"Click..." The sound was exactly the same as what Liu Quanyou had said. Despite the rusty appearance, the padlock was well maintained, and the lock cylinder was well lubricated, making it easy to open.

"Come on, come over here! Hurry up, I won't wait for you to come and catch me!" The lock was opened, but the door was still closed. There was a huge handle made of steel welded to the blast-proof door, which needed to be moved in order to open the locking device. This time, it was not Yang Ping who was unlucky, but Yang Ling.

"What's inside..." Maybe because Yang Ling was braver than Yang Ping, or maybe because she had witnessed what happened to her companion, Yang Ling hesitated for only a few seconds before obediently walking over under Hong Tao's gaze. She grabbed the handle with both hands and then remembered something.

"There are treasures inside... Hurry up and open it!" Hong Tao pretended to kick.

"...Um... I can't move it..." Yang Ling, like a frightened rabbit, closed her eyes and desperately pushed down on the handle, but her face turned red and the handle didn't budge.

"Lift it up!" Hong Tao was about to hit the girl on the head with the ice axe. There was clearly an upward arrow on the base of the handle, and he had been shining his flashlight on it for her, but she still didn't see it.

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"Clang... Hoo... Ya..." With a slight muffled sound, the locking device opened smoothly. But suddenly, a gust of hot wind blew out from the crack in the door. Yang Ling was so scared that she lost her sense of direction and bumped into the riot shield, almost knocking Hong Tao down.

"Stay behind, don't wander around!" Hong Tao had no choice but to extend his right hand, grab Yang Ling by the collar, and pull her behind him.

"There's wind... Strange wind..." Yang Ling, still in shock, pointed at the slightly loose blast-proof door and kept muttering.

"Nonsense, if there's no wind, this passage would be a dead end! Liu Quanyou, you stay here and guard the door. If anyone dares to move, shoot without hesitation... Sun Ge, get ready, I'm going in!"

Hong Tao didn't know how to respond. Nowadays, children really lack common sense in life. But if you ask them, they still feel wronged and answer righteously: "How would I know?"

There was nothing behind the blast-proof door, it was even cleaner than the outside. But the passage was quite long, and the strong flashlight couldn't reach the end. Hong Tao carefully shone the flashlight on the ground and walls, then held up the riot shield and walked inward. Sun Jianshe followed behind him, more than two meters away.

"Click..." After walking for more than two hundred meters, another blast-proof door appeared at the end of the passage. The padlock and the sign were exactly the same as before, and they were well maintained. It opened easily with a poke. But no matter how they pressed or lifted the handle, the blast-proof door still couldn't be pulled open, as if something was stuck.

"Let's go, let's go to the subway station and take a look!" Seeing this, Hong Tao was not only not frustrated, but rather satisfied. He carefully placed the lock on the ground, then turned around and walked back with Sun Jianshe.

"Master Hong, how is it?" Liu Quanyou greeted them as soon as they returned to the circular fortification, his face full of anticipation.

"It should be fine. Sun Ge and I still need to open the other lock in the subway tunnel. I'll take this key, and the rest of the keys will be left with you. According to the schedule, if we haven't made any progress by 10 o'clock, you should take them back to the car in the park and wait for another hour before going home. Don't be polite, this kind of separation and farewell will become common in the future. Every time we go out, it could be the last time we see each other. Are you tired of not being able to let go every time?"

Hong Tao patted Liu Quanyou's shoulder and gave a satisfactory answer. Then he began to assign tasks, interrupting him when Liu Quanyou looked hesitant.

The subway line 5 was originally supposed to pass through the underground of the Temple of Earth Park, but in order to protect the ancient buildings, it made a small turn to the east outside the south gate, following the outer wall of the park and continuing north.

Although Hong Tao couldn't distinguish between east, south, west, and north in the underground construction, he could roughly construct a map in his mind after reaching the surface, and find the general direction from it. Although the passage was in the south direction, its orientation should be eastward, and the distance was also similar, so the possibility of it being connected to the subway was very high.

"Shouldn't we take a car?" Sun Jianshe was a little puzzled when he saw that Hong Tao was not heading towards the park wall, but towards the main road.

"Leave the car for them, let's walk. How about it, can you still run?" It was about 300 meters from here to the subway station. Hong Tao didn't feel like climbing back over the wall into the park to get the car, but he needed to consult Sun Jianshe's opinion on whether they could run the whole way.

"Oh, I'm afraid I can't... Should we give it a try?" Sun Jianshe was not hesitant when it came to work or killing zombies. His absolute strength was not inferior to Jiao San. But after all, he was in his sixties, and he hadn't run much in his daily life, so he was not confident.

"Then let's not try. Let's find a way to get there on foot!" Give it a try? Wow, this guy really dares to say anything, he can try anything, except for risking his life. Hong Tao took the pressure pliers off his back and led the way towards the roadside.

After passing the Temple of Earth, the section of the road suddenly widened, with a median strip on both sides. There were quite a few residential buildings, but most of them were not close to the road. Even if a few zombies discovered the living person riding a shared bicycle in the middle of the road, they would not be able to come out due to the anti-theft windows and fences.

That's right, Hong Tao destroyed the locks of two shared bicycles with the pressure pliers, and he and Sun Jianshe rode one each, racing in the middle of the road. Thanks to the disaster happening in the early morning, most people were inside their houses, and most vehicles had not come out yet. The road was empty, and the few wandering zombies couldn't catch up with the speed of the bicycles.

In fact, as long as there were isolated zombies, Hong Tao and Sun Jianshe had to rush over and knock them down, one using the shield to hit their legs, the other using the fire hook to smash their heads. In just a few moves, they would make them lie down.

What does it mean to see a coward and not be able to hold back the fire? Look over here! Just now, the two people who were racing and beating stray dogs on the road were immediately dumbfounded when they arrived at the entrance of the subway station. There were four zombies lying behind the iron fence gate. They could sense the presence of living people from a distance and became restless, banging on the gate.

"Sun Ge, get the gun ready!" Dealing with these few zombies was easy, they were all clawing behind the iron fence, one shot to the head and they were down. But the nearby wandering zombies were also alerted and were quickly gathering around.

What was more troublesome was that there was a large five-story residential building nearby, almost every window was filled with zombies, all of them had noticed the living people below and were constantly hitting the guardrails. A few stainless steel anti-theft windows that were designed for aesthetics but not sturdy had been knocked off, and zombies were continuously falling out from the windows.

"We're running out of bullets, what should we do?" Sun Ge couldn't help but recall the scene at the police station when he saw this, feeling a bit scared.

"Go down, these guys don't seem to like dark places!"

Hong Tao was also a bit scared watching the zombies falling down from the building like dumplings. He was lucky not to mutate after being scratched last time, but he couldn't guarantee the same if it happened again. However, to fully utilize the underground works, he had to unlock the lock in the subway tunnel. He had already run so far, he was reluctant to run back empty-handed.

"There shouldn't be anyone down there, right?" A drill that could break through a safe couldn't be stopped by the lock on the subway station door. Sun Ge followed Hong Tao into the pitch-black tunnel, his body tense.

"Every station has security and technical personnel on duty, those few just now might have been them. They must have come up for sunlight, whether there are any trapped below is hard to say. Just shoot if you notice anything unusual, the sound of the gun won't travel far here, survival is the priority!"

Hong Tao himself had never worked in the subway company, but he used to know a subway worker and often went to the spare platform of the tenth station to play badminton, so he had some understanding of the personnel arrangement in the subway station.

Security and technical is a department, not health and technology. Also, all maintenance of subway equipment is arranged at night. There are definitely no passengers at this time, but there are definitely people, one hundred percent, just a difference in numbers.

What does it mean to be knowledgeable? This is it. You don't necessarily have to understand every single item clearly, but you have a certain understanding of many things around you, which is enough to deal with emergencies.

In addition to air, sunlight is also a necessity for humans. Under the sun's gaze, human activities are much more free. Without its care, one immediately feels a lot more insecure.