The straight-line distance was only two hundred meters. When passing by the checkpoint bunker, Chen Nuo threw a spiritual tentacle over, but found nothing.
The checkpoint is also a bunker-like round room made of cold-proof composite materials, with the doors and windows intact.
But the people inside were frozen to death... An armed man wearing a tactical uniform was sitting there, driving an automatic rifle next to him. The coffee cup on the table had turned into ice cubes.
In the silent base, three groups of ability users and Nolan's group were heading in different directions.
Chen Nuo saw from a distance that Nolan's group had entered the main tent, and the material warehouse in front of him had also arrived.
The cold-proof composite material is wrapped outside the embedded steel plate.
The door operates both electronically and manually. The electronic door equipment has obviously been damaged.
The manual one is also stuck.
There was no violent demolition of the door... because the plan before the operation was already done, taking into account that there might be unknown enemies or other things here.
The technician quickly pulled out the equipment and broke the manually operated door lock.
But I still ran into trouble when I pushed the door open...the door and door frame were completely frozen together!
The captain immediately pushed the technician away and touched the door frame with one hand. His ability was to control water, and all ice was actually the element of water.
In just one second, water began to seep out from all sides of the door frame, quickly dissolving, and then quickly re-condensing under the temperature, but the door had already thawed.
The captain pushed the door open gently, and Chen Nuo was the first to walk in.
After all six people entered the warehouse, they quickly closed the door behind their backs.
The temperature inside the warehouse is even colder than outside!
Probably because of the low temperature, during the window period, the outdoor temperature rises quickly, but the indoor temperature is like a sealed jar, and the low temperature inside has not dissipated.
After entering, several people obviously had a cold war.
Without being reminded, everyone quickly put on their cold-proof masks.
Six searchlights lit up simultaneously.
Chen Nuo immediately contacted with the headset: "Captain enters the warehouse."
Each group is named after the leader who leads the group... No one has any objection to this.
Then Varnell's voice was received in the headset: "Roger, everything is normal on the outside. Pay attention to the internal alert. Tune into the public channel."
Because the central heating equipment of the base has been completely destroyed, everything indoors seems to have turned into a freezer.
The walls are covered with frozen white frost, and the ground...
The visibility in the warehouse was not high, but under the illumination of six handheld searchlights, it was at least pretty good.
The base's warehouse is very large... after all, there are dozens of people stationed here, and the replenishment cycle of supplies is very long, so the food reserves are very large to meet consumption.
Rows of material racks, material cabinets, and material boxes are arranged neatly next to each other, and they are also labeled and classified.
Several people quickly checked the warehouse. In the warehouse of more than 200 square meters, the materials were basically intact.
There are no signs of damage or being moved.
Chen Nuo included canned meat and some dehydrated vegetables. There was even alcohol and coffee. The octopus monster's father was indeed very wealthy.
A large amount of food reserves are still there, untouched and undamaged.
The material reserves are even larger. In a separate small cabin, parts and tools for equipment replacement are stored.
There is also a locked cabinet in the materials room, which stores firearms and ammunition.
In the silent warehouse, there was no sound except for the movement of the six people. In fact, the six people also tried their best to stay quiet.
After the two technicians carefully inspected the materials, they even made some records.
Chen Nuo and others were responsible for looking for any suspicious traces.
The warehouse inspection took a total of ten minutes, and then we entered a gate, which was a passage leading to another cabin.
That is the living area for warehouse storage workers.
And a more important place...the storage of backup data.
Entering the backup data storage warehouse, technicians quickly got to work. They began to disassemble the instruments piled up there, remove the hard drives inside, and put them into their bags.
What is stored here is the hard drive data of the surveillance video from several months before the incident at the base.
Chen Nuo threw a look at the captain.
The captain understood and gently patted Rebecca and Kamizouichiro on the shoulders: "You guys watch them here. I'll go to the living area and take a look."
Rebecca nodded, and Shen Soichiro thought for a while: "Don't you need to go together?"
"Save time." Chen Nuo answered instead of the captain.
Then the two people quickly left the cabin.
After walking through another tunnel, you enter the living area.
According to the layout of the base's planning drawings, this living area is occupied by two people, both staff members of the Octopus Monster Base. They are responsible for managing daily warehouse reserves, as well as the storage of firearms, materials, and monitoring data.
There is even a set of backup monitoring equipment here in case the main equipment fails. It can be replaced at any time and connected to several backup monitoring probes in the base to temporarily monitor the entire base.
There are only two rooms in this area, one is a living room and the other is a backup monitoring room.
The door of the backup monitoring room was locked, but Chen Nuo easily broke the door lock and melted the ice to enter.
But when he first entered, Chen Nuo was stunned.
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"What's this?"
Chen Nuo gently shook the searchlight in his hand.
There was something actually placed on the backup monitoring table.
The captain frowned and looked at it, then smiled bitterly and said: "It seems... it's one..."
"..." Chen Nuo frowned and stared.
Yes, this is a pair of pants.
Then something even more bizarre happened.
In the corner of the room and on the ground, there was another coat, which had also been taken off, as if it had been casually thrown on the ground.
"There are traces on the ground." Chen Nuo lowered his head and bent over, and carefully swayed the searchlight on the ground.
There are obvious traces of dragging on the ground, which are well preserved due to freezing.
The frost is covered with a thin layer, but you can clearly see it with a light touch, and there is still a little bit of dark color...
"Is it blood?" Chen Nuo looked up at the captain.
The captain gently reached out and touched the ground. The control of the water element allowed him to instantly identify the dark solidified components...
"It's blood." The captain's face turned serious.
Chen Nuo took a deep breath.
More problems were soon discovered.
A vertical microphone on the spare console was bent... This thing should be straight.
Chen Nuo checked it and determined that it was bent by force.
There are also some scratches left on the console.
There is also a place where it has obviously been hit hard, and the outer body is slightly dented.
The captain thought for a moment: "There was a fight here!"
Chen Nuo smiled bitterly and said: "But what kind of fight can make people take off their pants?"
The two veteran drivers looked at each other and showed strange expressions at the same time.
"I remember introducing you, are all the men in the base right?"
"Uh... maybe it's too lonely?"
Chen Nuo shook his head: "That's not right... Even if someone is having an affair here... After the damn thing is over, if you don't put on your pants and take them away, what are you doing here?
Also, what’s with the drag marks on the ground and the blood stains?”
Chen Nuo thought for a while and couldn't figure it out, so he simply said: "Go to the living area and take a look. According to the previous analysis, the two staff here should be here. Have you looked at all the places? Then maybe the body is in the living area.
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After exiting the backup control room, there was another cabin door. This time Chen Nuo walked in front.
After opening the door, Chen Nuo was the first to quickly go in. At the same time, a mental barrier was already in front of him.
But soon, Chen Nuo was stunned!
The captain who walked in later was also stunned!
The living shelter is not large.
Two beds, two desks, and a bed.
A small cubicle mixed with toilet and shower.
It's such a big place.
However, Chen Nuo and the captain did not see the body!
This was not the main reason why the two were stunned.
After taking a deep breath, Chen Nuo immediately pressed the headset.
"Vanel, the captain's team has discovered a situation here!" Chen Nuo said quickly.
"Copy that, Captain, please repeat?"
"The captain's team has discovered a situation here! The captain's team has discovered a situation here..."
"What did you find..."
In the room, Chen Nuo and the captain stood side by side, staring at the ground in front of them with solemn expressions...
The floor of the cabin was damaged.
There is a huge pit in the ground with irregular edges. The composite shell of the shelter was directly penetrated! The frozen soil on the ground below was also opened up.
A huge hole about two meters in diameter!
The entrance to the cave is unfathomable all the way down...like an underground tunnel.
"There's no way this damn thing was dug out by the octopus monsters themselves!" The captain swallowed and took a step back subconsciously.
Chen Nuo quickly spread his spiritual tentacles into the underground cave, then frowned.
The ground was dug very deep, and after the spiritual tentacles spread in, they soon encountered a fork...
There are more than a dozen tunnels crisscrossing the ground, like tunnels...
Rough and rough!
And at this moment, the two of them suddenly heard a shrill scream!
I could tell by the voice that it was one of the two technicians.
Then soon, a voice came from outside the door, it was Rebecca's surprised and angry yell.