Not every agent who pledged allegiance to the Bizarre Tree was utterly devoted. Quite a few had merely found themselves in difficult circumstances and wanted to survive. Some had been forced into the choice.
There were certainly agents who were truly devoted, determined to join the Underground Race, and filled with hatred for humanity, but they were definitely not all like that.
Therefore, although it was called a carpet search, some gaps and loopholes were inevitably left behind.
Amid the crowd, Jiang Yue occasionally threw out a sentence or two. He always managed to hit everyone's resentment with pinpoint accuracy, causing their grievances to keep rising.
However, this so-called carpet search was destined to be fruitless for the vast majority. Most people spent the entire night slacking off.
At around half past two in the morning, a sudden chorus of whistles erupted ahead.
News soon came from the front: the teams ahead had discovered traces of the enemy. The enemy had been trapped in an abandoned mining area up ahead.
This mining area had been abandoned for more than a decade. Its heyday had been four or five decades ago, when the miners' standard of living had been regarded by the locals as paradise.
The mining area was quite large, combining production and residential facilities. At its peak, it had been almost as large as several major townships combined.
Later, the country reformed its energy sector and took the path of clean, low-carbon development, causing the mining area to gradually decline.
By the time the Era of Strangeness arrived, the once-prosperous mining area had almost no young people living there. Only some elderly people and left-behind children remained.
The mining area had declined, but the framework from those years still remained. The vast abandoned mines and dilapidated residential districts had