After locating the target, Luo Shu pulled open the freezer door.
Inside was a massive room—five meters in length, width, and height.
To be precise, it was a cold storage unit, its shelves packed with all kinds of refrigerated ingredients.
After scouring the freezer, Luo Shu found no hidden doors or secret passages.
The walls, ceiling, and floor were all seamless stainless steel panels—no gaps, no seams, not even a needle could slip through.
By all appearances, this was just a normal cold storage room.
Most people would be fooled by what they saw.
But Luo Shu wasn't most people. He was a sharp-minded individual with deep knowledge of the Foundation, and he was certain this freezer had to be more than it seemed.
Besides, given the abysmally low guest traffic at the "Lord's Manor Resort," the scale of this freezer was suspiciously oversized.
Just the frozen stock alone could last the restaurant ten days to half a month.
But would a buffet charging 3,888 RMB per head really serve customers frozen food?
Shouldn't it be premium fresh ingredients airlifted from around the world?
Patiently, Luo Shu inspected the freezer's walls and floor. Soon, he noticed something unusual.
Though faint, he detected a thin layer of sand and dirt on the floor—likely tracked in from the road outside the kitchen's back door.
The dirt formed symmetrical, patterned streaks, spaced about a meter apart.
Tire tracks.
Meaning, the refrigerated trucks delivering supplies to the "Lord's Manor Resort" drove straight into this freezer.
That made no sense—it violated food safety regulations.
Vehicles weren't even allowed inside kitchens, let alone freezers.
Only one explanation fit:
This "freezer" was actually an elevator.
The supply trucks drove inside, and the entire chamber descended underground, delivering goods directly to Site-CN-02.
A similar setup existed in Site-19's staff cafeteria, though Luo Shu hadn't paid much attention to it back then.
Now that he understood the freezer's true purpose, he had found one of Site-CN-02's entrances.
But that didn't help him at all…
This wasn't a standard freight elevator—there was no control panel.
Meaning, Luo Shu had no way to manually lower the freezer into Site-CN-02.
The controls were underground, operated exclusively by Foundation personnel.
This effectively prevented unauthorized entry.
What about forcing his way through the floor?
Luo Shu stomped on the stainless steel floor—no hollow echo, just solid resistance.
The floor had to be dozens of centimeters thick, likely reinforced concrete.
This suggested the freezer wasn't lifted by cables like a normal elevator, but by a heavy-duty hydraulic lift system, pushing the entire chamber up and down from below.
Think aircraft carrier elevators—the kind that move fighter jets to the deck.
A highly plausible design!
And one that was extremely secure—even the Foundation's enemies, like the Chaos Insurgency, wouldn't be able to brute-force their way in.
Whether the Insurgency could break in or not didn't concern Luo Shu. He was getting in one way or another.
He knelt and touched the freezer's floor again, attempting to use his Mechanical Animation ability to take control of the chamber.
No luck.
The freezer was essentially just a container—no circuitry, no mechanisms. Just a giant stainless steel box lifted by external machinery.
Animating it would just leave him with… a sentient box.
Frustrated but undeterred, Luo Shu scanned the ceiling and spotted a surveillance camera in one corner, aimed at the freezer door.
Underground monitoring.
Using his Vertical Climbing ability, he scaled the wall and hijacked the camera, integrating it into his tactical network.
Through his personal terminal, he accessed the camera's stored footage—confirming his theory.
Every morning around 4-5 AM, a refrigerated truck would drive straight into the freezer.
Once the door closed, two minutes later, it would reopen—but now, the surroundings had changed.
No longer the hotel kitchen, but an underground corridor.
The freezer had descended.
Foundation personnel in Site-CN-02 uniforms would then unload the goods with forklifts.
After about 10-15 minutes, the door closed again, and the freezer ascended.
To anyone on the surface, the whole process was utterly undetectable.
After reviewing the footage, Luo Shu checked the time. His current Unobservable State was about to expire.
It was only 12:30 AM—still hours before the morning delivery.
He'd have to wait until dawn.
But when he returned at 4 AM, he ran into a new problem.
He didn't have enough time.
His Unobservable State lasted 30 minutes per activation.
Just getting from his hotel room to the kitchen took 5 minutes.
By the time he reached the freezer, the delivery truck hadn't even arrived yet.
Traffic was unpredictable—you couldn't expect drivers to be punctual to the second.
After 10 minutes of waiting, the truck finally showed up.
Now, he only had 15 minutes left.
Subtracting the 5-minute return trip, that left him with just 10 minutes to work with.
But the unloading process alone took longer than 10 minutes.
Not to mention, the freezer's ascent and descent took another 4 minutes combined.
Even if he timed it perfectly and rode down with the truck, he'd only have 12 minutes underground before his ability wore off.
Meaning, if he went down now, he'd reappear in front of Foundation personnel mid-mission!
No way.
Better to wait until tomorrow, when he could reactivate Unobservable twice, giving him a full hour of operational time.
But hours later, after catching some sleep, Luo Shu jolted awake with a sudden realization.
He'd made a critical mistake.