Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 322: For Your Majesty (137)

Dragon Raja 5

“Let’s talk about something interesting. Alexander Bunin also said these things, but he distanced himself even more, as if he had never been involved in them.”

Auchinez smiled mysteriously. “He really didn’t touch it. He looks like an old guy, but he’s actually the youngest of us. He’s a waiter, serving us. We’re not really afraid of him; we’re afraid of the boss behind him.”

“Go on.” Su Enxi finished treating his wounds and began studying the small device that stored the map.

“Unexpectedly, humanity found the Tower of Babel. Some people stopped halfway up, using the technology they obtained from the Tower to do some small things, but in the eyes of the world, it was already a miracle. At least a very small number of people kept looking up and kept going upwards, eventually reaching the clouds. These technologies once greatly excited the higher-ups, but what excited them was only small achievements like super soldiers and extended lifespans. Some people used their funds to go to heaven, but they didn’t get a share.”

“You mean the higher-ups at the time were very clear about this theological research institute?” Su Enxi was taken aback.

According to her previous intelligence, Black Swan Harbor was funded by a mysterious red family that hid its budget in the corner of the military budget, allowing it to operate in secret.

“Of course, the KGB knows even the jokes you tell at your own dinner table, so how could a research institute within the Soviet Union escape the high-level scanning?” Auchinez sneered. “It’s just that the arrogant big shots thought that institute was researching gene technology, and the real money-spending projects were super soldiers and life extension, which were more realistic for them. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the super soldier project and the immortality project were shut down, and all the data was destroyed, but nobody knows what happened to that theological research institute. We don’t even know where it is.”

“Things like immortality and super soldiers, which can change the world order, can just be destroyed like that?”

“The technology is still immature, the finished products are unstable, and there are ethical issues, such as the fear of outsiders finding out. But I think copies of those materials are still stored in some secret safe,” Auchinez said. “All the hellhounds were executed on the spot, and I carried it out myself. But today this thing has reappeared, which means that there are people in our line of work who continued to raise these dogs.”

“Where are your Soviet captains? Could it be that you are one of the Soviet captains?”

“All the Soviet captains were destroyed in 1992, right here in city 023,” Auchinez sneered. “Have you heard the story of Bunin? Jumping on a train to Moscow to chase after the girls in the movies or something? He always told that story to newcomers.”

“Fake?”

“That little guy was the biggest liar among us, but the story isn’t entirely false; he just hid the bloodiest part. This city was abandoned because we intercepted the fleeing Soviet captains here. They couldn’t stay; they were incomplete products, forever on the verge of going out of control. Compared to them, the Hellhounds were mere pets. Unwilling to be executed, they escaped the camp and traveled along the railway line to City 023. We couldn’t let them continue south; once they entered densely populated areas, it would be a disaster. City 023 was their final destination. We remotely activated the fusion reactor. It was a first-generation deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion reactor, producing astonishing neutron radiation. It was only safe in a super magnetic field; if the magnetic field strength wasn’t strong enough…”

Will it turn into a hydrogen bomb?

“No, it will only produce high levels of nuclear contamination. Exposure to strong radiation would severely weaken even the Soviet captains…” Auchinez suddenly stopped, his expression becoming tense. “Have you noticed a decrease in the magnetic field strength?”

Su Enxi then realized that while they were talking, the terrifying strong magnetic field seemed to have been weakening. She no longer felt dizzy or hallucinated.

“I wonder if those guys restarted the fusion reactor when they restarted the magnetic field,” Auchinez said through gritted teeth. “Is this my punishment? Or my destiny?”

“I don’t feel anything yet.” Su Enxi thought to herself with a chill.

Auchinez shook his head. “At the center of City 023 is a super-large tokamak device. It uses electrical energy to generate a strong spiral magnetic field. The plasma is heated to a very high temperature in a toroidal vacuum chamber, and nuclear fusion will occur. You can think of the magnetic field as a shielding wall for nuclear fusion. As the magnetic field begins to weaken, fusion accelerates. When the magnetic field strength drops below the critical point, the shielding walls collapse, and neutron radiation collapses bursts out instantly. Cells electrolyze, and hematopoietic organs fail. Even with the Soviet captain’s abnormal physique, he could only last a few hours. A normal person would die within minutes.”

“Don’t they have protective suits or anything like that? In such a dangerous place, how can there be no protective measures?” Su Enxi glanced at the shielding suits worn by the GRU warriors.

“No human has any protective suit that can withstand high-speed neutron flow; protection against it would require at least ten meters of concrete.”

“We can go to the air-raid shelter.”

Auchinez shook his head. “City 023 has no air-raid shelters.”

Su Enxi was taken aback. “How could a secret base researching nuclear fusion not have an air-raid shelter?”

Auchinez chuckled disdainfully. “Woman, how have you become so stupid? Siberia was the Soviet Union’s rear area. When City 023 was built, the Americans hadn’t even built any strategic bombers capable of bombing this place yet. What do they need air-raid shelters for?”

Su Enxi immediately examined the maps in the small box. These maps showed details of different areas of the building, but did not include the air-raid shelter. The secret entrance located in the office simply did not exist.

She put down the map box with a serious expression. “Where did you get your map? Is it accurate?”

“What came out of the archives back then is certainly accurate.”

What if I told you that there really is an air-raid shelter beneath our feet?

Auchinez paused for a moment. “That could only have been built by Bunin later. If your intelligence is accurate, I think the serum factory is in that air-raid shelter.”

Su Enxi thought to herself that it might not be so; what Bunin hid in the air-raid shelter was far more important than the serum factory, but of course she wouldn’t tell Auchinez about the Black Dragon.

“Why are you so sure that the serum factory in City 023 could have manufactured it somewhere else and then transported it to City 023?” Su Enxi asked.

“If City 023 is just a trading location, Alexander Bunin wouldn’t need to spend so much money maintaining this abandoned city. If we wanted to avoid attention, we could just set up tents and do business anywhere in Siberia,”

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