The two waited at the door for a long time with their rifles pointed at the entrance not far away.
But after waiting for a long time, there was still no movement.
"Did someone enter the power room to replenish the fuel rod? Impossible … Li Wang is guarding the entrance of the fallout shelter. No one should be able to enter. " Jiang Chen put the rifle behind him, took out the crate-sized drone terminal from the storage dimension, and placed it behind cover.
Ten hummingbird drones flew out from the "hive" of the terminal and hovered around the hallway.
"Why are you releasing the drones?" Sun Xiaorou asked curiously.
"It feels scary to be empty. Let the drones guard the outside. We'll go in and search for useful information." After setting patrol rules on the terminal, Jiang Chen scanned the pitch-black entrance and walked to the door of the director's office.
After stepping through the metal door, Jiang Chen saw a skeleton in the director's uniform. There was a pistol and a diary beside his hand. It looked like a suicide.
"Someone was here, and not long ago." Sun Xiaorou poked the chest of the skeleton with the gun and frowned.
"Why do you think so?" Jiang Chen picked up the diary from the ground.
"Don't you find anything wrong with this dress?"
"What's wrong?"
"The director's office is the fallout shelter within the fallout shelter. The door we just passed through was installed with an ultraviolet sterilization device, which means this room is a sterile room. In a sterile and sealed environment, the decay of the body is very slow. Ten years is a long time, but it shouldn't have turned him into this, "Sun Xiaorou said.
That was true.
Ten years was a long time, but it shouldn't have caused him to decay this thoroughly. And based on Sun Jiao's memory, the director should have been at the camp on the ground, commanding the security force to fight back against the raiders. There was no reason for him to appear here.
Someone, for some reason, moved the director's body from the surface to the underground. Or it might have been some other body, but he was changed into the director's uniform.
Jiang Chen scanned the surroundings, trying to find some clues from the surrounding environment.
But unfortunately, he didn't have the talent to be a detective.
"Someone came here, moved the director's body from the outside, and took something away." Jiang Chen murmured to himself while looking at the diary in his hand. "And left this notebook."
"That's the only explanation." Sun Xiaorou pressed her index finger against her lower lip and frowned. "Maybe the Federation President has already been here and changed the fuel rods in the power room, so when we opened the door of the director's office, the fallout shelter suddenly 'called'? Since they had already obtained something from this place, they naturally wouldn't care if Ji Yucheng leaked the password. They simply wanted to get rid of him and keep the secret of immortality … But that didn't make sense. If they wanted to keep this a secret, they wouldn't have left behind clues like the diary. "
Staring at the diary in his hand, Jiang Chen fell into deep thought.
Jiang Chen sat in the chair and opened the diary. At this time, he was surprised to find that the footer of each page had been neatly marked with a black pen. The position that originally belonged to the date had been intentionally hidden for some unknown reason.
"The sanctuary has been closed for a week, but we can still receive information from the outside world. But in order to take care of people's emotions, we decided to only report the good news and not the bad news. We tried our best to block the battle reports that are unfavorable to PAC and encourage people that the nuclear war will soon end and NATO is no match for us.
…
"In the first year, we spent Chinese New Year in the fallout shelter. From today onwards, we can no longer receive information from the outside world. The frontline of the war has shrunk to the Hongcheng area. Due to safety concerns, the fallout shelter entered radio silence and completely cut off communication with the outside world.
This feeling is indescribable, it's like walking from a civilized society into a forest. The outside world is dark to us. In order to survive, we have to grab our throats and plug our ears. We don't make any noise, and we don't believe any fake information from the outside world.
Until the lockdown period ends, the door of the fallout shelter will not open. "
"One year and three weeks. The work is similar every day, and the food is similar every day. To prevent the diary from being too boring, I have developed the habit of writing a diary every other week. But it looks like the boring days are about to pass. Today, someone suddenly found me. He claimed to be an observer and an academician of the Han Academy of Sciences. He claimed that in order to complete the order given to him by PAC, he wanted me to cooperate with him to conduct experiments in the fallout shelter.
He did show me the document with the signature of my superior.
Since I have nothing to do, I agreed to his request. But the premise is not to endanger the lives of the fallout shelter residents. As the director of the fallout shelter, this is what I should consider. "
"One year and four weeks, the experiment began. But although it's an experiment, it's just a regular blood test on every resident. It doesn't affect the normal lives of the fallout shelter residents. I noticed that he had a list in his hand, and some of the names were circled. I asked him what the circle meant, but he didn't answer me. "
"One year and five weeks, the experiment has been going on for a week. He found me and told me that it's time to start the next phase of the experiment. I asked him what he needed to do, and he told me to arrest all the people on the list that were marked.
That's unreasonable. Although I'm the director of the fallout shelter, it doesn't mean I have the right to do whatever I want.
He threatened me that this is the highest order from my superior. Once it's confirmed that the fallout shelter will be locked down for a long period of time, the plan must be executed immediately. If I disobey, it will be seen as treason. "
"Okay, I compromised. You have to bear all the consequences yourself. Damn this mission!
I unwillingly gave the order. The survivors on the list were found to have a terrifying genetic virus. They will be forced into hibernation chambers to wait for treatment in the future.
Speaking of which, there was a little girl on the list. It's too cruel to take a child away from her parents. I crossed her name off the list … Did I do a good deed? "
"Fortunately, the mission was successfully completed and didn't cause too much panic in the fallout shelter. XXX's experiment officially began. All the popsicles in the freezer were his test subjects. "
…
"One year and nine weeks. Only today did I realize that this so-called "observer" appointed by my superior had the same level of authority as me in the sanctuary. I can mobilize the security robots, and he can order the security robots to put down their weapons. As to why I realized this … Okay, we had a conflict. He asked me for the girl who was crossed off the list, and I asked him to disclose the experiment content. He refused with the reason that it's confidential. I took a step back and asked to confirm the health status of the subject, but he also refused. "
…
"This is too evil! What did I discover! What did I do! How could he trick me to do such a dirty thing! We can't wait any longer, we have to do something. Even if the machines listen to him, my soldiers are still loyal to me! "
"Today, I organized a security force. We broke into the lab and found the bodies of the people on the list. "
"All the people who broke into the lab reached a tacit agreement to keep their mouths shut to the people outside.
I realized that in an enclosed environment, people are more fragile than they think.
We can't drag this any longer. We have to leave here as soon as possible.
Once we reach the lowest enclosed environment, we have to leave here.
The darkness here is suffocating. "
…
"Using the sacrifice of some people to exchange for the eternal life of others, I refuse to execute such an order."
A lot of pages were torn out in the middle of the diary, and it only recorded the first two years of the fallout shelter's closure.
But from the few words, Jiang Chen still managed to organize the information hidden in the diary.
[Another observer?]
[Academician Qin as well. He used Fallout Shelter 027 to simulate the evolution of civilization in an isolated environment.
He couldn't help but suspect if all the fallout shelters conducted such evil experiments.
"Xiaorou?" Jiang Chen put down the diary in his hand and took a deep breath.
"Mhmm?"
"Do you still remember your life in the fallout shelter?"
"Most of the memories are blurry, but I remember everything about my sister very clearly. My sister back then was very cute. "Sun Xiaorou smiled.
"It's not about Sun Jiao … Do you remember a lot of people disappeared in the fallout shelter one year?"
Hearing Jiang Chen's question, Sun Xiaorou shook her head and facepalmed.
"Brother-in-law, please pay attention to the time. The experiment recorded in this diary ended nine weeks after the first year, I wasn't even born yet. "
Jiang Chen paused for a moment before he realized what was going on.
Jiang Chen closed the diary and stood up from the chair.
"It's getting late. Since there are no clues worth paying attention to here … it's time to go."
Sun Xiaorou was still unwilling to give up. She carefully searched the director's office, but she didn't find any useful clues.
She let out a sigh as her expression was somewhat dejected.
"Looks like today's trip was a waste."
"Not necessarily." Jiang Chen patted the diary in his hand. "I still found a lot of useful clues."
"That diary might not be real. Whether it's the location of the diary or the marks that were altered, it's all too coincidental, "Sun Xiaorou reminded him.
"I know." Jiang Chen nodded. "But this is our only clue. Next, we just need to find the observer … if he's still alive."
The whereabouts of the observer was not recorded in the diary. Or maybe it was recorded, but someone tore it off. If he didn't die, then the secret of immortality should be in his hands. But when Jiang Chen thought about this, he felt a headache coming on.
To find a living person on the wasteland was more difficult than facing the Mother of Death Claw head on.
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