I had to admit that the Americans' creativity was something you wouldn't even dare to think about in China. The group of us lay in the coffin and pedaled for more than ten kilometers. Finally, we arrived at the launch site.
The biggest difficulty in approaching this place was that it was too empty. The launch site was located in the Gobi Desert, and there was no shelter around it. Within a radius of two hundred kilometers, there was no man's land. The plants here were sparse, and the height was no higher than one meter. Worse, the terrain was flat, and there were almost no ups and downs. Under normal circumstances, it would be very difficult to approach this place without being noticed. Today, however, we had a great advantage.
The heavy rain had reduced the visibility in this area to less than five meters. This visibility was enough for us to approach without worrying about being noticed. With the ugly coffin made by the Americans, even a detector wouldn't be able to detect us.
The huge colony ship was like a giant beast hidden in the rain. The huge shadow made people's hair stand on end. We carefully approached the entrance to the underground base under the launch platform. The entrance was half-buried, and it was only one meter above the ground. It looked like a turtle shell buckled on the ground. It was a standard design for an anti-air bunker.
When we arrived at the entrance, the first thing we saw was a rusty iron door. It looked like it hadn't been used for a long time.
In fact, if I'm not mistaken, this door hasn't been opened for at least twenty years.
Of course, the Ark Base wasn't built twenty years ago. After all, we didn't know that the Solar System Terminator was flying toward the solar system. In fact, the Ark Base was built using an abandoned ballistic missile base. This door wasn't the one used by the Ark Base, but the emergency evacuation door used by the original ballistic missile base. According to the blueprint provided by the American government, there should be a passage behind this door that connected to the Ark Base. However, this passage should be completely abandoned. The real Ark Base had its own entrance. Not only was it bigger than this one, but it was also newer.
Because the passage behind this entrance was abandoned, there were no surveillance cameras installed. Even the electronic lock on the door was broken. Even if we had the password, we couldn't get in. The battery on the door lock had long run out of power.
We quickly approached the door and didn't directly barge in. Instead, we listened to the movements inside. In the end, we only heard a regular buzzing sound. It should be the sound of some kind of machinery, not human voices.
"Chili," I called out softly.
Chili Pepper quickly opened her palm and placed it on the door lock. The door lock quickly turned red and Chili Pepper's little hand slowly inserted into the door lock. Suddenly, she grabbed something and pulled it out. A piece of melted metal was pulled out of the door. This was the lock core. Without it, the bolt on the door lock would lose its support.
After melting the lock, I tried to push the door, but it wouldn't budge. Although the door lock had been removed, the door had not been opened for twenty years. The metal door shaft had completely rusted, and even the door panel and door frame had rusted together. We had no choice but to melt the door axle and remove the entire door.
After we went down the door, we immediately saw the passage behind it, but it was completely dark inside. I didn't need to remind them. Everyone switched their eyes to infrared wavelengths and continued to move forward. Now, the scene in the tunnel was as clear as a light in our eyes. The only difference was that the color of the image was a little strange.
The design of the tunnel was quite unique. First, it went down a little, then it turned into a horizontal corridor. After a turn, it continued to go down, then turned horizontally again. This was actually a design used to confuse people. On the surface, it looked like the downward and horizontal corridors were all ninety-degree turns. In fact, the turning angle wasn't exactly ninety-degree, but rather, there was a certain deviation. Of course, the deviation of each turn wasn't big. However, because there were so many turns in the tunnel, even someone with a good sense of direction wouldn't be able to distinguish between north, south, east, and west. Of course, this trick didn't work on us. We Dragons had the precision of a computer. No matter how many turns we made, we could accurately know the direction we were facing.
After walking along the tunnel for a while, we encountered a collapsed section of the tunnel. This was the reason why the Ark Base didn't set up a checkpoint here. It was because the middle section of the tunnel had collapsed. Ordinary people couldn't pass through it at all. It required a large amount of equipment to dig out the tunnel. Therefore, there was no need to set up any defenses here.
Of course, we didn't have the ability to dig out the tunnel. After all, we were combatants, not siege machines. Although we had the stamina, we didn't have the time.
Of course, we didn't come here to dig out the collapsed tunnel. We planned to use this tunnel to enter the Ark Base. Some people might find it strange. Since the tunnel was already guarded and we didn't plan to dig it out, how were we going to enter the Ark Base?
This question was actually quite easy to explain.
Although the tunnel in front of us had collapsed, we would have to dig through at least a dozen meters of the collapsed area. Therefore, even for us, it would take a long time to dig through. However, after digging three meters diagonally from the collapsed area, we would be able to enter the Ark Base's main ventilation duct. This depth was actually nothing to us.
Digging a three-meter-long tunnel might be difficult for ordinary people, but it wasn't a problem for us. Besides, we had professional equipment. This ultrasonic cutter could dig out cylindrical tunnels. All we needed to do was to remove the loose soil and rocks in the middle.
With the help of this cutter, we dug through the tunnel in ten minutes and entered the main ventilation duct.
From here, we could be considered to have entered the Ark Base, and this was the most dangerous part. Although we were now in the ventilation duct, we couldn't move along the duct because there was a laser fence every few meters. If we crawled along the fence, we would immediately trigger the alarm and the other side would know that we were here. Therefore, we absolutely couldn't go through the ventilation duct.
The purpose of entering the ventilation duct was not to crawl along the ventilation duct, but to enter the common trench. On the other side of the ventilation duct was the cable duct of the Ark Base. One of the cables was directly connected to the security system. We needed to do something here before we could proceed with the next step.
Since we had dug a three-meter-long tunnel, it was naturally not a problem to open a hole in the ventilation duct. After opening the hole, we saw the communication duct. This thing couldn't be broken through by brute force.
The outermost layer of the communication duct was a corrosion resistant and pressure-resistant synthetic plastic casing. This thing didn't require much skill. The only thing that required skill was the rubber insulation layer inside.
This rubber insulation layer wasn't the insulation layer outside the wires. It was a special protective layer. In this rubber insulation layer, there were twelve glass fibers, commonly known as optical fibers. These twelve optical fibers were not used to transmit data. Instead, they were constantly transmitting a set of changeable codes. If you cut through the outer rubber protection layer, you might damage these optical fibers, which were thinner than a strand of hair. Once the optical fibers were broken, the other side would know that someone had tampered with their line.
This kind of protective measure could be said to be physical. So far, its only disadvantage was that it was expensive. The other advantages were because this thing couldn't be destroyed silently. As long as you did something to the wire, it would inevitably cause the line to be broken. Once the line was broken, it meant that someone had hacked into the line.
Although the Ark Base was controlled by those people, the infrastructure was still built by the US government. Therefore, the US government had a lot of design and so on. Therefore, we knew that this line couldn't be touched, and we didn't plan to touch it. The reason why we had to find this line was because we needed to follow it to find something else – a data exchange.
One of the main reasons why this kind of cable was expensive was that it required a data exchange at intervals. This thing not only had to play the role of relaying signals, but it also had to perform simple data processing. So, it was actually a computer, not the kind of data exchange that people usually saw.
Of course, the location of this thing itself was relatively hidden, and it had a protective layer. It wasn't easy to touch it. However, it wasn't like we didn't prepare anything. Although we didn't know that we were going to infiltrate this spaceship before coming here, because the big sister of the delegation told us that we needed to bring as much equipment as possible, we did prepare a lot of things. And it just so happened that there were some useful things among them.
After finding the line, I directly stretched my hand behind me. Ling quickly put something that looked like a giant centipede in my hand.
If ordinary people suddenly saw such a thing, they would definitely be scared to death. Because this thing not only looked like a centipede, but it was also almost sixty centimeters long. The thickest part of its body was about as thick as three adult thumbs put together. Looking at the dark red ringed carapace and hundreds of legs, ordinary people would be scared. But I wasn't afraid of this thing, because it was actually a small tool made by our Draconic Biological Laboratory. Yes, although it looked like a living creature, it was actually a remote-controlled biological tool that didn't have much thought and consciousness. It was specially used to work in narrow pipes.
After putting this thing on the communication line, the insect immediately crawled forward along the line. What we needed to do now was to wait for it to find the repeater. As long as this thing got close to the repeater, it would find a way to establish a physical connection with the repeater. Then, we could directly invade the security system and turn off the laser fence in the ventilation pipe.
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