Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies

Chapter 303: Trojan Horse Strategy

West Hill Base.

After returning to the base, Liang Yue found some time to visit the Fourth Life Pod. She had been away for a month and was anxious to see how her students were doing.

But this time, she was shocked to discover that nearly half of her students were gone!

“How can this be? Why?”

Liang Yue was both horrified and furious, her body trembling uncontrollably.

Many familiar faces had disappeared. If her guess was correct, most of her students had died.

Her resentment toward West Hill Base deepened.

As for the remaining students, their expressions had become utterly numb.

They no longer showed the fear they once had. Some stared at her blankly, while others had strange smiles on their faces.

“Teacher Liang, you’re back!” Wu Chengyu walked up to her, a flicker of hesitation in his eyes.

The other students merely greeted her quietly, no longer the sobbing mess they once were.

Liang Yue took a deep breath. “Wu Chengyu, come with me for a moment.”

She pulled him aside and asked seriously, “What happened to you all while I was gone this past month?”

Wu Chengyu tugged at his clothes. Since arriving at West Hill Base, he always wrapped himself in layers of thick clothing, covering as much of his skin as possible. If he could, he’d probably hide his entire body.

“Teacher Liang, why were you gone for so long? More of our classmates were taken away. They never came back.”

Liang Yue was devastated by his words and grabbed his shoulders. “There are so many people in the Fourth Life Pod—why did they take you?”

Wu Chengyu looked up, his hollow eyes reflecting a hopelessness that had consumed his will to live.

“Because when it comes to human experiments, young and healthy individuals have the highest success rates.”

Liang Yue’s fury and despair were beyond words.

This was something she hadn’t anticipated.

But even if she had known beforehand, what could she have done?

She was powerless against the entirety of West Hill Base. Even now, with her agreement with Zhang Yi, she still had to wait for the right opportunity to try and save her students.

Liang Yue clenched her fists tightly, her nails digging into her palms, trying to suppress the pain in her heart.

Wu Chengyu suddenly asked, “Teacher Liang, have you forgotten about us?”

“Did becoming a Special Forces Team captain make your life so comfortable that you abandoned us?”

His eyes were filled with suspicion, and it was clear that he had almost lost the will to live. Compared to the other students, he had endured even more suffering.

Because of this, Wu Chengyu and his classmates had begun to doubt whether Liang Yue had forsaken them.

Seeing the hollow look in his eyes sent a chill down Liang Yue’s spine.

Her students were like a group of soulless, walking corpses, having lost all hope.

“I haven’t! I’ve been trying to find a way to get you all out of here!” Liang Yue said firmly, her eyebrows furrowed with determination. “It won’t be much longer—I promise I’ll take every one of you out of here!”

“It won’t be much longer!” she emphasized once again, with great conviction.

At that moment, Liang Yue felt as though her students were like dry kindling, slowly being consumed by West Hill Base’s fire.

If she delayed any longer, none of them might survive.

This was something Liang Yue couldn’t accept under any circumstances.

After giving her students some of her saved food and comforting them, she left the Fourth Life Pod.

Even though the students had almost given up hope of escaping West Hill Base, Liang Yue was determined to keep trying.

After leaving, she found a secluded, dimly lit corner. Once she was sure no one was around, she pulled out a phone hidden in the lining of her boot.

This was the phone she used to communicate with Zhang Yi.

During her mission with Ling Feng and the others, she had managed to retrieve it.

She had stolen this phone while in Xu Family Town. It wasn’t connected to West Hill Base’s network, so it couldn’t be detected. However, it couldn’t be used to communicate with the outside world either.

But Zhang Yi had already planned for this.

The SIM card he had given her was an advanced signal receiver, encrypted through multiple servers to avoid detection by West Hill Base’s network.

Zhang Yi had sent her instructions on how to use the SIM card and asked her to contact him once she was back at the base.

Liang Yue inserted the special SIM card into the phone and sent a message to Zhang Yi.

“I’ve returned to West Hill Base. I need to get my students out as soon as possible, and I need your help.”

While Zhang Yi hadn’t promised to personally rescue her and her students, he had said that his level of assistance would depend on the importance of the information she provided.

Now, Zhang Yi was Liang Yue’s greatest hope. She had no choice but to plead for his help.

Before long, a reply came from Zhang Yi.

“Find a way to plug the chip I gave you into any computer in the base’s network center.”

“Once we control West Hill Base’s network, we can help you escape.”

Liang Yue’s heart skipped a beat. This task wouldn’t be easy.

West Hill Base was heavily surveilled.

Getting into the heavily guarded Information Department and inserting a chip into one of its computers would be a monumental challenge.

But she also understood that if she could hack into West Hill Base’s network, it would throw the base into chaos for a period of time.

That would give her the window she needed to escape with her students.

Though dangerous, it was her only chance. Liang Yue’s eyes gleamed with determination.

“Alright, I’ll get it done. When the time comes, I expect you to keep your promise.”

Zhang Yi had promised to at least provide Liang Yue and her students with food and temporary shelter.

Any additional help would depend on her contribution.

Without hesitation, Zhang Yi replied, “Of course.”

Liang Yue turned off the phone, removed the SIM card, and carefully hid them back in the lining of her boot and her jacket’s inner pocket.

The Information Department was also in the Second Life Pod, about 500 meters from where she lived.

She was very familiar with the layout of the Second Life Pod. Now, she just needed to find the right moment to sneak in.

“Who would’ve thought I’d be going back to my old line of work after all these years?”

Liang Yue took a deep breath, her eyes filled with resolve.

Back when she had been a bodyguard, she had received professional training for situations like this.

Author's Note