The towering main building of the Beidi Ring Tower stands majestically in front of everyone. This glorious building that once represented the highest scientific and technological achievements of mankind and the future of civilization is now mottled and decayed. The peeling marks of potholes and sun exposure can be seen everywhere on the cement exterior wall. The cracks caused, the former bright paint basically faded to a dirty yellowish brown, and large pieces of wall skin fell off, forming a disgusting layer of soft soil around the ring tower. But its main body is still strong, and the strengthened steel skeleton supports the old tower well, so it seems that there is no need to worry about collapse.
"There are no traces of being eroded by the nanomachine cluster," Nolan raised his head and glanced at the almost straight wall, "and there is no change from the last time I came here. It seems that no other adventurers have come this year. over here."
Hao Ren was very curious about what Nolan was doing here a year ago, but it seems that this is not the time to ask. Ulanov led the crowd to look for the entrance of the tower. After bypassing a circular outer wall, they saw a broken gate. Judging from the traces around the gate, it was blasted open.
"More than one group of people have visited this place in the past sixty-five years. The attraction of pre-war technology is not unique now." Nolan turned his head and said to the mercenaries who came here for the first time. Most of the idiots who dug out the treasures here have failed to come back alive, so if you want to go back alive, please listen to the instructions and don't mess with things you don't know."
"Isn't there no nanocomputer cluster here?" Hao Ren asked casually.
"Do you think that the nanomachine cluster is the only danger here?" Nolan raised his gun, "We didn't bring guns to deal with nanomachines. There are security robots in this place—originally used to guard the underground containers, it's all a theory Things that last a hundred years, God knows how their programs have been destroyed now."
Ulanov nodded slightly to confirm Nolan's statement.
Hao Ren looked down at the weapon in his hand. It was a light assault rifle. Laser projections were used on the gun to display the remaining ammunition capacity, current user, machine status and other characteristics, as well as a gray fox mark. This weapon was given to him by Nolan. Although Hao Ren hadn't joined the gang yet, Nolan couldn't let his companions go to the battlefield empty-handed.
Before entering the building, Ulanov touched Hao Ren's arm: "How is your marksmanship?"
Hao Ren replied vaguely, "It's about the same as boxing."
"Okay. You and I will walk together later, and we will clear the way for the boys behind."
The mercenaries covered the two researchers of the White River Chamber of Commerce and stepped into the gate cautiously. The deserted and collapsed internal corridors were presented in front of everyone. Paint and cement slags falling off the walls are scattered all over the floor, and the signs hanging on the roof are full of rust. There is a desolate and strange atmosphere in this building that has been abandoned for decades. Some mercenaries are here Swallowing saliva nervously under the oppressive atmosphere, the gurgling sound could be clearly heard in the silent corridor.
There was silence all around, only the sound of everyone's cautious footsteps and breathing echoed around. Nolan walked in the front of the team, while Hao Ren and Ulanov guarded the surroundings from left to right. The hallway gets darker the further you go. The limited windows on the outer wall of the ring tower could no longer provide sufficient light to the depths of the building. Several mercenaries who had not undergone visual transformation put on night vision devices one after another. In the light green night vision field of view, this place The weirdness is even worse.
Hao Ren looked at the people around him. He could still see clearly in this place, but considering his status as a "natural person", he still wore night vision goggles like everyone else.
"Do you know how to get to where you are going?" Nolan stopped slightly, turned his head and asked the researcher of the Baihe Chamber of Commerce not far behind him.
"Master computer room, master computer No. 1 control terminal." The thin researcher replied calmly. Although he was only a civilian, he was as calm as soldiers in this environment. This made Hao Ren couldn't help but take another look at this person.
When he heard the words "master computer room", Ulanov couldn't help but suffocate. He took the initiative to step forward: "I know the shortest route."
Nolan nodded: "Okay, you lead the way."
The team continued to walk towards the depths of the building, and found a spiral staircase that spiraled upwards. Above the stairs was the location of the main control room. Hao Ren and Ulanov went to check whether the stairs were still strong, but on the way he suddenly saw a skeleton lying on the stairs.
Ulanov immediately squatted down to check the condition of the skeleton, and judged the identity of the person from the fragments of the other person's clothes: "... It is a staff member in the Ring Tower, and it seems that he fell to his death from the top."
The nanite swarm did not attack the North Ring Tower after losing control, so the people in this building survived longer than others in the disaster, but their fate was not much better than the dissolved people outside. in that disaster. The building was enclosed as a complete island with no supplies. No rescue, no hope—they were trapped in this place alive, and as the researchers and controllers of the nano-swarm, they also knew that it was impossible for anyone to break through the swarm raging outside to rescue them. No one knows how the people in the ring tower spent the last time of their lives. In the twenty years after the disaster broke out, the situation inside the ruins of the Northland was completely unknown to the world. When finally a group of desperate troops broke into this place with huge casualties, they only found one corpse after another.
According to the descriptions of the soldiers who survived, the people in the ring tower had various causes of death, most of them died of starvation, a small number of them committed suicide, and the rest were basically killed in battle —Perhaps in order to snatch the last food, a riot broke out here. In addition, there are many more creepy stories that have been handed down, such as someone seeing kitchen utensils containing human bones in the kitchen of the ruins of the Ring Tower, and a large number of dismembered corpses in a certain room...
Each one is scalp tingling.
Hao Ren looked down at Ulanov who was inspecting the bones. He didn't know if this man had recalled the dark rumors about the North Ring Tower at this moment. In order not to waste time, he patted him on the shoulder: "Let's go, The people behind are waiting."
Only then did Ulanov stand up slowly.
Everyone came to the second floor through the stairs, and after bypassing a narrow passage, a wide corridor appeared in front of them. Ulanov pointed to a door not far away: "There is the control room you are looking for."
"The door is actually complete..." Nolan looked at the door in surprise, "I thought the guy who came here before had smashed every door."
"The alarm device of the warning robot is probably connected to the back of this door," a researcher from the Baihe Chamber of Commerce stepped forward to check the status of the door, "...unbelievable, the locking device is electrified! The energy in this place has not been cut off as expected!"
Nolan gave the researcher a meaningful look. It seemed that this person knew a lot about the ring tower.
Ulanov turned his head to look at the end of the dark corridor, and he seemed to see something that caught his attention: "You are busy here, I will go and have a look."
After he finished speaking, he walked forward, and Nolan told the mercenary beside him: "Carl, you come with him."
The tall mercenary Karl nodded silently, and quickly followed Ulanov's pace. The two figures quickly disappeared at the dark end of the corridor.
Hao Ren didn't pay much attention to it. He thought that Ulanov should be looking around for clues about his wife at this time, and it's not good for him as an outsider to take the initiative to watch the fun. He turned his head and continued to watch the researcher from the Baihe Chamber of Commerce tinkering with the locking device on the gate. It is incredible that some of the electronic equipment on this gate can still be used today.
But at this moment, a piercing gunshot suddenly broke the silence in the building.
Hao Ren looked up at the place where the gunshots came from—that was the direction Ulanov and Karl left!
Nolan's voice sounded at the same time as the last shot fell: "People from the second team, go over and see the situation."
Hao Ren didn't know what team he was in, and he didn't think too much about it. When Nolan spoke, he had already rushed to the other end of the corridor.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but when he raised his leg, he suddenly saw the walls of the corridor around him fluctuate like the surface of water. Although it was only a short moment, it was particularly noticeable. (to be continued~^~)