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Chapter 58 Research Base
Galloping all the way, Chi Heng experienced the thrill of driving a big car. In this vast wilderness where there is no need to think about coming cars, even if there are pits and muddy places, the five pairs of road wheels of the rover, as well as the exaggerated chassis and full drive Ability, can also break through like walking on the ground.

After driving forward for more than two hours, Chi Heng arrived at the destination near noon.

His journey of more than 200 kilometers was almost along this Montenegro mountain range. As he went deeper, the temperature became colder. A large number of ice beds emerged.

Until the vast field quickly narrowed and turned into canyons on both sides, the rover braked at the red dot position on the electronic map, and there was no need to look for it. He saw the right side of the canyon, at the foot of the mountain wall. Multi-meter curved steel-lead, concrete composite gates!

Just looking at this gate, there is a feeling that even if a nuclear bomb hits head-on, it probably won't be able to break through the defense, which is even more exaggerated than the gate of a general nuclear bunker.

"This is the research base?"

Chi Heng's excitement reached its peak.

Thinking that he arrived in Dock Town on May 5th, and today, June 15th, after so many days, he finally found the "research base" that the old uncle wrote in his notes. Brings a wonderful sense of well-being.

Just the next question... how to get in?
The old uncle never wrote how to enter the research base in his notes!

"Junk, don't you have any impression of the research base?"

Chi Heng turned his head away.

"Broken copper and iron" replied: "Sir, Junk doesn't remember any research base, and Junk doesn't have any memory data here."

"Ok."

Chi Heng didn't have much hope at all, he tidied up after hearing the words, and greeted: "Come on, let's go down and have a look."

Finally arrived at the destination, naturally we have to go down and have a look.

When he really got off the car, standing in front of this steel-lead composite gate, he could feel the sense of weight and arrogance. He even stretched out his fingers and knocked on the gate. Well, the feedback sound was like knocking on a solid The same as on the steel.

However, because it has been built for too long, or it may have been abandoned for too long, many places on the exterior of this steel-lead composite gate are covered with rust and moss.

Of course, this is also unlikely to affect the defensive performance of this gate.

"Don't you need permission to open it?"

Chi Heng's idea is not surprising. After all, from the discovery of the basement, everything can be opened by relying on the authority of the electronic watch to open many devices. This seems to be specially set by the old uncle and set in advance.

And since the old uncle has stayed at the research base for ten years, it is not surprising to have such an arrangement.

Next, Chi Heng raised his wrist and groped around. As a result, he searched all over the left and right sides of the gate, but he couldn't find the sensing area to open the gate. The sensing area must be set more than ten meters above the gate, right?
"It's weird."

Scratching the back of his head, Chi Heng was very confused, and couldn't help asking the "broken copper" standing next to him: "Junk, where do you think the sensing area will be?"

"Junk doesn't know either."

"Battered copper and iron" still shook its head funnyly. After shaking its head, it added: "Junk thinks that this door should not be opened from the outside, but needs to be opened from the inside."

"Open inside?"

Chi Heng was stunned, "It makes sense, it's unnecessary to open such a big door from the outside... This kind of base should be on duty 24 hours a day. And this kind of door shouldn't be for people to go in and out alone Yes, it is only for large vehicles to enter and exit. Then the question arises, where should people go when entering and exiting?"

"Junk, take a look along the canyon wall to where we came from. If you find anything, let me know immediately. I'll go to the left."

Chi Heng felt that the speed of the car was too fast when he came over, and he might have overlooked some clues, so he ordered the "broken copper and iron" to search carefully in the direction of coming.

He took the "old man" to the left, that is, the depths of the canyon and continued to move forward.

Without driving, Chi Heng thought that the clue was not far from the steel-lead composite gate, and it was easy to ignore it while driving, so he felt at ease while walking and observing.

However, after walking a hundred meters forward, Chi Heng was surprised to find that there was a "figure" sitting on the canyon wall more than ten meters away from him?
"Wang Wang!"

The "old man" rushed over without waiting for Chi Heng to greet him, barking at the figure.

"'Old man', come here!"

Chi Heng scolded.

Hearing the master's scolding, the "old man" whimpered and ran back quickly.

Given the previous experience, Chi Heng didn't think that the figure leaning against the canyon wall would still be alive. If he was alive, he might have been awakened by the barking of dogs.

Even so, he still pulled out the "Red Dragon" and approached cautiously.

"strangeness……"

As he got closer and could observe more carefully, Chi Heng noticed that this figure was dressed a bit strangely. It was different from the corpses found in the rover before. The corpses in the rover were wearing ordinary blended fabric uniforms. To put it bluntly, they were simple clothes.

But the figure in front of him was dressed like an astronaut, his whole body was tightly wrapped, and he was wearing a reflective helmet.

It feels like...an astronaut leaning in here.

"Hello?"

Chi Heng still greeted tentatively, expressing his politeness.

The figure didn't move, and didn't react at all.

Chi Heng walked over.

"Is it really dead?"

Chi Heng squatted down, but at such a close distance, the other party still didn't respond at all.

"Who is this?"

Sighing, before he actually set foot inside the research base, he discovered two corpses one after another, and they were discovered on the same day.

This gave Chi Heng a sense of urgency and coercion.

Judging from the description in my uncle's notes, "Extreme Reality" is very dangerous, but there is always a feeling that it is not real enough.

Only today, two corpses that died here for no apparent reason, on the one hand, proved the authenticity of the old uncle's notes, and on the other hand, it also gave Chi Heng a strong sense of uneasiness.

"Hey, it's time to dig a hole again."

Chi Heng lamented, and it was impossible to let a dead body go unnoticed here, so he turned around and shouted: "Junk... Come here quickly!"

Although this canyon is hundreds of meters wide, it is a canyon after all, and the sound wave feedback is very good. In addition, the "bad copper and iron" radio sensor is very sensitive. After a while, the "bad copper and iron" returned.

"Sir, you found another corpse!"

A little distance away, "Battered Copper and Iron" pointed out that there was a dead body at Chi Heng's feet.

"That's right, I don't know whether today is good luck or a little bad luck."

Chi Heng was helpless: "Go and get the engineer shovel, just dig a hole here and bury him."

"Broken copper and rotten iron" quickly went to get the engineer shovel, and started digging the pit with a sigh.

After digging the hole, Chi Heng didn't bother to move the corpse. The "spacesuit" worn by the corpse was too heavy, which made it easier for the "broken copper and iron" to carry it.

(End of this chapter)