CHAPTER 314: CHAPTER 141: FACILITY 001

Chen Jian didn’t understand what the other party meant by "Holy Father".

But in reality, that didn’t matter anymore.

The door to secrets was right in front of him. Once opened, all mysteries might vanish into thin air.

Chen Jian walked towards the isolation door, observed it for a moment, and then spoke:

"Definitely not the 001 facility entrance."

"Mechanical lock-style isolation door, common design for underground nuclear facilities."

"There’s a lot of design redundancy, it should be able to turn."

"Needs a password."

"Fu Xi, password."

"Understood."

Fu Xi’s voice came through the earphones, accompanied by its continuous counting, as Chen Jian and Lei Jie turned the heavy code dials on the door.

To Chen Jian’s surprise, the anticipated "rusty metal scraping sound" did not occur.

The code dials turned quite smoothly, as if someone had recently attempted to open this door.

Chen Jian turned to look towards the so-called "Holy Father" who nodded slightly, eyes fixed on the direction of the code dials.

code dials, more than a trillion combinations.

Without knowing the password in advance, no one could crack it.

But fortunately, in Fu Xi’s database, a series of password tables had long been stored.

After deducing based on time information, on the sixth attempt, a heavy "click" sounded.

Immediately, the lock disengaged, and the isolation door slowly opened.

A musty scent poured out from the deep space behind the door, Chen Jian held his breath and pushed the isolation door completely open.

Behind that door was an even heavier three-proof isolation door.

The same process, the same actions.

When the three-proof isolation door opened, Lei Jie impatiently rushed in first.

However, there was nothing inside.

"Passage."

Lei Jie said in a deep voice:

"This is just a passage."

"I suspected as much."

Chen Jian waved mildly, then led the way into the passage, giving the order:

"Keep moving forward, this is still not the entrance we’re looking for."

"Understood."

The group followed suit, and after a brief hesitation, the Holy Father quickly walked beside Chen Jian.

His expression was extremely serious.

Yet within such seriousness, there was an indescribable hint of expectation.

He seemed to want to ask a question, but after several inner conflicts, he chose to remain silent.

Chen Jian also kept silent.

Although many questions required this so-called "Holy Father" to answer, perhaps now was not the best time to ask.

Advancing along the passage for several hundred meters, the scene before them suddenly opened up.

A main passageway over ten meters high appeared, and in the cavities on the passage wall, Chen Jian finally saw something familiar.

"DF-41."

Chen Jian took a deep breath and asked Lei Jie:

"Do you think this thing could still be useful?"

"Obviously, what’s stored here is definitely useless — the warhead isn’t mounted, and the rocket is already rusted beyond recognition."

"No matter, our goal was never the missile itself."

"Getting the launch key is enough, as for the warhead, Shen Yue will handle it."

"...I thought you might be disappointed."

Chen Jian joked:

"I was already prepared to help you drag a missile back. With the equipment at 011, we might even have a chance to fix it?"

"And then what after fixing it?"

Lei Jie rolled his eyes and continued to ask:

"Where would we launch it to? Mountain City?"

"If Mountain City is so powerful that we need a nuclear missile to destroy it, then we shouldn’t destroy it."

If it isn’t strong enough, then we don’t need a nuclear missile."

"So... this is actually a paradox."

"Perhaps that’s also why, the ’unknown forces’ controlling Mountain City have never used a nuclear missile."

"Their thinking aligns with ours..."

"This assessment is based on the assumption that Mountain City indeed has ’unknown forces’."

Chen Jian interrupted Lei Jie’s narrative, sped up their pace, and continued:

"This is the most pessimistic conjecture."

"But I firmly believe it’s not a city that’s been ’sealed off intentionally’."

"Perhaps, there really is something beyond our understanding there, and we...."

"Mountain City was once the Holy Father’s residence."

Before Chen Jian could finish his words, a man’s voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"It is the origin of all, and also our final destination."

"All our actions are merely to assist the Holy Father in returning to Mountain City, to return to his rightful throne."

"We were once so close to this goal, but ultimately fell short..."

"Are you referring to those Mimic Heretics?"

Chen Jian asked with a frown.

"First Generation Genetical Prototypes."

The man corrected him:

"They were once highly anticipated, but ultimately failed."

"And after their failure, Blood Skull was born."

"Then came us, the so-called Holy Blood."

"It’s a long story; I can’t explain it to you all at once here."

"But I can assure you, the existence of Holy Blood was never to fight for resources and power over this land."

"We’re merely trying to continue the lineage."

After the man finished speaking, Chen Jian nodded thoughtfully without responding immediately.

In fact, he had already heard the phrase "Mountain City is the origin of all" countless times.

The Ring Chamber of Commerce believes the secret to restarting the ring lies there, the Mechanical God Sect believes it’s Heaven on Earth for the Holy Trinity, and now, Holy Blood claims it as their Holy Father’s dwelling; none of this was too shocking.

The only thing that slightly surprised Chen Jian was how clearly this "Holy Father" understood himself and the Holy Blood Temple.

He never presented himself as a god, nor did he intend to deify himself.

This was starkly different from the Mechanical God Sect.

Perhaps this is also why the Holy Blood Temple couldn’t achieve cohesion similar to that of the Mechanical God Sect?

As the wide cavern seemed to be reaching its end, Chen Jian glanced at the route displayed on the smart glasses, finding that they had traversed nearly 15 kilometers.

In the distance, dim light gradually illuminated the cavern.

They were getting very close to their final destination.

"There are lights."

Lei Jie said:

"Permanent lights in a nuclear facility can’t be possible, we must be close to the 001 facility."

"001 indeed connects with the underground nuclear facility.... In which case, the main control room for this section of the nuclear facility might also be near the 001 facility."

"This makes things easier, we..."

"Hold on for a moment."

Chen Jian suddenly interrupted Lei Jie.

Then, he adjusted the tactical flashlight to floodlight mode, pointing it towards the wall at the distant corner, and said:

"There are words on it."

Lei Jie looked in the direction Chen Jian pointed.

And on that section of the wall, there were three large lines of text carved.

"The world is being filtered."

"We have taken everything needed."

"For the future of humanity, we must ignite the fire."