Chapter 461: Monitoring
The circular plaza once filled with gun-toting soldiers, tanks, and armored vehicles, had become desolate. Sparkle looked around excitedly while holding Charles' hand.
It wasn't Charles' first time seeing such a massive plaza. Laboratory 2 had a vast square as well, and Charles couldn't help but think that the Foundation had a penchant for building a vast, semi-circular hall in their complexes for some reason.
Standing in the middle of the vast square, Charles turned to Parker and asked, "Are you not going to give me a tour? You're the host here, and I'm just a guest."
Parker stepped forward and took the lead. "The shelter can be divided into four levels, and it is massive. The roads are quite complex as well. I'm sure it'd take you several months to search the entire shelter for the key personally."
"I can take you to the Central Bureau. The monitors for all the surveillance cameras scattered throughout the shelter are located there."
Charles said nothing and simply gestured forward with his hand.
Parker walked ahead, and Charles followed him through corridors that were four meters high and six meters wide. The soft footsteps from the rooms on both sides of the corridor told Charles that there were people inside those rooms.
It seemed that they had ordered everyone to stay at home to ensure that Charles would have the best sightseeing experience.
Upon reaching the end of the corridor, the door next to them opened slightly. A pair of curious eyes peeked out and stared at Charles.
Charles turned toward the eyes, and the door was instantly shut. Then, a feminine voice echoed behind the door, seemingly scolding someone.
"You call these small compartments home? I thought there'd be a prosperous city down there," Charles said, turning to Parker next to him.
"There's no point in building a prosperous city down here, as we originally live on the island's surface. Like I said, this is just a shelteran emergency shelter."
Charles nodded in understanding and looked at Parker. "What kind of emergency is it? You seem quite fearful, but why? You've built a formidable fortress, and you have powerful weapons as well, so what's there to fear? Is it a Divinity, perhaps??"
Parker seemed reluctant to answer Charles' question, but the latter insisted on receiving an answer. In the end, Parker told Charles that he'd need permission to answer the latter's question before walking toward a corner. He leaned closer to the walkie-talkie on his chest and started muttering into it.
After a while, Parker returned to Charles and finally replied, "We have something capable of foreseeing danger, and it has been warning us that something is chasing after us.Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m
"We do not know what it is, but it's an entity capable of annihilating Island 68, so we've been trying to avoid it."
"Can you even keep up with so many monitors?" Parker asked in doubt.
"It's fine, just do as I said," Charles said, staring at the wall of monitors.
The scenes on the monitors flashed rapidly. Charles' two eyes couldn't keep up with so many changes, but it didn't matter. He wasn't the one who'd do the search, anyway.
"Sparkle, can you do Daddy a favor? Go and see if there's a really big key in one of those places," Charles said.
Sparkle nodded and disappeared in a flash of light. Then, Sparkle showed up in one of the monitors, startling everyone in the monitoring room.
"Charles! That isn't part of our agreement," Parker exclaimed, looking nervous.
The Captain of the Narwhale shook the square bracelet on his wrist. "Was this part of the agreement? I don't think so. Anyway, Sparkle isn't going to harm anybody, so don't worry.
"And how would I know that you're not trying to fool me with old video recordings if I don't send her out to take a look?"
Parker spoke into his walkie-talkie to report, but soon, he put it down reluctantly. It seemed that the higher-ups of Island 68 had decided not to kick up a fuss and allowed Sparkle to search the shelter, level by level.
Sparkle continued her search, and that was when Charles caught sight of a familiar white baseball cap. The figure soon looked up, and Charles' pupils immediately constricted. The individual wearing a white baseball cap was Pogro, the boy who had died after getting hit by a missile!
He had actually shown up on one of the monitors!
Is it an old, recorded video? Just as the thought popped up in Charles' mind, Sparkle appeared and startled Pogro.
The sight instantly invalidated the assumption that he was staring at old, recorded videos, which meant that the scene was happening somewhere live on Island 68.
Charles rubbed his nape and turned to Parker next to him, "You said those monsters keep on reappearing like pests and that they're ghosts eternally haunting the island. You said that, right?"
"Yeah, I did say that," Parker said, casting a bewildered gaze at Charles. "What's wrong? Why are you asking me that question?"
Charles turned to stare at Pogro on one of the monitors and fell into deep contemplation. Haha, this is getting pretty interesting.
