If this place was similar to all the fallout shelters in the apocalypse, it would probably be that it would not preserve any living people.
The symbol of the swastika was frozen in ice crystals, like it was locked in a coffin. An iron gate about five or six meters wide stood in the corner of the stone wall, buried by the snow, leaving only a crack on the upper edge.
No matter how one thought about it, it was unlikely that there were any living people here.
"There must be something wrong … Tell me, boss, we are now in the Alps in the northern hemisphere, not at the southernmost tip of the earth," a soldier whispered in the communication channel as he looked at the swastika flag.
Garrett also widened his eyes and looked at the sign on the door in disbelief. He had heard the story of the Nazis and the Antarctic fallout shelter, but he never took the story seriously. However, what he saw in front of him subverted his worldview.
"Treasure hunt, about the treasure of the Third Reich." Jiang Chen got off the polar vehicle, opened the communication channel, and said with a smile.
After a long while, Garrett said something.
"How is this possible?"
"However, this is the truth," Jiang Chen shrugged. "In addition, it's getting late. If you don't want to stay here for too long, let's get to work."
Although Garrett had a lot of questions in his mind, he swallowed them back down.
Returning to the car, he and a few soldiers took out the shovel. With the help of kinetic skeletons, they quickly dug a hole in the steel-like ice.
"It's about half a meter thick." Garrett wiped the snow from his face, touched the iron gate with the shovel, and white mist floated from his mouth. "Maybe one meter … Hell, this door is frozen to the point it doesn't look like steel anymore."
"What does it look like?"
"Like stone."
Leaning against the polar vehicle, Jiang Chen smiled.
The wind was still howling, and there was not much time left for everyone.
There were no keyholes or handles on the door, and it seemed that they didn't intend to open it after it was closed.
Facing the iron gate embedded in the glacier, Jiang Chen ordered to use the most primitive method —
Blasting.
That's right, directly with explosives. Although there was the risk of causing an avalanche, this was undoubtedly the fastest and safest method. And as long as the amount of explosives was controlled, the risk should be reduced to a minimum.
That's what Garrett promised him. Having served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was very familiar with the use of bombs. However, to be honest, he didn't have much confidence in using it in a world of ice and snow.
Considering the amount of explosives and the angle of the explosion, Garrett attached the strip of explosives to the thick iron gate. He gestured to the comrade beside him and pressed the switch.
Flames flickered, and the sound of the explosion was drowned out by the wind and snow. The heavy door was blown inward.
Fortunately, there was no avalanche.
The pitch-black archway led all the way to the depths of the snow-capped mountain. Even with a flashlight, one could not see the bottom. There was a stale smell coming from inside, making one wonder if there was even air for living things to live in.
The soldiers of the Sea Lions Special Forces were ready for battle. They took off the combat equipment from the polar vehicle, activated the retinal imaging in the nanochip, and took a combat stance at the door.
Garrett gestured to the soldier next to him. The soldier nodded, clicked on the touch screen on his arm, and activated the drone hive behind the polar vehicle.
With a searchlight, the Hummingbird took the lead and rushed into the dark bunker. The tactical camera directly fed back the situation in the bunker to the retina. Jiang Chen didn't implant the nanochip, so he opened the holographic image on the watch.
"The air content is normal? That's surprising … No traps found, no living people found … Do you want to enter? "Garrett asked.
"Prepare to enter. But before that, we need to drag our car through the door. Don't leave it outside and get buried. Garrett, follow me, and the rest of you guard the door. "
"Yes!"
The order was issued, and the Sea Lions Special Forces immediately moved. They reversed the two polar vehicles into the dark archway and guarded the door.
Although they were guards, they were the only ones here. There wasn't even a penguin in sight. The reason why Jiang Chen left the soldiers at the door was mainly because he didn't want to expose too much information to ordinary people. As for Garrett, Jiang Chen was confident that he wouldn't betray him. After all, he was able to stand here because of the titanium alloy skeleton Jiang Chen gave him.
Just like that, the two of them walked down the pitch-black arched path one after the other. Garrett took over the control of the drone and turned off the camera access of the ordinary soldiers at Jiang Chen's request.
"I always feel that it's too quiet here." Garrett held a rifle and cautiously scanned the dark corners.
"What else? I didn't expect to meet a living person here. Very few people can live for more than a century. " Walking at the back, Jiang Chen confirmed the structure of the bunker in the codebook through his watch while he responded casually.
There had been many theories about the final whereabouts of the Fuehrer. Jiang Chen had read the relevant information before he came.
1943 was the turning point of the Eastern Front battlefield. The Battle of Kursk ended, the Italian Campaign was in full swing, and the originally strong Frankberg fell into the abyss of rapid collapse. It was also from that year that the speech genius never made any speeches again.
Some people said that he was indeed dead. He and his mistress, Eva, were burned to ashes by a full 20L of gasoline. Some people said that he took a U-boat to South America and died in a small town in Argentina that sympathized with the Nazis. Some people said that he went to Antarctica with more than 200 scientists who disappeared, as well as thousands of SS soldiers loyal to him.
The first theory was accepted by the mainstream view, while the last two carried a hint of conspiracy theories. But since even the Golden Apple and the codebook existed, what else was impossible? In short, there could be anything behind this door. Even if he encountered the black technology of the 22nd century, or even something he had never seen before, Jiang Chen was mentally prepared.
However, it was a pity that his journey seemed to be smooth sailing. The traps and mechanisms that he had expected did not appear at all. There were many side doors on both sides of the archway. Some were living spaces, and some were garages. Inside, there were piles of tools, construction vehicles, and even tracked tanks …
Although the living facilities were very complete, it didn't seem like people lived here.
At the end of the archway was a staircase. From here on, there was no signal from the outside.
Garrett exchanged a look with Jiang Chen. After receiving instructions from the latter to continue forward, he transferred the terminal of the drone from the drone hive outside to the drone backpack behind him.
The drone still explored the way first, and then the two went down the stairs one after another.
At the end of the stairs, there was a password door. However, it was obvious that the power system here had long collapsed, so Jiang Chen didn't have to worry about the password. He directly asked Garrett to start the blasting work and returned to the top of the stairs.
However, the moment he blew up the password, two explosions rang out.
One came from below. Garrett successfully blew up the password door.
And the other seemed to come from outside …
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