Nanjiang Port is in the distance, with large lighthouses emitting orange light.
The rusty gantry crane, gantry crane, and bridge grab ship unloader are like silent giants, and their steel bodies reveal their past glory.
The port channel has long since dried up and is piled with huge metal structures.
Legend has it that the history of Nanjiang Port can be traced back to the founding of Tianmu. In the myth, the people of the Twin Gods traveled to and from six other cities on giant ships that could sail on the sea. Every time they returned to Beijing, the giant ships would be anchored at Nanjiang Port. .
However.
After the canopy was completely closed, the seawater in the harbor channel was drained from the port to the breakwater, and the remaining materials for building the canopy were piled up. The metal never rusted, and no one in the lower city could move it. As a result, this abandoned port has never been moved. Demolition, for hundreds of years, silently witnessed the vicissitudes of changes in China.
Li Liang had no time to feel sad. He and K drove the airship along the airspace allocated by the system and arrived at a residential area outside Nanjiang Port.
In the current urban planning of Zhongjing, this residential area is classified into Donggu District, located on the southern edge of Donggu District. From the map, it is not far from Nanjiang Port Rare Earth Company.
After landing behind a tattered small airship, Li Liang turned off the engine, turned off the headlights, and looked around through the porthole.
This small square can barely be called an airship parking lot. The ground is full of potholes and garbage. The few airships that exist seem to have been scrapped long ago.
The periphery is similar to Donggu District, with low buildings. It seems that the people living here are poorer than those in Donggu District.
The sky was like a dark night sky in the early morning, and the surroundings were very quiet, except for the footsteps of the pilot of the airship in front of him walking away alone.
Although Zhuos Margin Business Department has a large number of spaceships, they still cannot cover the entire Zhongjing. The fourth princess and Li Chengshu could not have guessed that he would come to such a remote place as Nanjiang Port. The two groups are probably still searching in key areas such as West City and North City. .
Li Liang waited for a moment, confirming that there were no signs of Horcruxes around him and that there was no beating heart in the air. Then he gently opened the hatch and walked quickly to the nearest alley with his head lowered. K followed closely behind and the two of them hid. Enter under an awning set up somewhere.
K held the assault rifle and looked over. Li Liang unfolded the map and confirmed the location again: "Let's go."
Twenty minutes later.
The two men were squatting behind a transport pontoon, looking towards the yard not far away.
After the Nanjiang Port was abandoned, several large supporting warehouses were transformed into rare earth production workshops by SoftBank. The open area in front of the workshops became a stockyard, with hills of ore raw materials piled up.
The subway entrance marked on the map is inside the largest workshop.
At this moment, four armed robots were passing by the main entrance of the workshop, their translucent gel bodies squirming forward, and their central nervous system core rising to the top and rotating randomly.
Tu Ran's intelligence showed that there was at least a group of 12 armed robots patrolling here, and there were probably armed drones in the workshop.
The reason why Li Liang chose the subway entrance of Nanjiang Port is because Nanjiang Port is very remote, and the other reason is the drone.
At present, Li Chengshu will never use the garrison robot unit. If he wants to get drones, he can only look at key units. Among the several places guarded by drones, Nanjiang Port is the most inconspicuous.
There are just a few robots that no one would take seriously, but they mean a lot to Li Liang.
It is impossible to confirm whether the subway tunnel is clear by manpower in a short time. It would be much simpler if there are several armed drones.
The yard was dark, with only a few lampposts at the entrance of the workshop.
After observing for a moment, Li Liang no longer hesitated, gave K a look, arched his body, and ran quickly to the yard.
As soon as they stepped onto the pile of broken ore, the four armed robots patrolling in the distance stopped at the same time. The weapons wandering inside the body poked out of the body, pointing at Li Liang and K who were running towards them, and then stopped. In one fell swoop, all the weapons were recovered.
Li Liang's speed did not slow down. When he passed by a robot, he patted its gel shell and said, "Continue patrolling."
drop--
The four robots continued to squirm forward as if nothing had happened.
In front of the small door on the side of the main entrance of the workshop for people to pass through, Li Liang stretched out his hand and pushed it... but did not push it open.
This door was obviously a sensor door with a biometric device on top, but he couldn't open it even with his authority, which only meant that the door lock program was not included in Xi'an's hierarchy.
Li Liang squatted half-crouched and shouted in a low voice to the robot that had not gone far: "Robot, hey, you, yes, come here."
The weapon robot slowly squirmed over, its central nervous system rotated, and its visual collector was aimed at his face.
"You go in here," Li Liang pointed to the door.
The robot immediately approached the door.
Boom.
The door was set sideways into the wall.
really.
Robots can enter.
Li Liang kicked the robot with satisfaction: "Go on patrol." Then he took K and ran into the workshop.
As soon as I entered, a wave of heat hit my face.
Machines of all sizes filled the entire warehouse space. The largest was an inverted cone-shaped crushing equipment, which was connected to other equipment that looked like incinerators and mixers through conveyor belts and pipes.
The width of the workshop is only over a hundred meters, but its depth is huge.
The moment Li Liang looked up, he saw more than a dozen armed drones dragging alloy tentacles under the curved ceiling of the warehouse.
Finally he breathed a sigh of relief, and he took K and ran deeper along the narrow passage in the middle of the machine, paying attention to the distribution of the surrounding machines along the way.
The map only marked the location, but did not explain in detail what the subway entrance looked like or how to enter.
Judging from his experience in entering weapons bases and drone maintenance bases, the location of the entrance must be very inconspicuous and easily overlooked.
It was early in the morning, there were no workers in the workshop, and some equipment was still working and rumbling.
ten minutes later.
An open door appeared on the wall of the workshop, which seemed to be a stairwell.
"There."
Li Liang said as he ran into the narrow stairwell and found a barbed wire staircase leading to the plank road on the second floor, and another concrete staircase leading underground.
"This is it," Li Liang turned back and shouted to the weapon drone in mid-air: "Robot."
Buzz——
More than a dozen armed drones turned at the same time, flew close quickly, and gathered together to make a chirping sound of metal friction. The compound eye in the center of each drone kept expanding and contracting, waiting for the owner's instructions.
In fact, Li Liang still doesn't know how the equipment directly under Xi'an verifies his identity. It seems that facial recognition, voice recognition, and palmprint recognition can all be used.
"Follow me," he turned around and waved to K.
The two of them ran down the stairs with a group of drones. They thought it would be very deep, but as soon as they turned two turns, there was no road ahead.
An iron fence thicker than the forearm was welded directly to the road leading to the negative floor.
The air was damp and filled with the stench of defecation.
Apparently this place was used as a makeshift toilet by the workers.
Li Liang was helpless.
Are the most secluded places in the world all toilets?
K walked forward and shook the iron bars on the fence one by one. Each one remained motionless until he reached the one at the bottom corner on the right. He suddenly laughed and said, "It's still the same."
"Huh?" Li Liang stepped forward and watched as K pulled down the iron bar and took it off, revealing a gap for an adult to get through.
K threw the iron bar casually and smiled: "This was the fun of our childhood. There are many closed areas in the factory. Some workers would steal things from the factory and hide them in such places. In the end, they all took advantage of us."
Li Liang nodded: "Go in and have a look."
The two climbed in one after the other. The inside was completely made of concrete, with steel bars and metal structures exposed everywhere.
When, when, when.
A metallic collision sound came from behind.
Li Liang looked back and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
The drone is stuck.
Before he could react, he saw the armed drone suddenly stretch out two tentacles, wrap them around the iron bars blocking it, and begin to pull them to both sides.
Tsk~tsk~
Tiny blue light began to emit from the tentacles, as if some kind of auxiliary power device was activated, and the extremely thick iron bars deformed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After a moment, the drone released its tentacles and got in.
"..."
Outrageous.
Li Liang had to admit that Xi'an's suppression of Xiacheng District usually only required guard robot troops, and there was no need to use canopy weapons.
K took off his sunglasses and whispered: "This thing has always been so smart. When we massacred gangs in the past, it was useless for those people to hide wherever they were."
"Let's go."
Next, the two went deeper. At first, they could see the plastic buckets and some domestic garbage piled by the workers behind the support columns. Later, all they could see was the rough concrete structure.
The tentacles of a group of armed drones swam slowly, and the spotlights on the tentacles shot everywhere.
"It must be here," Li Liang glanced around, "The entrance should be on the ground."
"If there are switches or biometric devices, they can be easily discovered," K looked around. "So, the door will open if you walk to the right location or shout like last time in Ex Machina."
"Robot!" Li Liang shouted, and his voice spread far in the empty and low space.
Nothing happened.
"That's where it needs to be," K. stepped forward again.
Li Liang followed closely behind, and after walking more than ten steps, he suddenly stopped, his expression changed and he said, "Not good."
K immediately understood what it meant, and suddenly made a move to pounce forward, but was still a step too slow.
next moment.
The ground under their feet suddenly opened to both sides at an extremely fast speed.
Li Liang instantly lost his balance, turned around, and fell head-first into the darkness below.
bass.
A drone stretched out an alloy tentacle like lightning and grabbed his foot.
He shook his head for a few times before stopping. He tilted his head back and looked down, and then... saw the tiles, just a few centimeters above his head.
Looking to the side, K was lying on the ground with a confused look on his face.
It turns out that the pit is only a little over 1.8 meters deep, and you won't die even if your face touches the ground.
The drone slowly descended, and Li Liang got up from the floor and looked around, feeling immediately cordial.
In front of you is what the subway entrance looked like a thousand years ago. Going down the wide stairs is the platform.
The armed drone had already flown down first, wandering around and lighting up the surrounding area.
"This is..." K found his sunglasses and put them on, "Someone deliberately protected this place."
Click.
The top is closed again.
K reached out and touched the top of his head and said in a low voice: "It feels like a slight electric shock. It's the same metal as the weapon base."
"This kind of metal should be able to shield the detection of robots or instruments," Li Liang thought for a moment. "It's not a technology of the same era as the subway. Someone should have deliberately used this metal to protect some key locations."
"Why do you do this?" K looked confused, "If it is just to build a secret passage, there is no need to make it so big."
Li Liang couldn't answer this question, shook his head, and walked down the steps step by step.
The smooth tiles underfoot reflect the light from the drone spotlights. Familiar signs are posted on the walls and pillars. Red plastic rows of chairs are placed vertically opposite the stairs. LCD monitors hang from the ceilings on both sides of the platform. Everything is in good condition. No damage, as if time was frozen a thousand years ago.
The moment he walked down the last step, the lights suddenly turned on on the platform. The light tubes emitted a cold white light, and the empty platform felt inexplicably strange.
Where did the electricity come from?
How can the lamp still be on after so many years?
K didn't seem to realize anything was wrong, but just wondered, "Why provide lighting at the risk of being discovered... What is that thing?"
Li Liang came back to his senses and followed the direction K pointed and saw a very familiar piece of equipment.
"Vending machine," he walked forward and looked at the various drinks on the shelves inside the machine, his mind going blank.
The drinks look like they were served yesterday.
"The vending machine sells those...drinks?" K leaned closer to the glass, his expression even more confused, "The bottle looks new, what's going on?"
"I don't know," Li Liang looked around, feeling unreal.
"Is it possible that it was well preserved because it was a closed space with no air circulation?" K's voice was weak, and this explanation could not convince anyone.
"Forget it, let's see if the tunnel is accessible first." Li Liang unfolded the map and compared it with the subway stop map on the wall. Then he walked to the platform and pointed at the dark tunnel: "Drone, use the fastest speed. Scout this tunnel at high speed, record the flight route, and return here immediately if you encounter insurmountable obstacles or detect suspicious targets."
Buzz——
The anti-gravity engine was turned on at full power, and more than a dozen drones disappeared into the darkness instantly.
"Just a moment."
Li Liang said and was about to turn around, but suddenly froze and looked suddenly at the other side of the tunnel.
A gust of wind came out of the darkness, carrying vague noises, like there was a lively market in the distance, with countless people talking loudly.
A strong feeling of déjà vu came to Li Liang's mind, and he heard the same sound in the abyss underground of the group's private residence.
Last time he was deeply shocked by the Stone Tablet of Destiny and ignored this weird sound. He didn't expect to hear it again so soon. What did this sound mean?
Could it be that the tunnel in front of me leads to the abyss?
