Liu Chang'an and Li Hongfang walked along the river for a while, then came ashore near Peach Lake before passing through dense forest and entering a valley in Mount Lu.
Because there had once been military facilities here, many of which still had not been fully declassified, barbed wire fenced off tourist areas from restricted zones in many places. The paths had long since been swallowed by shrubbery and woodland, making them difficult to find.
"Sect Master, I think the exotic beasts were only able to find a place like this for a base because the Japanese gave them the information," Li Hongfang said with certainty. Though the economic balance between China and Japan had shifted back and forth over the years, Japanese infiltration was still everywhere. Under all kinds of pretexts, they went to great lengths to gather every scrap of information and data from this side, waiting for the day they might do something with it again.
Not many locals even knew about abandoned air-raid shelters like these anymore, but if Fujiwara Jiujing produced a complete map of abandoned air-raid shelters, it would not be surprising at all.
"Mm." Liu Chang'an acknowledged Li Hongfang's guess and added, "Some exotic beasts are naturally highly sensitive to caves. After occupying this air-raid shelter, they might take an interest in that underground base at Xiangtan University as well."
Li Hongfang had been taken to that underground base by Liu Chang'an and treated by Su Mei. After that, Su Mei gave up controlling Li Hongfang and let her happily become Liu Chang'an's obedient lackey.
When Su Mei had first recruited Li Hongfang, it was to dig around for caves, holes, tombs, and the like where her husband might have hidden treasures. But casually digging and searching naturally yielded nothing, just as the