Capítulo 268: What's Inside?

After having their second meal of the day, the two women stayed inside the cabin. There were two cups of simple cheap instant tea on the wooden table.

Old Huang was looking outside while Zhang Huiling was observing the old woman.

If she didn't know that this 'granny' was the former leader, she could easily believe she's just a normal old lady living alone in an area that was almost abandoned by civilization.

The air around her was lazy and relax. Even her way of doing things was far from being touched by technology.

"I'm surprised that you chose to live this way." Zhang Huiling commented as she lifted her cup and enjoyed the subtle warm tea.

The old woman only smiled. "There is always an unspeakable beauty of living simply. As a person nearing her end, I want to only relax in a simple environment."

"You're not that old."

"There's no such thing as old or young. If death comes knocking at your door, it won't consider your age at all. For us, death's path is always nearby. Without the usual protection that one enjoys, the probability of death's visit is even higher."

"Why don't you move to safer place then?"

With this kind of environment, Old Huang's life could really be taken easily.

"The last task is to stay here and guard. I also consider it as my last journey. Technically, I would just stay and wait for the next person to come before I can take a final rest. It should be living an easy and peaceful life if no one would come to disturb me."

"So I'm a disturbance?"

Old Huang shook her head. "Not you, of course. Sooner or later you would know this place anyway. But people who are interested in this place aren't limited to law enforcers. The origin of the map you showed me is what I'm trying to solve."

"It's not accurate." Zhang Huiling concluded. If the map was concise, she wouldn't end up being 'attacked' by Old Huang.

"Exactly. It was either drawn based from memory because the person found out this place or it was copied from a certain source. But whoever made it, that person didn't do a good job." Old Huang said and took a small sip of the tea, even closing her eyes to enjoy its fleeting flavor as if it was the most delicious drink she ever tasted.

"It can be deliberate." Zhang Huiling said and took out the map, examined it again to check if there's a special mark that she missed. "My question is the same, what's inside the facility?" She continued after realizing that there was nothing to be worthy to take note on the map itself.

"2 out of the five rooms could be considered relevant, depends on who is searching for it."

"There are five rooms?" Surprised by what she heard, Zhang Huiling stared questioningly at the old woman.

She didn't see any other room except from the one she stayed in.

"Doors are hidden behind the wall." Old Huang simply explained after hearing her question.

"The first one is the room where you stayed. Nothing special in that room, just a place to take a rest to ponder if you don't want to go out."

"The second one contained weapons you can use to protect yourself. It's similar to what you're familiar with."

"The third one is the biggest, it resembles a laboratory with hospital bed, big walk in freezer and a place for cremating bodies. You probably know the purpose of the place. It's the place where you choose the way how you would like to die." The old woman explained as if the topic was a simple and common day to day activity.

"The fourth one?" She pretty much understood the relevance of that room. She could also deduced where the medical supplies came from. Being attached secretly to the medical facility ran by Chen Dewei before, it would be easy to get supplies.

But Zhang Huiling thought this room wasn't that special.

"The fourth one is where records are being kept."

Zhang Huiling waited for additional details but the old woman didn't say anything else about the fourth room.

"The fifth one is the smallest. It contains the things left by the previous leaders. A thing that is significant to each of them. They left it in that room. Each thing is labelled with the date of death of the owner."

"The fourth and fifth rooms are considered important. What kind of records are inside the fourth room?" It was the one she was most interested in.

"Clients, members and even the targets. It has records from ages ago. You can safely assume that it contained records from the time black.com started. "

"Then the one who was after the map was targeting that room. Could they be law enforcers? Or previous clients that wanted to erase their transactions with us?"

"All are possible." Old Huang answered and stood up. "Come, help me check my crops..."

Zhang Huiling was left dumbfounded. They were seriously talking about the rooms then suddenly jumped to the old woman's hobby?

Even though she wanted to complain, she also understood that Old Huang didn't want to talk more about it.

But they only passed by the area where the old woman's crops were planted. They didn't even stop.

The two walked around before they entered the facility. Zhang Huiling felt excited. She more or less guessed what the old woman wanted to do. She wanted to show her the remaining rooms.

After handing her the specialized mask, Old Huang led her in a room. The door was indeed well hidden. Earlier when she passed this area, she never noticed any difference. But looking closely, there's really glass like surface where the entire palm should be pressed before the outline of the door appeared.

It showed the number 'four'.

"This is the one you wanted to see, right?" Old Huang asked glancing quickly at the woman behind her.

Zhang Huiling who was focused, simply nodded.

When the door opened, Old Huang gave way. She just stepped aside and signalled Zhang Huiling to come in.

Confused by the old woman's actions, Zhang Huilng hesitated to take a single step. "Why aren't you going inside."

Old Huang sighed after seeing the cautious reaction of Zhang Huiling. "This room is empty."She answered before stepping inside. "The items inside were burnt." She continued and looked around the empty room. There were still traces of black spots in the middle and some small scrapped metals.

"You did?"

Old Huang shook her head. "When I entered the first time, it was already like this." She was also shocked after seeing the situation inside this room. Sad thing was, there was no one who could explain why the records were burnt into ashes.

"If those people that killed my parents were after these records, it simply meant my parents died for nothing?!" Zhang Huiling couldn't contain her rage. It was as if she could spit enormous fire anytime.

"Who are they? Who gave my parents that crooked map?" For her, both were responsible for her parents' death.

"I don't have an absolute answer but I have a few theories." Old Huang answered. Her usual voice was calm but contained a hidden fury.

Zhang Huiling looked at the old woman and waited for her to continue.

Old Huang walked around the room before speaking again. "The records were burnt by the leader before me. She was already dead when I arrived. Do you know what's the other meaning of the number of this room?"

"Four, an unlucky number that associates with the word death." Zhang Huiling answered.

"Yes, death. End. The former leader wanted either of the two when she burnt the records here."

"Overcome the death or death of the organization?" Zhang Huiling's voice became almost a whisper when she finished her sentence.

She wanted to stop the flow of her thoughts as she looked at the old woman. The reason why she was showing these rooms and telling her something that she's not supposed to know yet, wasn't just helping her find answers.

This old woman wanted her to do something!

A simple doting smile appeared on the old woman's face. "It's your call."

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