When Charles returned to the round disc, all the weapons and task force members had disappeared, leaving only an empty square.
Shanshan was holding Charles' hand, and she looked around with great excitement.
He had seen this kind of square once before when he was in the second laboratory. He didn't know why the Foundation always liked to build this kind of semicircular hall in the building.
Standing in the center of the square, Charles turned his head and looked at Parker behind him, "Why don't you introduce yourself to me? You are the hosts here, and I am the guest."
Parker strode forward and walked in front. "The entire shelter can be divided into four floors, and it is huge in scale, and the roads are also very complicated. If you really want to look for the key yourself, it will probably take several months."
"I can take you to Central Headquarters, where we can review all the surveillance video covering the entire shelter."
Charles said nothing, but waved his hand forward as a gesture of invitation.
Following Parker in the corridor that was four meters high and six meters wide, the stealthy footsteps coming from the houses next to him made Charles realize that there were other people inside.
It can be seen that in order to give Charles an excellent inspection experience, they ordered everyone to stay at home.
Just as they reached the end of the corridor, the door next to them opened a crack, and a pair of curious eyes stared at Charles secretly.
Seeing Charles looking over there, the door closed quickly, and the voice of a mother scolding her child was heard from inside.
"It's just small compartments. I thought there would be a bustling city down there." Charles said to Parker next to him.
"There's no point in building something so prosperous. Most people still live on it. This is just an emergency shelter."
Charles nodded in understanding. He looked at Parker and asked again, "What kind of crisis is it? You look scared. How can you be scared when you have such a powerful military fortress? Is it a god?"
Parker seemed reluctant to answer the question, but under Charles' repeated questioning, he said he wanted to ask for instructions.
Then he walked to the corner, picked up the walkie-talkie on his chest and whispered, and soon he came back.
"We have something that can predict danger. Recently, it has begun to warn us that something has been chasing us. We don't know what it is, but it is something that is enough to destroy the entire No. 68, so we must avoid it."
Charles nodded, and continued walking forward without saying anything further. This was none of his business. He came here just to find the key.
Somehow, walking on Island No. 68, he felt like he was walking in a magnificent ant hole.
Thinking of the scene he had seen in the sea before, Charles couldn't help but feel shocked by the strength of the foundation. This was basically equivalent to an artificial island.
The problem of island sinking that troubled the people of Earthsea would never happen to them, because the island itself could move underwater.
Charles suddenly thought of something and turned to look at Parker. "Can you please tell me where you came from? Does the Foundation know? Are you descendants of the Foundation?"
"We don't quite know what foundation it is. The textbooks tell us that we are some humans from the surface. We once spread all over the Earth Sea, but soon most of us died for some reason."
"Only No. 68 was on a mission at the time and survived. We will collect intelligence from outside every cycle so that the mayor can evaluate and determine the possibility of returning to the sea surface."
"But after so many years, the situation on the surface has not changed much. We decided to remain dormant. We have to wait until it is completely safe before..."
Shanshan, who was standing by, looked at Charles who was thinking with his eyes wide open, "Dad, what are you talking about?"
"What didn't you talk about? By the way, what is Mom doing lately? Is she still angry with me?" Charles reached out and picked up his daughter.
"Well, she's still angry with you. She's very angry with you." Shanshan nodded vigorously to show the seriousness of the matter.
After walking in various bright corridors for nearly half an hour, Charles finally arrived at the so-called Central Bureau.
A group of people in gray uniforms were already standing there waiting for them.
These people seemed to have known Charles' purpose for a long time. Without any nonsense, they took him directly to the monitoring room.
In front of several computers, 50-inch screens covered the entire wall. The screens showed the conditions in various places in the shelter, and the videos also showed some people moving around.
It looked like the rest of the shelter wasn't blocked off except for where Charles passed by.
"Switch all the places, one every ten seconds." said Charles, who was standing against a wall.
"How can you see all the screens?" Parker asked puzzledly.
"It's okay, just cut it." Charles and Shanshan looked at the screen on the wall.
The images on the screen began to flicker constantly. There were so many details that Charles' eyes could not keep up at all, but he did not intend to look for it himself.
"Sparkle, do Dad a favor and go see if there's a big key in these places."
Shanshan nodded, and with a flash of white light, her figure appeared on the screen.
When she suddenly appeared, everyone inside was startled.
"Charles! This is not within the scope of our original regulations." Parker looked very nervous.
The captain of the Narwhal shook the bracelet in his hand. "Is this thing within the specified range? Don't worry, Winky won't hurt anyone."
"And if I don't send her to take a look, I can't guarantee that people like you will use some old videos to trick me."
Parker was talking on the walkie-talkie, but soon he put it down unwillingly. The decision-maker of No. 68 finally did not break up with the other party and let Shanshan investigate the matter layer by layer.
Just as Shanshan was searching, Charles suddenly saw a white hat that looked very familiar.
When the person in the camera raised his head, Charles' pupils suddenly shrank.
That was the little boy Pogro who was killed by the monster before! He actually appeared in the video!
"A video from the past?" But when Shanshan suddenly appeared and scared Bogro, Charles rejected this guess. This was really a scene that happened somewhere on Island No. 68.
Charles touched his neck with his hand and turned to look at Parker beside him. "You just said that the monsters we killed before will never disappear and will appear again after a period of time?"
Parker looked at him strangely, "Yes, what's wrong? Why do you ask this suddenly?"
Charles turned his head and stared at Bogro in the camera, thinking, "Ha, this is quite interesting."
(End of this chapter)