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"What's wrong?" Lee Eun-sook asked, bewildered.
"An earthquake is about to begin."
As she spoke, a vibration sound came from the base, but Lee Eun-sook was very curious. How could the earthquake sound come from above? It didn't seem scientific!
But before she could react, she suddenly saw the warhead of the bunker-buster missile, which had already breached the base!
"Holy crap, Oppa..." She seemed to be about to say something when Gu Ran immediately grabbed her shoulder, making her squat down, while he himself fully activated Susanoo.
The detectors of the bunker-buster missile seemed to detect the cavity area and believed it to be the cavity base. So the high-explosive bombs inside began to detonate, and the sound of the explosions shook the ground. Waves of heat began to continuously impact the base.
However, all the heat and shockwave from the explosion were blocked by Gu Ran's Susanoo!
Gu Ran's Susanoo is not afraid of such wide-range attacks; on the contrary, he is more worried about attacks that are concentrated on a single point.
That's why he chose to use non-Newtonian fluids to slow down the first wave of the missile's impact, while the subsequent explosions were entirely protected by Susanoo.
And indeed, this defensive strategy was perfect. Susanoo successfully tricked the fuse of the bunker-buster missile, causing it to explode completely!
Of course, Gu Ran also had other methods. For example, he could use his Heavenly Hand Power to move the missile to a nearby river, so that it wouldn't hit the base.
However, he was worried that there were other monitoring methods in the missile. If the person who launched the missile found that the place that was hit was not the base, but another place, then they might launch a second missile, or even a third or fourth one.
That would be more troublesome.
"Alright, it's all over now." Gu Ran stood up and rubbed Li Enshu's head.
Lee Eun-sook was truly terrified. She had witnessed the explosion at the base, the dazzling flames bursting right before her eyes.
However, there seemed to be a strange energy field beneath the base, keeping all the explosive damage at bay.
She wasn't hurt at all!
Not only her, but the entire base was unharmed.
This is too scary!
Lee Eun-sook stared wide-eyed at Gu Ran: "President... what exactly is going on?"
"I don't know either!" Gu Ran pretended to be unaware.
“Alright, let’s get started now.” Gu Ran pulled Li Enshu along. He had found several empty hard drives in the base. “Go use these hard drives to copy all their data, and then we’ll take them back for analysis.”
"Oh, oh!" Lee Eun-sook responded. This kind of thing was exactly what she, as an office worker, was best at.
"By the way, let's check our statements in a bit. We'll say that we had already safely evacuated to another location before that bunker-buster missile came down."
"Ah!" Lee Eun-sook dropped the mouse she was holding. She said tremblingly, "That...that was a bunker-buster missile?"
As a student of Kassel College, familiarity with various weapons is a basic requirement, so Lee Eun-sook was also aware of the destructive power of this missile.
“Yeah, it’s not that scary, is it?” Gu Ran laughed.
Lee Eun-sook noticed that her hands were still trembling. It wasn't scary; that thing was terrifying!
She was truly blessed by her ancestors to have survived.
and many more……
Lee Eun-sook seemed to have realized something and looked at Gu Ran: "So, it was Oppa who defended against the missile just now?"
"How could that be? I'm just an ordinary Lionheart Society president. How could I possibly defend against missiles? I doubt even the Dragon King could!" Gu Ran stared with wide, innocent eyes.
Li Enshu, of course, didn't believe it; her big eyes were fixed on Gu Ran.
"Okay, okay, let's just go over our statements, alright? I'll cook you something delicious when we get back!"
Lee Eun-sook pouted, then finally picked up the keyboard, connected it to the computer, and began copying data.
"Will you make me whatever I want to eat?" she asked haughtily.
"Yes, yes, so what would you like to eat?" Gu Ran asked with a smile.
"Braised chicken with rice".
"Okay, I'll make you the best braised chicken rice in the world!"
Lee Eun-sook smiled, which was considered as agreeing to Gu Ran's request.
In about half an hour, Li Enshu had collected all the information on the researchers and leaders here.
Gu Ran used the Rinnegan's 'memory reading' ability to read these people's memories one by one, and learned some useful information.
Gu Ran quickly identified an organization based on these people's memories, an organization that seemed to be related to the Holy Palace Medical College.
He knows this information, and the people from Kassel College who come next will probably know it too.
However, what puzzled him was that he had just called Norma and mentioned the Holy Palace Medical Association, which triggered the bunker-buster missile to destroy the evidence.
If it weren't for Gu Ran's quick reaction and outstanding abilities in protecting the base, the person behind it all would probably have had to go into hiding.
Therefore, there must be members of the Holy Palace Medical Society within Kassel College. They may hold high positions of power, have access to the college's confidential documents, be able to control everyone's communications through Norma, and even use their privileges to set up firewalls through Norma.
This person must be of high status.
Gu Ran thought about it and decided not to investigate further. He planned to gradually distance himself from Kassel College after graduation and no longer get involved in their conspiracies and power struggles.
There are actually quite a few factions within the Secret Party, and they have been fighting each other all along. It seems that political parties all over the world are the same. As long as interests and ideologies are involved, there will be conflicts when there are differences, and there will be open and covert struggles and undercurrents.
Gu Ran was too lazy to think about such a complicated matter; it was better to be free and unrestrained outside.
At this time, Gu Ran and Li Enshu were waiting outside. About an hour later, six armed helicopters circled over.
Lee Eun-sook took out a smoke flare and threw it on an open space by the river as a marker, and the helicopter then landed by the river.
Leading the way down were Professor Manstein and his student Nono.
The planes following behind carried other executive officers, as well as some heavily armed peripheral school staff.
This time, the Secret Service sent quite a few people, more than forty in total.
"Where was the base of the secret experiments that were bombed? Did you get any useful information?" Manstein asked Gu Ran as soon as he got off the plane.
“We haven’t collected any data. The experimental base is over there.” Lee Eun-sook pointed into the forest and then led the way.
The group followed behind her.
In the forest, there was a clearing that had been bombed by missiles, and many of the trees there had been knocked down by the missiles.
"We couldn't get in touch with you, and we thought you hadn't escaped from the base." Manstein breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Gu Ran and Li Enshu were both safe and sound.
Gu Ran laughed and said, "We escaped a long time ago and have been waiting for you in this open space. We don't know how badly the base was destroyed by the bunker-buster missiles, or whether any useful information was left for us to track down those bad guys."
“Don’t worry, I brought enough people with me, ready to start digging as soon as possible. And Nono is here too; she should be able to profile some useful information,” Manstein said.
Lee Eun-sook quickly led them to the entrance of the forest.
"The entrance is so intact?" Nono felt something was off the moment she saw the entrance to the base.
“I don’t know, it was perfectly fine when it escaped,” Lee Eun-sook said.
She wasn't lying; if the door was broken, could they have escaped safely?
Nuonuo rolled her eyes at the junior student first, then turned around and stared at Gu Ran.
"Why are you looking at me?" Gu Ran asked innocently.
Nono then realized that Gu Ran had a problem.
She is actually very knowledgeable about many things, and knows everyone's personality perfectly. Therefore, she always keeps people at arm's length, afraid that if she gets too close, she will find out things she shouldn't know.
At that moment, Lee Eun-sook entered the password in front of the door, and the password door opened immediately.
Even Manstein felt something was wrong at this point. After being hit by a bunker buster, the door could still be opened normally. This was too abnormal!
He quickly sent the assault team in to see what was going on.
These commandos were all retired Navy SEALs and special forces soldiers, and they were very experienced. They quickly explored every corner.
Less than three minutes later, the assault team relayed a message through the communications channel: "Report, it's safe inside, there are no threats, all facilities are intact, and there are no casualties."
"What?" Manstein exclaimed in surprise, "Wasn't it bombed by a bunker-buster missile?"
“There are indeed traces of a bomb explosion on the ceiling… I can’t explain it clearly, Professor, you should come in and see for yourself,” the commando said.
Manstein left half of his men outside to keep watch, and then went inside with Gu Ran and the other students from the academy, as well as the people from the East Africa Executive Bureau.
When Manstein saw that the inside was completely intact, he was indeed stunned. This seemed illogical!
"Didn't the bunker-buster missile explode here? Did it miss?" Manstein asked in surprise.
"No, it exploded. Look at the ceiling and the surrounding area; there are many signs of an explosion." Nono closed her eyes slightly and looked around, and was able to roughly guess what had happened.
The ceiling and high walls were all blown up, except for the area three meters above the ground, which remained unharmed.
This situation was as if Unit-01 had deployed a vast Absolute Territory force field, repelling all energy from the outside.
Chapter 541 The Meeting of Solomon's Temple
Inside the underground base.
The Peruvian Party's East Africa Executive Bureau commissioner, along with Professor Manstein and Nono, were all checking on the situation at the base.
They were all very curious as to why the base remained unharmed even though the bunker-buster missile had already exploded.
"I don't know!" Gu Ran said innocently, saying she didn't know anything no matter what was asked.
As the vice president and secretary of the Lionheart Society, Lee Eun-sook had no choice but to follow the president's lead. In short, she said she didn't know anything when asked. The two of them had run far away before the bunker-buster missile exploded, and no one knew what happened underground.
Since the two of them were keeping their mouths shut, Nono couldn't pry them open up.
Soon, Nono began profiling and collecting evidence, while Manstein led the East African Executive Bureau specialists to examine the other party's computer data.
As for Gu Ran and Li Enshu, as the vanguard of the attack, they had already done everything they were supposed to do. Gu Ran only killed a few of the most heinous criminals underground, leaving most of them to be interrogated by the secret party themselves.
Whatever is found out is none of Gu Ran's business.
His purpose in doing this was to draw the attention of the Secret Service to the Holy Palace Medical School and guide them to investigate.
This organization, which has been lurking in the shadows, is like the Black Organization in Detective Conan, and seems to be plotting some strange conspiracy.
Gu Ran wouldn't risk his life to do such a thing; investigations and the like weren't suitable for him.
Furthermore, in order to minimize his own involvement in this matter, he told Professor Manstein, "Professor, Lee Eun-sook and I are still taking our cross-country test. We'll leave this to you and continue with our test."
After saying that, Gu Ran turned and left.