Mao Yun returned to the White Tiger Base to prepare for his departure, while Fang Qingdai and her group entered the snowfield, intending to spend a few nights there.
It's inconvenient for them to enter the base, and setting up temporary outposts outside is too costly. Furthermore, outposts set up in the wild can be abandoned at any time due to unforeseen circumstances, making it a waste of time and energy and not worthwhile.
Mao Yun left them with two vehicles. One of the previous two vehicles had been smashed to pieces by Mao Yun. Now, with the two new vehicles, Fang Qingdai and her group have three snowmobiles.
If ten people are divided among themselves, three or four people in each car are enough to rest, and they can drive away immediately in case of any emergency.
Fortunately, the first night passed without incident.
But the next afternoon, Jing Yi returned from patrolling the area with a grim expression.
Fang Qingdai rarely saw him look so bad. Most of the time, he had little expression, and even the slightest change was hard to notice.
"What's wrong?" Sensing that there might be trouble that was difficult to handle, Fang Qingdai unconsciously tightened her voice when she asked.
Jing Yi looked at Fang Qingdai, a hint of anxiety in his eyes: "I've met the people from the Vermilion Bird Base."
Fearing Fang Qingdai might not understand, Jing Yi added, "He was my former deputy. It was he who betrayed me, which is why I was captured by that organization."
"He seems to have some influence in that organization."
Fang Qingdai froze, feeling utterly overwhelmed.
Why are there people from that organization everywhere?
What's the current situation with the White Tiger Base? Could it be like the Black Tortoise Base, largely sidelined?
Is it possible that there are members of that organization at the Azure Dragon Base?
Fang Qingdai was completely devastated!
If all four bases have members of that organization, it can only mean that their influence has already occupied half of the wasteland!
Although they may be constrained by the other side of the power at the moment, they are conducting experiments cautiously and secretly.
But what if one day their strength increases even slightly and they manage to suppress the other half of the forces?
Will human experiments be postponed until next year, turning the wasteland into a living hell?
Fang Qingdai scratched her head in exasperation: "Can we catch up with them? It would be best if we could capture them and see if we could get any useful information out of them."
Fang Qingdai really didn't want the wasteland to descend into chaos so quickly.
Although they have left the base and are in the Immortal Burial Oasis, they will not be affected so quickly, but it is only a matter of time.
If that organization really does take control of the wasteland, Fang Qingdai's supply lines at the base will have to be withdrawn. However, the Oasis is not yet self-sufficient, and once Xiao Mao and the others leave, Fang Qingdai and her group will be cut off from supplies.
At the very least, they need to grow their own food first, so that they have the confidence to remain steadfast even when the world is in chaos!
Therefore, it would be best to catch Jing Yi's former deputy and interrogate him thoroughly to understand more about their situation before Fang Qingdai could feel at ease.
Jing Yi thought for a moment and said, "There were four cars. I glanced at them quickly. There were about twenty people. They were heading southwest. They must have just come from the White Tiger Base."
After frowning and hesitating for a moment, Jing Yi added, "The last car is very similar in specifications to the one Mao Yun left us, and it is very likely that it is the official vehicle of the White Tiger Base."
Fang Qingdai understood.
There may be people from the White Tiger Base escorting the convoy. If the convoy is attacked and cannot cope, the people from the White Tiger Base will send reinforcements immediately.
If Fang Qingdai and her team couldn't resolve the situation instantly with four vehicles and more than twenty people, the other side could send out a distress signal as soon as they realized what was happening.
Even if they could escape using spatial means, the commotion would be too great, and they were worried that it would affect Mao Yun's evacuation.
Mao Yun has now risen to the position of captain at the White Tiger Base. However, like Fang Qingdai and Xiao Mao, she doesn't like to use people whose character she doesn't know well, so the team is basically made up of the Mao family's core members.
This means that a large group will defect from the White Tiger Base, and the action will definitely be significant, since they will have to take everything with them.
Therefore, in order not to implicate Mao Yun's side, Fang Qingdai and the others had no choice but to abandon their plan to capture people.
Jing Yi comforted Fang Qingdai: "It's alright. Once we get back, we can find a way to question the others as well."
Anyway, Fang Qingdai now knows several members of that organization, and has many targets to target.
But no one expected that Mao Yun, who originally said he would resolve the matter in three days, would take a full five days before leading his team to meet up with Fang Qingdai and the others.
Upon meeting, Mao Yun mysteriously grabbed Fang Qingdai and said, "Little Dai, come with me!"
Fang Qingdai was led to the back of the group with a blank expression. When the door of a snowmobile was opened, she saw two men whose hands and feet were tied and whose mouths were taped shut.
Fang Qingdai was stunned for a moment, then squinted and looked Mao Yun up and down several times.
"To be honest, has your development at the White Tiger Base over the years been based on robbery and plunder?"
Putting aside Jing Yi's previous speculations, just looking at Mao Yun's behavior at this moment, you can tell that her hands are pretty dirty!
Fang Qingdai glanced suspiciously at the long convoy, becoming even more certain: "Purchasing these vehicles requires a large number of points, but the models look inconsistent and they all show signs of battle damage. I guess they didn't come from legitimate sources, right?"
Mao Yun's eyes lit up: "Hey, how did you know?"
She said with some pride, "When we first came to the White Tiger Base, we were unfamiliar with the place and had no foundation at all. In order to quickly gain a foothold, besides strength, the most important thing was of course points!"
"So I led my brothers into the snowfield to specifically rob bandits in the wilderness, which can be considered as doing justice for Heaven!"
Fang Qingdai sighed and rubbed her forehead. What a fine example of acting on behalf of Heaven!
But to be fair, Mao Yun does have guts.
The bandits of the wilderness were all desperate men, and they would fight to the death if they met. When Mao Yun first arrived, he was only seventeen or eighteen years old, yet he dared to lead a group of men straight into the wilderness.
Over the years, by cracking down on bandits, they have indeed accumulated a considerable fortune!
Fang Qingdai thought that the oasis would definitely need a lot of resources in the early stages of its development, so she had to go back and discuss this "acting on behalf of Heaven" money-making plan with Mao Yun!
But Fang Qingdai was still a little confused: "So what's going on with these two?"
A gift from Mao Yun upon meeting you? That's rather unusual...
Mao Yun clapped his hands and brought the topic back: "In order to prevent being blocked from traveling, I sent people in advance to find out the guards' change of shifts, thinking that we could come out in batches during the short intervals between each change of shifts, so as not to attract the attention of the guards."
"My brothers staked out the place for two days to record shift changes, and they discovered that this group of people were sneaking in and out of a small building every day!"
"Well, I originally thought there were valuables in the building, and I was thinking of taking a big one as travel expenses before I left... but when I got closer, I happened to hear them mention you!"
Fang Qingdai's expression hardened: "You brought me up? What's going on?"
"I heard them talking about the Xuanwu Base, space-type ability users, and supplies. I thought they were talking about you, so I tied him up!"
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