Chapter 43、The Uninvited Guest Returning from Disappearance

What is the most entertaining thing for a homebody?

Well, yes, a pleasure cup.

Bah!

Not that. It's games! It's games!

A pleasure cup can only bring a brief moment of happiness, but games can bestow upon homebodies tremendous and long-lasting joy!

Especially for those who spend a great deal of time indoors, an outstanding video game blockbuster can kill an entire day's time!

Yi Bai had never anticipated that he would one day become so captivated by the game Red Alert.

Perhaps it was because he had been pent up for too long.

Although the computer had electricity, there was no global network, so playing online games was out of the question.

Fortunately, Yi Bai had downloaded many single-player games on his computer. Many of these games had gameplay systems that allowed for multiple playthroughs and repeated play, sufficient for Yi Bai to enjoy for a long time.

If he grew tired of playing games, it wouldn't matter. There were also hundreds of terabytes of study materials to pass the time.

If even that became tiresome, he could always play Minesweeper! Solitaire would also do!

Yi Bai believed that if he ever reached a point where he no longer wanted to turn on his computer, his shelter should have developed to an extremely powerful state.

Because before that, Yi Bai would surely have consumed a vast amount of time.

Just like now.

Yi Bai felt as if he had just started playing games and hadn't even completed a few rounds when suddenly the daily midday talent information prompt appeared in front of him.

[Congratulations! You have triggered a talent reward and obtained a "C-rank Entertainment Item - Villain Warning Device"!]

[Villain Warning Device]: C-rank Entertainment Item; Carry it close to your body. If someone around you harbors ill intentions towards you and the shelter or if your subordinates are disloyal, it will turn red; if you are not being targeted by villains and there is no one with harmful intentions or possibilities towards you, it will be blue.

"Eh? Why was such a thing given?"

Yi Bai looked at the item in his hand. It resembled a watch strap and could just be fastened around his wrist.

It even had an electronic time display function, like an electronic watch. The timing function was a bonus.

"A warning-type entertainment item. For a talent, is this what I need most urgently at present?"

Yi Bai stroked his chin and, after a moment's thought, realized that he really did need this thing.

With the continuous development of his settlement, the [Mastermind Behind the Scenes] plan that he had agreed to with Jiang Xiaoci was bound to accelerate.

By then, the population of the shelter would surely increase continuously. The loyalty of the talent units could be guaranteed, but what about the non-talent units?

Who knew whether the current and future shelter residents were wholeheartedly devoted to him and the shelter?

Even if they were in a state of allegiance now, would there be changes in the future?

People's hearts are fickle.

What if there was a mole in the shelter and he had no means of detection? Wouldn't that be like planting a time bomb!

"This talent is really quite remarkable. There are only about a dozen women in the shelter now, and it has already provided me with a people's hearts detector in advance?"

Yi Bai fiddled with the watch. He paused for a moment and stopped playing games. Instead, he got up and left the room.

The detection limit range shown in the watch was a diameter of 50 meters. Yi Bai walked down the stairs floor by floor to conduct detections.

As long as he stood in the corridor, he could easily cover all the residents on that floor, even if the residents were doing their own things in their rooms.

From the sixth floor to the first floor, Yi Bai took advantage of the fact that the girls were all at home and scanned all the residents in the building.

The result satisfied Yi Bai. The color of the watch strap had always been blue and had not turned red.

"This means that they are currently in a state of allegiance to me and have no intention of harming me or the shelter."

"This thing is really good. As long as I take a stroll around the shelter every day like taking a walk, I can easily grasp the state of people's hearts in the shelter."

Yi Bai walked around and then silently returned to the room.

Continue playing games!

There was nothing going on in the shelter. It was very peaceful. Yi Bai could only continue to kill time.

This playtime lasted an entire afternoon.

When the sky gradually darkened, Yi Bai suddenly looked up in surprise, "Eh? Why haven't Lin Yue and the others returned?"

"I haven't received any new point gain prompts either. They should have stopped fighting, right? Aren't they considering returning to the shelter?"

"Did something happen on the way?"

Yi Bai frowned. Just as he was about to get up and find Jiang Xiaoci to ask about the situation, he suddenly noticed that the color of his watch strap had turned red when he looked down!

"Hmm?"

Yi Bai was taken aback. He took a closer look and saw that the watch strap had turned blue again.

After a while, it turned red again.

Within a few minutes, it changed rapidly and finally settled on blue.

"What's going on here!"

"Items in the apocalypse game shouldn't break easily. So, this is... Something wrong with those girls? They have ill intentions towards me?"

Yi Bai was startled. This was no small matter.

For any, the most feared thing is hidden villains.

As the saying goes, a thousand-mile dike can be destroyed by an ant's nest. A threat that lies hidden and silent is the greatest danger.

"No, I have to find out!"

Yi Bai furrowed his brows. He quickly left the room while studying the function introduction content that came with the watch strap.

This study really led Yi Bai to discover the key information.

"It says here: The detection effect has a retention time. Even if the threatener has a psychological change towards the wearer, the threat signal will still remain for a short while as a warning."

"If the threat signal flashes frequently, it means that the threatener is at the edge of the detection limit range, due to a weak detection signal."

Yi Bai murmured. He suddenly looked up and stood in the corridor looking at the fence outside.

"The maximum detection range of 50 meters is exactly at the edge of the fence, right?"

"It's not the girls who have a problem. It's an uninvited guest!"

As soon as Yi Bai realized this, he heard the sound of footsteps on the top floor rooftop. Soon, a young girl responsible for lookout duty hurried downstairs.

"Ah, it's the leader. Greetings, leader!"

The girl bumped into Yi Bai in the corridor. She saluted nervously and flusteredly. Yi Bai frowned, "What's the matter?"

"Leader, I saw it just now!"

The girl pointed up at the rooftop and then outside, swallowing nervously, "Those three people, they're back."

"Which three people?"

Yi Bai asked. The woman's breathing was so nervous that it was disordered, "Those three people! The subway station. We spent a night in the subway station and the three people who went missing!"

" Hmm?"

Yi Bai raised his eyebrows. He knew about this matter.

After the women were driven away by him previously, they spent a night in the subway station. As a result, three unlucky girls went missing.

From what she said, now these three missing people have returned on their own?

Yi Bai touched his watch strap and asked, "Only the three of them?"

"Uh-huh!"

The girl nodded hurriedly, a bit at a loss, "Leader, should we... let them in?"

There was some excitement and a faint sense of guilt on her face. It seemed that she still accepted and trusted these three companions.

"Don't rush. Call Jiang Xiaoci. I'll wait for her on the rooftop."

Yi Bai raised his eyebrows and turned to go upstairs.

Ten minutes later.

Yi Bai stood on the rooftop. There was a crude telescope modified by Li Ya here.

Through the telescope, Yi Bai could clearly see that on the street of the community outside the fence, there were three ragged women constantly wandering outside the fence.

Their faces were full of panic and fear. They huddled together, neither leaving nor getting too close. They just walked and looked around along the fence.

"Only the three of them?"

Yi Bai glanced down at his watch strap.

After careful observation, he found that whenever these three women got closer to the edge of the fence, the color of the watch strap would turn red and then quickly turn blue.

"A manifestation of a weak signal. It seems that the abnormality of the watch strap is caused by these three women."

"They were originally residents of this building. It's normal for them to know the way home. But... Why would they have ill intentions towards here?"

Yi Bai raised his eyebrows. While he was thinking, he heard the crisp sound of footsteps behind him.

Yi Bai turned around and saw that Jiang Xiaoci had brought three women up to the rooftop.

One of the women was still holding a pistol and looked a bit nervous.

"Why did you bring a gun up?"

Yi Bai looked at the submachine pistol in Jiang Xiaoci's hand. This was still the weapon that Lin Yue used initially.

"Sir, I think they come with ill intentions."

Jiang Xiaoci stood side by side with Yi Bai and looked at the scene outside the fence through another telescope, "I have already explained the changes in our building to the girls. But I think outsiders should also have noticed the changes here."

"Sir, look at their expressions. They want to come in. They want to visit us."

"At this time, the sudden visit of these three missing people. I don't think it's a coincidence."

"This visit, I'm afraid, won't bring anything good."

Jiang Xiaoci's explanation was brief and carried a rather strong subjective judgment. The women beside her seemed a bit skeptical.

But Yi Bai knew that Jiang Xiaoci's intuition was correct.

"Hmm, they do have ill intentions. But it's not clear yet what exactly they want to do."

Yi Bai shook the watch strap in his hand at Jiang Xiaoci. It had no explanatory function. He just asked, "What's your suggestion regarding those three people?"

"Sir, let them in."

Jiang Xiaoci had been looking at the three women outside the fence. Her voice was very calm, "We should have been targeted. There's no reason to guard against thieves every day. We must take the initiative to solve the hidden danger."

"What about Lin Yue and the others? When will they return?"

"Sir, before they set off, I set a latest time for them. They will be home in at most 30 minutes."

Jiang Xiaoci paused and took out a small remote control button from her pocket and handed it to Yi Bai.

Unexpectedly, she had also brought the control button of the [Automatic Machine Gun Firing Port] in Yi Bai's room.

She was really considerate and thorough.

Even without Lin Yue and the others in the shelter, the fully upgraded shelter was not afraid of most enemies.

These 20 automatic machine guns were powerful weapons. Even Lin Yue and the others couldn't avoid them if they faced them head-on.

"Then let them in and see."

Yi Bai played with the button in his hand and then looked at the women beside Jiang Xiaoci, "If they have no problems, everything will be fine. If there are problems..."

"They will die."

Jiang Xiaoci also stared at the women beside her. This was a silent warning.

The female spy chief was very good at controlling people's hearts. She didn't even forget to bring a few women beside her to experience the drama of killing the chicken to scare the monkeys.