Chapter 75.2

“En, except for the door, the other sides of the cell were all dirt walls. The moisture on the walls was very heavy, and if you stayed for a long time, your chest would feel tight.” Xu Ge was a little nervous, “Did I not help?” What’s the use of knowing it is underground, the county is so large, it’s impossible to dig it all.

“No, you helped a lot. I think I already know where the people are locked.” Shen Shian looked at Chen Nan, “Fangzhou said last night: everyone living on this floor are all ability users, but there are also many ability users at lower floors.”

There were only five floors in the hotel, so Shen Shian thought that Liu Fangzhou meant not only the fourth floor, but also the first floor of the hotel where many ability users lived. It should be that Liu Fangzhou himself also thought so.

However, Liu Fangzhou’s ability had one characteristic. He could only sense living things, and completely ignores obstacles. The images sensed in his mind were similar to thermal imaging.

This meant that when he used his ability to sense, he had no detailed concept of the specific floor location of the targets, only the relative height based on himself, that is, whether the targets position were higher or lower than him.

The lowest floor he was talking about was not the first floor, but under the entire hotel. This could explain why his scent was still in the hotel, and why Shen Shian could only count more than 4,000 people in the entire base.

Because the remaining 1,500 people, along with Liu Fangzhou, were all locked up in an underground prison a few meters below the hotel.

Chen Nan clapped his hands together, “This hotel is located in the center of the base, it’s also obviously the base camp of the ability users group. It makes perfect sense to build the prison under the hotel!”

Tao Yuan, “But where is the entrance? We must know the entrance before we can go in and save them.”

Shen Shian thought for a while, “There should be more than one entrance. Fangzhou must have been taken down from somewhere in the hotel, but Xu Ge and the others couldn’t have entered from the same entrance. The environment inside the hotel is too easy to distinguish, if they all went down from the hotel, then measures such as covering their heads and detouring are completely useless.”

Xu Ge nodded immediately, “I’m sure I didn’t enter the cell from the hotel.”

“We don’t need to think about the entrance issue for the time being. If it doesn’t work, I will blow it up.” Shen Shian now wanted to know another thing, “You said that there are more than 2,000 of the original residents, and there are only five or six hundred ability users who established the base. The total is less than three thousand people, but we can confirm that the population is more than 5,400 people. Are the others just outsiders who accidentally entered the base like us?”

“Yes.”

“How many of the original residents are locked underground?”

“About five hundred.”

According to Shen Shian’s calculation, there were a total of 4,000 people on the ground, which meant that a total of about 1,500 people were imprisoned underground.

“In other words, the remaining 1,000 prisoners were all outsiders. What is the purpose of this base for imprisoning so many people?”

“I don’t know. But I know that ordinary people among the outsiders will either become slaves or act as plant fertilizers, and those with abilities will either become residents of Noah’s Ark or disappear for no reason.”

Xu Ge looked up at the three of them, and said quietly, “As long as you walked in, no one could go out.”

No one spoke, and the room was silent for a while.

“Squeak”

The sudden sound made Chen Nan almost jump from the sofa. When he turned around, he found that the bedroom door had been pushed open. Shen Xun, who had been sleeping, walked out dazedly with messy bed hair. “An An?”

The dog spirit spent most of the night smelling the air, he rested in Shen Shian’s arms in the morning, and fell asleep after eating the watermelon when they came back.

Shen Shian got up and walked over to pick him up. He rubbed the fluffy and curly hair on his head, and kissed his cheek. “Did you sleep well?”

Shen Xun rested his head against Shen Shian’s shoulders, and rubbed his neck contentedly back and forth, with pink lips and white teeth, milky skin and good-looking, like a little angel who just woke up. He was about to hum happily when he suddenly sniffed the air. He looked at Xu Ge sitting on the sofa, and was instantly angry, “Why is she here!!”

He wanted to eat the woman immediately.

Shen Shian patted his butt twice, “Don’t, she will help us find Fangzhou.”

Maybe the two pats on his butt were comfortable, the dog spirit really stopped struggling, and returned to the image of a good-looking little angel. He hugged Shen Shian’s arm tightly and secretly gritted his teeth at Xu Ge when the others were not paying attention.

The situation in the base was almost understood. After the three of them carefully asked about other points and what Xu Ge knew about the ability users, Shen Shian looked at her. “Before us, have you ever asked other ability users for help?”

“No. My sister is in their hands, I can’t take risks.”

“Then why choose to ask for help now?”

“Because I haven’t seen my sister for two weeks.” Xu Ge sat on the sofa, holding the water glass so hard that her fingertips were all white. “The ability user responsible for showing me her was still there, but for some reason would not let me see her. I don’t know what happened, I don’t know if she is still alive, but I can’t wait any longer.”

“There were so many ability users in the restaurant yesterday, why did you choose us?”

“Because you were received by Manager Yang personally.” Xu Ge’s tone suddenly showed some excitement, “Manager Yang has a high status in the base, he only obeys the captain’s orders. He personally receives you, which means that the captain wants to invite you. To get an invitation to live in Noah’s Ark from the captain, your strength must be very high. No matter who I ask for help, once exposed, my sister and I will definitely not be able to survive. Anyway, whoever I ask, I will still risk our lives. Of course, I should find the most powerful person.”

She paused and said, “It’s just that I can’t figure out something. One of your teammates is missing, right? If I guess right, you should consider helping me because of this too?”

The three did not deny it. “Yes, he disappeared last night.”

Xu Ge seemed very confused, “Generally, the people who disappeared in the hotel are the ‘unqualified’ abilities, that is, people who have not passed the base screening conditions and cannot become residents of Noah’s Ark. But you have obviously been invited by the captain. He should not disappear on the first night, but should instead meet and talk with the captain on the second day. If the results of the talks are not good, and no agreement can be reached, then they will disappear.”

Shen Shian and Chen Nan looked at each other and looked at Xu Ge, “You mean, the first night is to clear out the ‘unqualified’, and the next night is to clear the ‘qualified’ but are unwilling to stay people?”

“Yes, if it is not the second day, it may also be the third or fourth day, depending on the outcome of the meeting between you and the captain. If you reach an agreement and are willing to become a resident of Noah’s Ark, naturally you don’t have to disappear.”

Tao Yuan asked, “Is it always night for the people to disappear?”

“Yes, because everyone will fall asleep only at night. You should know that someone in the base can make others fall asleep, right?”

“Guessed.” Shen Shian said, “Do you know whose power this is?”

Xu Ge shook her head, “I don’t know. I also discovered this accidently because I went to see my sister at night: As soon as the night falls, all the people in the base affected by the ability will fall asleep. This ability is impossible to prevent. And when I woke up the next day, I felt nothing unusual.”

She looked at Shen Shian’s group of three, hesitated for a moment, and said, “I don’t understand why one of your people is missing, but since he is missing, and you haven’t seen the captain today, I think it’s very likely…”

Tao Yuan continued what she hadn’t finished saying, “It’s probably our turn?”

Xu Ge squeezed her fingers and nodded.

“If this is the case, it may or may not be a good thing.” Shen Shian said.

Chen Nan reacted quickly this time, “We don’t need to find the entrance to the underground prison?”

“Yes.”

“Oh!” Tao Yuan joked, “Go directly into the enemy’s lair.”

The relaxed atmosphere made Xu Ge’s uneasy heart suddenly set a bit: Maybe she really did the right thing in this adventure?

When Xu Ge left, Shen Shian sent her to the door. Before going out, she turned around and looked at Shen Shian. The young face was still wearing rich makeup that was not suitable for her age, but her eyes were very bright. After deliberately removing the excitement on her face, she became clear at this time. “I don’t know what you are going to do, but if there is something I can help, please don’t hesitate.” After a little pause, she continued, “If there is an accident in the end, and you can only save one person between me or my sister, please. Save her.”

When Shen Shian returned to the sofa in the living room, Tao Yuan and Chen Nan were discussing plans for tonight. Thinking about searching other places was canceled immediately, but the risk of being drowsy was too big.

“It’s true that falling asleep could relax the other’s vigilance, but what if we were not imprisoned in an underground prison this time, but were stabbed directly when we fell asleep?” Tao Yuan frowned, “Once we fell asleep, it meant we have no ability to resist. There were too many uncontrollable factors.”

Chen Nan asked Shen Shian, “Brother Shen, how did you wake up early last night?”

“I didn’t wake up early. The ability should also be effective for me and Xun Xun, but this was not the problem.” Shen Shian took out a rubber band and tied the child’s hair again. “The problem is why Fangzhou is awake.”

Chen Nan was startled, “Yes! Isn’t that ability effective for everyone? Why is Fangzhou awake?”

Tao Yuan thought for a while, “Perhaps the other party made him wake up on purpose? This ability should be able to freely control who sleeps and who wakes up. Didn’t Manager Yang and the staff in the hotel wake up last night?”

“Why?” Shen Shian subconsciously rubbed the Buddha beads on his right wrist, “According to Xu Ge, we are the people who were specifically ‘invited’ by the captain to become residents of Noah’s Ark. We should not be cleared on the first night, and will be invited on the second day to meet the captain. That being the case, is it not the best choice to let all of us fall asleep until dawn? Is there any reason to keep Fangzhou awake alone, or even make him disappear, which would make us hostile and vigilant?”

He originally thought that the other party had a special purpose for Fangzhou, but from the information he had obtained from Xu Ge, since the captain had intentions to personally invite all of them to become residents, it didn’t make sense for him to rashly target one of their members.

A thought flashed in Chen Nan’s mind, “So, it’s an accident that Fangzhou woke up. He should have been sleeping like us!”

Tao Yuan immediately followed his thoughts, “Because Fangzhou was not asleep, he heard the movement of those people clearing other outsiders, and was accidentally discovered, so he was cleared together and put in an underground prison!”

“The vase!” Chen Nan stood up excitedly, “The fallen vase on the wooden cabinet! Fangzhou accidentally overturned it! It’s all right!”

“Then there is only one question left.”

Shen Shian let out a sigh of relief, “Why is Fangzhou not affected by the ability?”