Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 561: Garbage Dump (3)

Continuing forward along the laboratory, Adenauer soon left the laboratory. There was also a huge metal gate at this location, but unlike the location he had seen before, the metal gate here was stuck and could not be completely closed. About one meter from the ground, the nearby walls had structural damage, and the rubble and ruins could just withstand the weight of the metal gate.

Leaning down, he used his tactical flashlight to illuminate the area behind him. There was a ramp leading down to the back, with some large carts on top. On top of them were numerous body bags and variously sized sealed bags for biological waste. The carts and their contents were covered in a thick layer of dust, indicating that nothing had been touched in a long time.

After crawling through the opening of the metal gate, Adenauer arrived at the platform above the ramp on the other side. Looking around, he saw some monitoring devices and sentry weapons that had been offline for a long time in the corner of the wall behind the gate. They were not damaged, but simply lost power.

Walking down the ramp, Adenauer approached the nearest large cart. From the outside, the body bags and the sealed containers used to store biological waste were still intact. Air hadn't entered, so the contents hadn't decayed. Using his X-ray vision, he could see that the bags contained nothing more than ordinary corpses, but there was no sign of decay at all. An examination of their brains revealed no synthetic components.

"puff.."

Adenauer opened some of the body bags. Once opened, oxygen came into contact with the corpses, causing them to rapidly decompose. However, since their body fluids had long since dried up, the odor of decay was not strong. However, based on the speed of their decay and the faint heat generated during decay, it was confirmed that the contents of the body bags were indeed normal corpses.

The contents of the biological waste sealing devices that can also be found on those carts are very strange. They contain a large number of twisted and deformed biological remains. After Adenauer opened several sealed packages and bags, the biological waste inside did not show any signs of rotting, indicating that those things were not natural biological remains, but probably some failed products related to biotechnology.

"No life signs detected."

However, although these things are very strange and there are quite a few of them, according to the scans of the contractor's equipment, all of them have completely lost their activity and will not be resurrected from the dead. Maybe they could have been able to do so before, but now too much time has passed.

The ramp was very long, more than 30 meters. In addition to the carts carrying body bags and biological waste sealing devices, there were also some dust-covered boxes. These boxes were not locked, and some boxes could not be closed at all because they contained too many items or were too large. Most of the items inside were parts of some kind of equipment. There were also some small boxes containing small culture dishes sealed with sealing solvents. There was a large gray-green box that was a little special. It contained three sets of threaded sealing tubes, 5 in each set. The reason why Adenauer could recognize them as three sets was because the threaded sealing tubes in each set were of different models.

The three groups of threaded sealing tubes were not sorted by category, but mixed together. Although these threaded sealing tubes had different models, the difference in appearance was not very big. Adenauer was able to identify them because he had been in close contact with similar things for a long time, so he knew the difference between them. But if other unfamiliar people looked at them, it would be difficult for them, or even impossible to tell them apart.

Most of the three sets of threaded sealing tubes were not sealed tightly or were damaged. The contents had long since evaporated or lost their activity, and most of them had become empty tubes. However, the first, third, and fourteenth in the sequence were still well preserved. These three intact threaded sealing tubes originally had labels, but now the labels were completely blurred, and it was impossible to tell what was written on them. Moreover, the original writing on them was not printed, but written by someone, so it is impossible to restore them using the contractor's equipment.

Adenauer took the three intact threaded sealing tubes in his hands and opened the quest system. However, there was no prompt, indicating that these three items were not related to the dungeon quest. To other players, this might be just one of those "useless details" in the Infinite City, but Adenauer knew the inside story and believed that these three items must be useful, but the people in the Infinite City just didn't know it.

According to his past understanding, Infinite Company creates a new "copy" every month through Infinite City, but because of the time and space anchor points of some copies, the fragments of the world they cut out will often be smaller than they expected. It's okay if they are smaller, but basically the size of many copies is much larger than they expected.

For security reasons, not everyone has access to the "dungeon," which often results in a shortage of manpower during the dungeon setup process. This means that even a long-established, large-scale dungeon might theoretically contain areas that the Infinite Company hasn't explored. For example, the manor wing where Gloria met him earlier and the old Morris mansion both fall into this category. Therefore, the abandoned research facility Adenauer had discovered was likely another location the Infinite City hadn't found. He wasn't particularly concerned about this. Among the Infinite City player community, there were always some unconventional players who discovered secret hidden locations. The authorities were willing to exploit these players, saving manpower. For them, the excuse of a universal hidden location was also acceptable. His current Adenauer account gave the impression of being meticulous, so his discovery of the research facility wouldn't arouse suspicion.

Although it was a bit strange to find the entrance to the research institute one meter underground, when I arrived here, I had laid on the ground to check the soil. In addition, the players who watched the live broadcast of the game should be able to give me the "correct" analysis, so I can also rationalize how I found this place.

The contractor's equipment detected what appeared to be three different sub-viruses within the three threaded tubes. The sub-viruses themselves weren't surprising; it was their composition that was odd. These substances appeared naturally occurring, but not native to human civilization. The contractor's equipment couldn't detect most of their components, suggesting they had never encountered anything like them. The contractors' civilization was, quite literally, a cosmic civilization. If even they hadn't seen anything like this, then its presence on Earth was quite bizarre. After all, it seemed these three threaded tubes weren't the only samples; there were likely many more.

Adenauer was still very interested in this kind of thing, but now was not the right time to study it, so he put them back into their original boxes and continued down the ramp. But when he was a certain distance away, he immediately used the contractor's equipment to lock the three threaded sealing tubes and immediately transported them back to his secret base on the island. He would study them in detail after completing this copy.

At the bottom of the ramp was another metal gate, but it seemed that this gate had not been closed in time and was fully open. After entering the gate, there was the starting point of a mountain-shaped corridor. Adenauer stood at the fork in the road, looking left and right, ready to decide which side he would go first.

Adenauer squatted down and checked the locations of various forks in the road. There was a lot of dust and no special clues. So he placed the tactical flashlight flat on the ground, pinched the flashlight with his fingers, and turned it.

"Gulu."

The flashlight's rotation was gentle, and given its shape, after three or four rotations, it stopped, its beam pointing straight ahead. Adenauer nodded, picked up the flashlight, and placed his right hand on the grip of the modified rifle hanging across his chest. He pulled the folding trigger with his finger and continued down the corridor ahead. After walking for about a few minutes, a large room appeared in front of him.

The door to the room was locked from the inside and could not be opened. The glass walls on either side revealed that the locks were rusted. This wasn't natural rust, but rather someone had poured something, presumably an oxidizing agent or similar solution, onto the lock, completely sealing it and making it impossible to open. Similarly, through the glass walls, one could see what appeared to be a rehabilitation area similar to a hospital, filled with various measuring instruments and medical equipment. Surprisingly, these items were in excellent condition, with only some items like barbells showing some signs of rust.

“Bang, bang, bang!!”

After taking a few steps back to create some distance, Adenauer quickened his pace and jogged, aiming at the door of the room and kicking it. After repeating this three or four times, he successfully kicked the door open. A musty smell wafted into his nose, which was quite normal. That musty smell was the normal smell that would come when no one had been around for a long time.

This large room looked like a rehabilitation center. There was nothing unusual about it. The only thing worth being curious about was some clothes covered in dust. These clothes looked like some special dust-proof clothing. There was no damage and no clues left. However, judging by the size of these dust-proof clothing, they did not seem to be for normal people. They were very long but very narrow. If a person wanted to wear these dust-proof clothing, he or she would need to be at least 1.8 meters tall, but the width of the limbs must be less than or equal to 10 centimeters, the arm length must be at least 1.5 meters, the legs must be as slender as a mineral water bottle, but the torso must be as wide as a single-door refrigerator.

This humanoid creature was definitely not a synth, at least not one of those he had seen before. After all, a creature that could wear these dust-proof suits could not possibly look like a normal person. Adenauer was more inclined to believe that they were the product of some kind of biological experiment. Based on the fact that their current location was some kind of rehabilitation center, there was reason to believe that these things should have a certain degree of intelligence.

After leaving the "rehabilitation center," Adenauer retraced his steps, this time taking a left fork. This fork also ended in a room, but the equipment and furnishings here resembled an intensive care unit or experimental treatment area, filled with a variety of medical equipment and measuring instruments, as well as a large number of beds with fixtures. Adenauer even found some skeletal remains on some of the beds, but based on his observations and analysis of the contractor's equipment, he determined that the skeletons and remains all belonged to normal humans, none of whom could fit into the dust-proof suits found at the "rehabilitation center."

The storage devices of those measuring instruments were taken away. Judging from the dust covering the locations of the storage devices, they should have been taken away on the day the institute was abandoned. Therefore, it is impossible to detect any data through the contractor's equipment, and there is no way to know what exactly happened here.

On one side of the wall of this area, there is a double door. The door is deformed due to rust and cannot be opened easily. Moreover, the door is very thick. With Adenauer's "normal" strength, he cannot kick the door open. If he wants to open the door, he needs some tools such as crowbars.

There were still some thermite bombs left, but the equipment here was densely packed, and using thermite could cause a fire, so it wasn't the first choice. Adenauer searched around for something sturdy to pry it open. He soon found a detached bed rail on the ground and inserted it into the deformed door.

“Crack…bang!”

The bed rail was quite strong, and it successfully pried the deformed door open halfway, but that was all it took. When Adenauer pushed again, the rail couldn't bear the weight and broke in two. However, now he could pass sideways, so Adenauer simply threw away the half rail and used the tactical flashlight to observe inside.

There seemed to be a reinforced corridor inside. Unlike other corridors, the main building material of this corridor was some kind of solid metal. There was only dust on it, no rust. It looked very solid, but the corridor as a whole was shaking slightly. Adenauer picked up the half handrail on the ground and threw it into the corridor behind the door.

"Dang! Dongdong."

Judging by the sound of the handrail hitting the ground, the corridor's floor was hollow. This metal corridor was likely built into the hollow of a natural cave, posing a risk of falling. There was still one last fork in the road, so Adenauer wasn't ready to enter the shaky metal corridor just yet. He chose to retrace his steps, first taking the last fork on the right. If he found nothing, he would return.