Chapter 58 58. Moving
After breakfast, Su Hong returned to the room, sat on a chair and thought.
"The best location for the secret base is in Qinghai District, which is relatively close to the two shelters and far away from the worst-hit areas in the apocalypse."
He didn't want the secret base to be destroyed by disaster monsters before it was discovered by the undead after the end of the world. It was best to stay away from the city.
The secret base must be spacious enough to accommodate an entire spider population to thrive, and it must also be concealed...
He didn't have many choices. He could only look for any relatively hidden caves or underground cavities near Qinghai District.
Su Hong turned on his computer and searched for keywords such as "cave" and "empty". After browsing for a long time, he was attracted by a piece of news from more than ten years ago.
The headline of the news is "The Xilong Coal Mine is in devastation, and restoration and management work is difficult...".
Xilong Coal Mining Area is located on the outskirts of Qinghai District. It has been exhausted by mining more than ten years ago and has been abandoned for a long time.
Although the regreening work has been completed on the surface of the mining area, some coal mining tunnels are still left underground.
Perhaps suitable underground space can be found there.
Thinking of this, the shadow on Su Hong's left side illuminated by the sunlight twisted and flowed, flying out of the balcony.
The shadow was cast on the wall and floor, and disappeared in an instant. People passing by didn't even notice it.
Su Hong walked through the streets and alleys, followed the road signs, hitchhiked, and headed towards Qinghai District.
Half an hour later, he crossed the busy viaduct and fell into the desolate grassland.
"It should be around here."
Passing through the cool and quiet mountain forest, Su Hong followed the direction of the smoke, climbed over the mountains and ridges, stood on the branches and looked down at the mountains. Most of the abandoned mining areas mentioned in the news had been submerged by rain and turned into lakes. The shores were lush and green with water plants. Fat.
It looked good, but it was different from the abandoned mining area he imagined.
"Forget it, it's here now."
The shadow jumped down the mountain and soon came to an abandoned factory area.
The once busy factory building has become silent, the employee dormitories, the processing plant...are occupied by weeds, trees and vines, and the traces of human beings are gradually being covered up.
Su Hong was thinking about quickly walking through the factory building and heading to the mining area. Suddenly, his expression changed. His talent as a monster hunter was triggered. He seemed to sense the breath of the disaster monster.
The shadow condensed into a figure, and he stared at the abandoned factory with crazy eyes. There seemed to be a faint and invisible breath of disaster inside.
"Can there be disaster monsters in this kind of place?"
With curiosity, Su Hong stepped into the abandoned factory.
The colored steel tiles on the top have already rusted and fallen off. Under the bright sunshine, the weeds and trees are thriving, even taller than people.
Su Hong followed his perception and finally saw a collapsed hole under the rusty steel stairs of the factory building.
The entrance to the cave was deep and silent, with a faint fluorescent light faintly emitting from inside.
"Is this where the breath of disaster comes from?"
The shadow carefully spread into the cave entrance. At first, he felt that it was pitch black inside. As he walked deeper and deeper, fluorescent grass grew on the ground, slightly illuminating the surrounding dry stone walls.
After walking underground for a few minutes, fluorescent grass gradually covered the ground, illuminating the entire cave.
The front suddenly opened up, and he saw a vast expanse of fluorescent grass. An underground space with a height difference of no more than three meters appeared in front of him.
The entire underground space is extremely spacious, with underground rivers flowing gurglingly, fluorescent grass swaying and growing, and the faint blue light adding a mysterious color to the cave.
"There is such a beautiful place underground..."
"Could it be that the aura of disaster I saw was actually emitted by the fluorescent grass in the entire cave?" Su Hong suddenly wondered. No wonder he triggered his talent just by passing by. The aura of disaster here is strong, but most of the aura is covered up. underground.
"This place is nice."
The more Su Hong looked at it, the more satisfied he became. These fluorescent grasses were born from disasters and were born with the aura of disasters. Maybe the undead or the spiders could increase the level of disasters after eating them. It was a treasure.
After determining the address of the secret base, Su Hong left the cave and walked around the mine several times, but found no trace of humans.
Obviously, the mine also met Su Hong's concealment requirements.
"That's it."
After confirming the address of the secret base, Su Hong returned to the room consciously, pushed away the chair, and shouted to Philip who was circling around the can outside: "Philip, we have moved."
"Moving?" Phillip came over with confusion, "Where to move?"
"You guys come with me."
It was daytime now. In order not to attract attention, Su Hong and Phillip divided into more than a dozen batches and carefully moved through the process, gradually moving items related to the disaster into the fluorescent cave.
After working all morning, only the last batch was left, and Su Hong was about to wrap the cans in shadow and leave.
The little guy suddenly became stubborn and hugged his trouser leg tightly, "Mom, meat, meat!"
It desperately pointed at the cans in the storage room with its spider legs, giving people the feeling that it was going to live and die with the cans, advance and retreat together.
"Okay, let's pack it up for you together."
Su Hong pulled it off, and the shadow wrapped it up and flew towards the fluorescent cave.
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the shadow carried dozens of boxes of cans and fell onto the fluorescent grass. Philip was so tired that he lay on the grass like a salted fish, refusing to move.
On the other hand, Can Can was extremely active, circling around Philip like a puppy, and chasing the scattered fluorescence for a while. The novelty of the environment made it feel completely untired.
"Phillip." Su Hong called.
"Master... I feel like I'm going to be exhausted." Philip lay on the grass, his tongue falling out.
Su Hong smiled and said: "You and Can Can will live here from now on. Take good care of Can Can and don't let it run around. I will come to visit you when I have time."
"No...no problem."
"By the way, I also brought your three-piece blacksmithing set. Don't waste your forging skills."
When Phillip heard this, his eyes darkened, and he suddenly felt that the future was dark.
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Garden area.
Su Hong's consciousness returned to his body. He stood on the balcony and looked towards the gate of the community. There were five or six strange faces wandering around the community, either pretending to be passers-by or electricians repairing circuits... in the parking lot. There were several new cars parked nearby.
Obviously, the people in the alliance have found out Wang Chengzhi's identity through various means. They should be thinking about how to contact Wang Chengzhi and the forces behind him.
The corners of Su Hong's lips curled up. If nothing else goes wrong, from today on, the name of the Fire Bearer will be heard throughout all the undead forces.
"But before that, we have to teach Chengzhi how to become a capable and strong man."
Su Hong returned to the house, lay down on the bed and seemed to fall into a deep sleep. A shadow quietly slipped from under him. He was about to leave through the back door, and found Wang Chengzhi who was returning home from school first.
(End of chapter)