dust, gradually began to become fresh.

"The circulatory system is all fine, no issues."

Since Krona's manipulation can control the energy network, the network system before the cataclysm is even less of a problem for her.In just a split second, Krona replaced the original owner and took control of the place.

"Do you know what this place is for?"

While asking, Fei Lun carefully looked at the place where he and Krona were at the moment.It looks like an underground garage, at least from the icon on the ground, but there is not a car here, and there are some sundries beside it, which have been covered with a thick layer of dust.But there was no blood or corpses around, and there was nothing here except for the dead plants that hadn't been watered.

At least on the surface, it seems that this place is just a very ordinary underground garage.

After hearing Fei Lun's inquiry, Krona's eyes looked blankly into the air, and it took a while for her to come back to her senses.

"No records were found...Commander, all I have found so far is the construction log."

"Build log?"

"Yes, contractor, date of construction, and some construction records."

"So, when was this place built?"

Hearing Krona's answer, Ferren became interested immediately, and asked curiously.And Krona glanced at her system again, and then nodded.

"Eight years ago."

"Tsk tsk tsk... I really didn't realize that this thing has a history of a hundred years..."

Fei Lun whistled involuntarily, but this is also normal. Such a huge underground complex cannot be built overnight.Construction must have apparently begun here decades before the Cataclysm began.Later, probably because of the cataclysm, the construction here also stopped, until today.

However, looking at the modern architectural style in front of him, it is really difficult for Fei Lun to connect it with a hundred years of history. After all, in Fei Lun's memory, that kind of thing should generally be ancient, or at least it should be ancient. There is a sense of the historical era... Well, considering the current situation of the wasteland, it really has a sense of the historical era.

"Now, how much information can you investigate?"

"It's not a lot... The specific purpose of this place is unknown, but it should be organized by a huge force, and the reason has not been recorded. The only thing I can investigate at present is that this building complex has about seven floors. ……”

"Seventh floor?"

The seven underground floors are actually not too exaggerated, but considering the size of this underground city, then this is an exaggeration.

Phelan's first reaction to this was... Are Americans out of their minds?
Of course, considering the possible outbreak of the third world war, it is not a secret that various nuclear powers dig bunkers.But why dig such a large dungeon under Washington?This is the political center of the United States. To put it bluntly, if a nuclear war breaks out, this is definitely the place where the first round of nuclear bombs will be directly wiped out. If you build a dungeon here, wouldn't that be asking for trouble?Now the nuclear bomb also knows that hitting the underground target is the kingly way, in case there is a ground burrow or something... Hehe, wouldn't this be a waste of time?

As for the secret research base... Area 51 is in Nevada, it can't be here.What's more, considering the safety, no one would rush to build a secret base for studying aliens in their own political center, that would be too big a problem.

So, what is it used for here?

For Phelan, this is really a puzzle right now.According to the information currently investigated by Krona, this dungeon is still in the stage of "rough housing". To put it bluntly, it is being renovated, but it has not yet reached the level where people can move in.And the computer network here stores more information such as project progress. Although it also involves a lot of top-secret materials and the like, but Fei Lun is a doctor and not a scientist, so it is naturally impossible to learn from these materials. See what clues.

It's just that from Fei Lun's point of view, this place doesn't seem like that kind of top-secret facility.The reason is simple, if it is really a top-secret facility, there is no need to build it so large.Such a large-scale dungeon must require a lot of manpower.But in this way, secrecy is basically a dream.Even if there was no energy network before the cataclysm, and there were too many people talking, who knows when something will be revealed.

"The whole building is intact, but a part of it has collapsed...probably because it has been in disrepair for a long time..."

Through the information obtained by Krona, Fei Lun just glanced at it briefly, but looking at the modern decoration in front of him, he always felt that this "disrepair" was really out of place.

"No signs of life?"

"No, so far, no signs of life have been found on the first three floors. But the next... It's hard to say, my induction seems to have been disturbed..."

"I see."

Hearing this, Phelan nodded.

"All in all, let's go to the core area here...do you know where it is?"

"According to the map, it's probably on the fifth floor underground."

Such a large underground city is of course impossible for people to walk.According to the architectural diagram that Krona found, they can take the underground tram at the platform not far from the underground garage, then go to the third floor, and then change to an elevator to go to the fifth floor... It's not a secret base, but it is There is no one who makes it so strict.

In the process of heading to the station, Fei Lun also went to explore several rooms around him. Sure enough, most of these rooms had just been renovated, and even the furniture hadn’t had time to place them. They were just routinely placed. The tables and chairs looked like a research institution, not a place of living and shelter.Not only that, Phelan also noticed that there were used coffee cups and scratch paper with messy notes on several tables.Along the way, the two didn't see any signs of fighting at all, and they didn't find any corpses or bloodstains.It's as if the people here are just leaving in a normal way, without any accident at all.

But this is not scientific.

Faerun knew very well that the catastrophe happened without warning.He originally thought that he would see many corpses here.It is more reasonable than this. For example, these people are working here, but they lost contact with the outside world because of the catastrophe. Then they tried their best to survive here, but for some reason they started killing each other, and finally died. Stripped or something... Although it is more dramatic, but in the wasteland of the last days, it is easier to see this kind of scene that is often seen in movies in reality.

The underground station is much closer than imagined. It seems that the designers here have indeed taken traffic issues into consideration.It's just that the tram here is not like the design of trams or bullets that Phelan is familiar with. On the contrary, the whole tram presents a polygonal shape like a fairy box, and there are only two carriages-of course, except for Nothing but consoles and seats.

Of course there is no driver.

But this is naturally difficult for Feren and Krona.I saw Krona reach out her hand and lightly touch it, and soon, accompanied by the brisk roar of the motor, the originally gloomy carriage suddenly appeared bright light, and then I saw this strange tram swaying slightly, and then Drive forward quickly along the tunnel.

"————!"

And at this moment, suddenly, a strange sound sounded, which caught Fei Lun's attention.But that sound was only fleeting, and hardly remained.

"Did you hear that, Krona?"

"...This... Commander, there seems to be... and there seems to be no... Is it the sound of the machine running?"

Faced with Fei Lun's inquiry, Krona was also a little flustered. She closed her eyes, frowned, sensed her surroundings again, and then shook her head at Fei Lun.

"I still haven't sensed any lifeforms other than us, Commander."

"Probably an illusion."

Hearing Krona's answer, Fei Lun also nodded, and didn't say anything else, but looked at the dark tunnel in front of him——Because it was in disrepair for a long time, the lights here also come and go, looking from a distance , and can only see a dim shadow.

But he didn't know if it was Fei Lun's illusion. He always felt that at that moment, something seemed to flash past in the shadows in the distance.

(End of this chapter)