There is no day or night inside the base. Less than half an hour after Chu Jungui returned to his room to rest, Duan Xuyan appeared on the communication channel and said, "Are you ready? I'm at your door."
Chu Jungui stood up, opened the door, and saw Duan Xuyan already waiting there. He made a gesture and said, "Let's go to the warehouse and have a look."
The two walked through the corridor one after another, turned on the stealth mode of the armor, and sneaked towards the core area.
It was dark inside the fortress, and many places were hidden in the shadows. It was impossible to see clearly without using the low-light vision that came with the armor. This base has been facing an extreme shortage of supplies since its establishment, which seems to have created a psychological shadow on Director Su. Even the lights in the base are not turned on unless they can be turned on, and there will never be more than one installed.
This was convenient for Chu Jungui and Duan Xuyan. The two of them moved quickly in the shadows, but they met two guards before they went far. Duan Xuyan's figure gradually disappeared, and Chu Jungui's special forces armor also had an optical stealth function, gradually integrating with the surrounding environment. The two of them passed between the two guards one after the other.
But after walking a few steps and turning a corner, two more guards appeared. The two guards were talking to each other somewhat boredly.
"The old man has been acting strange recently. He loses his temper at every turn. What's wrong with him? We have to double the number of guards. I haven't had a break for 12 days in a row. Can't we install a few more automatic monitoring stations?"
"It costs money to build a monitoring station, and our salaries have already been paid. Of course, we will spend it to our death."
"We are really unlucky to follow him here to open a base."
"You can't say that. At least you can go back alive here. Many of those on the starship will never be able to go back."
"After surviving the last few days, we can go back without looking at the old guy's face."
The two guards were talking to each other, but they created a problem for Duan Xuyan and Chu Jungui. Duan Xuyan thought for a moment, then simply lay down on the ground and crawled over near the feet of the two guards. He crawled close to the ground. Even if the guard felt something strange about the patterns on the ground from the corner of his eye, he ignored it in the dim light.
Chu Jungui didn't expect that Duan Xuyan could put down his body like this, and couldn't help but become more curious about him. But Chu Jungui does not need to pass like him. The test subject bowed slightly, avoiding the intersection of the two guards' eyes. One accelerated, and easily passed between the two.
In the previous section, Xu Yan got up from the ground and turned back to look for Chu Jungui, but saw nothing. At this moment, someone tapped him on the shoulder. When he looked back, he saw a pair of eyes floating in the sky.
Duan Xuyan was so surprised that he almost screamed. Fortunately, he was able to calm down well, and soon discovered that these eyes were caused by Chu Jungui intentionally disabling part of the optical invisibility effect.
"Follow me." Duan Xuyan made a gesture and continued to move forward. Just now, he just thought that he was not noticed because he didn't pay attention and Chu Jungui turned on the optical invisibility effect.
In this short passage of a few hundred meters, the two of them encountered at least seven or eight groups of guards, but there were only two monitoring stations. It seems that as the two guards said, people are worthless and monitoring stations are expensive. According to the density of guards arranged in this way, I am afraid that more than half of the people in the entire base are on duty.
Duan Xuyan did have some skills. When he encountered the monitoring station, he simply sent a signal. After waiting for a few seconds, the monitoring station turned a blind eye to the two of them.
It's just that there will be some trouble in guarded places, but Duan Xuyan used the four-character secret method of slowly advancing and crawling, and he still passed without any danger.
When the two stood in front of the warehouse door, Duan Xuyan was already sweating slightly. He let out a long breath and said: "If you say that the old guy is not guilty, I will not believe it for the first time! Is there any need for such strict confidentiality? Wait until I see what system is installed on this door... Damn it, Pure hydraulic system?”
A purely hydraulic system means that the warehouse door has no power and relies entirely on human power to push the switch. These two doors weigh more than ten tons and normally require ten people to open and close them. They are the nemesis of one or two infiltrators like Duan Xuyan and Chu Jungui. But Duan Xuyan is not an ordinary person at all, and Chu Jungui is even less human.
Duan Xuyan scanned the structure of the gate and said: "It requires 12 tons of thrust. Fortunately, I am strong and my armor is not bad. I can explode 7 tons in a short time. How about leaving the remaining 5 tons to you?" "
"No problem." This was naturally a trivial matter to Chu Jungui.
The two of them each grabbed a handle of the door and used force at the same time to open a one-meter-wide gap in the warehouse door.
It was dark in the warehouse, with no lights at all. There was misty dust everywhere, and the dust hit your face the moment you opened it. With only a little light coming from the crack of the door, he could only see a few meters away from the main door.
Duan Xuyan directly turned on the spotlight of the armor, and a strange lavender light beam shot out, illuminating the interior of the warehouse.
"Is there no light source monitoring here?" Chu Jungui reminded.
"There must be, I've discovered it. But that old miser only installed the last few generations of products, and the recognition spectrum is very narrow. It can't recognize the light source that I switched to. Okay, hurry up and start the treasure hunt. !”
The two of them searched separately.
The warehouse was only half full, filled with long strips of various metal ingots. There are several large cargo boxes against the wall. After scanning, they found that they were half empty and filled with slag or some unknown ore. Apart from that, there is nothing else.
"Nothing?" Duan Xuyan naturally didn't believe it, and Chu Jungui didn't believe it either. The two of them searched in the warehouse for another long time, even scanning the ores in the cargo boxes. Apart from finding some rare elements, they found nothing.
These containers of ore may be worth some money, but the recharge amount is only a few million, far from being coveted by the federation.
After the second search, Duan Xuyan still refused to give up and said, "If it's not here, it must be somewhere else. Let's go back and do some research first to see where the secret might be hidden."
Chu Jungui didn't find anything unusual, so he and Duan Xuyan left the warehouse. They closed the door and returned the same way.
The two of them successfully returned to Chu Jungui's room. Duan Xuyan released his optical invisibility, took off his helmet, and frowned: "How could there be nothing? Why would he be nervous if there wasn't anything? What do you think?"
Chu Jungui said: "The interceptions from the guards prove that excessive security measures were not always like this, but were only introduced at the end of the war and continue to this day."
"Then there is something, but where is it hidden?"
"What if that thing isn't very big?" Chu Jungui said suddenly.
