Chapter 282: Fear

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Lin Xuanyuan had once heard that there was a private subway under the US White House, which was maintained all year round and was exceptionally perfect to allow the president to escape in an emergency. It could escort the president away from the safe zone 10 miles away from the White House, that is, the nuclear sanctuary of the US White House, in the shortest time possible.

This was almost well-known news. When Lin Xuanyuan went to the White House for the banquet, he felt regret that he did not see the subway station. However, he did not expect that he would actually see it at the foot of the Imperial Armament Mountain in just a few days.

It was also a subway station that was deeper and larger than the one under the White House.

Eighty meters underground!

Normally, this was the depth of a refuge. Even if a nuclear war broke out, in order to maximize its destructive power, a nuclear bomb would detonate in the air a hundred meters above the ground. The depth of eighty meters below the ground was already safe enough.

However, Lin Xiaocao looked at the railroad tracks in front of him and found that they were still tilting downwards.

The angle of this inclination was very subtle. Ordinary people couldn't even see it. If they walked on the railroad tracks, almost no one would notice that it was going downwards. However, if the railroad tracks were long enough, they would be at least ten meters away from one end of the track to the other.

This was Lin Xuanyuan's most conservative estimate of the distance between starting, accelerating, running smoothly, and stopping a subway train.

If the other end of the track was a refuge, then the imperial refuge would be built at least 90 meters away from the ground.

It was not a place where only one or two people could be hidden, but a base that could accommodate hundreds of people!

Lin Xuanyuan followed the Emperor onto the subway. Gemini personally stood up. He looked out the window and retreated into the darkness. His heart was completely filled with an indescribable strange feeling.

"A $30 billion shelter?"

Lin Xuanyuan stood on the subway and muttered to himself.

"To be exact, it's 397,800 trillion dollars."

The Emperor indifferently added, "Confirming the year of the construction of the royal sanctuary, The royal family had reduced all their funds to the minimum, "I even personally ordered a few major projects to be suspended, and the military weapons trade was suspended for a year before we were able to build this place. At that time, the royal family did not have the ability to absorb money. A refuge was almost going to drag down the Wang Clan. That could be said to be the most difficult time, but a refuge had to be built!"

Lin Xuanyuan was silent.

He knew what time the Emperor was referring to. That time was about eighteen years ago, when the imperial family had just been established and the Emperor was busy suppressing the native Soviet people on the island.

The seventy thousand square kilometers of land beneath his feet had been bought from the Soviet government by the emperor using countless resources and methods.

How big is more than 70,000 square kilometers?

The most intuitive example was the inherent territory of the Divine Boat Empire, the Treasure Island Region, which had been attempting to declare independence for decades. To this day, it was still in a state of confrontation and competition with the upper echelons of the Divine Boat Empire. The most elite Southeast Secret Service Theatre and the most elite Southeast Military Region of the Empire were all designed to intimidate the Treasure Island Region.

The seventy-six thousand square kilometers of land beneath the royal family's feet was even larger than the two treasure islands combined.

Although there were only three cities on this land, they were all large cities with a population of over a million. The island was also rich in resources, oil, natural gas, coal, various forest resources, aquaculture, and so on.

This island was once ruled by the Divine Boat Empire, Japan, and the Soviet Union. No matter which country ruled it, this land was the largest island.

Back then, the imperial family had snatched this piece of fat meat from the Soviet Union at the same price.

In the late 1980s, The Wang Clan, known as the number one clan in the Divine Continent Empire, was completely annihilated overnight. At that time, the Wang Clan's Clan Master, Wang Cangqiong, the emperor's grandfather, left Nine Continents City with his grandson. Wang Canglan lived in Huating, but Wang Cangqiong's younger brother pretended to be dead and fled overseas. He lived in seclusion on an isolated island overseas. He personally built the royal auction house that had dominated Europe to this day, rebuilt the royal family's top-notch armed law enforcement team, and even nurtured Ye Liu-li, Li Xiangsi, and Wang Fu-yu. He also left behind quite a powerful military force for the royal family.

This could be said to be an exceptionally rich family background.

More importantly, Wang Canglan had always controlled more than 30% of the Wang Clan's financial resources back then.

It was a tremendous fortune of over trillions of dollars.

After the Emperor's rise from the Divine Boat Empire, he established a new Wang Clan. Before he died, Wang Canglan handed all the money over to the Emperor. The Emperor did not hesitate to waste it all. He even borrowed a huge debt from the Empress' family, the Xia Clan. All of the money eventually turned into this 70,000 square kilometers of land beneath his feet.

With the trillions of dollars invested, the Soviet Union's economic recovery has accelerated significantly.

But at that time, the imperial clan that had just acquired its own headquarters was still in danger.

Along with the withdrawal of the Soviet government and garrison, most of the native Soviet people went crazy. They rejected the country's recall order, and countless people spontaneously organized a march to demand that the island return to the Soviet embrace, almost frantically expelling everyone from the royal family.

The royal family must take root in this land.

The millions of people here simply didn't allow it.

This is an irreconcilable contradiction.

At that time, the Emperor gave the most ferocious order in his life without any hesitation.

Faced with countless people marching, protesting, and attacking, the Emperor's order was only three simple words.

Kill without mercy!

Countless royal warriors directly aimed their guns at the people who were no longer rational and completely crazy.

The emperor once said coldly, "To me, those people are no longer ordinary people. They are all enemies." They all deserved to die!!

In less than a month, more than 100,000 people had been slaughtered by the Emperor's cold-blooded orders.

Corpses were everywhere, blood flowing into rivers.

In this world-shocking massacre, besides the Imperial Emperor, there was also an outsider who appeared in the sight of countless people.

Her name is Yue Glenn Rothschild.

Now, the head of Rothschild's Soviet branch, this originally weak and pitiful and cowardly girl, had directly seized power when the Emperor slaughtered the aborigines, causing a huge uproar in the Soviet Union. When the Rothschild branch was in chaos, she had inadvertently resisted some of the Soviet Union's methods of interfering with the imperial islands.

The imperial family headquarters was bleeding.

The Soviet Union is bleeding.

Until six or seven years ago, there were even some crazy natives attacking the emperor.

Over the past ten years or so, nearly 200,000 aborigines had died at the hands of the royal family.

Men and women, old and young, were like a debt of blood in the abyss!

All the people on the island had accepted the leadership of the royal family, but even if they had not experienced that period of history, they could still imagine how tragic and bloody the royal family had been when they had established their footing here.

Eighteen years ago.

At that time, Royal family, no, It was the Emperor's Wang Clan that had come here for this land, He squandered the last penny in his hand, The poor emperor suppressed the aborigines, helped Yue Grani Rothschild seize power, and fought against the Soviet government. Facing the condemnation and rejection of the world, the emperor stopped some big projects, stopped the expansion of armaments, and emptied all the money again to build a refuge for the royal family.

Lin Xuanyuan could completely imagine what kind of pressure the Emperor had to endure back then.

It was also at that time that the Emperor fell silent.

He didn't die or go crazy in such a situation, but he managed to survive. With this alone, he was a qualified emperor!

Lin Xuanyuan simply couldn't imagine how tough the emperor's mind was now after experiencing so much.

Even today, eighteen years later, when the Emperor said that he had to establish it, he subconsciously increased his tone. Every word was filled with unshakable determination.

At that time, if the situation wasn't too difficult to sustain, the Emperor wouldn't have said this after so many years.

"You were so sure that war would happen?"

Lin Xuanyuan asked indifferently, "Although the situation at that time was tense, it wasn't so tense that you were able to build a shelter. Moreover, the facts have proved this point. Eighteen years have passed and the war hasn't broken out. Your shelter may not be needed anymore."

"I have no choice."

The Emperor lowered his eyelids and said indifferently.

"Do you have no choice in matters of the future that are not certain at all?"

Lin Xuanyuan was a little dismissive. "When the royal sanctuary was built, I'm still young, and although I don't know much about that history, But I'm sure, At that time, the situation in the world was definitely not tense. No matter how many enemies the royal family had, they would not recklessly start a war. At that time, the probability of war happening was negligible. I don't know why you were so sure that war would break out and you were eager to build a refuge. But now, it seems very clear that your confirmation was wrong. "

"Confirm?"

The emperor murmured to himself, then shook his head, his tone as firm as eighteen years ago, "I wasn't sure, and I wasn't sure either."

"Why is that?"

Lin Xuanyuan took out a cigarette and handed it to the Emperor.

The Emperor took the cigarette and lit it. He took a deep breath and looked ahead. He did not answer Lin Xuanyuan's question.

The subway continued to move forward at full speed during the conversation between the two of them. After walking for more than ten minutes, it finally stopped.

The Emperor brought Lin Xuanyuan and Gemini out of the subway. What appeared in front of the three of them was a thick metal door guarded by a row of dim lights at the end of the track.

The metal door was a whole, only a small dent in the center. The Emperor took out the necklace hanging around his neck. The necklace's pendant was shaped like a column. The Emperor took off the necklace and placed the column in the small dent. He pressed it lightly.

The heavy hydraulic machine rumbled, and large clumps of mist sprayed out from the exhaust holes concealed in the wall of the cave, followed by the sound of metal rubbing.

The metal door first retreated, then rolled sideways, entering the mountain wall, revealing the entrance to the sanctuary behind it.

"The necklace is a very special key. Only by using it can one open the metal door of the sanctuary. The structure of the key is a special alloy. After the instrument memorizes the spatial structure inside the key, it detects the inside of the key with a special wavelength, thus opening the metal door. This special alloy key is characterized by the fact that apart from the first batch of keys, there is nothing else that can open this metal door. Judging from the current science and technology, this alloy key is simply impossible to replicate. "

The Emperor explained indifferently.

Lin Xuanyuan subconsciously touched his neck. There was also a chain hanging around his neck. However, the Emperor's was a red rope, while the one in his neck was a platinum chain. However, the cylindrical pendant was exactly the same.

This is the key to the sanctuary.

He didn't ask how many keys there were, but there definitely weren't many. At the very least, Wang Jinxiu, who had slept with him countless times, didn't have such a thing on him.

"If anyone else gets the key..."

Lin Xuanyuan suddenly shut up and his expression became serious.

Originally, he wanted to ask if other people could enter and exit the imperial sanctuary freely if they obtained the key, but as soon as the metal door was completely opened, he immediately swallowed the question back.

The metal door was completely opened.

Looking through the short passageway to the base, there were two rows of weapons and surveillance platforms hanging at the other end of the passageway. Behind the platform, there was a metal wall that occupied the entire passageway, emitting a faint luster.

On both sides of the surveillance platform in front of the wall, there were three powerful semi-automatic machine guns hanging on one side. The bullets that made one's scalp go numb dragged far away on the ground.

As the metal door opened, the metal wall blocking the passage trembled slightly. In a few seconds, hundreds of barrels appeared on the wall. All of the barrels were aimed at the Emperor and the others.

In the middle of the wall, there were three cannon barrels.

It's for launching missiles.

Even Lin Xuanyuan's scalp felt numb as he stood in front of the door. He stared at the hundreds of barrels and missile launchers in front of him as if he was facing a great enemy, and subconsciously took a dodging stance.

This was an unbreakable refuge.

Moreover, this was a tight entrance.

Security had always been a place of refuge. A place of refuge that could be easily invaded from the outside had no value at all.

The muzzle of the gun was constantly adjusted, and the monitoring platform in the center flashed with light. Several rays of light instantly swept past the few people. Immediately after, a gentle female voice sounded from the monitoring platform, "The authority of the base manager is confirmed, and the alert is removed."

The muzzle of the machine gun was lowered.

The metal wall was densely packed with barrels, and the barrels also shrank. A small crack appeared in the middle of the wall, allowing only one person to pass through.

"Your eyelids, Fingerprints, everything, and permissions are confirmed, If a person with unconfirmed authority is standing here, "Even if I get the key, I will be attacked immediately after opening the door. There are a total of six such walls and hundreds of barrels. There are more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition, hundreds of missiles, and even more ammunition depots. As long as I stay here, I will be absolutely safe."

The Emperor said calmly. There was no complacency, no worry, only a strong sense of confidence.

Behind the six weapons and metal doors was the real base.

The interior of the base was filled with a very dim red light. This was also a sign that the base had entered a state of overall energy conservation, saving as much energy as possible for lighting. However, priority is given to ensuring the energy supply in the main areas, as well as in all automatic doors.

At the front of the base was a small square, equipped with cars and small towers. It was an area for loading and unloading all kinds of materials.

On the right side of the plaza was a frozen warehouse. It was an entire area, densely packed with thousands of bungalows, filled with dense food, food, vegetables, meat, fruits, and everything else.

Freezing insurance is also the most advanced technology. If you don't care about the taste, these foods can be stored for more than a year without deterioration. Similarly, the food here is enough for hundreds of people to live for more than a year.

In front of the freezing area were several security rooms made entirely of explosion-proof glass. From the inside, one could see the outside, but from the outside, one could not see the inside. There were a total of ten rooms, each with six military beds and metal wardrobes. Inside the room, there were sniper rifles, submachine guns, pistols, machine guns, grenades, and grenades.

After passing through the frozen area, there was a passage made of explosion-proof glass. A long, wide, and thin light shone on the passage, immediately spreading throughout the entire passage.

There were rooms one after another in the passageway. They were the dormitories and storerooms of the elites of the royal family who were qualified to come here. The storerooms could also be filled with food.

At the end of the 50-meter-long passageway was a large restaurant.

Near the dining hall, there was a medical room, an operating room, and a drug storage room.

Inside the dining room, there was an entrance to the underground. It was the engine room, equipment room, oil depot, water treatment room, air purification room, and a large ammunition depot. Inside the engine room, there was also an equipment room that was no smaller than the size of the ammunition depot. The entrance was marked with a small nuclear power sign, but it was not activated yet.

Behind the dining hall, they continued to walk along the passageway. It was the central control room, and there were more than 20 luxurious large suites no matter where they were. This should be the residence prepared for important members of the royal family.

This area has a complete recreation area, fitness area, swimming pool, wine storage room, and even a small indoor garden, but there are no flowers or plants.

More than ten tons of purified water can be supplied here every day, Even if a nuclear war broke out outside, The water treatment system here also filters out most of the radiation, Apart from that, there were also sufficient oxygen treatment systems here. Whether it was living areas, armed areas, or various technologies, this place represented the world's most advanced standards. It could be seen that although this place had been established for more than ten years, the Emperor had never given up on upgrading the interior.

"What do you feel?"

The Emperor walked in front of them, bringing Lin Xuanyuan and Gemini along as they slowly scanned every corner of the huge base. He asked in a gentle tone.

Lin Xuanyuan did not say anything.

"Safe!"

The Emperor replied, "This is the real safe place. It is a safe place where no amount of money can be given. I admit that money is indeed a good thing, but sometimes it is absolutely violent. For example, in front of the state apparatus, the so-called money is just a pile of waste paper. It has no effect at all!"

"The three great clans of the royal family, The Wang Clan, the Xia Clan, Huangfu Clan, you should have seen the annual net profit of the royal family. The annual net profit of the royal family now exceeds 700 billion US dollars, of which at least 500 billion has been used by me for military expansion and military upgrading. The rest will be allocated to biological laboratories and some other institutions. What's the point of keeping a sum of money for emergencies? "Only by grasping the power in my own hands can I truly make people feel safe. The imperial clan may still be destroyed, but the power I possess can absolutely cripple any so-called super power, including the United States!"

"Indeed, the Skull and Bones Club and the elite clubs can do everything I can with money, but how many years will it take to accumulate? "The royal family does not have this time. Our enemies will not give us so much time. Moreover, such a path is even more dangerous for the royal family. In this world, it is enough for a wealthy club like the Skull and Bones Society and the Elite Club to settle everything with money. The royal family is now on the right path!"

"Perhaps many years from now, the royal family will change, but not now. Even if I want to change, my descendants will choose to change in the most gentle environment."

"If the royal family wants to change now, it is equivalent to suicide!"

The Emperor said in a deep voice. His last sentence was extremely resolute!

Lin Xuanyuan didn't say anything. He silently looked at every inch of space in the base with a complicated expression.

What he saw here was not the imperial clan's domineering ambitions, nor was it the emperor's absolute power.

It's...

Fear!

The Emperor's fear!

The Emperor's fear that almost penetrated into his bones!

He finally understood that the Emperor had not answered his question just now.

Eighteen years ago, the Emperor did not confirm that a war would break out. He crazily built a shelter at almost any cost because of the fear that he could drive people crazy under the tremendous pressure!

Other than what I love, everyone in the world is a puppy!

When the emperor said these words when he was young, he did not belittle the people of the world. It was just that in his heart, what he loved was always in a position that could not be higher.

The Emperor was not afraid of death, but he was deeply afraid of losing what he loved!

He's just trying to protect his family.

In this kind of fear, the emperor would give up his previous high spirits and arrogance. He began to be silent, and his heart could only lose all the fear he loved.

He might have cried, hated, and gone crazy, but all the fear and pressure were concentrated on him. He could only use all his resources to accumulate his strength at all costs.

Even today, fear remains.

Therefore, the Emperor kept turning his economic strength into military strength. His military strength became stronger and stronger, and his enemies became more and more fearful. Today, there was no turning back.

There was something he said that was absolutely correct.

He had no choice.

Eighteen years ago, eighteen years later.

Who could have imagined that the only emperor of the Dark World would be terrified after so many years of silence?

Crazy because of fear.

Because he was crazy, he was powerful.

Vaguely, Lin Xuanyuan felt that he had seen through the emperor, through this uncle, as if he had also seen the Emperor's heart, which was beating tenaciously because of fear and seemed to be hard and cold.

The Emperor's expression was somewhat absent-minded as he gently closed his eyes.

All of the fears were instantly surrounded by safety.