Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 139 The Shadow Infiltrating the Base

Chen Na lay in her room, pretending to take a nap with her eyes closed.

She knew that using the "secret communication scroll" would prevent anyone from noticing. Otherwise, even if the communication took place in her mind, her dazed and hesitant behavior while talking to others would still be noticed.

If you pretend to be asleep, you won't have to worry about this problem.

Ever since she heard what Gu Fei said last time, she had been wondering if Han Ling had lied to her, and whether the people who customized the challenge projects for her were not doing it voluntarily, but were forced to do so.

Then in the last two days, she noticed that the base was bustling with people every day, and many people had returned from outside.

She knew those people; they were all responsible for collecting supplies. Chen Na used her abilities to casually approach them and overhear several conversations, all of which mentioned the government.

It seems that the authorities have begun to free up their resources, dispatching armed forces to sweep through the wilderness, cracking down on various thugs and gangs, as well as organizations that force sublimators to create challenges for others.

Upon hearing this, Chen Na realized that the organization she belonged to was probably similar.

She was willing to participate in the organization's actions simply to repay them for the life-saving medicine they provided for her mother. But if the organization was inherently evil and aimed to exploit others, then her actions would be aiding and abetting evil.

Chen Na didn't want to become a bad child; she knew that would disappoint her mother—but she felt powerless to do anything about it. She even thought about dying, but then worried that her mother would suffer retribution after she died.

In her helplessness, she suddenly remembered that she had a friend on her personal terminal, a woman two or three years older than her whom she had met when she accompanied her mother to the hospital. Since neither of them had added each other as friends on the terminal before, they added each other on a whim.

After her mother was diagnosed and discharged from the hospital, the two lost contact, but Chen Na kept her mother's contact information on her mobile device. This immediately reminded Chen Na of the "Call Scroll" she had purchased from the Shenghua Store, which allowed her to contact the outside world!
So she immediately contacted her friend, Sister Qingjin, and told her what was going on here, hoping that she could spread the word so that the authorities could find out about this place and rescue those oppressed people, the "slaves" that Gu Fei mentioned.

Qingjin agreed, and then went to post on the influential website, the Ascendant's Home...

Chen Na waited patiently for them to contact her.

Qingjin just told her that the station chief of the House of Ascended would personally help her, and that she should just wait.

Judging from Qingjin's tone, Chen Na felt that the website administrator was quite powerful. However, since they were not usually allowed to access the internet, they didn't know anything about the "Home of Ascendants" website, nor did they know who the administrator was.

"Chen Na".

Suddenly, a strange female voice rang in Chen Na's mind, startling her as she lay there.

"I am the stationmaster of the House of Ascended."

"Hello, stationmaster..."

Chen Na knew the station manager was contacting her using the [Secret Call Scroll], and she replied telepathically. She was also somewhat surprised; the station manager's voice sounded like that of a young woman in her twenties.

“Chen Na, I learned some things about your current situation from your friend Qing Jin,” Guan Tong said. “I want to know the exact location of your base.”

"I... I don't know the exact location of the base... I only know it's in a mountain, and we usually travel by car..."

Upon hearing this, Guan Tong thought for a moment and said, "The challenge they designed for you is located in Nanlin Village. Although you don't know the location of the base, you should remember the direction from the base to Nanlin Village, right?"

"I remember that! I remember that when we went to complete the challenge that day, after leaving the base, the car kept driving east for about an hour and a half before we arrived at the challenge location."

"very good."

Although the exact location of the base is unknown, a rough location can be determined based on the challenge location, the direction from which we came, and the driving distance.

Now that they could confirm the base was inside the mountain, Guan Tong's task was to search for the mountain within that vague location. Then, he would send his blurred shadow into the mountain to pinpoint the base's location.

"Chen Na, I will find your base location as soon as possible. Until then, do not behave in any strange way, so as not to arouse suspicion from the people in the base. Understand?"

"Yes! I know... Um, stationmaster, if you're going to rescue people, please be very careful, and you need to have a lot of people. There are a lot of people in the base, and many of them have guns..."

They all have guns?
Guan Tong asked, "What kind of gun? A pistol?"

“They have everything. They also have very long guns, and a large garage. We saw armored vehicles driving out last time we went out.”

Long spears? Armored vehicles?

Guan Tong was startled, knowing that Beixing Country was a country that prohibited guns.

Even if we enter a post-apocalyptic era, and due to the chaos, there are some cases of weapons being leaked due to lax management, it shouldn't be enough to cause a large number of automatic weapons or even armored vehicles to leak out.

What exactly is this organization...?

Guan Tong frowned and said to Chen Na, "Okay, I'll be careful. Is there anything else you know that you can tell me? For example, who is the leader of the base, and are there any powerful Ascendants under his command?"

A single call log can only be used for a maximum of 15 minutes, and Guan Tong wants to obtain as much information as possible within that time.

"The leader of the base... I don't know, I only know that the administrator is Sister Han Ling. And the powerful Ascendants, the ones I know are Gu Fei, Jiang Ming, and Chu Xiaoyuan, who are on my team... their abilities..."

After 15 minutes, Guan Tong analyzed the situation herself.

“This base has armed personnel, armored vehicles, and even a base built by hollowing out a mountain... its background must be extraordinary, far beyond what ordinary wilderness groups can match.” Before communicating with Chen Na, Guan Tong had considered whether to notify the authorities so that they could intervene to rescue the people. However, after the call, she abandoned that idea.

He felt that this organization had such power, and the person behind it must be incredibly capable. Moreover, he learned from Chen Na that her base had suspended operations two days prior.

Judging from the official large-scale sweeps in the wild, this organization seems to have known that the authorities were going to take action before the sweeps began, and thus carried out a strategic retreat in advance.

This led Guan Tong to speculate that the mastermind behind this organization might have access to official intelligence in advance.

Therefore, he certainly cannot inform the authorities, because if the authorities find out, the mastermind behind the scenes may also find out and take action simultaneously or even first.

After careful consideration, Guan Tong made a decision: "This time, I will act alone."

He could neither allow such a huge support system to exist and operate, nor could he remain indifferent to Chen Na's safety, so he decided to try to resolve the matter with his own strength.

This time, however, is different from dealing with the Tian Ding Mountain camp and those low-level guys like Gao Xinjian. This time, he is facing a large base that is well-armed and well-manned, and he cannot afford to be careless.

"First, locate the base, then send Shadow in to conduct a full reconnaissance, find a breakthrough, and then act when the opportunity arises."

Guan Tong devised a plan, immediately summoned his shadow, and transformed it into a shadow line to reach Nanlin Village first. Then, following Chen Na's instructions, he headed west from the challenge location in Nanlin Village.

Guan Tong, who was manipulating the shadow to move forward, felt a little curious. He had discovered that the location of the base was very likely within the "Yongzhou Mountain Range".

This mountain range in Yongzhou is only a little over 100 kilometers away from the capital, Yong'an.

How could they have dug out a mountain range to build a base so close to Yong'an without being discovered? Guan Tong thought it was unlikely. Even if the workers could turn invisible, the efficiency couldn't be that high.

He believes that the base in this mountain range has existed for a long time, but it was only used by certain people after the rules of the apocalypse came into effect.

Once the shadow entered the mountain range, it began to traverse and infiltrate.

Guan Tong knew that such a base must be located in a non-public area, so he didn't need to investigate the mountains that had already been developed into tourist attractions; he only went deep into the closed mountain ranges.

It wasn't until evening that Guan Tong finally located the mountain where the base was situated.

The mountain looks unremarkable from the outside, but it has been almost completely hollowed out and transformed into a multi-story man-made structure.

Guan Tong manipulated his shadow to move along the seam where the mountain met the building, trying his best not to be discovered—through the visual images transmitted by the shadow, he could already see that the base was full of high-definition surveillance cameras.

"The management is really strict..."

Guan Tong's shadow pierced through the upper floors, revealing layers of facilities. From offices to supply warehouses, weapons and equipment crates, large garages, and dormitories... everything was there.

As the shadow continued to descend deeper into the underground level, a chilling scene was transmitted back to Guan Tong.

In the base's underground level, there was a large prison-like facility. Countless Ascended Individuals were imprisoned in the densely packed cells, while fully armed guards patrolled outside.

Each Ascended One wears a uniform gray uniform with a name tag on their chest. The name tag doesn't even have a name; it only shows the Ascended One's maximum mental power and a numerical number.

This means that these people have completely lost their human dignity here and are treated purely as prisoners or even objects.

The scene was so impactful that even Guan Tong, who was usually calm, felt a surge of nameless rage.

He suppressed his anger and did not rashly use his shadow to take action. Instead, he continued to investigate, making sure he had a thorough understanding of the entire base before making any moves.

After that, it took Guan Tong a full hour to use his shadow to thoroughly explore the entire base, inside and out, and to find out the situation of all the personnel in the base.

The situation was more complicated than he had imagined.

The entire base is divided into three levels: upper, middle, and lower.

The upper floor is the living, working, and leisure area for the managers. Guan Tong found the manager who was suspected to be "Han Ling" and also found the dormitory area where Chen Na was located, where she was lying down.

What surprised him even more was that he saw some prominent business leaders who were well-known before the apocalypse, such as Wang Zixiang and Liu Yuqiang. Why would these people be in management positions at this base? It was undoubtedly very strange.

The middle level of the base mainly consisted of residences for armed personnel and storage areas for supplies. There were approximately two hundred armed personnel, most of whom were gathered together playing games, cards, and drinking.

The base's ground floor was the prison area that infuriated Guan Tong. After taking a count, he determined that nearly two thousand Ascendants were imprisoned there, along with about eighty guards on patrol.

After figuring out the situation, Guan Tong's next step was naturally to completely eliminate these most despicable scum of humanity.

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