Chapter 81 Discovering clues

But of course it's impossible to really go back home.

Chi Heng checked the time. It was close to 12 o'clock, and he still had 3 hours to search for clues.

In order not to waste time, he took out a biscuit and took a few bites, drank a bottle of mineral water, and started working...

He installed the handheld metal detector he bought from Boston, and the "junk metal detector" was responsible for detecting abnormal infrared characteristics. If there were a large number of abnormal infrared characteristics, there might be clues.

Unfortunately, Junk scanned the surrounding area and said to Chi Heng: "Sir, Junk found no abnormalities."

"Um."

The more disappointed you are, the harder it will be to be disappointed.

In other words, Chi Heng didn't have high hopes at first.

Since I don't have too much disappointment, I am mentally prepared to face this situation.

But sometimes, there is a bright future, and when Chi Heng is mentally prepared for failure, things turn around again.

He remembered that it was said in his notes that the most reliable way to defend against "UFOs" was to use fully enclosed lead plates. However, he was unable to modify the rover's fully enclosed lead plates and could only use sleeping pills to deal with it.

"stereotype?"

Chi Heng immediately lay down. There was nothing unusual about the ground. It was very common basalt. But when he hit it with an engineer shovel, the basalt on the surface immediately shattered, revealing the metal hidden underneath.

"In this case, there is no need to worry about the threat of 'UFOs' in the research base."

Chi Heng walked to the elevator and shined a flashlight around. There really was no up and down buttons for conventional elevators, only a corresponding screen. When he approached his watch, the screen actually activated and lit up, and a green simplified Chinese message appeared.

I drew a smiley face and then checked the box. The red light above the elevator changed to a green light, and the elevator doors opened to both sides.

When illuminated from above, the range of the flashlight is limited. Once inside, the field of view expands a lot. You can clearly see the surrounding emptiness, as well as the dense metal mesh cable trays on the ceiling, with a large number of cables deployed.

The basalt on the surface of this metal object was obviously just for camouflage. After he smashed it into pieces, the "clues" below continued to appear. After cleaning up all the basalt, what he saw was a circle with a diameter of more than 3 meters.

shaped metal plate.

The "broken copper and scrap iron" on the side suddenly said.

"The watch that my uncle specially left behind should work, right?"

The room was dark and lightless, and the only light source was the red light on the elevator door. Chi Heng was not surprised. The rover can use nuclear batteries to supply power. So as a research base, it is natural to use nuclear battery arrays to supply power. I am afraid that

There is no need to worry about power issues for a hundred years.

A few minutes later, a "broken metal" sound came from the intercom.

Chi Heng became excited. He was already disappointed, but unexpectedly he found new clues. He immediately used the engineer shovel to continuously break open the basalt here.

As a result, an empty vertical passage appeared within Chi Heng's sight.

"Broken Copper" squatted down, grabbed one of the handles with a mechanical claw, and lifted it up. It did not move, but it could barely turn when it was rotated clockwise. It was not known how long it had not been maintained, and it made a creaking sound when it was rotated.

When the metal plate rotates clockwise, the other half is exposed. It is obvious that there is a rotating shaft perpendicular to the body on the bottom surface of the metal plate. When it rotates, it will drive the other half of the metal plate to rotate at the same time.

Chi Heng no longer hesitated and followed.

The soft white light inside and the clean and tidy elevator environment made Chi Heng startled. He looked at his watch and breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he did not go in immediately.

"Really?"

The "rags and scraps" unloaded the heavy-duty materials, got into the battle lightly, grabbed the metal escalator and went down, arriving at the "ground" in a short while.

They are indeed very similar to each other, with the same vertical passage and the same metal stairway, but the shaft of the utility room does not have such an exaggerated diameter.

The metal detector he was holding made a beeping sound, indicating that there were metal objects on the ground he just swept.

"Broken copper and scrap iron" took the initiative to ask for help.

"Sir, let Junk go down and take a look first."

Chi Heng nodded, "Be careful."

Whether it was a passage leading to the inside of the research base, we still had to go in and check. Chi Heng looked at his watch. At 13:02 in the afternoon, it took him a lot of time to clean up the basalt.

"Sir, this is a lead plate."

Since the last time he met the humanoid monster on the edge of the bottomless pit, Chi Heng came to the "absolute realm". Not only did he have to carry the "Red Dragon", but he also handed over the shotgun M590 to "Broken Copper".

I went and bought several boxes of shotgun shells, just because I was worried that I wouldn't have enough bullets.

The underside of the metal plate appears dark gray after oxidation, turning into paint, and the lead plate also has this characteristic.

Chi Heng stood up and stared at the round metal plate and couldn't help but feel a little confused. It couldn't be some kind of missile silo, right? It looked too similar.

Chi Heng was startled and looked at it carefully: "It's very thick. Wait, is this the measure recorded in the notes... to defend against 'UFOs'?"

Just looking at such a vertical passage, he couldn't help but think of the shaft found in the utility room...

Chi Heng is not worried about the power problem, he is just worried...can the authority of the watch handle everything in the research base?

Considering that the watch has always been able to enable the corresponding permission settings, especially the startup of the rover, it is also thanks to the watch, otherwise the rover would not be able to be started by "broken metal".

This is in line with his previous speculation. Otherwise, would everyone in the research base have to rely on sleeping pills every day? It would be too easy for accidents to happen.

Under his feet was a steel grille plate, and in the center of the room was a grille staircase that went down from the entrance to the patio. Chi Heng used a flashlight to illuminate the patio and couldn't see exactly how deep it was. "Could this be the entrance to the research institute?"

The passage to the base?”

"Sir, you can come down now. There is no danger here."

He withdrew the flashlight and looked at the wall next to him. The four elevator doors seemed to prove that the grated stairs just now should be only emergency passages. If it leads to the research base, then it is impossible for normal humans to climb a thousand meters on the stairs.

, so tired and exhausted.

Taking out the flashlight, Chi Heng shined it at the vertical passage. To his surprise, it was not very deep, only about ten meters. In other words, it did not lead to the inside of the research base?

"Huh?"

"This is?"

"Sir, it seems like this place can be opened?"

"No rush..."

Chi Heng took a few steps back.

He was extremely excited. Ever since he found his uncle's notes, he had been working hard for more than a month and a half to find this research base. Although he was extremely excited at this time, he was not in a hurry. He still had to do a good job.

Just preparation.

After all, I came up this time just to look for clues, and I didn't bring a lot of food, just enough to last one day.
Chapter completed!