629 The Directors Diary (2/2)
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I discovered in a confined environment that people are far more fragile than they think.
We can't drag this on any longer; we have to leave this place.
Once this place reaches the lowest possible standard of confinement, we'll leave.
The darkness is suffocating.>
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There were many pages torn from the diary, and it only recorded the first two years after the fallout shelter closed.
But just from the brief sentences, Jiang Chen still managed to decipher the information hidden in this diary.
Another observer?
Academician Qin was one too. He used Fallout Shelter 027 to simulate changes in a civilization in an isolated environment.
He began suspecting that all the fallout shelters performed near-crazy experiments.
”Xiaorou?” Jiang Chen put down the diary and deeply inhaled.
”Mhmm?”
”Do you still remember life in the fallout shelter?”
”Most of my memories are cloudy, but I remember everything about sister clearly. Sister was really cute back then.”
”It's not about Sun Jiao… do you remember that a lot of people went missing one year?”
Sun Xiaorou shook her head and facepalmed at Jiang Chen's question.
”Brother in law, notice the time. The diary recorded that the experiments were completed one year and nine weeks after the closure. I wasn't born yet.”
Jiang Chen took a moment to process that before he realized.
He closed the diary and stood up.
”It's getting late. Since there are no clues here… it's time to go.”
Sun Xiaorou still wasn't convinced. She searched the office carefully but still couldn't find any useful clues.
She gritted her teeth and had a defeated expression.
”Looks like we came here for nothing.”
”Not necessarily.” Jiang Chen patted the diary. ”We still managed to find some useful information.”
”The diary might not be true. Both the location of the diary and the obvious changes make it look too coincidental,” Sun Xiaorou reminded him.
”I know.” Jiang Chen nodded. ”But this is the only clue. We just need to find that observer… if he's alive.”
The whereabouts of the observer weren't recorded in the diary. Perhaps it was recorded originally but ripped out. If he wasn't dead, the secret of immortality should be in his hands. But when he thought about that, Jiang Chen began to have a headache.
It was more difficult to find someone in the wasteland than fighting the Mother of Death Claws.