A short while later, Zhu Lingfeng raised his bracelet and said to everyone, "Everyone, please calm down. I have received a notification from the base. The base's support has already set off. They encountered a quicksand vortex on the way, which delayed the team's progress for a while. Now the main force has started again and should arrive soon. Everyone stay calm!"
Fang Qingdai frowned and looked at Xuan Liu: "Did you receive this notification?"
Other ability users may not have the authority to know about the base's arrangements, but Xuan Liu communicates directly with the base chief, so he should be able to get a response as quickly as possible if anything happens.
Xuan Liu shook his head: "I haven't received a reply yet."
Fang Qingdai was even more puzzled. What exactly was wrong with the base commander? The replies to messages were always very slow.
In any case, Zhu Lingfeng's promise of support temporarily calmed everyone down.
Fang Qingdai's image has been well established, and no one is accusing her of bewitching people.
He only took on the command position temporarily because he had made contact with the base commander and learned some special intelligence.
Oh wait, what command? It's a "suggestion"!
Even Zhu Lingfeng cannot insist that Fang Qingdai was the one who started the trouble.
Based on this, he gritted his teeth and shouted, "I wronged you just now, come in!"
The door was carefully opened a crack. Fang Qingdai didn't want to reveal that she could move around in the space, so she let Xiao Teng and the Desert Cat go out first and clear a space.
Then she led her team into the gate of Outpost No. 4 at lightning speed.
As soon as she entered, Fang Qingdai smiled helplessly: "Oh, no need to say anything. Commander Zhu was in a bad mood just now, and I deliberately distanced myself from everyone in order to calm you down. See, that's why everyone was let in!"
Yes, time was of the essence. Instead of arguing and explaining, Fang Qingdai decided to draw a clear line and allow the others to be exonerated and enter the sanctuary.
The crowd that had just been unanimously criticizing Fang Qingdai had now changed their tune, praising her for her righteousness and apologizing for their earlier accusations.
Fang Qingdai smiled magnanimously, but inwardly she kept sighing.
Look, look, this is what ordinary people are like. It's not that they can't distinguish between good and bad, but they just follow the crowd too much and dare not stick to their own opinions.
No, I dare not.
Zhu Lingfeng didn't believe a single word, his teeth grinding together!
He waved his hand, directing a team of officials to the city wall to suppress the monsters outside. Then he said he needed to revise the battle plan and retreated first.
Fang Qingdai's eyes flickered. Just as she was about to sneak into the space to follow and find out what was going on, she saw a person with a veil covering their face winking at her from the crowd.
Fang Qingdai didn't recognize the person until Li Mingyue, who was also covering her face, quietly tugged at her sleeve and she realized who it was.
**!
Thankfully he's alright, otherwise this risky investment would have been a loss!
The superhumans who retreated from the front lines were given a short half-hour rest, and Fang Qingdai's team was no exception.
She pretended to be tired and said she needed to go back to the dormitory to rest for a while. The team members were all exhausted, so they all went back with her.
They had barely entered the room when they heard a soft knock on the door.
"Dad!" Li Mingyue quickly greeted her father who had just entered the room, looking him up and down.
"I'm fine, I'm not injured." He was in relatively good condition, so he reassured his daughter for a couple of minutes before turning around to restore the powers of Fang Qingdai's teammates one by one.
At the same time, he was saying the information he had found out.
“Signal jamming? Impossible! I’ve always been able to send messages!” Xuan Liu shook his head, then paused for a moment, “Was it added later? That’s why I haven’t been receiving replies from the base commander?”
A glint appeared in his eyes; he was genuinely worried about the situation on the base commander's side.
But ** shook his head: "No, I've inquired, it's a signal jammer that was installed before the battle even started!"
He was very certain, and even gave the location of those signal jammers.
Fang Qingdai frowned as well. She took out her bracelet and tried to send a message to Jing Yi. It showed that the message was sent successfully, but she did not receive a reply for a long time.
Thinking that Jing Yi might be busy, Fang Qingdai sent a message to Xiao Mao beside her.
The message indicated that the message was sent successfully, but Xiao Mao didn't receive anything!
She paused, then thought back carefully for a long time.
"wrong!"
She suddenly sat up straight and gave everyone a timeline: "Xuan Liu sent a message to the base commander. At first, the messages sent from inside the base did not receive a reply. Later, we left the base area through a secret passage, and I asked him to send the message a few more times."
"I sent a message to Jing Yi from the tunnel exit, which was also outside the area of Outpost No. 4."
“Xuan Liu had received a reply, but after we returned to Outpost 4 and tried to contact them again, we encountered a long period of no response. Therefore, it is clear that signal jamming equipment has indeed been installed here.”
Xiao Mao frowned and shook his head: "No, it's not just a simple signal jamming device. They can interfere with the bracelet. Even though the message wasn't sent, the bracelet shows that it was sent successfully!"
"What kind of method is this? Could it even tamper with the information?"
Xiao Mao casually made a comment, but everyone instantly felt a chill run down their spines and stared straight at Xuan Liu!
If information can be tampered with, is the information Xuan Liu received about the base chief's recovery genuine?
After all, if there really was support, it should have arrived long ago!
"Don't panic, don't panic. Didn't Zhu Lingfeng say that he also received the information and confirmed that there is support?" Xiao Mao fell silent as he spoke.
If information can really be tampered with, wouldn't it just be whatever Zhu Lingfeng wants everyone to see, and that's what will appear on the bracelet?
Everyone was a bit confused, unsure whether the information had actually been sent out, or whether the reply Xuan Liu received from the base commander was genuine.
“Perhaps… Zhu Lingfeng isn’t sure if the information is true or false either.” Fang Qingdai rubbed her chin thoughtfully.
After all, if he was certain the information was false, he wouldn't have gone along with Fang Qingdai and the others to appease everyone.
He probably wasn't sure if Fang Qingdai and the others had actually contacted the base, or if the situation here had been transmitted out, which is why he used delaying tactics to stabilize the situation first.
He's probably trying to confirm with the base now. If the base really sends troops, he won't dare to "purchase" experimental products at will anymore.
"We should try to contact the base before he does and see what's going on!" Xiao Mao suggested.
Fang Qingdai shook her head: "We can't be sure whether the next message we send or receive is true or false. It's too passive."
Even if they knew the location of those signal jamming devices and destroyed them, they couldn't be sure if Zhu Lingfeng would reinstall them or leave other hidden devices.
"Then what should we do?"
Fang Qingdai thought for a moment: "Zhu Lingfeng is using false information to fool us, so we'll use false information to fool him too, put some pressure on him, and see if we can force him to lead everyone through the secret passage on his own initiative!"
It's a psychological war, it all comes down to who can't hold out first!
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