At the crucial point, Lao Lu paused, instantly bringing the dazed Liu Lu back to his senses.
"You have a way to fool the Pingtan Army outside?"
"It's not exactly fooling them. Their guard has loopholes, that's all."
Lao Lu took a yellowed sheet of paper from his robes, its age plainly showing.
He spread it across the table. Liu Lu glanced at it and was immediately disappointed. "These are the abandoned exits of the shelter?"
Over the past two hundred years, the Pingtan Shelter had experienced its share of serious invasions and internal rebellions.
According to rumor, the worst incident had been when enemies broke in completely and even occupied several upper floors.
To defend against them, the administrators of that era had resorted to a mutually destructive tactic, using explosives to destroy quite a few exits.
After the enemies were driven away, the abandoned exits could not be repaired and had to be sealed off. For convenience, new entrances and exits were opened elsewhere.
Use the old abandoned exits to reach the outside world?
Leaving aside whether they could actually get through them—
if they were caught, it would be a crime punishable by immediate beheading.
But since they were on the same side, Liu Lu did not show any obvious disappointment. Instead, he took the initiative to advise him, "Old Lu, our biggest problem right now isn't how to trade with that mysterious group outside. Transporting some contraband out may be difficult, but it may also be simple. If we think of a way, it should still be possible."
"The biggest problem before us is how to explain the source of the supplies and face the administrator's questioning."
He made his meaning perfectly clear, without the slightest hesitation.
In truth, Hunter Tiger, the administrator of the Pingtan