Then, after a period of time, someone should quietly take all the garbage away, and naturally, no one would discover that there are still people present in this place.

Not until he was down below did he start to feel his eyes gradually adapting to the lighting here, and basically, things inside were becoming clearer.

Although it was very dirty and smelly, he still cautiously moved forward, and at this point, he saw a large black plastic bag ahead.

Ye Chen walked up to it and touched it with his hand, feeling a hint of warmth inside.

After this realization, Ye Chen gave a faint smile, then grabbed the plastic bag and quickly crawled out of the cave.

Finding an isolated and uninhabited place, Ye Chen opened the plastic bag and dumped out its contents.

What he saw were various lunch boxes and some other items like cigarette butts and liquor bottles.

Ye Chen roughly counted about 47 lunch boxes here.

"Wow, that's not a small number."

Moreover, Ye Chen knew that including their injured people who passed through here yesterday, there were probably more than 20 people. So, besides their group of 20, there were over 20 others. Who were these people?

Doctors and nurses must be present, but apart from them, he couldn't imagine so many other people being there, which led him to suspect that there must be other people there, probably to protect them.

The approximate number of people was now clear, about 50 in all.

He remembered Adam once mentioning they had over 40 people on their side, and they were all highly skilled.

If it came to a widespread confrontation, they might not have the upper hand, but Ye Chen felt that it hadn't come to that yet.

After knowing this, he threw the plastic bag back into the large dirt pit.

Continuing forward, Ye Chen entered the factory, looked around, and indeed, the factory had been abandoned, but luckily, the main gate was not locked.

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He quietly pushed open the gate and glimpsed inside, noticing that the space was overgrown with weeds.

Further on, several workshop buildings lined up side by side.

But, the location of the so-called Underground Hospital was still unknown to Ye Chen.

Just from the size of this factory area, it looked to be at least several hundred square meters, perhaps even over a thousand square meters.

If there was just one entrance on top, then finding a small entrance within these 1,000 square meters in the pitch-black night would indeed be impossible for Ye Chen.

Initially, he had hoped to pinpoint that position here and see what the situation was like underground. However, he suddenly felt that all of this was proving too difficult.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind: if there was really a huge underground project, then electricity and water need to be constantly supplied, including oxygen.

If electricity and water were supplied, there must be a line coming from here.

The factory looked pitch-dark, and the lines were also completely abandoned, so he should be able to pull a dedicated line from somewhere else; only this way could their normal use be ensured.

After thinking this, he looked up and began tracing along the wall.

He finally reached the southeastern corner of the factory area when Ye Chen saw two high utility poles at this corner, with two tall cables running into the factory area.

When the dedicated line came in, the cable changed direction and entered directly into one of the workshops.

This proved that their power supply probably interconnected through this area.

If the power supply was here, Ye Chen guessed that the entrance must be nearby, which seemed like a glimmer of hope to him.

He quickly followed the cable's path and continued forward.

Upon reaching this workshop, Ye Chen saw that while the main door had been dealt with, the interior was filled with various objects covering the entrance.

If it were covered, it meant that to pass through here, it was necessary to climb over some objects, or even from this window.

At that moment, he walked to the window, saw it was in a ramshackle state, but fortunately not very high, and an adult should easily be able to enter the workshop.

So, Ye Chen leapt inside, looked around, and found the environment more complex than before.

There were some abandoned machines, and any carelessness might cause noise.

Ye Chen continued tracing along the wall, but after a thorough search, he still couldn't locate the entrance.

As the cable entered here, it seemed to vanish into an invisible place, either within the wall or underground.

If so, he couldn't trace the precise route of the cable any further.

Relying on the direction of the cable to navigate towards the entrance was clearly becoming impractical.

Was he really about to give up at this point?

He glanced at his wristwatch; it was already 7:30 PM.

According to the plan, Ye Chen must leave here before 10 PM tonight.

Otherwise, his escape might not go smoothly, and if trapped, the difficulty of their rescue would increase.

After considering all this, Ye Chen decided to give up. Since he couldn't enter, there was no point in continuing here, especially since they had already basically pinpointed the location.