Chapter 941 Anchorage

"He is right...if we fail, more people will die...even...the history of the human species will end here..." Qi Lin sighed and took over the conversation.

"Gudong." George couldn't help but swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, "If we fail...humanity...all mankind...will it really become extinct? Just like what's shown in those disaster movies?"

"Yeah... When I used to watch those movies, I always felt that the end of the world was so far away... Until now, it still feels a little unreal that the burden of saving the world falls on my shoulders." Qi Lin He shook his head slightly.

"Don't worry, buddy, according to the plots in those disaster movies, since the task of saving the world is entrusted to you, you will definitely have the halo of the protagonist." George suddenly gave a somewhat lewd smile.

"Let me lend you some good words..."

The protagonist...is he considered the protagonist? ...Even if it is...not all stories have happy endings. The real world is not a commercial film, and no one knows whether it will be a Happy Ending or a Bad Ending...

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the next day.

It seems that there is really a "protagonist halo" at work. Not only did Qi Lin and the others not encounter a blizzard, they did not even hit the polar mutant creatures. They easily climbed over the Alaskan Mountains like a natural chasm, and waited until the sky became dark again. When we came down, the outline of the ruins of Anchorage had appeared on the horizon at the end of our field of vision.

"This is so completely destroyed...I can hardly find a complete building..." George held up the telescope in his hand and couldn't help but sigh.

"Of course... although Anchorage was not bombed by a hydrogen bomb, the aerial bombs dropped on the city were enough to completely wipe it off the map..." Harveys said.

"Why is there no shelter built underground in Anchorage? I'm very curious about this." Qi Lin turned to Harveys and asked, as the largest city in Alaska, it is two hundred kilometers away from Anchorage. There is no underground shelter within, which is not only puzzling. After all, when the war breaks out, it is impossible to have time for long-distance transfer. Even if there is no shelter built directly under the big city, Then there should be some temporary shelters or underground passages built in suburban areas...but there are none of these in Anchorage.

"In the early days of the war, Anchorage was indeed the base camp of the American army in Alaska, and the battle to defend Anchorage under the command of General Constantine also took place here... However, in the later stages of the war, most of the troops stationed in Alaska were It was moved to Fort Yukon, and most of the underground shelter groups were built near Fort Yukon, while Anchorage was turned into a shelter for civilians... At the same time, it also became a false target for enemy bombing. ." Harveys said.

"Using civilians as bait... They are really crazy... I remember that the United States claims to be the most dishonest country in the world. This kind of trampling on human rights..." The corners of Qi Lin's mouth twitched slightly, thinking about this incident that has passed. He knew far less about the inside story of the war than Harveys, who was a senior military officer at the time.

"At that time, these things were not made public. People thought it was just a tragedy that happened because of intelligence errors... Of course, after the shelter era began, organizations and consortiums made public announcements in order to take power away from politicians. A lot of confidential information such as this was obtained, and these things became the last straw that broke the camel's back... and also brought those consortiums to the pinnacle of power in human society in the new era." Harveys continued.

"But now they have become our enemies...I am very curious. If I win in the end and shut down the mastermind, then...who will be the ruler?"

"Who knows...but chaos is certainly inevitable. By the way, do you want to be emperor?"

"Emperor?" Qi Lin was stunned for a moment.

"Occupy the mountain and become the king, establish the order of the new era, and become the ruler of the new era...don't you want to?"

"To be honest, I'm not interested. I've never thought about such a thing." Qi Lin shook his head.

"Don't talk too much, people will change."

"Maybe. Okay, we should separate for the time being. There is a radiation zone ahead. You guys wait for me here. I will come back as soon as possible." Qi Lin took a few steps forward, turned around and said to Harveys and the others.

"Okay, but if you don't come back within forty-eight hours, we will find another way out."

"Yes." Qi Lin nodded, and walked towards the ruins of Anchorage with the organized equipment...

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Anchorage is surrounded by a group of bunkers that are five kilometers deep. Of course, this continuous group of bunkers has now been turned into ruins. The gray concrete is covered with a thick layer of snow. Thick steel bars were criss-crossed like dead branches, extending crookedly from the ground to the sky.

Qi Lin carefully walked between the ruins of the bunker. However, just as he climbed over a fallen anti-aircraft turret, a very slight, dull sound of metal friction suddenly reached his ears not far away. , separated by the thick snow and fortifications, this sound was easily ignored, but with Qi Lin's perception, he was able to instantly lock the direction of the sound.

"Is there something in the bunker down there?"

Qi Lin immediately increased his vigilance, took off his engineering shovel, and began to dig out the thick snow under his feet.

In less than ten minutes, a path just big enough for one person to pass appeared at Qi Lin's feet, and at the end of the path, a rusty iron gate of the bunker was dug out by Qi Lin.

The sound of metal friction came from behind the door.

The door lock had been corroded and was very fragile. Qi Lin broke the lock bolt with a gentle tug. He held the gun in one hand and gently pushed open the iron door with the other hand.

A faint smell of corpses immediately came out from the crack in the door, and through the crack in the door, Qi Lin saw a similarly rusty power armor stuck in the center of the first floor of the bunker. The voice was exactly the same. It came from inside the power armor.

"...is it a zombie?"

Qi Lin pushed the door open completely, stepped over the corpses lying on the ground, walked to the power armor, and lightly tapped the helmet of the power armor with the handle of his pistol——

"Bang bang bang!"

There was a banging sound in the power armor immediately in response. It was obvious that something should be trapped in the power armor that had lost its energy.

Qi Lin took out a saber and pried open the visor of the helmet. The face of a living dead appeared in front of him. When he saw a living person, the living dead trapped in the power armor immediately shook violently. He struggled, opened his mouth to reveal his incomplete teeth, and made a "ho ho" sound from deep in his throat.

After taking a look at the living dead's yellow-white cloudy eyes, Qi Lin shook his head in disappointment. This was an unconscious zombie, not a zombie that could communicate.

Putting the pistol against the zombie's head, Qi Lin pulled the trigger, ending its struggle.

The model of this power armor is T-11, or T-13. In short, it is a very early model. At that time, power armor had not even been installed in the army on a large scale, and this very early power armor had nothing The radiation protection function will cause the person wearing it to be mutated into zombies by radiation.

The Alaska Theater was one of the first theaters in the United States to put power armor into actual combat. It is not surprising that this old antique would appear here.

After walking around inside the bunker, Qi Lin didn't find anything valuable. The electronic equipment in the bunker was basically scrapped, and there was no important information in the officers' combat records. As Harveys said, in At that time, the Anchorage bombing was regarded entirely as a tragedy caused by intelligence errors.

As for the troops stationed here, as part of the bait themselves, it is naturally impossible for them to obtain real information.

After taking a look at the corpse of an officer wearing a lieutenant's uniform, Qi Lin threw the yellowed combat notebook beside it and walked out of the bunker.

Anchorage was bombed almost ten hours earlier than Fort Yukon. The death of millions of people bought enough time for the garrisons at Fort Yukon and other areas to successfully attack the next round. before the nuclear strike arrived... At that time, American politicians were still thinking about conserving military power as much as possible and preparing for the war that would inevitably break out after returning to the surface. However, even they could not Unexpectedly, all this not only ruined their future, but even the power they preserved was used as a wedding dress for others.

And those large consortiums are the ones who have made the most profits... Of course, these forces have now been incorporated into the organization... under the banner of the mastermind.

After passing through the group of bunkers and crossing a ring highway that had also been buried in heavy snow, Qi Lin finally entered the urban area of ​​Anchorage.

Before the war broke out, Anchorage's permanent population was about 300,000 to 400,000. However, later due to the influx of a large number of war refugees, this number expanded to 1 million. Those refugees can be seen everywhere in the city. The temporary shelters used by people to shelter, especially in Anchorage's downtown squares and parks, have been occupied by a large number of simple shacks.

"The coordinates of the safe base given by the mastermind should be in this area...but where exactly is it?"

Qi Lin looked around, but the clues provided by the mastermind had been cut off at this point. As for where the safe stronghold was, Qi Lin himself had no idea.

Is it necessary to search the ruins in this area inch by inch... In that case, with Qi Lin's efficiency alone, I am afraid that there will be no chance at all in less than ten days and a half.

"We lost contact at such a critical moment..."

Qi Lin felt a little annoyed and kicked up a pile of snow on the ground. The white snow flew far away, and the light gray cement road surface was immediately revealed.

"Um?!"

Qi Lin held his breath when he saw the exposed concrete pavement under his feet - the snow in this place seemed to be much shallower than in other places!

This means that the snow here should have been cleared not long ago... And in the ruins of this city with no living people, who will come to clear the snow?

This is the clue left by the mastermind!

Qi Lin immediately waved his engineer shovel and shoveled away all the snow in the surrounding area with the position where he stood as the center.

The snow in the northwest is the shallowest, and the further you go in that direction, the shallower the snow becomes!

Qi Lin raised his head and looked to the northwest. He saw a tall building not far from the northwest. Although nearly one-third of the building was destroyed by the bombing, the remaining part still looked... It is very majestic, with more than a dozen marble pillars as thick as three or four people can hug each other standing on the steps. With the snow covering them, from a distance, it looks like the ruins of a temple of a lost civilization.

"...Federal Reserve Bank Building? Is the security stronghold here?"

With a trace of curiosity, Qi Lin walked to the bank building.

In the old days, this bank building should have been a key defense target for the US military. The steps were covered with barbed wire and barricades, and there were many sandbags piled up at the gate... But Qi Lin casually swept them away near the steps. There is a bit of snow, but underneath there are a lot of human bones.

Presumably when Anchorage was bombed, the bank building, which was sturdy and protected by the military, was naturally regarded as a good shelter by panicked civilians. Many people flocked here, and many failed to squeeze in. Those who entered the bank were blown to death outside.

Pushing open the dilapidated door, Qi Lin walked into the bank hall - just as he expected, the hall was covered with a layer of corpses of refugees. Although these people were not killed by bombs, they were dead. in the radiation contamination caused by the dirty bombs that were subsequently dropped here.

"Sure enough, this place has been cleaned up..."

Although the corpses here have not been removed, there are thousands of people who died here in this huge bank hall, but Qi Lin did not see any living dead, not even their corpses. , based on the normal radiation variation rate, this is impossible.

Even a small motorcycle club and a mob stronghold with no more than a dozen people will have mutants. Thousands of people have been killed by radiation, so how come not even a single living dead appears?

Except for the traces left by bomb shrapnel, the bank's door has no traces of man-made violence, so the possibility of mutated living dead leaving here is also ruled out. In the absence of external stimulation, zombies rarely If they actively choose to leave the enclosed space, they will enter a state similar to hibernation...

But here... there is nothing!