Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 149 Disappearing Things

Through the warehouse door, Chen Jian could already see the layout inside the warehouse.

Like most of the world's small nuclear weapons warehouses, this warehouse uses the same "shelf-style" layout.

At least 30 giant shelves are erected in three parallel rows in the warehouse. Tracks for transportation are laid on the aisles in the middle of the shelves, and on the top of the warehouse, there are arm devices for moving and grabbing goods.

Each shelf is relatively independent. Judging from its heavy metal structure, this type of shelf should not only have storage functions, but may also have maintenance and self-sustaining functions.

However, no matter what the conditions, self-sustaining power requires electricity.

Now, the power system of the entire nuclear arsenal has been paralyzed, and these shelves have lost their original function.

But at least, their corrosion resistance is very strong and the sealing performance should not be greatly affected.

Theoretically, as long as the abundance decay is within a controllable range, most of these tactical nuclear bombs should still be usable.

This is a real treasure never seen before.

Chen Jian had never thought that he could find such a thing in the Anqing ruins.
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After all, although he did know about this base, he always subconsciously thought that it would not be his turn to pick up the weapons stored here.

But now it seems that the leak does exist, and it is not small.

He was so impatient that he wanted to go into the warehouse and take out all the nuclear weapons.

Ji Xing's words made him stop where he was.

"The ghost is inside"?
How the hell does this look like a "ghost"?

Chen Jian frowned and looked at Ji Xing, then asked:
"Are you sure? What's in there? What makes you feel different?"

After the words fell, this time, Ji Xing answered affirmatively.

"odor!"

"I'm sure there's a smell here that's the same as the mountain city. It's very faint, but it's definitely there!"

"What kind of smell?"

Chen Jian raised his hand to signal the others who were ready to move to wait, and then continued to ask:
"Is it a familiar smell? Where else have you smelled it besides in the mountain city?"

"Only in the mountain city can you find this smell! I can guarantee that it only exists in the mountain city!"

That's something unique.

Chen Jian didn't know what the smell of the mountain city was like, but if he thought about it from another angle.
What is something unique in the nuclear arsenal?
He turned to Lei Jie, Shen Yue and the others and asked:
“Is there anything in the nuclear arsenal that isn’t available anywhere else?”

".nuclear weapon."

Shen Yue answered seriously.

".Can you tell me something I don't know?"

Chen Jian glared at him, and the latter spread his hands innocently and continued to explain:

"That's true. Apart from the nuclear weapons themselves, I can't think of anything that is much different from other warehouses or other places."

"Of course, our thinking should not be limited to nuclear weapons themselves, but also factors related to them."

"For example, the lead cabinet used to store nuclear weapons. This thing doesn't look simple. Maybe it's filled with some kind of inert gas, which produces a different smell?"

"how is this possible?"

Chen Jian shook his head and retorted:
"Do you think inert gas is dangerous? Look at her reaction. Do you think she's joking?"

"Maybe it's some kind of sequelae of mental trauma."

Shen Yue thought for a moment, put away his joking expression, and then said seriously:

"The so-called smell is not the point, the point is the mountain city."

"Her experience there has been deeply engraved in her subconscious, so as long as she is exposed to familiar elements, it will immediately trigger empathy."

"She's not afraid of the smell, but the mountain city itself."

"So my point is, maybe this smell isn't that special or mysterious after all."

"good idea."

Chen Jian nodded slightly, but then said:
"But that doesn't explain why Ji-sung said the smell was unique - it has to come from somewhere."

"Then we can only get results after entering the warehouse and searching."

Shen Yue looked at the warehouse door in front of him. Chen Jian was silent for a few seconds, and finally said:

"No matter what, I'm coming."

"Lei Jie Zeng Yi, follow me in and try to open the lead cabinet."

"Since Ji Xing said the source of the anomaly is 'smell', let's start with the smell."

"If the smell gets stronger after you open the lead cabinet, it means the smell is related to nuclear weapons."

"If not, then it has to do with the warehouse facilities."

"As long as we clear this place out and check every step, we will always be able to find the real source of the smell."

"understand!"

At the command, several people walked into the warehouse without any hesitation.

Ji Xing wanted to stop it, but he felt that he seemed to be overreacting.

How could this warehouse look dangerous? My instinct was just a baseless panic.

Not to mention Shen Yue, even I myself have begun to doubt whether I have become afraid of ropes for ten years after being bitten by a snake once.

So in the end, she did not stop Chen Jian and the others' actions again, but stood quietly aside, ready to be on guard.

If any danger occurred, she could rush into the warehouse immediately and rescue Chen Jian and others.
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She ran away last time, but this time, she didn't plan to run again.

This was not because she had suddenly realized her mistake and was willing to sacrifice herself for others, but because she felt that this was the closest she had ever been to the secret of the mountain city, and she did not want to give up no matter what.
At this time, Chen Jian had already stepped into the warehouse.

He is just an ordinary person. Although he has undergone long-term training, his physical limit is still there.

He cannot feel what the Holy Blood can feel.

In his opinion, this was just an ordinary warehouse.

Even though there are nuclear weapons stored inside, so what?
Chen Jian turned on his tactical flashlight and looked at the containers one by one.

Most of the lead cabinets were closed, only two cabinets were open, and a railcar was parked on the track next to one of the cabinets, with the loaded warheads lying quietly on the car.

".This is the warhead of the air-launched DF-21, which has been assembled."

Chen Jian carefully observed the model of the warhead, and then said:

"It can be inferred that this place had already been put on combat readiness duty during the catastrophe."

"Otherwise, these warheads should all be stored separately."

"But if that's the case then there's a bigger problem."

Having said this, Chen Jian paused, and then continued to ask:

"What about people?"

“Where have all the people here gone?”

As soon as the words fell, everyone froze in place.

It was not until this time that they finally realized where that huge sense of disharmony came from.

Yes, this underground fortification is a grave for aircraft and equipment, but not for people.

Since entering here, they haven't seen any human corpses!
This is completely different from the situation in 7025. There was no one in the fortifications in 7025, but they left and closed the fortifications on their own initiative.

What about here?
"There's only one possibility."

"The team was urgently assembled and transferred."

Lei Jie exhaled lightly, and then said:
"But this reason is quite intriguing - the warhead has been assembled and is about to be mounted on the rack, but at this critical moment, everyone was transferred away."

"Or they have discovered a bigger threat that can't be dealt with even with nuclear bombs."

"Or, it's because they have a reason to leave."

"We have to find out where they went first, and then we can gradually deduce the truth."

"But then again, do you think these 'disappeared people' are related to the 'smell of the mountain city' that Ji Xing mentioned?"

"Hard to say."

Chen Jian shook his head and said:
"We still know too little about this world. Although there is some technical information in the National Library's materials, the overall technological level and technological application of this world are unclear to us." "We can't simply use past experience to judge the technology of this era. If the previous exoskeleton can still be considered within the foreseeable range, then the space plane is already very telling."

"So, to be precise, it's not just Ji Xing who needs to learn, it's us as well."

"really."

Lei Jie gently dusted off his hands and said:
"But these nuclear weapons are serious, good stuff anyway."

"The warhead of this DF-21 is no small thing. It weighs 600 kilograms and has a TNT equivalent of 30 tons. It is a serious weapon of mass destruction."

"But unfortunately, we can't combine the two missiles into one, and we don't have the conditions for air-to-air launch."

"Can it be detonated?"

Chen Jian asked briefly.

"Yes, but it's difficult. No one has ever done it in history."

"In the 90s, Chechen militias also obtained nuclear bombs, but they ultimately failed to successfully detonate them - this was not due to any political game, but purely due to lack of technology."

"The nuclear bomb we found earlier was in a very special situation. It should have been put back together after the two bombs were combined into one."

"The PAL system of that nuclear bomb has been disabled. We only need to restore the circuit to achieve detonation."

"But all of these nuclear bombs in the warehouse are still locked. We don't have the authorization code, and almost all of the electronic equipment has failed. If you want to detonate them, you need to bypass the PAL, the anti-tampering mechanism, and the self-destruct device."

"But the DF-21's warhead is physically locked and cut-resistant, so it's impossible to disassemble it even if you want to."

"If we want to detonate it, we need a lot of effort and a certain amount of luck."

"How to say?"

Chen Jian asked.

After thinking for a while, Lei Jie answered:

"We need to repair the electronics of these nuclear warheads."

“In the meantime, we need to find a way to unlock it.”

"Do you think there is such a way to unlock it?"

Chen Jian asked with some doubt.

Lei Jie nodded firmly, and then said:

"They even considered the Three Gorges issue, so it's impossible that they didn't consider the handover of this huge legacy."

"Somewhere there must be a way to unlock the nuclear bomb, and they must use some means to select their successors."

"We have only been shortlisted as the successor, but have not yet received the keys."

"understood."

Chen Jian breathed a sigh of relief.

Yes, they have considered everything, how could they not consider this point?
So, what exactly is there in the mountain city?
Chen Jian became more and more curious about the mysterious city.

All the clues so far point to that city, and it seems that the code to save the world is hidden there.

But how to get there remains an unresolved question.

"No matter what, find a way to get the things away first."

"Even if they can't be detonated, these nuclear bombs are important assets and must not be left here for others to get."

Chen Jian patted the cart beside him and continued:
"Ship this thing out and let Jisung see if the 'smell' she mentioned is related to the nuclear bomb."

"If so, that would be interesting."

"If not, wouldn't it be more interesting?"

Lei Jie asked back jokingly.

"really."

Chen Jian called on Zeng Yi to work together, and along the rusted track, several people struggled to push the nuclear warhead out of the warehouse.

They encountered no danger and no accidents happened.

Apart from being sweaty, the three men looked no different from when they entered the warehouse.

Ji Xing, who had been on guard the whole time, finally breathed a sigh of relief, but before Chen Jian could speak, she spoke first:

“It’s not this.”

"That's not the source of the smell."

"It's still in the warehouse, I just can't find it"

"Do you want to go in and take a look?"

After pondering for a moment, Chen Jian asked.

Ji Xing hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded.

She knew that if Chen Jian and his companions could come out, it would prove that there was really not much danger inside.

So, following closely behind Chen Jian, Ji Xing finally entered the warehouse that terrified her.

When she saw the intricate tracks on the ground, she was stunned for a moment, then she moved closer to the ground and sniffed like a hound.

After a moment, she stood up again and said with a little disappointment:

"That's not it."

".I don't think it could be this either. It's just a normal track system."

Chen Jian waved his hand, signaling Ji Xing to continue looking around.

After walking around the warehouse, Ji Xing was still unable to find the source of that special "smell".

She frowned and said:

"That smell was originally very strong, at least in the mountain city, the smell in the fog was very strong."

"But here, the things that bring the smell have completely dissipated. It's just that because this place is relatively closed, there are still very few smells left."

"I'm sorry, I may have really overreacted. The dangerous things are no longer there. It should be safe here."

"Don't be sorry, your vigilance is very commendable."

Chen Jian gave Ji Xing an encouraging look, and the latter nodded gratefully and was about to say a few polite words, but at this moment, she suddenly looked up and looked towards a corner.

“Why is it empty?”

Chen Jian looked in the direction of her finger, was stunned for a moment, and then replied:
"There should have been a lead cabinet there originally, but it has been moved away."

"Why was it moved?"

"Why do you ask?"

Chen Jian was acutely aware of Ji Xing's abnormal reaction, so he immediately asked:

“Is the smell stronger there?”

"No, it's the same."

“I just feel like it shouldn’t be empty.”

indeed.

It should not be empty.

Only then did Chen Jian react.

His attention was completely drawn to the nuclear weapons in the warehouse, but Ji Xing, who had no idea about nuclear weapons, was the first to discover the problem.

In this orderly warehouse, the empty shelf is the only point of disorder.

Something was taken away from here.

So what is it?
Chen Jian took a deep breath and then said:
"We have to try to figure out what's out there."

"I don't know why. I have a hunch."

"The thing that disappeared from here is what the Ring Chamber of Commerce really wants to find!"

(End of this chapter)