Great Strength Creates Miracles

Coming out of the kitchen, they continued further inside, where it split into two rooms.

One room appeared to be a conference room. It contained an oval-shaped long table surrounded by chairs, but it was empty.

On the wall in the back, a blackboard was hung, and marker pens were placed in a groove below it.

When the Mechanical Dog's eyes shone on it, a line and a half of numbers could be seen written on it, from 1234 to 37, written from smallest to largest.

"Guess what this is?"

Lu Xi'an asked.

Yao Wei shook her head, indicating she couldn't guess.

Lu Xi'an speculated, "There's no one else in the Shelter, so this must have been written by those two dead people.

"These numbers seem to be used to record the date, meaning the time they were trapped down here. It's quite tragic."

In his past life, he had only seen such scenes in prison break stories, but most of them involved drawing dashes or lines. This was the first time he'd seen numbers.

But whether they were dashes, lines, or numbers, Lu Xi'an could see a deep sense of despair in them.

He wondered if those two people had committed suicide after enduring 37 days, or if they had simply lost the will to keep track by the 37th day and never touched the blackboard again?

While his mind was racing, he and Yao Wei went to look at the other room.

The other room seemed to be an office. It was quite spacious, with two desks that could accommodate multiple people working.

There were computers, printers, and notebooks on the desks, all accounted for.

But the notebooks were all empty, scattered messily on the floor.

The computers and printers had also been thrown to the ground, seemingly smashed violently a few times. The computer cases were shattered, parts scattered, and the monitor screens were cracked like spiderwebs.

Did those two people smash them?

Lu Xi'an could somewhat understand.

If it were him, enduring so long in this place, running out of food, unable to leave, and with potential problems with water and electricity, he might have lost it too.

The notebooks scattered on the desk and floor were all blank. Yao Wei picked one up, brushed off the dust, and put it into the backpack behind her.

Lu Xi'an followed suit, stuffing one into his backpack.

He didn't take any more.

One notebook wasn't much, but many would be quite heavy. Although he was strong now, he didn't want to add unnecessary weight.

Additionally, he found about ten pens on the ground. He casually picked up a notebook and tested the pens one by one. They were basically new, and all of them wrote smoothly.

So, he put all the pens in his bag and asked Yao Wei, "Do you want any?"

Yao Wei took one, not asking for more, but she was a bit puzzled why Lu Xi'an wanted so many.

"They can be used as hidden weapons in a pinch," Lu Xi'an said with a smile. "It's not like I'm going to write a diary."

Writing a diary was truly useless, a waste of ink, paper, and time. He would never write one again in this lifetime.

"Anything can be a hidden weapon..." Yao Wei muttered.

She still had two gold bars in her car, and she really didn't know what use they were.

Lu Xi'an said, "We have strength. Great Strength Creates Miracles. Anything can be a hidden weapon."

Yao Wei didn't reply immediately. She was seriously considering whether Lu Xi'an's words made sense, and then she also took a few more pens and put them in her bag.

This office also had two side rooms, one on the left and one on the right. They didn't have metal doors, but they were both locked.

The doors were of decent quality. Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei saw chairs next to both doors, and there were signs of impact on the doors, but they remained intact, securely protecting the side rooms.

These were ordinary door locks, so the Mechanical Dog couldn't be of use here.

There was no key in the keyhole, and judging by the marks of the trapped people smashing the doors, they hadn't found a key outside either. It seemed impossible to open the doors with a key.

"Do you think we can use Great Strength Creates Miracles on these doors too?" Lu Xi'an asked, eager to try.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Yao Wei had already acted.

The woman lifted her leg. Her loose pants tightened at the upper thigh, revealing a perfect, slender curve. Then, she delivered a kick, her movement as graceful as a dance.

But the power behind it was considerable.

"Thump!"

The door collapsed with a bang, falling inward. The door frame's connection point was twisted and deformed, and the lock area on the frame was completely destroyed.

Lu Xi'an stared, dumbfounded, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Amazing."

"Mhm," Yao Wei nodded, generously admitting it, and walked into the side room with Lu Xi'an.

It appeared to be a manager's office. It wasn't large, but it had a desk, chair, computer, and notebooks.

The setup is about the same as outside, nothing is damaged, but it doesn't look like there's anything useful here either.

Once this room was built and furnished, no one should have entered. The person in charge of directing and leading the evacuation was isolated outside the Shelter before they could even move in.

Lu Xi'an tried to have Doggy open the socket behind them, connecting the power for the computer tower and monitor. The computer turned on, but it was still brand new, and indeed, there was nothing inside.

"Sigh, what a shame..."

He sighed and unplugged the power.

This computer is a good item, but it's useless to carry around, so he had to give up on it.

"Let's go to the other side room," he said.

The two of them and the dog left this side room and went to the one opposite.

Lu Xi'an deliberately stepped back and said to Yao Wei, "You go ahead."

He felt that Yao Wei's movements were clean and sharp, with a sense of rhythm, and it was quite nice to watch.

Yao Wei didn't hesitate and kicked the door open again.

This side room, however, was no longer an office. As Doggy's eyes scanned the room, Lu Xi'an confirmed that this was the monitoring room, power supply room, and storage room.

Doggy only glanced around, and Lu Xi'an saw a Toolbox and various other messy items piled up in the corner.

There was an electrical box on the wall, in the off position, but the Toolbox door was closed, and a key was stuck in the lock.

On the other wall was a huge screen, connected by wires to a rectangular device on the desk, which looked like a monitoring host.

Lu Xi'an thought for a moment, picked up the Mechanical Dog, opened the electrical box, and said, "Let's see if we can get the power connected."

Black wires extended from Doggy's sides and were plugged into the electrical box.

"Zzz--"

Lights immediately seeped in from the office outside, very faintly.

Lu Xi'an went out to take a look. The light was coming from the corridor.

The lights in the office were not on.

However, this was enough to prove that the electrical circuit of this underground Shelter was intact.

He found a switch on the wall in the dim light and pressed it. The monitoring room instantly lit up.

He then fumbled around on the monitoring host and pressed the button on the back. The host turned on.

The display screen on the wall was already on. A red light lit up in the lower right corner when it received power. As soon as the host turned on, it immediately started flashing. It was unclear if any images would appear.

Yao Wei glanced at Lu Xi'an, her eyes filled with curiosity.

She actually wanted to ask Lu Xi'an how he knew everything, how he could operate all these things.

But seeing her expression, Lu Xi'an replied, "I was a bit curious, to see what those two people were doing in here, if they left any footage."

Chapter Two is at noon.

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