Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 696 I Have a Friend!
All the buildings on the surface of Warehouse Eleven were disguised, and the warehouses above ground mostly contained normal, inadequate goods, so no one would notice anything unusual.

Bai Haotian had no interest in explaining these things. He simply told Erjing to wait outside, then pulled Hu Ming along and beckoned Yin Nanfeng and Xiao Ge into a secret elevator.

This is the only road leading to the underground warehouse.

滴!
The ID card was swiped, and the elevator made a crisp sound.

Student ID card...

Hu Ming, unusually absent-minded, silently added a sentence in his mind.

"The staff of Warehouse Eleven are all handpicked by us from society. They are people who have experienced great changes in their lives, lost hope in reality, and spent the rest of their lives in despair and regret."

"Including, but not limited to, those who have terminal illnesses, are separated from their wives and children, have lost their families, or have even been cuckolded more than once."

"These kinds of people are relatively easy to control, and Warehouse Eleven is also a very good place for them to escape the world."

"For a century, the core principles of Warehouse Eleven have been loyalty, efficiency, and secrecy."

While the elevator was descending, Bai Haotian enthusiastically introduced some basic information about Warehouse Eleven to Hu Ming.

"More than one green hat, how tragic!"

"And those who have given up on real life?"

Don't you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly live?

"You wouldn't be printing that phrase on flyers to recruit people, would you?"

Hu Ming thought for a moment and then asked tentatively.

"Yes or no?"

"Please, Second Master, this is an ancient meme. It's not popular anymore. If this pops up on a computer now, the first thing people do is unplug the internet cable."

Bai Haotian answered immediately.

"what?"

Yin Nanfeng said that she didn't understand what they were saying at all, and the feeling of not being able to join in was quite uncomfortable.

After all, the person she was chatting with was her own man. No woman would be so magnanimous.

"This is a classic quote from a web novel written in 2007 by a man known as the God of Eunuchs. It was turned into a virus pop-up by many hackers back then."

"I remember back then, a lot of immature teenagers actually thought they were about to time travel, clicked 'yes,' and then someone ripped away their entire hard drive full of study materials..."

Seeing that even the young man had become interested in this statement about life, Hu Ming gave a brief introduction.

"A hard drive full of study materials—you weren't one of the victims back then, were you?"

Bai Haotian grinned again, revealing a sweet yet teasing smile.

As a young person who keeps up with the times, she naturally knows what learning materials are.

These are live teaching videos from all the teachers!

It's not like girls don't look at that stuff.

Hu Ming opened his mouth, wanting to refute.

But thinking about it, putting this life aside for now, in his past life, Hu Ming did indeed have a bout of adolescent delusions, and he actually prepared an oversized backpack full of gear and clicked "yes"...

"It seems there really was! Second Master, you also had a hard drive full of study materials back then?"

Bai Haotian persisted. "No, I never watch those things, they're meaningless. It's just that a friend of mine got infected."

Hu Ming said confidently.

After all, he's a winner in life; how could he possibly rely on study materials to solve this?
Isn't this a joke?
"Well, your friend is really unlucky. We've arrived, Second Master. Welcome to Warehouse Eleven!!!"

These days, fabricating stories is not allowed. Bai Haotian saw that Hu Ming's expression didn't seem fake, so he believed him.

Just then, the elevator arrived at its destination. Bai Haotian took a step forward, turned to the side, and gestured.

The elevator faced a spacious area, about the size of a football field, which was now neatly filled with people in uniforms, but without name tags on their chests.

There are fewer women; 90% are men, ranging in age from young people in their twenties to those in their forties and fifties.

"What a pity, today is the day of new recruit training. Follow me, Second Master, don't disturb them, let's go this way."

Bai Haotian led the group around the wall.

Hu Ming glanced back at the middle-aged man on the platform who was talking boastfully, and then lost interest.

The underground space was frighteningly large. Along the way, apart from a few necessary measures, the main warehouse area was filled with neat and densely packed metal shelves.

The room was filled with cardboard boxes that had been labeled.

Looking up, the dome, tens of meters high, resembled a starry night sky, with countless points of light twinkling.

"The goods here are all coated with fluorescent material to make it easier to locate living creatures in specific locations."

Bai Haotian led the way while explaining softly.

Soon, the group took another elevator and arrived at a deeper location.

During this time, security personnel came forward to try to stop Hu Ming and his two companions, who clearly did not belong to Warehouse Eleven.

Bai Haotian quickly stepped forward, shielding himself with his body and showing the security personnel something. The security personnel's expressions changed, and they immediately let him pass.

"No, Uncle Ming, this naive girl isn't that simple. She must be hiding something. She's definitely not as simple as she seems."

"Okay," Yin Nanfeng said softly, pulling Hu Ming to the back.

“The Eleventh Warehouse was once entrusted to the Wu family by Zhang Qishan. Now Wu Erbai is the only person in charge. However, for some reasons, Wu Erbai has outsourced the management of the Eleventh Warehouse to a family that is dependent on the Wu family.”

Yin Nanfeng was never just a pretty face; as the head of the Yin family, it would be strange if she didn't have any cunning.

However, in front of Hu Ming, Yin Nanfeng always subconsciously put aside all her schemes and plots, willingly playing the role of a beautiful, sexy, and domineering older sister.

"You mean the Bai family!"

Yin Nanfeng understood and suddenly realized.

"According to the intelligence I received, the most outstanding among the younger generation of the Bai family is Bai Haotian, who is also the current head of the Eleventh Warehouse."

"In other words, Bai Haotian and Wu Erbai are indeed plotting something, but it doesn't matter. This mess has nothing to do with us, and I have no intention of getting involved."

"Besides, barring any unforeseen circumstances, I would never have set foot here if I hadn't come with you to pay my respects to Yin Xinyue."

Hu Ming smiled slightly, took Yin Nanfeng's hand, and followed ahead, responding to Bai Haotian who was waving and calling out to the two of them.

At the end of the platform ahead was a bottomless abyss, more than five meters wide, and on the other side was the true core area of ​​Warehouse Eleven.

In the five-meter-wide space, only three thick iron railings stretched across it, and several uniformed people carrying heavy loads slowly walked across them.

Clearly, this is the only way…