Chapter 380 Alien Battlefield (9) Drainage System

Chapter 380 Alien Battlefield (9) Drainage System

Sewer system, 2 km from the entrance.

"I have left the ventilation duct and am now two floors above that room. This is a banquet hall or a large restaurant or something like that."

"Any clues?"

"In the shaft leading upward from the ventilation duct, there is a skeleton in one of the ventilation ducts in the middle. Judging from the scan and the size of the bones, it should be a teenager. There are many fractures on the bones. Judging from the degree and location of the rib fractures, the cause of death of this skeleton should be falling from a height, resulting in broken ribs, which then pierced important organs and caused excessive bleeding to death. This should be one of the people who left the room through the ventilation duct at that time."

"You mean one?"

"Yes, before entering the upward shaft, I found a device that was severely damaged. It was similar to the one we found on the street at the beginning, but it was not the same model. However, the information storage device inside was not damaged, so I used the contractor's equipment to read the information inside, and found several videos inside. I sent the video to you."

Soon, Han Zu received several video files on his device, and the contractor's device automatically sorted them according to the shooting time.

There are more than ten videos, each of which is very short, only one or two minutes long. From the first video, in addition to the person who filmed it, there are five or six people next to him. Judging from their height and body shape, except for one person, the others are teenagers. They are probably a group of classmates or friends who are out for fun.

The style of the first video is very normal, with a group of teenagers walking on the street and chatting happily. In fact, the first seven or eight videos were all recorded by the video shooter, who was recording different people. Through the contractor's equipment, it was found that what they said were all very normal things, just casual chatting between friends.

But things immediately went wrong starting from the video after this. First, in the video of the shooter, there was also a loud noise and a flash in the distance. The shooter must have been attracted by the sound and light, so she turned around to check. From the video, we can see that her friend did the same. However, at this time, the flash and loud noise only attracted the attention of pedestrians on the road, and nothing worse happened.

Then the next video started, the person who filmed it and the friends around him began to have a heated discussion. From their tone and expressions, they seemed to be in a panic. From their constant observation towards the area where the flash appeared, it seemed that some of them understood why this situation happened.

Then, in the next video, a large number of pedestrians suddenly fell to the ground. This situation seemed to touch the nerves of the small group, and they immediately ran on the street. The person who filmed the video ran in the center of the small group, and it seemed that her status in the small group was very high. At the end of this video, the only adult in the small group pointed in the direction of the large building that Han Zu and Gloria came to. Then the video stopped abruptly.

The next video appeared an hour later. The group gathered in the room Han Zu found. They seemed to have a serious quarrel because of what happened and their tense spirits. Soon, the only adult male in the team, or at least the best physically developed male, rushed out of the room. For some reason, after leaving the room, he immediately ran along the corridor towards the stairs. Then he was attacked by something and there was no news. These pictures were taken by the cameraman from the surveillance camera in the room that was still usable at the time.

The next video was taken one hour after this one. From the video, we can see that the remaining team members in the room have become more relaxed after locking the room. The person who filmed the video tried to unite the others by singing, but another woman in the group immediately covered her mouth with a horrified expression, as if making too much noise would cause something bad to happen. The person who filmed the video also immediately quieted down.

Then there is the penultimate video, which is completely different from the other videos in length, a full half an hour, and it is a segmented video. It is shot first, then paused, and then continued to shoot, and then they were edited together using the built-in software.

The first video shows a small group arguing and splitting into two groups. The reason for the argument is that they want to leave the room but cannot leave through the normal door. It can be seen that among the remaining people, two chose the sewer. They stood at the wellhead where Han Zu entered the sewer facility. Three people, including the person who filmed the video, chose the ventilation duct. But after the argument, the person who filmed the video recorded a separate video for each person. The content of these videos has been translated and all of them are things like last words. They are also part of the remaining video.

In the last video, the first half shows three people climbing up the shaft of the ventilation duct. One person is at the back, but the fourth person falls down due to lack of strength, probably due to long-term tension and lack of food. The person who filmed the video tried to reach out and grab the fourth person, but failed. Instead, the device hanging around his neck was pulled down. The device was not completely damaged when it fell, and its original position was not near the bottom of the shaft, but fell on the person who fell down. From the video, we can see that the teenager who fell down did not die immediately, but stopped all activities after a few minutes. And the device was also brought down by the last movement of his body before he died.

From the voices, it can be known that his three companions who successfully climbed up the shaft had tried to rescue him, but one of them seemed to have received a phone call, which should have been from the other two people who left through the sewer. They said some very important news, which prevented them from staying in the ventilation duct. However, the voice of the call was not very loud and a little vague, and it was quickly hung up. After that, the three people who successfully left through the ventilation duct also immediately fled from here.

"According to the content of the video, except for the person who was attacked at the beginning and ran away, plus the child who fell down, the other five people should be fine, at least not at the end of the video. There are three exits in this banquet hall or restaurant after coming out of the ventilation duct. One of the exits seems to have been on fire and is completely blocked. At the end of the video, a huge explosion can be heard. They should not have been able to leave from this position at the time. The remaining two exits, one leads to the stairwell, and the other leads to other locations on this floor. I can't go up the stairwell for the time being because there is structural damage. I plan to start from other locations on this floor to see if I can find anything useful. It's been too long, and it's really hard to find useful clues. Have you found anything over there?"

"Not at the moment. The sewer system doesn't seem to have been affected by the situation back then. It's very clean inside, and the drainage equipment used inside hasn't been damaged. It's just that some places have lost their function due to disrepair. If we can find the right parts, we can even repair them. However, there are marks and words carved on the wall. Although they are also the contractor's words, they are quite different from the words used by the current contractors. I'm currently using equipment to analyze these words. Once the analysis results come out, I think we'll be able to find some clues."

"Okay, that's it for now. Keep in touch."

"Ah."

Before the call ended, Gloria was seen opening the blocked door from her perspective. They entered the corridor on the same floor as the banquet hall. It was also eerily quiet, with thick dust everywhere.

"Analysis complete."

"Mari and I will continue to move forward. If you see this, we will meet you by the river. -Hai."

The words left on the wall seemed to be left by two people who left through the sewers for their companions. At least one of the two people should be very familiar with the structure of the sewers and where they lead to. The mark left next to the words is an extremely simple route map that can be understood at a glance, at least for their companions. Although the mark is simple, it is very accurate. It marks an exit beyond the two forks in the road away from the wall where the message was left.

Han Zu thought about it and realized that he had seen some vague marks from the time he entered the sewer system until he came to this wall. Now it seems that these should have been left by them to guide their companions.

Soon, Han Zu came to the exit marked with a mark, and made a discovery here. First, the manhole cover above the ladder on the wall was sealed. Using the perspective ability to observe, Han Zu found that the location here was the one she and Gloria saw on the street at that time, directly below the collapsed building. There were many things blocking the exit, and even Han Zu couldn't get out easily. There seemed to be a lot of containers piled up nearby. According to the translation of the contractor's equipment, these containers were filled with some dangerous chemicals. Although thousands of years have passed, this kind of thing does not necessarily lose its explosive properties because of time. Any damage to them may increase the difficulty of leaving, or even worse, causing the collapse of the sewer system, resulting in the direct interruption of the available clues. So Han Zu did not try to destroy this location.

But they were not completely clueless. A few meters below the exit, there were several corpses lying. Different from the ones they had seen on the road, these skeletons still had some fragments of clothing on them.

"What kind of material is so good? I'll try to get a few pieces later."

Using the contractor's equipment, Han Zu analyzed the clothing fragments remaining on the skeletons and found some clues. There were four skeletons in total. Based on the analysis of the clothes, one should be a police officer, two of the other three were maintenance workers, and the other was wearing plain clothes, so his specific identity was unclear.

"A readable storage device was found, encryption level: 1."

"Encryption? That's new."

Since entering the empty city, the equipment Han Zu found was basically not encrypted. It’s not that they didn’t have passwords or something, but for the contractor’s equipment on him, those things were basically no different from not being encrypted at all.

Although the device scanned this time was encrypted, it was actually no different from not having encryption, and Han Zu was still able to easily read the information inside.

The device found this time was on the skeleton in civilian clothes. It was a small hemispherical device. According to the contractor's analysis, it was supposed to be the skeleton's mechanical prosthetic eye. However, due to its age, some of its components had rotted away, affecting the storage unit, but it was not completely damaged, so some messages could still be read.

The data that can be read is an incomplete investigation file. The data on it is severely damaged and cannot be understood normally, and there is no way to restore it through the contractor's equipment. However, judging from the few words left in the remaining data, it should be a search for someone.

In addition, there is a video that was automatically recorded. There are a total of six people in the video, including the police, the person who filmed the video, two maintenance workers, and the two teenagers who escaped from the building through the sewer. From the video, we can see that the filmer and the police have drawn their weapons, which appear to be some kind of energy pistols. They are pointing their guns at the two maintenance workers. Judging from their conversation, they should be conducting a secret arrest operation.

Two teenagers were involved in the arrest, and the two maintenance workers tried to take them hostage, but when they were about to do so, the police and the person filming opened fire at the same time, and the situation immediately turned into a shootout. In the end, all four people died here, but the two teenagers escaped because they had been lying on the ground before.

The stronger teenager among them tried to rescue the person who filmed the video, but failed. Before he died, the person who filmed the video said something to them, handed their weapons to them, and then died.

It can be seen that although the two teenagers were panicked and scared, they still picked up their weapons and ran towards the depths of the sewer system. Just before their figures ran out of the shooting range of the mechanical prosthetic eye, they left something on the wall.

According to the video, Han Zu found the wall, which also had a mark left for his companions. This mark marked another exit far away, but the strange thing was that to reach this exit, the direction to go was completely opposite to the direction they left at that time. It seemed that from this moment on, they did not want their companions to find them.

"What did that guy say?"

Fortunately, Han Zu saw the video left behind, and following the correct direction the two teenagers left, Han Zu continued to follow them.