Chapter 307 Ventilation Duct
"That's all we can do." Battalion Commander Geng said, "Then what are you going to do next?"
"Since no more clues can be found outside, we plan to enter Factory No. 1 to investigate." Ding Chao said.
"Okay, be careful."
The field operators of Team 67 who had reunited gathered in front of the main entrance of Factory No. 1. After using the meme detection equipment to check for the last time and confirming that no abnormalities were found, Ding Chao moved towards a short man wearing a mask. The operator wearing myopic tactical goggles nodded.
This field operator's name is Sharma, who is a quarter of Tianzhu blood, and is also a correspondent in the 67th field team.
Tianzhu is a very strange country. The illiteracy rate is as high as 50%. However, the number of programmers accounts for 0.2% of the country's total population, which is even higher than that of a country like Xiazhou Federation, which has an illiteracy rate of only 1%. high.
On the other side of the ocean, in the United States, programmers of Indian origin account for more than 70% of the number of programmers in the United States. Even the number one IT company in the United States, "Ju Hard", the last CEO and chairman was an Indian. people.
Sharma may have inherited the magical talent of programmers from Tianzhu. He has shown extraordinary talent in the field of computer programming since he was a child. He won championships in various programming competitions in elementary school, junior high school and high school - it is a pity that this The guy went astray when he was in college and became a hacker. Relying on his excellent technology and the loopholes in the security system of a private bank, he stole hundreds of millions of virtual currencies from the bank's account.
According to federal cybersecurity laws, this amount was enough to put Sharma in jail... Fortunately, the money had not been spent when he was arrested, and his talents were spotted by military bosses. , which saved him from jail... and his identity changed from a shady hacker to a white hat working for the military.
After Ye Jiu learned about Sharma's ability, he relied on his stalking skills to dig this person over. Of course, there was another most important reason: Sharma himself was very interested in investigation and investigation. He is also very interested in studying weird objects... He once saw many confidential files related to weird objects when he hacked into the federal official database. Since then, he has been deeply fascinated by these dangerous and weird things. Lived.
In addition to his talent as a programmer, Sharma also has another hobby due to his Indian ancestry: seeking death.
After Ye Jiu and Sharma sent out invitations, the two hit it off - the man was affectionate and the concubine was interested... It didn't take long for Sharma to naturally leave the army and become a member of the field department of the Tianfu City Monster Research Institute.
"It depends on your ability, Sharma." Ding Chao said.
"Team leader, just keep an eye on it." Sharma walked forward and put a suction cup that was very similar to a stethoscope on the door lock of the factory door. Then he sat cross-legged on the ground and took it out of the satchel behind him. got a laptop.
He plugged the other end of the "stethoscope" into the computer, and with his fingers tapping rapidly on the keyboard, strings of dense codes scrolled crazily on the screen.
One minute, two minutes...
Four minutes, five minutes...
Ten minutes passed, and the code on the screen was still scrolling, but the door made of special alloy was motionless, and fine beads of sweat oozed from Sharma's forehead.
"How long will it take?" Ding Chao frowned and asked softly.
"I...I'm not sure." Sharma's voice was a little dry. "To be honest, similar security programs are much more complicated than this one. I have cracked a lot of them...but this door lock is really weird. Well, every time when I was about to complete the crack, its underlying code would be reset directly, causing my previous efforts to fall short... Logically speaking, it is impossible for a security program of this level to achieve this level! ”
"I don't understand." Ding Chao, who knew nothing about computers, shook his head, "Can you describe it in a more popular way?"
"It's like I'm in a maze. Whenever I'm about to reach the exit of the maze, the road inside the maze will become unrecognizable, and my position will be reset to the center of the maze... This is nothing special. A clever security measure, because its biggest disadvantage is that it requires very high computing power.”
"How high?" Ding Chao couldn't help but ask.
"At least one supercomputer is needed to meet this demand... There is only one of this kind of supercomputer in the entire Shuzhou area in the Institute of Creatures in Tianfu City." Sharma wiped the sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand and murmured. murmured.
"Then if we use the supercomputer in the Institute of Creatures, can we crack this door lock?" Yin Xiang asked.
"Yes, but it will take at least six to eight hours." Sharma said, "I estimate it is six to eight hours, but specifically..."
"We don't have that much time." Ding Chao interrupted him, "You continue to crack the door lock, and others will think about whether there is any other way to enter the factory without using brute force."
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"Can you use a laser cutter to make a hole in the wall and get in?" a field operator suggested.
"Difficult." Ding Chao immediately shook his head, "Before departure, I saw the design drawing of Factory No. 105. The thinnest part of the outer wall of the factory building is one and a half meters thick, except for the concrete outer wall. , all of which are assembled from steel structure modules. The power of the laser cutting machine If the power is too high, it may damage the equipment placed against the wall. If the power is small, it will be difficult to cut it quickly... At the same time, during cutting, the internal steel structure will also conduct high temperature to the inside of the factory. Likewise, It will damage those precision equipment... No! ”
"How about digging a tunnel?" the field operator asked again.
"The outer steel structure wall is fourteen meters deep underground, and we don't have suitable excavation tools now... How many hours do you plan to dig?" Ding Chao said helplessly.
Just when everyone was at a loss, Yin Xiang raised his head and saw a vent covered by a barbed wire more than 20 meters above the ground. Inside the vent, several dirty propeller blades were moving Turning slowly.
"The vent!" Yin Xiang said, "We can get in through the vent!"
"The vent..." Ding Chao fell into deep thought.
Although the production workshop of Factory No. 105 is fully enclosed, the staff lounges and offices inside the factory are still connected to the outside world by vents - but Ding Chao remembers clearly that the design drawings indicate the internal layout of the factory. The ventilation ducts are all 400 millimeters by 550 millimeters, and a normal human body cannot fit through them... unless the person is an acrobat who has mastered the "bone shrinking skill".
"You can't get through the vent..." Ding Chao said, "It's too small..."
At this moment, his eyes rested on Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu.
Ling Xiao is still a child, and his figure is even a head lower than the skinny Sharma... As for Jiang Yu, she is already thin, and her infection meme comes from Tai Sui. From a certain point of view, Said that she can really use the "bone shrinking skill".
"You two...can you give it a try?" Ding Chao asked.
"Me? I should..." Jiang Yu was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the narrow vent with some hesitation, "Y-should be okay."
"I can try." Ling Xiao's answer was straightforward.
"I will use the drone to clear the way for you. The communication inside the factory is not blocked. If the drone in front finds that something is wrong, you can exit immediately." Ding Chao added. "Okay... okay." Jiang Yu nodded.
With the help of other operators, the two quickly removed all the excess equipment from their bodies, leaving only a tight-fitting combat uniform, with no shoes left.
Ling Xiao hung the holster containing the "God-Killing Spear" around his neck, and held a sheathed military dagger in his mouth.
Jiang Yu changed his weapon to a foldable short bow and tied it tightly to the outside of his thigh with an elastic band. On the other side, he tied several short bow-specific arrows, and A curved hunting knife with serrations on the back.
She spread out the ponytail on the back of her head, then braided it into a braid, and tucked it into the collar at the back of her neck.
After being "transformed" into a hunter, her hair grew back, black and thick, completely different from the thin appearance before.
A field operator relied on a rock-climbing suction cup to climb to the vent, used a welding gun to cut through the barbed wire, and removed the fan from the vent.
Immediately afterwards, everyone used pulleys and rappelling ropes to lift Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu directly in front of the vent.
Jiang Yu glanced at the dark vent, feeling some subconscious resistance in her heart.
"I'll go in first." Ling Xiao saw Jiang Yu's hesitation and said directly.
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"Still... I should be in front." Jiang Yu gritted his teeth, "I'm older than you, and I'm still a hunter, so I should take the lead."
"Whatever you want." Ling Xiao said, still looking expressionless.
A drone in the shape of a remote control car was first put into the ventilation duct. After the drone drove forward for a minute, Jiang Yu carefully untied the rappelling rope on his body and got into the ventilation duct.
Then came Ling Xiao, who was biting the dagger.
The pipe was very narrow, and Jiang Yu's slender body couldn't even stretch out her arms and legs - she could only curl her whole body into a ball, crawling forward like a caterpillar.
Fortunately, the Tai Sui meme gave her amazing muscle strength, as well as anti-human movements of some joints that ordinary people could not do. Even when crawling, Jiang Yu's speed was not too slow.
Thanks to his outrageous family environment and lack of material conditions, even among his peers, Ling Xiao's figure is on the thin and short side. Compared to Jiang Yu, a former athlete, he is Able to crawl freely on all fours in ventilation ducts.
"The drone has found no abnormalities." Ding Chao's voice came from the two people's headphones, "You can continue to move forward and maintain this speed and distance."
"Ming...understand." Jiang Yu replied, her voice was very low, as if she was afraid of waking up something.
Ling Xiao, who was biting the dagger, didn't reply. He just followed Jiang Yu and crawled forward silently.
From Ling Xiao's perspective, as long as he looked up, he could see Jiang Yu's hip curves outlined by the tight-fitting combat uniform and the white feet underneath her buttocks - but Ling Xiao, who had been deprived of all his emotions and six desires by Anna, simply couldn't see it. He doesn't think about those things between men and women. The only thought in his head is to think about how Jiang Yu can do those incredible actions with a human body structure.
"Is there nothing wrong with you two?" Ding Chao asked, with some worry in his tone.
"There's nothing wrong with me... My body wasn't used to it at first, but it's much better now." Jiang Yu, who was squirming in the pipe, replied.
Ling Xiao said "hmm" with a nasal sound, indicating that he had no problem.
"I just looked at the design drawing of Factory No. 1 again. The vent you got into is vent No. A3. The vent is connected to three employee lounges, a locker room, and a general equipment storage room on the fourth floor of the factory. These six rooms have exits, and the one closest to you should be the entertainment room...Move forward another twenty meters, turn a corner, and you will see it.”
Just as Ding Chao said, after Jiang Yu climbed twenty meters and twisted his body to squeeze through the right-angled bend, he saw a branching pipe pointing downwards not far ahead. The light cut into countless small pieces by the grid is projected up from below and shines on the pipe wall.
"Down below is the entertainment room. The drone is not equipped with additional equipment and cannot open the pipe opening. It is up to you." Ding Chao said.
"Okay..."
Jiang Yu crawled forward a short distance again. She stuck her upper body in the main ventilation duct, and her lower body stretched into the branch pipe-the length of the branch pipe was only half a meter. Jiang Yu's bare feet The child stepped on the cold metal grille.
"Just use brute force... to kick it away?" Jiang Yu asked.
"Well, try to be careful."
After getting a positive answer, Jiang Yu took a deep breath, grabbed the edge of the main pipe with both hands, concentrated his strength on his right leg, and stepped on it hard.
With a "click", several screws used to fix the metal grille flew out instantly, and the severely deformed metal grille also fell down at the same time - fortunately, the floor of the entertainment room was covered with a thick layer of flocking The carpet and the metal grille didn't make any alarming noises when dropped on them.
Jiang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, loosened his hands, and fell into the room.
The area of this entertainment room is not large. It is only more than thirty square meters in total. It has no windows and only a closed door.
A pool table was placed in the most conspicuous position in the room. There were two old leather sofas against the wall, and two dart boards hung on the wall.
There is an electric mahjong table near the door...but there seems to be some malfunction in the mahjong table. There are constant sounds of gears getting stuck and the slight sound of mahjong tiles colliding with each other.
"I'm in." Jiang Yu pressed the earphone and said, "No trace of humans or monsters was found in the room."
(End of chapter)