# Chapter 389: Event Stripping
Xu Huo didn't deny it and added, "It hasn't been long since my hometown became a game zone."
Wan Tingfang waved her hand. "You're very skilled, and you have so many powerful items. My profession is a fisherman. If I don't get a high rating in an instance, I can't get good items either. It took me several years to become a C-level player, but I'm probably at the bottom among C-level players."
"How many more instances until you reach B-level?" Xu Huo asked casually.
"Who knows?" Wan Tingfang answered just as casually. "The higher the instance rating, the fewer instances needed to advance to the next level. But I always barely scrape by. Occasionally, I have one or two instances that I never clear by the end. My leveling is very slow. What about you?"
"I'm okay, mostly C and D levels," Xu Huo said.
"Then you've been a player for less time than me, but you might become a B-level player before I do." Wan Tingfang sized him up. "But your physical strength looks weaker than the average C-level player. Your evolution rate isn't high?"
Xu Huo smiled without speaking.
Wan Tingfang finished the strong liquor in her glass and extended her hand. "We're officially acquainted now. If I squeeze you out and become a contract staff member of the base, don't hold a grudge."
"Same to you." Xu Huo shook her hand.
Afterward, the two left the bar and went their separate ways.
Xu Huo returned to the rental apartment. After confirming that no one had entered the room during his absence, he went inside. First, he observed the logistics staff member at home through the telescope, then turned on the projection to watch the previously recorded footage.
That person's activity pattern was the same as the previous two days: going to work normally during the day, bringing groceries home after work, cooking dinner for his wife and daughter, tutoring his daughter after dinner, coaxing her to sleep, and then working overtime for a while.
Now was his overtime period.
Xu Huo watched by the window for a while before turning back to rest.
When the dead of night arrived, the extinguished lights in the surveillance footage suddenly turned on. The logistics staff member hurriedly changed into his work uniform, grabbed his briefcase, and left the residential building.
Xu Huo, who had been somewhat tired, perked up. He applied a facial mask and changed into a cleaning robot repairman's uniform before following.
He tracked him all the way to a trade dock on the east side of the base city.
The dock in Zone 011 was different from Zone 014. Large shipping containers had been replaced with temperature-controlled storage rooms resembling small compartments. These storage rooms were all equipped with automatic flight devices, allowing remote control for storing and retrieving goods, and they could have their positions preset with a swapping program.
This was a measure against theft. Each storage room at the dock had a movement program. Within a certain time frame, the storage rooms would automatically swap positions. Apart from the program that automatically generated positions and the person holding the controller, no one else could know the location of a storage room corresponding to a specific number.
There were other people at the dock. Xu Huo parked his car outside and observed the activity inside with his telescope. Sure enough, shortly after the logistics staff member entered, the stacked storage rooms began to swap positions.
At least half of the storage rooms in the entire dock started moving. The white rooms, which had no external identification marks, changed positions several times, making it impossible to determine their original locations. Moreover, with such a large number, it was impossible to know which specific storage rooms the logistics staff member was operating.
Half an hour later, the logistics staff member and several colleagues walked out of the dock.
Xu Huo's gaze lingered on his briefcase for a long time before he withdrew. He remained hidden outside the dock until the other party had left, then returned to the rental apartment via a different route.
The logistics staff member rushing to the dock in the middle of the night to swap storage room positions was certainly not a company drill. Those storage rooms might contain something very important.
Previously, Rongxin Group had been catching internal traitors. If it was indeed a staff member selling company secrets, under normal circumstances, measures should have been taken before or right after the incident, not delayed until now.
But according to information found online, three of Rongxin Group's cargo ships were scheduled to dock within the next week. With such a large volume of goods, these storage rooms should have been cleared out by now—if not all, then at least partially. Why would Rongxin Group come to swap the positions of empty storage rooms?
Xu Huo paused in his thoughts. Perhaps it wasn't to swap storage room positions but to rewrite the program.
There were over ten thousand storage rooms at the dock, belonging to different groups and companies. There should be a preset movement program to ensure no conflicts between them. Frequent changes would certainly be inconvenient, so these logistics staff members were likely there to update the movement program.
This meant that these storage rooms would soon store a batch of important goods. Combined with the business content of that branch company, it was very likely privately purchased weapons and firearms.
If this speculation held, then Rongxin had bought a batch of weapons, but an internal staff member had leaked the news. That was why Vison Mainey, while conducting propaganda, had also cleaned up his own people and tried to catch the contact person to trace the behind-the-scenes buyer opposing him.
Rongxin Group was a very large company with many players under its employ. If someone was targeting this company, the buyer's strength was probably not weak either. This was likely a case of dogs biting dogs.
Xu Huo immediately lost interest.
After dawn, he went to the Game Government Base.
Shi Youzhi came out to receive him with dark circles under his eyes, clearly having stayed up all night. Many others hadn't slept either. Compared to the quietness of his last visit, the base building was now bustling with busy staff everywhere.
"I was just speaking casually yesterday," Xu Huo said with slight apology. "If a large game zone were about to erupt in war, the early stages probably wouldn't be this calm."
Shi Youzhi lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and said, "Wars in game zones don't concern us much, but if someone deliberately sabotages the stations, that's something we have to investigate thoroughly."
"Your suspicion isn't unfounded. I checked the maintenance records since Zone 011 became a game zone. Several of its sub-zones have coincidentally had stations damaged. That's too much of a coincidence."
"Did you find any clues?" Xu Huo paused and asked, "Some of the players who ambushed us showed their faces. Can you identify them?"
Shi Youzhi raised his hand and tapped in the air. Some photos were projected into the room. "The person whose arm you cut off has been found. He's a D-level player who just arrived in Zone 011 not long ago. This is all the footage we could capture from the surveillance videos. I've been watching it all night, but I haven't gained much."
Twenty or so small squares played videos simultaneously. This person had been to many places and met many people. During that time, he had worked as a bodyguard, tested drugs for a pharmaceutical company, and worked as an assassin. Juggling multiple jobs, his private life was also very active. He had five or six lovers and frequently visited entertainment venues, but none of it seemed to connect to the attack on base personnel.