Chapter 1038

After wandering around Site-41 a bit more, Adam found a lounge.

There were no corpses here, and no damage; everything was in order, only a layer of light gray dust on the furniture, looking as if the owner and user of this room had gone on a long trip.

Adam smelled the faint aroma of coffee in the air, and the fatigue of the long journey gradually surged, slapping and stroking the reef like a sea tide, making a urge to fall asleep.

If viewed from the rhythm of "normalcy," Adam's biological clock was extremely chaotic; it was noon now, far from the time for sleep.

But since the day-night cycle disappeared, the concepts of "day" and "night" became more and more distant from the survivors.

The world of "normalcy" no longer existed, but the fatigue couldn't be faked; the heavy exhaustion of his body made him unable to resist the temptation of sleep.

Adam found something to remove the dust on the sofa, spread out his sleeping bag, and lay down on this temporary and comfortable couch.

This is underground, far from the surface; maybe he can stay away from that disturbing giant eye in the sky?

Just as Adam was rejoicing in his heart and about to fall asleep, the breath of urgency and anxiety found him, drinking with a commanding tone:

"Get up!"

He shouted in the distance:

"You can't rest here! Take action! Calculate! Everything is still in progress!"

Adam turned over and ignored Him.

However, doubts arose quietly in his heart, because he could really ignore the influence of 3125.

"... What am I missing? Or because of what?" Adam tried to explain.

From theory and past experience, he should be trembling uncontrollably at this moment, his thinking filled with rage and fear.

But at this time, there was only peace in his heart, as if he were in a deep and secluded valley, as if he had sunk to the bottom of an ancient well, without sound.

He stared at the existence of "SCP-3125"; theoretically, that was enough to make him limp with extreme terror.

He watched the actions being carried out by "SCP-3125"; this should have ignited the monstrous anger in the depths of every fiber of his being.

Looking back at the purpose of his trip, and the calm estimation of the probability of success, all the factors intertwined, and finally reached the answer—

All efforts seem to be in vain!

"Must stop! Everything must end! Please!"

Adam Wheeler changed to a comfortable position, curled up in his sleeping bag, closed his eyes tightly, and whispered to the possible listener in the void:

"Useless."

At Site-41, Adam spent the most stable night in these days.

He wouldn't be troubled by the roaring 3125, nor would he worry about the black ghost shadow in the sky suddenly stepping through the roof and abducting him.

He fell asleep in fatigue, woke up when he was full of spirit, and then continued his exploration of Site-41.

After some thought, Adam decided to search the security room, monitoring room, and other places first; such places either have the layout of the entire building or will have the keys to the entire building.

Of course, this is the life experience of the "normalcy" world; a behemoth like the Foundation in the "anomalous" world might be a bit different from what he thought.

However, the gap is not that big.

After searching in the security office for a while, Adam found the layout of the entire site.

According to his memory, he crossed out the explored rooms and those destroyed rooms on the drawing one by one.

In this way, only those rooms that could not be entered were left unmarked on the entire drawing.

And without exception, these rooms were all located deep underground.

Compared to the underground building part, the ground building part of Site-41 was just the tip of the iceberg.

There were many research facilities underground with unknown functions; Adam had never seen the names marked on the drawing, and they were connected by an extremely complex tunnel network.

In addition, Adam also found the containment unit where anomalies were stored in Ulrich's words.

Looking at the numbers one by one, Adam sincerely hoped that the anomalies inside were really "Safe," and it would be best if they were all killed by 3125.

—He didn't want to encounter a walking nuclear warhead in his subsequent exploration.

"Hmm... this is?"

As Adam flipped to the layout of the thirtieth underground floor, he noticed a huge vault with an unspecified purpose here.

That was undoubtedly a room that was highly confidential even within the Foundation; intuition told Adam that he would find something there.

It might reveal the reason for the destruction of Site-41, it might contain something dangerous, or it might be the place where Dr. Hughes was hiding...

But no matter which one it was, it was worth his going down to see.

The elevator part for carrying people was destroyed, but it still sent Adam to the thirtieth underground floor intact.

As the elevator door slowly retracted to one side, Adam moved along the corridor, the sensor lights were awakened by his footsteps one by one, until he stopped at the end.

What appeared before him was a huge metal gate; if fully opened, it would be enough for heavy trucks to pass through.

However, one corner of it was drilled with seven or eight overlapping circular holes, forming an opening large enough for people to pass through.

Adam shone his flashlight inside, and after confirming there was no obvious danger, he drilled in.

Behind the door was a vast and dark space, silent as death, and the air was stuffy.

The light of the flashlight tried to break through the boundaries of darkness, but could only illuminate a limited small area in front.

That was a space of silence and forgetting, empty, at least within the range of his flashlight.

As Adam's footsteps echoed in the empty vault, a huge sound seemed to whisper in his ear, gradually amplifying with his every step.

He continued to move forward, and the light of the flashlight gradually revealed the scene ahead—fourteen corpses were lying quietly on the ground.