The four showed no mercy to the two guards, knocking them unconscious, tying them up, and having the bear cub throw them into the bushes. Their ears, noses, eyes, and limbs were covered with tape, but their mouths were left uncovered.
If they wake up in a panic and start shouting, they will be met with a deadly attack.
Someone has to taste the bitter fruit of their own actions.
The guards were searched, and each of them kept a copy of all the equipment that could be removed. They wouldn't activate it casually until they figured out how to use it, but they wouldn't be foolish enough to leave it for the enemy either.
Unlike previous instances, there was no item notification sound when stun guns or similar devices were confiscated.
Han Meimei couldn't help but feel sorry for them. In this way, once they left the instance, these things would most likely lose some of the special functions that they only had in the instance.
However, she never considered that there was another reason: this place was not a dungeon, so there were no items or props involved.
From a game perspective, it's like players logging into different servers. However, 'Eternal New World' has unique accounts, and even the levels between servers differ, causing players to go from being proactive to being passively subordinate when they cross over to a server that is not their first login.
Of course, all of this is just speculation by Cheng Shuang and the other two.
Given Han Meimei's indigenous identity, they had become accustomed to her inexplicably bypassing other truths that were closest to the facts, and convincing herself with her own unique way of thinking.
Therefore, this speculation is most likely correct.
Now was not a good time to explain, so they temporarily abandoned the topic and let the freak who was welcoming them lead the way to one of the many two-story buildings. They entered the basement through a small door in the backyard.
Passing through two small gatehouses, one window reveals a storage room, while the other houses a guard. The entire basement comes into view. It is more rudimentary and empty than imagined, with freezers as the only decorations, and the temperature throughout the area is close to zero degrees Celsius.
The guard was dozing off with his arms crossed, his head bobbing up and down, as if he could wake up at any moment.
Fortunately, the morgue is not an important place, and the guards are equipped with very simple equipment, not even stun guns. As long as they don't make a loud noise or deliberately go there to make their presence known, they can hide behind the freezer when he wakes up.
However, we must be careful not to give the guards time to notify others, otherwise the basement will become the best place to surround and intercept them.
So Cheng Shuang left the monster behind to keep an eye on the dozing guard and to sound the alarm at any time.
Most of the freezers had name tags on the outside, all containing personal information registered on the mountaintop. The sullen guy had glanced at them once; of the people who checked in yesterday, only Zhou Lang and another male classmate who had died were inside.
Neither the missing nor the unconscious person was in the freezer.
This realization made Han Meimei breathe a sigh of relief. She asked softly, "What should we do?"
"Look for a hidden door," Cheng Shuang replied. "The experimental subjects in the detached building are animals and plants, so there must be other spaces."
Han Meimei immediately became anxious. The thought that Li Lei might be nearby filled her with excitement, and she couldn't wait to find him.
Unfortunately, the basement's structure was clearly laid out before them; no matter how they looked at it, it was nothing more than three empty walls and rows of freezers.
The group squatted behind a freezer. Cheng Shuang said helplessly, "Now we have two options. One is that there is a hidden door in the two gatehouses, and the other is that there is a hidden door in one of the freezers."
Sun Han rubbed his temples, looking troubled. "There are more than thirty empty freezers in total. I can't be sure if opening them will be too loud and wake up the guards. Similarly, we can't avoid the guards when entering or leaving the main room."
"How about..." Han Meimei's eyes turned cold and fierce as she made a killing gesture.
"Before that, how could you confirm whether the gatehouse had an emergency alarm system similar to a bank counter, such as pressing a button to directly access the guards' duty room?"
The little girl tilted her head. "Then lure him out of the room, and it'll be easy to deal with after that."
Du Jun glanced silently at the empty freezer. "It can hold a lot."
"There's another question: what's the shift change time for the basement guards?" Sun Han asked again.
Han Meimei was anxious, but she also knew the importance of perfecting the plan. She couldn't let her own anxiety cloud her judgment and put her teammates in a dilemma. But now, it was unlikely that she could come up with any feasible and reliable solutions. Her mind was a mess, and her only thought was to rescue her boyfriend as soon as possible.
Being able to calm down and not rush them is a testament to composure and self-control.
Sun Han continued, "Being on duty alone is more mentally taxing than the two teams above. Although you can sit there quietly, it also means you don't have a partner to help you."
Generally speaking, goalkeepers usually work morning and evening shifts. Judging from the guard's tired face, he is most likely on the night shift, which means it's almost time for his shift to be changed.
So the four of them held their positions for the time being, and after about half an hour, a guard slowly walked down.
He knocked on the glass of the gatehouse, waking the person inside. After the two of them slowly patrolled the basement again, the original guard yawned and left, while the new guard returned to his room, staring idly out the window and occasionally looking down at his tablet.
During their patrol, the four men stealthily made their way to the gatehouse, and finally slipped into the storeroom when the gatekeepers had their backs to them.
The storage room mainly contained cleaning supplies and repair tools. In addition to scattered playing cards and handheld exercise equipment, the personal belongings included several clean spare guard uniforms.
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