<=""></> The two of them waited at the door for a long time, their rifles held levelly pointed at the entrance not far away.
However, after waiting for a long time, there was still no movement.
"Someone entered the power room to replenish the fuel rods? Impossible... Li Wang and the others are guarding the entrance of the shelter. No one should come in." Jiang Chen left the rifle behind him and took out the case-sized rifle from the storage space. The drone terminal was placed behind a bunker.
A dozen Hummingbird drones flew out of the terminal's "hive" and hovered around the corridor.
"What are you doing with the drone?" Sun Xiaorou asked curiously.
"It's always scary when everything is empty. Let's keep the drone outside while we search for useful information." After setting the patrol rules on the terminal, Jiang Chen glanced at the dark entrance and walked towards the door of the director's office. Go to & lt;="r>.
After crossing the iron door, Jiang Chen saw a skeleton wearing the director's uniform in the room. Lying next to him was a pistol and a diary, which looked like a suicide.
"Someone has been here, and not long ago." Sun Xiaorou said with a slight frown after poking the skeleton's chest with the muzzle of his gun.
"Why do you see it?" Jiang Chen asked as he picked up the diary from the ground.
"Didn't you find anything wrong with this dress?"
"What's wrong?"
"The director's office is a shelter within a shelter. The door we passed through just now is equipped with an ultraviolet sterilization device, which means that this room is a sterile room. In a sterile sealed environment, the corpse decomposes very slowly. . More than ten years is a long time, but it will definitely not make him look like this." Sun Xiaorou said.
It is true to say so.
More than ten years is a long time, but it will never rot him so completely. And according to Sun Jiao's recollection, the director should have been in the camp on the ground at that time, commanding the security forces to fight back against the looters. No reason would appear here.
Someone moved the director's body from the surface to the ground for some purpose. Or it could just be some other corpse, just put into the clothes of the director of the shelter.
Jiang Chen looked around. Trying to detect some clues from the surrounding environment.
Unfortunately, he doesn't have the talent to be a detective.
"Someone has been here. Then they brought the director's body from outside and took something away from here." Jiang Chen murmured to himself while looking at the diary in his hand, "And he left this notes."
"That's the only way to explain it." Sun Xiaorou put her index finger on her lower lip and frowned slightly, "Maybe the federal president has already come and replaced the fuel rods in the power room when he came. So just now we started the director's office When opening the gate. Will there be a sudden 'call' from the shelter? Since they have gained something from here, they naturally don't care about Ji Yucheng leaking the password. They just want to get rid of him and keep this eternal secret... But this is also It doesn’t make sense. If they wanted to keep this a secret, there’s no reason they would leave clues like the diary.”
Looking at the diary in his hand, Jiang Chen fell into deep thought.
Jiang Chen sat on the chair and opened the diary. At this time, he unexpectedly discovered that the footer of each page had been painted in neat squares with black pen. The location that originally belonged to the date was artificially hidden for some unknown reason.
[The shelter is closed for one week. We can still receive information from the outside world. However, in order to take care of people's emotions, we decided to report the good news instead of the bad news, and tried our best to block those battle reports that were unfavorable to PAC. And encouraging people that nuclear war will soon end cannot be our opponent.]
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[In the first year, we spent the Spring Festival in the shelter. From today on, we will no longer receive information from the outside world. The frontline of the war has shrunk to the Hongcheng area. For safety reasons, the shelter has entered a state of radio silence, completely cutting off contact with the outside world.
This feeling is simply indescribable, like walking from a civilized society into a forest. It's dark outside for us, trying to survive. We have no choice but to grab our throats and plug our ears. Don't make any noise. I also don’t believe any information from outside that is false or true.
The door to the shelter will not open until the lockout period<="l">.]
[First year and three weeks. Every day's work is pretty much the same. The food I eat every day is similar. In order not to make the journal too boring, I have developed the habit of journaling every other week. But it seems that the boring days will soon be over. Someone suddenly found me today. He claimed to be an observer and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He claimed that in order to complete the order given to him by Pac, he hoped that I would cooperate with him in conducting experiments in the shelter.
He did produce paperwork signed by my superior.
Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I agreed to his request. However, there is a premise that the life safety of the residents in the shelter must not be endangered. As the director of the shelter, this is what I should consider in my duties.]
[In the first year and four weeks, the experiment began. However, although it is an experiment, it actually means that each resident is regularly tested for blood testing, and it will not have any impact on the normal life of the residents of the shelter. I noticed that he had a list in his hand, and some people's names were circled. I asked him what the circle meant, but he didn't answer me.]
[In the first year and five weeks, the experiment had been carried out for a week. He found me and told me that it was time to proceed to the next step of the experiment. I asked him what needed to be done and he told me to arrest everyone on the list who was marked with an emphasis symbol.
It's simply unreasonable. Although I am the director of the shelter, it does not mean that I have the power to do whatever I want.
He threatened me. This was the highest order from superiors. Once it was confirmed that the shelter would be closed for a long time, the plan would be implemented immediately. If I disobey, I will be considered treason.]
[Okay, I compromised, you bear all the consequences yourself, damn the mission, damn it!
I reluctantly issued the order. The survivors on the list were detected to have some kind of terrible genetic virus and would be forced into a dormant warehouse to wait for treatment in the future.
Speaking of which, there is also a little girl under the age of 10 on the list. It was so cruel to take a child away from her parents. I crossed her name off the list... Did I do a good thing?]
[Fortunately, the mission was successfully completed without causing too much panic in the shelter. xxx's experiment officially began, and all the popsicles put into the freezer were his experiments.]
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[First year and nine weeks. It wasn't until today that I discovered that this so-called "observer" appointed by my superior had authority over the shelter that was no less than mine. I can mobilize the security robot, and he can command the security robot to drop its weapon. As for why I discovered this... well, we had a conflict. He asked me for the girl who had been crossed off the list, and I asked him to disclose the experiment. He refused on the grounds of confidentiality. I backed down and asked to confirm the health status of the experimenter, but he also refused.]
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[Too evil! What did I discover! What have I done! How could he trick me into doing such a dirty deed! We can't wait any longer, we have to do something. Even if the machine obeys his orders, my soldiers are still loyal to me!]
[Today, I organized the security force. We broke into the laboratory and found the bodies of the people on the list... inside.]
[Everyone who broke into the laboratory has reached a tacit agreement and is keeping secret from outsiders.
I discovered that in a closed environment, people are far more fragile than they think.
We can't delay it any longer, we have to get out of here as soon as possible.
Once we reach the lowest containment, we're out of here.
The darkness here is simply suffocating<="l">.]
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[I refuse to carry out such an order at the expense of some people’s sacrifices in exchange for the eternal life of others.]
Many pages were torn out of the middle of the diary, and it only records the first two years of the shelter's closure.
However, from those few words, Jiang Chen still sorted out the information hidden in the diary.
Observer again
The same goes for Academician Qin, who used Vault 27 to simulate the evolution of civilization in an isolated environment.
He couldn't help but wonder whether such almost evil experiments were being carried out in all shelters.
"Xiaorou?" Jiang Chen put down the diary in his hand and took a deep breath.
"kindness?"
"Do you remember life in the shelter?"
"Most of my memories are blurry, but I remember my sister very clearly. My sister at that time was very cute." Sun Xiaorou said with a smile.
"It's not about Sun Jiao... Do you remember that many people disappeared in the shelter in a certain year?"
Hearing Jiang Chen's question, Sun Xiaorou couldn't help but shook her head, raised her forehead and said.
"Brother-in-law, please pay attention to the time. The experiment recorded in this diary ended nine weeks after the first year, before I was born at that time."
Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment and then reacted.
After closing the diary, Jiang Chen stood up from the chair.
"It's getting late. Since there are no clues worth paying attention to here... it's almost time to leave."
Sun Xiaorou was still unwilling and searched the director's office carefully, but still found no useful clues.
Sighing, she couldn't help but look a little frustrated.
"Looks like today's trip was in vain."
"Not necessarily." Jiang Chen patted the diary in his hand, "I still found a lot of useful clues."
"That diary may not be true. Both the location of the diary and the traces of alteration are too coincidental." Sun Xiaorou reminded.
"I know." Jiang Chen nodded, "But this is our only clue. Next we only need to find the observer... if he is still alive."
There is also no record of the whereabouts of the observer in the diary. Or it was recorded, but it was torn apart artificially. If he had not died, then the secret of eternal life should be in his hands. But thinking of this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but have a headache.
Finding such a big living person in the wasteland is simply more difficult than confronting the Mother of Deathclaws head-on.
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(The temperature has cooled down here in Wuhan. I had a bit of a cold last night, and I didn’t feel well this morning. So today’s update is a bit late, sorry.) (.)<="">< =""><="">