Wasteland Survival Code

Chapter 514 Forced Breakthrough!

It was less than 2 minutes before the next steam pipe switch.

There are two options before Qi Lin: one, turn around immediately, and run out from the inspection port that came in before the steam switches channels.

The second is to bite the bullet and continue to run deep into the pipe, but if the second inspection port is still not found, once the steam channel is switched, Qi Lin will not have enough time to exit the cooling pipe from the original route.

This is a gamble, and the bet is Qi Lin's own life.

After thinking for a few seconds, Qi Lin made a decision.

Not the first option, nor the second, but a "compromise" between the two options.

It takes 3 minutes for the steam to switch pipes, which is 180 seconds. Qi Lin is at this position, and the inspection port he came in is 500 meters away. The 500-meter distance took him less than 70 seconds. Excluding the 70 seconds of turning back, Qi Lin still has 40 seconds left.

He immediately decided to run forward for another 20 seconds. If he did not find the second inspection port within this distance, he would immediately turn around and run back. mouth away from the cooling duct.

"19 seconds."

Qi Lin silently began to count down for himself, and at the same time kicked hard on the soles of his feet, and rushed forward.

Due to the large amount of steam condensed into water droplets, the inner wall of the heat dissipation pipe is very slippery, and the oxygen content in the air is almost negligible.It was these two factors that greatly slowed Qi Lin's sprint speed. Otherwise, at the level of a second-level evolutionary, with a distance of 500 meters, if he ran on flat ground, he could definitely run within 50 seconds.

"14 seconds."

The interior of the heat dissipation pipe is pitch black, and it is impossible to have lighting facilities in such a high-temperature and high-pressure environment. Embedding circuits and light sources inside the heat dissipation pipe can easily cause unbalanced pressure on the inner wall of the pipe and cause leakage accidents, even if technicians enter For routine maintenance in the heat dissipation pipe, you must also bring your own light source.

Fortunately, Qi Lin's dark vision ability once again played its role.

"9 seconds."

The thick soles of the boots kept stepping on the wet inner wall of the pipe. The entire pipe was still slanting downwards before, but now it has become completely horizontal.

"7 seconds, 6 seconds...exit!"

Just when Qi Lin was about to turn around, 20 meters ahead, something like an inspection door appeared in his vision.

It was a round valve, and Qi Lin quickly ran to the valve in two steps in three steps.

The folding handle of the valve is hidden in the secret compartment. Qi Lin opened the secret compartment and pulled the handle out. At this moment, he suddenly noticed that this valve is a little different from the previous inspection port. There are two exquisite pressure gauges, with a metal inscription next to the pressure gauge - "Note: Please make sure that the pressure on both sides is consistent before opening the valve."

"The pressure is the same?" Qi Lin was stunned for a moment, and looked at the readings on the two pressure gauges. Although they were not exactly the same, the difference was almost negligible.

There is no such pressure gauge inside the first inspection port—after all, if the technician is in the cooling pipe, the cooling system of the entire basaltic shell must be in a suspended state. Since there is no steam passing through, there is no pressure inside or outside the pipe. Any pressure differential will occur.

Although there was a trace of doubt, Qi Lin didn't have much time now. He immediately turned the handle of the valve counterclockwise. Accompanied by a grinding sound, Qi Lin pushed forward and opened This round valve.

On the other side of the valve, there is still a pipe, but compared with the main heat dissipation pipe, the diameter of this branch pipe is much smaller. With Qi Lin's height, he has to lower his head to pass through it.

But what Qi Lin noticed was that the inner wall of this pipe was dry, that is to say, there was no steam passing through this pipe for a period of time, and it was probably a spare cooling pipe!
Qi Lin immediately got into the pipe with a short body, closed the valve behind him again, then took out a spare coat from his backpack, wrapped the sleeves of the coat around his waist, and then put the whole coat on his buttocks. under.

The slope of this pipe is very large, and the inner wall of the pipe is very smooth. As long as Qi Lin sits on the ground, he can slide directly to the bottom of the pipe like a slide.

Taking a deep breath, Qi Lin clasped his hands on the inner walls of the pipe on both sides vigorously, and the whole person quickly slid into the depth of the pipe.

……

But Qi Lin did not consider a problem that the inner wall of the pipe is too smooth, it is impossible to "brake" by pressing against the inner wall of the pipe with his limbs, and it is easy to lose his balance. Lin saw several inspection openings on the side of the pipeline, and he didn't even bother to brake, so he just slid to the end. Anyway, there seemed to be an inspection opening every ten meters on this pipeline.

15 seconds later.

"Boom!!"

Qi Lin's buttocks hit the bottom of the pipe heavily. Fortunately, there was a layer of clothing under his buttocks, otherwise, he might really be smashed to pieces.

Underneath is a layer of fine and strong metal mesh. Through the mesh smaller than a fingernail, Qi Lin can only see that on the other side of the metal mesh, there is still an identical pipe.

Fortunately, the nearest inspection port to Qi Lin is less than one meter above the metal mesh, and Qi Lin can reach it as soon as he stretches out his hand.

Taking out a wire, Qi Lin easily pried open the inspection hole and got out of the pipe.

This is a bright computer room. A lot of equipment that Qi Lin doesn't know at all occupies the space on both sides of the pipeline, making "buzzing" buzzing sounds. The inspection port of the pipeline just connects to the empty corridor in the middle of the equipment. , leading directly to the exit at the end of the computer room.

And two people wearing nuclear radiation protection suits and holding tablet computers are standing in the corridor to check the equipment in the computer room.

The sound of Qi Lin getting out of the pipe startled the two of them, and they turned their heads one after another.

The six eyes met, and there seemed to be a brief moment of stagnation in the air, and the next second, Qi Lin rushed towards the two of them immediately!
The reaction of these two people was not slow. The man on the left stretched his hand to the holster around his waist, while the man on the right grabbed the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder——

At this time, Qi Lin had already rushed in front of the two of them, kicked the man wearing the walkie-talkie to the ground, threw a dagger in his hand, and threw it at the man who drew the gun!

This kind of nuclear radiation protective clothing has several layers of metal mesh interlayers in the rubber shell, which can also be regarded as a stab-resistant clothing, but Qi Lin's dagger is aimed at the face of the person——

The mask of the protective suit only had a layer of hardened resin that wasn't too thick, and the dagger directly penetrated the mask and pierced into the man's face.

"what!"

The man fell down immediately, but the moment before he fell to the ground, the pistol in his mouth was still pulled the trigger. Although Qi Lin was not hit, a "bang" shot resounded throughout the computer room .

"Damn!"

Qi Lin cursed secretly, and quickly twisted the necks of the two people who fell on the ground. At the same time, the piercing siren finally sounded in the entire Xuanwu shell.

(End of this chapter)