In the end, Zhang Xiaoqiang decided to lead 20 elite soldiers with rocket launchers and heavy machine guns to move forward. Lieutenant Colonel Song Kunhai led some people to restore the order of the base and prepare all kinds of materials to deal with the zombie tide.
The armed personnel of the New Era officially cooperated with the nuclear base, even though they didn't know what kind of future was waiting for them. As they gathered the people who ran away because of the chaos at each fork, the first half of the base began to operate again.
Zhang Xiaoqiang stood in front of the sparkling metal passage and was surprised to see these things that only appeared in sci-fi movies. After entering the entrance of the core area, Zhang Xiaoqiang saw bright lights, smooth walls, all kinds of electronic display equipment, and a lot of pipes and wires.
At the entrance where they came in, it seemed that an extremely cruel battle had taken place. The ground under their feet and the walls around them were flattened, especially the walls, which were almost like sieves. In front of the broken metal gate, there were many metal fortifications full of cuts. These fortifications were also equipped with complete heavy machine guns, which were full of bullet casings. They were not like the simple fortifications that they saw before.
The fortifications were mostly intact, and there were no broken corpses or blood inside. These things were all outside, about 15 meters away from the fortifications. Pieces of bright red meat the size of shredded meat exuded a pungent smell of blood. They were evenly scattered on the flat ground of the two-meter-tall bungalow. Among them, bones that were almost as wide as shredded meat and muddy brain and internal organs could be seen.
Looking at it here was different from looking at it from outside. Even if there was a gas lamp outside, it was impossible to see everything clearly. However, it was different here. The light here was like the afternoon sun on the grass, nothing could block it. So the 20 elite soldiers behind Zhang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but spread out to avoid the blood on their feet, even if their shoes had been dyed brown by the blood in front of them.
"Pay attention, if you find the target, you must maintain a distance of more than 20 meters. No hand-to-hand combat. If you are less than 5 meters away from the target, please detonate the explosives on your body …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang had a rough idea of the scope of Gus's ability from some traces on the scene. On the way to track Gus, he had a basic understanding of the ability Gus used. When he was advising the soldiers around him, Zhang Xiaoqiang unconsciously looked at the high explosives on each soldier's waist. These explosives were given to them by Song Kunhai, and were originally used as the last resort by the soldiers in the base.
The elite soldiers nodded together. They were not scared by the coldness in Zhang Xiaoqiang's tone. Although everyone was afraid of death, as soldiers, they already had a sense of honor. As long as Zhang Xiaoqiang could fulfill his promise, they would not be afraid of the possible accidents.
Zhang Xiaoqiang asked them to prepare their equipment, and then they passed through the gate and walked into the core of the underground nuclear weapons. After that, Zhang Xiaoqiang felt like he had walked into a beehive building. There were countless passages, strange signs, and many rooms of unknown use. Other than that, he did not see any living people.
The only thing that guided Zhang Xiaoqiang was the fresh blood dripping from Gus's body. Gus did not seem to like to clean himself. Every time he killed someone, he would stain himself with blood. With every step he took, he would leave a deep or shallow bloody footprint.
Everything along the way surprised Zhang Xiaoqiang and the soldiers behind him. This place seemed to be made of stainless steel and bulletproof glass. The number of battles along the way was not low, and there were many damaged automatic defense weapons. In every small battlefield, other than the scattered corpses and blood that sprayed everywhere like paint, the fierce battle did not cause much damage to the surface of the buildings. There were only some uneven marks on the walls and ground. Even the glass windows embedded in the walls only had white spots from the impact of bullets, and there were no signs of damage.
Through the glass windows, they could see the messy equipment and electrical switches inside. There were also many sealed metal boxes piled up in many rooms. Some of the boxes were opened, revealing unknown electronic components inside. There were also many workstations with all kinds of examination equipment and large spotlights. It looked like an operating table, but it was filled with all kinds of shiny tools.
Zhang Xiaoqiang did not know what this place was used for. The biggest feature of this place was its cleanliness. In many places, the entire room was pure white. Even with Zhang Xiaoqiang's sharp eyes, he could not find too much dust. It was as if this place was cleaned every day.
The clean rooms, clean passageways, snow-white walls and floor, and the soft lights on the ceiling made Zhang Xiaoqiang and the rest feel that walking in such a clean place was a blasphemy. However, if the ground, walls, glass, and ceiling were not included, there were large patches of blood and minced corpses.
At this time, Zhang Xiaoqiang discovered a strange phenomenon. Most of the places here were well preserved. There were not many damages. Even the heavy machine guns installed in the corner of the wall were at most split into two. It was not like the outside, where the entire wall was destroyed. There were basically no complete corpses. There were some corpses outside that were chopped into several pieces, but there were only piles of flesh inside.
This could only mean one thing. Gus was no longer able to casually shoot out huge air blades that were very powerful and had a large area of effect. Almost all of his battles were fought with small air blades. Based on this, he had to endure more bullets. If that was the case, didn't that mean that Gus' ability was reaching its limit?
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoqiang could not help but increase his speed. He rushed forward with the soldiers. When they reached the end of the passageway, they crashed into an unlatched door. Zhang Xiaoqiang suddenly lost control and crashed into the railing in front of him. The moment the twenty soldiers rushed out of the door, they all slowed down and subconsciously stood at the door and looked around.
There were many lights here. To be exact, Zhang Xiaoqiang had never seen so many lights in his life. They were on a circular platform. There were many passageways behind them. A rough count showed that there were at least a dozen passageways. In the middle of the platform was a huge empty space.
The railing that Zhang Xiaoqiang was leaning against was the edge of the empty space. Looking down from the empty space, he saw that there were rings of platforms below. Each platform was the same size as where they were standing. Some of the platforms were brightly lit, while others were dimly lit. It was not until a few hundred meters down that they saw a larger square.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Xiaoqiang could not believe it. He never thought that one day he would see a building complex like that of Cybertron, and it was built by his country. It was at least six hundred meters from here. Based on the calculation of four meters per floor, there were at least 120 floors of beehive-like buildings.
According to Zhang Xiaoqiang's calculations, each floor was at least one square kilometer. This was a miracle. If there were sufficient resources and energy, this huge building built hundreds of meters underground could at least accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. Perhaps this was the true purpose of the Underground Great Wall. This was not a Great Wall, but an underground city.
Looking at this underground city, Zhang Xiaoqiang could not imagine how much it cost to build this underground city. He did not know how many generations of soldiers had sacrificed their youth for this city. He only knew that at this moment, he was extremely greedy. He must have this city in his hands. Neither the military nor the New Era could stop him.
The electrical facilities of the underground city were in good condition. The ventilation and lighting were all top-notch. At least, Zhang Xiaoqiang and the others did not feel stuffy at all. Walking on the smooth ground, Zhang Xiaoqiang almost forgot the reason he came here. Finally, he found the last traces of a battle at a gap in the fence.
It was the entrance to an elevator. There were eight such entrances on the platform, like the Eight Trigrams of Qian Tian, Kun Di, Kan Shui, Li Huo, Zhen Lei, Gen Shan, Xun Feng, and Dui Ze. Although there were no other elevators on this platform, Zhang Xiaoqiang found the elevator buttons covered in blood.
Most of the buttons here had been upgraded to touch screen buttons. Each touch screen required fingerprint identification. Fortunately, Zhang Xiaoqiang found a thumb in the pile of flesh and blood on the ground. With this thumb, he activated the huge elevator.