"Underground?" Eagle froze for a moment, then decisively shook his head. "No. Captain, are you saying their real base is underground?"
"Yes. Tell the others to prepare to conceal themselves. We'll wait patiently," Jiang Yan Hai said seriously.
"Yes!" Eagle immediately nodded.
Everyone quickly began setting up camouflaged positions, spreading out across the area and hiding themselves as they waited to see what would happen next.
They waited until broad daylight the next day. At night, whether the enemy had received word or for some other reason, security had actually been reinforced.
There had been no chance at all for Jiang Yan Hai and the others to infiltrate.
What Jiang Yan Hai had not expected was that he had assumed time in this illusion would pass at the same rate as in reality. But now, that clearly did not seem to be the case.
He had already spent more than eighteen hours in the illusion. It was impossible for that much time to have passed in reality.
By the following morning, perhaps because nothing had happened overnight, the enemy had relaxed their vigilance somewhat. But only somewhat.
Only then did Jiang Yan Hai and the others realize that the enemy was retreating.
The trucks that emerged later were clearly carrying far more equipment, and those items obviously could not have come from the laboratory they had destroyed.
In other words, this secret base really did exist underground. The middle section of that passage probably contained an enormous elevator, one capable of raising and lowering at least eight trucks at once.
When it rose, it became a road. When it descended, it was an elevator.
Near noon, all the soldiers below suddenly stirred into commotion. Not only had the secrecy level risen by several grades, they had even aimed their guns