In the early hours of the morning, a roar suddenly sounded in the empty underground ruins.

Although the walls of the new base were well soundproofed, the vibration after the roar woke Carl and the students of Korlanburg from their dreams.

On the second floor of the base, twenty-four Moon Spirit maids took the elevator to the lobby on the first floor.

V quickly deployed these combat units and installed new crossbows that fired magic arrows in various parts of the bastion.

Such a device has limited power, is extremely bulky and not flexible enough.

But it is enough to deal with zombies.

"What's going on? Is the zombie tide coming?"

Coming out of the room, Bane hurriedly asked Carl.

Carl, with his upper body naked, had just woken up. After gaining V's vision through the mental link, he shook his head.

"We don't know the exact situation yet, but it looks like something went wrong at the bases of the other adventure groups in the underground ruins."

Just as Carl and Bain were about to go out to see what was going on, the students of Kolanburg also came out of their rooms.

Joanna even wanted to go forward to help.

These boys and girls are all top students with an average grade of four or five, but this level is actually quite common in Storm Bay.

Moreover, compared to those professionals in Storm Bay who are temporarily unable to continue their advancement due to their lack of talent, the combat effectiveness of these rookies may be lower.

Carl was almost wiped out in the battle with ordinary murlocs, so there was no way Carl could expect them to help him.

"It's nothing serious. You can go back and rest first. Your spell slots haven't recovered yet, right? Leave this to us."

Seeing how tired the children were, Carl quickly sent them back to sleep.

Carl then activated a new arcane eye mechanism and established a mental link with it.

The optical camouflage covering the mechanism was activated, and the fist-sized mechanism blended into the surrounding scenery.

If you don't look closely, you can hardly see its existence.

"go!"

The command was activated, and the invisible secret eye mechanism flew away from the city wall.

Carl closed his eyes and concentrated on operating the mechanism.

After that roar, although explosions still occurred frequently in the underground ruins, they were no longer as earth-shaking as the first time.

Following the sound, Carl headed west and finally found his destination.

It was a fortress built with many logs, but its wooden walls had collapsed on a large scale at this time. Many houses in the fortress were set on fire, and many zombies were wandering around.

The wooden walls seemed to have been painted with a special paint that gave them a certain resistance to fire.

Even though the burning house was leaning against the wooden walls, they could not be ignited.

The remaining living people were fighting hard against the zombies, but Carl felt that these people's actions seemed a bit "fake".

It’s not that their movements in attacking the zombies were fake, but the expressions on their faces.

It was a poor acting that was trying hard to act "exhausted", and Carl was almost embarrassed by it.

Carl then maintained the current height of the Secret Eye mechanism to see what these people were doing.

"Boss!"

I don’t know how long it took, but a guy with a shifty look came up to a sturdy man.

"Boss, are you sure those brats will come to help? How long has it been?"

As he spoke, the guy kicked over the zombie that had been harassing him.

Obviously, his appearance just now was fake. He could easily kill zombies of this level.

"Don't be careless! Do you still want to live in that beautiful base? If you do, then keep acting here!

Didn’t the scout say that those five guys took in a dozen rookies?

As long as we act convincingly enough, those kind-hearted guys might let us in.

When we have recovered our strength, we can seize the equipment of the machinist first, and then the base will be ours, right?

I've seen it, the strongest among those people is the mechanic, but he relies on his good equipment. As long as the equipment is damaged, we can control that group of people!"

Hearing that this group of people were actually planning to take over his position, Carl was at a loss whether to laugh or cry for a moment.

After opening his eyes, Carl asked Bane beside him, "Do I look like a kind-hearted person?"

While asking this, Carl was still recalling the bad things he had done in his mind.

"Well, you do look kind. At least just by looking at your appearance, anyone would think that you are a sunny, cheerful and helpful young man."

This is not Bain trying to flatter Carl, but Carl's appearance is indeed like this now.

If Carl were taken to the crew of a Three Kingdoms drama, as long as he put on the right makeup, there would be nothing wrong with him playing the role of Lu Bu or Zhao Yun.

"Hiss~, no wonder those guys thought I would rescue them, and they even planned to occupy our base. But whoever made this plan was too confident, wasn't he?"

Muttering something in a low voice, Carl closed his eyes again and operated the arcane eye mechanism to return to the base.

Except for the first explosion which was a real explosion, the rest were emitted by recording devices.

The purpose of their doing this was naturally to lure Carl and the others over.

Joanna was furious about this and blamed herself for her decision to help.

"But Senior Carl is indeed a very kind person. He helped us fishermen when he saw that we were in trouble. They didn't help us when we met other adventurers before."

"That's because I have psychic powers. I can roughly sense a person's thoughts and emotions. It's like a simplified version of mind detection."

Joanna was a little surprised to hear that Carl still possessed psychic powers.

"So psychic power is so convenient?"

After a brief moment of surprise, Joanna began to envy the power of psychic energy.

As a noble from the Throne Castle, Joanna was required to learn cumbersome etiquette from a very young age and had to interact with many nobles.

The nobles of Throne Castle are often sweet-mouthed but treacherous. If she had this ability, her interpersonal communication costs would be reduced a lot at once.

"It's convenient, but it's also dangerous. Didn't your companions in Andel tell you about those rumors about psychic powers?"

After warning the young juniors who seemed to be interested in psychic powers, Carl waved his hand and sent everyone to bed.

If the adventure group wants to act, then let them do it. Carl won't cooperate with them anyway.

If the other side becomes desperate, he will just drive the mecha to kill them.

"But... why do these guys think they can destroy my mecha?"

With such doubts, Carl fell asleep again.

…

Around ten o'clock in the morning, Karl woke up again.

Because of the noise last night, everyone seemed to toss and turn until very late before falling asleep.

When Carl, Hope, and Shadow left the room, there were only three people in the hall.

“Senior Karl!”

Seeing Karl coming out, Joanna greeted him out of habit. This child must have very strict education.

Even if he just looked at her, Karl felt that the other person was living a very tiring life.

"You're up so early? You're at a stage of growth at your age, and getting more sleep is good for your height."

Carl took the warm milk handed to him by the Yueling maid and drank it all in one gulp.

"No, I'm used to getting up early. We plan to go back to the school station while there's still time. What do you think?"

"Ah? No problem, do whatever you want. Just be careful on your way back."

"Thank you again for saving us. We will take our leave now."

After bowing to Karl again, Joanna quickly ran back to the room and called out her classmates.

What Carl didn't expect was that this group of people had already gotten up and even put on their equipment.

They seemed to be concerned about the situation at the school site.

After waving goodbye to Carl, the young adventure group returned to the surface along the road.

About two hours later, V, who was responsible for monitoring the surroundings, suddenly issued a warning.

"Master, there is a rogue approaching."

"Send a warning shot around him."

The communication was completed quickly through the mental link, and then the force field crossbow closest to the wanderer's direction suddenly started up.

The crossbow directly bombarded the area two meters in front of the Wanderer, stirring up a large cloud of dust. The Wanderer also staggered out of stealth mode due to the aftermath of the force field.

"Misunderstanding! I have no ill intentions! We are an adventure group from the surrounding area. We were attacked by those strange undead creatures last night. Your base looks big enough. Can you take us in for a while? We will leave once we have recovered!"

Seeing that he failed to sneak into the base, the wanderer immediately spoke out his origins and purpose.

There was silence at the base for a moment, and then Carl's voice was heard: "Sorry, my base will not accept adventurers of unknown origin to stay for the time being."

As if he had expected what Carl would say, the Wanderer immediately put on an angry expression.

"I saw with my own eyes a group of unfamiliar adventurers leaving your base! They can stay here, but we can't? We'll pay!"

There was another moment of silence, and then Karl said, "Those people are students from Kornberg University, they are my juniors, and you are..."

This time, it was the wanderer who remained silent.

'Damn it, the words given by the military advisor didn't give the answer to this question!

These people and those rookies are from Kolanburg? What are those noble children doing here?'

After hesitating for a long time, the Wanderer couldn't utter a word. Finally, he threw a dart on the ground in anger and turned back to their base.

Looking at the other person's departing back, Carl smiled without any emotion.

"Don't these guys think their plan is perfect, do they? The guy who came up with this idea is definitely the kind of guy who has no real ability but is still pretentious!"

The reason why Carl asked those students from Kolanburg to live in the base was, on the one hand, because the qualities and thoughts and emotions they showed were orderly and kind, and on the other hand, because Carl felt that he could defeat them alone.

These experienced adventure groups are obviously guys with no bottom line. Isn't it courting death to put such people in your base?

(End of this chapter)