Chapter 47 Chapter Forty Seven

"What is this place?" Lucas asked Bernard.The two of them stood in front of a wall with a large picture hanging on it.The picture is very simple, but the text above is very complicated.That graphic is a network of several circles, evenly distributed, with lines connecting the circles, and each circle has intricate lines.Among them, several circles were drawn with a big X with a thick red pen.That graph looks like a large-scale distribution map of structures.In fact, he himself hopes to draw a star map like this one day. "This is the precious resource left to us by the people of the past." Bernard said.

Lucas remembered that he had also used the word to describe the image on the wall in the attic. "Are these servers?" Lucas summoned up the courage to stretch out his palm and lightly swipe across the picture as big as a bed sheet. "The arrangement looks like a server." Bernard walked over and stood beside him, rubbing his chin: "Well, it's interesting. It can be counted. I didn't notice it before." "What are these?" Lucas looked closer and saw that each circle was numbered.In addition, there are many square and rectangular squares drawn in one corner of the picture, and there are several parallel lines between each square to separate these squares.These squares were just simple squares with blank spaces in the middle, but he noticed that there were a few large words under the squares: "Atlanta".

"I'll explain to you later. Come on, let me show you something first." They went to the back of the room, where there was a door.Bernard led him into the door and turned on more lights. "Who else will be here?" Lucas asked. Bernard turned his head and glanced at him: "No one has been here before." Lucas didn't like to hear that kind of answer.He turned his head to look behind, and suddenly had a strange feeling, as if once he entered this place, he would never be able to get out. "I know you will find it very sudden." Bernard said.He stood there waiting for Lucas to come over, and then put his arm around Lucas' shoulder. "But there was a big change this morning. The world has changed dramatically, and every time it has changed, the results have been tragic."

"Are you talking about... cleaning the lens?" He almost blurted out "Juliet cleaning the lens."The picture of Juliet was in his breast pocket, and he felt a warmth in his chest. Bernard's expression suddenly became fierce. "The camera wasn't washed at all," he said suddenly. "It's all messed up. People are going to die. You know, from the beginning, these bunkers were designed to prevent that kind of thing." "Design—" Lucas repeated the word, thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized that Bernard had just said something inexplicable.

"Excuse me," he said, "I just thought I heard you say 'these bunkers'?" "Come on, you still have a lot to learn." Bernard pointed to a small desk.A rickety-looking wooden chair was tucked under the table, with a book on it.Lucas had never seen the book, or even heard of it.The book was frighteningly thick, about as thick as it was wide.Bernard patted the cover of the book, then raised his hand to see if there was any dust on his palm. "I'm going to give you a backup key. You have to hang it around your neck and never take it off. As long as you have time, you can come down and read this book. The history of our bunker is all in it. In addition, there are many instructions in it , what action should be taken in the event of an emergency.

Lucas walked to the front of the book, and it suddenly occurred to him that a person would never use so much paper in a lifetime.He opened the cover, and the words inside were all printed, and the ink was very black.He flipped through the table of contents for more than ten pages, and finally turned to the main text, but immediately found that he had read the same content. "It's the 'Convention'." He looked up at Bernard, "I've almost read—" "Only the front is the convention." Bernard stretched out his hand to the side of the book, using two fingers to measure the thickness of one centimeter, "The back is the 'instructions'."

After speaking, he took a step back. Lucas hesitated, then reached out and opened the book to the middle. "Deliberate sabotage?" Lucas turned a few pages and saw that there seemed to be some words such as cutting off the air supply or suffocating. "Who came up with this thing?" "Someone who's been through a lot of horror." "Like..." He didn't know whether he should say it, but he suddenly felt that he didn't need to worry too much about taboos. "Like those people before the riot?" "People who were earlier than those people." Bernard said, "a certain person."

Lucas closed the book and shook his head, wondering if it was some kind of prohibition or some kind of initiation.Compared with this, the books the pastor showed him were easier to understand, and even those children's books were more reasonable. "Do I need to read the whole book, shouldn't I?" Bernard laughed.His expression is completely different from just now: "You just need to know what items are in the book, that's enough, you can always look it up when necessary." "So, did the book say how to deal with what happened this morning?" He turned his head to look at Bernard, and suddenly thought in his heart, fortunately, no one knows his feelings for Juliet, no one knows how much he has. love her.No one knew he had just cried, no one knew he was embarrassed because he fell in love with a woman he had just met, no one knew he was hiding her things.This secret will never be known, unless Bernard finds out that he is blushing a little now.Bernard was looking at his face, thinking why he would ask this question.

"You turn to page seventy-two," Bernard said.The humorous expression on his face suddenly disappeared, and the original dejected expression appeared again. Lucas opened the book again.Bernard is testing him, which is a ceremony of apprenticeship.It's been a long time since he was stared at by the instructor to do things like this.He started to page seventy-two, and found that the item he was looking for was right after the convention.This is the paragraph that begins with "Instructions". He turned to page seventy-two, and at the top was printed in very bold letters:

The text below is shocking.Lucas thought he was wrong, so he watched it several times.He raised his head and glanced at Bernard, who nodded with a sad expression on his face.Lucas looked down at the line again.