Transcendent Gene
Chapter 169: Mysterious Escape [3]

Chapter 169: Mysterious Escape [3]

They eventually did return to the ground, but it wasn’t through a manhole cover. They took the corridors for a very long time and used connecting tunnels and corridor systems until they finally reached a ladder.

After climbing it, they found themselves on another floor below the ground filled with various boxes and shelves filled with miscellaneous items.

From there, an elevator took them back to the surface. The elevator door opened to blaring music and flashing lights. Evidently, it was the scene of a club.

Gio walked through the club, pushing between people as he followed the pink ponytail in front of him. A lot of walking, a flight of stairs, and going through several people later, they arrived in front of a door that took them away from the chaos of Helix’s nightlife.

That door led to an office they used to get to a garage.

Finally, they arrived in front of a car without any sort of identification on it.

Gio marveled at the sight.

"We’re driving?" He asked in a flabbergasted tone.

"Well, yeah. We have to go a little far away. You didn’t think we would be hiding right next to where you happened to be fighting, right?"

Gio didn’t answer. It did somewhat seem that way. After all, she showed up there, didn’t she?

Rabbit shook her head.

"I was patrolling already and sensed your fight, so I came over to watch. There are easier ways to get where we’re going, but, well..."

She grinned as she pulled a black hood out of nowhere.

"It’s better if you have no idea how we got there, right?"

So that was the goal. They’d traveled such a strange path that she figured Gio would have no way to find out where they were. Once he was blinded in the car, he would be even more unaware.

It was a fine enough plan to deal with someone who didn’t have [Memory Book].

Gio shrugged. He was calm, but he was technically on the run. Going home now wasn’t the best idea, and there wasn’t anything better for him to do.

He figured he’d satiate his curiosity, allowing Rabbit to secure the hood around his head and lead him to the passenger seat.

Half an hour later, that hood came off.

They weren’t in the car anymore, but instead in...a hideout?

That was the first word that came to Gio’s mind when he looked at the surroundings.

Plainly speaking, it looked like an old abandoned club. There was a bar along the side where a couple of people stood serving drinks to their customers. Those customers loudly conversed, talking and laughing without a care in the world.

There were at least a hundred people that Gio could see on the first and second floor combined, all up to various different activities.

However, none of them were doing anything particularly interesting.

The traces of energy and exertion that Gio felt came from beyond a set of doors at the back of the club.

"Here, you can make another choice," Rabbit said, turning to him.

"Stay here and chill for a while. You can go home when things cool down..."

She pointed towards the back of the club.

"Or follow me that way. If you do that, though, you won’t be able to go home for a little while."

"Because?"

"Because, by doing that, you’d be accepting my invitation. I won’t tell you what it is, but just know that we aren’t some djinn group or anything. We’re just...well, you can call us freedom fighters."

"Are you allowed to say that when I haven’t accepted anything?"

"Why not?" Rabbit replied with a smile.

"Even if you know that much, there’s nothing you can do about it. Do you have any idea where we are?"

He did.

"I don’t."

"Exactly. Anyway, I’ll leave you alone. If you want to accept the invitation, just walk towards the door. Someone will stop you eventually."

Gio shook his head.

He had no interest in joining a "freedom fighter" group without knowing what they were fighting for, but the Enforcer Unit that came after Gio clearly knew who she was.

"No need. I’ll just come with you now. If it was just about finding my way to safety, I would’ve left a long time ago."

Rabbit’s brows raised in surprise, but she didn’t say anything and only led him to the doors.

’Enforcers aren’t necessarily evil, but they’re not good either.’

Opposing Enforcers wasn’t a sign of someone’s moral character.

And though "Rabbit" wasn’t someone he’d heard of, that didn’t make her useless.

Her power looked interesting. If she was talented, she’d be as useful as any other talented Sequencer. It was worth forming the connection.

’And if they’re opposing the wrong people, I can stop them before anything happens.’

What was beyond the door...

That was even more like a hideout. It looked properly like a place where people gathered to do things they couldn’t do out in the open.

Rather than a tunnel leading to the back halls of the club, what existed beyond the door was a massive space that looked like a cavern. There was no way it existed aboveground, because it was far too obvious to be half an hour away from the center of Helix and still unfound.

On one side of the huge bunker-like space, there were people crafting weapons using old techniques, grinding metals and sharpening them on wheels.

Nearby, there were others working equally hard using newer cold weapon crafting technology used to create swords like the one Gio used.

The two groups were evidently competing from the fact that their yells and jeers could be heard from the other side of the bunker.

There were several fighting rings in another place where people fought and trained. People were relaxing as well, sure, but it looked like the main priority here was work.

Research, development, testing, and completion all happened within the walls of this bunker, separated by nothing more than human bodies.

Hundreds of individuals were rushing about, working on various tasks. A large number of them looked like fighters. Another large portion looked like rogues and criminals. However, about half of the people in the bunker didn’t look like they could fight at all.

It was definitely stunning to see so many people. The forced realization that they had to have gone underground at some point was even more surprising since Gio never sensed it.

But the main show...

The main show was what existed in the middle of the bunker, where the most people were situated.

"Welcome," Rabbit said.

Gio stared at them with wide eyes.

"This is my home and the home of my people. The world calls us Moon Shadow, painting us as villains who are aiming for its throat."

Moon Shadow.

That was a name Gio knew.

"But our true name was never something as cringe as that. We aren’t some group of evil bastards who like fucking with the world either."

Rabbit gnashed her teeth as she spoke, her eyes filled with a desire for vengeance.

"Our goal isn’t to break down the world. What we want is to break down what’s corrupting the world. We want a world where humans don’t live under oppression."

"And our true name..."

"Our true name is Lunos. We are the people of the moon, and I am the Moon Rabbit," she finally said, giving a slight bow.

Lunos, a group of people who called themselves the people of the moon and fought against corruption. It sounded grand, sure, but if they were truly the group known as Moon Shadow...

’From what I know, they get annihilated silently. The terrorism pinned on them could only be called "fighting for the people" by the stupidest idiots on the planet, however, Moon Rabbit here is telling me that they’re being falsely represented in the media.’

The history he knew as fact was the history he’d seen through his own eyes.

As for the history written by the victors, he would need to find out how much of it was true with his own eyes.

After hearing Moon Rabbit’s introduction, there was one thing that stood out more than the rest.

"You said your group is fighting against oppression..."

There was a lot of oppression in this world that existed at many different levels.

Only, the oppression that existed amongst humans was complicated and couldn’t be solved by breaking everything down and rebuilding it.

"...who are the oppressors you’re fighting, and how are you planning to do so?"

The question was: did this group called Lunos chase after ideals or real results? Did they want to destroy the world to rebuild it in their image, or did they want the world to change slowly and properly, permanently ingraining them into society as a whole?

And, depending on their ideals...

How did they plan to use the weaponized mechs they were building in this very bunker?

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