Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 148: The Ghost in the Nuclear Arsenal

A complete military airport generally has small-scale but fully functional underground facilities.

In addition to underground hangars, or aircraft shelters, these facilities also include ammunition depots, logistics and maintenance workshops, power sources, communication network system rooms, personnel shelters, command and control centers, and other different functional areas.

However, these underground facilities are not connected to each other. Especially after the reform of domestic airport fortification construction began, the status of caves and tunnels further declined and gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

However, the 10th Air Division airport where they were located was an exception.

This airport itself is the base of a bomber division, and it also needs to maintain nuclear deterrence capabilities, so from the beginning of its design and construction, extremely large underground facilities were gradually built here.

Such underground facilities ensured that the 10th Air Division became an important part of the three-pronged nuclear strike force. At the same time, it also brought new hope to Chen Jian's team hundreds of years later.

After crawling into the interior through the gap of the distorted entrance door, Chen Jian sighed:
".A springboard-style explosion-proof reinforced hatch, a low-angle runway, and an electromagnetic catapult rail. What kind of underground aircraft carrier is this?"

"This entire passage is an emergency takeoff runway, and the ground is all made of high-toughness steel that rejects magnetism - the same as used on aircraft carriers."

"Tsk, in twenty years, have we developed to this point?"

".Maybe it wasn't developed twenty years later."

He Shuo shook his head and continued:

"We had never been to this airport before, so who knows what it's like underground."

"The confidentiality level of this thing is comparable to that of the Big Black Fish. It's normal to hide something."

"That's true."

Chen Jian turned on the tactical flashlight and led his team members into the depths of the passage.

The air gradually became turbid, but because the underground facilities were not a completely sealed structure, it was still breathable.

However, it is precisely because of this that the condition of the entire underground facility is somewhat pessimistic.

The traces of rust that could be seen everywhere indicated the condition of the internal equipment. When everyone reached the end of the passage and saw the strangely shaped fighter plane, even the Holy Blood Warriors who knew nothing about this weapon could not help but sigh with regret.

“This thing is broken too.”

Zeng Yi walked forward and touched the huge landing gear, then asked:

"Is this also a fighter? Is it the air combat fighter you mentioned?"

Chen Jian shook his head and replied:
"It is a fighter, yes, but I can't really say whether it is an air superiority fighter."

As he spoke, he walked around to the tail of the fighter plane, pointed at the engine nozzle and said to Lei Jie and the others who followed him:

"The three-engine machine is not the engine model we are familiar with. The nozzle structure of the middle one looks a bit like a variable cycle engine."

"Those should be dual-mode engines on both sides? Look at the length of the engine nacelle. It's very different from the planes of our time."

"What model is this thing? JH-26?"

"Come on, the JH-26 is probably less than half the size of this thing. It might be the H-20K."

Shen Yue interrupted.

".That fits our military's setting. But seriously, is this an aerospace machine?"

Lei Jie asked curiously.

"It's most likely an aerospace machine, but I don't know what kind of aliens this thing is used to fight?"

"The devil knows."

Lei Jie answered while walking around the large machine of unknown model. Then, he said with a little regret:

"There is basically nothing good left, and the atmosphere inside the tunnel is even harsher than outside, with more severe rust and corrosion."

"The best preserved part is the glass of the cockpit canopy, but we have no use for it."

"Who said it's useless?"

Chen Jian smiled mysteriously, and then said:

"Have you forgotten that we still owe Li Shi something?"

Hearing this, Li Shi looked at Chen Jian in confusion and asked:

"what?"

"what?"

".your shield."

Chen Jian pointed to the huge canopy above his head and explained:

"This is not ordinary glass, not even glass in the normal sense."

"Normally, a fighter jet's canopy is made of laminated polymer materials. The cost is incredibly high, and the quality is also incredibly good."

"According to national standards, the strength of a piece of glass is higher than that of an ordinary steel plate."

"The aircraft in front of us is obviously a hypersonic fighter, or even an aerospace aircraft, which means that the material strength of its transparent canopy is higher."

"Although it's unlikely to withstand missiles, it's definitely more than enough to withstand the backward weapons of the Mechanicus."

"really."

Lei Jie nodded in agreement, but then said with a smile:
"The person who designed this thing probably never imagined that one day in the future, someone would remove its canopy and use it as a shield, right?"

"How would he feel if he knew?"

"do not know."

Chen Jian shook his head and replied:
"But if it were me, I would probably be quite happy."

"After all, human civilization has come to this point. Things that were supposed to be useless can actually be put to good use. This can be considered as making use of their remaining energy."

".True. But I still hope to find something more useful."

After confirming that it was impossible to dismantle more useful parts from this aircraft, which might be an aerospace fighter, the team walked out of the passage and continued to move deeper underground.

At the end of the runway is an isolation door used to isolate flames and toxic gases produced by fuel combustion. If closed, this underground runway will be immediately separated from the real underground hangar.

However, Chen Jian and his companions were lucky, as the isolation door was open.

After passing through the door, the real "hangar" was exposed to everyone.

However, the hangar now looks more like an aircraft graveyard than a hangar.

In the humid air, a large amount of moss densely covered the parked aircraft body, and dark-loving woodlice moved through it. From time to time, huge insects could be seen crawling quickly on the ground and then drilling into the gaps in the wreckage of the aircraft.

Those huge monsters that once soared in the sky are now buried deep here and turned into decaying "sculptures".

Chen Jian couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling, he even felt like he was in an ancient tomb.

However, the things buried here were originally lifeless.

And it was obvious that after entering the hangar, the condition of others was not much better than his.

Ji Xing followed Chen Jian slowly. When the shadows in the darkness appeared in front of her one by one, even her breathing became heavy.

“This place feels very familiar to me.”

Ji Xing stopped and said in a panicked tone:
“The taste is not, the taste is totally different, but the atmosphere is...”

“I can almost feel the life in it.”

"very dangerous!"

"We should stop first!"

After Ji Xing finished speaking, Chen Jian and others immediately turned to look at her.

"What kind of familiarity method?"

Chen Jian asked:
"Have you ever seen a place like this? Where?"

"No, I haven't seen it."

Ji Xing shook his head and replied:
“I’ve only felt it from a distance.”

"The mountain city, the atmosphere of the mountain city is almost exactly the same as here."

"The same deadness, the same oppression, and the same indescribable mystery."

"But at least there's still some normal, decaying smell here."

"And the mountain city is brand new."

“Even if there is dead air there, it is brand new dead air.”

“It’s as if life never existed there.”

"What do you mean? Where does this feeling come from?" "I don't know."

Ji Xing sighed and then said:
"It's just a feeling. If I knew where this feeling came from, I wouldn't be blocked from entering the mountain city."

".Too."

Chen Jian nodded helplessly.

At this moment, his brows were furrowed, because he was keenly aware that Ji Xing's few short sentences contained a huge amount of information.

But it seems that the other party has not really grasped the essence of this information at all, and as the "reteller", it is difficult for me to find many clues from it.

Perhaps, in order to make the information clear, Ji Xing can only understand the creations before the so-called "Great Cataclysm" first.

This is a long-term job.

So, Chen Jian temporarily skipped this topic and led a few people to go deeper into the hangar.

After exploring the entire hangar, they found the personnel shelter, maintenance workshop and communications room on the side of the hangar.

But without exception, all the equipment here had been decayed and damaged, and they did not find anything valuable.

“That’s basically all the stuff on the first floor.”

Lei Jie said:
"In theory, the ammunition depot is on the second floor, connected to the first floor via an elevator."

"The elevator is on the left. Do you want to go down and take a look?"

"Down."

Chen Jian answered decisively.

Afterwards, the team of eight people went straight to the elevator. After hanging the rope, Chen Jian took the lead and descended to the next level.

The thermal imager was turned on and Chen Jian scanned the area, but he didn't find anything unusual.

Soon after, the other team members also descended one by one.

But the moment he landed, Ji Xing subconsciously took a step back.

“That feeling is getting stronger and stronger.”

"You really didn't feel anything unusual?"

"I'm almost at my limit. If I keep going, I'm not sure if I can hold on."

"Is it that exaggerated?"

Chen Jian looked at Ji Xing in astonishment, but the latter's panicked expression did not seem fake at all.

"I'm not kidding!"

Ji Xing said in a serious tone:
"I know it's hard for you to believe me, but I can swear with everything I have that every word I say now is true!"

"This underground world is very dangerous. I don't know where the danger comes from, but it's there!"

"If we keep going forward, we'll probably die! That's my instinct!"

As soon as the words were spoken, everyone fell silent.

If I continue forward, I will most likely die?
Chen Jian couldn't figure out what was in this underground fortification that could pose a life threat to their team.

monster?

The drone has patrolled the entire area and found no suspicious heat signals, nor any moving objects in the white light images.

Radiation or poison gas?
The air here is only relatively turbid, but it is definitely not lethal.

Even Wei Sheng didn't call the police.

Besides these two items, what else is there?
Unknown enemy?
But Chen Jian really didn't think that there was any enemy in this world that could directly threaten his team.

Thinking of this, he turned to Ji Xing and asked:
“You feel threatened, but you don’t know where the threat is coming from.”

"Then let's not consider this issue - I just want to ask, is the feeling of being threatened the same as you felt in previous battles?"

“Definitely different!”

Ji Xing shook his head, thought carefully for a moment, and replied:
"ghost."

“It’s the only thing that’s similar.”

"I used to be afraid of ghosts and demons before I grew up. Now I feel like I was forced to stay in a dark secret room after reading the story in the Book of Punishment of the Sacred Blood Basilica as a child."

"I know that ghosts don't exist, just like I know that around you, death will become very distant."

"But I am just afraid, for no reason at all!"

"I can only explain so far. If you ask me to move on, I will follow your orders."

"But what I'm saying now is not alarmist, nor do I want to persuade you to leave."

"I'm just giving a warning."

"I see."

Chen Jian nodded seriously and immediately gave the order:

"Everyone on alert, put your weapons on safety."

"He Shuo, fly the drone again and complete the modeling of all the spaces."

"Let's not put ourselves in danger. Everyone should stay where we are and clean up the area once we are sure it is safe."

"understand!"

At the command, the team's search strategy, which had originally seemed a bit radical, suddenly became cautious.

Chen Jian no longer pursued speed, but tried his best to ensure safety.

Yes, what Ji-sung said is ridiculous.

What supernatural powers, what ghosts, what intuition.
If it were in my own world, it might be regarded as feudal superstition education.

But if you think about it, isn’t it absurd that there are so many giant monsters in this world?
So, no matter how suspicious he was, Chen Jian still chose to treat it with caution.

Weakness is not an obstacle to survival, arrogance is!

After changing his strategy, Ji Xing's mood finally eased a little.

She followed everyone and completed the search of the second floor, then descended to the third floor, which was the last floor of this underground fortification.

This layer is equally large, but in reality, it only has one function.

Nuclear arsenal.

To be precise, it is an air-launched nuclear missile warehouse.

"This is it."

Lei Jie breathed a sigh of relief.

"Independent environmental maintenance system, independent energy, independent safety devices. This is the nuclear arsenal."

"Its door should have been opened."

"The order to launch the nuclear bomb should have been approved at the moment of the catastrophe."

"But then, the world's message was unified, so these nuclear bombs were not actually launched."

"That's why the space plane showed up at the end of the runway without weapons."

"It was waiting to be loaded with nuclear bombs, but in the end... it wasn't necessary."

After Lei Jie finished speaking, Chen Jian and the others sighed heavily.

After a pause, Chen Jian said:
"go in."

"The nuclear radiation level here is very low. It has been hundreds of years. I am afraid there are not many usable nuclear bombs left."

"But at least we can go in and take a look."

"If we find one or two, we'll make a killing."

"clear."

After receiving the reply, Chen Jian walked towards the "independent warehouse".

At this moment, Ji Xing behind him suddenly pulled him, and then said in a horrified tone:
"Don't go in!"

"The ghost is in there!"

(End of this chapter)