【Hammer Base】Until the Abyss

A small door with "changing room" in the staff passage was opened, and a tall, black-haired and green-eyed children's doctor walked out from inside.The doctor was tall and tall, wearing a knee-length white coat. In addition to making the whole person more elegant, the pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his face added a bit of gentleness and amiability.

He adjusted the badge on his left chest. From the name on the badge, he knew that it was Doctor Tom Pine here.

Loki is content with his simple disguise.

When he just got off the rooftop of the amusement park, he saw the door of the staff passage and thought of this method, and it seems to be working well now.

After all, he doesn't have any equipment here, not to mention a simulated silicone human face hood, a silencer pistol, and he doesn't even have a can of suitable hairspray.Children's Doctor is probably the best fit for him: at the top of the food chain for amusement park employees, able to walk freely and be ignored.

It's just that there are more employees in this amusement park than he imagined: ticket sales, management, maintenance, transportation, children's doctors and chefs.Although the place is not big, at first glance it looks like a high-quality amusement park with complete facilities and good staff.But... what amusement park is so high-quality that it needs to "hold a gun" in the watchtower?

That's right, Loki's target is the two watchtowers that Thor gestured to him earlier.

Trust is always based on facts.It is true that this man had rescued him during the estrus period, and also revealed the name "Thanos", which seemed to impress him.But Loki has never seen the world beyond what Thor has shown him: everything Thor has told.Then of course, another possibility is that everything is controlled by Thor.

"欻拉——" The sound of cooking oil in the pan interrupted the black-haired agent's thoughts.

He was walking in the corridor of the work area that only employees can enter.

Loki turned his head and looked, probably due to the hot weather, the back kitchen door leading to the corridor was open, and many employees in chef uniforms were busy back and forth.Some are frying French fries, some are cleaning the plates, and some are checking the freshly baked bread. Everything is orderly and extremely normal, as if this is really the back kitchen of an ordinary children's playground restaurant.

Loki frowned, but he didn't find anything unusual during this journey, he finally pushed open the door at the end of the safe passage and walked out of the building.

Using the cover of smoking in the outdoor smoking area, Loki silently recalled everything he had just observed: the normal kitchen, the ordinary loader, the mechanic who stood in the corridor repairing the light bulb and had a good attitude and called "Dr. Tom" call.

He looked outside again with cold eyes, there was nothing special outside, even the few scattered trucks loaded and unloaded were carbonated drinks and snacks that children liked to eat.The watchtower not far away is also cleverly painted to look like a "fairy tale castle". Passers-by will probably only regard it as a landmark building of the amusement park.Even if Thor hadn't motioned him to look at those two strange reflections just now, I'm afraid even Loki wouldn't have noticed it in the first place...

It has to be said that now the agent kind of believes Thor's so-called "I have been married to him for seven years" nonsense. If he is deliberately brainwashed, it is normal to find nothing.After all, everything in this city is so "real" that people can't catch the flaws.

Without the light like a gun scope, the anesthesia spray that Thor said was hidden in the bushes, the ubiquitous cameras, and the unfamiliar banknotes like plastic game coins, Loki might feel that the "strangeness" of the city is his own conjecture.

——Maybe this is really an ordinary city that can no longer be ordinary. Thor played tricks on him in order to let him stay, or because deep down in his heart he just wanted to live with an arms dealer, so he had to keep looking for him. Some "last resort" excuses.

No.

Loki hastily kicked the bad thought out of his head, not letting any emotion interfere with his calm thoughts.

He had to find out anyway.

However, the two tall towers in the distance are not easy to get close to.

The main body of the playground is in the indoor building behind, and the space between the wall and the main building is very large, and the space is mostly used as a parking lot or for stacking waste amusement equipment.Since there is no shelter here, if it is really a watchtower, the big lala walked over and shouted to the enemy: Hey, I am here.

On the other side of the tower is the high mountain that can be seen from anywhere in the city, so the surveillance personnel on the tower only need to pay attention to the inside.

At this time, we must thank the professional quality of the agents.

A truck coming from behind surrounded Loki, the former agent threw the doctor's uniform into the trash can beside him, grabbed the handle at the back of the truck the moment the truck passed by him, and his slender body Instantly hangs behind the truck bed!

The wind brought by the driving slightly blew the agent's sideburns and hair.

Well, the question now becomes how to get back from there later.

Taking advantage of the turn of the truck, Loki jumped down, rolled over and landed steadily, and further ahead was the edge of the amusement park.Now he just needs to get close to any high tower under the cover of some cars...

Just as he was hiding behind a car, two voices suddenly came from not far away.

"I'm so tired, do you need to change shift today?"

"I'm not going to switch anymore. I've been on both sides for a month. This month, I'm only in charge of the living area D."

"Hey, I still have to be in charge of the warehouse, and the check-in point in Area C is too far from here." The speaker sighed deeply. "If only I could use the door, it's obviously separated by a wall!"

What they said later can no longer be heard clearly, but Loki has already captured an unusual message: living in D area?Warehouse, Area C?Do you mean the amusement park?But the amusement park is clearly not large enough to require zoning.When it comes to "life", do you mean the city?Across a wall... what do you mean?

Where else is there any wall around here?

From Loki's point of view, this place is just a parking lot for employees of a children's amusement park. As far as the eye can see, there are playground fences. "Wittier Hill" can be seen.

The Wittier Mountains are very long and high, and Loki even planned the possibility of climbing over the mountains when he was running away, but he gave up in the end.

And although this city isn't too big, it's not as small as District D as a general place, is it?If this is the case, why have I never seen the shadows of the other areas.

The agent's hands were unconsciously covered with sweat.

Then he suddenly realized that, unlike other developed cities, there are almost no tall buildings above four floors in the whole city except for the city center that has not been visited yet.

Could it be...

One question after another popped into his mind.At this moment, a soft sound of "Didi, Didi" suddenly came from two or three meters away to Loki's left.The two people who were originally talking didn't know what they were aware of, and hurriedly pulled each other away.They're walking so fast that Loki doesn't hear anything.

"Fuck."

The sound of the metal sliding door suddenly came from three or four meters away to Loki's left.

Loki turned his head abruptly, because of his crouching position, he was hiding in the gap between two cars, so from his position he could clearly see it at a close distance - just two rows ahead of him in the longitudinal direction of the car In the cracks, a door suddenly opened "out of thin air".

Yes, really a door.

Loki blinked hard.

But that is indeed the door that appeared "out of thin air", it is like a rectangular black hole that suddenly appeared in the parking lot.Followed by several people wearing guard uniforms, they came out of the door one by one.They had batons and electric shock batons pinned to their waists, and two pistols with silencers were inserted in the gun pockets under their arms, and there were magazines in the pockets.Rather than guards, overarmed police would be more apt.

Loki's breathing came short, he couldn't imagine why heavily armed guards would appear "out of thin air" in the parking lot behind the children's playground.

Everything was weirdly overdone.

Omega rubbed his feet carefully, avoiding making any noise.To avoid being discovered, he retreated from the side of the vehicle to the rear of the vehicle, holding his breath the entire time.

The one in the line with the sombrero on his head was probably the Chief of Guards, and Loki heard him say "Hurry up, hurry up, don't be seen by the subjects".

Experimental product, who is the "experimental product"?

"They're all playing with their kids in it. How can anyone actually come to the employee parking lot?"

The door that appeared "out of thin air" quickly closed after all 12 guards entered.

Undoubtedly, based on the logic of the dialogue...the "experiment" is himself and other people in the playground.

Loki bit his lip hard.

And just as he was thinking about waiting for the person to walk away, to see how the door suddenly appeared, a guard shouted: "My information card!"

"Jackson! If you lose everything again, I will report to the superiors and expel you from the guard."

"Boss..."

The guard named Jasckson may have said something nice, but he didn't know what he was muttering to the chief guard.Soon Loki found that he trotted back to where the door appeared, touched his hand on the "void", and a nine-compartment cipher disk formed by a blue-green electron flow immediately appeared in "midair".

A guard named Jackson entered the code, and the door reappeared.Loki, who was hiding behind the car this time, could see clearly that the door slid open from right to left.

After Jackson left and returned at an extremely fast speed, a group of guards left while talking.

It wasn't until they left that Loki leaned his head on the car in a daze, wondering: what did he just discover?

Life is not a sci-fi movie, and the black-haired agent naturally wouldn't believe the door that appeared out of nowhere.Seeing no one around, he stood up and slipped out, all the way to where Jackson was just now, he stretched out his hand cautiously, and looked forward as if uncertain...

His fingertips really touched something.

is a wall.

However, it is obviously an electronic wall formed by high technology. Loki stuck his hands together and tried to grope left and right, only to realize that this wall was the real boundary of this amusement park. Whether it is the fence or the mountains in the "distance", they are just visual illusions given by the huge screen.He propped his feet up and touched up again, only to realize that he couldn't touch the head at all.

At that moment, an indescribable fear enveloped the thin black-haired Omega. Loki's Adam's apple twitched and his body was cold.

He felt that he had never been closer to the "truth" he wanted to explore, but when the truth was revealed to him, he was suddenly not sure whether he could accept it.

A wall of invisible height surrounds his life, and he, his children, and other ordinary people are called test subjects, so what is real?Is the sky real?Is it true that the sun rises and sets, the wind, rain, thunder and lightning?Is his life real?How many people here know the truth, how many are "experimental products" in the mouth of the guards, and how many are "employees" who are familiar with the existence of the wall?

Loki wakes up suddenly, he shouldn't stay here for too long.

His target should no longer be those two watchtowers.

He put his face as close as possible to the wall and looked up. The agent's excellent eyesight allowed him to distinguish the tiny color difference between the "sky" of the electronic wall and the real sky.This discovery made Loki slightly relieved.Although this advanced electronic wall is high, it is only two-thirds of the height of the watchtower, about twenty meters away from him.Where the wall cannot cover, there must be a real scene—a little bit of reality is better than nothing.

It's just that Loki now wants to know more urgently, what is it that this wall is trying to cover or separate!

Loki pursed his lips tightly, and pressed his palms completely against the electronic wall, in the same position as Jackson's guard just now.

Sure enough, the electronic screen for password input was displayed.

He immediately re-entered the password he wrote down.Fortunately, the door opened.Accompanied by a soft buzzing sound, the hidden electronic door slowly slid open from right to left. The back of the door was dark, like the mouth of an unknown animal.

Loki collected himself, took a deep breath, and stepped inside.

**

The door leads to a dark corridor, and Loki can hear the hollow echo of his shoes on the concrete.

The environment that was too closed and squeezed caused tremendous psychological pressure, and reminded him vaguely of what the instructor said when he was training at the JNSA training institution more than ten years ago.

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"Listen to me clearly, you bastards are nothing but the scum and disgrace of the country! All of you survived because of luck. So don't try to escape, JNSA can give you a second life, and it is fully capable Take it away. From this day forward, you are the machine of the state, paying for your sins by constantly performing tasks."

He remembered that the instructor counted their crimes one by one: the boy who trafficked drugs, the girl who prostituted, and he... the murderer's son of a black policeman.

The instructor brought the tanned face closer to him, his sinister gaze seemed to peel off all of Loki's camouflage.

His nostrils fluttered, and he poked the young boy's thin chest with his fingers: "Boy, I know you are very smart, but don't try to innovate. It is useless to escape. If you escape from one room, there will be another." A bigger room is waiting for you, that's what life is, and you feel like where is someone like you really accepting you other than JNSA? Who else in the world could possibly love you?"

The boy's heart pounded hard.

But stubborn, he has learned to bow his head submissively.In fact, Loki didn't want to escape, because the 16-year-old boy knew that what the instructor said was right: they were originally abandoned by the world, with no goals or relatives, and even their identities were wiped out.So where can he escape to?Besides, even if you escape... what else can you do?

There is no one in the world who needs them anymore. 』

The bad memory made the black-haired agent pause, and he quickened his pace to finish this too closed road.

Loki breathed a sigh of relief when he reached the end of the corridor.

But I have to say that he is indeed a little strange now, after all, if he had followed his original character, he shouldn't be so persistent in running away.Because after leaving here, all he could think of was to go back to JNSA to report on his work, and then turn around and go to the next dangerous mission.

Of course it's not like he's going to be "obsessed" with his family life with Thor, that's impossible.But no matter whether it is JNSA or Thor, it should not be something that Loki is obsessed with and sticks to.

As early as Laufey's death, everything he did was more like a step-by-step machine: living is based on the instinctive desire to survive, and performing tasks is the meaning and goal of living. Laufey wants him to go to a good university and be a good person, the former he has missed, and the latter he can do by performing tasks in JNSA. Loki never thought about looking for a partner, all the people he cared about died, even if he didn't believe in God, he had a faint feeling that he might be an ominous person.

So people who don’t have a goal and don’t care about it don’t make the same difference wherever they stay?

Why is he so persistent?

"Loki Laufeyson, you have your own life.Never deny yourself, believe me, your existence itself is beautiful, you don't need to live for others. 』

Such a sentence suddenly entered the agent's mind.

The agent suddenly clutched his temples, damn it, who said this, when did he say it, and where did he say it?

His slender fingers trembled, but he couldn't remember anything.

The fog made him have to focus only on what was in front of him.

Loki entered the same code again and pushed open the door at the end of the corridor.

What appeared in the line of sight was a completely different scene from the other side of the wall.

Loki opens the door and sees a narrow fire escape.It is a narrow path between a building and this wall that is more than ten meters thick, and if you walk out along this fire escape for a while, you can see a wider world.

And when he saw the scene in front of him clearly, Loki was stunned.

It turned out that he was between two huge warehouses, and the distance between the warehouses was about 20 meters. Through the gap of 20 meters, he could see an endless sea of ​​containers. Every three containers fell together. Densely filled his entire field of vision. Loki can tell that because of his limited field of vision, he's only seeing a small part of it.This is probably the so-called "warehouse C area" in the two populations.

In other words, maybe the land used as a warehouse is no smaller than his "living area D".

So... is there an A zone and a B zone?What's it like there?

But there was no time for him to go further. If he didn't want to be discovered by Thor, he had to return to the living area D just now before the two little ghosts finished playing.So when he found a small door open at the corner of the warehouse facing the fire escape that he had just come in, Loki didn't hesitate, and slipped in.

After actually entering, he realized how big it was.

A warehouse alone is as big as a football field and as tall as a six or seven-story building.Steel metal shelves are built up layer by layer, and each layer of shelves is filled with goods.Some are containers, others are airtight iron boxes.The ventilation facilities in the warehouse are excellent. On the left is a large row of exhaust fans with huge power, whirring and spinning, and on the right are many dehumidifiers, as if to keep the entire warehouse in an absolutely dry environment. environment.

Probably because of this, the back door that Loki just came in is open.

The agent hid behind a shelf. From a distance, he could see about [-] workers at the main entrance of the warehouse. They were driving cranes, cranes, and some were carrying things by hand with white gloves.

So... is it the same for other warehouses?

So what are the things stored here?If it is a shipping point for containers, will there be a wharf or a port?

Loki frowned, if it's a dock and a port, then this is definitely an opportunity to leave.Even if not, there should be some place to go out nearby. After all, transportation is closely related to freight and storage.

"Come on, let's take a look inside this warehouse."

A sharp whistle came from outside at this moment.

The agent froze, realizing that there were obviously guards here too.He was flustered, and the things in the warehouse area were more regular. There was a gap of about five or six meters between the rows of shelves, and he never piled up sundries on the ground for the convenience of transportation.

There are patrols at the rear, and near the main entrance, there are constantly loading and unloading workers driving in and out. There is far more nowhere to hide here than in the parking lot.

He came too recklessly. According to the situation in front of him, it was almost only a matter of time before the flanking attack was discovered.

The footsteps of the guards patrolling are getting closer and closer...

Loki gritted his teeth, and taking advantage of his thin body, he quickly rolled over and squeezed into the wooden box on the first floor of the shelf.He hid his body in the gap between the shelf and the top of the box, trying to move inside to hide.

"Boom, boom, boom—"

The inspections here are much stricter than those in the "living area". The sound of military boots stepping on the concrete floor echoes in my ears, and because the warehouse is empty, the echo is like a terrifying aftertaste beating on the heart.

"Report, everything is normal." Loki heard such a report.

"Did you see it from the top of the box?" It was a more serious voice. "Every place should be checked, especially the gap between the lower two layers of boxes and the top plate of the shelf."

Loki moved his body hastily, he tried to move himself between the sides of the two iron boxes.Because the gap was too narrow, his body kept rubbing against the iron box.But he didn't expect that there was a corner of the iron box where he was lying on, and there was a sharp iron sheet turned up because of the handling problem...

"Hmm—!"

The sharp iron sheet pierced straight into the muscles on the side of his waist.

The sharp pain of the iron skin piercing into the flesh made the agent choke in his throat, and his body rolled over and fell between two wooden boxes.

The agent's slender fingers gripped the box wall tightly, so as not to make the slightest sound.

The inspector probably really bent down to look at the top of the boxes on the first and second floors, and at this moment the light of the flashlight narrowly swept over Loki's head.

"Boss, everything is really normal."

"Okay, let's go." The captain gave orders majestically.

The regular thud of military boots quickly went away, and Loki let out a painful breath.He pressed down on his flanks and curled up his thin body between two wooden boxes. Because of the rolling, the iron sheet was brought down by him.The piece of iron sheet was inserted quite deep, and blood stains the size of half a palm were already stained on the clothes at the waist. Loki gritted his teeth and let out a breath, not daring to pull it out rashly, but moved his body slowly.

By the time he barely squeezed out of the cargo box, he was already drenched in sweat.

He clutched his waist, trying to return through the small door of the fire escape.

however……

"input error."

Such words popped out of the red window on the password disk.

Loki's heart skipped a beat, and he tried again without giving up.

"input error."

The password disk prompts again.

The passwords for entering and exiting the two doors are actually different.

Immediately afterwards, a new prompt popped up: Please note that three incorrect input times will be reported to the system, causing a system alarm and channel lock. Please enter the correct password carefully.

At this moment, he heard a suspicious voice from a worker in the warehouse: "It's strange, come and see, why is there blood on the ground?"

Loki closes his eyes.

Damn, he can't escape.

But just as he was imagining how many people he could deal with if the other party found the fire escape along the bloodstains, the person who had just spoken in the warehouse suddenly fell silent.

Loki frowned and followed, hearing footsteps.

The sound of footsteps is neither the dragging sound of workers' heels rubbing against the ground, nor the heavy military boots stepping on the concrete floor just now, but more of a shocking coercion, like a majestic lion king patrolling the territory.The black-haired agent suddenly felt that the reason why those workers stopped talking was not because of anything else, but because of...fear.

And the answer will soon be revealed.

Almost the next moment, Loki heard a voice he was extremely familiar with.It's just that the owner of the voice has never spoken to him in such a majestic and almost harsh tone.

"Is this how you work? Do you improve efficiency by studying the stains on the ground?"

Even through a thin warehouse wall, the black-haired Omega could feel Alpha's overpowering aura, which made the workers shiver.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Thor. We'll get to work now."

Really Thor.

Loki's body trembled uncontrollably.

He even breathed tremblingly, and the wound on the side of his waist was pierced with iron plates, and blood was still dripping down from between his fingers...

"Well……"

TBC