If there is anything that is similar between this place and the shelter in the apocalypse, it is probably that it will not save any living people.
The swastika flag was frozen in ice crystals, as if locked in a coffin. An iron gate about five or six meters wide stood at the corner of the stone wall, and only a crack at the upper edge was buried by the snow.
No matter how you think about it, it is unlikely that there are 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." Looking at the swastika flag, a soldier whispered on the communication channel.
Garrett's eyes widened as well, looking at the sign on the door in disbelief. He had heard the story about the Nazis and the Antarctic refuge, but he had never really taken the story seriously. But what he saw in front of him overturned his three views.
"Treasure hunting, about the treasures of the Third Reich." After getting off the polar car, Jiang Chen opened the communication screen and said with a smile.
After a while, Garrett came up with a word.
"How can this be."
"But this is a fact." Jiang Chen shrugged, "Besides, it's getting late. If you don't want to stay here for too long, let's start working quickly."
Although he had a lot of questions in his mind, Garrett swallowed them back.
Returning to the car, he and several soldiers took out the engineering shovel. With the help of the mechanical exoskeleton, they swung the shovel like a windmill and soon dug a hole in the steel-hard ice. .
"It must be about half a meter thick." After wiping the snow slag on his face, Garrett touched the iron door with his engineering shovel, white mist floating around his mouth, "Maybe one meter... Damn it, this door is already thick It’s not like steel anymore when it’s frozen.”
"What's that like?"
"Like a stone."
Leaning next to the polar car, Jiang Chen smiled.
The strong wind was still howling, leaving little time for everyone.
There is no keyhole or handle on the door, and it seems that there is no intention to open it after closing it.
Facing the iron gate embedded in the glacier, Jiang Chen ordered to use the most primitive method -
blasting.
That's right, just put on the dynamite. Although there is a risk of causing an avalanche, this is undoubtedly the fastest and most secure method. And as long as the amount of explosives is controlled in place, this risk should be reduced to a minimum.
That's what Garrett assured him. Having served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he is not unskilled in the use of bombs. But to be honest, he didn't have much confidence in using this thing in an icy and snowy environment.
After considering the amount of explosives and the angle of blasting, Garrett attached the strip-shaped bomb to the iron door that was unknown how thick it was. He gestured to his comrade beside him, and then pressed the switch.
The fire flickered, the sound of the explosion was drowned in the wind and snow, and the heavy door panel was blown inside.
Fortunately, no avalanche was caused.
The dark archway leads all the way to the depths of the snow-capped mountains. Even with a flashlight, you can't see the bottom. There is a stale smell inside, which makes people wonder whether there is any air for living things to survive in it.
The soldiers of the Sea Lion 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 fighting stance at the door.
Garrett gestured to the soldier next to him, and the soldier nodded, tapped the touch screen on his arm, and activated the drone hive behind the polar vehicle.
With a searchlight hanging, Hummingbird took the lead and rushed into the dark bunker. The tactical camera feeds back the situation in the bunker directly on the retina. Jiang Chen did not have a nanochip implanted, so he turned on the holographic image on his watch.
"The air content is normal? What a surprise... No traps were found, and no living people were found... Do you want to enter?" Garrett asked.
"Get ready to enter. Before that, drag our car through the door, don't leave it outside to be buried. Garrett follows me, and the rest of the people guard the door."
"yes!"
After the order was issued, Sea Lion's special forces immediately took action, backed the two polar vehicles into the dark archway, and guarded the door.
Although they are guards, they are the only ones here, and not even a penguin can be seen. The main reason why the soldiers were left at the door was that Jiang Chen didn't want to expose too much information to ordinary people. As for Garrett, Jiang Chen was confident that it was impossible for him to betray him. After all, the fact that he was able to stand here was all thanks to the titanium alloy skeleton he had given him.
In this way, the two people walked along the dark archway one after another. Garrett took over control of the drone and turned off the camera permissions of ordinary soldiers at Jiang Chen's request.
"I always feel like it's too quiet here." Garrett held the rifle and glanced cautiously at the dark corner.
"What else? I didn't expect to meet any living people here. Very few people can live for as long as a century." Walking behind, Jiang Chen confirmed the structure of the bunker in the codebook through his watch. Picture, he responded casually.
There have always been many opinions about the final whereabouts of the head of state. Jiang Chen had consulted relevant information before coming.
1943 was a turning point on the Eastern Front. The Battle of Kursk ended and the Italian Campaign was in full swing. Germany, which was originally strong, fell into the abyss of rapid collapse. It was also from that year that the orator genius never gave any speech again.
Some people say that he was indeed dead, and that he and his mistress Eva were burned to ashes by a full 20 liters of gasoline. Some people also say that he took a U-boat to South America and spent his entire life in a small town in Argentina that was sympathetic to the Nazis. Some people also say that he went to the Antarctic, taking with him more than 200 scientists who disappeared, as well as thousands of SS soldiers loyal to him.
The first statement is recognized by mainstream views, while the latter two have a bit of a conspiracy theory flavor. But since both the golden apple and the code book exist, what else is impossible? In short, there may be anything behind this door. Even if he encounters the black technology of the 22nd century, or even something he has never seen before, Jiang Chen is mentally prepared.
But unfortunately, he seemed to have gone smoothly along the way, and the expected traps and traps did not appear. Many side doors can be seen on both sides of the archway, some are living spaces, and some are garages. There are tools piled inside, construction vehicles, and even tracked tanks...
But although the living facilities are complete, there are no traces of anyone living there.
At the end of the archway is a staircase. From here on, there is no signal from the outside.
Garrett turned around and exchanged glances with Jiang Chen. After receiving instructions from the latter to continue moving forward, Garrett transferred the drone's terminal from the drone hive outside to the drone backpack behind him.
It was still the drone that explored the path first, and then the two of them went down the stairs one after another.
At the end of the stairs is a coded door. But obviously, the power system here had collapsed a long time ago, so Jiang Chen didn't have to worry about the password. He just asked Garrett to start preparing for the blasting work, and then returned to the stairs.
But when he exploded the code, there were two explosions.
The sound came from below, and Garrett successfully blasted the coded door.
And another sound seemed to come from outside... (.)