“What do you mean by special operation?”

“The order of the buttons inside the elevator.” The middle-aged man answered cautiously, “Normally, there are only buttons 1 to 6 on the control panel inside the elevator. To get to the underground base, you need to press and hold buttons 1, 3, and 6, and at the same time press the alarm button at the back of the elevator.”

Jiang Cheng could roughly understand what the man meant. This kind of special setting is standard for important departments. The advantage is that it cannot be operated by one person, reducing the possibility of danger due to personal reasons. He had heard of a saying that the activation of some nuclear weapons requires two launch personnel to simultaneously turn the key at a distance of 2 meters.

“The previous team entered through the elevator?” Jiang Cheng frowned slightly. In his opinion, entering in this way was not discreet at all.

The middle-aged man immediately shook his head, “They didn't. They went through a ventilation duct, but you can't, you…”

At this point, the middle-aged man looked at Fatty embarrassedly, his eyes scanning Fatty's huge physique.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Cheng understood. The space inside the ventilation duct was narrow, and Fatty's physique definitely wouldn't fit.

Moreover, the previous team had sneaked in through the ventilation duct, so the people inside must already be aware of this, so this route was not feasible.

Seeing this, Fatty became a little anxious. He really wanted to go in with the doctor, and more importantly, he wanted to see those Deep Reds with his own eyes.

“Let's just enter through the elevator.”

Jiang Cheng ended the topic with a casual sentence, which made the middle-aged man look at him with admiration. The person in front of him was not old, but his confidence was surprisingly strong.

He naturally didn't know what Jiang Cheng was thinking. Now that Wu You was here, Jiang Cheng wasn't too worried about safety. Moreover, he had hardly taken an elevator since entering the mission world. At that time, the conditions didn't allow it, but now his wings had hardened.

At this moment, a woman ran up the stairs, her hair neatly short, panting, and holding a piece of paper in her hand.

“What happened?” The middle-aged man was a little nervous. There had been enough bad news recently.

The woman shook her head vigorously, “It's not here, it's Fuyang City, something happened in Fuyang City!”

When he came, Jiang Cheng had seen a map of this area and knew that Fuyang City was not very far from here, about 100 kilometers away. Completely different from here, Fuyang was considered a medium-sized city with a large population.

The woman noticed that Jiang Cheng and the others were also there, and couldn't help but stop, obviously hesitant to say the next words. However, the middle-aged man waved his hand, signaling her to continue.

“News came from Fuyang City that the team of Night Watchmen they had been tracking had disappeared out of thin air, but their communication tools and some top-secret documents were found at the scene. Through analyzing their last records, these people seemed to have encountered incomprehensible things, and repeatedly mentioned the words ‘it's getting dark’.”

“It's like this again…” The middle-aged man's face darkened, and he involuntarily looked in the direction of Fuyang City.

“What do you mean ‘it's like this again’?” Jiang Cheng asked.

“You don't know, this is the sixth case recently.” The middle-aged man took a deep breath, “These missing people are all key members of the Night Watchmen, with considerable means. We lost a lot of manpower to track them, but the strange thing is that every time we locked their location and were about to give them a fatal blow, these people disappeared out of thin air. Only the people disappeared, but the documents and other things they carried were all there.”

“These top-secret documents are more important than their lives, and they would never be abandoned, so we judged that another mysterious force was also targeting these people, and repeatedly preempted us.”

“We once intercepted a communication, sent by a team of Night Watchmen before they disappeared. The content of the communication was very chaotic, lasting only about ten seconds. The other party kept emphasizing the words ‘it's getting dark’, and words like ‘domain’. Because of the strong interference, we could only hear these, and then the call ended.”

The information provided by the middle-aged man was extremely shocking. From all indications, these remnants of the Night Watchmen must have been attacked. The people who attacked them must also be Apostles, and a very powerful Apostle, after all, these remnants of the Night Watchmen were not easy to deal with.

Jiang Cheng's first reaction was that the mysterious force came from the Deep Reds, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it wasn't likely. The current Deep Reds had suffered great losses in strength and probably no longer possessed such strong combat power. And the most important thing was that Lin Wan'er didn't need to hide this kind of thing from him.

Judging from the other party's target, they could clear out the core members of the Night Watchmen without anyone knowing, but they didn't attack the troops surrounding the Night Watchmen. The other party should have a grudge against the Night Watchmen. Even if they weren't allies with his side, they were definitely not enemies.

There were too few clues, and Jiang Cheng didn't have a clear idea. He could only temporarily set the target as a high-level Apostle who had been suppressed or wanted by the Night Watchmen before. Now that the Night Watchmen had become stray dogs, they were back for revenge.

However, there was an air of weirdness in this matter, and Jiang Cheng always vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Regaining his thoughts, Jiang Cheng decided to handle the immediate matter first. He decided to go in now, taking only Fatty with him.

Li Bai and Yao Shunyu were left outside, so that if something happened, it would be convenient to contact them in time. And a very important point was that Jiang Cheng found it difficult to trust strangers.

“Are we acting now?” The middle-aged man looked up at the sky. It was just past noon, the sun was at its peak, “Should we wait a little later, we can wait until the early hours of the morning to set off.”

“No need.”

Soon, with the coordination of the middle-aged man, Jiang Cheng and Fatty passed through layers of encirclement and stood at the gate of the Jinxiu Town Welfare Institute.

Looking up, the gray and white building gave people an indescribable sense of oppression. Jiang Cheng started walking and walked towards the building with Fatty.

The glass door of the building was also open. The hall was empty, with several wheelchairs scattered randomly. There was also an IV stand for drips next to the dark green wall, and the white paint on the stand was badly worn.

Two old-fashioned red telephones were placed on the reception desk, along with a very thick visitor log with yellowed corners.

The layout here completely followed the style of 20 years ago, and time seemed to stand still here.

It was very quiet here, and the entire building seemed to be sealed by time. Jiang Cheng and Fatty, two modern people standing here, seemed out of place.

Without lingering too much, Jiang Cheng took out his phone. There were photos of the layout of the Welfare Institute in his phone album.

Turn right, walk past the reception desk, and through the long corridor, they stopped in front of an elevator. The number 1 on the display was glaringly red.