C40 (1/2)

After rushing in, I turned a few corners and crashed head first into the people in front of me. I looked at them and saw that they were all standing there foolishly, not knowing what was wrong with them.

”What plane?” I yelled and pushed my way to the front of the crowd.

When I came in, I could already see traces of human construction in the cave, but that was normal in Afghanistan. All the way from the Afghan guerrillas to the Soviets to the United Nations forces, or Brother Lantern would not have laughed for so many years. Afghanistan's more complex three-dimensional mesh cave system provided him and his army of God with the best shelter.

But what he saw was definitely not an Afghan work. What he saw was an intercontinental missile silo with a diameter of more than 8 meters. Quinn used his Tactical Flashlight to look at the top of the emission well.

”The product of the Cold War,” said Hem, interrupting the silence.

”Go around it,” Quinn ordered.

”Wait!” Sea Snake pressed down on the earphone and suddenly ran towards the launch shaft. He looked down. After increasing the intensity of the scan, he turned his head back and said with certainty, ”There's a signal response.”

”Toby's Soldier?” Several people asked in unison, their voices filled with joy.

”No!” The words of the sea serpent nearly angered everyone to death. Even I wanted to kick him into the well.

”His teammates, all of them disappeared at the same time!” Sea Snake saw how angry everyone was and quickly explained.

”If there are any clues, we need to follow them.” Quinn did not waste any more words, and took the lead to look for the maintenance ladder to the firing hole, then used his hands and feet to climb down. The light from my hand formed a long, tiny line from top to bottom, which gave me a sense of security.

There were piles of unknown materials on occasion, as well as a lot of tall and big equipment that looked like monsters. Looking at the style, it inherited the characteristics of Former Soviet Union, such as large and thick, sturdy, ugly, practical and so on. Another piece of evidence was that the button was written in Russian.

A few of Quinn's Russian mercenaries looked around separately and confirmed that this was a base with abandoned Former Soviet Union. After that, they followed the sea serpents to find the source of the signal.

At the side entrance to the square was a tall tunnel, wide enough to run four cars side by side. At the junction of the tunnel and the square, Sea Serpent found the body of the man in the uniform of the United States Army.

After inspecting it, Sea Serpent indicated for us to go over. There were people in charge of guarding the surroundings. I passed the Ghost Needle to Manager Qian to go over and take a look.

The body was badly decomposed, and Sea Serpent was checking the information on it with the soldier tag. I checked the cause of death out of habit. It looked like he had been stabbed in the side of his neck while he was running, and then he fell to the ground and died. By the light of the flashlight I could see the wall to the left behind him, the long trail of blood leading deeper into the tunnel, dark with age, striking against the whitewashed walls.

Do me a favor, turn him over and take a few pictures. Maybe it can be useful when settling accounts with the employer.

Lao Hei and Rocky carried the corpses over, and the two of them spoke out at the same time with questions in their voices: ”Hmm?”

”What's wrong?” My heart immediately rose to my throat. Placing a few trap mine explosives on the corpse wasn't a new technique.

”So heavy” Lao Hei and Rocky spoke in English and Chinese respectively.

Lao Hei was originally a very strong person, and he was even more famous among the mercenaries. With several dozen kilograms of Gatling machine guns and bullets on his back, it looked like there was something wrong with the corpse.

The sea serpent moved the dead man's arm again, nodded and said, ”At least three times heavier than a normal person.” Unexpectedly, his movement was too big, and the corpse's weathering was too severe.

After swearing a vulgarity that could be used internationally, the sea serpent handed us the ”item” in its hand. When it came to my hand, I weighed it. It was indeed extraordinarily heavy, an arm that had dried from the wind. To think that there was actually an eight or nine-year-old boy who was almost as heavy.

Upon closer inspection, the density of the bones seemed to be very high. Looking at the expressions of the others, they were all confused. Could it be the bones of the King Kong Wolf?

”There's no time to dilly-dally,” Quinn said towards the corpse. He took out his military knife, cut off a phalanx, and put it in his pocket.

”The place he ran out of, is the place we need to go,” Quinn pointed at the tunnel that had no end in sight.

The tunnel was longer than we had expected, and we climbed ladders at every turn. What the Foreigner created was sturdy, and the armrest of what had been there for dozens of years did not even shake. Generally speaking, we go down steps. It seems that the transportation of heavy equipment was taken into account when the tunnel was designed. Large electric cranes can be seen everywhere. If they are operating normally, they can ensure that any fully loaded heavy military truck will be unobstructed.

There were signs with different numbers, and mercenaries of Russian or Ukrainian origin explained to us that they all led to different intercontinental missile silos. It appears that this base was used for nuclear revenge after its home country had been flattened by a nuclear bomb. From the number of launching wells, as long as this base survived the nuclear war and successfully launched all the missiles, it was estimated that at least half of the major cities in the United States would turn to ash.

But then there was a new question, what about the huge consumption of electricity, which I guessed was that a small power station had been built with a drop in the level of the underground river, or nuclear power.