The telecoms room and kitchen were the most damaged rooms as they were both situated close to the bridge. The passage along with its doors where directly under the bridge so they were not as bad. There were six doors in total. Well seven if you count the entrance door too.
Azalea started cleaning the telecom's room. She must have been the one who fixed the screen because in the state that the main room was in, I doubt that they found this place with that thing still in tacked. A-Gunner started cleaning the passage. Doc started cleaning the kitchen because he was hoping to find food there or chemicals. Luthor and I helped out here and there everywhere Since I was with Azalea, I helped her out first. We removed most of the rubble in the telecoms room.
"Keep an eye out for wires that led to the ceiling and go into the ground. Ok "
"Ok, but what are they for?
"They are for monitors and to send signals. Lucky this monitor in the telecoms room was built in such a way that should something happen to the external hardware of this monitor- the motherboard, CPU and RAM will not be damage. You see the motherboard is not connected to the rest of the monitor's hardware components so cannot fry them if a surge happens. Instead, it is connected to receiver, transmitters and resistors in the place where the other components should be. Likewise, the CPU, RAM and other parts of the hardware also have transmitters, receivers and are save in a water, fire, surge and blast protective cover.
"Wow that is amazing, but I don't know much about computers. If I understood correct. You are saying that some parts are not connected by wires, right?"
"Yes, that's correct."
"So then how do they work? Like... they don't have wires. How do the electricity flow without wires?"
"That is a great question. They have special transmitters that can receive normal voltage in the form of watts from wires and transmits it through the air in the form of frequencies. Our scientists have found a way to turn these electrical frequencies into radio frequencies, each with their own frequencies. This is useful so that components don't receive the wrong frequency. So yea the components can remain safe in their cover and still do their functions inside the monitors. All except for the screen though. Luckly, I brought my attachable screen with me.
"You sure seem to know a lot about computers and tech stuff. I thought you were a Mechanical engineer?"
"I am but Computer studies and introduction to IT was part of my subjects in high school, so we learned a lot about hardware and software. It also helped me when they taught me how to use CAD for my mechanical engineering studies after high school."
"that's cool."
"Thank."
After most of the rubble in the telecoms room was cleared out, I went over to the other side of the room to help Doc with the kitchen. As we cleaned, I asked Doc what happened.
"So, what is the deal with this place? Yall told me about the two teams that went missing but yall have not told me what happen to the bridge. Why does it and this place look like this?"
"You can ask Azalea to show you the footage of what happened here later but for now just know that it was blown up."
That explains why this place looks like this. An explosion. It must have happened on the bridge because the bridge is gone, and this place is still here. It also seems that my suspicions were true... well the one about the bridge being blown up. Whether they are killers remains to be seen but from what I have seen and what they have told me their story seems to check out. But still... This could have been all fabricated. Come to think about it. I have not gotten any really proof other than what they told me. Was the lady on the screen real or a recording? She responded though. Maybe she was an AI. No, that can't be it, why they would go through the trouble of creating an AI just to trick me and kill me later? It makes no sense. I will have to take a close look at this so-called footage later for now I will do more digging.
After clearing the rubble, it the kitchen that was on the left side of the main room, we saw that there was a widow on the North wall. When you stand in between the kitchen and the telecoms room and face the kitchen. You can see the window in front of you. Looking outside the kitchen window was metal stairs. I looked at Doc and he spoke.
"Well, they did mentioned stairs when we first got here and searched for DT. So, this is where they connect to. what an interesting flaw for a bunker. "
"Bunker? what do you mean bunker?"
"Oh so no one told you. This place is one of the fallout shelters and or bunkers that the military knows about. However, given what the Azalea said about this place. it was owned by a billionaire who funded the money to build the bridge near the metropolis. He had other bunkers build too. No one can say for sure why he had so many but given the fact that some of the locations we know about and how spread out they were. I think he created them so that he could travel to the nearest one first should something happen. Azalea also said that when the miliary found these fallout shelters they were empty. What a waste of money when other people find out that you build so many fallout shelters and didn't even survive long enough to make it to one of them. I didn't pay for any fallout shelter nor was I involved in their construction but here I am. Alive and I will make good use of it."
"But this place does not look like a billionaire's style and what good would it have done him in a nuclear fallout or explosion if a bomb can destroy this place? look at how it looks now. it seems that the contractors done him dirty."
"Perhaps they did but the report showed that he had two contracted teams work on the bridge. So, the second team probably came and told him that the bunker was faulty, and they build it deeper under the old one. The bunker you have seen is the old one and according to Azalea, the bunker below goes deeper down. As for the other stuff the miliary got rid of all the unnecessary things and militarize this place into a bunker."
"It is crazy that it's been here all this time. Didn't anyone think to come here when things got bad?"
"No, the public was not aware that the bunker existed and even if they did it wouldn't have done them good. Aside from the doors being mechanical locked they are also electronically locked too.
"Then how did you guys get in or the people before you?"
"Although it is true that the guy who had this place build had advance technology. The military also has tech and fields that specialize in bridging such high-tech places. So, we basically hacked it and found the spare keys"
"Oh, so were those the keys Luthor was talking about?"
"Yes."
I continued to help clear out the rubble in the kitchen and we found a door in the left corner of the kitchen, but it was open unlike all the others. I asked Doc about it and he just ignored me.
After that I went to help A-Gunner with clearing the passage. She was almost done just a few heavy debris that she could not carry on her own. As we carried the debris outside, I saw Luthor doing something to the vehicles. It took about 1 hour and 30 minutes to get all the rubble in the bunker when we were finally done. Everyone went outside to get a breath of fresh air and to get away from all that dust. Luthor walked towards one of the vehicles and looked at his watch, then spoke.
"Great job everyone. The bunker is starting to look much better now. The time is 09:51am. everyone can take a break for now. I am going on a supply run with the van, and I will be back soon.
It seems Luthor likes checking the time. I wonder if he is the only one with a watch. everyone else has long warm clothes on, it is hard to tell.
Then A-Gunner asked Luthor if the van was operational.
"Yes, I decided to cypher the fuel BT's vehicle and put it in the empty van we came with, but it was not enough to take us to any of the fuel checkpoints."
Azalea then stated that it didn't make sense.
"Why would BT have an almost empty tank when they know that they will not be able to reach the next fuel checkpoint? Yes, there is the fact that they used some of the fuel to investigate DT crash and came back but they must have had some back up plan or hidden fuel somewhere, plus there is a lot of locked doors with no keys."
Doc then started walking away.
"Yes, that is why I'm going to the crash site. Maybe they dropped it somewhere there when they went to help BT."
"Alright I'll stay behind. Since there are no keys. We can't all leave this place."
She then started following after Doc.
"A-Gunner are you coming with me.?"
"Sure, I'll tag along, besides you left me here the last time. Don't think you are going to pull a fast one on me."
"What should I do now? A-Gunner and I are done clearing the passage?"
Then Luthor replied.
"What do you mean, what are you going to do now, you are coming with us. If you are a member of the team that crashed maybe you will remember something now. If not, well. their delivery goods should not be too far from the crash so we will need your help finding them."
We got in the van and drove. looking back, I saw Azalea and Doc walking towards the forest.