"What about Liao Zilang? The hunter who was with us," the hound still didn't put Manstein down, "where is he? Is he still alive? Tell me quickly!"

"I... I don't know either. The situation was in chaos at that time. He... he was beaten by the person who was supposed to pick up the female spy. After that, I don't know anything..." Manstein's sentence order was a little confused and his articulation was not very clear. It was obvious that he was seriously frightened.

"Old dog, calm down." Ke Lan patted the hound's shoulder, "Put the man down first. He can't talk properly if you hold him up like this."

"...Okay." The Hound glared at Manstein fiercely, then threw him onto the sofa next to him.

"Tell me, Mr. Manstein, what exactly happened... Don't worry, I'll give you enough time to recall, and I hope you don't miss any details." Ke Lan said, standing in front of the sofa with his arms folded across his chest.

"Okay, okay..." Manstein responded hurriedly, "At the beginning, when you just entered the mine, the communication channel between the base and you was secretly replaced by that woman. All you could hear were the audios that woman had prepared in advance, and the same was true for us."

Ke Lan thought back. Before they encountered those monsters, all the communications with the base were formal information reports. This level of communication could be handled even with recordings. At that time, all their attention was focused on the things in the mine, and they had no time to identify the anomalies in the communication channel that were so subtle that they were almost negligible.

"About two hours after you entered the mine, a burst of gunfire came from the originally peaceful communication channel... and screams... I vaguely heard... I heard your voice, Mr. Ke Lan. You seemed to have been shouting to quickly close the passage and not let the monsters rush out... But in less than half a minute, the communication was unilaterally interrupted."

"Two hours..." Ke Lan calculated the time. It was almost exactly when they encountered those "sea anemone heads" and requested reinforcements from the base. It seemed that the woman was determined that they could not deal with those monsters alone, so she decided to take action here and deceived other people in the base with half-true and half-false news... As for her own voice, as long as she collected a part of her own sound source before, she could use some audio software to synthesize it artificially and mix it with the noisy background sound. Unless she was a professional in this field, it would be impossible to tell the real from the fake.

"At that time, I was completely dumbfounded... You know, if you died in the tunnel, I would be finished too... Just when I was stunned, the woman suddenly used my identity to send an order to 'close the tunnel' to the front camp." Manstein said while trying to recall.

"Your authority in the command system must have been cracked long ago, right?" Ke Lan glanced at him and said... If what Manstein said was true, then this conspiracy must have been planned long ago, and it definitely couldn't have been done on the spur of the moment.

"Now that I think about it... it should be like this..." Manstein lowered his head, a bean-sized bean of sweat rolled down his forehead and hit the soft plush carpet. "But I didn't pay attention to it at that time. All I could think about was your death in the mine... And, at that time, I thought that 'closing the mine' was an order you asked Yui to issue, so I didn't realize that there was something wrong with that woman at the first time... Mr. Ke Lan, I'm very sorry... I have an unshirkable responsibility for this matter..."

"Don't rush to apologize. What's next? What's going on with those monsters?"

"I really don't know about that..." Manstein said somewhat frustratedly, "After the No. 7 mine was closed, a large number of monsters suddenly rushed out from the tunnels of the No. 8, No. 9, No. 10 and No. 11 mines. The staff stationed in the camps at the entrances of the four mines were killed by the monsters in an instant."

"Then those monsters went straight to the base? Why didn't you organize a defense? Was it because of that woman?" Ke Lan asked.

"Yes." Manstein nodded quickly. "After these monsters appeared, everyone in the base was shocked, and the one who recovered the fastest was that woman."

"Before we could react, she suddenly pulled out her gun and started shooting. She killed several commanders in the base in an instant. Fortunately, my personal bodyguard stepped in front of me and blocked those fatal bullets for me. I was lucky enough to survive..."

Manstein glanced at the hound with some fear as he spoke. "Then, Mr. Liao Zilang started fighting with that woman, but since Liao Zilang was shot twice at the beginning, he was always at a disadvantage... That woman also locked the door of the command room, and the guards outside wanted to come in to help but had no way..."

"Liao Zilang was shot? What caliber of bullet? Where was he shot?" The Hound looked very excited.

"The caliber... I'm not sure about the caliber. The woman was using dual-wielding pocket submachine guns, so I don't think the bullets were very powerful. As for where she was shot, it should be in the chest or abdomen..."

"Bullshit! You're lying!" The hound took a step forward, frightening Manstein so much that he immediately shrank into the corner of the sofa. "Liao Zilang has a very special physique. The bullets from that pocket submachine gun can't even penetrate his skin. He will only suffer minor injuries at most. How could he be defeated by a woman?!"

"I, I really didn't lie. I saw Mr. Liao Zilang being suppressed by that woman..."

"You—" Just as the hound was about to reach out to grab Manstein, Ke Lan grabbed his wrist first, "Old dog, what he said may not be false... If Yui is really a spy lurking inside the Soma Consortium, then it is normal for her to hide her strength... After all, our understanding of her is limited to the written materials provided by the consortium."

"What happened next?" The Hound took several deep breaths before he adjusted his mood and turned to ask Manstein.

"At that time, I wanted to open the door of the command room, but I found that the base defense system had been invaded by a virus and it could not recognize my instructions... Later, the people who came to pick her up arrived. They killed the guards outside and seriously injured Mr. Liao Zilang. They took the woman and left on the plane on the stairs before the monsters rushed into the base."