Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!
Chapter 167 - 60 FX0962045 Fu Xi Project

Chapter 167: Chapter 60 FX0962045 Fu Xi Project

Chen Jian’s premonition is not without basis. Compared to Ji Xing’s pure intuition, in fact, his logic is a bit clearer.

At least he has some grounds.

Firstly, almost the entire Anqing City has already been searched through, and most of the useful materials have been taken away. If something is left behind, it proves that, in the eyes of the Mechanical God Sect, that thing isn’t very useful.

Secondly, from the nature of the Ring Chamber of Commerce, they pursue those truly "high-tech products," things that lean toward "theoretical advancement."

And these kinds of things are crucial no matter which era they are in.

This airbase can be said to be the safest underground facility within the Anqing Ruins. If there really were such things, it would be quite reasonable for them to be stored here.

However, Chen Jian really couldn’t fathom what those things might be.

Perhaps, they don’t even exist in the era familiar to him.

To find them, relying on empirical reasoning is no longer useful.

One must find concrete records and investigate what exactly happened here on the day of the major disaster event.

Thinking of this, Chen Jian asked:

"He Shuo, do you know where the files of the 10th Air Division are managed?"

Hearing this, He Shuo frowned and thought for a moment, then replied:

"In theory, the files of the 10th Air Division are managed in a separate archive management room. Around 2020, the 10th Air Division set up a wartime archive management room specifically for managing wartime training archives."

"However, I think that looking into the paper archives of the 10th Air Division might not yield anything."

"The time of the major disaster outbreak was too short to leave sufficient time for them to make electronic documents into paper archives."

"Useful information should still exist in the system, but the entire system has already crashed. To find something, it will be more difficult than reactivating a nuclear bomb..."

"Not necessarily."

Chen Jian shook his head:

"What we are looking for is not the record of that day, but the record from a few days before the major disaster."

"If something of high confidentiality was sent over, there should be an archived record."

"The archival cycle for operational files is within three days. The transfer and storage of important equipment also fall under operational tasks, so how could there be no archives?"

"Makes sense, but there’s no significance to it."

Lei Jie interjected from the side:

"There should be archives, but over three hundred years have passed. How much could still be preserved?"

"The archive room is on the second floor. When we passed by, we checked it, and the things inside are almost completely decayed."

"Let alone going through them one by one, I estimate that just touching them might turn those things into dust..."

"At least take a look first. Let’s go."

Chen Jian made a decisive decision, and the rest followed immediately.

Leaving the third underground level, the group walked into the open door of the archive room on the second underground level. However, the situation there was worse than Lei Jie described.

All the paper documents had already decayed into a pile of dust.

There was hardly any textual information left, and the few words that could barely be discerned on some piles of paper had no meaning.

Chen Jian sighed in disappointment, just about to say something, but Shen Yue, who was searching deeper in the archive room, suddenly spoke up.

"Captain! Over here!"

Chen Jian walked to his side, looked up, and saw the file cabinet in front of them. The metal-engraved label was still clearly visible.

"FX0962045".

Chen Jian frowned slightly and said:

"2045 is the time, 096 should be the research institute number, FX is the project code name."

"The 2045 record of the FX project led by Institute 096?"

"What’s inside?"

"....Air."

Shen Yue pointed to the open archive cabinet door and then said:

"The bad news is that all the archives have been moved or destroyed in advance."

"The good news is, we found the right place."

"At least now, we know the project code name of that vanished thing."

"We can no longer find out what exactly it was, but maybe... the people from the Ring Chamber of Commerce know?"

"Indeed."

Chen Jian nodded slowly.

"This is the only clue ---- try to find a way to ask them clearly."

"Now, we need to scrape this area clean."

"Put aside the distant stuff for now and focus on the task at hand."

"How should we handle these nuclear warheads? Try to transport them out or seal the entrance and use them later?"

"I suggest sealing the entrance."

He Shuo raised his hand:

"We currently don’t have the capacity to transport all these things, and handing them over to any third-party transport is not safe. Since they aren’t needed for now, it’s better to seal them up."

"Makes sense."

Chen Jian nodded again, then looked at Lei Jie.

"Is there any way to completely seal this underground space but still leave us a way to enter?"

"....The simplest way, find a guard, like a monster."

"Monster?"

Chen Jian’s heart stirred, and an idea suddenly popped into his mind.

There had indeed been a monster here before, and it was a very strong one.

Could it be that the monster was what they referred to as the "gatekeeper"?

If that’s really the case, then the secrets here become even more enigmatic...

Chen Jian shook his head gently, dispersing some chaotic thoughts, and then said:

"It’s not very realistic. Even if we could find it, it would take too long."

"Let’s seal it physically ---- is there a way?"

"There is, but it would consume a lot of explosives, and our stockpile is not plentiful."