Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 528 The Polluted City (22)

"Let's go, I don't need to stay here anymore."

"Leave? Where are you going in this situation?"

"Johor Bahru."

After completing the autopsy on the farmer, Adenauer took off his surgical gown and gloves, picked up the rifle next to him, and made a move to leave the operating room. Madison was very confused about why Adenauer was going to leave the relatively safe hospital at this time.

"Young man, I don't think you understood what I said before. Johor Bahru is a devil's den. Once you go there, there's no coming back! Since you already know how terrifying it is there, why are you still going there to die?!!"

"I'm just a serious criminal. I'm more curious about why you care about my life or death."

"Maybe you, like Simon, don't deserve to die."

"You don't know me."

"My intuition tells me that you are similar to Simon. At least you are not a guy like Javier who really deserves to die."

During his time with Adenauer, veteran policeman Juan gradually relaxed his suspicions. He didn't know why, but he felt that while Adenauer was certainly dangerous, he wasn't a particularly vicious person. So, upon hearing that Adenauer was still heading to Johor Bahru, he tried to persuade him to leave and stop getting involved in these matters.

"Especially since the rainstorm outside hasn't stopped yet, and the townspeople have turned into irrational monsters. Even if we can't persuade you, at least you have to wait until the rain stops before leaving... Hey! Wait!"

However, Adenauer did not stop. He had already walked out of the operating room. Juan did not want Adenauer to really go to Johor Bahru. Madison needed Adenauer's protection to leave the town, so the two of them followed him.

"Why don't you listen to others? Where did your politeness go?"

"You don't need to worry about what happens next. Let me give you a piece of advice. You'd better leave this town immediately. If you have any connections, it's best to leave this country immediately."

"why?"

"If the tragedy in this town is related to Xinshan City or the synths, then it's very likely that Xinshan City, or at least someone closely connected to them, created the town's current situation. Although I don't know how they've influenced everyone in the town, I suspect they're trying to take advantage of this situation and replace all the townspeople with synths. If you stay here, you probably won't end well."

Adenauer's words immediately set off alarm bells in the minds of Madison and veteran police officer Juan. He was right. If the situation in the town was truly connected to New Mountain City, then his suspicions were very likely to come true. If those who came to replace the ordinary townspeople discovered that there were still people alive in the town, then in order to keep their secret, the fate of the survivors could be imagined.

"Why don't we act together first? At least after we leave the town, it won't be too late to go our separate ways."

"I have no opinion."

Madison didn't seem to have revealed all her secrets, and she was still holding back. Adenauer read this from her expression, but Madison was no longer of much use. After all, he had used the contractor's equipment to download all the information from the two data cards. Based on the comparison, the information on the two data cards didn't seem to be closely related to the current situation in the town, and was probably irrelevant to the subsequent copy process. So there was no need to waste time asking about Madison's hidden secrets.

The reason why she wanted to leave with me was simply because she assessed the situation. She knew very well that it would be very risky to leave the town and reach a safe area by herself, but with my protection, her chances of survival would be much greater.

However, the old policeman Juan also followed him, probably for other reasons. After all, Juan no longer needed to go to Johor Bahru. Even if he still escorted him to Johor Bahru, there would be only one prisoner left among the fifteen prisoners. He would have no way to explain it, either openly or in reality.

But that didn't matter. After all, Madison and veteran police officer Juan weren't even a threat to him, so he followed them anyway. Adenauer was definitely heading to New Mountain City, not only because that was the main content of the dungeon, but also because he was likely to find information related to synths there. Infinite Company wouldn't be foolish enough to bring anything related to them into the Infinite City dungeon, but Infinite Company seemed to be half-controlled by the Ferdinand family, so this possibility wasn't completely out of the question. Based on his previous conversation with Christina, the Ferdinand family didn't seem to be simply aiming to replace or completely control Infinite Company.

"Okay, let's go to the morgue on the underground floor first. There's a maintenance passage there that leads to the outside of the hospital and can also bypass the mutated townspeople gathered on the first floor of the hospital."

Seeing that she couldn't persuade Adenauer, Madison had no choice but to tell him about the secret exit. She really wanted to use Adenauer's strength to escape the town safely, but she didn't lie completely. In the current weather outside, she really didn't want to leave the hospital now.

The backup generator had been started, and the power in the hospital had naturally been restored. Taking the elevator, the three of them quickly returned to the morgue on the basement floor.

The situation here seemed much the same as when they had retrieved the farmer's body. This was from Madison and Juan's perspective; they lacked clairvoyance. However, Adenauer could see that a small team had not left the hospital with the convoy, but had, for some reason, returned to the hospital, right at the time they had been dissecting the synth corpse in the operating room on the third floor. Their destination seemed to be the secret exit in the maintenance corridor that Madison had previously opened through the terminal on the top floor.

There was no special alarm system on the hospital's backup generator. After cracking the team's equipment using the contractor's equipment, no relevant connection was found. Therefore, the team probably didn't realize that there were other people left in the hospital. The reason they appeared here should be due to other possibilities.

"This is it... I'll open the door."

"This place is shaped like a bomb shelter, or at least a branch of one."

"That's right. All the large buildings in the town, like the town government building, the town square, and even the monument, have a branch line underground that connects to the air-raid shelter on the west side of the town. It's said that after the war, the government at the time expanded the original air-raid shelter to prevent future wars. Although it's peacetime now and the possibility of war is low, the air-raid shelter has been preserved. Every once in a while, a special person comes to repair the air-raid shelter... Strange, why can't this door be opened? Is it stuck?"

"Let me try. Maybe the mechanical door lock is rusted. It'll take some force."

When Adenauer saw the small air-raid shelter gate, he understood why the team had come here. The town's air-raid shelter was large and complex, enough to accommodate twice the town's population. Perhaps the team had received some information, perhaps discovered some secret within the shelter, which led them back to the hospital. Based on this speculation, the object they were looking for should be closest to this branch line leading to the hospital.

Adenauer pretended to exert force and tried to turn the handle of the gate. In fact, the reason why the gate could not be opened was not because the latch was rusted, but because the team that had already entered had locked the mechanical gears inside the gate with some sealing devices. Since the sealing devices were needed, it proved that the team might have to return the same way.

The door seal was easily cracked, so Adenauer planned to use the contractor's equipment to hack it and open the gate in front of him. However, before he could start, he saw through his perspective that the team inside the gate was carrying a box covered with waterproof cloth and returning to the gate.

So Adenauer used the contractor's equipment to hack the night vision goggles inside several people's helmets. This little trick seemed useless, but it made the team inside stop, and the night vision goggles became useless, so the people inside naturally stopped and started talking.

"This damn thing is broken again, what do I do?"

"Try knocking twice. If that doesn't work, turn on the light on your helmet."

"What advanced combat support system? It's just a bunch of glitchy electronics!"

"Okay, stop complaining and get to work."

The door of the air-raid shelter was not soundproof, even though it was very thick, so Madison and the old policeman Juan naturally heard the conversation inside. When they discovered that there was someone hiding in the secret exit, Madison naturally became nervous immediately.

Juan looked at Adenauer and gestured to ask him if he had any ideas. Adenauer responded quickly and asked Juan to take Madison to hide in the maintenance passage at the back, while he hid at the door. As long as the people inside opened the gate, he would be blocked by the gate and appear behind them. Once they took action, he could catch them off guard.

Adenauer took off his rifle and handed it to Juan. After Juan took the gun, he and Madison immediately hid in the maintenance passage behind the air-raid shelter, closely watching the direction of the air-raid shelter gate. Adenauer grabbed his pistol, installed the silencer, and hid to the side of the door, waiting for the people inside to emerge.

"Alright, stop it. Go back and fix it. If it doesn't work, just hand it over to those nerds. Take the stuff back first."

The team inside fiddled with their helmets for a while, trying to fix the night vision goggles. Of course, that was impossible; the goggles weren't broken in the first place; they'd simply been hacked by Han Zu's contractors. Perhaps because they'd wasted so much time, someone, seemingly the team leader, waved a hand to stop the team members from fiddling with their helmets, turned on the flashlights on their weapons, and continued on their way. The team members behind them had no choice but to put their helmets back on and continue to follow, carrying the tarpaulin-covered box.

"Kalong~"

Soon, the team returned to the gate, released the door sealing device, turned the door lock, opened the gate and walked out.

"Close the gates to prevent those frantic townspeople from breaking in."

"clear."

The soldier at the end of the team was about to close the gate, but after pushing it twice, he suddenly discovered that there was a person hiding behind the open gate, and pointing something at him. Because the night vision goggles were out of effect and the lighting of the team in front did not illuminate this position, he did not know what was pointing at him, which caused him a brief confusion and he was unable to immediately notify others that there was someone hiding here.

"call out."

"Ping."

The bullet pierced the helmet, instantly ending the man's life. Adenauer held his body back from falling to the ground, making almost no sound. After quietly placing the body on the ground, Adenauer quickly advanced, aiming accurately at the heads of the rest of the squad from behind, instantly knocking down most of them. The sounds of the subsequent falling men finally attracted the attention of the two men carrying the box in front, as well as the team leader at the front.

"what sound?"

"咻咻咻~~~"

"Boom, boom, boom."

After a few silenced gunshots, the entire team was completely wiped out. Except for the guy who closed the door, no one else knew how they died. After dealing with the team, Adenauer waved in the direction of the maintenance passage, kicked the bodies on the ground aside, and walked towards the box that had fallen to the ground.

"Why are these people still here? Did they find out we are still in the hospital?"

"No, it looks like it's for the box at Adenauer's feet. What's in it?"

"I don't know, just wait and see."

Lifting the tarp covering it, the three of them saw the box underneath. It was a very old supply box, dating back to the war years, or at least a period close to it. There was very little left of the wooden planks, and if it weren't for the iron bars inside, the box would have fallen apart long ago.

Despite the iron bars, it was just an ordinary supply box, so Adenauer didn't have to use much force to pry open the lid. Inside was a notebook that looked waterlogged. The leather covers on both sides had hardened and deformed, and the pages inside were sticking together. It was impossible to make out what was written inside.

Besides the notebooks, there were some well-preserved sealed film rolls. The sides of the film boxes had labels, but the writing was so worn that it was almost gone, and it was impossible to tell what was written on them. There were also some scraps of metal that looked like badly damaged military registration cards. The names that had originally been engraved on them had been completely worn away, making them unrecognizable.

Beyond that, there was nothing of importance left, just some rotten pieces of wartime banknotes and what were probably coins. Adenauer took the notebook and used the contractor's equipment to scan all the film. He then stopped paying attention to the box and began searching the bodies for weapons.

Adenauer noticed that Madison was acting a little strangely. She seemed to be very concerned about the film in the box and kept looking at the notebook she had stuffed into her trouser pocket. These things did not seem unfamiliar to Madison.