Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1297 Diary of the Dead (Additional Update)
Neither Lin Lan nor Lang Yuexi said what was hidden in the snow.

But Harbin and Mercury Memorial had guessed everything just from the expressions on their faces, and like them, they observed a moment of silence for the dead.

A few minutes later, Lin Lan slowly put down his saluting hand and said:
"Let's take a detour into the building."

Led by him and Miss D, the four of them walked around the snow-covered resting place of the hero and entered this five-story modern building that was out of tune with the surrounding style.

As Mercury Memorial passed the identity authority, the lift door slowly rose, and Lin Lan was once again shocked by the scene before his eyes.

The corridors, which were not spacious, were filled with countless bulging sacks, hydroponic containers and soil pots.

When Lin Lan felt the difference between the indoor temperature and the outside temperature, he clenched his fists.

Even though the Natlan warriors of the Great Wall Guards in the outpost knew they could not escape death, they still wanted to transfer and preserve the samples of these agricultural research results here.

There were already traces of tears in the corners of Lang Yuexi's eyes, but Lin Lan knew that now was not the time for them to stop.

"Take all these crop samples with you before you go back. These... are the future of Natlan that the Spark heroes have protected with their lives."

In the end, he was the first to break the silence and took the initiative to step into the corridor.

But Lin Lan didn't know that Miss D, Harbin and Mercury Memorial all caught the little movement of him raising his hand to wipe his face the moment he took a step.

Under the guidance of Mercury Ji Nian, the group walked straight up the stairs to the underground breeding field equipment center on the first floor below ground.

And here, Lin Lan finally saw the intact Rubik's Cube Matrix that Chkalov and Lingmin had set up before.

A faint curtain of light enveloped the huge Rubik's Cube device that covered almost the entire underground space.

The mind cube was floating intact above the Rubik's Cube device, shining like a holy relic.

The contrast between this place and the tragic outpost above made Lin Lan feel endless sorrow in his heart.

Mercury JIAN stepped forward in silence and began to operate the authority search device of the Rubik's Cube Matrix.

At this time, Harbin pulled his sleeve and pointed to the corner of the matrix light curtain.

"Commander, there's a smell of rotting corpses."

Upon hearing this, Lin Lan said hello to Mercury JIAN, and quickly came to the corner where the stench of corpse was coming from with Harbin, Miss D, and Lang Yuexi.

The body of a Natlan man wearing a white Northern Alliance-style military uniform lay quietly against the wall.

Next to his hanging arm, a pistol was placed on the dried blood, explaining the cause of his death.

Since the basement wasn't cold, rot had left it unrecognizable.

But Lin Lan and the girls beside him ignored the pungent smell.

He silently bent down, carefully picked up the extremely meticulously maintained Northern Union standard pistol, and put it into his pocket.

"Assistant, there is a permission card for the Rubik's Cube Matrix in the inside pocket of his coat."

At this time, Miss D whispered a reminder to him.

Lin Lan had actually guessed this result a long time ago. He nodded, and then gently unbuttoned the clothes of the sacrificed soldier.

He took out a white chip card and a wrinkled notebook.

When he opened the notebook, he found that it was the diary of the sacrificed Great Wall guard.

His name is Wang Chengang.

Lin Lan sighed deeply, and then began to flip through the diary. Because on the first page of the diary, the soldier wrote in a crooked handwriting that he hoped someone could take away the information about the unknown threat in the second half of the diary.

He quickly skipped the first half of the diary and started reading from the second half.

"Before leaving for Dongzhou, Tao'er had actually been safely brought to Beizhou by a comrade who was heading to Dongzhou to reunite with me. After meeting Tao'er, we both cried so hard that we fainted."

"My little sister told me that there is now a Spark Column in my hometown, Dongzhou, and she was rescued from the evil sect by the Spark Column."

……

"The Spark Column of Dongzhou seems to have been founded by the fairies of Donghuang. How strange! Is it possible that apart from the Northern Alliance, are there other fairies in the world who are willing to fight for the people?"

"But since even among the former enemies of the Teaching Nation there are comrades who have turned from darkness to light, this is ultimately a good thing. It means that one day all comrades in the world will be able to unite."

……

"The Provisional Soviet Committee of the Northern Province decided to build an outpost outside the Great Wall. I am very familiar with the terrain outside the Great Wall, so I took the initiative to apply to carry out this unprecedented and difficult task in Natlan."

"My application was approved. I never thought that one day, we in Natlan would be able to rebuild a frontier outpost outside the Great Wall. However, I was appointed as the defense captain of the future site of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It's incredible!"

……

"I don't know if it's the psychological effect of the continuous heavy snow, but after the Northern Joint Expedition Team led by the instructor completed the supply and left, many comrades, including me, felt inexplicably exhausted. It seems that we need to strengthen our training and practice recently."

"Something is wrong, absolutely wrong. My sleep time is getting longer and longer. Today, several comrades tried to break into the underground base of the Agricultural Science Academy's cultivation field without permission. After being arrested, they told me that they were meditating and lost consciousness. After waking up, they came to me."

"Damn it! Two comrades who have reached the Jindan stage told me that we might have been caught in some unknown illusion and would gradually be corrupted into evil cultivators! We must lead the team to find the center of the attacker's illusion array!"

……

"It seems that an evil cultivator has attacked us. Even at the Jindan stage, we are completely unable to find the center of the illusion array. The convoy I sent out to seek support also returned inexplicably. It seems that we are completely trapped."

"It turns out that this damn evil cultivator's goal is the magic cube matrix and the cultivation field! He has repeatedly controlled his unconscious comrades in the past two days to break through these important facilities!"

……

"Hahaha, he wants to control me. He actually wants to control me to open the Rubik's Cube Matrix? You're dreaming! My comrades and I will never let him succeed even if we die!"

"The one who attacked us was not an evil cultivator, but a parasitic monster that can only be captured with divine sense. It can't wait any longer, but it doesn't matter. My comrades and I have already thought of the best solution."

"It's scared, it's begging for mercy, it's begging us for mercy, promising to give us everything we want, but how can it understand how we feel after seeing our comrades blow up the cultivation field operation table?!"

"There has never been a savior in the world. It is not God. The future we want must be fought for with our own hands!"

"It's time. All my comrades have left before me, and all the food samples have been transferred and recovered, but I... still have one last thing to do."

"If you can see this, please tell Wang Taoer, my sister, that our sacrifice is for Natlan and everyone in the world to have a better future. Please let her be proud of her brother and live happily for me to witness that future."

"The following is a list of all the victims of the Northland Outpost No. 8. Please convey this to the Northland Provisional Soviet Committee for us. Whether they were mortals or immortals, we have never wavered for even a moment from the beginning to the end."

After reading all the contents of the diary and the list handwritten by Wang Chengang at the back, Lin Lan stood up, closed the diary and put it inside his coat.

"You... all deserve to be remembered forever. I swear that I will make the future you sacrificed your lives for come true."

He stared at the rotten corpse that should have been disgusting, solemnly uttered the oath, bent down and carried it directly behind him.

The rotten smell entered his nose, but there was no disgust on his face.

Because he knew that there was once a great heart beating inside the chest of this corpse.

(End of this chapter)