In the post-apocalyptic world, a few things are most important:
Food, a safe environnt, weapons, people.
The importance of the grain silo is beyond question.
The captain leading his team past Rock Mountain understands this well, which is why he must find this grain silo. It was a serious task assigned to him by Elder Ye.
He knew the task was arduous and crucial, yet now there were no other suitable hands available to complete it.
"Captain, we're here," A team mber beside him pointed to Rock Mountain's scenic area sign and said.
Captain Luo looked at the familiar yet sowhat foreign sign, montarily lost in thought, but he quickly snapped back to reality.
He then said to the two technicians behind him, "Take out the equipnt and check it. See if there's any structure underground."
The two obediently followed Captain Luo's order, removing the equipnt they carried on their backs and began the inspection on the spot.
For Captain Luo, he had visited this place many tis before, but had never thought this location might conceal a grain silo.
In his mory, it was improbable that the above-ground structures here could serve as a grain silo.
They were not that big, and he was familiar with all the buildings around.
Just so temples, nothing more.
And the site where Zhou Dunyi wrote his Ode to the Lotus.
Could it really be outside the cave?
Caves?
Captain Luo suddenly narrowed his eyes. He rembered that this area of Luo Tianyan had many rock mountain caves, but many years ago, the Governnt sealed off many caves citing safety issues.
So were directly buried.
Could there be such a coincidence?
At the sa ti, the two team mbers who had just taken out their equipnt for inspection, their devices emitted a series of beeps.
Hearing the noise, Captain Luo hurriedly asked, "What's going on? Is there a huge underground space nearby?"
The two team mbers pointed at the ultrasonic detection instrunt and replied, "Yes, according to the instrunt's detection, there's a large underground space nearby, in this direction, 230 ters to the East."
Upon hearing this, Captain Luo imdiately stood up and said to the team, "Let's go take a look; quickly pack up. We're heading over."
The team mbers quickly got up, gathered their things, and walked in that direction.
Arriving at the location indicated by the instrunt, everyone fell silent before a huge Ginkgo Tree.
This Ginkgo Tree was over two thousand years old.
Years ago, it had been struck by lightning but had still not perished, and before the end of the world, it had already been registered as a precious protected plant.
Behind this tree lay a mountain.
But because of this tree, dozens of ters around it were designated as a protected area for the plant.
A fence was even erected to prevent people from entering.
But now that the world had ended, nobody cared about these things anymore.
So Captain Luo simply stepped over the fence and moved towards the back of the tree.
The team mbers carrying the detection equipnt also climbed over.
Captain Luo, consulting the instrunt, pointed to a crevice in Rock Mountain, a few ters behind the Ginkgo Tree, and asked, "Is the place indicated by the equipnt right here?"
A team mber looked at the instrunt and replied, "That's the spot."
Captain Luo looked at the crevice, thought for a mont,
Then took out a shovel he had picked up on the way and started digging at the crevice.
Boom—
The spot was not as solid as expected.
After Captain Luo dug a few tis, a piece of rock from the spot fell away.
After a roar, what ca into view was a large iron door.
The crowd looked at the large iron gate with so excitent, finally.
Finally it was found.
They never expected that the secret granary would be hidden in this place.
Using the natural cave, and then with a rational thod.
Using the precious Ginkgo Tree as a cover, blatantly blocking the exit position, preventing others from entering.
Ingenious.
Upon seeing the gate, admiration rose in Captain Luo's heart.
A complete success without any effort.
They had been busy for so long, searched so many places, and now they had finally found it, for a mont they were overjoyed beyond self-control.
Captain Luo looked at the mbers who were almost losing their composure with joy, and couldn't help but say: "Now is not the ti to be happy,
You must see the actual items before the mission is considered complete.
Don't get too excited just yet, let's go in and take a look.
Seeing is believing!"
The other mbers nodded and composed themselves.
Captain Luo walked up to the large iron gate and found it was sealed tight.
But they didn't have the key, and for a mont they didn't know how to open the gate.
Now the mbers were sowhat dumbfounded; damn it, after searching for over a month and finally finding it,
To be stopped at the entrance?
It was as if soone was teasing them.
They didn't bring any specialized breaching tools when they ca, their re shovels were simply not enough.
They had already co all this way.
You should know they were from an even further place in the South, hundreds of kiloters away, and it was not easy to make the trip here.
So even if they had to go back, they had to bring back accurate news.
Could it be that when they returned to report, they would say this:
The place was found, just not sure if there's still food inside, because the gate wasn't opened.
It seed like a joke.
They must get in, get a precise answer, and if possible, take so of the food first.
Their headquarters was also in dire shortage of food.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have been sent out in such urgency to find the reserve granary.
mbers looked at the large door with worried faces and asked, "Captain, what should we do now?"
Captain Luo was also vexed, and said with a speechless expression: "Weren't you just very happy? Now think of a plan, how to get in."
A more knowledgeable mber stepped forward to examine the iron gate and said, "Captain, this gate is quite complex, strong enough to withstand the impact of a grenade.
If we try to rely on brute force, it might be very difficult to open, and we might even blow up the entrance."
Captain Luo glanced at him and said, "It doesn't matter if it collapses, what's important is that we need to get in, even if it collapses, if there are other entrances, we can still find the food."
Captain Luo looked around at the people, sowhat conflicted.
Finally, he said, "You two, check around this place, look in the vicinity, find a weaker spot that we may enter through.
If we can't enter from the main entrance, we can go through another spot.
Although this is a scenic area, it's not important now, as long as we can get in, we'll just blow it open later.
Old Ye is still waiting for us at headquarters. We don't have much ti to wait."
The two carrying the equipnt nodded, walked away from the large iron gate, and started to search around the area.
Hoping to find a weaker spot.
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