NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 61 – Delay
Rushing all the way, the Sweep Team finally arrived at the nearest Safe House around five o'clock.
This Safe House was situated beneath a tree that was at least five hundred years old. The entrance was hidden at the top of the tree and required a special technique to open.
Under Situ Shibai's guidance, Zhang Ping and the others entered the Safe House.
"Good luck, I have set up a one-way teleportation formation here that can take us to Secret Base No. 08. Let's teleport out first," Situ Shibai's voice came from the bracelet.
While Liu Sishan and the others were preparing to activate the teleportation formation, Zhang Ping curiously asked, "Mr. Situ, how many Safe Houses and secret bases have you prepared?"
"The construction of Safe Houses ranges from ten to twenty each year, while secret bases require more materials, so there are about two to three each year. Currently, there are roughly three thousand Safe Houses and around two hundred secret bases," Situ Shibai provided a vague number.
Zhang Ping clicked his tongue in amazement, "That many? Did you start building them two hundred years ago?"
"More or less. We always need to leave some backup routes for humanity," Situ Shibai replied calmly.
At this moment, Liu Sishan looked down at everyone and said, "The teleportation formation is ready. Everyone, come up."
The teleportation formation was a square stone platform about one meter high, with many grooves for placing materials. Most of these materials came from Mutated Beasts.
Situ Shibai had long ago endowed these materials with special vitality through his abilities. Although they could only be used once, they could be preserved for a long time, even if he died, they would not lose their effect.
Everyone stepped onto the square stone platform, and Liu Sishan embedded four eyeballs at the top of the platform.
These eyeballs came from a type of Mutated Beast called the "Eyewitness Demon Bird."
Any prey seen by these birds would be attacked instantly. It was a type of spatial transfer attack that could teleport nearby leaves and branches into the target's body.
Undoubtedly, this was a very dangerous Mutated Beast, but fortunately, its ability was very unstable, so its accuracy was poor. Most attacks would land near or behind the target, with only occasional hits being accurate.
The four eyeballs Liu Sishan used were not paired; each was a single eye, with the other eye located in the secret base. When the formation was activated, a connection would form between the eyeballs, eventually teleporting people to the other eyeball.
Moments later, Liu Sishan activated the formation, and everyone was instantly twisted and then disappeared.
...
Dizzy.
Splitting headache.
A head that felt twice its size.
Experiencing teleportation for the first time, Zhang Ping felt terrible.
He had thought teleportation would be an instant journey to Secret Base No. 08, but during the process, he felt as if he had fallen into a tunnel that was sometimes wide, sometimes narrow, and filled with dazzling colors.
The feeling of weightlessness, the occasional sensation of his head being squeezed, and the feeling of his body being stretched like dough being kneaded by clumsy hands made him extremely uncomfortable.
"Ugh!"
Nearby, Zhang Shouzhong turned around and vomited while holding onto the wall.
Liu Sishan staggered forward like a drunk, eventually leaning against the wall to rest.
"Are you all okay?" Situ Shibai asked.
Zhang Ping slowly transformed into a body of Pure Water, instantly dispelling all negative sensations. He said, "I'm fine. If I had known it would be so uncomfortable, I would have turned into my Pure Water Body before teleporting."
"Captain, are all teleportations this nauseating?" Cheng Xuejie asked, leaning against the wall.
Situ Shibai replied, "Not all teleportations are this nauseating, only the Eyewitness Demon Bird's teleportation feels like this. Perhaps that's why their attacks are so inaccurate."
"I'm dying, I need to rest. I really can't go on without a break," Zhang Shouzhong said, his face pale.
Lu Han also looked a bit pale and said, "These two seem to have fainted. Let's lock them up first and then rest."
During the teleportation, Zhao Yanhu and Zhao Yanlong had fallen unconscious and were now lying motionless on the teleportation platform. If not for their faint breathing, they would have seemed dead.
"Secret Base No. 08 can accommodate up to two thousand people for refuge. There are two hundred rooms, as well as confinement rooms, a kitchen, toilets, and bathrooms. Take a look around. As for other matters, we'll discuss them after we've rested," Situ Shibai said at the right moment.
This was a large base.
Only he knew the exact location, and only he knew how to create the teleportation formation to get in and out.
Without this knowledge, it was a large tomb with no doors.
Next, because Zhang Shouzhong was feeling so unwell, the task of escorting fell to Zhang Ping and Lu Han.
The two of them worked together to carry Zhao Yanhu and Zhao Yanlong to the confinement room.
These two brothers had extremely strong vitality. As long as they weren't finished off, they would recover eventually, so they could be left alone.
After dealing with the Zhao brothers, Lu Han found a room to rest.
Liu Sishan and Cheng Xuejie went to find the bathroom to take a shower, and Zhang Shouzhong simply rested in a room not far from the teleportation formation.
Zhang Ping thought for a moment and also found a room, planning to do some push-ups.
He wasn't tired or sleepy at all.
He had already rested enough inside Liu Sishan's body, and the journey had consumed very little of his energy, so he was actually in the best condition among everyone.
"Let's start with 5,000 push-ups," he thought as he walked into a room.
The rooms in this base were very large, with space bigger than a playground and many double-decker beds, enough to accommodate at least two hundred people.
Zhang Ping silently did his push-ups in the room. After finishing 5,000 push-ups, he started doing frog jumps in place.
He continued until six o'clock, then stopped and lay down on a bed to rest.
Although this base hadn't been visited for a long time, it was spotless, with even the quilts being brand new. The ceiling was embedded with glowing jade beads, making the room not dark but very bright.
"Mr. Situ, when can I break through to the intermediate level?" Zhang Ping asked, looking at the jade beads on the ceiling.
Situ Shibai replied, "There is no bottleneck from the primary to the intermediate level. It should be soon."
"But... when I killed that Tianchang Fox tonight, I felt like I could break through, but I got stuck at the critical moment. Not only did I not break through immediately, but I still feel stuck now," Zhang Ping said.
Tonight, he had angrily killed the Tianchang Fox that had injured Liu Tiefeng.
At the moment of killing it, he felt like he could break through, but for some unknown reason, he didn't succeed. Moreover, with the Moon Prince possibly attacking at any time, he didn't have the time to think it through.
A series of major events followed, leaving him no time to consider it.
This delay had lasted until now.
