Mental Illness Evolution Manual - Chapter 42

This was a trap, but in order to not alert the enemy, Lu Mingqiu decided to play along.

Today was Monday, there were two days and three nights left until the action on Wednesday, enough time to dispatch members from other bases.

Lu Mingqiu didn’t like to fight unprepared battles. She liked to have everything under control, to be sure of victory.

The Holy Healing Church was an old enemy, a sworn enemy. They were the lapdogs of the chaebols, they naturally saw the Resistance as a thorn in their side, the two organizations had countless frictions, big and small.

As long as it was the church’s action, it was right to disrupt it, it wouldn’t go wrong.

Dozens of people were transferred from the ring city, they would go to the Ping’an Wharf on Wednesday night, they would step into the church’s trap, make them relax their guard, and think that everything was under control.

Among these ten or so people, five were psionics, they cooperated with each other, the others were also skilled in all aspects.

The church wouldn’t deploy elites at the wharf, it was more likely that they would all be pawns like Poison Sting, they would use the Resistance’s hands to eliminate them, while also making them play their final role.

Two birds with one stone.

The Ping’an Wharf was a medium-sized wharf, mainly used for transporting goods, it was frequented by cargo ships, passenger ships docked at another port in Nanjin City.

On Wednesday night, Mirror and the liaison, White Mask, agreed on a time. In the middle of the night, she brought four Resistance members to the wharf.

She still pretended to be Poison Sting, using his usual tone and mannerisms, she said, “This is it. I saw several church members earlier, they were carrying boxes off the ship, they were very secretive, they looked heavy, I don’t know what’s inside.”

The group of them didn’t suspect anything, they followed him deeper, walking on the path left between the containers.

When they reached the designated attack point, three people with machine guns suddenly jumped out and started firing.

One of the Resistance members raised his hands, a high wall instantly rose from the ground, blocking all the bullets. At the same time, a few more people emerged, including two psionics, their hands constantly emitting fireballs, another one would disappear for a while, then reappear, as if he was invisible.

None of them wore robes or carried the church’s holy symbol. Mirror recognized one of them, he was a famous bounty hunter in the area.

They were indeed cannon fodder sent by the church. When they opened fire, they didn’t avoid Poison Sting, it was clear that they didn’t care about his life at all.

Their people jumped out, and the remaining Resistance members suddenly appeared, surrounding the enemy, catching them off guard.

Just as the people here were setting off, Lu Mingqiu had already led another team to the bar.

Since they knew something was wrong here, Black had also invaded the nearby public cameras, he analyzed and investigated the composition of the people entering and leaving the bar, and finally he found something unusual.

This small, two-story bar, which could hold a hundred or so people, needed two truckloads of goods every day?

When Mirror changed her appearance and pretended to smoke and get some fresh air, she chatted with the people who were carrying the goods. They said that they were only responsible for delivery, the people above said that the boxes were all kinds of ingredients.

The church was very cautious, the delivery workers were replaced every two days, the customers who came and went wouldn’t pay attention to how many delivery trucks came to the back door of the bar.

After Black discovered this, he immediately went back to check the previous surveillance records, he found that this behavior had been going on for almost half a month.

A large amount of unknown goods were transported to the bar, but they were never transported out, where did these things go, and what were they for, it was hard not to be suspicious.

To ensure that nothing went wrong, Lu Mingqiu brought all the psionics from the base and infiltrated the bar.

It was a small bar, there was a dance floor on the first floor, there were three steel poles on the stage, five dancers were dancing on them, both men and women, their movements were extremely seductive.

There was a circle of people around the stage, whenever the people on the stage made some seductive moves, they would cheer and scream, some would reach out and touch their sweaty bodies, the scene was very hot.

Every half hour, there was an interactive session, they would randomly choose two customers to come up and dance closely with them, they could also kiss.

The dancers here had hot bodies and unique appearances, they were very popular.

When Yan Xianchuan and the others came in, it was just time for the interactive session, the stage was facing the entrance, she saw at a glance a naked woman wearing only underwear, she hooked her legs around the customer’s waist and slid up and down, she held his face in her hands and she kissed him passionately.

She quickly averted her gaze, as if she had been blinded by the blue and purple lights of the bar. She found it hard to adapt to this open-minded society.

They came in in pairs, Lu Mingqiu walked in front, she was used to this scene, she didn’t change her expression, she just glanced casually, and then she started to observe the surrounding environment.

Mirror had already recorded the internal structure of the place, she had spent a few days pretending to be different people, she had been to every place in the bar that she could and couldn’t go.

She had marked the places she could go, such as the private rooms and the bathroom, there were three places she couldn’t go, one was the kitchen, there was no sign, but she smelled the food and heard the sound of spatulas hitting pots, so she guessed that this was the kitchen.

The other two were the stairs going up to the second floor, there were bodyguards guarding them, and the other was a corridor that went inwards from the kitchen, there was a bend in the corridor, but she was stopped by the waiter outside, she couldn’t explore it.

Those few locations—the upstairs was immediately ruled out.

The top few floors of this building were a hot pot restaurant, even if there was a floor in the middle that wasn’t open to customers, it was unlikely to be the church’s base, one reason was that the area was small, and the other was that it wasn’t hidden enough.

The basement was the most likely.

It seemed that every secret organization had a knack for digging holes.

How to bypass the waiter without being discovered, and infiltrate the underground base, was the top priority.

But Lu Mingqiu had already thought of a solution, it was the ventilation shaft.

Besides Mirror, who had the ability to change her form, there was another psionic in the Resistance, his name was Ger.

He could change his body structure, he could become other species, from a fly to a whale, as long as he had seen the animal, he could become it, the Resistance rarely called him by his name, they all called him the Great Druid.

Ger’s psionic ability was very low, besides changing his form, he didn’t have any other abilities, and the duration wasn’t very long either.

But there are no useless psionic abilities, only users who don’t know how to use them.

Lu Mingqiu asked Ger to become an ant, he was holding a specially customized miniature chip, he crawled down the ventilation shaft, infiltrating the bar’s basement.

Where there were no cameras, he would enlarge his body, making himself move faster, where there were cameras, he would go around the blind spots of the cameras, or he would walk along the gaps between the tiles and the walls, trying to hide himself.

He had several hours of business hours to infiltrate. He couldn’t contact his teammates during this time, fortunately, the places he had been to would automatically upload to Black to generate a map, so that others would know his specific movements and status.

Ger ran very fast in the ventilation shaft, he went all the way down, after almost an hour, he finally reached a place that was obviously different.

His psionic ability was very low, but if it was used well, it was a powerful weapon. All the ventilation shafts in the Resistance base had been fitted with filters and electric grids, just to prevent psionics with similar abilities from infiltrating.

The people in the church obviously didn’t know that they had this trump card, Ger didn’t have to do much, he crawled through the grid, he saw the Holy Healing Church logo printed on the room below, he knew he had come to the right place.

He followed the pipeline all the way, but he found that there weren’t many people in the base, according to Mirror’s observations, there should have been many people gathered here.

Ger was puzzled, but he didn’t stop, he went all the way to the monitoring room, he crawled out through the narrow gap in the ventilation shaft, he quietly climbed towards the computer host.

There was a person sitting in the monitoring room, he was holding a book of scriptures and reading it with gusto, he would look up at the screen from time to time.

He crawled in through the fan of the computer case, he turned into a scorpion, he used his pincers to grab the chip and insert it into the slot.

The chip contained some of Black’s data, so he could hack into the network here.

After doing this, he turned back into an ant and returned the same way, he went around behind the person, he returned to his human form.

His body continued to grow taller and longer, silently, unnoticed by the person still engrossed in the scriptures. The other remained completely oblivious to the strange transformation behind them.

When Ger turned into an animal, he could only carry very close-fitting weapons and equipment, like firearms, they would automatically fall off his body when he transformed.

So he carried the most electric shock plates, and he was best at throwing them.

Clad in a black jumpsuit, his head completely shaved, he stood silently. Raising a hand, he produced a small, round, button-sized electric shock plate from his waist.

With a flick of his wrist, the black disc spun and nailed itself to the person’s head, the force was so great that it was directly embedded in his skull, blue electric sparks jumped, he instantly stiffened, the book in his hand fell down, Ger reached out and caught it steadily.

[Infiltration successful.]

As soon as he succeeded, Lu Mingqiu started to move.

The person guarding the kitchen door was easy to deal with, there was no need to brainwash him, she pretended to ask for directions, she directly hypnotized him to go to the bathroom, and he left.

The Holy Healing Church had intelligent AI to monitor the entire place, once they detected an anomaly, the AI would send a warning directly, so no matter when, the first priority was always to hack into the monitoring equipment.

Black’s takeover of the base’s network offered a significant advantage: he could open a backdoor for them, bypassing identity verification and allowing direct access to the lower levels.

Black: [There are very few people in the base, only seven. Wait, a team is coming back, they’re carrying cargo boxes.]

As he spoke, he sent the map of the underground base, he marked the enemies in red, five red dots were piled together.

Seven plus five was only twelve, how could there be so few people?

Lu Mingqiu had a bad feeling in her heart, “Deal with everyone separately.”

Everyone scattered, leaving Yan Xianchuan by her side, they rushed towards the group of five. With just one glance, these people were completely unable to resist, they were all knocked unconscious by Lu Mingqiu’s psionic ability.

They were all ordinary people, not psionics after all.

Yan Xianchuan walked forward, she pried open the sealed plastic box on the ground, the compressed food inside poured out, spilling all over the place.

She opened another one, it was the same, it was full of compressed food.

Besides these few people, the base was empty, they had obviously evacuated.

Lu Mingqiu looked at the dark tunnel ahead, “Where does this road lead to?”

Black replied, “I don’t know, all the data here has been cleared.”

Her eyes narrowed, “Tell Gold Ring to take these people away, we’ll interrogate them back at the base.”

“Let’s go and take a look.”

Yan Xianchuan nodded, she walked ahead to scout the way.