Chapter 550: Sunflower with Legs
The disinfectant was sprayed for about five minutes, and then the machine was turned off and replaced by several dryers.
The dryer pumped vigorously and quickly dried everyone.
However, after drying, the door of the disinfection room was not opened.
The one-eyed dragon turned his head and looked at Lin Bin and the other three, especially at Yin Xin, with a frown on his face. However, he still said nothing and only spoke to the others.
"According to regulations, everyone needs to be isolated in the isolation room for 48 hours after disinfection, and they need to undergo another secondary disinfection every day before they can enter the base living area."
Yin Hang seemed a little nervous and he hugged his sister tightly.
Lin Bin: "Okay, we understand, we understand."
"As for you..." The one-eyed dragon turned his gaze to Xiao Jin and said, "You don't need to do that. Just come with me to see the base commander."
The others looked at Xiao Jin worriedly.
Xiao Jin looked calm and without saying a word, he walked out through the invisible door that appeared on the wall.
The feeling of weightlessness as the elevator sunk down enveloped Xiao Jin. The cage-like cabin made a strong penetrating sound with the friction of rusted metal.
The pale emergency light above his head flickered, casting flickering light on the hideous scar that ran across the left side of the one-eyed man's face. His only remaining right eye was as sharp as a hawk, scanning the huge space that was gradually revealed below through the elevator fence.
"Clang-"
The elevator reached the bottom, and the heavy doors slid open to both sides. A turbid air mixed with the smell of engine oil, disinfectant, sweat, and a faint smell of blood suddenly poured in.
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Jin's eyes suddenly opened up.
The depths of the air-raid shelter were transformed into a honeycomb-like steel fortress. Under the towering curved dome were endless passages and layered platforms reinforced with high-strength alloy brackets.
The blue and white arcs of the welding guns rise and fall, and the sharp sound of cutting steel is heard. People in uniform gray work clothes shuttle between the huge construction machinery like busy ants.
Someone was welding and reinforcing the support beams, sparks splashing like waterfalls; someone was pushing a cart full of heavy materials, the metal wheels rolling over the rough ground, making a harsh groan;
Others were working together to lift a heavy generator into the reserved base pit. The heavy horn sounds seemed small and tenacious in the huge space.
Xiao Jin's eyes swept over the figures working in the marginal areas.
Looking closely, most of them are pale and thin, with tired and numb eyes, and their movements are stiff due to long-term hunger and heavy pressure, which is in sharp contrast to the cold and solid steel jungle around them.
Moreover, their bodies were more or less covered with terrible sores caused by the poisonous fog.
"The base doesn't support idlers." The one-eyed dragon's rough voice was unusually clear amid the roaring noise. He strode forward without looking back: "No matter who you are, if you want to live and eat, you have to work.
Moving bricks, digging soil, cleaning pipes, even just cleaning toilets! This is a base, not a charity hall. "He paused and added: "The soldiers' rations are also earned by themselves."
Xiao Jin remained silent, but in his heart he was very sure of what the One-Eyed Dragon said.
This is not a peacetime period, only the fittest survive, and the nanny mode is no longer effective!
Soon, Xiao Jin followed the one-eyed man out of the elevator and saw a silver passage in front of them.
At the end of the passage, a heavy lead-gray alloy door slid open silently, revealing a completely different world behind it.
After entering here, Xiao Jin found that the air instantly became cold and dry. The sharp noise was isolated outside, leaving only the low hum of the ventilation system.
This is the heart of the base, the operations room, and the command room.
A woman stood with her back to the door in front of a huge surveillance wall made up of dozens of screens.
The screen was scrolling with real-time images of every corner of the air-raid shelter, infrared scan images, and unclear detection signals from the external foggy area.
She was wearing a neat dark green combat uniform, with shoulder straps showing a high military rank, and her figure was as straight as a pine tree. When she heard footsteps, she slowly turned around, and it was the base commander.
Xiao Jin looked over and met a face with clear edges and corners carved by wind, frost and heavy pressure. However, the other person's eyes were like tempered iron, sharp, calm, and without the slightest drag of emotion.
Her gaze passed the one-eyed dragon and fell directly on Xiao Jin, from head to toe. In just a moment, it seemed as if she had weighed Xiao Jin's background by 70%.
"Base commander, the people are here." The one-eyed man nodded slightly and stepped aside.
The base commander nodded, his eyes still fixed on Xiao Jin.
"Nice to meet you. Hello, I'm Jiang Ting, the person in charge of Fire Base No. 078?" Her voice was not loud, but it had an unquestionable penetrating power.
"Xiao Jin." Xiao Jin met her gaze, neither humble nor arrogant.
But then she repeated: "Spark Base?"
"That's right." The base commander nodded: "The purpose of the Spark Base is to leave fire for mankind. All the people who can appear here are elites from all walks of life, including every soldier on duty.
And those ordinary people you see are actually accidents.”
At this point, the base commander chuckled and said, "In fact, according to the regulations, even if you said that before, I don't have to open the door."
"But you still let us in." Xiao Jin looked back indifferently.
As the words fell, the air around them stagnated for a moment, but the base commander quickly recovered.
Her eyes were firm as she spoke word by word: "Yes, as the person in charge of a base, I failed in my duty and violated the orders given by my superiors. But as a soldier, this is what I must do."
The one-eyed man on the side bit his lip.
"This base is No. 78, so that means there are many bases like this?" Xiao Jin retracted his gaze and silently changed the subject.
"Yes." The base commander nodded.
"From the looks of this place, it doesn't look like it was built in a short time. Since there was a disaster prediction, why didn't they tell ordinary people?"
The base commander was silent for a while: "...Because it's too late."
"Too late?"
"You may not believe it." The base commander showed a bitter expression: "A few hours before the poisonous fog appeared, someone suddenly came up and brought news of the end of the world.
But no one believed it, not even a sunflower with legs.”
When Xiao Jin heard this, he was suddenly stunned.
A sunflower with legs?
Could it be some player’s item or pet?
I have to say that Xiao Jin's idea is very likely, otherwise how could it be such a coincidence.
“Although it was very strange, most people still did not believe the talk of the end of the world. Instead, they focused their attention on the sunflower. Everyone was curious about how it appeared.
But Sunflower ran away after telling the news. The people above used countless manpower and material resources, but still couldn't find its trace. "The base commander seemed a little tired and sat down slowly.
Seeing this, the one-eyed man also took Xiao Jin to sit on the chair on the other side.