A sturdy fortress was often breached from within.
But to breach it from within, one still had to choose the right point of entry.
Guan Tong's plan was to first suppress the surveillance room. Starting elsewhere could easily get them discovered and trigger the base alarm.
Based on what he had learned by using Shadow to infiltrate and scout, the surveillance room was located in the base's upper-level district, not far from manager Han Ling's office.
Guan Tong's strategy was to suppress the surveillance room first, then swiftly seize control of Han Ling, the base manager.
The time of action... was set for after dinner at the base.
Guan Tong silently waited for the right moment.
At Qingmei Base, several surveillance room employees returned after dinner and chatted in complaining tones.
"The food's been getting worse lately."
"Sigh, having something to eat is already good enough. Who knows how long the sweeps outside will last? If this drags on, our supply of resources might run into problems!"
"No need to worry about that. Manager Han will naturally find food. And if there really isn't any food left, aren't there still all those 'emergency rations' locked up below?"
"Fuck, have you watched too many sick movies? You want to eat people?"
As they made idle conversation, none of them noticed the pitch-black shadow lurking in the corner of the room.
They sat in their chairs and boredly watched the surveillance wall formed by dozens of small screens.
They stared at it from morning to night every day. The boredom was easy enough to imagine. It would have been fine if someone had actually caused trouble, but ever since they had taken charge of surveillance, there had not been a single incident at the base.
Although that was the result of Han