Chapter 359.
Josie Quinn kept the route map tuned into her memory
as she wound her way through the sity, eventually arriving at the coast.
It was just a simple stretch of beash. It wasn’t a pier, nor was it a bustling port.
It was a perfectly ordinary, unremarkable beach that most people wouldn’t look at twice.
It was a scenic spot.
Indeed. This entire strip of coastline was part of a local resort
Normally, it didn’t draw massive crowds, but people still visited occasionally. However, since the apocalypse had begun, no one came to the beach for fun anymore. The area had gradually fallen into ruin, reclaimed by weeds and sand.
Josie arrived and gave a sharp whistle
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A group of heads immediately bobbed up from beneath the water’s surface.
Josie nodded to them, stripped off her outer layers to reveal a sleek diving suit, and strapped on her oxygen tank. She waded into the surf, joined the others, and dove headfirst into the seawater.
Because an underwater facility required construction, it couldn’t be placed in the extreme depths of the ocean. Otherwise, how would they have built it? Humans wouldn’t have been able to reach it.
The facility was located within a reasonable depth. It certainly wasn’t thousands or tens of thousands of meters down–that was physically impossible. Following the route in her mind, Josie and her team descended deeper and deeper. Whenever they hit a designated marker, they paused briefly before continuing their search for the next one.
Along the way, several schools of mutant fish intercepted them.
Josie drove them off.
Actually, “driving them off” wasn’t the right word. Combat for humans in the water was extremely disadvantageous.
But Josie had a massive “bug”-her spatial storage could collect anything.
Whenever a mutant fish got too close, Josie simply swept it into her space. Time stood still inside her vault; whatever state something entered in was exactly how it would remain until she let it out.
So, Josie acted as the vanguard, snatching up every annoying obstacle into her space to deal with later.
Thanks to her, the group reached the final coordinates for the nuclear warhead vault without any further trouble.
“This is it,” Hudson Knox gestured, communicating with the team via hand signals. “But getting inside is going to take some work!”
“Don’t we have the password?” Josie signaled back. “Just enter it!”
“The password alone isn’t enough,” Hudson replied with more signals. “A place like this usually requires double or even triple-layered passwords. It’s a failsafe to prevent someone from stealing the weapons just by knowing one code. Sean Voss only knew one of them; he didn’t know the rest!”
“So, we need some time to crack the secondary codes!”
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