Hidden Basement

Chapter 15: Hidden Basement

'Drip.'

Thick blood dripped from the curved blade of the Nepalese Kukri onto the ground. The bodies of six German Soldiers lay sprawled from the back of the truck to the ground outside.

"Phew..." Kyle let out a long breath. His heart still pounded with excitement, adrenaline and blood surging through his body as sweat beaded heavily across his forehead.

To keep even a single german soldier from raising the alarm and alerting the enemy troops within the base,

Kyle had pushed his sturdy physique and the many Ability Cards of combat techniques to their absolute limit during those five seconds of killing.

Kyle did not dare relax. He hurriedly checked the surroundings, making sure he had not alerted any other German Soldiers.

He briefly wiped the Nepalese Kukri on a corpse's clothes, cleaning the blood from its blade before returning it to the leather sheath at his waist.

Next, Kyle moved the three soldiers' bodies outside into the truck's rear compartment. During the process, the girl he had saved poked her head out from the wooden crate.

Looking at the six bodies piled up so close before her, the blonde girl's fear from moments ago had completely vanished. Her gaze shifted to Kyle, who was completely unscathed, and shock filled her large eyes.

German Soldiers. Brave and battle-hardened, superbly equipped, and disciplined by strict military conduct—every one of them was a killing machine in the eyes of civilians.

Yet these six powerful soldiers had all fallen beneath the young man's kukri in mere moments, without even getting the chance to cry for help. Who would have believed such an astounding record without seeing it firsthand?

"Um..." Gathering her courage, the girl softly said to Kyle, "Thank you."

Kyle shrugged and said between breaths, "It's a little early to thank me. We're inside a major German military base."

"Huh?" Jane was slightly stunned, clearly still unaware of her current situation.

"There's no time to explain. Hide here and don't make a sound. I'll definitely come back and get you out."

After saying that, Kyle swiftly left the rear compartment and shut the truck's iron doors.

It was not exactly ideal to lock such a delicate young girl up with six corpses, but he could not worry about that now.

He had lost some time infiltrating the base. There were only about twenty minutes left before the planned attack time for the raid mission.

Once the time came, even if his own unit did not make a move, the other four units would launch attacks on the other four enemy camps. By then, this major base would be alerted, and the so-called surprise attack would become meaningless.

"Stealth begins."

Holding his kukri, Kyle activated Stealth and entered the Nightcrawler state, heading straight toward the buildings deeper within the base.

'Tap tap tap—'

He jogged through the shadows five meters away from a patrol squad, yet not a single soldier noticed him.

Lighting and patrol squads were stationed throughout the base at short intervals, but as long as it was not brightly lit and packed with troops, as long as there was enough darkness left by the night, Kyle could move silently and freely through the base.

In the darkness, with a firm grasp of the distances and surroundings, Stealth could achieve effects far surpassing invisibility.

Kyle continued sneaking forward and soon stopped at a corner in front of a wooden building.

The greatest difference between the building before him and the others was that the patrols arranged around it were more than twice as numerous, and a soldier stood guard specifically at its entrance.

"Could this be the officers' quarters? The command center?" Kyle was surprised. The door was not locked, only slightly ajar.

If he could eliminate the commander of this base first, his solo infiltration plan would already be half successful.

The problem was how to get into the building ahead.

Kyle frowned, then suddenly remembered something. A smile appeared at the corner of his lips.

Before the enormous building,

the guard stood beside the entrance like a towering poplar tree. He held his gun without moving, remaining highly alert as he watched the surroundings.

Even inside his own base, there could be no exceptions. The items stored inside the building were things the officers had repeatedly emphasized could not be neglected.

One more hour, and someone will come relieve me. Just as the guard was thinking that, a dark creature suddenly descended from above, fluttering its wings as it crashed into his face.

"A bat?"

The guard was startled and reached out to grab it. To his surprise, the bat was extremely aggressive, biting beneath his eye and refusing to let go.

"Get off me!" The guard shut his eyes in pain and stumbled backward into the door, grabbing furiously at the bat with both hands.

In that brief opening in his defense, a blurry figure swiftly flashed past his side and crossed through the building's entrance.

"What's going on?!"

A patrol squad hurried over to investigate, only to see the guard angrily throw the crushed bat to the ground and spit. "Pah, it's nothing. Just a bat."

Seeing such a ridiculous scene, the patrol squad exchanged glances.

The guard shut the building's door. Only then did a clear human silhouette gradually emerge from the darkness inside—it was Kyle, still in his Stealth state.

"Creature Cards are even more useful than I imagined," Kyle muttered. It had only been a white Creature Card, yet it had produced an enormous effect in a situation like this.

That was also thanks to the innate characteristic of Creature Cards—obedience.

Creatures summoned from Creature Cards could obediently follow their master's commands. That prevented many accidents and made them true "creature" weapons.

"Alright, let's see what this place is for first."

Kyle's gaze fell upon the building's main hall. The moment he entered, he knew it was not a command center or officers' quarters.

Its layout resembled a supply storage warehouse. Several rows of shelves were densely packed inside the huge building, with crates of various types and sizes piled together.

There was no need to open the crates and inspect them. As Kyle focused his attention, a string of extractable Item Card information appeared over each crate.

German Rifle, rifle ammunition, Anti-Infantry Mine, Dynamite Grenade...

An armory?

Kyle's eyes lit up. This was far more important than the command center.

After all, finding the command center would only threaten the commander's life, but finding this meant grasping the lifeline of this major base in his hands.

Kyle walked farther into the building, extracting some of the weapons into cards once every three seconds.

When he reached the very back of the building, he suddenly stopped. Squatting down, he tapped the floor several times with his fingers. Hollow thunk thunk thunk sounds rang out faintly.

Well, well. There was a hidden basement beneath this armory?

Kyle smiled faintly. Such a small trick could not fool him. He quickly found the section of flooring that opened the basement and went down the stairs. Yet the basement he had expected to be pitch-black instead glowed faintly with a mysterious blue light.

Once he fully entered the basement, the first thing Kyle saw was an entire crate of cube-shaped Blue Light Energy Cubes. Exposed to the air, they allowed him to clearly sense the immense energy contained within.