Rebirth after the apocalypse: I create a new world with space!

"I'll wait until the third watch tonight, during the shift change at the base." He made up his mind and tapped the wall lightly with his fingertips, producing a series of extremely faint vibrations.

The vibration frequency was precisely controlled to a range imperceptible to ordinary people, yet it served as his secret code for communicating with the outside world. Through the vibration of the walls, the message "Lock the reagent's trajectory and carry out sabotage tonight" could be accurately transmitted to his accomplices lurking three kilometers outside the base.

After doing all this, Shadow Snake slowly stood up, his face returning to its numb and tired expression. He lowered his head, put his hands in his pockets, and slowly walked out of the alley, blending into the passing residents.

No one noticed that the shadows on the ground seemed darker where he walked, as if he had absorbed the light.

He walked to the corner of the commercial street, bought a steaming hot bun, and, like all the survivors struggling to make ends meet, slowly ate it.

But his gaze was like that of a lurking venomous snake, glancing from time to time toward the small building where Li Luo and the others lived, and toward the research area in the distance, a flash of red light appearing in the depths of his pupils.

“Reagents, research data, and those troublesome things…” Shadow Snake took a bite of the steamed bun, his chewing motion mechanical and cold, the steam from the bun quickly dissipating in front of him. “Tonight, we’ll settle accounts all of them.”

Time passed quietly, night deepened, and the lights in the base gradually thinned out. Only the patrol team's searchlights continued to sweep back and forth, the beams of light piercing the darkness, carrying a chilling atmosphere.

This patrol team is different from ordinary security personnel. They wear special anti-psychic combat suits, carry pulse detection guns on their shoulders, and have psychic wave alarms hanging from their waists. They advance in groups of three in a triangular formation, with their steps in perfect unison and without the slightest hesitation.

As they passed through the abandoned alleyway, the team leader raised his hand to signal them to stop. His sharp eyes swept across the dark depths of the alley, his fingertip on the trigger of his detection gun, and he said in a deep voice:

"The shadows are dense here. Search carefully; shadow-type ability users are best at hiding here."

The two team members immediately responded, activating the supernatural ability detectors on their waists. The instruments emitted a faint blue light, slowly scanning the alleyway.

On the detector's screen, a dense array of values ​​were displayed, mostly normal fluctuations in environmental energy.

But when the scan reached the wall where the Shadow Serpent had just been hiding, the value jumped slightly before returning to normal.

The lingering chilling aura of the Shadow Serpent was too faint and was deliberately concealed by him, so the detector only mistook it for environmental interference.

"Captain, everything is normal," the team member reported.

The captain frowned, sensing something was amiss, but couldn't quite put his finger on it. He could only say in a deep voice:

"Keep moving forward and stay vigilant. The patrol frequency will be doubled tonight, and the shift change interval will be shortened to five minutes."

"Yes!"

The patrol team gradually disappeared into the distance, and the beams of the searchlights moved with them.

Deep within the alley they had just left, Shadow Serpent's figure reappeared from the shadows, a mocking smile playing on his lips:

"No matter how tight the patrols are, they can't stop the footsteps of a shadow."

In the darkness, he wasn't the only shadow writhing.

In every dark corner of the base—in the shadows of the garbage dump, in the cracks of the walls, and under the eaves of old buildings—pairs of cold, sinister eyes have opened, and black shadows are quietly gathering, like a giant black net, slowly shrinking towards the temporary dormitory area and the research area.

A conspiracy targeting the core of the Youzhou base is about to erupt in the darkness.