A sturdy fortress is often breached from within.
But to breach it from within, one must also choose a good point of entry.
Guan Tong's target was to first suppress the surveillance room. Starting from other places would easily be discovered, triggering the base's alarm.
Based on the intelligence gathered by his Shadow's infiltration, the surveillance room was located in the base's high-level area, not far from the office of the manager, Han Ling.
First suppress the surveillance room, then quickly control Han Ling, the base manager—this was the strategy Guan Tong had devised.
The ti to act... was set for after the base's dinner.
Guan Tong silently waited for the opportunity to arrive.
Qingi Base. After having dinner, several employees of the surveillance room returned, chatting in a complaining tone.
"The food lately seems to have gotten worse."
"Sigh, having sothing to eat is good enough. Who knows how long this outside sweep operation will last. If it goes on too long, our material supply here might run into problems!"
"No need to worry about that. Manager Han can naturally get food. And if there's really nothing to eat, aren't there still so many 'reserve rations' locked up below?"
"Damn, have you watched too many sick movies? You want to eat people?"
The few chatted idly, completely unaware that in the shadowy corner of the room, a mass of pitch-black shadow was hidden.
They sat in their chairs, sowhat bored as they watched the wall of surveillance screens ford by dozens of small monitors.
Watching it from morning till night every day, the boredom was imaginable. It would be better if there was actually so troublemaking, but the problem was, since they took charge of surveillance, the base had not experienced a single disturbance.
Although this was a result of Han Ling's capable managent, for these surveillance operators, it was truly dull.
However, their balance of this "dull" life was about to run out.
Split shadow lines silently crawled up the chairs, up the chair backs, and then, while the n remained completely unaware, whoosh—they swiftly wrapped around their necks!
"Huh?!"
The surveillance operators were suddenly strangled by the tough shadow lines around their necks, imdiately unable to breathe, their eyes bulging. So reached out, trying to tear away the lines choking their necks, but they couldn't grasp or pull them apart because the shadow lines were both thin and incredibly strong.
Within a few short seconds, all the surveillance operators' bodies went limp in their chairs, losing all signs of life.
The shadow lines that strangled them quickly retracted. The next mont, they vanished without a trace, replaced by a young woman appearing in the room.
It was Guan Tong, who had used "Body Swap" to co over.
That's right, this ti his physical body had entered the base. Continuously manipulating the Shadow from an extre distance consud a relatively large amount of Mind Power, and weapons like Silver Hunt couldn't be used remotely.
But the most important reason was that he wanted to personally destroy this evil place.
Guan Tong glanced at the several corpses in the surveillance room, took the surveillance operator uniform off one of them, and put it on himself for disguise.
Then he looked at the surveillance screen images.
Apart from rooms like that of the base manager Han Ling, which were not monitored, everyone else was under surveillance.
Even managers like Liu Yuqiang and squad mbers like Chen Na were no exception.
Guan Tong thought, "Chen Na probably knows there's surveillance in her room, which is why she used the [Communication Secret Scroll] while pretending to sleep. She's sowhat clever."
He didn't leave imdiately. Instead, he took out his phone and took so photos of the room.
After that, he left the surveillance room and walked towards the manager's office on the sa floor.
Han Ling was currently working in her office when a crisp ding sounded from her person. She abruptly stood up and turned to look, only to see a nearly imperceptible black line bounce away.
Enemy!
Han Ling imdiately understood that soone was trying to attack her. Otherwise, this protective equipnt on her that automatically defended against attacks wouldn't have made a sound.
That black line, failing in its first strike, swiftly retreated to the door, turned the lock from the inside, and opened the deadbolted door.
Han Ling's pupils contracted. She imdiately grabbed the phone on the desk and pressed a button on its side.
That button was connected to a hidden transmitter inside the phone. Pressing it would send a signal to the entire base, sounding the alarm.
Click.
The button was pressed successfully, but the alarm sound she anticipated did not ring out.
"What's going on?!"
She exclaid softly. At that mont, Guan Tong had already entered through the door opened by the shadow, holding Silver Hunt.
He glanced at Han Ling, then at the phone in her hand that she was frantically pressing the side button of, thinking it was fortunate he had fired an Electromagnetic Pulse Round with Silver Hunt in advance. Otherwise, she might have really succeeded.
However...
Guan Tong looked at Han Ling, thinking he had encountered a similar situation to before.
That was, his Shadow could not touch the enemy's skin. A similar situation had occurred when he t that curved-blade man on Holy Grail Island. It was probably because both had similar special protective items that could defend against Mind Power-related attacks. Therefore, even an intangible shadow could not penetrate their bodies.
"Who are you?" Han Ling asked, seeing the woman holding a gun and wearing a surveillance operator uniform walk in, her icy face full of vigilance.
She didn't understand. How did this woman infiltrate the base? Could it be...
Rembering the thin black line that had just ambushed her, Han Ling vaguely felt there was so connection.
Guan Tong, however, didn't want to waste words with this person. With a thought, several solid, long shadow arms extended from the shadow at his feet, grabbing towards Han Ling.
"You're Shadow!"
Han Ling exclaid in shock. She had participated in the Holy Grail Island competition back then and had witnessed Shadow manipulating these black shadows to transform and kill hundreds, even thousands of participants.
Wasn't this scene now exactly the sa as back then!
Swish!
Facing the several black hands grabbing at her, Han Ling gritted her teeth, raised her hand, and summoned a disc-shaped item.
She threw the disc. Its edge instantly extended countless sharp teeth, cutting towards the shadow hands grabbing her.
Simultaneously, she quickly drew a gun from her waist, aid at Guan Tong, and pulled the trigger.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The bullets were all blocked by the shadow. At the sa ti, the disc item she threw was pressed down by several shadow hands. Other shadow hands, not giving her ti to use more items, firmly grabbed her limbs and pinned her to the ground.
"It seems your defensive item can only block once, or it has a cooldown restriction," Guan Tong said, looking at Han Ling pinned motionless on the ground.
Struggling, Han Ling barely managed to speak, "You're Shadow? Shadow is actually a woman? But according to intelligence, Shadow should be a man in his sixties!"
Hmm?
Upon hearing this, Guan Tong's heart stirred.
A man in his sixties—wasn't that the appearance he used when he went to Tian Ding Mountain?
Back then, that long-haired, dark-skinned fat man said he leaked Shadow's intelligence using the [Communication Secret Scroll]. It seems he wasn't bluffing but was serious.
But what was even more outrageous was that this piece of intelligence had actually spread, and so people really believed it—Han Ling before him was undoubtedly a victim of this false information.
However... Guan Tong glanced at the phone Han Ling was clutching in her right hand, noticing she had activated the recording function. With a thought, he pretended not to notice and said, "Shadow is never just one person. Shadow is a group. Everyone in the group is Shadow."
"You... what did you say?"
Han Ling didn't understand what this ant. Was Shadow not a single individual but a group?
Her confusion was correct. Guan Tong had deliberately released more false information to confuse people about his true identity as Shadow.
This way, if he needed to in the future, using various other appearances or directly having the Shadow appear in his place would further corroborate this false intelligence, making all those who opposed him unable to figure out who the real Shadow was.
Although Han Ling couldn't be sure, she quickly regained her composure and said, "We can talk! Our Commander has always wanted to find Shadow, hoping for a chance to cooperate. The terms will definitely satisfy..."
"I have nothing to talk about with scum like you." Guan Tong manipulated the shadow to deliver a heavy punch to Han Ling's face, knocking her unconscious.
He didn't kill Han Ling imdiately, only wanting to dig out more people later. Because, based on what Chen Na had said earlier and the aning in Han Ling's own words just now, the real decision-maker of this organization was soone else, seemingly the person she called "Commander."
Then he touched the Storage Ring on his finger. One cubic ter of space was more than enough to stuff a few Han Lings inside. It was just a pity that space didn't have an external atmosphere; any living being placed inside would suffocate.
Guan Tong first split off so shadow lines, tied Han Ling up securely, and locked her in the room. After everything was over, he would take her away using the shelter thod, then go back and interrogate her for information on the mastermind behind this.
Having dealt with Han Ling, the base manager, Guan Tong took the access card from her desk. It had the highest authority and could grant passage anywhere within the base.
"Next, it's those accomplices... I won't let a single one of these people go."
Guan Tong considered himself not soone who got angry easily, but once angered, he would definitely vent it.
Just like when he told Han Ling she was scum. It wasn't just her. In his eyes, everyone in this base who knew the truth about the prison and still worked for this organization was scum and scoundrels, existences that needed to be completely eradicated.
Even though in the era of Doomsday Rules, every life was more precious, Guan Tong absolutely believed that these accomplices in the base being dead was more valuable than them being alive, and would contribute more to this world.
"From top to bottom, one layer at a ti."
Once Guan Tong made up his mind, he would carry it through to the end. He walked out of Han Ling's office.
Soon, all the employees in several nearby offices t their end at the hands of the Shadow, without even making much noise.
And when Guan Tong arrived at the office of the Head of the Logistics Managent Departnt, Liu Yuqiang was working on a statistical report. It wasn't until Guan Tong swiped the card and entered that he realized sothing was wrong.
"Who are you?"
Liu Yuqiang frowned. He was very familiar with the people in the base's high-level area and had definitely never seen the woman before him.
"You don't know , but I know you." Guan Tong wasn't in a hurry to act this ti because he was sowhat curious. "You are the Chairman of Jule Group, Liu Yuqiang."
Liu Yuqiang's brow furrowed tightly. He was a business giant in the past, his fa spread nationwide, so it was perfectly normal for others to recognize him.
"You still haven't answered ! Which departnt are you from! Why can you swipe open my door!"
"What I'm curious about is why you are serving as the Head of the Logistics Managent Departnt in this base." Guan Tong asked, "Do you know the leader of this base, or rather, the Commander?"
Hearing this, Liu Yuqiang sensed sothing was off.
No one from any departnt in the base would ask such a question.
He was silent for a mont, then suddenly rushed out from behind the desk, a pair of gray-white gloves appearing on his hands.
It was his exclusive Mind Power item, the [Mighty Gloves].
Through his relentless developnt, the amplification these gloves provided to his strength had beco quite exaggerated. He had once tested it; with a full-force punch while wearing them, he could shatter a stone half a person's height.
"Ha!"
Liu Yuqiang let out a low shout, swinging his fist to smash at Guan Tong, wanting to strike first.
But the next mont, he saw a sowhat horrifying scene unfold: countless black shadow hands erged from Guan Tong's collar and sleeves, easily blocking his fist and grabbing his arm.
"Liu Yuqiang, it seems your Mind Power isn't very high. Your punches don't have much strength."
"Could you be... the legendary Shadow?"
Liu Yuqiang looked at Guan Tong in shock. Regarding Shadow's abilities, he had heard so rumors and knew the most typical one was the ability to manipulate and transform shadows.
"As one of the managent, you're different from those small fry. I'll ask one more ti. Do you know who the Commander that Han Ling ntioned is?" Guan Tong manipulated a shadow hand to grip Liu Yuqiang's neck. "You have five seconds to tell . Otherwise, I'll snap your neck right now."
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