When they arrived at the research institute, nearly twenty hours had passed since the three of them entered the dungeon.Fortunately, they had rested in the main control room for a while before, and they were still able to cheer up.But no matter what, the mental tension that lasted for so long, not to mention Chu Silan and Min An, even Li Yuan was a little tired.

After entering the research institute, I found that the layout of this research institute is quite common.Entering the door is the front hall. Before the dungeon was abandoned, it may have been brightly lit, and visitors came and went in an endless stream.

A metal door on the left and a glass door on the right.According to the detection, the metal door on the left leads to the room behind the first floor, and there are some things that look like experimental equipment.The glass door on the right leads to the second floor, which seems to be some administrative offices and staff lounge.

After discussion, the three decided to go to the second floor first.When encountering such a long-standing experimental facility, it is better not to enter the experimental area rashly, because no one can tell what big surprise will be behind the door.They cut open the glass door and walked up the stairs to the second floor.

The second floor is covered with wooden floors, which are broken when stepped on. With a "pop", the dust was splashed and dispersed in the air.

Then the three searched separately.

There used to be some electronic instruments in the administrative area on the second floor, which should be working terminals.These work terminals are exposed and corroded.Li Yuan found four skeletons in the second room on the second floor.Unlike the skeletons in the cave and the main control room, the skeletons here are complete and placed side by side.It seems that someone deliberately reserved their dignity in life.

There should have been a lot of data here.However, no matter paper or electronic, they are all reduced to dust in the torrent of time.

Chu Silan walked to the bottom of the second floor.

Like the main control room, only some buildings of the research institute are on the streets of the underground city, and the rest are hidden deep in the soil.A large number of circuits are sealed behind the innermost wall, and there is a terminal display.Because of the good sealing, the circuit can work.Even when Chu Silan approached, the monitor would light up by itself.

Someone might have set the sensor on.

Everyone is wearing night-vision equipment, and it will be particularly conspicuous if there is a little light on.Li Yuan instantly noticed the change in light and darkness, and immediately ran to Chu Silan's side.

Then I saw—the monitor automatically played a video.In the video, a sallow and thin woman in a white lab coat appeared, facing the camera.The lab coat hangs loosely on his body, and one can imagine how thin the body underneath has become.

At this time Min An also rushed over.All three of them took off their night vision equipment and watched the video mixed with noise, forming the only light source in the darkness.

The woman in the video is reaching for the camera and pulling her clothes together to make it look more modest.

She coughed, put on a not-so-good-looking smile, and said, "Hello, my friend who saw this video. My name is Liu Jia, and I am a researcher at the Rice Research Center. I don't know where you are from." She laughed again He smiled, "No matter where it came from, I think it should be a long time later? Ten years? Hundred years? Thousands of years?"

"I don't know if anyone in the city can escape successfully. Just in case, I will tell you what happened in the city here for you to know."

The three of Li Yuan listened to the video narration, for fear of missing any important information.

"Thirty days ago, there was an earthquake, which smashed the central power furnace and caused a second explosion. In the end, 70.00% of the city collapsed, and only 20.00% of the people survived - this is an earthquake that no one expected .”

"All the heavy equipment was buried, and the equipment we had in hand couldn't drill through the outer wall of the dungeon. It didn't work either, because the soil on it loosened and all fell down. We were trapped."

Chu Silan unconsciously took two steps back and got close to Li Yuan.Li Yuan squinted at her, then silently put her hand in hers and held it.

In the video, Liu Jia licked the corners of his chapped lips: "We can't contact the other dungeons, but the observation station can contact the Chang's Bunker. There is currently a guardian online in the Chang's Bunker, and they have sent out to find reinforcements, but whoever found them The odds are slim to none.”

"Originally, it was kept secret. Only the city lord and some specific people knew about it. Everyone was united...to find a way...to see how to escape. But later, everyone knew-the fact that we were trapped, everyone I know..." Liu Jia lowered her head, her shoulders trembled, but her eyes were dry and she couldn't cry, "The survivors are crazy. They killed the city lord, robbed each other of supplies, and now they are eating people... ..." Liu Jia couldn't control her expression, she kept rubbing the bridge of her nose, not daring to look at the camera.

Chu Silan also clenched Li Yuan's hand tightly, and Li Yuan could feel from that strength how uncomfortable it was for her to hear Liu Jia's narration.

After a while, Liu Jia finally regained his composure: "I'm sorry... let me continue. Four people from our institute survived, including me, and ran back to the institute while it was chaotic, and closed the door. Fortunately, the door of the institute was very strong, and they Can't get in."

"Now they also control the Daoheba model—that's what we use to harvest rice." Speaking of this, Liu Jia actually laughed, "They command the Daoheba model to come and smash the door every day, but they can't get in."

"I'm about to die. Although I can't get in from outside, there is no food in the institute. Two of my colleagues left the food for me and left first. My husband, he just passed away...he told me to eat His body. But how can people eat people?" Liu Jia covered her mouth and sobbed.

Chu Silan secretly wiped her eyes——Liu Jia and the others probably starved to death.

It is not difficult to see that Liu Jia's mood was extremely unstable during the video recording.But she still tried to calm down: "Sorry, sorry... friends from afar, I want to show you our research results now."

Liu Jia walked away from the camera, revealing the scene behind her.It was only then that it seemed that the location where she was filming was not on the second floor, but more like in a laboratory.The white walls are surrounded by various experimental instruments.

The most conspicuous thing is behind Liu Jia, a fully enclosed glass incubator, in which several rice-like plants are planted.But this plant looks very thin, even the rice grains grown in Li Yuan's hometown Garbage Star are fuller than it.

Liu Jia walked to the incubator and patted its glass outer wall: "The soil below is all unpurified radiation soil. These small things can grow on the radiation ground, discharge the radiation factors in the body independently, and produce The fruit with a small amount of radiation fully meets the edible standard." She smiled proudly, "Isn't it very powerful? We named it Jiahe."

"We have been researching for a long time, and this month we finally confirmed that it was successful. It's a bit late..." Liu Jia showed a lonely look at this time.

"But we keep a part of the seeds and store them in an extreme freezer. As long as there is continuous power supply, it can be preserved for 1 years."

"I recorded the planting manual in the terminal, it's on the desktop, you can open it later and have a look."

The woman looked at the camera again, "Friend, I don't know where you are from. Is it Chang's Bunker? Or other dungeons? Since you are here, you should have heard about the seeds and want to get them. I hope you We can make good use of these seeds and promote it so that everyone can eat it in the future."

Li Yuan finally saw a trace slipped from the corner of the woman's eye, and the shining light was like a starlight.

"I don't know how long we have to wait until they come home. Let this Jiahe represent Fuze City and accompany us—everyone on this planet, until the moment they return from the vast galaxy."

Video is over.

For some reason, Li Yuan felt that the bridge of her nose was a little sore.It was as if something engraved in her genes had been touched, but she couldn't tell.

Look at Chu Silan again—good guy, she's already crying miserably.

Chu Silan was stunned for a while, only to realize that Li Yuan was looking at her with an expression of wanting to laugh but holding back.She shook off Li Yuan's hand and turned her back.

She felt ashamed that she was such a big person, and she still cried like this.In fact, she couldn't tell why she was crying. Although she felt sorry for what happened to Liu Jia and the underground city, she couldn't cry like this, could she?Chu Silan yelled: "Oh, don't look at me!"

Now even Min An covered his mouth and laughed.

"Okay, okay, I didn't look at you." Li Yuan waved her hand, keeping her promise and turned her back to Chu Silan, "Did you hear what Liu Jia said? She put the seeds in the freezer. Let's not dawdle, go to the laboratory to look for it first. look."

At this time Min An raised his hand: "I will stay here and export the planting manual."

Therefore, Li Yuan and Chu Silan went to the experimental area to find out.

Li Yuan and Chu Silan broke open the metal door on the first floor and entered the test area.There are many instruments and facilities in the test area, automatic, semi-automatic and human-operated.Because the test area was well sealed, the test facilities were hardly oxidized, but were covered with a thin layer of dust.

After entering, the nanosystem reported that no deadly substance was found.

The two found the place where Liu Jia made the video, but the freezer was not there.Then I found another airtight door. After entering, I found that it was a sterilization area. There were several vertical cabinets inside, and several sets of fully enclosed lab coats were sealed, all of which were well preserved.

There is a sterile laboratory area here, and the extreme freezer is probably inside.So the two of them entered the aseptic test area, and they saw the extreme freezer.

An iron cabinet with its own pipes plugged in, dimly lit with dim lights in the dark.

Li Yuan stepped forward, wiped off the dust on the control panel, pointed to it and said, "There are operating hours here."

Chu Silan also leaned over, and the two saw together that it had been running continuously - 392021 days, 16 hours, 24 minutes and 8 seconds.

About 1074 years!

"The number of years is a bit sensitive." Chu Silan hooked his head and calculated, "The Fuze underground city collapsed before 1074, and Emperor Guangheng will unify the stars in two years."

Of course Li Yuan knew about that period of history.As an officer, she needs to learn various historical battles, among which Emperor Guangheng's unification war is one of the key learning objects. "Is there any connection?"

Chu Silan shook her head: "I don't know either."

Emperor Guangheng's war of unification lasted for more than 50 years, and the last ten years were the most turbulent. There were too many events recorded in the annals of history wherever human beings have traveled.Even if the most authoritative interstellar historians come here, based on the information currently available, they cannot match this with a certain historical event with certainty.

Still have to keep searching.

However, this kind of seed should be taken out first.

"Didn't Liu Jia say that the power furnace in the dungeon blew up? How could it last so long?" Li Yuan suddenly remembered.

"I know, it's the underground cable of our bunker." Chu Silan replied, "That cable goes deep underground, and it probably came here. I roughly measured the power consumption and power generation of the bunker before, and found that some I don’t know where the power went, it’s probably the supply side.”

Li Yuan nodded: "There is such a possibility."

The two groped for a while, figured out how to open the freezer, and started to open it.

The storage temperature of the extreme freezer is close to absolute zero and requires a certain amount of thawing time.

At this time, Min An had already copied the materials and looked for them.

"It will take about an hour to thaw, we have to wait." Chu Silan told Min An about the situation.

"Okay. I also have a new discovery here." Min An shook the information panel in his hand: "I searched the research institute's system information in depth, and the connection between the system here and the dungeon master control network seems to be physically cut off. You can find some information before the disaster in the dungeon."

"The research institute communicated its own research progress with other dungeons one day before the disaster. The exchange letter not only wrote about Jiahe's research progress, but also mentioned the astrology office in Fuze City." Min An called out the exchange from the panel A copy of the letter read, "Our city's astrology office detected an interstellar signal half a day ago, does your city have the same discovery..."

— Interstellar signal!

Although wearing a breathing mask, Min An could see through the mask how sensitive the other two were to the news.

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