"You're talking in your sleep, Gu Tie," Xiao Liping pushed up his glasses, "You can't have been here before."
"I know this sounds crazy, but I have been here before, when I was very young," Gu Tie said confusedly: "The huge cubic space, blue walls, and many doors are hidden deep in the Underground... the memory is very vague, like a washed photo, but I can even smell the strange smell in the hall, the smell of paint, detergents, 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 confused your memory, such as the former Soviet-themed room during the Cold War, or the Nixon era The underground base of Area 51 in the United States. Sometimes things in the brain are not reliable, you know,"
"No," Gu Tie stared at the tomography map: "I can tell the boundary between real and virtual. When the memory wakes up, you can feel the distant, bloody pain, like a scar in your brain. It's like someone suddenly uncovered... Oh wait," he suddenly looked at Aziwei and murmured: "It's just like what happened to me when I was in a coma, this familiar feeling... This is real, Ah Qiwei. Qi Wei, this is true, I have been to this place, a long, long time ago..."
"I believe it," the Rainforest Flower said softly.
Secretary Xiao pointed at the map and said coldly: "The 14,000-square-meter underground building was built on the basis of natural caves by blasting and adding steel prefabricated components. It took a total of nine months. It was completed six years ago and forty-four engineers, technicians and workers involved in exploration, design, manufacturing, and construction died in a plane crash on their way back to China. This bunker, this secret room, and this tomb are my biggest secrets. Even most members of the Betrayer don't know, how could you possibly have been to this place many years ago,"
Gu Tie asked unexpectedly: "Well, it was a crash? It's really a good way to get rid of it... Lao Xiao, you said there are four bunkers like Pan Shen Wine Cellar, right? They are distributed all over the world."
"...Yes, Pan Shen Wine Cellar in Central Africa is not the largest one," Xiao Liping said.
"Do all bunkers have a second layer? I mean they are hidden deeper and there is no road connection at all." Gu Tie turned to stare at him.
"...No," Lao Xiao turned around, his eyes flickering: "This place is quite special, why do you ask?"
Gu Tie suddenly said: "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 floor is essentially a flat ring structure. There are forty main functional areas distributed along the ring body, and a large number of weapons, ammunition, and supplies are stored in it. For supplies and fuel, we will enter from the central hall, which is the huge cubic room you mentioned, and enter the ring building through the main passage. In Area 07, we can find complete communication equipment, through which we can communicate with the outside world. The adjacent Area 08 stores advanced conceptual individual weapons, which are enough to arm us to the teeth. Finally, there is Area 22. As a central control area, Area 22 can control the second-level self-defense weapon system, which is to prepare for the end of the world. With powerful firepower designed for large-scale armed impact, it can be said that the entire second layer is an armed battleship potentially deep in the earth. Except that it cannot move, it has all the characteristics of a modern armored battleship."
Gu Tie covered his forehead, frowned and said: "That's right, a ring structure... What's the reason for this design? To excavate underground buildings, the most reasonable one is a flat rectangular structure like the first floor,"
"I have said that the second floor is built based on the natural cave. The cave itself is circular, and the buildings are naturally distributed along the arc," Secretary Xiao replied.
"So why should we 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 immediately speechless.
Gu Tie suddenly sat up and approached his old friend: "And what about the twenty-four doors in the hall? You said 'enter the ring building through the main passage'. The function of the hall is to enter the second The springboard for the first floor, then where do the twenty-four doors lead to? Is it a love hotel converted from a rural house like the one at the entrance of the university?"
Xiao Liping lowered his eyes, covering his expression, as if he didn't respond to the joke: "You don't need to know so much, Gu Tie, as long as you know that the second floor is safe,"
"Ah, of course, of course, everything is for me," Gu Tiechong waved his hand and fell down weakly. Aziwei quickly held him in her arms and carefully held up his head. The Chinese looked at the broken glass. On the ceiling of the shield machine, he coughed and smiled weakly: "Ahem, Lao Xiao, I thought that since I told the secret, the two of us can have a more frank chat. Who knows, we will still fight lies with lies... Lao Zhao wants to Seeing the two of us today, we will definitely curse, throw the cup and leave, and be so sad that we can’t even eat the donkey meat on fire..."
"What are you talking about?" Xiao Liping raised his voice, "I have no reason to deceive you."
"Cave," Gu Tie sighed, "do you remember that when you first mentioned the mysterious 'second floor', I casually mentioned this concept and said that buildings so deep underground 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 "cave", and finally you actually said such a bizarre term as "ring cave". Lao Xiao, Lao Xiao, this kind of implantation The trap conversation technique is what I use most. How could you be so careless?"
Xiao Liping was stunned, "You are talking nonsense, Gu Tie," he reluctantly defended, "The cave may have any shape, the landform here..."
"Yes, the landscape here will not breed caves at all," Gu Tie said lightly: "Only soluble rock layers may be eroded out of huge caves, and this place is located on the Central African Plateau, with an average altitude of 900 meters, and there is no carbonic acid in the strata. Salt rocks. The rock composition shown on the shield machine's working condition screen just now tells us that the main rocks are not limestone, marl, and gypsum, but hard gneiss, sedimentary rock, and granite. Otherwise, how can we explain the cutter wheel? The huge pressure of the burden, there are no caves here, Lao Xiao, all the cavities are dug out manually,"
Xiao Liping was stunned there, speechless for a long time.
"I'm quite disappointed because you lied to me more than once," Gu Tieyou sighed, "but I'm also a little relieved. I've long thought that there can't be true friendship and love in this world, and all the ties are tied to each other. Interests are related. After all, humans are social animals, and society is a monster created to distribute benefits. You gave me some kind of illusion, a harmful illusion. If I had known this, why would I force myself to believe in those illusory things? I stay quietly in my small room, not talking to anyone. How nice, just let me stay away from this harmful world, eat and sleep by myself, read books, listen to music, kill people, and surf the Internet. Wouldn't it be nice to become fat and ugly and die silently somewhere no one knows?" His tone was very relaxed, but Aziwei felt hot liquid rolling down the back of her hand. She lowered her head to look at it. He stared at the sky calmly with his iron eyes, as if nothing had happened.
Xiao Liping's fingers were trembling, his face looked extremely pale, and he opened his mouth several times but could not speak. A minute later, he suddenly stood up. Aziwei immediately stared at the man warily, ready to attack at any time. , "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 good to listen," Gu Tie said lightly.
The shield machine was still roaring and digging downwards. The screen showed that there were still ten minutes to reach the destination. Xiao Liping said slowly: "I came up with the idea of building four underground bunkers. Jakir is responsible for selecting the construction sites. It was determined that Pan’s Wine Cellar in Central Africa was the fourth bunker and the latest one to start construction. I thought that Jakir was chosen in Central Africa because of Matilil’s rise to power. But as the project progressed, I discovered that Something very strange,"
"Jakir, that broken shadow who never shows his true face to others," Gu Tiewei said: "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 doesn't matter. Jakir can always come up with some amazing information and provide a lot of valuable data to the betrayers. In short , half way through the construction period of Pan Shen Wine Cellar, the project commander told me that they found traces of artificial construction 1 kilometer below the bunker. From the sonar map, it looked like a cubic room, located in the center of the rock formation, surrounded by dense rocks. There was no entrance or exit, nor any construction passage. It seemed to have grown naturally from the rock. However, the side length of the cube was very precise 149.99 meters. It can be concluded that it was artificially constructed. I don’t think this matter is. It’s not simple, so I ordered the construction team to keep this absolutely confidential and immediately fly to Central Africa for on-site inspection.”
"I didn't know you had been to Central Africa, a few years ago," Gu Tie said.
"That's not important," Xiao Liping waved his hand: "At that time, Mattil and I came to the construction site. The construction site was disguised as a high-voltage substation project. In fact, a downward-sloping tunnel was dug under the cover of the shed. A bunker was being poured under the city of Tangafu. The sonar photos puzzled us very much as to why there were man-made structures deep in the earth. There was no record showing that large-scale drilling projects had been carried out here. I decided to send a drilling machine to dig a tunnel. Go down to the deep well and take a look at the scene,"