Chapter 1265: Chapter 1263: Entering the Inner Base!

“Captain of Gardner’s 250th Squad, Ramsey!”

Ramsey glanced at the guard, took out his credentials, and casually tossed them in front of the guard. In such places, being a rank higher allowed one to disregard those of lower rank.

These guards were the lowest in rank among everyone!

“I am here with my men to report to the higher-ups.”

Saying this, Ramsey pointed to Hao Jian and the others behind him. The guard looked over, eyes filled with flattery, hurriedly handing the credentials back to Ramsey.

“Captain Ramsey, please go ahead!”

The guard opened the gate, full of sycophantic eagerness.

If it were any other captain, he wouldn’t have been so flattering, but this was Ramsey, one of the most promising captains among the hundreds. Now that he brought over twenty people, this number was enough for Ramsey to rise to another level.

By then, he wouldn’t just be a squad leader but a platoon leader, commanding a hundred people! No longer having just two subordinates who needed splitting shares.

Once reaching platoon leader, with over thirty squad leaders under him, he could skim from each captured person, not needing to go out himself, and could reap the benefits from home.

Such a wonderful life was truly what he desired, although he still needed to give some of the skimmed money to his superiors.

“Hmm.”

Ramsey walked forward with his head held high, followed by his two subordinates pushing Hao Jian and the others, until the group left, the guard exhaled heavily, thinking about Ramsey’s good fortune.

With the ongoing national turmoil, capturing such a large number of refugees was now very difficult, at most catching two or three, and that too over several days.

Although food and drink were provided by the organization, entertainment money had to be earned here. As for living places, people casually found accommodations, after all, many fled when the conflict erupted, leaving vacant houses which became military residences.

However, they didn’t dare to live too far; the further from the base, the less loyal you appeared to be to the organization, or the lower your status.

So besides competing for money, soldiers inside the base also competed for territory or living quarters.

Next, Hao Jian and the others traversed the entire base, and this time, they didn’t walk because upon entering the outer base’s gate, a military cargo truck stopped in front of them, treating them like cargo, throwing them into the compartment before closing the door.

“Boss, what should we do next?”

The compartment was sealed, with no one inside except Hao Jian and the others. Teng Wei glanced around the compartment, nodding afterward.

For a scout, not only reconnaissance was needed but also counter-reconnaissance, and with that glance, he recognized the compartment as isolated, without any surveillance.

Seeing Teng Wei nod, Zou Jia finally voiced the question, and the others looked at Hao Jian, wanting to know whether to act here in the outer base.

“Let’s observe the situation first, wait for my orders.”

Hao Jian shook his head. His idea was to infiltrate the inner base and sabotage what was inside, eliminating worries to confront the joint forces of the Mercenary Alliance and the Assassin Alliance.

“Alright!”

Twenty people nodded in unison, then fell silent.

At this moment.

“Yo, Ramsey, here again?”

Baldeke Base wasn’t very large, and in just five minutes, the truck reached the inner base gate. The guard there was momentarily stunned upon seeing Ramsey and his subordinate alight from the vehicle.

“Ahaha… so it’s Officer Randy on night duty today!”

Seeing Randy, Ramsey’s expression instantly changed, running over with a flattering face. The status of guards at the inner base was different from those at the outer base.

Ramsey’s bootlicking attitude made it clear that Randy’s status was well above the outside guard’s.

“Didn’t I just come across a good business? When business comes, how could I not be here?”

Ramsey chuckled, pointing to the military truck behind him. Randy suspiciously walked over, opened the door, and under the bright light, saw it was packed with people.

He saw at least fifteen or twenty people, turned back to look at the smug Ramsey, silently cursing his luck, but still smiled: “Looks like Captain Ramsey had a good haul! Reporting this up might mean you won’t just be a squad leader but a platoon leader, perhaps needing me to call you sir!”

“Haha, no way! Officer Randy will always be my Officer Randy!”

Even as he spoke, the smugness on Ramsey’s face remained indelible. After all, once he became a squad leader, he would be part of the management at Baldeke Base. Although it was a lower-tier position in management, it still meant recognition from people like Baldeke.

“Let’s go in! It’s not early anymore.”

Randy shook his head without saying anything. He knew what Ramsey would do after being promoted to squad leader. Simply put, this person was the vindictive type, so Randy didn’t want to offend him.

“Hehe, alright!”

Seeing Randy open the base’s internal gate, Ramsey chuckled, then climbed into the truck. The subordinate he brought quickly climbed into the driver’s seat and drove the military vehicle inside.

But as soon as they entered the inner base, Ramsey and his subordinate’s faces turned tense. This internal base was home to those non-human entities!

“Boom!”

Suddenly, a large Transformed Person roared past them, creating a fierce gust of wind, terrifying Ramsey into urging his subordinate to drive faster.

After weaving left and right to avoid those Transformed People, they arrived safely in front of a small house within the base, which was more like a large hole dug into an inner base wall.

The entire room was embedded in the wall, and inside was a man with a grim expression. Seeing Ramsey bringing in twenty-one people, his lips curled into a sinister smile.

“Finally brought the Test Subjects to me…”

After he said this, he changed his tone, pointed behind him, and said, “Take your Test Subjects inside immediately, lock them up well, then come and ask me for your reward.”

With a flick of the man’s finger, an otherwise unmarked wall mysteriously revealed a staircase leading underground.

“Don’t linger, hurry up!”

“Yes, sir!”

Hearing this, Ramsey shivered and nodded quickly. He then waved at his subordinate standing at the back and led Hao Jian and the others inside.

From start to finish, Hao Jian and the twenty-one others displayed sheer terror, much like the Test Subjects brought here before them for experiments.

Therefore, the man had no doubts, believing that no one would dare to cause trouble here. This base contained those two esteemed figures, ensuring that no issues would arise as long as they were present.

“Move along!”

Descending the staircase, Ramsey sneered as he led the way. The one person Ramsey hated seeing the most was that man upstairs. Every time he was on guard duty, he would surely take twenty percent of the profits, meaning Ramsey would get ten percent less of the bounty.

Otherwise, Ramsey wouldn’t have been so angry.

Here… so many people…

After climbing the stairs for over ten minutes, Ramsey finally brought them to a flat area, which turned out to be a vast room once everyone entered.

Dimly lit by candlelight, the room’s real situation was visible to Hao Jian and others—it was filled with countless cages.

This space is about a thousand square feet, right?

Glancing around, Hao Jian roughly estimated the room’s size.

Inside, it resembled a prison, with rooms separated by iron bars. Nearly a thousand people were inside, everyone wearing tattered clothes, many bearing injuries.

Some people looked vacant and lifeless; some, upon seeing Ramsey, banged ferociously on the iron bars, while others shouted with open mouths.

“Hmph! Behave yourselves. If you don’t want to die so soon, be quiet!”

Facing these people, Ramsey snorted. Having done this many times, he naturally knew how to handle it. The greatest fear here was death.

Especially those who shouted the loudest, they feared death the most. Only by threatening them with death would they quiet down.

True to form, after Ramsey’s words, everyone fell silent, their eyes fixedly glaring at Ramsey, as if wanting to tear him apart.

The people here were refugees captured by the captains outside, and this was just one of the rooms. There were four such rooms, each holding fifteen hundred people. The other three rooms were already full, so Hao Jian and his companions were placed in this one, which still had room.

“Stay in there obediently. Someone will come to take you away later!”

After locking Hao Jian and his companions in a cell, Ramsey left with his subordinate.