My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 405: Return To The Shelter

At the entrance to the Civil Defense Project, nearly twenty people gathered in front of the thick iron door covered in rust spots.

“Big Boss, what you mean is to take us to rob the Underground City?”

Lao Huang found it somewhat unbelievable and had to confirm once more.

Although he kept saying that those guys holed up in the shelter were cowardly betrayers.

But these Settlement Leaders all knew deep down that the violent mechanisms in the shelter were absolutely not something they could mess with.

After all, under the Mona People’s control, they couldn’t even independently manufacture heavy firepower weapons.

In this destitute state, let alone breaking into the shelter to rob things, they couldn’t even open the iron door at the entrance.

Lu Bai waved his hand; he naturally wouldn’t expect these guys to deal with Cheng Zhi Wu, he only brought them along incidentally because they had some muscle strength.

“I’m not asking you to rob; you just need to be responsible for carrying the food.”

After Lu Bai said this, he immediately created about ten clones, and using the same method as when he came, they forcibly lifted up this thick iron door weighing over a hundred tons.

Under his kind gaze, how could these people on the scene dare to delay? They immediately lined up in an orderly manner and walked into the Civil Defense Project.

……

The clean and bright corridor was mainly silver in color, exuding a unique sense of technology.

On one side of the corridor, there was a transparent glass bidirectional visual window.

Inside was the Control Room of the tallest building in this Underground City.

Through this layer of glass, one could clearly see that the Control Room was filled with numerous chassis, connected by intricately routed cables to the data storage equipment in the underground layers of the building.

Besides that, the most numerous items in the Control Room were naturally the exquisite screens, each displaying different screens.

At first glance, it had quite the flavor of a 1990s television station, except the screen clarity and quality were obviously much higher.

Xu Kun pushed up his glasses that were about to slide off his nose tip, turned to the man in the white coat beside him, and said, “Engineer Li, want to grab a drink after the shift change later?”

“Sure, since vigilance has been lifted, it’s time to relax a bit.”

The man called Engineer Li seemed fully focused on staring at the data displayed on the screen, yet he still responded while maintaining that posture.

Another slightly obese man suddenly looked up: “You two going drinking without calling me?”

“Engineer Qian, look at what you’re saying, how could we? We’re just afraid your work isn’t done yet.”

Xu Kun first chuckled, then couldn’t help but sigh: “Speaking of which, it pisses me off. That guy illegally intruded and violated by using the Escape Elevator, but why drag me into it?”

“Cheng Zhi Wu checked and cleared you, didn’t they?” Engineer Li’s gaze still didn’t shift from the screen.

“Yeah, they detected that I was under some kind of mind control ability at the time, saying there’s no hidden danger, but you know what kind of personality our boss has. Anyway, before that Engineer Zheng gets transferred away, I’m not getting promoted, and year-end bonus probably won’t have my share.”

The more Xu Kun spoke, the more aggrieved he felt, and the more he wanted a drink.

It was worth mentioning that although the incident Lu Bai caused was unprecedented in the history of Shelter No. 9.

The City Association was more worried that Lu Bai running to the surface might do something affecting the stability of human-Mona Person bilateral relations.

But Lu Bai taking the Escape Elevator to the surface itself caused negligible loss to the shelter.

The only thing needing reconstruction was those few isolation doors on layer 404.

Before the isolation doors were rebuilt, with a whole team of Cheng Zhi Wu guarding, the other floors in the building were opened up after a brief alert lockdown.

The internal staff continued with their work as usual.

Engineer Qian raised his chubby hand and patted Xu Kun’s shoulder, comforting him: “Tonight, I’ll drink a few more with you.”

Xu Kun was about to politely thank Engineer Qian for his goodwill when his peripheral vision suddenly caught a new log popping up on the screen to his right side.

After seeing the information in this work log, Xu Kun’s eyes widened in shock: “Holy shit, why the hell is the Escape Elevator starting again? Are you kidding?!”

Strictly speaking, it had been less than three days since Lu Bai last illegally took the Escape Elevator out of the Underground City.

“Quick, Engineer Li, issue the alarm signal.”

Engineer Qian instinctively withdrew his hand from Xu Kun’s shoulder, his voice slightly trembling: “Engineer Cai, are you still normal?”

Xu Kun, who had been a bit panicked, forgot to panic upon hearing this address, his face darkening: “How many times do I have to say it? My surname is Xu.”

The Control Room naturally wasn’t just these three engineers; with more people, panic could easily spread.

Engineer Li had to slap the desk hard to attract his colleagues’ attention with the noise.

“What’s there to panic about? Calm down. Don’t forget there’s a whole team of Cheng Zhi Wu stationed on layer 404.”

……

Hiss~

With the sound of a hydraulic valve releasing air.

The Escape Elevator, which might not be used once in a hundred years, opened its elevator door once again within a short three days.

Fortunately, the interior space of the Escape Elevator was large enough; just the rated seats numbered a hundred, and squeezing in a few hundred people was effortless.

The group filed in.

Lu Bai was fine, but for these surface humans still scavenging and building huts, even this artifact from hundreds of years ago left them marveling in amazement.

“Find a seat yourselves and remember to fasten your seatbelts.”

After Lu Bai reminded them, he pressed the descent button on the control console.

The elevator door slowly closed, and then it descended rapidly.

Despite Lu Bai’s reminder, perhaps because it had been used not long ago, the elevator’s operation this time was much smoother than the last.

In the face of that exaggerated descent speed, these Settlement Leaders in the elevator felt like they were on a suicide plunge ride, with several burly men uncontrollably exclaiming out loud.

Compared to ascending, the elevator’s descent took more time.

But no matter how much time it took, it would eventually reach the end.

Feeling the descent speed clearly slowing, Lu Bai unfastened his seatbelt, stood up, and walked to the front of the elevator door.

He didn’t know what he would encounter after opening the door, but it probably wouldn’t be too smooth, since the City Association couldn’t have zero defenses.

Without looking back, he said to those Settlement Leaders in their seats: “I’ve told you everything that needs to be said. As long as you’re careful, you shouldn’t be in any life danger.”

Ding-dong~

The arrival bell of the elevator rang.

Underground City, arrived.

The elevator door slowly opened, and Lu Bai looked at the personnel who had already filled the corridor, unconsciously smiling.

“If I say I’m just back to buy some things, would you believe me?”

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