In the apocalypse, I hoarded goods and handed over my storage space to the government.

Snow and wind swept through the abandoned mining area.

The blood flowed down the cracks in the rocks and quickly froze into dark red ice.

Richard, holding a long sword, kicked aside the still-not-quite-dead Tier 3 armored rhinoceros in front of him and gasped for breath.

The surrounding area was littered with corpses lying haphazardly.

There are mutated beasts and foreign mercenaries.

Matthew dragged his mutilated left arm over, his tactical vest torn open, blood seeping out.

"Boss... the mining area is cleaned up."

Matthew's voice was hoarse as he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"In this wave... we lost more than two hundred brothers and seriously injured more than three hundred."

Richard was also breathing heavily. He glanced at Matthew but ignored the groaning wounded on the ground.

He raised his wrist and glanced at the tactical terminal screen.

One red dot has disappeared, leaving three.

"Have the uninjured men push out the heavy artillery and reload it."

Richard turned around, his voice icy cold and devoid of any warmth.

"Fifteen minutes later, the entire army continued its advance towards coordinate 06."

Matthew froze, his eyes widening in disbelief.

He quickly caught up with Richard and stood in front of him.

"Still want to fight?"

Matthew's eyes were bloodshot as he pointed to the wounded soldiers scattered on the ground.

"We just fought against more than forty level three monsters with our lives!"

Without the Great Xia's crystal energy cannons to clear the ground, the brothers were completely using their bodies to block the monsters' charge!

The crystal core cannonball blew away half of it, and now you want to go to the next coordinate?

Are we going to our deaths?

Richard remained expressionless.

The next second, he suddenly reached out and pushed Matthew away.

"beat."

Richard uttered a single word, his eyes filled with madness.

"Anyone who dares to stop today will be treated as disobeying orders and executed on the spot!"

No nonsense.

Under Richard’s almost pathologically high pressure, the armored vehicle’s tracks turned again, crushing the bones of its comrades as it drove forward.

The armed forces at the Hamburg camp have become an out-of-control meat grinder.

A whole day.

Richard led his men and forcefully crashed through three tier-three mutated beast hordes.

They lacked the heavy artillery of the Great Xia Crystal Energy Field and air support.

It all depends on human lives being sacrificed to fill the gaps.

Every inch of ground advanced left behind dozens of mutilated corpses.

It was evening.

It got dark.

The last red dot.

An abandoned hydroelectric power station, the habitat of a third-order mutated giant crocodile.

This place is inhabited by six mutated giant crocodiles that are almost the size of heavy trucks, plus hundreds of second-tier aquatic monsters.

There was no pre-battle mobilization.

Richard personally killed two mercenaries who were trying to escape.

The remaining mercenaries could only charge toward the hydroelectric power station with their guns in hand.

The battle was extremely fierce.

The cannonballs have all been used up; all that's left is to launch a fierce attack with crystal core bullets.

A third-tier mutated giant crocodile swung its tail, smashing a modified off-road vehicle into scrap metal.

Several machine gunners inside the vehicle were crushed into mincemeat.

"Charge! All of you, push it up!"

Richard, his eyes bloodshot, charged ahead, gripping his longsword.

He jumped directly onto the back of one of the giant crocodiles and stabbed downwards with his long knife through the gaps in the scales.

The giant crocodile rolled over, throwing Richard violently into the air, sending him crashing through a load-bearing wall.

Richard coughed up a mouthful of blood, struggled to his feet, and charged back into the fray.

the other side.

The red-haired, third-tier awakened individual was attacked from both sides by two giant crocodiles.

His sword was knocked away, and his supernatural abilities had been pushed to their limit.

But the outcome was still inevitable; the giant crocodile opened its blood-red maw and bit down on his lower body.

The sound of bones cracking rang out.

The third-tier awakened one was bitten in two before he could even finish his scream.

Internal organs were scattered all over the ground.

Richard's forehead veins bulged when he saw this.

"Kill! Kill them all!"

When the last Tier 3 giant crocodile was beheaded by Richard.

The entire hydroelectric power station was stained red with blood.

Richard slumped down against the crocodile carcass, his chest heaving violently.

His entire body was covered in sore flesh, and his left forearm was broken, hanging down at an irregular angle.

Matthew limped over, knelt down with a thud, and then fell backward onto the ground.

"They're all dead... completely dead..."

Richard looked up.

Of the more than 3,000 camp garrison soldiers they brought out, less than 2,000 are still standing.

The direct loss exceeded 20%.

Those who survived were all wounded.

Even one of the top-tier third-tier awakened individuals was directly lost.

The cost was enormous.

Richard leaned against the cold scales, breathing in the frigid air.

He looked at the red dots all gone off on the tactical terminal and grinned.

Everything's been cleared out.

Within a radius of several hundred kilometers around the Hamburg camp, there are no more high-risk mutated beast colonies.

"They have no reason to go any further north."

Richard exhaled a breath of bloody white air, thinking to himself,

"I've swept the road clean."

If Su Ran dares to bring the Warcraft army over again...

It's obvious they want to break ties with the foreign camps across Europe.

He doesn't gamble.

The Great Xia Beast Legion no longer has any legitimate excuse to approach this place.

Richard finally managed to shout out those two words with all his might.

"Back to camp..."

……

Daxia, Kunlun underground base.

Li Guodong sat in the main seat, with a cup of goji berry tea on the table.

He was looking at the main screen directly in front of him.

Zhou Ming, the technical head of the Awakeners headquarters, walked over with a file folder and placed it on his desk.

"Chief, latest intelligence from the Europa theater."

Li Guodong picked up his teacup, took a sip, and pointed at the screen.

"Let it out and have a look."

Zhou Ming pressed the remote control.

The large screen displays a new image.

That was a combat video captured by the Tianyan satellite deployed by the Great Xia in geosynchronous orbit.

on the screen.

This is the scene of Richard leading his men to clear out the abandoned hydroelectric power station.

The image is somewhat blurry due to the weather.

But Richard was still clearly visible, covered in blood, his hands holding his battle sword, enduring the impact of the third-tier mutated giant crocodile.

He was flung away by the giant crocodile, crashed into the wall, but got up again and continued to fight.

The scene of the third-tier awakened being bitten in two was also fully recorded.

The entire battle was a veritable meat grinder.

After watching the video, Li Guodong put the teacup back on the table with a soft sound.

"I really didn't realize that."

Li Guodong leaned back in his chair, his fingers tapping on the table.

"This foreign devil, he actually has a moment when he's so desperate and has so much guts."

He smiled and shook his head.

"Why didn't you do this earlier? Instead of dealing with the mutated beasts on the front lines, you're always thinking about taking advantage of the chaos."

Zhou Ming stood to the side and nodded.

"Now, as soon as Da Xia makes a slight move, he will empty his own savings and work desperately."

It seems he's genuinely afraid that Advisor Su will bring those hundred hellhounds and drive them straight into his Hamburg camp.

As he spoke, Zhou Ming opened the file bag and took out another data report.

"According to our supervising officer's report."

Zhou Ming read out the data: "Richard's forced attack resulted in the loss of more than 20 percent of his total forces."

One Tier 3 Awakened was killed. Seven Tier 2 Awakened were also killed.

Conventional ammunition has been exhausted.

This is a suicidal purge.

Li Guodong placed his hands on his abdomen and listened quietly.

Zhou Ming paused for a moment and then expressed his concerns.

"Chief."

He lowered his voice and voiced his concerns.

"Richard is in such a state that he has been forced to the edge of a cliff."

He eliminated all potential hazards in the surrounding area.

If we continue to push towards Hamburg, it will be like tearing down the last layer of paper.

Zhou Ming looked at the map of Europe on the holographic sand table.

Even a rabbit will bite when cornered.

If we really push him too far, and he becomes desperate and joins forces with other camps to turn against Great Xia, what should we do?

They operated in Europe for several months, but a real uproar ensued, which impacted their subsequent strategic plans.

Li Guodong burst out laughing after hearing this.

Laughter echoed through the command hall.

"Trying to resort to desperate measures?"

Li Guodong's smile vanished, his gaze sharpening.

"Go tell the Great Xia Beast Legion."

Only when dealing with reasonable people can one understand the rules of the Great Xia Dynasty.

"The Great Xia doesn't need a reason to associate with these people."

He stood up and walked to the tactical map.

"Organize these combat videos and the damage data from the Hamburg camp."

Li Guodong issued the order.

"Send a copy to Xiao Su and Bai Lu as well."

"Understood." Zhou Ming nodded and made a note of it.

He walked back to his desk and rested his hands on the surface.

"in addition."

Li Guodong looked at the map of Europe on the screen.

"Inform Ye Xiaozhi, Long Xiaozhi, and Chen Kewang through the internal channel of your Awakened Headquarters."

Li Guodong drew a circle on the map with his finger.

The entire first echelon of Awakened Ones scattered across various war zones of Great Xia were included in the scope of this document.

Tell them to stop loitering around the perimeter.

They are all converging on the heart of Europe.

Zhou Ming's eyes lit up.

With the initial hype complete, it's time to take action.

Li Guodong straightened up, picked up his military overcoat from the hanger, and draped it over his shoulders.

"The net is almost fully laid out."

He watched the snowflakes fall outside the window, a smile playing on his lips. "Now, it's almost time to close the net."