The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 44: The secret room (middle)
"You are talking in a dream, Gu Tie." Xiao Liping pushed his glasses, "You can't be here."
"I know it sounds crazy, but I've been here when I was very young." Gu Tie said in confusion: "That huge cubic space, blue walls, many doors, hidden in Deep underground... The memory is very fuzzy, like a photo washed with water, but I can even smell the strange smell in the hall, from the smell of paint, detergent, explosives and electronic equipment..."
Xiao Liping’s eyes were cold and sharp: "Are you sure you saw it in reality? I mean, maybe a very similar online discussion group confuses your memory, such as a room with the theme of the former Soviet Union during the Cold War. Or the underground base of Area 51 in the United States during the Nixon era. Sometimes the things in the brain are not reliable, you know."
"No." Gu Tie stared at the tomographic map: "I can distinguish between the real and the virtual. When the memory is awakened, you can feel the distant, **** pain, just like there is A scar was suddenly opened...oh wait." He suddenly looked at Azwei and murmured: "Just like what happened in my coma, this familiar feeling...this is true. Yes, Aqiwei, this is true. I have been to this place a long, long time ago..."
"I believe it." Rainforest Flower said softly,
Secretary Xiao pointed to the map and said coldly: “The 14,000-square-meter underground building was built on the basis of natural caves by blasting and assembled with prefabricated steel components. It took nine months in total. Time was completed six years ago. Forty-four engineers, technicians and workers involved in exploration, design, manufacturing, and construction died unfortunately in an air crash on their way back to China. This bunker, this secret room, and this tomb is my biggest Most members of the Betrayer don’t even know the secrets of, how could you have been to this place many years ago."
Gu Tie answered the question: "Well, is the crash? It's really a good method for a hundred...Old Xiao, you said there are four bunkers like Pan Shen Wine Cellar, right? They are distributed all over the world."
"...Yes, Panshen Wine Cellar in Central Africa is not the largest one." Xiao Liping said,
"Do all the bunkers have a second layer?,, I mean they are hidden deeper and there is no road connection at all." Gu Tie turned his head and stared at him,
"...No." Old Xiao turned to the beginning, his eyes flickering: "This is something special, what are you asking for."
Gu Tie said in a mysterious way: "It's nothing, it's just a guess, can you briefly introduce the structure of the second layer."
Xiao Liping was silent for a moment hesitantly, and then said: "Okay, the second layer is essentially a flat ring structure, with forty main functional areas distributed along the ring body, which contains a large number of weapons, Ammunition, supplies and fuel, we will enter from the central hall, which is the huge cube room you are talking about, and enter the circular building through the main passage. We can find complete communication equipment in District 07, so that we can get in touch with the outside world. , And the adjacent 08 area stores advanced conceptual individual weapons, enough to arm us to the teeth, and finally the 22 area, as the central control area, in the 22 area can control the second layer of self-defense weapon system, that is for The powerful firepower designed to guard against the large-scale armed impact of the end times, it can be said that the entire second layer is a potentially deep armed battleship, which has all the characteristics of a modern armored battleship except for being immobile."
Gu Tie covered his forehead and frowned, "That's it, the ring structure...what is the reason for this design? To excavate underground buildings, the most reasonable thing is the flat rectangular structure like the first floor. "
"As I said, the second floor was built on the basis of natural karst caves. The karst cave itself is circular, and the buildings are naturally distributed along the arc." Secretary Xiao replied,
"So why design a central hall in the center of the ring? Wouldn't it be more economical to set the entrance and exit directly on the ring line." Gu Tie asked,
"That's because..." Xiao Liping was at a loss for words immediately,
Gu Tie suddenly sat up and leaned close to his old friend: "And what's the matter with the twenty-four doors in the hall? You said, "Enter the circular building through the main passage". The function of the hall is Entering the springboard on the second floor, where do the twenty-four doors lead to? Is it the kind of rural-style love hotel in front of the university?"
Xiao Liping lowered his eyes, covering his expression, as if he did not respond to the joke: "You don't need to know so much, Gu Tie, just know that the second layer is safe."
"Ah, of course, everything is for me." Gu Tiechong stretched out his hand and beckoned, and fell weakly. Aqiwei hurriedly hugged him in his arms and carefully held his head, the Chinese watched On the ceiling of the shield machine with broken glass, he coughed and smiled weakly: "Ahem, Old Xiao, I thought that since I told the secret, we two can talk frankly, who knows that we should fight lies with lies... If Lao Zhao wants to see the two of us today, he will definitely slam the cup and leave. He is so sad that he can't eat the donkey meat..."
"What are you talking about." Xiao Liping raised his voice, "I have no reason to deceive you."
"The karst cave." Gu Tie sighed, "Do you remember when you first mentioned the mysterious'second floor', I casually put forward this concept, saying that such a deep underground building must be based on karst caves? , I didn’t expect that a smart person like you was still deceived by this simple trick. From then on, you made up a set of lies around the'karst cave', and finally actually said the bizarre term'ring-shaped cave', old Xiao, old Xiao, This kind of dialogue technique of implanting traps is the most commonly used by me, how can you be so careless."
Xiao Liping was stunned, "You are talking nonsense, Gu Tie." He reluctantly defended, "The cave may have any shape, the landforms here..."
"Yes, the landforms here will not give birth to karst caves at all." Gu Tie said lightly: "Only soluble rock formations may be eroded out of huge caves, and this place is located on the Central African Plateau, with an average altitude of 900 meters. There are no carbonate rocks. The rock composition displayed on the screen of the shield machine just now tells us that the main rocks are not limestone, marl and gypsum, but hard gneiss, sedimentary rock, and granite. Otherwise, how to explain There is no karst cave here due to the huge pressure of the cutter wheel. Lao Xiao, all the cavities were dug out manually."
Xiao Liping was there for a while, speechless,
"I'm quite disappointed, because you lied to me more than once." Gu Tieyou sighed, "but it's a bit relieved. I have long been thinking that there can be no real friendship and love in this world. Stumbles are all related to interests. After all, human beings are social animals, and society is a monster created to distribute benefits. You have made me have a certain illusion, a harmful illusion. I have known this before, so why force myself to believe in those illusory things. Well, let me stay quietly in my own small room, not talking to anyone, so good, let me stay away from this harmful world alone, eat and sleep by myself, read books, listen to songs, kill people, Going online, becoming fat and ugly, and dying silently where no one knows is all right." His tone was relaxed, but Aqiwei felt the warm liquid rolling off the back of her hand, and she lowered her head. Look, Gu Tie looked at the sky calmly, as if nothing had happened,
Xiao Liping’s fingers were trembling, and his face looked extremely pale. He opened his mouth several times without being able to speak. A minute later, he suddenly stood up, and Aqiwei immediately stared at the man vigilantly, anytime Ready to launch an attack, "I tell you, Gu Tie." Lao Xiao seemed to have made up his mind, "Tell you the truth about the second level."
"It's late, but it's okay to listen." Gu Tie said lightly,
The shield machine is still digging down with a roar, and the screen shows that there are still ten minutes to reach the destination. Xiao Liping said slowly: "I came up with the idea of building four underground bunkers. He was responsible for the selection. The Panshen Wine Cellar in Central Africa was the fourth bunker, and the last one to start construction. I thought that Carkiel was selected in Central Africa because of Matrier’s power, but as the project progresses , I found something very strange."
"Cargil, the shameless shadow who doesn't always see people in his true colors." Gu Tie said weakly: "I personally selected him into the organization, at least I think so."
Xiao Liping said: "He is a very special guy. No one knows his true identity, but that's okay. Cargil always comes up with some amazing information and provides a lot of information for the betrayers. Valuable data. In short, when the Panshen Wine Cellar was halfway through the construction period, the engineering commander told me that they had found traces of an artificial building 1 km below the bunker. From the sonar map, it was a cubic room, located in the center of the rock, surrounded by Surrounded by dense rocks, there are no entrances or exits, nor any construction passages, as if it grew naturally from the rocks, but the side length of the cube is very accurate 149.99 meters, which can be concluded to be artificially constructed. I I felt that this matter was not simple, so the construction team kept it absolutely confidential, and immediately flew to Central Africa to conduct a field survey."
"I don't know you have been to Central Africa, a few years ago." Gu Tie said,
"That's not important." Xiao Liping waved his hands: "At that time, Matrell and I came to the construction site. The construction site was disguised as a high-voltage substation project. In fact, a tunnel sloping downward was dug under the cover of the shed. , The bunker was poured under the Batangafu city. The sonar photos made us very confused. Why are there artificial structures in the depths of the earth? There is no record that large-scale drilling projects have been carried out here. I decided to deploy a drilling rig. , Drill a deep well and go down to the scene to have a look."