Underground Base

Once he got into the shuttle, Liu Zhi realized that the bunker camp had already established some rules. It had grown far beyond the size of the camp he'd seen before. Walking from Number 5 Apron to the elevator would take three to five minutes at a normal pace.

The shuttle made the trip much faster. In less than a minute, it stopped in front of the elevator.

Liu Zhi noticed that the elevator building looked like a huge aircraft hangar. The shuttle could drive straight inside.

Once they were in, Liu Zhi understood why they insisted on sending a shuttle to pick him up. There were five lift bays inside the hangar, and the shuttle pulled straight into an empty one. The lift then automatically carried the shuttle underground.

After descending some fifty or sixty meters, the shuttle started moving again and drove along the underground passage for another five or six minutes.

Liu Zhi tried to memorize the route, but quickly realized it was impossible. The endless twists and turns were clearly meant to keep him from figuring out where he was.

If they'd built the bunker based solely on the time it took the shuttle to travel that stretch, Liu Zhi would have suspected they'd dug it beneath the Ancient Tree Camp of Rest.

But was that even possible? Liu Zhi wasn't an idiot. He wasn't going to fall for a trick like that.

Five or six minutes later, the shuttle came to a stop, and a large automatic door slid open on its own.

Beyond the door, Liu Zhi saw a conference room of more than four hundred square meters. Huge screens covered the walls, with all kinds of data constantly flashing across them.

Below the screens, Lieutenant Xu Yate, the bunker's controller, sat in the