Stirring Things Up in the Wasteland 181

Chapter 181

For the Ning Mountain base, this not-so-small, but also not-so-large enemy invasion was quickly quelled.

Other than two of the three triplet brothers who had died, all the others were captured.

The battle outside the safe zone was the last to start and the last to end. By the time Song Ye had rushed over under the cover of night, the battle here had just ended.

The originally flat ground had been bombed into a pitted and messy state, and from time to time, patches of charcoal could be seen. Just looking at it, one could imagine how fierce the previous battle had been.

Song Ye ran over, and a patch of darkness passed under her feet. She almost tripped, and it was only when she looked down that she found a person.

A person whose face had been blackened by lightning, his hair standing on end, his features unrecognizable. The only thing you could probably tell was that this was a man. As for his second gender…

That was impossible to tell.

But Song Ye didn’t care about him and went straight to Song Xun’s side. “How’s the situation? Are you okay?”

“Yes, although the process was a bit rough, it’s fine.”

Song Xun moved her hand, which had been hit by an explosion. “Sis, go and see if she’s dead.”

“Then your hand…”

“It’s fine. I’ll have my wife take a look at it when we get back.”

Glancing at Song Xun’s hand, which was a bloody mess, so much so that you could even see the fascia and bones inside, Song Ye frowned. She looked up at Song Xun’s expressionless face and, in the end, didn’t say any more. She turned and jumped into a large pit next to them.

“What’s her ability? Such a loud noise, and it even gave you so much trouble?”

“A rare explosion-type ability.”

As the name suggests, it was the ability to detonate any object touched by both hands, whether it was a living or non-living being, or even a visible or invisible energy body.

It had to be said, the damage of this ability was definitely enough. Even Song Xun’s lightning couldn’t be immune to its explosion.

That “bang bang bang” explosion…

Song Ye could hear it from a distance.

Although the final result was a win, Song Xun had also been quite disheveled. But this dishevelment was fine. After all, a win was a win, right?

Song Ye jumped into the pit and felt the female Alpha’s pulse and breath. “It’s fine. She’s fine. She’s not going to die.”

She lifted the person up and jumped out of the bombed-out pit, then let go and threw her to the ground. “You go and find Ji Tang to treat your wounds. Don’t be so stubborn. You don’t know how badly you’re injured. What if there are after-effects? I’ll take care of the base’s affairs from now on.”

Song Ye tsked. “Hurry up. Don’t make me call Ji Tang to come and get you.”

Song Xun: “…”

She looked disgusted. “Sis, can you stop nagging? No wonder Sister He doesn’t like to talk to you.”

Song Ye rolled her eyes, too lazy to deal with her. She waved her hand and dragged the female Alpha and the male Omega away.

5:30 AM.

It was almost dawn, and the Ning Mountain base was also gradually quieting down after a night of chaos.

With a living witness, it was easy to handle. Song Ye directly took her men and found the ability user, Shi Ming, who was on patrol and on duty in the monitoring room.

He was a male Omega, a Ning Mountain base ability user, only eighteen this year, the age when he had just differentiated. Although his ability level was not high, it was rare.

Mental invasion!

It was also a type of mental ability. It had no direct attack power, and it couldn’t control other objects or people. Its only function was to use mental power to forcibly invade the mental power of other living beings to achieve purposes such as detection and control.

Relatively speaking, it was a very terrifying detection-type ability.

And the reason Song Ye had come to find him was also very simple. She wanted to know who had sent these few people to cause trouble at the Ning Mountain base.

It was so late at night, so annoying.

A mental invasion didn’t require the person to be awake. As long as the living being’s mental link was not broken—in common terms, they were not yet dead—this could basically be done.

As long as you checked their memories, wouldn’t everything be clear? What was the point of a lengthy interrogation? It wasn’t necessary.

When Song Ye had come, Shi Ming was still at the monitor, carefully observing the situation in the other areas with the others for any abnormalities.

Hearing Song Ye’s words, he stood up and scratched his messy hair. It was a big snow disaster, and it was cold. To keep warm, basically everyone had cut their hair short in the extreme heat, but now they had let it grow out.

“Alright, Captain Song. I’ll do my best.”

Shi Ming had just awakened his ability not long ago, and his level was not yet high. He didn’t dare to guarantee that he could do it.

Song Ye understood. She patted Shi Ming’s shoulder and took him to a quiet room, throwing in the female Alpha, the male Omega, and the beast-controlling male Beta from the little light ball’s space.

“Don’t have any psychological burden. Whether you succeed or not is another matter. Just do your best.”

Shi Ming nodded. “I understand, Captain Song.”

The female Alpha was a level-five ability user, the male Beta was a level-four ability user, and the weakest male Omega was also a level-three ability user. Shi Ming was just a small level two. Logically speaking, the success rate was not very high, so the two of them were actually quite calm.

So when Shi Ming had actually succeeded later…

“We got it. Amazing.”

Song Ye stood up from her chair with a “swish,” quite surprised, and even a little pleased. “Do you know who instigated it?”

Shi Ming’s face was pale, his messy hair was stuck to his face, and he was sweating profusely. He had to hold onto the doorframe to stand. He refused the hand of his companion who wanted to help him and looked up at Song Ye.

“Captain Song, it’s the Sunshine base.”

The Sunshine base. It really is them!

The problem Song Xun could think of, Song Ye could of course think of too. “Then do you know which base they’re from?”

“I don’t know.”

Shi Ming shook his head. “With my current ability, the memories I can see are also limited. I can’t see that far at all.”

He thought for a moment. “But there is one strange thing. In that male Omega’s memory, I also saw a stranger who was brought to the Sunshine base in chains. That should be the Sunshine base, right?”

Shi Ming was a little uncertain. After all, he had never been to the Sunshine base, nor did he know anyone there.

“The person in chains?”

Song Ye was surprised, and Shi Ming nodded. “He has a half-sided birthmark on his face, probably a burn. I couldn’t see it very clearly. By the way, he seems to be a cripple, walking with a limp.”

Song Ye didn’t know this person, and she didn’t think much of it. It was probably just some guy they had caught. It had nothing to do with them.

“Other than these few known intruders, do you know if they have any other accomplices?”

“No more.”

Shi Ming shook his head and then cautiously added, “But I can’t rule out the possibility that there are some who didn’t appear in his memory.”

Although this possibility was not high.

Song Ye nodded to show she understood. Seeing that Shi Ming was already exhausted, she let him go back to rest.

Shi Ming didn’t argue. He said goodbye to Feng Wancheng and went back to the rest room.

Feng Wancheng asked Song Ye, “Then what about these three?”

“Let’s just lock them up for now.”

Song Ye thought for a moment. “Don’t give them anything to eat or drink. Our Ning Mountain is not a shelter.”

Feng Wancheng nodded. “Alright, I understand.”

By the time they left the monitoring room, it was already past 7 AM. But in the entire base, other than a continuous stretch of lights, there was not a single sign of dawn.

This was clearly not normal.

At past 7 AM, in the apocalypse, you couldn’t say much about long days and short nights, but even in a snow disaster, at this time, even if it wasn’t a blizzard, it should have been light. At the very least, there should have been some light.

But this, it was as dark as ever.

Song Ye opened the communicator and told Song Xun the news she had found out, and then she asked her without stopping, “Did you find Ji Tang?”

Song Xun: “…”

She was speechless. “Sis, how much do you not trust me?”

Song Ye just wanted to laugh. “Since you know, then you should do fewer things that make people not trust you.”

“Tsk!”

Song Ye was too lazy to deal with her. “Shi Ming said there are only these six people who came to Ning Mountain. What do you think?”

“Perhaps.”

Song Xun didn’t consider for long. “But let’s prepare for the worst.”

“I think so too.”

Song Ye agreed. “Other than the normal patrols, the defense can’t be withdrawn for now.”

As she spoke, she looked up at the dark, sunless night and was silent for a moment. “A’Xun, it’s almost 8 o’clock now.”

On the other end of the communicator, Song Xun’s voice also became slightly silent. “Yes, it’s almost 8 o’clock.”

But the sky was still dark.

“After the snow disaster, will it be the eternal night?”

Song Xun couldn’t answer this question. Even if she knew it was highly likely, yes—

12:30 PM.

The sky was still dark.

Without the sun, you didn’t know the time or the year. Although the Ning Mountain base still had a normal clock, it was still different.

Their work and rest schedules were all messed up. They didn’t know day from night and could only rely on the clock to live in the darkness. For the survivors, this was also another kind of cruelty.

Even though it had only been a day, it felt like a thousand years.

The lights, once turned on, could not be turned off. It was a good thing the Ning Mountain base’s power storage system was based on the White Light Stone space. Compared to the other bases that relied on sunlight, it was undoubtedly much more luxurious.

Everything inside the base was normal. As soon as noon passed, Song Ye withdrew all the defensive manpower, leaving only the normal patrolmen.

The Ning Mountain base was very quiet.

The darkness of a starless sky and the darkness of the eternal night were completely different concepts. This kind of darkness was a darkness that left no trace of light or color. That feeling was very oppressive, as if darkness, from the very beginning, had endowed people with depression.

Even though Song Xun had experienced a period of eternal night in her past life, she still didn’t like this kind of oppression.

The quartz clock hanging in the cave pointed to 2 AM.

Song Xun still wasn’t asleep.

The wound on her hand had already been healed by Ji Tang, not even a scar was left. The lights in the room were off, and there was not a single ray of light.

Ability users had keen ears and eyes. Song Xun could see Song Jin’an sleeping soundly on the small bed next to her, and Ji Tang…

“What’s wrong? You want to go out?”

Song Xun lowered her voice. “I can’t sleep. I’m going out for a walk. Wife, did I wake you? You go back to sleep.”

Ji Tang also got up and took the thin jacket that was under her pillow. “No, it wasn’t you who woke me. I slept too much during the day. I couldn’t sleep anyway.”

In the darkness where you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face, Song Xun pressed the light in the room and turned it to low. With the light, she could see about two or three meters.

Hearing Ji Tang’s words, Song Xun also sighed.

It’s normal for people to get sleepy when it gets dark. How many night owls are there who get energetic when it gets dark?

And then there was a problem.

Irregular work and rest, unable to adjust, calculating the time every day, and having no perception of the surrounding world. This was also one of the horrors of the eternal night.