Chapter 432: Chapter 432: I’m Already Here (1)
Ye Nai reopened the transmission port for them and lent a communal storage ring, into which they placed all the supplies destined for Beigen Military Fortress.
Among the supplies was a complete set of solar panels. The spacious, flat city walls were perfect for setting up these panels, and if the power ran low in the future, more panels could always be added.
These large items weren’t moved for now; connecting and setting them up needed professional electricians.
While a large group of them was busy inside the fortress, an exploration team formed by two military trucks set out from the former Knight Manor.
The destination: Beigen Military Fortress.
One truck carried engineers and tools, while the other carried an armed combat team.
While constructing houses in the manor, the team used drones to capture aerial footage, locating the military fortress built against the mountain and flying the national flag, and now they were going for an on-site inspection.
The vehicles hadn’t even reached the town when residents on the roadside saw them and, panic-stricken, ran home to shut their doors and windows.
The whole town suddenly became devoid of people on the streets.
The two trucks moved slowly through the town, exerting pressure on the residents and announcing the arrival of new owners of this land.
They swaggered along, scaring off numerous locals. Just as they entered the vicinity of Luoke Town, Ye Nai received feedback from the spores.
By the time the spores reached near Beigen Village, she leisurely went up to the top of the city wall, holding binoculars for a distant view.
The fortress was much higher than the villagers’ houses, offering an excellent view. Through the binoculars, she immediately saw the two military trucks showing off.
The security team members, who had been following her around, took out their portable folding binoculars upon seeing this.
"Hey? Military vehicles?"
"Wow, quite impressive."
"Two vehicles, one armed and one empty?"
"Is it the engineers?"
"If it’s the engineers, that’s great, quickly, let’s go down."
A group of people rushed downstairs, shouting that two military vehicles were approaching Beigen Village, attracting many others to wait outside the fortress gates.
The two military vehicles soon reached the road outside the village. The villagers of Beigen Village, being more experienced, recognized these unusual vehicles, waved them down, and pointed the way.
After passing through the village, they continued down a single road without forks, smoothly arriving outside the fortress and meeting up with those waiting for them.
The engineers made this trip to prepare for road construction later and also to check out how to set up power and communication in the fortress.
As it happened, someone was going to install that whole set of solar panels the academicians had.
Ye Nai then opened a large transmission port in the military fortress’s central square, directly linking to the former Knight Manor. While the personnel remained to survey the environment, others ventured into the surrounding mountains, and the trucks returned to the manor.
Unexpectedly, the opening of the transmission port provided Ye Nai and the academicians with a convenience—they could utilize the manor’s canteen, solving the issue of their meals being out of sync with Blue Star’s time.
Otherwise, they would have relied on Ye Nai’s space to store fresh food.
Engineers ran up and down everywhere, while the academicians chose the top floor for a laboratory and rest area, though they currently only used a few rooms, the electrical and wiring layout was planned for the entire floor.
They also provided a complete set of military radios, with a main unit and multiple portable radio units.
The main unit was placed in a separate room to serve as a base station, with daily power supply and personnel on duty, ensuring communication during mountain expeditions.
Military radios provided much stronger communication in the mountains and forests than civilian radios—waterproof, dustproof, and drop-resistant, in emergencies, a call to the base station could immediately summon military support.
Ye Nai kept the transmission port to the manor open, greatly saving the time for support to arrive.
With the Beigen Military Fortress environment visibly transitioning from chaos to orderly planning, the security guarding the opposite lab crossed the transmission port to find Ye Nai.
The Commander of the war zone had sent a message.
Ye Nai greeted the academicians from the two project groups. They all urged her to attend to her tasks and not to close the transmission port.
After confirming that the laboratory could operate without her, Ye Nai called the Commander, arranged a meeting place, and set off with security personnel in two vehicles.
The meeting place was familiar to Ye Nai—it was Camp Commander Lin’s garrison, and she was explicitly requested to drive there, leaving a visitor log at the gate instead of suddenly appearing.
Ye Nai was aware of how frightening her transmission ability was; with a map, she could vaguely pinpoint, open a transmission port, and go wherever she liked.
Thankfully, she was straightforward and had no ulterior motives; otherwise, she would have slipped into key national facilities uninvited.
Upon reaching the garrison, registering without a hitch, she met with the Commander, his accompanying subordinates, and Camp Commander Lin.
Her group first signed a confidentiality agreement before Ye Nai received two maps from the Commander—one of the frontline and one of the province where the frontline was located.
Following the administrative divisions, Ye Nai first imprinted the provincial map in her mind, then simulated the routes in her mind, advancing along the marked lines towards the frontline direction.
Estimating the location in the nearby wilderness of the frontline, she attempted to open the first transmission port, confirming safety before allowing the Commander and his entourage to verify the location.
The Commander confirmed the location simply and directly; his subordinates called the frontline command center to trace their position here in the remote wild using the communication signal.
In three or four minutes, they were traced to a place just over thirty kilometers away from the command center, with a patrol team nearby ready to pick them up.
The Commander didn’t let the patrol team come over and instead, after hanging up, instructed Ye Nai to continue.
During this call, Ye Nai discreetly placed an Otherworld Heart Core in her pocket, from which the released spores quickly absorbed energy and multiplied, expanding around her as fast as possible.
Now, positioning thirty kilometers away from the command center was feasible, a short straight-line range made pinpointing easy, but also risked an accidental appearance inside an armory.
Ye Nai decided to be more cautious and follow the spread rate of the spores.
She sensed the furthest spore flying at the moment, opened a transmission port, and took everyone through.
Still in the wilderness, the surrounding terrain undulated, looking nothing like a paved road.
The Commander’s aide made another call to the command center, discovering they had covered ten kilometers.
The command center was amazed—what speed was the Commander using?
While they made the call, Ye Nai continued to proliferate the spores, and there was wind in the wilderness; the newly grown fungal mycelium in the soil released numerous spores into the air, carried farther by the wind, inadvertently discovering tire tracks left in the wild.