Oh my apocalypse [YiZhanFF]

Part 6: A secret facility

Just before sunset, Zhan and Yibo were at the car, rearranging everything in the trunk so that everything from the back seat would fit into the trunk. The two were talking quietly and Yibo brought up something that had been bothering him all along.

"Tell me Zhan, doesn't it seem strange to you? I mean about those two. Neither of them mentioned the power outage before there was the earth tremor because of the explosion. How could they raise the rolling gates at the fire station if there was no power?"

Zhan looked at Yibo thoughtfully for a moment and replied, "True, now that you mention it, I wonder the same thing. You must have been a good police officer if you noticed this so quickly."

"Um, well, that was just, never mind. What I mean is, the power went out everywhere at the same time, didn't it? And neither of them mentioned the power outage. Also, the generators didn't kick on at the police station or at your hospital."

"Are you thinking of an EMP?"

"No, then everything else, like our cell phones, would stop working too. Whereas, the basement of the police station is like a hermetic cage. Maybe it's the same at the hospital?"

"Mhhh, I don't know. But look, my car still works too, and the parking garage is definitely not Hermetically sealed."

"True. But then how is it possible? Besides, I know that the power stations store electricity. Why then, in case of an emergency, was it not drawn upon? And another thing, so the government knew what was coming, could it be that they made sure that the power was shut off? As a purely precautionary step, so that no one in the city would know what was coming?"

"You mean because they wanted to avoid panic? That would be really intense if that' s true."

"And Zhan, I'm not even sure if we're really safe in the mountains anymore. Because these creatures were in big caves in the mountains of Antarctica. They probably lived there before it got too cold and they turned to ice."

"I see what you mean. Only, where are we going to go then? And there's something I haven't told you before."

"And what is that?"

"Come with me to the car, I'll tell you there." Said Zhan.

The two men got into the car and Zhan pulled something out from under his seat that turned out to be a photo album. He opened it and turned a few pages, then handed it to Yibo.

Yibo saw in the pictures before him, a younger Zhan and two older men. One was definitely Zhan's father, as he could tell from his uniform. The other looked very much like Zhan's father. The three of them stood in front of a huge gate that read, "Adventure with a difference."

"What's that?" Yibo asked.

"That's me with my father and my great uncle. My great uncle was a heavy rich man who everyone always thought was crazy. Because all his life he had dreamed of building an adventure hotel in the mountains. But not just in the mountains, but in a mountain with caves. Everyone laughed at him for this, because he pursued this idea until the end of his life. Unfortunately, he died shortly before the planned opening. That means this hotel in this mountain, is ready to move in and is on the most modern level. There are 6 floors, a lake with water that comes directly from a spring and is cleaner than any other water. In these 6 floors, there is a commercial kitchen, laundry and 20 rooms on each floor. From single rooms to family rooms. In Annex B there are workshops as well as a modern infirmary. At the very bottom are even stables for various livestock. And, the electricity is generated by a biogas system. There is also a 5 meter high wall around the facility, which is 2 meters thick. Various security systems are there as well."