Starting from Zero

After successfully leaving the pursuit team, I began to carefully observe the surrounding environment. This place is an artificially processed underground cave. The main reason why it is said to be artificially processed is that the ceiling and walls here are protected by armor plates, and a lot of lighting equipment is also equipped. However, the biggest difference between this cave and the previous cave is the area in the middle of the cave. There is actually a pier here, but it is not quite like it. This pier is a square pool, about two hundred meters in length and less than one hundred meters in width, but it does not have any external navigation channels, but now there are two submarines parked in the pool.

"Underground waterway?" There are closed piers and submarines, these two distinct things exist, it would be weird if I can't guess what it is.

The two submarines currently docked on the pier are very small, no more than 30 meters in length, but more than five meters in width. They look like big fat cigars, and they are cargo submarines at first glance. Taking advantage of the fact that there is no one here, I searched the entire space, and then integrated the conditions of the rooms I had seen before, and I had a general idea of ​​this place. Obviously this is not an important production place for the magic crystal steam bomb, but the final assembly factory. This secret base has a production and assembly workshop for the rear thrusters and front detonators of the missiles I captured, but there is no production equipment for liquefied magic crystals and such ingredients. Of course, in addition to the kind of missile I captured, there are many kinds of ammunition here. Their common feature is that they all use liquefied magic crystals as explosives, and they all have basic accessory production facilities here, but they are unique. There is no liquefied magic crystal and that kind of ingredients.

It may be that the previous alarm caused the staff to run for refuge, and the guards all chased for luck, so it is very quiet now. After running to the passage door where I was lucky enough to leave to see if there was no one outside, I simply came back and got into one of the submarines. As soon as you climb down from the entrance on the submarine, you can see a narrow aisle, and on both sides of the aisle are partitions like rolling gates. This place feels like a shrunken commercial street, but it is in the night situation. The rolling gates on both sides of the passage are like storefronts, and before the "storefront" and the "storefront" are metal support pillars as the dividing line. There is a switch on these pillars, I just found the nearest one and pressed it. Only a mechanical turning sound was heard, and a rolling shutter in front of it rose by itself. Behind this rolling gate is a pile of metal boxes. The shells of these boxes have cross-shaped metal reinforcement strips, which obviously have been specially reinforced, and looking at the edges of the boxes, it can be seen that the thickness of the steel plates of the box itself is also quite terrifying.

At present, these boxes are all inserted in a metal frame fixed on the wall. The space behind this rolling gate I saw only has nine boxes, and there is a gap between them. Probably to prevent accidents! I tried to pull one of the boxes out of the crazy rack, but found that I couldn't move it. Upon closer inspection, it was found that the box was locked with several retainers, but these retainers do not require a key, and can be released by simply flipping the handle. Because the box might contain liquefied magic crystals, I didn't dare to mess around. I carefully pulled the box out and put it on the ground lightly, but when I was about to open it, I suddenly heard a voice from outside. I reacted quickly to restore the box and pressed the switch of the lower rolling gate, and turned over and hid before it closed.

The voice was getting closer, and soon I heard someone enter the submarine. There seemed to be five or six people who came down. One of the voices said: "Hurry up. The intruder hasn't caught it yet. Maybe he will come back some time. We will unload the things and leave here."

"Yes." Several other people answered.

As soon as the conversation ended, I heard the sound of the rolling shutter of the next compartment opening, and the rolling shutter that followed me was also opened, but I immediately activated the invisibility function on the cloak. Thanks to the large gap between these boxes, and because of the obstruction of the metal frame, the other party will not walk in and out to pull the boxes. I just hid there motionless and watched the people outside one by one taking the boxes in the submarine out of the submarine, and then those people left for a while, but I didn’t move the place because I guess the submarine was produced from liquefied magic crystals. If the base is opened, you should be able to reach that base as long as you follow it.

Those people returned to the submarine more than ten minutes after leaving. I took advantage of the time they left to explain some things with touch and luck, and then continued to squat here to hide. Those people didn’t come back empty-handed this time, but were holding the boxes they moved down before, but now the boxes should be empty, because the process of carrying them has become very rude, no longer cautiously like before, and they carry it from them. From time to time, the box is indeed lighter. After putting the box back into the compartment, they closed the submarine door without closing the rolling gate, but only two people were left, and the others were obviously porters.

After the two people closed the hatch, they ran to both ends of the submarine, and then I felt the submarine move. Carefully stretched my head and observed it, the two people's attention was not here, so I carefully crawled into the aisle. Although the invisibility function of Phantom Cloak will be weakened during movement, it will not be fully visible. At most, there will be an area with distorted light, which will not be found unless you pay attention. After carefully moving to one end of the submarine, I took a look at this side. Before, they came back as soon as I was about to open the box, so I didn't have a chance to come here to see it. Now I discovered that the bow of the ship was originally a cockpit, and it was a spherical, transparent cockpit. There are very few equipment in the cockpit, just a few joysticks in total, it seems that the technology of this thing is not very complicated. After observing the situation on this side, I ran to the other side, and found that this side and that side are actually the same structure. This submarine seems to have two heads, which can be manipulated on both sides. Although such a structure is not suitable for combat submarines, it is very suitable for small transport submarines. After all, such a structure is more flexible, especially in narrow places such as secret waterways. It is easier to avoid obstacles.

After observing the maneuvering of the submarine, I went to the cockpit at the forward end and observed the surrounding environment through the fully transparent cockpit. This is obviously the underground waterway leading to the pier just now, but it is much narrower than the square pond just now. Although the two sides of the passage have undergone simple treatment, some parts still have protrusions protruding from the rock wall, and the submarine must be careful to avoid these protrusions. The width of the secret waterway is only a little more than six meters. In such an environment, a submarine with a width of more than five meters is almost like wiping away, and it must also avoid the protruding rocks. If it weren’t for the unusual flexibility of the small submarine, There is really no way to walk in such an environment. However, although the width of this channel is small, the top and bottom spans of the channel are large. Even if three submarines line up, they can pass smoothly. However, this design only allows small submarines to travel in both directions, large submarines. You definitely can't get in.

The small submarine is advancing slowly in such a waterway at a very slow speed. It took more than an hour to get out of the waterway and enter the open water. At this time, the two people driving the submarine were almost at the same time. Lie down and let out a sigh of relief. Driving a submarine in such a place is similar to walking a tightrope, and you must have a high concentration of concentration. It will be tiring for you to have such a high concentration for an hour.

After entering the open water, the operation becomes much simpler. The person behind pushed all the control levers to a specific position, and then ran to the other end and chatted with another driver. The other driver was also half leaning in his seat and fiddled twice from time to time. We sailed in this way for about half an hour, and then we saw a big ditch in the seabed ahead, and the small submarine that followed us rushed straight into the big ditch. This trench is not very deep. The submarine has been descending for about a hundred meters and then found a small cave in the front. The driver who came to chat saw the cave and immediately ran back to his post, while the driver here carefully manipulated the submarine to get in.

The cave we entered this time was narrower than the previous secret passage, but the cave was only several hundred meters deep in total. After passing through, our eyes suddenly opened up. This is a huge underwater cave. The whole cave is filled with sea water, but the space is large, and it has been installed with a lot of lighting facilities, which looks quite bright. As soon as the submarine entered here, it started to drive towards the opposite rock wall. There are many metal channels protruding from this rock wall, and a submarine is connected to each channel. The submarine stopped on the edge of one of the vacant passages and docked. As soon as the docking was completed, the two people opened the hatch, and then began to hand out empty boxes. When the last box was handed out, the two men also crawled out. Because there was no one in the submarine, I simply followed out.

When I got out of the submarine, I found that I was in a metal channel. The channel length was about five meters. When I reached the end of the channel, there was a waterproof door. I opened the waterproof door carefully and got in, and then closed the waterproof door again. There was a sound of deflation in the room, which seemed to be a pressure chamber. When the deflation was over, the door on the other side opened automatically, and I quickly got out.

As soon as I got out of the pressure chamber, I was stunned by what I saw. "How is this possible?"