Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 240 - Lure Her into the Game
Chapter 240: Chapter 240: Lure Her into the Game?
Chapter 240: Chapter 240: Lure Her into the Game?
Both parties were indeed old friends reunited after a long separation, but a hug was out of the question.
Song Qian removed his gloves, slightly bowed, and sincerely extended a hand:
“Jiang Yan, long time no see.”
“Long time no see,” Jiang Yan smiled and reached out her hand, “Please, have a seat.”
Song Qian was quite tall and stood straight; in the room, his head almost touched the ceiling.
“Alright.”
Kong Wu saw Song Qian pulling out a neatly folded piece of paper from his chest pocket and wisely said:
“Brother Song, Sister Yan, I’ll stand guard outside, you two chat in detail.”
“Okay. And close the door.” After giving instructions, Song Qian asked Jiang Yan, “Do you have any lighting equipment here?”
Despite it being daytime, the ice house was covered with a thick layer of snow, which did not allow much light to pass through.
“Yes.” Jiang Yan didn’t know what he wanted to show her, but she still pulled out a hand-cranked rechargeable flashlight from her bag.
Originally, she thought that this morning, Song Qian would have taken her to meet Su Dai and the others.
It seemed he had other plans.
She would just wait and see how things unfolded.
After departing from Xiangcheng, the updates about Song Qian and herself were mostly known through Kong Wu.
Now sitting down, it wasn’t really the time for polite small talk about the past.
It was more about getting straight to the point.
When Kong Wu had asked about her experiences yesterday, Jiang Yan naturally spun a simple lie.
She couldn’t very well say she had escaped Xiangcheng in a flight suit and then obliterated Chu Hui and his crew.
The lie she told didn’t completely hold water.
But it didn’t matter.
No one was going to delve deep or scrutinize it at this time.
Being alive was more important than anything.
“Here, take a look at this.” Song Qian unfolded the piece of paper in his hand and handed it to Jiang Yan.
It was a hand-drawn map.
It was divided into four quadrants, labeled with a pencil in the top left corner: “Plan, Section, Elevation, Structural.”
However, the structural part was empty.
“What is this?” Jiang Yan frowned slightly.
This man seemed extremely adept at hand-drawing maps.
Having the map made explaining many things much simpler and easier.
But why show her a map the moment they met?
“The blueprints for Flame Base. Just freshly made,” Song Qian paused, then lowered his voice to explain:
“The whole Flame Base is divided into Inner City and Outer City. We are currently in the Outer City. Inside the Inner City are the residential areas for the high-level personnel, the armory, the power and energy sector, the food supplies storage, the fully automated ecological breeding storage, the vault, the neural interface laboratory, the SNP laboratory, the base hospital, the cosmetic medical center, and other core facilities and scientific research places, all high-level secrets and currently unknown.”
“From the section, the base is divided into ground city and Underground City, and the Outer City only includes the ground city. Those areas I mentioned earlier in the Inner City, they have both above and below ground, but mostly underground. As for the labs and armory, they are just references, these facilities exist but their exact coordinates are not precise.”
Jiang Yan suppressed her inner doubts, followed his indication, and looked at each marked side one by one.
She finally understood why the mutated rats only appeared outside the base and didn’t burst forth from within the city.
Throughout the sectional view of Flame Base, along the moat part of the external walls down to hundreds of meters underground, there lay a black-tech alloy metal mesh.
The material of this metal mesh was the same as her watermelon knife, a new product just developed internationally before the apocalypse.
High strength, resistant to cold and heat, and it could also reinforce the frost layer formed by extremely cold weather.
Very effective, yet quite expensive.
Ordinary rats, at most, could dig up to one or two meters.
Even if mutated, seven to eight meters would be their limit.
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However, the alloy metal mesh laid out by the base must have been intended for more than just protection against mutated rats.
Moreover, the entire Flame Base was not only strong as a fortress, but it also appeared to be several dozen times larger than she had imagined.
Constructing all this, even with the so-called armory included, would probably make even the richest tycoon like Musk shake his head.
That was, it wasn’t just something that could be built with money alone.
Could Xue Miaomiao really possess such incredible abilities?
And that neural interface laboratory—are they trying to achieve immortality?
Jiang Yan’s eyes widened in shock for a second.
Seeing her inner thoughts, Song Qian said: “Xue Miaomiao is actually just a spokesperson for Flame Base.”
Jiang Yan squinted her eyes upon hearing this, sorting through her thoughts in an instant.
A spokesperson like Xue Miaomiao, with a bad reputation and indiscretion in actions, tended to act recklessly without concerns.
They could rapidly accumulate initial resources in the early days of the apocalypse when social order wasn’t that chaotic, becoming the sharpest and most despicable claw for those in power.
But once they outlived their usefulness.
Such people would be the first to be sacrificed to calm the public’s anger.
“Then who’s really behind this?” Jiang Yan asked without hesitation, then chuckled inwardly for a second.
She felt as if she had suddenly joined the FBI as an agent.
But really, what did all this have to do with her?
She just needed a temporary place to hide from the blizzard.
Was Song Qian deliberately drawing her into the scheme?
The man overestimated her capabilities.
Song Qian shook his head, “Still unknown.”
Jiang Yan pulled her thoughts back and continued examining the map.
“SNP laboratory?” Her finger paused over this area, and her gaze faltered.
She had seen the term SNP before on Xue Qianmei’s work ID photo.
Then, busy with escaping Xiangcheng, she hadn’t had time to look it up in the Space computer.
Later, she had forgotten the name.
“The full name is the genetic sequencing laboratory, you can also think of it as a life science laboratory. We’ve talked about this before at Xiangyun Cave, whether the base, besides researching and collecting mutated animals, was also researching humans. I can confirm to you now, yes, they are. Ye Qing’s matter, Kong Wu also told you.”
Song Qian finished, his gaze deepening, “They are researching not only suitable adults but embryos as well…”
“Supposedly there is a Dark Prison in the lab, holding many women and children gathered from all around before the heavy storms.”
Jiang Yan took a deep breath, she had heard about this back in Shallow Bay District from Scar-faced.
At that time, she thought the young women were taken for unspeakable acts.
Now, it seemed she had underestimated their plans.
This was clearly a pre-arranged production chain.
After all, at any time, the demographic dividend was something that could not be overlooked.
The base needed to develop, and ultimately, it needed people.
However, if they truly developed technology for rapid genetic evolution,
What they needed was relatively perfect Transformed People or Evolved People.
And the existing humans, those who couldn’t evolve, were essentially waste.
No wonder the base also drove away external survivors.
After sorting all this out, Jiang Yan, feeling like her CPU was about to burn out, felt as if a shocking truth had suddenly “exploded” in her mind.
After reviewing the blueprints, she rubbed her temples and then gave Song Qian a stern glance:
“Song Qian, how do you know all this? And why tell me?”
Song Qian pursed his lips without speaking, took the blueprints from her, and pulled out a box of cigar matches from his pocket.
“chua!”
He lit the long matchstick and burned the map.
