Chapter 5139 — The Antiquity Project
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"All right, then—I'll tell you everything I saw and heard at Central Headquarters this past month, so we don't miss any intelligence that might be useful to you, Chief," Brother Dafeng said after a moment's thought.
"Go ahead." Wei Zhao agreed. Central Headquarters had always been an exceedingly mysterious place to him. Especially after he discovered that the Center's reach could extend even to Cloud Terrace Island, he had grown all the more eager to probe its reality himself—only, he had made but a small attempt on Cloud Terrace Island, and even that had been merely the Central Merchants' Guild. The result: he had been seized and nearly turned into a human specimen.
And in the secular world, he did not even know where Central Headquarters was, leaving him no place to start. Now, through Brother Dafeng, this insider, he could learn a thing or two—a stroke of fortune beyond his wildest dreams.
Brother Dafeng could not wait, and immediately recounted every single thing that had happened after he arrived at Central Headquarters, great and small alike. When he finished, Wei Zhao was silent for a long while. Just as Brother Dafeng had been when he first went to Central Headquarters, Wei Zhao too had harbored many assumptions about the place—yet never once had he imagined it would actually be a research base.
Then again, surprising as this was, it made perfect sense upon closer reflection. If Central Headquarters had not possessed formidable research capabilities, Kang Jingming would never have been equipped with that full array of super-tech gear.
By Wei Zhao's reckoning, even their means of connecting Cloud Terrace Island with the secular world was very likely not a traditional teleportation array, but an entirely new passage fusing top-tier technology. Otherwise, those endless streams of tech products from the Central Merchants' Guild would be impossible to explain—after all, a traditional teleportation array could not transport high-tech products. Even if a successful transfer were made, they could not arrive intact, much less be sold, and certainly not in such enormous quantities.
"Good. Very good. Thank you for your hard work. What you've told me is very important to me," Wei Zhao said with feeling.
"What are you saying, Chief? This is my duty to begin with—what hard work is there to speak of? So long as it's of use to you, that's enough. It's only a pity that, as an outer-circle member, I've been able to learn only these petty details, and never had the chance to touch the true core secrets. Ah…" Brother Dafeng could not help but sigh.
"No—you've done very well. Given your current position, it would actually be abnormal for you to rashly reach for core secrets. Never mind that Central Headquarters would not let you touch them; if they ever did let you, that is when you should be on your guard—it might well be a trap. Safety first. There will be time enough later," Wei Zhao consoled him.
Indeed, the two pieces of intelligence he most wanted had eluded Brother Dafeng: first, the exact address of the secular world's Central Headquarters; and second, the precise means by which that Headquarters connected with Cloud Terrace Island. These two were what he most urgently wished to know. Unfortunately, they were the core of cores, not so easily pried out.
Moreover, though the matters Brother Dafeng had related sounded like petty details, taken together they were enough for Wei Zhao to form a most vivid impression of the secular world's Central Headquarters—and that was of great importance.
"Yes, I'll do as you say, Chief. By the way—what should I do next?" Brother Dafeng asked. How Dr. Glasses and those Foundation Establishment experts would act next depended entirely on what he reported back.