Liu Yuqiang gazed at the distant mountains and wilderness, feeling melancholy.
Today marked exactly one month since he had left the capital, Yong'an.
Because Big Sister could obtain information through internal channels, he had learned that wartime management would begin well before the officials held their livestream press conference.
After informing them of the news, Big Sister ordered the members of the Green Plum Association to evacuate the city and head to the secret base outside it that she had created.
Though this was Big Sister's order, Liu Yuqiang knew that even if she had not made it mandatory, he would not have remained in the city to live in a shelter.
But choosing to come outside the city meant abandoning everything he had accumulated in the past. The vast majority of his employees who were still alive had chosen to stay behind, moving into shelters or waiting for placement. Only a few absolute confidants had come here with him.
And this "Qingmei Base" was the place Big Sister had mentioned afterward at that Green Plum gathering.
It was a base built inside a mountain, sprawling in area and fully equipped.
Liu Yuqiang suspected it might once have been some kind of "doomsday command center" prepared for nuclear war, though he had no idea why it had come under Big Sister's control or undergone such extensive renovations.
After the renovations, many functional areas had been added, such as an Ascendant prison. During the early days after the rules were announced, Ascendants captured from various cities had all been imprisoned there.
After arriving at the base, Liu Yuqiang and the other Green Plum Association members were each assigned work and positions according to their specialties.
Liu Yuqiang had been assigned as the head of the logistics management department. His daily work