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Chapter 78 Chapter Seventy-Seven

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"Hello? Walker? Shirley?" Juliette yelled into the radio while the orphan and the kids watched her from the stairs below.Just now she urged the children out of the hydroponic area and briefly introduced the orphans to them. Along the way, she kept talking on the radio, and went up several floors like this, and they kept following behind.But old Walker never answered.When Old Walker was talking earlier, she heard gunshots coming from the radio, but then the signal was cut off, and Old Walker hasn't answered until now.She kept wondering if she had climbed too high and if she should try again.She checked the light next to the switch button and found that the battery was still charged.Then she turned up the volume and heard static, which meant the radio wasn't broken.

She pressed the call button, and the static faded away, before she could speak, "How are you doing? This is Juliet. Can you hear me? How are you doing?" She turned to look at the orphan.The person who helped the orphan happened to be the one who injured the orphan: "We have to climb a little higher, come on, everyone, hurry up." The orphan and the children all groaned, looking at their expressions, they seemed to think she was crazy.However, they still obediently followed behind and climbed up, and their pace was closely following the orphan.He just ate some fruit and drank some water, and his physical strength seemed to be much better, and his speed was a little faster, but after climbing a few floors, he started to slow down again.

"Where are these friends you're talking to?" Rixon asked. "Can they come to our aid?" He groaned suddenly as he struggled to catch the orphan as he suddenly fell to the side. "He's so heavy." "They can't help us," said Juliet, "they can't get here." Then she told herself: she couldn't get to them either. She was getting more and more worried, and her stomach was churning.She must hurry to the information area and call Lucas to inquire about the current situation.She had to tell him that her plan had gone terribly wrong, that everything had gone wrong.She suddenly understood that she could never go back.She can't save her friends, and she can't save the bunker.She turned her head and looked behind, thinking that she would become a mother in the future, taking care of these children without parents.These children are still alive today simply because those who were caught up in the madness of war didn't bother to kill them, or, couldn't bear to kill them.

Now, it's her responsibility to take care of these children.Of course, orphans will also take care of them, but what he can do is probably very limited, because he himself is like a child, but needs her to take care of him. In this way, they climbed another floor, and the orphan seemed to be more conscious now, and his condition was getting better and better.However, the distance is still long. They took a break on the middle floor and went to the bathroom.The toilets here have no water to flush.Juliet taught the children how to use the toilet, but they were reluctant because they were used to toileting in the nursery in the tillage area.She told them that it is actually right to go to the toilet in the soil farming area, but because they are on their way now, they had to find a toilet temporarily for convenience.She was embarrassed to tell them that orphans had destroyed toilets on countless residential floors over the years.She dared not tell them that she had seen that cloud of flies.

All the food they brought had been eaten, but there was still plenty of water.Juliet hoped to rush to the hydroponic area on the sixty-second floor and spend the night there.Once there, there is plenty of food and water for the rest of the journey.She tried the radio a few more times, and later, she discovered that the batteries were nearly dead.Still no answer.She couldn't figure it out, how could she receive Old Walker's signal in the first place?The radio signal of each bunker must be different, so as not to receive the signal of other bunkers.Old Walker must have figured out a way to modify it.When she returns to the information area, will she be able to figure it out?Was there any way she could get in touch with old Walker or Shirley again?She wasn't sure.And Lucas can't use the radio, so there is no way to contact the mechanical and electrical department at all, and there is no way to send a message for her.She's asked for it a dozen times.

Lucas - At that moment, Juliet remembered. The radio in the orphan's room.She and Lucas talked late one night when Lucas said he wished he could go downstairs and talk to her on the radio, it was so much more comfortable there.Moreover, he heard the situation of the guards suppressing the riots from that radio.However, Lucas has been unable to find the key to open the iron cage.There was an identical radio in the orphan's room under the server room, also locked in an iron cage. Juliet immediately turned to face the group of children behind them, and they immediately stopped, clutching the railing, and staring up at her.As soon as they stopped, the little baby began to howl, and the big girl, Helena, shook him and tried to comfort him.

"I have to catch up first," she told them, then turned to look at the orphan. "Are you all right?" "Me? I'm fine." He doesn't look like he's okay. "Can you take them up by yourself?" She nodded to Rickerson, "Is it okay?" The kid nodded.He was reluctant to go up the stairs, but after climbing a few flights of stairs, he was less resistant, especially when he stopped to go to the bathroom.As for the younger kids, they were excited all the way because there was so much in the bunker they hadn't seen, and now they could laugh out loud without the bad guys overhearing.In their sense, there are only two adults here, and neither seems to be a bad person.

"There's something to eat on the sixty-second floor," she said. "But I—" Rickerson shook his head, "I can't do arithmetic—" No wonder.From birth to now, there is nothing in life that needs to be counted, no wonder he can't count. "The orphan will take you," she told him. "We lived there before. The food is delicious, and there are cans. Orphan, will you take him?" He slowly looked up at her, eyes like Much more sober. "I have to go back to where you live first. I have to make a quick call, understand? My friend has an accident, and I have to find out how they are doing."

He nodded. "Are you all okay?" She really couldn't bear to leave them behind, but she had no choice, "I will come back to find you as soon as possible tomorrow. It doesn't matter if you crawl slowly, understand? You're almost home anyway, so don't worry." Home?Could it be that she has accepted her fate and made this place her home? Several children took turns nodding.One of the little boys took out a bottle of water from the bag, unscrewed the cap and drank.So Juliet turned around and started to go upstairs, taking three steps in parallel and rushing up as fast as she could.


When reaching the 40th floor, Juliet suddenly felt that she was about to be unable to climb up.She was sweating profusely, her whole body was cold, and her legs were not only sore, but almost paralyzed.Now, she is almost pulling herself up by grabbing the railing with the strength of her hands.She was so tired that she was almost out of breath. When climbing the six floors just now, her breathing began to become intermittent.She was a little skeptical that her lungs had been damaged due to lack of oxygen at the bottom of the water for too long not long ago?is it possible?If her father was here, she could ask him.Then she thought about what kind of life she would live for the rest of her life.There is no doctor to see, you will have yellow teeth like an orphan, plus you have to take care of a baby, and there may even be more little lives in the future.

She climbed up to the first floor again, touching the contraceptive device behind her buttocks unconsciously.Seeing the children in the Seventeenth Bunker had taught her that birth control made sense, and now she finally realized that the old way of life did make sense.In the past, she always felt that certain rules of the bunker were strange, but now it seems that there is some reason for them.Why is emailing so expensive?Why are there so many floors?Why only one spiral staircase?Why do people with different jobs wear different colored clothes?Why divide the bunker into three sections?Why make everyone mistrust each other...that's all carefully designed.She had thought about these questions before, but she had never been able to figure out the reason behind them.Now, seeing these children in this empty bunker, she finally understood everything.Facts have proved that once some seemingly unreasonable regulations are cancelled, the results are terrible.You see a knot in the rope and think it's weird, but when you untie that knot, you understand why the rope is tied. As she climbed the stairs, these questions kept running in her mind so that she would forget about her aches and weakness in her legs.Later, when she finally came to the 30th floor, she felt relieved.Coming.Now she doesn't keep trying that radio like she used to.The same static on the radio.She had already thought of other ways to contact Old Walker.She should have thought of it earlier.She can communicate with other bunkers without using the phone behind the server.That thing was always in front of her and the orphan.That radio locked in a cage.The strange thing is that the secret room is already heavily guarded, with a door to the server room and a secret door on the floor, so why is the radio locked in a cage?It must be because that thing is too dangerous.And that's what she wanted. When she stepped onto the platform on the 35th floor, her legs were almost numb.Her body had never been pushed to its limits like it was now.When modifying the water pump, it is not so tiring.When walking outside in protective clothing, I was not so tired.At this moment, she must concentrate on raising her feet, stepping on them firmly, and then supporting her legs and pulling the railings with her hands, so that she can go up the first step of stairs.Step by step.She could barely lift her feet.The stairwell was always shrouded in the green halo of emergency lights, and she couldn't tell how much time had passed, whether it was day or night.She suddenly missed the watch from before.These days, this knife is all she has with her.Thinking of that transformation, she couldn't help laughing.In the past, she relied on that watch to count every minute and every second, but now, she has to rely on that knife to protect herself, so that she can live an extra minute and every second. The thirty-fourth floor is here.She suddenly had an urge to fall down on the platform, and curled up into a ball to sleep.That's how she slept the first day she came to the bunker.But at this moment, she didn't fall down.With the last of her strength, she opened the door and returned to civilization.There is electricity, light, and warmth here. She staggered down the corridor.She was so tired that her eyes could barely see.At this moment, her vision seemed to shrink suddenly, and she could only see the things in front of her eyes, while everything around her became blurred. Her shoulders rubbed against the wall, and each step was laborious.At this moment, there is only one thought in her mind: call Lucas and listen to his voice.She suddenly thought that maybe she would fall asleep next to the server, the heat from the cooling vents blowing on her body, wearing earphones on her head, listening to him whispering about the stars in the night sky, and fell asleep like this day after day —— She couldn't call Lucas just yet, though.She has to do another thing first. She turned a corner into the hazmat suit lab, stumbling toward the wall of tools.She dared not look at her cot.Just by looking at it, she didn't know when she would wake up. She took a pair of wire cutters and turned to walk away when she turned back and took a small hammer.Holding the tool in the hand feels heavy, but the heart is very at ease.She holds it in one hand, the weight is balanced, and she walks more stably. At the end of the corridor, she leaned her shoulder on the iron door of the server room, pushed hard, and the door opened slowly, but she got in after only opening a crack.Juliet used up her last bit of strength and walked quickly to the entrance of the iron ladder. The grid iron door was closed.She pulled away the iron plate, dropped the tool, then got into the hole and began to climb down, but her hand slipped and her chin hit the horizontal pole. She slid down quickly and her buttocks fell heavily to the ground. After Juliet fell to the ground, she lay back and hit the hammer with her calf.She was in so much pain that she could barely sit up, but she struggled to stand up. She walked in along the passage, passed the small desk, and came to the small iron cage.Inside the cage is a big radio.She remembered that when she was Security Officer, she had the same radio in her office, and she used it to communicate with Maneth when he was out on patrol, and sometimes with Deputy Security Officer Hank. and Mashu.However, this radio looks different.She remembered that Lucas said that he would prefer to go down to chat with her, it would be more comfortable there, and that he would hear the latest situation down there. He must have been talking about this radio. She put the hammer aside, took the wire cutters, gripped the hinges above the cage, and began to press hard.But it was a lot of effort, and her arms were shaking all the time. She adjusted her posture, put her neck and shoulders against the handle on one side, then grabbed the handle on the other side with both hands, and pressed hard. With a "click", the hinge was cut.Then she took the other hinge with the pliers and cut it hard.Her collarbone hurt so bad it felt like it was going to break. Then there was another "click". Then Juliet took hold of the iron cage and pulled so hard that the hinges gradually came loose from the base.She pulled the cage with all her strength, anxious to get the radio inside.All she could think about was Walker and her friends, and the screams of countless people.She must stop them quickly and tell everyone not to fight anymore. After a while, the upper end of the iron cage was gradually pulled down, leaving a gap from the wall.She immediately clasped the edge of the iron cage with her fingers and pulled it with all her strength. Finally, the iron cage was pulled to a nearly horizontal angle, and the bottom was still connected to the wall.The radio is here.Who says you have to use a key?She put all her weight on the cage, which was quickly torn away. There's a knob on the radio panel that looks familiar.She turned the knob to turn on the power, but only heard a "click" and it stopped turning.Juliet crouched, panting, exhausted, and sweating profusely.Then she saw another knob on the panel.She stretched out her hand to turn it around, and the power was turned on immediately, and the speaker made a "beep" sound of static noise. This radio has another knob.This is what she was looking for.It's like the adapter jack on the back of a server, or the jumper switch on a water pump controller.There are many scales and small numbers around the knob.Juliet couldn't help but smile, and aligned the indicator line of the knob with 18.There is her home.She grabbed the microphone and pressed the talk button. "Walker? Are you still there?" Juliet slumped to the ground, leaned her back on the desk, closed her eyes, and pressed the microphone to her mouth.She felt as if she was falling asleep.She suddenly understood what Lucas meant, it was really comfortable here. She pressed the call button again: "Walker? Shirley? Did you hear that?" At this time, the radio above the head suddenly heard a sound. Juliet immediately opened her eyes, looked up at the host above, her hands were shaking. A voice said, "Is that you?" The man's voice was a little shrill, not Walker.This voice sounds familiar.Whose voice is it?She was so tired and a little delirious.She pressed the call button hard again. "I'm Juliet. Who are you?" Is it Hank?It should be Hank.He has a radio.However, maybe she just accidentally transferred the wrong bunker number and screwed up. "Everyone off, radio clear," the man said. "All off. Off now." Is he talking to her?Juliet felt a little dizzy.Then suddenly someone else's voice came over the radio, one after the other, and then a sizzle of static.Should she speak?She is confused. "How can you use this frequency to talk." The man said, "This is a serious crime, and you will be sent out to clean the lens." Juliet's hands slipped from her lap suddenly, and she leaned back heavily on the desk, feeling a pang of frustration.She recognized the voice. It's Bernard. For weeks, she had been wanting to find him, to talk to him.She kept praying secretly, hoping that he would answer the phone.But now, now she didn't know what to say to him.Right now, she just wants to talk to her friends and to know if they are safe. She presses the call button. "Stop talking," she said.She suddenly lost her fighting spirit, and her thoughts of revenge disappeared without a trace.She only hopes that the world will soon return to peace, that everyone will live a good life, and that as time goes by, one day they will sleep forever in the soil farming area—— "Speaking of cleaning the lens." Bernard continued, "I'm going to send a lot of people out to clean the lens, and I'm going to send the first one out tomorrow. Those are your friends, and they will go out one by one. However, Do you know who the first one is? I'm sure you can guess." At this time, there was a "click" on the radio, followed by a "beep" sound of static noise.Juliet suddenly felt as if she was dead, she was at a loss for a while, and the remaining willpower was exhausted. "I found out that the person I trusted the most had betrayed me. You can imagine my shock," Bernard said. "He was a good man, but he was tainted by you." She pressed the talk button, but couldn't lift the microphone with her hand, so she yelled. "You're going to hell!" she told him. "Of course." Bernard said, "I'll have something in my hand when the time comes. I believe it should be yours. An identification card with your picture on it, and a nice little A watch, and a wedding ring, but it doesn't look very formal. I've been thinking about..." Juliet couldn't help moaning, she suddenly felt as if she had lost consciousness all over her body, and her mind was blank.She mustered up the courage to press the call button, exhausting the last bit of strength in her body. "What the hell do you want? Fucking bastard!" She couldn't help cursing, and then her head started to tilt sideways.She wants to sleep. "I'm talking about Lucas. He betrayed me. I just found your stuff on him. How long have you two been in secret contact? You two are hiding behind the server talking, right? Good, I see How about this, I'll just send him out to find you. Last time you went out, how could you last so long? I couldn't figure it out, but finally figured it out. It turns out that there are some bastards in the supplies area who are helping you. But this time, I can assure you, 100 percent, that your friend won't get that kind of benefit. I'll build his protective suit myself, even if it doesn't matter if he stays up late. So, when he goes out tomorrow morning, I promise you There's no way he can walk those fucking hills."
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