Chapter 74: The Basement

Beyond Xiao Fen’s expectations, the basement was very clean; let alone monsters, there were not even things like material reserves.

That breath that made him feel threatened and pressured accompanied him all the time; it was very strong in the basement, but precisely because of this thick surrounding, it made him unable to accurately distinguish which direction of the basement this breath was emitting from.

This was a somewhat frustrating result; walking down from the ground along the narrow passage, the height alone was estimated to be nearly ten meters.

Being cautious and guarded all the way, when he reached the destination and saw this huge basement, he suddenly discovered that there was nothing inside; Xiao Fen found this somewhat hard to accept.

The basement area was about two hundred square meters, and the height was about four meters up and down; the whole body was made of extremely tightly sealed concrete walls.

When Xiao Fen came down from above and passed through the damaged lead door, he had a rough estimate of these thick walls; the thickness of the walls was equivalent to the horizontal width of his body.

At such a depth, with concrete walls and lead doors of such thickness for protection, it could be said that this was a small underground nuclear bunker, and the protection level was much higher than ordinary civil defense bunkers.

At least from the perspective of nuclear radiation protection, the protection degree of this basement was already quite high.

The shock waves caused by the hydrogen bombs and neutron bombs that exploded above the surface in the past caused huge changes to the city’s surface; even if not in the center of these nuclear weapon explosions, the terrain would be greatly affected several kilometers away.

Those buildings that were originally very far apart suddenly shortened their distance and stacked together was proof; the soil layers between them produced folds due to the impact force, and finally made these buildings pile up together.

In other words, during the nuclear war, not only the buildings on the ground were affected by the shock wave, but even the underground buildings would also be affected due to the changes in the underground soil layers.

The larger the underground building, the greater the possibility of being squeezed and deformed by the soil layer, and it was not impossible for it to be completely torn apart.

However, Xiao Fen did not see such deformation in the basement before him; even if this basement was not huge, such a complete situation seemed too ideal.

You know, the surface building of this basement, that factory, had almost completely collapsed; even excluding the time factor, one could imagine that this place was also swept by the shock wave of the hydrogen bomb back then.

So, the underground should not be so intact no matter what; at least, that narrow passage extending down from the ground should have been twisted and broken, and the connection between the basement and the ground should have become very difficult.

And now, none of these situations had happened; if one said this was an incredibly lucky basement, it would be better to say that this was a basement built after the nuclear war ended.

He couldn’t find the power switch, or perhaps, there seemed to be no power connected to the outside world in this basement, so there were no lights at all, which made it incredibly dark.

Even with just the military flashlight in Xiao Fen’s hand, it could only illuminate a very small range.

However, in the process of Xiao Fen swinging the flashlight left and right to shine on this basement, the light was not hindered by anything; it could be said that from the door to other corners, Xiao Fen’s line of sight was not blocked.

Besides, although the perception of the surrounding breath was interfered with, Xiao Fen’s hearing was not affected; from the moment he entered this basement, he had been carefully listening to every bit of movement, but until now, he still had not heard any abnormal sound in this panicked basement.

However, the more this was the case, the more it made Xiao Fen feel nervous.

Having done S-level and SS-level missions, he was very clear that the mission difficulty of the Trial World was closely related to this Trial World; in other words, in a level 0 Trial World, an A-level mission difficulty would at least show some monsters around Level 3, or appear hundreds of monsters around level 0.

And until just now, in this abandoned factory, only two monsters had appeared in total.

One was transformed by the Vice Speaker, and the other was a behemoth that looked imposing but actually played no role from head to toe.

Obviously, such monsters could not match an A-level no matter what; only in the basement was the target of Xiao Fen’s mission located.

Suddenly, footsteps came from behind him; this sound appeared exceptionally clear in the underground passage, and after a minute, Sabova’s voice rang out: “Palin, did you find anything?”

“Don’t come over!”

Xiao Fen suddenly said: “Stand there, don’t come over; if I don’t give a signal, don’t let anything that leaves from here go.”

Sabova obviously stopped her steps, then, in this narrow passage, a clear sound of metal collision suddenly came; that seemed to be the sound after Xiao Fen closed the lead door.

“Palin, what are you doing?”

Sabova asked, but no one answered this question. Once the lead door of this underground shelter was closed, it was difficult to open it from the outside. The thick lead door could ensure that most violent cracking methods failed. As for sound, it was even harder to transmit.

However, the biggest problem with this kind of underground shelter was the insufficient oxygen supply. The space was too small, and there was no electricity to make enough oxygen. In such a shelter, once the lead door was closed, the people inside probably could not last for 1 hour.

Sabova did not know how big the basement was, but no matter how big the basement was, without power supply and before meeting oxygen needs, this basement could not allow people to live inside for a long time.

Sabova thought for a moment and slowly retreated to a place near the exit. The AK in her hand was reloaded. She held up the automatic rifle, aiming motionlessly at the dark passage at her feet.

At the same time, Xiao Fen took a deep breath and opened his eyes again.

In front of his eyes, a large number of short monsters had appeared at some point. These humanoid creatures, only 1/3 the size of normal humans, reminded Xiao Fen of Farrah. The real body of Farrah back then seemed to be a bit larger than these monsters.

Xiao Fen smiled. Looking at the mottled marks on these monsters, he knew why the light of the flashlight just now could not find them at all.

These guys camouflaged themselves as cement walls and crawled on the ceiling and walls, so Xiao Fen did not notice anything unusual in his haste.

Until Sabova’s voice appeared.

Xiao Fen unexpectedly discovered that Sabova’s voice had no echo in this underground shelter made of concrete. This made him realize that the real enemy had actually been in front of his eyes all along.

“Come on, you bunch of guys. No matter how many of you come, I will kill you all.”

As Xiao Fen spoke, he took out a Constitution Potion from the backpack he had placed at his feet and stabbed it fiercely into his arm.