Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!-Chapter 294 - 129: The Missing Computer

In fact, Chen Jian no longer had much hope for the 008 fortress.

Huadu had been here for so many years, and anything inside, no matter how much, had long been ruined by them.

The most important reason he wanted to enter the 008 fortress was actually to retrieve the data inside.

He wanted to know why exactly this fortress was in a semi-destroyed state.

This reason was very important. Although it could not directly uncover the secret of the catastrophe, it could very likely provide them with clues regarding "secondary disasters."

The more clues there were, the more adeptly he could handle the situation subsequently.

Thus, when the Mechanical God Sect controlled Huadu City, and he finally stood at the entrance of the 008 fortress, which had been transformed into a giant warehouse, dilapidated to the point where its original appearance could not be discerned, his emotions did not waver in the slightest.

Even when he saw at a glance that the sophisticated nuclear fusion device had been pulled out and even the laser had been turned into some sort of "weapon device" and was long defunct, he did not show a trace of disappointment.

Instead, Lei Jie was pained by it all.

"Damn it, these idiot Huadu people!"

"They ruin everything good placed in their hands!"

"Laser igniter! Used as a laser gun!"

"I damn well wish I could shove this thing up his ass and burn him from end to end!"

"If you don’t know how to use it, don’t touch it. If you don’t understand it, leave it alone!"

"Don’t they understand such a simple truth?"

"So many cannons, so many weapons, so much food, wasting a bit of these would be fine!"

"The industrial machines inside could also be dismantled for materials, and the robots sold to the Mechanical God Sect as ornaments, but they dismantled the fusion reactor!"

"What the hell were they thinking?!"

"Calm down."

Chen Jian patted Lei Jie on the shoulder and comforted him:

"Maybe it wasn’t them who dismantled it? Maybe it was already like this when they got here?"

"Bullshit! This is exactly the style of these Huadu people!"

Lei Jie spat and continued:

"Did you forget when they turned jet packs into flamethrowers? The fusion reactor was definitely dismantled by them!"

"I’m truly impressed, no wonder these dimwits on the wasteland can’t develop, good things are right in front of them and they don’t know how to use them. What more can I say?"

"Alright, alright..."

Chen Jian interrupted again:

"The 008 fortress was originally in a semi-destroyed state, it’s very possible that when they came in, the fusion reactor, or even the entire power system, was already damaged."

"Without guidance, it’s quite normal for them not to know how to use these things."

"Don’t be too harsh on them ---- Has the inventory of the Mechanical God Sect’s equipment been completed?"

Seeing Chen Jian change the subject, Lei Jie could only forcibly suppress his anger.

He nodded, exhaled a long breath, and said:

"It’s been tallied."

"Currently, the weapons counted include 67 large-caliber cannons of various types, and over a thousand rounds of ammunition."

"There are more firearms, but a large portion is not in good condition, and there aren’t many usable automatic weapons."

"A small number of small-caliber cannons, a few man-portable missiles, a few anti-aircraft weapons."

"A small number of odd-shaped small individual equipment, including even corner-shooting guns."

"A large number of protective gear, a lot of rocket launchers, a lot of grenades... The current grenade stockpile is still above 30,000, guessing these Huadu people wouldn’t use them all in a lifetime."

"The 008 fortress really was a military installation, mainly having military equipment as its resources."

"Probably for this reason, Huadu could quickly rise."

"But still, as I said before, they’ve squandered all the good things. What’s left... can’t be said to be bad, but it’s just mediocre."

"Mediocre is already good."

Chen Jian waved his hand and said:

"These dozens of cannons and a thousand rounds of ammunition are a big haul, find a way to transport them back to 011."

"We can allocate some to Jinling ---- after all, the Mechanical God Sect won’t be able to use them."

"Leaving them there is still ours in the end, and it saves the hassle of negotiating transport issues."

"... Makes sense."

Lei Jie admired Chen Jian with a thumbs up, then asked:

"Should we go in now?"

"Yes, of course, we should go in."

Chen Jian put on his helmet and led the way into the fortress, with the others, including Xu He, following closely behind.

As seen from outside the main passage, the vast underground fortress was already in ruins.

But clearly, there were not many signs of natural erosion inside.

This implies that the fortress had not been fully opened for a long time.

The fortress was still destroyed by humans, not by natural forces.

Chen Jian sighed with regret, bypassing the ant robot tracks that had collapsed from the ceiling, and walked directly towards the descending staircase inside the fortress.

The steps, made of composite materials, remained sturdy, and the footsteps echoed in the empty fortification, with tactical flashlights dispelling the surrounding darkness.

"The living area is completely destroyed... Everything here has been moved out."

"Deploy drones, let Fu Xi scan the living area, and we’ll continue down."

"Understood."

Fu Xi’s voice fell in the earpiece, and Chen Jian led the team further downward.

Crossing the living quarters, weapons storage layer, industrial workshop layer, and self-sufficient layer, they finally reached the energy layer.

And here, Chen Jian saw the fusion device dismantled and reduced to a mere frame.

"Like 011, it’s a unit formed by three fusion reactors, but the model here is different from 011’s."

"But it’s not a big problem, there is no large-scale damage visible in the entire energy layer, and all damage shows signs of artificial dismantling."

"The energy layer shouldn’t be the main reason for the fortress’s damage."

"It certainly wouldn’t be."

Lei Jie agreed:

"Most of the equipment here has been preserved, indicating that when the Huadu people opened this fortress, the support system here maintained a certain degree of operation."

"Energy wouldn’t be an issue."

"Even if it were, it would have happened after the fortress was opened."

"Then there is only one last place left."

"The computing room."

"Exactly."

Chen Jian proceeded downward, guided by Fu Xi, they traversed deep tunnels, entering the true core of the fortress, the quantum computing center.

The isolation doors here were all open, clearly already plundered by the Huadu people.

But this was not the worst news.

What made Chen Jian particularly uneasy was that the deeper they went, the fewer traces of artificial destruction there were.

When they reached the innermost full-sealed computer room, even footprints had disappeared.

The Huadu people did not enter this area.

Or rather, they were not interested in this area, so they didn’t visit often.

A sense of foreboding rose in Chen Jian’s heart.

He adjusted his tactical flashlight to flood mode and walked directly toward the sealed computer room.

And as he turned to the side of the computer room, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

The last isolation door of the computer room was open.

Inside, it was empty.

The quantum computers that should have been deployed here were gone.

Someone took them away.

They were taken away, not dismantled.

Because those quantum computers, along with the massive cooling bases, had vanished without a trace.

They vanished completely!

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