Chapter 248 Underground Fortress Started

At two o'clock in the morning, the city is asleep, but somewhere underground it is being awakened.

Su Wanqing and the other two used the dim light from their cell phones to pry open the rusty iron door next to the underground parking lot.

A mixture of mold and dust smell hit me in the face. The dim emergency light barely illuminated the abandoned storage area, which was covered with thick dust and hanging cobwebs everywhere.

Lu Zhao didn't say anything, but took out a handheld device from his backpack and scanned the walls around him.

Data streams jumped on the device screen. "The geological structure is stable and can bear enough load."

He raised his head, a hint of surprise on his face, "Also, there is a larger space underneath, it is probably an air-raid shelter from the old times."

Su Wanqing nodded without hesitation. She called up the light blue screen projected by the jade bracelet on her left hand, and a three-dimensional fortress projection appeared on the interface that only she could see.

She selected "Confirm Build".

[Confirm to consume 5000 rebate points and start building the 'Basic Defense Fortress'. ]

The points were deducted immediately. What happened next made Lin Che and Lu Zhao stop what they were doing.

There was no loud noise or light effects. The surrounding walls, ground and ceiling began to silently wriggle and deform, as if countless invisible hands were rapidly reshaping matter.

The dust was restrained by an unknown force, swirling and falling to the side, revealing a completely new structure.

A few minutes later, the originally small and messy storage room turned into a neat lobby of about 50 square meters.

The walls are covered with dark grey metal reinforcements, and the floor has a special texture that feels like both metal and frosted stone.

Lu Zhao squatted down and used an instrument to detect the ground, muttering to himself: "The composition cannot be analyzed... The atomic arrangement is extremely regular. This is nano-scale material reconstruction, the technology of the Weavers, and they actually opened this permission to you."

The construction of the fortress lobby was completed, and new instructions immediately popped up on the system screen. An arrow pointed to a floor tile of a slightly different color in the center of the lobby.

Lin Che walked forward and found an almost invisible groove on the edge of the floor tile. He lifted it with force, and a thick metal plate was removed, revealing a metal spiral staircase extending downwards.

"Let's go." Su Wanqing walked down first.

The stairs were not long. After going down about ten meters, the three of them stepped onto solid ground.

There was a huge cavity here, and the air was more humid and smelled of earth.

Lin Che turned on the high-intensity flashlight in her backpack, and a blinding white light instantly cut through the darkness, illuminating an amazing scene.

This is a wide circular hall, at least thirty meters in diameter, with a high dome.

Around the hall, one can see four dark passage entrances, and it is unknown where they extend to.

Blurred words and arrows sprayed with red paint can be seen on the wall.

Lu Zhao walked to the wall, shone the flashlight on the marks, and identified them for a moment.

"This is indeed an air-raid shelter. Judging from the style of the slogans, it should be a product of the 1960s. It has been abandoned for a long time."

Just as he finished speaking, a muffled sound suddenly came from deep in one of the leftmost passages, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground, followed by heavy breathing and suppressed fighting sounds.

The three of them immediately became alert, and Lin Che suddenly directed the flashlight beam towards the passage.

At the end of the beam of light, there were two figures entangled. One of the tall figures was pressing the other, who was dressed in rags and looked like a homeless man, against the wall.

The homeless man's face and neck were covered in strange purple lines that glowed faintly under the flashlight.

With a crisp "click" sound, the tall figure quickly and neatly broke the opponent's neck, then let go and let the body slide softly to the ground.

He turned around and the flashlight illuminated his face.

It’s Xiao Ran.

When he saw the three people at the entrance of the passage, he was also stunned, with shock written all over his face.

He was wearing a tactical vest and brass knuckles on his hands, and it was obvious that he had just been in a fight.

"Why... are you here?" Xiao Ran's voice was a little hoarse. He walked over quickly, his eyes sweeping across the hall that had obviously been modernized, and his brows furrowed even more tightly.

"We are also tracking abnormal signals." Lu Zhao pushed his glasses and explained concisely, "What about you?"

"I have been monitoring the secret transfers of the military," Xiao Ran whispered, his eyes swept across the jade bracelet on Su Wanqing's wrist, and then moved away, "They recently launched an operation codenamed 'Scavenger', secretly transferring a batch of special containment devices of unknown purpose.

I was tracking the signal of one of the groups and ended up here, but I didn’t expect…”

He didn't say anything else, but the meaning was clear.

At this moment, Su Wanqing's system interface suddenly flashed, and a new human-shaped light dot lit up in her team list. It was Xiao Ran.

She thought about it and tried to click on the light spot.

Instantly, a whole new scene unfolded before her. With Xiao Ran as the center, several colorful lines of movement extended out, covering the entire city map.

Each trajectory line is marked with detailed data: risk factor, success rate, and possible events.

"The system... has been upgraded." Su Wanqing said softly.

Lu Zhao leaned over to take a look at the light screen in front of her, and his expression immediately became solemn.

“This is not a simple upgrade. This is one of the Weaver’s core abilities – fate prediction and intervention.

The system is gradually transferring their technical authority to you, but this also means that in the eyes of the time observers, your threat level has also been raised to the highest level. You will become their primary target. "

Su Wanqing's eyes quickly scanned those routes, and her sight stopped on a deep red track with a glaring warning signal flashing on it.

"Military supplies warehouse... This route shows that there are strong 'time anomalies' around the warehouse. The risk factor is as high as 90%. It's too dangerous."

That route was exactly the direction Xiao Ran originally planned to go.

Xiao Ran also saw the data on the screen. He was silent for a moment, then raised his head without any sign of retreat in his eyes.

"Precisely because of the danger, we need the equipment there even more. The military's high-frequency energy suppressor may be able to deal with those things."

He pointed to the body with a broken neck on the ground and said, "I know all the defense systems of that warehouse. I have a way to get in without triggering the alarm."

Looking at Xiao Ran's determined expression and the shocking risk warnings on the system interface, everyone understood that as they gained more and more power, the risks they would take with every choice would also increase exponentially.