Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 142: The Secret of Longevity?

All three came to the prison which is still in its original place, and until now there is no plan of transfer, but this prison has been strengthened and has facilities that are fairly complete.

No more dark prison cells, the lighting here is really good and can be arranged according to the wishes of the prisoners. There is a private bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, and so on.

But all communication with the outside world was cut off, there was no clock, and there was no sunlight because this prison was underground.

But in the sense that prisoners here must be kind, if they make a little mistake, even if only trivial like dirtying the floor, will be taken to the punishment room. There were two punishment rooms, the White Room and the Black Hole.

White Room is a room with a size of 10 × 10 × 10 meters and in this room everything is painted in white, the floors and doors have no gaps at all. Toilets, bathrooms, eating utensils will all appear on the floor as well as the corner of the room, and once finished use, it will disappear.

Black Hole, prisoners will be allowed to enter into a hole of 10 meters in diameter at a depth of 15 meters, inside it is completely dark without the slightest illumination. Even if there is light, it is only when the food appears so that the prisoner knows where it is, and after finishing eating, the light will be extinguished.

In the Black Hole, from time to time there will be the sound of water droplets, the sound of women's laughter, the cry of a girl who is sad, footsteps and so forth. In a pitch-black place without light and hearing strange sounds, of course it will be very creepy and psychiatric.

So whenever prisoners heard that they were going to get punished, whether it was the White Room or the Black Hole, they would shudder, their eyes radiating the deepest of fear, tightly hugging the prison cell, not wanting to be taken away.

But just how strong were they fighting back, was it possible to survive the robot power? Some even ask for the punishment to be replaced by the death penalty so that they never feel they dwell in the White Room or Black Hole again.

Fan Chen walked following Yun Mingyue like a goose child following his mother, he himself was not the one who arranged for General Fan's detention, but rather his mother, and he never asked, he himself was not the one who arranged for General Fan's detention, but rather his mother, he also did not want to find out where General Fan's room was locked up.

Fan Chen looked around, he looked at the prisoner who roared loudly while holding the cell, seeing from his appearance, he knew this prisoner would be sent to the Black Hole. He designed this punishment after talking to his mother, but he never tried it. Imagine being in those two rooms for 24 hours without knowing the time, it would really drive him crazy!

"Where is this man locked up?" Fan Chen had yet to find where General Fan was.

"Far in the ground." Yun Mingyue turned her head back, then looked back to the front. "His power as the Awakened is arguably higher, although it cannot destroy cells and escape, but Mother wants to be safer, so lock her up in a special room. He was alone, there were no friends to communicate with, and the walls were made of half a meter thick titanium."

Fan Chen frowned, he did not know there was such a room, but he could guess it, he gave his mother access that did not have to ask for her approval. Maybe his mother asked Xiaochu to build a special room for General Fan. Although this material is valuable, he does not care, because the MK-888 Spacecraft was flown to Mars this morning, ready to build mining to search for rare materials.

The development on the Moon has been quite satisfactory in the past week, the Space Base and Space Factory have been completed. The production line continues to work, although very slowly as Artificial Gravity Technology has not been realized due to energy limitations.

The energy supply required by Artificial Gravity is greater than that of the factory itself, the Solar Power Plant on the Moon cannot bear it at all.

Electricity from Energy Crystals is still under research, but already has rapid progress, maybe three or five more days there will be prototypes of this technology.

"Until now!"

Fan Chen realized from his daydream when he heard Yun Mingyue's voice, he looked up, he saw a door made of metal in front of him, this door looks like a Spacecraft hatch door.

Yun Mingyue stood in front of the recognition system, performing all sorts of checks just to open the door: from face, eyes, voice, fingerprints, even to drops of blood.

Fan Chen scratched his non-itchy head. He felt this was all too troublesome, even though he knew this security was necessary, did it have to be like this? It looks like, he will get into Bio-Technology, implanting technology inside the human body that allows humans to connect with computers.

Yun Mingyue stepped in after the door had completely opened, she saw General Fan sitting on the edge of the bed with his head bowed and his eyes empty.

Fan Chen took out a paper roll that he had stored away for a long time, there was even still some dust sticking up. "You know what this is?" He waved his hand.

General Fan was silent for a while before he looked up, his eyes still blank, but after seeing the scroll in Fan Chen's hands, his eyes widened with an inexplicable spirit. However it only lasted a short while after he saw his current state.

"Yes ..." General Fan lowered his head again and replied in a lethargic manner, "Supreme Commander, he understands the words written there, he says the scroll has important information of the Qin Emperor's relics."

"What's that?" Fan Chen frowned.

General Fan did not immediately answer him, but rather kept silent and sighed. "The secret of long life."

Fan Chen opened his eyes wide, he opened the scroll and looked at the information written there. But he doesn't understand it at all. As for longevity, the Gene Enhancement Fluids extracted from Space Worms had the same effect.

He looked up, looking at General Fan. "Have you heard what the Supreme Commander said about the contents inside?"

General Fan shook his head and said, "It's not very clear, but, I heard a strange thing. It was “Space Worm”, the same as you said during the meeting at the Su Residence."

Fan Chen was more shocked than before. If it was just about longevity and it could subside faster, but this time it was different. Space Worms, they only found out some time ago, but this information is written 230 BC, it was thousands of years ago.

How did Space Worms come into existence back then?

Fan Chen lowered his head, thinking about it carefully, but he could only guess that this Space Worm was the worm left behind at the time of the First Era. But thinking about it again, there were no records regarding mutant beasts in the past. A mutant beast was only over two years old, then it was impossible.

If there really is a Space Worm, is it possible that this Space Worm just stayed still without doing anything?

Fan Chen took a few steps back, leaning against the metal wall. He was completely clueless about this Earth-2, many mysterious things that were difficult to uncover.

He felt that in his previous life, there were no things of this kind, even the records regarding longevity herbs did not exist at all. Even though it existed, it was Emperor Qin who drank mercury that was believed to increase lifespan.

Fan Chen sighed, he bit his fingernails. "Is it possible that the legends of the sea monsters thousands and hundreds of years ago actually existed? Is this all because of this Space Worm? Then why in the last few centuries, at least in the historical record, no more such events?"

"Damn! The world is full of mysteries."

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