Fang Qingdai immediately started throwing things out, but it was too late!
Li Weidong and his group watched helplessly as Fang Qingdai was instantly engulfed by the swarm of rats. At first, a human figure could still be discerned, but in just two seconds, the spot where Fang Qingdai stood vanished without a trace!
Only a layer of mutated rats remained, lying on the sand, frantically fighting over something—presumably her remaining flesh and blood…
Li Weidong's hands trembled. The base commander had repeatedly told him to make sure he protected the people well!
It's one thing to fail to complete the mission, but the key issue is that Fang Qingdai was the only person connected to that bandit group in the wasteland. If Fang Qingdai dies, where will they find a contact person?
When Li Weidong thought about his grand plan to build a beast army, he felt like the sky was falling!
He tried to charge into the mutated rat swarm regardless of the consequences, but his subordinates held him back!
"Commander, you mustn't! She's already dead!"
"There are too many mutated rats. If we don't leave soon, we'll be swallowed up!"
Li Weidong immediately came to his senses!
He didn't break down because of Fang Qingdai's death; he just couldn't accept that his mutated beast army plan had been shelved before it even started!
But he quickly realized that Fang Qingdai was dead, but the bandits in the wilderness were still alive. As long as he put in the effort to search, he would definitely be able to find her!
They can even search in private, avoiding everyone's gaze. So what if the base chief finds out first? His leads are cut off, and who knows who will emerge victorious in the future!
"Walk!"
Li Weidong then led his men in a hasty escape!
Fang Qingdai, meanwhile, was hiding in the space, praising the red fox profusely: "You're really something, managing to control so many mutated rats!"
Fang Qingdai asked the red fox to help her control all the mutated rats within a meter of her, manipulating them to create the illusion that they were "devouring" her.
I was initially worried that there were too many targets and the red fox wouldn't be able to handle them all.
Fang Qingdai had already prepared herself for the worst. If she made a mistake and was attacked by the mutated rats, she would hide in her spatial dimension first and then find another way to escape.
I never expected Red Fox to be so helpful!
The red fox proudly and elegantly raised its head, then leisurely strolled back to the sycamore tree to curl up and pretend to sleep.
This time, Fang Qingdai paid for another week's stay under the sycamore tree as a token of her gratitude.
She sighed. Given her frequent demands, it was impossible to completely form a contract with the red fox in the short term!
She just hoped that things would be peaceful from now on, and that there would be no other use for the red fox. She wanted to wait until its one-month and one-week trial period was over before she could find an opportunity to manipulate it!
Ignoring the red fox for the moment, Fang Qingdai manipulated the space to get away from the mutated rat swarm that was running wildly due to the spatial water, and then immediately left the space to contact Xiao Mao.
"Let's get started!"
After receiving the news, Xiao Mao immediately greeted Xuan Liu, Xuan Ba, Huang Changming, and the others.
Half an hour later, news broke from the base that several children had gone missing, and Qingluan was one of them!
"What exactly happened?!" The base commander slammed his fist on the table in anger, pointing at his group of subordinates and demanding, "Three people were watching Qingluan's family, and they still managed to steal the child?"
The subordinate was trembling with fear, but had no choice but to explain, "It was during a shift change, and as our two team members were handing over duties, we noticed that Qingdai's door was open. When we went inside, we found that Qingluan was gone..."
“We checked the surveillance footage and found that two men in black went in. Qingluan was wrapped in cloth and carried on their shoulders as they headed towards the market.”
"At the same time, several other groups also abducted several children from various parts of the base. They all went into the market. Our people chased after them, but found that the market was a mixed bag, and there were many small paths leading to various parts of the base, so we had no way to investigate!"
In other words, the trail went cold at the market!
The base commander took several deep breaths to suppress his anger. He immediately contacted Li Weidong to ask how Fang Qingdai was doing.
He worried that if Fang Qingdai found out about Qingluan's disappearance, she would blame him for not keeping his promise to protect Qingluan, which would cause his plans to change.
At the same time, he also had some doubts. Qingluan's disappearance was too coincidental. The base commander couldn't be sure whether it was a coincidence or if Fang Qingdai didn't believe the base had made a switcheroo...
Or perhaps Fang Qingdai's enemies knew she was away and were waiting for an opportunity to strike?
Another possibility is that the base commander, recalling the disappearance of several other young children at the same time, couldn't help but think of a certain organization...
Unable to determine which possibility it was, the base commander could only contact Fang Qingdai to sound her out!
But after learning from Li Weidong that Fang Qingdai had been swallowed up by the mutated rat swarm, the base chief could no longer hold back and overturned the table in front of him!
"How could there be so many coincidences? I want to see who's behind this!"
The base commander retrieved all the wiretapped content and reviewed the footage recorded by the personal recording devices worn by Li Weidong and others many times!
But the more the base commander looked, the less certain he became.
Fang Qingdai's behavior seemed reasonable, and considering that he still had Fang Qingdai's "parents" in his hands, the base commander couldn't think of any reason why Fang Qingdai would abandon the base regardless of her biological parents!
Moreover, the video clearly shows that she was indeed swallowed up by the mutated rat swarm!
The rats surged about, and even in the brief moment they dispersed, bright red blood, tattered cloth, and bits of flesh could be seen on the sand.
Even if Fang Qingdai managed to enter the space at the last moment, the price she paid was far too high. Just thinking about being torn apart by the mutated rat horde is terrifying!
Given that the base commander believed he had enough leverage, he couldn't fathom what Fang Qingdai's reason for leaving if this was her plan.
It can't be that he has a bad relationship with his parents, and as soon as he hears that his parents are coming back, he would rather be eaten by rats and risk his life to fake his death, right?
Therefore, the base commander ultimately concluded that Qingluan's disappearance was most likely a coincidence.
He didn't pay much attention to Qingluan's side. After ordering people to continue the investigation, he began to mobilize people to search for Jingyi and his group in the wasteland!
Like Li Weidong, the base commander was also determined to take over the alien beast legion!
Meanwhile, Fang Qingdai had already met up with Jing Yi and the others.
Before leaving the space, Fang Qingdai changed out of the clothes she had torn herself into pieces, ran to the stream to take a bath, and scrubbed herself thoroughly many times!
She was worried that she might be carrying various listening or monitoring devices, so she was extra careful.
After meeting up with Jing Yi and the others, she made Jing Yi drive around the wasteland for a long time, and even deliberately wandered around the area with large magnetic field fluctuations.
After ensuring that any remaining monitoring equipment would be interfered with by the magnetic field, the group quietly returned to Linguan City.
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