At eight o'clock Monday evening, at the Drone Base in the Badain Jaran Desert.
The wind and sand filled the sky, and the white sand was like snow. Song He and Xie Yuanxun came out of the airport and hurried toward the dormitory on foot.
All the sand near the base was white. When they had landed by plane, the ground had looked frosty white, and Song He had thought they had arrived at a snowy plain. Now that it was dark, it looked fine, but once daylight came, it would probably be blindingly white. Staring at it for too long might even cause snow blindness. The soldiers they encountered along the way were all hurrying past in sunglasses, like the twin brothers of Black Glasses Teacher.
The buildings around the base looked very similar to those at the Temporary Airport—or, more precisely, they were exactly the same. The rows of buildings looked as if they had been copied and pasted. From top to bottom, the only difference was their numbers, which were bizarrely not even in order.
"Why are the building numbers marked so randomly?" Song He asked as he wandered around looking for the new Dormitory Building. "Every building was constructed exactly the same! It feels like being trapped in a ghost wall! Does the army only know how to build one kind of building?"
"They probably made them identical on purpose, like camouflage, so outsiders wouldn't know which building was important." Xie Yuanxun's analysis hit the nail on the head. "If some idiot spy sneaks in, he'll get trapped in the building maze and run around like a headless fly."
Song He suddenly understood. As expected of Black Glasses's disciple. His way of thinking really is more sensitive.
They finally found Dormitory Building No. 9. The two