The man in the white lab coat stood outside the back door entrance, pulling a cigarette from behind his ear and started smoking it leisurely. He seed to be enjoying himself, as if he was out to satisfy his craving for nicotine.
Seeing Tang Yuan beside him making eye signals, Ling Chen gestured for him to be patient.
The entrance at the back door was secured with an electronic password lock, which could not be cracked imdiately, so they had to quietly wait for the right mont. When the cigarette was finished, the white lab coat turned back, entered the password, and with a light ’click’, the door opened automatically.
The mont the white lab coat stepped through the back door, Ling Chen quickly took three steps in two strides, rushing forward to catch the door before it could close.
Listening as the footsteps inside faded away, he let out a slight sigh of relief, then opened a small crack in the back door and peered inside.
"Safe!"
Ling Chen signaled to Tang Yuan and darted into the back entrance.
Upon entering, they faced a corridor, with an elevator door at the end. Other than that, there was no other way.
Looking at the elevator not ten ters away, Ling Chen did not proceed directly but pointed to the surveillance cara outside the elevator. Tang Yuan understood imdiately, pulling a thumb-sized sphere from his pocket and gently rolling it across the floor.
When the sphere rolled beneath the surveillance cara, Tang Yuan pressed a button lightly, and instantly, the sphere burst open releasing an invisible flash of electricity.
"OK!"
Ling Chen nodded, quickly advanced to the elevator door, and opened it.
Although the Ghost Organization was small in size, they possessed all the top military technologies in the country. The sphere had emitted a scrambling signal, montarily disabling the surveillance cara for a few seconds, which was enough for Ling Chen and Tang Yuan to make their move.
Entering the elevator, Ling Chen pressed the button for the underground parking garage. Shortly after, they reached the floor where the parking garage was located.
The parking garage was over a thousand square ters large and housed more than twenty vehicles, with suited bodyguards stationed throughout.
Ling Chen scanned the area but did not notice the whereabouts of the large shipping container; it had probably been moved already.
Tang Yuan patted Ling Chen’s shoulder and jerked his chin towards a nearby slope. Ling Chen focused and saw two forklifts slowly returning up the ramp from the parking garage.
In an instant, Ling Chen understood his hint. Those forklifts had moved the shipping container; what they were looking for should be at the bottom of that slope.
The two of them crouched behind a car and in less than ten minutes, the suited bodyguards gradually withdrew, and even the big doors of the underground parking garage were closed.
"Let’s go!" Whispering softly, Ling Chen took the lead, nimbly dodging the surrounding surveillance caras and sneakily making his way to the bottom of the slope using the blind spots.
However, once they reached the bottom of the slope, they were surprised to find that there was a warehouse over a hundred square ters large. Besides so scattered miscellaneous items piling up, there was no sign of the shipping container.
Tang Yuan muttered, "Could we have co to the wrong place?"
Ling Chen scanned the surroundings, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said with a slight smile, "The place is right. Look!"
In the corner ford by two walls of the warehouse, a surveillance device was installed, with the cara facing the opposite wall. If there wasn’t sothing important here, why bother to install a surveillance cara, and particularly in that direction?
At the mont, he walked to the corner of the wall, patted his own shoulder, and gestured for Tang Yuan to stand on it.
Within two minutes, with their combined efforts, the surveillance cara was quickly dealt with. Once the screen was frozen, Tang Yuan put away the equipnt and hurried to the wall.
The wall was coated with a layer of snow-white paint. Ling Chen and Tang Yuan searched for a long ti on both sides, but couldn’t find any chanism.
Seeing this, Ling Chen helplessly spread his hands and said, "There’s nothing we can do; this door can probably only be opened from the inside."
"What should we do then?" Tang Yuan was sowhat unwilling. After finally finding this secret of the ntal hospital, were they supposed to leave empty-handed?
"If you ask , we..."
Before Ling Chen could finish his sentence, suddenly, the wall began to rise slowly.
Exchanging a glance, Ling Chen and Tang Yuan reacted quickly, swiftly dashing to the sides of the wall and hiding behind so piled-up clutter.
Before long, the entire wall had risen, and a forklift carrying a shipping container slowly drove out from behind it.
Ling Chen watched the forklift’s tires and nodded to himself. When those two forklifts had brought the shipping containers in earlier, he had noticed the tires getting almost crushed, indicating that the containers were very heavy. Now, with only one forklift transporting the container, the contents must have been unloaded.
Taking advantage of the wall not being fully closed yet, Ling Chen rolled on the spot and entered behind the wall.
However, as he passed through the wall, he happened to see two ard guards walking away from him. He was slightly startled, glanced around, and quickly moved towards so iron boxes placed nearby.
Just after hiding, the two guards seed to hear a noise from behind and imdiately turned back. But, Ling Chen had already preemptively hidden out of their sight.
After the two guards walked away, Tang Yuan stealthily ca from the other side, whispering, "What in the world is this place?"
"This appears to be an air-raid shelter left from before," Ling Chen guessed. "They’re quite clever to have converted this into a secret base."
Finishing speaking, he changed the subject, "Old Tang, let’s split up and try to gather enough evidence. We’ll et back here in half an hour."
"Alright, take care of yourself."
Despite it being midnight, the secret base was still brightly lit. Nearby, several doctors in white lab coats were bustling about, moving in and out of rooms.
Ling Chen looked at the surrounding structures, grabbed the steel beams connected to the wall surface, and climbed to the top of the air-raid shelter, looking down over this secret base.
The base was divided into three areas: a laboratory, a warehouse, and a living area. At a glance, there were nearly a hundred people in the base. In addition to the scientific staff, there were security personnel and workers.
What worried Ling Chen was the high level of security there. There were frequent guard posts and watch points, heavily guarded.
His mission this ti was to gather intelligence, necessitating a stealthy infiltration without leaving any trace to avoid startling the enemy. After observing for a few minutes, he suddenly noticed several n pushing movable iron beds towards the warehouse. It seed like there were people lying on those iron beds, covered with white cloths.
"Ling Chen, I’ve reached the laboratory."
Hearing Tang Yuan’s voice through the earpiece, Ling Chen made a quick decision to go check out the warehouse.
Since the security personnel were all located on the ground level, to avoid their gaze, Ling Chen decided to sneak in through the ventilation ducts.
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