Novel Full Chapter 878 878: The Herders ( 11 )
Chapter 878 878: The Herders ( 11 )
Li Sikai thought for a moment and muttered, "Vice Commander Wen said that his brother sent a message through the radio on the day the Red Cliff Base was attacked."
"Could it be that this place is the Red Cliff Base, and the one escaping is him?" Gao Bohai said.
With this thought, the two of them slid down the cliff and landed on the frozen river below. Despite being covered by a layer of ice, they still found traces of chains. Following the trails, they noticed that the tracks led toward the city.
Reaching this conclusion, Gao Bohai took out his phone and dialed a series of numbers. After a few rings, the call was picked up.
"Bohai, what's wrong?"
"Ruiyue, we found the location of the Red Cliff Base."
"How did you find it?" Yuan Ruiyue asked with a hint of surprise.
"We are following the herders to find the black crystal mine location. When we arrived, we checked the area and realized that this place is the Red Cliff Base," Gao Bohai explained.
"Also, we found traces of a car leaving the base through the river. We followed the trails, and they led toward the city. You and your team don't have to come here."
"The Red Cliff Base is located in the western border area. Check the map and follow the river. Just check the places with the possibility of Wen Hanyu going."
After a moment of silence, Yuan Ruiyue asked, "How is the situation there?"
"The entire base has been razed to the ground. Tell those survivors there is no need to come here. This place has been taken over by the organization."
"Understood."
After hanging up the call, Gao Bohai and Li Sikai returned to the team and told the members about their discoveries.
Zhang Yuan sent a message to their Captain, and after a moment, he said, "Captain told us to stay here and wait for his order."
"Vice Captain, even if we can withstand the cold with our battle suits, we can't just sleep in the open," Yin Yusheng said.
Before Zhang Yuan could reply, Chen Wenwu said, "How about we dig a cave into the cliff wall and stay there for now? We can hide from the enemy and stay warm."
"Let's do as Wenwu suggested," Zhang Yuan nodded.
The members slid down the cliff, and with Di Hansheng around, they floated in mid-air.
Since the cliff was covered with a thick layer of ice, Chen Wenwu had to work together with Su Ruanyi to dig a cave big enough for all the members.
Right now, there are only two female members, so they dug a smaller cave for the girls.
When they finished, it was already past lunchtime. The members went into the cave, built two campfires, and started cooking.
While their Captain told them to wait, they didn't know when they would have to fight a battle. So Xiao Qi took out a generous amount of ingredients from his space.
On one side, they were cooking a pot of braised beef stew with glass noodles, while on the other side, they were roasting mutton and grilling onions, carrots, spring onions, potatoes, and tomatoes.
Both the beef and mutton were from the mutant animals they caught in Jinxing City, near the Green Lake Base. Due to the mutant beasts' ferocity, they could only bring back several pairs of mutant cows and mutant lambs alive. The rest either died or were crippled.
Back then, their Captain chose the healthiest living mutant beasts and gave them to his fiancée. The rest of the living mutant beasts were given to the Green Lake Base for breeding.
They didn't think much about the reason why their Captain gave the living mutant beasts to his fiancée before. But after they saw their Sister-in-law continue taking out mutant meat without running out of stock, they realized the special trait of her space.
Now that there were new members, the original members had been helping Jiao Lizhi cover for her space.
While the members were having their lunch, behind the destroyed high wall, a large group of commoners was led to an underground cave located at the center of the base.
The entrance of the cave was a hole with a diameter of more than 50 meters. There were several ladders hanging on the steep wall. Around the massive hole, workers were seen pulling up barrels filled with black crystals one after another.
As the commoners walked toward the hole, a group of guards walked over.
Standing a few steps in front of them, one of the guards pointed at them and asked, "Are these the lambs sent from the farm?"
The guards escorting them nodded, and the leader replied, "The Herders told you to inform them if you are running out of lambs. They want you to increase the output by 20% at the end of the month."
When he heard this, the foreman cursed under his breath and said, "They think that by sending these weak lambs, they can increase the output so much?"
"Look at them. Most of them are weak and sick. The moment they come into contact with the black crystals, they can only hold on for five days at most."
The moment the commoners heard his words, they panicked. One of them gathered her courage and walked toward the one leading them here.
"S-sir, what did he mean by that? Aren't you taking us to work? Why did you bring us here?" the woman asked as she looked at her surroundings, with fear clear in her eyes.
The guard glanced at her and said coldly, "Your work is mining crystals here."
After he finished his words, he turned to the foreman and added, "I only relayed the Herders' message. If you have any complaints, just contact them yourself."
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned and left with his people.
Seeing him leave, the commoners wanted to follow him. But before they could take a few steps, they were blocked by a group of guards.