CHAPTER 768: CHAPTER 341: MOCHIZUKI MASASHI

A worn-out gate of a gigantic underground nuclear protection facility appeared before their eyes.

Lin Xian was a bit amazed at this sight. The massive Silent City was extinguished above the eastern hills of the city, yet Mochizuki Masashi was hiding in a nuclear facility under the West Mountain. What kind of plan was this?

"The old site of the White City’s underground nuclear project..."

"Are you all hiding here?" KIKI asked in surprise, "Then where is your Silent City?"

"For now," Tianye Lan replied, "You’ll know the details later."

Lin Xian said nothing. Considering the distance, it’s quite close to the White City, accessible by car, it seemed like Hu Lushou and Lu Zhao’s convoy had hidden here together.

At that moment, Qian Suxun operated the two heavy mechs to forcefully open the decayed, dilapidated gate. As everyone shone their lights inside, they discovered a damp, dilapidated, eerie scene. Just then, Qian Suxun input something into the computer on his power armor’s hand, causing a peculiar scene to unfold.

As a holographic projection vanished, the damp tunnel entrance and piled garbage disappeared in unison, revealing a brand-new silver-grey explosion-proof door. The explosion-proof door opened from top to bottom, revealing a bright corridor within.

"There’s not much time left."

Upon saying this, Qian Suxun led the group in quickly, and once Lin Xian and the others followed inside, they discovered the passage had multiple layers of protection. Besides the outermost decrepit door, there were at least three different isolation zones. After passing through the final door, there was a corridor extending several hundred meters into the mountain belly. The lighting was bright, and it seemed newly constructed.

Beyond the corridor lay a downward slanting main tunnel. Upon entering the underground fortress, Qian Suxun lifted his power armor mask, exhaling with relief and introducing to Lin Xian and the others,

"This was originally a large underground nuclear facility, over 80 years old. We did some modifications, and now it’s our temporary shelter."

"Some modifications?"

Lin Xian asked in surprise. As everyone exited the tunnel’s end, a brightly lit hall appeared, with a silver-white alloy dome soaring tens of meters high, where soft blue holographic projections simulated the sunlit weather of white clouds and blue skies. Hundreds, if not thousands, of drones of various types floated by, including construction drones that could alter topography, transport drones, manufacturing drones performing 3D printing with various materials, and an array of maintenance robots were diligently working.

At this moment, some drones were busy repairing and modifying the fortress structures, while others maintained the internal life-support systems. The mountain’s interior felt hollowed into a massive hollow fortress, descending in tiers with multi-layered structures. Construction drones were 3D printing new shelves, spitting out liquid metal that instantly hardened upon cooling. The entire process was sparkless and silent, only producing the subtle hum of metal growth.

Besides the first level, each subsequent layer was a temporary residential zone. From the edge, looking downward, many people were seen bustling about.

"Even in a place like this, it can’t withstand the force of darkness, can it?" Monica folded her arms, speaking from behind Lin Xian, "Especially within the Star Abyss. I’m quite curious, to purposefully create such a shelter, even with drones, it must take a considerable amount of time."

Lin Xian and his group could tell that most of this was indeed temporarily modified, and accomplishing such a massive feat relied on the vast and precisely coordinated drone swarm.

Even though Monica said this, Lin Xian was still astonished by the noticeably better conditions here compared to the outside, though not quite as secure as the Joint Train camp shielded by the Heterogeneous Rubik’s Cube, indicating they possessed certain technology capable of mitigating part of the dark intrusion’s impact.

With this in mind, Lin Xian opened the visor of his Black Hawk Battle Armor and asked Qian Suxun,

"Is your Silent City, comprising tens of thousands of people, all here?"

Qian Suxun’s nanometer soft armor opened, revealing a youthful face with casually tousled black curls, looking at Lin Xian with a shrug,

"Currently, only a few hundred. Of course, if you count the group that arrived yesterday, it exceeds a thousand."

"What?!"

Ning Jing exclaimed in surprise, "Only a few hundred left out of tens of thousands?"

"Of course not," Qian Suxun replied with a hint of helplessness, "Before being caught up, Shinji initiated the escape of City Two. The majority of Silent City’s residents flew out of the Star Abyss and are now around Luling, but our main city, for some reason, got trapped there."

He finished speaking and looked at Lin Xian, asking, "You’ve come here because of that fish lion colossus as well?"

Lin Xian nodded, "Time is pressing; can we exchange information quickly?"

"Captain Lin!?"

Just then, a familiar voice suddenly sounded. Lin Xian turned his head and saw Hu Lushou approaching from a distance in the hall with a group of people. Seeing Lin Xian, Hu Lushou was initially stunned, then quickly wiped his eyes to confirm he wasn’t mistaken, immediately rushing over with an eager expression.

"Am I seeing things, it’s really you, hey!!" Hu Lushou instantly burst into tears, looking at Lin Xian with a deeply concerned face, "Lao Hu thought you all escaped; how come you were caught up too?"