Chapter 252

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It was enough to send shivers down one's spine.

Fortunately, the cave mouth was low; climbing a few steps was enough to reach the entrance.

Approaching, they found the cave mouth larger than originally anticipated.

Two adults could walk in side by side.

The moment the powerful spotlight hit the cave mouth, a stone-carved staircase appeared before everyone.

Director Chen's heart sank. This was clearly a man-made cave. Fang Yang's earlier guess had moved one step closer to the truth.

Captain Wang led the way at the front. The staircase was roughly at a 60-degree angle, very steep.

Walking through the corridor, they had to keep their heads down. Fortunately, the stones above the passage were smooth; otherwise, they would have easily bumped their heads.

The group moved down step by step. This section of stairs felt particularly long; they had walked for a long time without reaching the bottom.

Fang Yang's preliminary estimate put the depth at at least 20 meters.

Just the entrance involved such a massive project; one could imagine the interior must be enormous.

Upon reaching the bottom, rooms flanking the passage came into view.

Japanese characters, which they could not understand, were written on the door walls, but fortunately, the System could translate them for him.

Captain Wang looked back. "Who knows what these characters are?"

Everyone shook their heads. Only Fang Yang at the back replied calmly, "Command post!"

"Command post?"

Director Chen and Captain Wang were internally startled.

If that was the case, it confirmed this was an underground military base!

Looking at the room signs beside them, they bore the same text.

Clearly, both were command posts.

Walking inside this unknown cave, everyone was cautious, daring not to act rashly.

After confirming it was a command post, they entered one of the rooms.

When they saw the scene inside, they were instantly stunned.

There were even desks inside, with many documents and some incomprehensible equipment on them.

Due to the passage of time, they were already covered in dust.

Captain Wang walked up, casually picked up a document, and took out a few very clean yellow sheets of paper from inside.

They were covered in text they did not recognize, so he handed them to Fang Yang behind him to see.

Fang Yang held the paper up to the light, glanced at it briefly, and replied, "These are withdrawal documents from the Japanese. They ordered them to evacuate as soon as possible and bury the chemical weapons on site."

After hearing this, Director Chen couldn't help but curse, "Those bastards, they truly deserve to die!!"

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—— 【It really is a military base. Will there be a lot of military equipment down below? After all, what they could carry at the time was limited. Judging by the fact they didn't even take the documents, they must have left in a great hurry. It's possible, like last time, there is an arsenal down below, though we don't know if it can still be used.】

—— 【Just the entrance is this deep. Didn't they fear a bomb would collapse it and bury everyone? It's hard to imagine how they carved out this base back then. How much manpower and material must that have cost? Wouldn't it have been easier to build a fortress with that effort?】

—— 【To the one above: If I tell you these caves were carved bit by bit with flesh and blood by our Chinese people, you will understand. In the eyes of the Japanese back then, we Chinese were less than livestock. This single military base was built upon a pile of bones.】

—— 【As someone with claustrophobia, seeing a place like this makes my skin crawl. I wouldn't dare go in during the day, let alone at night. I always feel something unknown and terrifying is waiting inside, and once I go in, I can never return.】

There were many files on the desk, showing how hurried their evacuation had been; they hadn't had time to take anything away.

Now was not the time to examine the documents. The immediate priority was to explore what this military base was like and whether there were any dangerous weapons below.

Captain Wang looked at the equipment on the desk and asked in confusion, "Is this an old radio telegraph machine?"

Fang Yang leaned in for a look, and the System immediately provided the answer.

"Correct, it's a generator. It can still be used if repaired, but there's no real point in doing so."

None of them had ever seen such a thing; they had only seen it on television.

Although covered in a layer of dust, they couldn't help but be curious and wanted to open it to take a look.

Finally, upon Director Chen's order, everyone left this room and went to the one opposite.

After looking for a while, they found both sides were similar, but both still had a large number of documents left on the tables.

In the end, they decided to go deeper again.

However, they found it was different from their imagination. Continuing forward led to another sloping staircase going down.

Captain Wang shone his light and found this cave mouth was deeper than the entrance.

It was completely incomprehensible why it was built this way, as if there were some unspeakable secret.

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The group continued down the staircase. This time it was easier to walk, roughly at a 45-degree angle.

The walls on both sides were no longer mountain rock. Touching them felt rough; they were actually poured reinforced concrete.

Walking all the way to the lowest level, they found a long corridor ahead.

Under the light, the entire ceiling of the corridor was arched, and the walls on both sides were poured reinforced concrete.

Above the walls, thick pipes ran in rows, but no one knew exactly what they were for.

Below, every ten-plus meters, a symmetrical room could be seen.

The rooms had no doors, and the view stretched endlessly.

The floor was paved with cement, with a sewer on each side.

The entire passage was over 2 meters high and more than 1 meter wide.

The Cameraman couldn't help but exclaim at the sight, "My god, this is simply an underground fortress!"

Fang Yang nodded. "This should be the wartime military command center of the Japanese back then. If I'm not mistaken, the area below should be where soldiers and officers lived."

"Truly unexpected. Digging a hole at the mountain pass, yet everyone lives underground. At first, I thought it was a large cave inside the mountain; this simply surpasses my imagination."

"The cave might collapse at any time. Pouring concrete into the large cavern below the mountain increases stability. Moreover, I suspect there are other exits here; otherwise, once this entrance is blown up, they can only wait to die!"

Hearing this, everyone felt curious about the place, but it was truly too dark inside. To say they weren't afraid would be a lie.

Everyone held a searchlight, the massive beams illuminating the entire nearby underground tunnel.

Fang Yang and the others walked into the first room on the left.

At a glance, they noticed a signboard written above it as well.

"Headquarters!"

The moment these words left Fang Yang's mouth, everyone's expressions trembled.

This was actually the Headquarters!

After entering the room, there was even more furniture here, including a bed. The room was also significantly larger than the previous command post.

The table was still covered with files and documents, all dusted over.

There were too many of these documents; Fang Yang could not possibly translate them all right now.

After looking for a while, the few of them withdrew and came to the room opposite.

This room was larger and had no signboard written on it.

However, the moment they walked in, they immediately knew what this place was for.

The rows of hospital beds and various medical supplies clearly indicated that this should be the infirmary.

Next, they continued moving forward.

Every certain distance, they might see a relatively similar room, and they all went in to take a look.

Not looking would have been fine, but looking truly gave them a fright.

Besides the Headquarters just seen, the infirmary, and the command post at the entrance, this place also separately contained a telegraph room, dormitories, shooting slit bunkers, and even toilets and kitchens!

Moreover, many places led upward, but all were blocked.

Fang Yang guessed these should be ventilation shafts.

The group walked along the tunnel for several hundred meters; the back area consisted mostly of dormitories.

A preliminary estimate suggested there were at least fifty rooms.

This made one marvel: an unremarkable hole in the ground, yet upon entering, one found a world of its own.

So many rooms, fully functional, truly breathtaking.

However, this was not the end.

After the group reached the end, they thought it was over.