Chapter 55: The Mysterious Totem

  "An abandoned military factory from World War II?" Li Ling had made many guesses before, such as a chemical plant, a heavy machinery factory, or even a biochemical research institute, but he hadn't been able to guess correctly. It turned out that this was actually an abandoned military factory from the Second World War.

  While munitions factories often serve only the military, providing them with supplies.

  "That's right, this area was invaded by the Oriental people. At that time, a capitalist from their country built a reserve military factory in this valley, providing all kinds of military supplies, including ammunition, guns and light portable weapons!" The indifferent woman led the way forward, but as they walked down the stairs, only two voices could be heard echoing clearly in the corridor.

  If that's the case, then who can find out about this mysterious person? It's even more complicated, and this person at least has the ability to evade the surveillance of the military, China Security Bureau, and Intelligence Bureau.

  Now, Li Ling can only speculate in two directions. On the one hand, this place is a military factory discovered and protected by the state during World War II, with a secret base built under the factory to develop advanced weapons. On the other hand, this place belongs to a powerful capitalist who has heavily invested here to conduct some research that needs to be far away from the crowd, just like the Umbrella Corporation in Resident Evil!

  "What... what's going on with this underground passageway? What's your purpose?" Li Ling felt that digging out this tunnel was as difficult as landing on the moon. The people who came here with the cold woman must have had some kind of purpose.

  Li Ling pointed to the stairwell illuminated by the light.

  "This is an internal matter, I won't answer." The indifferent woman said.

  Li Ling helplessly shrugged his shoulders, knowing it wouldn't be easy to get an answer. He carefully observed the stairwell, which was a vertical spiral descent staircase. This design could reduce many unnecessary drillings, and as long as they drilled out one deep pit at a time, they would be able to achieve their expected results.

  After walking a few dozen meters deeper, Li Ling gradually saw some incredible things that you might not see in a lifetime.

  On these gray-white walls, some mysterious and deformed patterns are carved, as if they were a kind of password and summons from ancient times.

  In this magical character cipher, some even more magical biological patterns are hidden.

  These magical biological patterns are of various shapes, and as Li Ling sees it, the creatures on these biological patterns are all extremely bizarre and absolutely not species that can be born on Earth.

  "These... carvings." Li Lingyue looked more and more shocked, his mouth agape in astonishment. These mysterious creatures carved, these vividly lifelike monsters were something Li Lingyue couldn't recognize.

  Let's take one of the biological patterns on the wall, for example. One of the biological shapes is very strange, like a ball of black soft mud, but on this mud grows a lot of strange and long tentacles, and on these long tentacles there are magical green spots, those spots look like a kind of organ, that is eyes.

  That is to say, there are countless eyes on this mud! With human thinking, it's unimaginable what kind of biological depiction this would be!

  "These carvings were left by people who built the military factory here at that time, and this tunnel has a history of more than 60 years." The indifferent woman said.

  "What's the big deal with these creatures?" Li Ling looked at each one, and the countless creatures on the walls made him almost unable to believe that in this world, apart from the known creatures, who would carve such strange patterns of creatures in this corridor.

  "I don't know." The apathetic woman didn't lie, perhaps she really didn't know. At least within Li Ling's cognitive range, it was impossible to accept these creatures.

  "Those who built this arsenal, why did they carve these biological patterns at first?" Li Ling asked.

  "After translating the ancient texts on this wall, it can be known that this is for recording the totem!" The indifferent woman said.

  "Record Totem!!" Li Ling's eyebrows furrowed.

  "Totems are often imaginary divine objects created by humans, which may not exist in real life. Whether they really exist or not is uncertain, and sometimes even scientists themselves use the term loosely." The apathetic woman said.

  "For example, the dragon of Huaxia, this creature is a totem that Huaxia has worshipped for thousands of years. We often say we are the descendants of the dragon, but is the dragon really existed? I guess no one can answer." The indifferent woman said.

  "At least I've never seen it!" Li Ling shook his head with a smile.

  In ancient times, the dragon had a totemic significance, whether it was on the stone pillars of the imperial palace or on the dragon chair, and in various sacred places, you could see the dragon's totem, and the appearance of the dragon was also carved vividly, as if it were real.

  But does the dragon exist?

  Li Ling shook his head, trying not to get caught up in the whirlpool of this question, but most importantly, the atmosphere of the corridor here was very mysterious, making Li Ling also gradually believe that these magical totems were real.

  "We're here." The apathetic woman finally led Li Ling to the lowest end of the corridor.

  The lowest end of the corridor is a fifty-square-meter space. There is nothing in this space, only an iron door with a password lock on it.

  The apathetic woman took Li Ling to the password lock and quickly pressed out a string of numbers, which was at least thirty digits long.

  Moreover, the password set in this lock is changing according to a certain formula, that is, every day, the password will change into another one based on the variable formula. This high-end technology has been seen by Li Ling before, but what he saw was only seven digits, while there are thirty digits here, which is astonishing just thinking about it.

  "You're really clever, thirty-digit password, plus the formula transformation, you can calculate it so quickly." Li Ling's words of admiration were genuine.

  "It's too much of an honor, there isn't a single ordinary person here." The apathetic woman said calmly.

  The door creaked open slowly with a "click" after the password was entered. The door was made of alloy steel, and even armor-piercing bullets might not be able to penetrate it. Most importantly, the thickness of this door was almost over one meter.

  What kind of research requires such a high-intensity defense system that even Li Ling felt a chill down his spine.

  If the person who invited himself has ulterior motives, then even ten Li Lings wouldn't have a chance to survive. A person capable of creating such a powerful defense system must have subordinates who are all world-class top-notch talents and wrapped-up killers.

  "Follow me closely for a while, if you get lost, you may never be able to get out." The indifferent woman said.

  "Why?" Li Ling wanted to ask clearly, but the apathetic woman just nodded her head towards Li Ling and pointed at the interior of the mechanical door.

  Inside, there is a wall, with a passageway on each side of the wall. And according to Li Ling's common sense, there should be an entrance next to this wall, behind which lies a maze.

  Good heavens! What kind of person built an underground labyrinth here?!