dhibooks Chapter 117 The Bunker Part One
Chapter 117 The Bunker Part One
"It's really spectacular! This is simply... this is simply... the cyberpunk of the pre-Qin period!"
Chen He casually chatted with Zhong Ji, and seemed to have nothing to do with the fact that he, a warrior from the Qin State, suddenly became a Mohist giant.Immediately followed the other party and walked into the Mohist bunker together, as if stepping into the Grand View Garden with one foot, raising her hair and exclaiming again and again.
Who would have thought?
In the most chaotic and filthy downtown of the majestic and upright Xianyang City, the capital of the Qin Kingdom, the underground of a tavern named "Sanyuan" is actually connected to a huge and hidden underground fortress by a passage tens of meters long.
Along the passage in the back kitchen of the tavern, the small wooden mine cart slid down the rails with a "clang clang" and finally stopped on a huge triangular cone-shaped stone pillar.The stone pillar was lonely and helpless, surrounded by ravines as deep as hundreds of meters, and the ravines were densely packed with stalagmites that were as sharp as canine teeth.
As soon as Zhong Ji finished speaking, the gatekeeper opened the gate of the bunker.
The gate of the bunker is nearly ten meters high, carved out of a single stone slab, engraved with intricate totems densely packed like circuit boards.
Metal grooves are buried around the gate, and chains made of copper and iron are wound around it. The friction sound of "click click", the chain drives the metal gear, the mechanical shaft slides, and the stone slab is quickly lifted.
"Bang-!"
A long metal ladder with a complicated structure fell down, just right on the ground in front of the stone pillar and the bunker door.
Chen Chrome was eager to try, and immediately walked forward.
Ruan Linzhou grabbed his arm and warned: "There are many mechanisms in the bunker. Be careful when you play. Machinery, metal, and fine gears. Their technology is far from what it has been in history, but there is no steam yet. Not cyberpunk."
Chen Chrome nodded and made a sorry expression. He didn't expect to be held by Ruan Linzhou, and sighed with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be quite strong."
The tall gatekeeper stepped forward, causing the ground to tremble slightly.
It was only then that Chen Ru saw clearly that the black-clothed gatekeeper was three meters tall, like a huge beast, with a one-meter-long mace on his shoulders. He was covered in black clothes, so he couldn't see his appearance clearly.
He is a monster?Chen Chrome shook his head, no matter what it was, it was all very remarkable.
The gatekeeper bent down and pressed a button on the side of the long ladder, and saw the long ladder cracking, and two rows of guardrails erected from both sides.
Zhong Ji led the crowd to stand up, only then did Chen Ke see that he was carrying two weapons on his back, a gun and a huge iron tire bow.
They stepped up the long ladder one by one, and waited for a while before the gatekeeper pressed the button on the other side of the long ladder.The long ladder was like a huge conveyor belt, and it began to slide forward automatically, but it sent everyone to the opposite side in a moment.
The gatekeeper called out respectfully: "Welcome Juzi."
"There is no need to be polite, you and I are common people." Zhong Ji waved his hand, patted each other's arms twice, and said, "This is my friend Chen He, and the other is Mr. Ruan's friend."
Ruan Linzhou: "Yuan Jiawen is a chef from Chu State."
Chen Chrome was puzzled, always felt abandoned by the whole world, why do people always know each other, and they all know each other well?He never knew that Yuan Jiawen was a killer before, and never cared about the matter between him and his elder brother.
Zhong Ji nodded with a smile, and said: "The two of you went to the Qin Palace yesterday to assassinate the Jiuli witch. Such a feat should be a role model for our generation."
I'm telling the truth, Chen Chrome thought, just now Ruan Linzhou said that the two of them came to assassinate King Qin.But Juzi is capricious, no one should dare to raise objections.
Zhong Ji turned his head and said to him and Yuan Jiawen: "Although my Mohist family is brothers all over the world, the bunker here is located in Xianyang, which is extremely key and secret. In order to strictly control the entry and exit of personnel, each disciple can only I hope you will forgive me for the rule of bringing an outsider in."
Chen Ru stared at him for a long time, and said with a smile, "After three days away, you should look at him with admiration. Brother Zhong, I haven't seen you for three years. I always feel that you have changed a lot. You are really amazing."
Zhong Ji smiled wryly and shook his head, not answering.
When the group of people entered the bunker, the gatekeeper was about to put down the stone slab, but he saw a golden goose flying silently from the darkness, ready to take the opportunity to sneak into the bunker.
The gatekeeper immediately turned around and pointed in the direction of the golden goose, and asked, "Why is the bird coming?"
The golden goose seemed a little surprised, hit the stone slab with a "bang", rolled to the ground, and looked at the gatekeeper.
The gatekeeper looked at it for a while, then waved his hand: "Golden Feather Firebird, go go."
The golden goose got acquiescence, flapped its wings again, and flew in.
The interior of the underground palace is even more breathtaking.
It looks like a huge Hakka earth-enclosed building, as strong and thick as a castle.
The modern visible common buildings are almost all civil structures, with thick walls, solid bricks, and water tanks on the doors, which are still waterproof and fireproof.In the Mohist bunker, all the materials used to build the walls were replaced by masonry and unknown types of metal.
The building is nine stories high, with a huge diamond-shaped crystal standing in the center.
The inside of the crystal has been hollowed out, filled with some kind of white paste-like solid, and the fire is burning in it, and the straight flame rises upwards, reaching a height of tens of meters, like an underground sun.
Chen Chrome: "Like a huge candle, it's a spectacle."
Ruan Linzhou: "The wisdom of the ancients, they always surprise us unintentionally. The paste in the crystal is paraffin, which is mined directly from the ground. Each time a crystal candle is filled, it lasts exactly nine days."
Chen Chrome: "What about nine days later? Gudongdongdong pour it down?"
Zhong Ji: "The Mohist mined stone candles from the ground, and after refining, they can make paraffin wax. Nine is the number of the most yang, so every nine days, the crystal candles stop burning for a whole day. On that day, all the Mohist in the bunker were not allowed to light fires. , Only eat cold food and drink ice water to show awe of heaven and earth. On the next day, the elder of the Mohist presided over the pouring of paraffin wax, and Juzi held a torch and lit crystal candles to pay homage to the founder of our Mohism, Mo Di from Song Dynasty. "
Chen chrome: "It's a very advanced gift as a gift. Oh, no, I mean, if Juzi is not around, everyone will live in the dark? You have been staying in Xianyang, and this is the head of your Mohist family?"
Ruan Linzhou looked embarrassed, and warned Chen He in a low voice: "This is a secret within the organization. After all, it is not easy for outsiders to ask too much. When Juzi is not here, there will naturally be elders to replace him. In the past, Song State was destroyed by Qi State, and Mohist came to Xianyang , also for Lian Qin to fight against Qi."
Chen Chrome: "I don't understand, Yuan Jiawen, you must be more confused."
Zhong Ji: "It doesn't matter, there is nothing that cannot be said to others. I Mohists protect the people, not a country and a city. After Mo Di passed away, Mohism was divided into three groups: Xiangli, Xiangfu, and Dengling. Branches, with different opinions and no mutual concessions. Therefore, today there are three giants, and the borders of each country are used as borders."
Ruan Linzhou nodded: "Qin Mohist's mastermind is ingenious, Qi's leader conducts intelligence investigation, and Yan's leader assassinates with force, but the factions do not communicate with each other."
Everyone was interrogated at the entrance and changed into the clothes of the Mohist.
A short jacket, a black cloak, and an eagle-shaped black hood.The original clothes are neatly stacked, tied into a small roll with hemp rope, numbered, and hung on a row of wooden shelves tens of meters high.
"That's why the people coming and going in the bunker, down to beggars, traffickers and pawns on the street, up to the family of officials and dignitaries, and even princes and grandchildren, all look the same. Princes and grandchildren? You will know later."
The old man who was in charge of the investigation was doing routine work, and when he searched Chen and Yuan carefully, he told them some rules of the bunker one after another.
This man has white hair and beard, eyes like lightning, and he is tall and tall with calluses on his palms.
Chen Ru was curious, and asked: "What about you? I think you look like a martial arts master, have you ever been a knight. Your shelf is too high, maybe 30 meters."
"When I was young, I was brave and aggressive. How can I be called a 'Xia'? Not tall, not tall." hammer the ground.While speaking, the hand holding the rope kept shaking, shaking the hemp rope like the blades of an old-fashioned electric fan, and finally let out a loud shout: "Duo!"
Seeing that the hemp rope was carrying Chen Chrome's clothes, it was thrown to the top shelf in an instant, and the rope was quickly entangled with the centripetal force, and his clothes were hung up in a moment.
The old man repeated this, his strength was astonishing, but his face was very humble, and he said: "Love together, not attack, praise the virtuous, respect the same, save the use, save the burial, it is not joy, it is not fate, heaven's will, ghosts, Mohists don’t have many ideas, they are all practical people. You can go to the center of the courtyard to have a look, there are so many mothists and mohists, it seems to be very novel and lively.”
The journey along the way was indeed very lively, with large and small wooden kites hovering in the air.
Small wooden animals swayed on the ground, all kinds of mechanical toys ran around, and pulleys, turntables, assembly lines, stairs and even a primitive automatic elevator were built between floors to transport things.
There was a continuous stream of people coming and going, all dressed in black robes, and it was almost impossible to tell the difference other than appearance and figure.
Both sides of the street are full of small stalls, all of the same specifications and materials, and the boxy wooden carts are very similar to modern workbenches.The stall owners each held a futon and sat cross-legged behind the stalls, doing the delicate work in their hands as if no one was there.
Wooden kites that can flap their wings by themselves, four-wheeled wooden carts that can walk on their own, two-wheeled wheelchairs for the disabled, crossbows that fire in rapid succession like machine guns, large and small crystal clear round lenses, all these are strange and strange.
Perhaps it can be said that this is the highest level of science and technology market and creative market in the Warring States Period.
Every time Chen Chrome saw a booth, he would stay for a long time.At this time, he was holding a small round crystal lens and asked, "Sir, is this a magnifying glass?"
The stall owner is a middle-aged man with a monocle in his left eye. His eyes are a little dull, as if he is nearsighted. He was taken aback when he heard the words, and he raised his head and replied: "The protruding lens, the Mohists are obsessed with strange tricks." , Things are fragmented and small, it is hard to hurt the eyes for free, and the vision will become blurred over time. Because each person chooses a lens to put in front of his eyes, it can improve a little."
"What is this, can I see it? Thanks, it's beautiful."
Chen Chrome gently put down the lens, and then picked up a small bronze cylinder, which looked like a grenade, with only one end open.
The stall owner nodded, and Chen Ru put his eyes on it, only to see a piece of brilliant geometric shapes, which changed every moment as he turned the small tube, and asked, "Are these your inventions?"
The stall owner looked calm and a little shy, and replied: "The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took advantage of the shade. They are all small toys made at random after familiarizing with the "Mo Jing". It's rare that someone likes it, so let's take it."
Chen Ru knew that these things were not easy to make, so he played with them carefully for a while, put them down and left: "No, no, no, your invention is too powerful, keep at it, and one day you will be famous in history."
Perhaps it was because everyone was rarely recognized, but they were suddenly praised by Chen Rue, and happily stuffed a bunch of gadgets into his arms, making them unable to walk.
"A lot of technical geeks, the Mo family is really scary. Do you think Mozi is also a time traveler? No, there should not be so many time travelers in the world."
At this time, Chen Chrome was blocked by the wings of a wooden bird, revealing only a pair of round black eyes, trying to look at the road, and said with emotion: "But I think this is absolutely different from the Warring States period in history. What do you think?" What? Yuan Jiawen, can't you say a word? I think you seem a little weird, Yuan Jiawen? Gavin? Sister-in-law!"
Yuan Jiawen woke up suddenly when he heard Chen Chrome calling his sister-in-law. Holding the dagger, his white hair almost stood on end, and asked, "Huh? Who messed with you? Let me kill you!"
Chen Chrome stuffed everything into his arms, lost his temper, and said, "What are you thinking? You can't see your expression, you're lost."
Yuan Jiawen smiled and said: "It's okay, I always think of you in the Qin Palace, covered in blood. Why didn't you leave me and run away first? Brother, I feel very guilty."
Chen Chrome said "Hi", patted his head, and said with a smile, "Why did I leave you? I couldn't die, and I waited for my body to recover and beat him up, but you killed him. I don't think Jin Chao It's simple, it won't die even if its head is beheaded, the Golden Feather Firebird, will there be a mutated phoenix inside?"
Yuan Jiawen shook his head and mocked: "Just like him? Forget it. Look at the sky, your bird can fly up to the sky!"
After all, imitating the actions of others, pulling a small mechanism on the tail of the wooden kite, pulling out a thin metal wire.The metal wire should be connected to something like a gear, and the bird made a "clicking" sound alone.
Yuan Jiawen spread his palms, and the little wooden kite seemed to have life, flapping its wings frantically, and then flew into a whirl.
With the two of them as the center, the wooden kite wobbled dozens of times until it reached the middle of the fourth and fifth floors.Chen Chrome opened her mouth in surprise, and patted Yuan Jiawen's butt, making him look up with her.
Yuan Jiawen glanced at him secretly, and saw that Chen Chrome's jet-black eyes were big and round, like two matte black pearls, and the soulless wooden bird was reflected in them, as if he had a soul and was happy and at ease.
The wooden bird slowed down, flapped its wings slowly, and slowly descended along the original route, finally stopping gently in Yuan Jiawen's hand.
With a sound of "bang", it suddenly fell apart like a frame, and metal parts and pieces of wood crackled and fell to the ground.
Yuan Jiawen and Chen Chrome looked at each other and burst into laughter: "Your bird is broken!"
While everyone was talking, there was a loud "rumbling" sound in their ears, and the ground trembled under their feet.
The entire building is like a mechanism composed of many exquisite parts. Each floor rotates in different directions, and finally completely changes the original orientation of the street and the gate.
Chen Ru concentrated on observing, and found that the most basic unit of the enclosure is a square room.Just like the Rubik's Cube can change at will, each room is linked by metal gears and chains, and can also move with the complex mechanism hidden deep underground, which greatly improves the defense capability of the bunker.
Zhong Ji bowed his head and muttered something silently, even though the mechanism was turning, he still immediately recognized the direction.Following the route I planned, I brought everyone to a row of rooms on the third floor, and said: "This is the place where guests live, and I have important things to do. The two of you who have been wronged can rest here. Afterwards, I will send someone to Taking you to the dining hall for meals is all simple and light food, so you don't need to be polite."
"Thank you," Chen Chrome kept the Chi You Knife on the bed, excitedly ran to the corridor to observe the entire bunker, "Can we go to the ninth floor?"
Ruan Linzhou: "It's a place for discussions and banquets, so you can't go there."
Chen Chrome was a little disappointed: "What about the roof above the ninth floor?"
Ruan Linzhou looked at Zhong Ji: "..."
Zhong Ji was amused by him and laughed, and said: "If you can go up, then of course you can go up the roof."
Before the words were finished, a Mohist came to deliver a message, Zhong Ji and Ruan Linzhou both said goodbye: "We are going up to discuss matters, Chen He, be good."
The two walked around for a whole morning, and Yuan Jiawen actually happily followed Chen Chrome's buttocks, acting as his faithful humanoid self-propelled shopping bag, like a 1.9-meter-high Samoyed.
Finally, when Chen Chrome finished shopping the whole street, Yuan Jiawen quickly seized the opportunity and dragged him to the dining hall smelling the smell of food.
At this time, the food had just been prepared, and the dark Mohists were quite calm. They lined up slowly, each holding a small wooden bowl, filled with a bowl of vegetable, meat, and millet porridge, and sat on the floor to drink silently.
After finishing the porridge and rice, they gathered together to discuss issues.
Chen chrome drank a couple of gulps, pushed it to Yuan Jiawen, asked casually, and found that the canteen was full and didn't need to pay, so he took his bowl back and asked Yuan Jiawen to cook again.
After the meal was full, Chen Ge felt that his brain was short of oxygen from shopping, and when he returned to the room, he lay in a "big" shape, lay on the bed, and sighed: "You are so old, the ancients are actually discussing the principles of mechanics. Principles of optics, fluid mechanics. Have you seen them do arithmetic? Under such simple mathematical conditions, they have invented so many technological products, which is amazing."
After saying that, he hiccupped embarrassingly, and suddenly shook his legs like a goat, shaking his boots and socks to the ground.
He kicked Yuan Jiawen's calf with bare feet, as if he said to himself: "I should bring Li Xinglan to see, he will like it. Do you think he will like it? I don't know how he is."
Yuan Jiawen bowed his head and put away the shoes and socks scattered on the ground for him.
Following his posture, they also formed a "big" shape, and the two of them slumped together with their heads next to each other, saying: "As long as you like it, he will definitely like it. He doesn't know how to think about it, let's talk about it." Falling in love almost makes me lose myself.”
Chen Chrome: "Of course I also know that he accommodates me, but I hope he can find more things that he really likes besides me.
Yuan Jiawen smiled: "He is an antisocial personality, just like me, either he has a dark heart or lives in the dark. It is really lucky to find you in this life. You are his law, and he maintains the whole life. The foundation of a balanced and stable inner world is enough to like you."
Chen Chrome shook his head, nuzzled his mouth: "The handsome guy also said that he is an antisocial personality, I don't think so. Think about it, when babies are still very young, when adults kiss them, they will dance and laugh. It can be seen that happiness, love and The feeling of being loved is born, but it is forgotten later.”
Yuan Jiawen: "No, it's innate, just like I like men, it's written in my genes."
"It's not natural!"
Chen Chrome suddenly sat up, slapped Yuan Jiawen's chest, leaving a pink five-fingerprint, spread his legs and sat on his waist, and said: "You just forget to be happy, so you feel that you are born cold-blooded and dark. It’s like having a wound on your hand. If you scratch it all the time, it will be bloody. The process of wound healing is always itchy or painful. You mistakenly think that this is the pain caused by going against nature .”
Yuan Jiawen has white hair all over his head, blue veins can be seen under his temples, and there are some red bloodshots on his cheeks, and his eyes are so light blue and transparent that they are almost colorless.
He reached out and touched the top of Chen Chrome's head, and said, "Let's stay in the city for a while, and let Ruan Linzhou mobilize Mo Zhe to help find Yun Lang."
Chen Chrome: "Three years, gavin, three years have passed, it is impossible for the elder brother to still be in Xianyang. I always feel that he must have been lurking and planning something. But our enemy is very powerful, and the elder brother is too hard alone Well, we'll just search for a day or two, and if there's no news, we'll have to do our own thing."
Yuan Jiawen lowered his voice and asked, "Fa Qi, do you believe what Zhun Ti said? According to my intuition, he must be hiding some secret."
Chen Chrome: "I can't fully trust him, but if he has thought hard about designing and asking us to find magical artifacts, it must be because they are at least valuable to Zhuang Ti, and it is worth his effort to fool us. Find it first and then talk about it." , when the time comes to talk to him, it will be more or less a bargaining chip."
Yuan Jiawen laughed: "You have grown up, little brother. But I thought most of you Chinese believe in Buddhism, and you don't seem to be in awe of them?"
Chen Chrome: "From childhood to adulthood, he changed my diapers, fed me milk, dressed me and combed my hair, knitted gloves, beat bad guys, taught me kung fu, sent me to school every day, and led me home in the sunset. Not Buddha , only my elder brother. What about you, do you really believe in Christianity?"
Yuan Jiawen sighed: "There is nothing that comforts my heart since I was a child. The teacher taught us to believe in God, and used religious belief to trend us, making us fearless. However, hahaha, what age is it? I don't believe it. I'm just hoping that, with a little bit of kindness to myself, whatever, I've always thought 'may the onion bless you' would be pretty cool too."
The two chatted for a while without thinking, for several days, and experienced too much.
Full of ambition and ready to set off, the soft and cute little fox in the past suddenly changed his face, causing them to be involved in the turbulent flow of time and space and accidentally travel through, and came into contact with complex historical fragments for no apparent reason.
There is no worse luck than falling into the palace of the King of Qin, just bumping into a prisoner who had been abused by one's own side, and falling into the hands of the other party, and finding that his body is weak and his strength is running low.
After all these ups and downs, although the danger was saved in the end, it was really tiring.As they talked, they fell asleep together without knowing when.
When he woke up, the lights outside were still brightly lit, and the huge crystal candles were burning brightly, as if he no longer needed the sun's rays.
Yuan Jiawen sat up lightly, the light was a little dim, he stretched out his long legs, and inadvertently kicked a wooden duckling's buttocks, the latter made a "click", perhaps it happened to hit the switch.
I saw a little duck with a strange shape, patting its two big paws, "patta patta" slowly turning around the bed, rubbing its mouth against wood, making a sound like "quack quack".
"late--!"
Hearing the cry, Chen Chrome suddenly sat up in a daze. At the same time, a pillow hit him, and the duckling slipped and ran away as if its butt was on fire.
It's just that a machine is a machine after all, and it's far from artificial intelligence. The duck hit its head on the threshold and fell to pieces like a wooden kite.
Yuan Jiawen was stunned, and asked, "You..." He pointed to his temple, and said, "What's wrong?"
Chen Chrome was about to cry, and put on his clothes clumsily, saying, "What, I thought the alarm clock rang, and I was late for class every day, late, late, late, and then I was punished to stand again. Do I want to be late? morning?"
Just as Yuan Jiawen wanted to laugh at him, he suddenly heard someone knock on the door, knock three times, pause for a while, and knock three more times.He immediately became vigilant, turned around, stood up and pressed against the door lightly, pulled out the dagger from his wrist, shook his hands back, and waved at Chen Chrome: "I'll come."
Chen chrome was made nervous by him, stood up cautiously, and walked towards him.
Ruan Linzhou knocked a few more times, suspecting that the two were not there, and then asked, "Chen He, Yuan Jiawen, are you up?"
Only then did Yuan Jiawen push the door open, and Chen Chrome also heaved a sigh of relief. He suddenly stepped on the part that popped out after the shattered wooden duck, slipped and bumped into Ruan Linzhou's arms. touching lips: "..."
"sorry!"
Yuan Jiawen got up on hands and feet, Chen Ru suppressed a smile, and helped Ruan Linzhou up, feeling that his hands were very cold.
Ruan Linzhou looked embarrassed, shook his head, and said, "It's okay, don't be in a hurry all the time, have dinner first, and I have something to tell you after dinner."