There is a river underground in the desert, which sounds difficult to understand, but it is actually a very widespread geological phenomenon. He could not remember that he read popular science articles about fishing in the desert when he was in elementary school.

"Underground river?"

"It is not so much an underground river as a huge underground water vein connected to the coast dozens of miles away."

The girl retrieved geological exploration data from the database. The two studied the scale for a while and were surprised to find that a huge lake formed at the intersection of the underground river was about the same size as this base. The Faerton base was built on the top of this underground lake, and even designed special water intake and water purification equipment.

"It's not deep, it's only about fifty meters deep. It seems that the area of ​​the underground part of the Faeton base is not inferior to that of the above-ground area..." He carefully calculated and estimated the area of ​​the underground facilities. In fact, he didn't need to do this, but he needed to use a lot of thinking to occupy his mind to fight the increasingly heavy headache.

"There are only four vertical shaft elevators that can be connected to the upper and lower bases except for the maintenance passages that are closed on weekdays. If we want to enter the lower floor, we must turn on the power supply of the base..." The girl carefully checked the map of the base, "But we don't need to go to the lower floor. It should be said that we must focus our energy on the way to enter the Storm. If there is drilling equipment, it is not difficult for us to reach the Storm area..."

"We have to go down." He blurted out, saying this sentence almost without thinking.

"Why?" the girl raised her head and stared at him, a trace of alert flashed in her eyes. Perhaps she realized this. But she did not avoid this. "Our current goal is to survive and find a way to return to Earth, or other places of human society. Instead of running to find a monster to fight... Are you sure your spirit has not been affected? It looks weird from the time you... encounter that thing."

"No." He subconsciously resisted the idea, "It's just that I have one thing to do. I... think it's important to us, or to me... to find out the God Seal."

He remembered the last sentence he said in the recording.

[If the worst case is as I thought, then... I will end it with my own hands. Of course, I am talking about you.]

The worst case is the Yamamura Sadako he mentioned?

Memory fragments flashed by. A gentle restrained woman with ankle-length black hair. She always looked slightly pale, just like a woman with a soft body and patience.

Could she be the woman who frequently appears in her illusions? But the woman who stepped out of the flesh and blood divine seal had a completely opposite appearance to her, but she had a completely cruel and cold atmosphere...

"Considering the dangers of the lower base, we should probably act separately. If I can't come up, you... leave alone. With your ability, it should not be difficult to find the Storm." He heard himself saying these words in a tablet tone. It's so shameful. He took risks alone and left this girl alone here.

The girl was silent for a while and suddenly kicked him hard in the calf. He silently endured the kick and tried his best to make his expression more cold.

"I'll go down with you." The girl gritted her teeth, noticed his amazing face, and her cute face expression became even more angry. "At this time, our dispersed actions will minimize the success rate of anything... Only by taking care of each other. If you weren't the only one by me, I would have left you alone!"

After saying that, she felt unrestrained and kicked him again.

"If you really encounter any trouble, please feel free to die just like when you fainted before. "

“…I’ll do my best.”

He originally wanted to say a joke, but found that his voice was a little choked. The girl in front of him trusted his choice without reservation and entrusted his lives to his hands. This trust moved him very much. He couldn't help but hug the girl without any trace of her. It was just the only reward that this trust could do.

The girl in her arms stiffened for a while, then gradually relaxed. She stroked her hands along his spine, and neither of them spoke, but just silently savored the only comfort in this unmanned world.

"...Have you hugged enough? Let's let go of your hand after hugging enough. Let's think about the plan. If you don't hugged enough, I'll give it to you for a while."

The plan is actually quite simple, it is just a necessary process. If you want to enter the underground area, you have to open the shaft elevator. If you want to open the shaft elevator, you have to restore the power. If you want to restore the power, you have to...

"This reactor is completely ruined."

Standing at the entrance of the power chamber, the girl carefully observed the tragic situation inside for a while and came to a conclusion.

"The reactor melts, and this is how the so-called melting of the furnace core is. The core is overheated and does not automatically stop. The reaction substances accumulate at the bottom and continue to react chains, accumulate heat energy, and then burn the bottom through, and the whole thing is burned."

This situation may not even have a slight recovery momentum. The reaction heat has been dissipated for two hundred years, leaving behind a completely damaged power chamber. The Geiger indicator included on his wrist has a little reaction, and the radiation here has not completely dissipated.

"Many reactors are damaged like this. If they continue to melt all the way, maybe the heavy water in the reactor will leak into the groundwater veins. Then a few years later, the huge monster landed on the coast and destroyed it heavily... In this way, it might be possible to make an environmentally friendly monster movie. But it's nonsense. Before the perpetual motion machine was developed, nuclear energy was already the most environmentally friendly energy."

He deeply agrees with the girl's complaints. Both of them are practical people who have considerable research on energy technology, but knowledge is of little help to the situation in front of them.

"In addition to the backup energy source, there are... solar panel arrays." The girl rambled and counted, but the following data made her face darker again. "Because the storm in the desert environment was too big, the solar cell array at the Faerton base was quickly destroyed at the beginning, and this problem was not solved until the later stage. So although this was on the project, it was actually... it has never been enabled?!"

Both sighed at the same time.

"So, are there only maintenance passages and elevator shafts left on the road?"

With the help of the map, it is not difficult to find repair wells distributed everywhere. The two spent a little time finding a passage.

The reason why you have to spend time on the power supply without using ready-made passages is that... the maintenance passage is really dangerous. The circular shaft with a radius of about three meters can only be climbed by steel escalators that do not look very reliable. There is no lighting at present. In the dark shaft, the flashlights of the two cannot shine far, at least they cannot reach the bottom of the well.

"I'll go down first. My weight is heavier than you. A ladder that can bear my weight can bear your weight."

He climbed down the ladder first, and the creaking sound of the handrail on the well wall made him feel very uneasy. It was not a good experience to have to shine the flashlight all the way down the mountain.

After climbing down for more than ten meters, he suddenly stopped moving. The girl didn't pay attention and almost stepped on his face.

"What's wrong?"

"Shhh...Listen."

He turned off the flashlight directly.

In total darkness, he heard some melodious and sad song coming from the ground. He was not sure whether it was a song or some obsessive rhythm and rhythm.

All are hallucinations.

He suddenly felt uneasy, as if there were hundreds of eyes staring at everything they did. Perhaps not only two people existed on this well wall. In the darkness, countless corpses were also climbing on the well wall, and all the corpses were watching them. Two hundred years later, another pair of fools who were sent to a desperate situation.

All are hallucinations.

He found that his body in his action suit was covered with cold sweat, and the space action suit with its own temperature regulation system seemed stuffy now. He wiped away the cold sweat from his forehead. The girl seemed to feel nothing was wrong, but just listened carefully for a while and turned on the flashlight again.

When the lights were on again, he stared at the well wall in almost horror, afraid to see the corpse variants he imagined were climbing onto the well wall. The empty well wall seemed to mock him for his timidity. The two of them were like two little ants in this huge well, and could only continue to move down.

The hallucinations were getting more and more frequent, and his spirit was under increasing pressure. What he was worried about was not his own safety, but that he could not accomplish what he wanted to do, he could not find out the truth here, completed what he "must accomplish" in the message, and could not send the girl back to the safe world.

Before completing these things, you must never fall down. Even in order to repay these trusts, the girl’s trust in herself and her former self-trust in herself now.

A few minutes later, the two arrived at the ground.

"About fifty-four meters." He did not forget to estimate the height difference along the way. Fifty-four meters is about the eighteen-story height of an ordinary apartment. As two parts of a base, it is already a bit incredible.

The girl directly opened the exit of the repair channel with violence, and the two found themselves appearing next to a large equipment. Judging from the appearance, they thought that this might be a water purification equipment. Using it as the coordinates, they finally confirmed their current location in the collected map information.

This is the core area of ​​the last secret of the scientific expedition team two hundred years ago, the God-Copying Department. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

ps: One thing is quite interesting.
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