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The audible alarm from the barracks echoed through the cold night, its shrill sound sending shivers down one's spine.

Lu Yan stood at the threshold, the savagery in his eyes slowly subsiding.

Zhao Leiguang picked up a half-bowl of scalding hot noodle soup, tilted his head back, and gulped it all down.

"You bastard, you really know how to pick your time to die," Zhao Leiguang cursed viciously.

He raised his hand and used his rough sleeve to wipe the scallions and chili oil off his beard.

Oil splattered across half his face, turning it bright red, and his eyes were bloodshot and burning.

The passageway outside the tent was filled with severed limbs and groans, mixed with the smell of gunpowder.

Su Yunqing carried the medical kit through the mud, her combat uniform covered in black blood from being rubbed off.

She handed several rolls of specially made hemostatic bandages to the young garrison soldier sitting against the wall.

"The wound is under pressure, don't move around, reinforcements are arriving soon," Su Yunqing whispered.

The guard bit his pale lips and nodded heavily to her, his voice trembling.

Before the powder could even be scattered, a piercing screech of heavy truck tires screeching to a halt came from afar.

Crunch-!

Two heavily armored riot trucks slammed open the fortress's iron gate, their headlights illuminating the snow-covered ground in a ghastly white light.

The truck door slammed open, and thirty or forty fully armed military police in black armor jumped out of the truck bed.

The leather boots crushed the broken bones and frozen meat on the ground, and the sound of the bolt being pulled back was crisp and cold.

A middle-aged military officer wearing a black rain cloak led the group across the threshold.

His collar was buttoned up tightly, and he wore a silver eagle badge on his chest, indicating he was a special military police supervisor.

"Everyone, cover your heads and stand back! The Third Division of the Military Police of the Defense Forces is taking over the defense zone!" Commander Xue shouted sternly.

Dozens of dark, special-purpose anti-magic rifles were all aimed at the group of people eating noodles.

Commander Xue pulled out a hard-covered metal document with a bright red seal from his pocket.

"Lu Yan, you are suspected of abandoning your post and deserting your post without authorization," Commander Xue announced with a cold smile.

"As ordered by the Supreme Military Court, the entire First Squad is stripped of its unit designation."

He waved to the guards behind him, signaling, "Put on the broken spirit alloy lock and take him back to the heavy prison."

Lu Yan lowered his head and threw the empty paper bowl in his hand into the discarded oil drum.

The embers in the oil drum licked at the cardboard, emitting a small wisp of bluish-black smoke.

He slowly brushed the charcoal dust off his training uniform and glanced at Commander Xue's sidearm.

His gaze was completely calm, yet it sent a chill down Commander Xue's spine.

"Defected?" Zhao Leiguang dropped the empty iron basin and grinned.

Clang!

The massive, two-meter-tall body suddenly rose from the box.

He gripped the two heavy earth-shaking shields in his backhand and slammed them heavily onto the cracked concrete ground.

Boom!

The violent shockwave, mixed with mud and dust, scattered and cracked, leaving several spiderweb-like fissures in the ground.

A dull tremor suddenly traveled along the ground, making everyone's eardrums ache.

Commander Xue and the seven military policemen in front of him stumbled and nearly fell backward.

The magic-breaking rifle, originally aimed at Lu Yan, subconsciously veered to the sides of its body.

"You dare to handcuff me with just a few pieces of junk?" Zhao Leiguang spat angrily.

His shoulder armor emitted a sharp, metallic grinding sound as his bones swelled.

Shen Xinglin silently put down the gun cleaning cloth in his hand.

The alloy lance spun half a circle in his palm, its tip gleaming coldly, pointing straight at Commander Xue's throat, three feet away.

"Stop! Put your guns down, all of you!" A furious roar came from the command post.

Pei Zhendong, with his right arm in a cast, stumbled out of the bunker.

He clutched a stack of blood-stained names tightly in his only remaining left hand.

"Xue Jing! Are you blind?!" Pei Zhendong rushed over and started cursing.

Snapped!

Pei Zhendong slammed a thick stack of blood-soaked lists of the dead onto Commander Xue's chest.

"Look at the dead people up here! They just rescued the Seventh Fortress!" Pei Zhendong roared, his eyes red.

"We just fought off the monsters, and you immediately bring men to cut off our retreat? What kind of soldier are you?!"

The paper was scattered on the ground in front of Commander Xue's breastplate, revealing a dense array of bloody handprints.

Commander Xue glanced down at the roster at his feet, a mocking sneer appearing on his lips.

"Pei Zhendong, don't try to intimidate me with dead people." Commander Xue raised his head with an icy expression.

"Their slaying of the alien beasts is a meritorious act, but their unauthorized crossing of the boundary to tear open a spatial rift is treason."

He drew a specially made pistol from his waist and pointed it at Lu Yan's chest.

"The General Staff had already added the First Squad to the purge list. Anyone who tries to stop them today will be treated as an accomplice!"

The military police around them tensed up, their fingers tightening on the triggers.

Wen Yue sat on the wooden box high up, and the infrared sight of the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow quietly lit up.

The cold, scarlet light landed precisely on the center of Commander Xue's brow.

"Move even slightly, and you'll get a headshot." Wen Yue's voice was so steady it was completely flat.

Lin Chuxue chewed on a hard mint and slowly took two steps out of the tent.

The little girl dragged her scarlet blood pool staff, her boots splashing loudly in the puddles.

"Hey, you uncle in leather shoes," Lin Chuxue tilted her head and called out indistinctly.

Commander Xue frowned, about to turn around and reprimand him angrily.

hum!

Lin Chuxue gently tapped the Blood Pool Staff on the bluestone slab.

A crimson streak of light flashed through the void, as fast as a bolt of lightning in the night.

Stab it!

A violent beam of blood grazed past Commander Xue's head, slicing off his peaked cap.

Along with the gold tassel epaulette hanging on his right shoulder, it instantly turned into a sky full of black charcoal.

Commander Xue froze, his scalp stinging from the sharp airflow.

A bead of cold sweat rolled uncontrollably down his temples.

"I hate it when people point guns at our captain." Lin Chuxue crunched the candy ball.

Her small face was cold, and a bloodthirsty, murderous intent surfaced in her eyes.

At that moment, Lu Yan took half a step forward.

He moved so fast that he left only a blur, instantly appearing beside Commander Xue.

A crisp snap!

Before Commander Xue could even see his movement, a sharp pain, as if his wrist had been dislocated, shot through his wrist.

The encrypted communication terminal in his hand was now in Lu Yan's palm.

"You...you want to defy orders and seize power?!" Commander Xue clutched his wrist, took two steps back, and screamed sharply.

Lu Yan didn't even glance at him, his slender fingers swiping rapidly across the terminal screen.

He immediately cut off the local frequency band and switched to the war zone full-frequency broadcast that had just been updated five minutes earlier.

Sizzle... sizzle...

A piercing electrical whistling sound erupted from the terminal speaker, followed by an anxious, distorted announcement.

"Top priority order! The first, second, and third lines of defense in the East China Sea have all lost contact!"

The background noise on the radio was filled with the sounds of collapsing buildings and heavy artillery bombardment.

"The pseudo-god alien race has broken through the coastal barrier, and the main force of interstellar creatures has arrived!"

"The Xichuan war zone's network has been disrupted from the central command! The entire army has activated its highest-level doomsday contingency plan!"

"I repeat, this is a top-level mobilization order from the Supreme Command!"

"Effective immediately, all warrants and investigations within the war zone are to be unconditionally withdrawn!"

"All active-duty warriors and awakened squads, immediately transition to wartime takeover procedures!"

The messenger's hoarse shouts echoed repeatedly in front of the barracks until they were swallowed up by the loud noise.

The entire open space fell into a deathly silence in an instant.

Dozens of military police stood there blankly, holding their guns, their arms stiff and trembling uncontrollably.

Commander Xue's face turned deathly pale in an instant.

His mind went blank, his legs went weak, and he almost collapsed to his knees.

The three seemingly impregnable coastal defense lines collapsed completely in a single day.

This means that the gates of China have been completely torn open, and the heartland will face a catastrophic catastrophe.

call--

A cold night wind swept across the open space.

The encrypted arrest warrant that Commander Xue had dropped on the ground was blown by the airflow toward the burning oil drum.

The flames greedily licked at the edges of the paper, and the crimson document was instantly burned to charred fragments.

Xiao Qianyu slung the Dragon King Halberd behind her back, her cool and aloof expression filled with impatience.

She turned and walked toward a heavily armed military jeep parked on the side of the road.

"Don't waste your time on these clowns," Xiao Qianyu said coldly as she opened the car door and turned around.

"Go to the Xichuan Command Center. If you're late, you won't even get a ride."

Su Yunqing quickly packed up the first-aid kit and got into the passenger seat.

Wen Yue hung the Thunderclap Crossbow on her tactical sling and climbed into the back seat of the car with a blank expression.

Lu Yan casually tossed the broken communication terminal onto Commander Xue's breastplate.

With a muffled thud, Commander Xue was jolted back three steps, his face drained of color.

"Go back and tell the bastard who ordered you to arrest people." Lu Yan straightened the cuffs of his training uniform.

"Stay in the back and wash your necks clean, then wait for us to come back and settle the score."

He turned his head and looked at Pei Zhendong, who was standing to the side.

"Where is Wei Xinghe now?" Lu Yan asked in a deep voice.

"In...in the underground command center of the city defense!" Pei Zhendong hurriedly replied through gritted teeth.

"The theater command is in complete chaos, and General Wei is under immense pressure to redeploy reserves!"

"Understood, guard your fortress well." Lu Yan patted Pei Zhendong's intact left shoulder.

He leaped onto the back seat of the jeep and slammed the bulletproof door shut.

Zhao Leiguang slammed into the back seat, his massive weight causing the entire SUV to lurch downwards.

"Hold on tight! I'm taking you guys to the city for a good time!" Zhao Leiguang laughed loudly out the window.

Shen Xinglin slammed on the gas pedal!

boom!!

The heavily modified Jeep let out a furious roar, its four tires kicking up gravel.

The vehicle sped along the highway like a cannonball, shattering the thick smoke in the cold night.

Amidst the swirling black ash and ashes, only Commander Xue remained, standing motionless in place.

The cold night rain fell, completely soaking his tattered collar insignia.