"You need to think clearly about one thing: if you set sail now, nothing will happen. But if you go exploring, there’s at least a ninety percent chance you’ll die. You should know your Ghostly Deford cha is already destroyed, and the other chas aren’t even worth the effort for monsters to crush on the road."
The Fake Owner, Swallower, coldly warned.
Upon hearing Swallower’s words, Su Mo was at a bit of a loss too. Though his words were unpleasant, they weren’t wrong at all.
He was stuck for a mont, blaming that damned alien.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Su Mo’s mind, and he joyfully said, "Xiao Shi, I have an idea. Can you possess that alien corpse and control it? Then I’ll hide inside the alien’s body, and we’ll use it to explore. How about it? I feel like the monsters on the road would definitely steer clear when they see the alien, and it might even work better."
The Fake Owner, Swallower, was silent for a few seconds, then finally responded, "Feasible."
"Then let’s do it!"
Su Mo was getting more and more excited.
...
"What are you spacing out for?"
The deep voice of the Fake Owner, Swallower, suddenly sounded.
"Nothing, just thinking about sothing."
Su Mo snapped out of his mories.
Actually, the journey had been smooth.
This also proved Su Mo’s idea right. Hagok had an unusually strong deterrent effect on monsters; no matter what monster group they ran into, they all scattered, and none dared to cause trouble.
Until he beca overconfident and ran into the Bai Ze, ending up being chased all over the place.
"There’s a discovery."
The Fake Owner, Swallower, imdiately said.
Su Mo was slightly stunned when he heard this, then quickly looked ahead.
The enormous Black Needle Base ca into view, with occasional flashes of firelight, causing Su Mo to shout with uncontrollable joy, "Found it!"
"Don’t be happy too soon; how do you know if this base belongs to the Imperial Army or the Alliance Country?"
"Can’t you say sothing nicer?"
Su Mo replied with a twitch of his mouth.
"I only speak the truth."
The Fake Owner, Swallower, responded coldly.
Su Mo carefully observed the distant base and contemplated. To avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, he said to the Fake Owner, Swallower,
"Let’s find a place to conceal this body, then get close for reconnaissance."
"I understand."
The Fake Owner, Swallower, didn’t say anything more.
After a long while, Su Mo and the others found a hidden area to hide Hagok’s body.
Then Su Mo quickly crept toward the base ahead.
With the Heavenly Sin Armor’s enhancent, he reached the base’s outer defense area in no ti.
His heart was a bit tense as he silently prayed it wasn’t the Imperial Army’s.
Soon he saw three Black Steel chas patrolling.
He carefully observed the markings and saw a sea emblem with wavy stripes, which looked very familiar.
"Heck Free Country!"
Su Mo was delighted, but accidentally stepped on so debris, making a slight noise.
The three Black Steel chas imdiately detected the anomaly, pointed their weapons in Su Mo’s direction, and cautiously said,
"Who?"
Su Mo quickly pulled out his Identity Card and stepped out excitedly, "Brothers, one of our own. I’m from the Federation GT Departnt; here is my Identity Card."
The three Black Steel chas glanced at each other, verified the Identity Card, and withdrew their weapons. The leading captain said amicably, "Brother, were you out on a special reconnaissance mission?"
In fact, in a place like Ceres, where it’s covered with monsters outside, they were more wary of monsters, and only slightly guarded against the Imperial Army, but normally, they wouldn’t encounter Imperial soldiers.
"Yes."
Su Mo promptly echoed.
"Did you run into so trouble? Why are you heading to this entrance, which is a bit far from your Federation’s entry point?"
"Don’t ntion it, ran into so monsters."
"That’s really tough, but there’s no other way. So reconnaissance missions are special; large chas cause too much commotion to do the job, so they have to send out solo soldiers. We also have many brothers going out for reconnaissance, but few return alive."
The leading captain said with a bit of lant, seemingly deeply touched.
"It’s our duty. Can I enter from here?"
Su Mo asked awkwardly, feeling he might have touched a sore spot.
"Go on in."
The leading captain waved his hand in the Black Steel cha.
"Thank you."
Su Mo quickly went inside.
Along the way, he saw nurous Engineering chas repairing damaged defensive weapons, and the ground stained with viscous mixed blood showed the area had been under considerable attack.
He also saw soldiers in Biochemical Protection Suits neatly arranging the corpses.
Many soldiers from the Heck Free Country gathered spontaneously, crossing their hands and silently praying for their fallen comrades.
Su Mo subconsciously stopped, bowing from afar to the fallen soldiers before continuing forward.
Along the way, he encountered patrols of soldiers who mostly just glanced at Su Mo before continuing their patrol.
After a long while, Su Mo reached the west entrance of Black Needle Base.
A female captain guarding the entrance stopped Su Mo.
"Who are you?"
"Hello, I’m Su Mo from the Federation GT Departnt. Here’s my Federation Identity Card. I was out on a reconnaissance mission and hurriedly fled in this direction to return to the Federation’s area."
Su Mo started fabricating.
The leading captain picked up a device, verified Su Mo’s Identity Card, and upon confirming he was a Federation citizen, said to him,
"Once inside, take the left corridor forward to the third cross-section, then turn right. There’s a long-distance floating elevator there. You can take it to reach the base’s eastern area and return to the Federation’s area. One thing to rember: don’t wander around our area to avoid unnecessary trouble."
"Okay, thank you."
Su Mo quickly thanked her, feeling happy that his path was laid out.
So Su Mo directly entered the interior of the base.
Upon entering the base, his helt imdiately notified him he was in a life-supporting area.
Su Mo followed the directions, quickly finding the long-distance floating elevator.
Nobody was using the elevator.
He opened it and walked inside.
A mont later, Su Mo appeared in the eastern area of Black Needle Base.
Exiting the elevator, he saw Federal soldiers lying around the corridor.
Everyone looked extrely tired and weak, devoid of too much energy.
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