Chapter 544 - Meeting Wang Congyang again (1/2)

If the tour group wanted to get into Stronghold 73, they would have to pass through this military encampment first. However, they got stopped at the entrance of the camp to be interrogated and inspected first.

There was no problem with their customs documents, but everyone would have to go through a body search as well. Fortunately, the military personnel here were a principled bunch. Seeing that there were women in the group, they sent the military camp’s female nurses to handle the body search for the women.

In the end, it was the plainclothes guards protecting Li Ran’s team who had their daggers and pistols all confiscated. They were told that they could come to the military camp to get them back once they left the stronghold.

What surprised Li Ran and the others was that not a single weapon was found on Zhou Yingxue and Ren Xiaosu.

However, they were still not allowed to enter the stronghold after the security checks were complete. As there was a curfew in the stronghold right now, they had to wait until daybreak in the military camp. Only after 7 AM would the stronghold’s gate be opened.

Seeing that the stronghold was right in front, and that they had already booked the hotel in advance, Li Ran could not stand it anymore. They were already exhausted from traveling for the entire day, yet they still had to wait in the barracks until daybreak?

But just as the soldier was done letting them know, a convoy passed through the military base and drove straight into the stronghold. After the stronghold’s gate was opened, it came back down again. Li Ran was stunned for a moment before asking, “Didn’t you say the stronghold gate would not be opened? Then what was with that convoy?”

“They’re our Zhou Consortium’s people,” the Zhou Consortium soldier said calmly.

It was only natural for the Zhou Consortium’s people to get privileged treatment at their own strongholds.

Li Ran asked Fang Zhi softly, “Can you contact the film crew in the stronghold and get them to think of a solution?”

In the end, Fang Zhi took the satellite phone and went outside to call the film crew. When he came back, he said helplessly, “They told us to settle such issues by ourselves.”

Li Ran went silent for a moment. She did not expect the film crew to be so heartless when the other party was clearly on good terms with the big shots of the Zhou Consortium. She thought for a while and said, “Try paying these soldiers and see if they can make an exception.”

But at such a time, no one dared to accept any bribes. The soldier explained that something big had just happened in the stronghold, and if they had read the newspapers, they would have known about the cave-in at East Lake. Therefore, no one dared to make any mistakes at a time like this.

They did not even dare to accept bribes!

Nothing could be done about the situation. At this moment, Li Ran was finally feeling a sense of helplessness in the face of a consortium. In the face of absolute military power, money and connections did not seem that useful anymore.

However, Ren Xiaosu did not mind at all. He just sat down at the side and continued reading the newspapers. It was as if the soldiers coming and going were invisible to him.

In the morning, Ren Xiaosu even shamelessly asked the officer for a copy of Hope Media’s newspaper after it was distributed in the base.

The Zhou Consortium troops were quite disciplined. They were only carrying out their duties by holding the tour group outside the stronghold. As there were also Li Ran’s fans within the base, no one would deliberately make things difficult for them.

Ren Xiaosu saw in today’s newspaper that the Zhou Consortium’s troops had intercepted and wiped out a small group of Pyro Company members that were preparing to pull out of the stronghold. However, they did not find any laboratory data on them.

This made Ren Xiaosu wonder if there was really any laboratory data in Stronghold 73 at all.

When the stronghold’s gate was opened, Li Ran and the others immediately entered the stronghold and headed to the hotel they had booked. In just one night, dark circles had already appeared under Li Ran’s eyes. Zhou Yingxue, on the other hand, seemed fine. After all, a supernatural being’s physical fitness far exceeded that of a normal person’s.