Chapter 5140 — The Inside Line
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Yes, I understand." Dr. Glasses nodded gravely.
Three days later, Brother Dafeng returned, worn and dusty from the road. The reason it had taken him so long was purely to keep up appearances—had he simply gone out for a casual stroll and come back with intelligence, any normal person would have grown suspicious. Even as the head of the Red Conch branch, he could not possibly have been that efficient; after all, this was a matter that even Central Headquarters' intelligence network had failed to uncover.
"Well? Did you find anything?" Dr. Glasses came forward to greet him, exactly as Lan Xiaoru had instructed, putting on an air of blank ignorance.
"I tried every trick these past few days, and guess what—I actually managed to dig up a piece of news," Brother Dafeng said, deliberately drawing out the suspense.
"What news? Out with it!" Dr. Glasses already knew full well, but he kept playing along.
"I've learned that deep in the Shennongjia Mountains, inside this mountain gate, there's a teleportation array—but it doesn't lead directly to the Antiquity micro-world. It leads to a transit point. The Antiquity Alliance people are very likely gathered there!" Brother Dafeng said with feigned excitement.
"Oh? Is that so?" Dr. Glasses feigned astonishment—though not entirely feigned, for when he had first heard those words on the wiretap, he had indeed been shocked, and so had Lan Xiaoru. They had fifteen Antiquity Alliance experts under drug control; had they questioned them carefully, they might well have learned this. But it had never occurred to any of them that a transit point could exist between the Antiquity micro-world and the secular world—and since they never asked, the Antiquity experts naturally never brought it up.
"Glasses... oh no, I mean, Mysterious Man in Black, why don't we go take a look right now?" Brother Dafeng suggested, barely able to contain his impatience.
"Good. Gather Jing Taiyang and the others—we leave at once," Dr. Glasses decided on the spot.
The group immediately made their way to the mountain gate deep in the Shennongjia Mountains. As before, there was not a single soul to be seen. Guided by Jing Taiyang and the others, Brother Dafeng and Dr. Glasses soon found the teleportation array in a corner of the rear courtyard.
"How on earth... do you use this thing?" Brother Dafeng studied it for a long while, somewhat at a loss. To him, a teleportation array was a truly rare thing—not only had he never used one, he had never even laid eyes on one.
"A teleportation array requires spirit jade to activate," Jing Taiyang stepped up and said. Though he was under drug-induced mind control, he felt nothing of coercion; instead he quite naturally regarded himself as a member of the Center, seizing every opening to earn merit and climb the ranks. And he was not alone—the others were just the same. (To be continued.)