Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 431 God Abandoned the Beautiful Country

Texas.

Fort Hood military base.

The piercing air raid sirens echoed through the air, and the sound of explosions was everywhere. But strangely, as one of the largest armored forces bases in the United States, Fort Hood, which naturally had anti-aircraft weapons such as field anti-aircraft rockets and automatic anti-aircraft guns, seemed to be completely silent at this moment, without making a sound.

Inside the underground bunker, a disheveled soldier rushed into the musty-smelling makeshift command post. As soon as he entered, several officers looked over. "How's it going?"

"Sir, areas A7, A8, B4, and B6 have been destroyed! Our friendly forces in the vicinity have been almost completely wiped out."

"Bang!" A lieutenant colonel slammed his fist on the table. "Fuck!"

Everyone wore expressions of utter despair. This was truly the most inexplicable and frustrating war they had ever fought since joining the army. The enemy had been high in the sky the entire time, completely invisible to them, and their attack was incredibly sudden. Just as they realized that the Soviet Union had declared war and before they had even received orders from their superiors, the first wave of air raids arrived. Thousands of tons of bombs landed precisely on every important building in the base, almost wiping out the entire armory of two armored divisions in one fell swoop.

Immediately afterwards, wireless communications were disrupted on a large scale, forcing them to communicate with the outside world via wired telephones. However, this point-to-point communication was far too slow for relaying orders, and before they could even receive instructions on how to proceed, the Pentagon was gone.

They still don't understand how the enemy did it. The soldiers haven't seen a single living enemy, only bombs falling from the sky and a terrifying, tiny tracking aircraft specifically designed to kill officers. These things are only the size of a palm, or even made of wood, but they are incredibly fast and frighteningly intelligent. They seem to be able to spot the commander in a crowd and then rush straight to him and explode.

Under the suppression of swarm drones, the commanders could only lock themselves in underground bunkers. After several rounds of bombing, they were divided into areas for each to defend. At first, they could still contact each other by wired telephone, but the enemy soon destroyed the communication stations, and the number of friendly forces they could contact became less and less. To the point that now, they even had to send soldiers with binoculars to observe the situation in each area.

"What do we do?" an officer asked. "The soldiers have no idea what's going on, and most of them aren't even armed!"

The base is permanently stationed with a cavalry division, a mechanized infantry division, and a military police brigade. However, in peacetime, and even before the national mobilization order has been issued, they are simply conducting routine training. Most soldiers are unarmed, and the war machines capable of conquering cities and fortresses are parked in open camps, becoming easy targets. Hundreds of billions of dollars worth of equipment have never even seen the enemy before becoming a pile of scrap metal.

"Forget about counterattacks," a senior colonel sighed. "This kind of blitzkrieg is unprecedented. I almost thought we were fighting aliens! Their war projection capabilities, surprise attack capabilities, and control over the battlefield are unimaginable. Fighting us is like fighting a bunch of primitive natives! This is not an enemy we can handle. The most urgent task is to protect the lives of as many soldiers as possible!"

"Nathan, is the camp radio station still working?"

"Still here, sir!"

"Alright, Nathan, go to the broadcasting station and relay my orders: all soldiers must hold their ground and defend themselves as much as possible; do not attempt to fight!"

The soldier hesitated for a moment, but under the colonel's sharp gaze, he immediately saluted, "Yes, sir!"

But Nathan had barely stepped out of the bunker and walked a few meters toward the broadcasting station when a Hive drone appeared out of nowhere and landed on his head, blasting his upper body into pieces with a bang.

An officer witnessed this scene, but before he could even utter a curse, a dark cloud in the sky suddenly split off and surged towards them. His heart tightened immediately; "They're here! They've spotted us!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a loud bang blew open the entrance to the bunker, and then five or six crude drones, no bigger than a palm and looking like children's toys, rushed in. Each of them had a grenade strapped to its wooden body.

"Fuck!" the crowd cursed, drawing their guns and firing wildly at the drone.

No one had high hopes, after all, drones are too small and moving objects, making them difficult to hit.

But their luck seemed to be pretty good; a bullet happened to hit the grenade, and the drone, along with two or three of their companions, exploded into pieces. Because they were still some distance away, the shrapnel caused some wounds to the men, but did not kill any of them.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but the next moment, six or seven more drones rushed in through the broken entrance like giant leeches.

"Damn it!"

"Fuck!"

"My God..."

They were about to fire when they realized that the previous wave had run out of bullets and were about to be blown to bits. They were so scared that they almost wet themselves.

However, after a few seconds, the expected explosion did not occur.

The colonel opened his eyes and saw that the drones were hovering at the entrance. After a while, they flew out of the cover and seemed to have left.

The group was stunned for a long time, not knowing what had happened. They mustered up their courage and went to the collapsed entrance to look out. They saw that drones, like locusts, flew out of various buildings like black clouds.

In mid-air, dozens of large drones resembling passenger planes hovered high in the sky, their undersides open. The dark clouds in the air condensed into several streams and flew into the undersides of the drones, like a flock of birds returning to their nests, a truly magnificent sight.

Once all the dark clouds had been "sucked up" by the large drones, they all started up and flew north.

"Could it be that they've retreated?" someone asked uncertainly.

However, before everyone could feel the joy of surviving a disaster, a sudden rumbling tremor of the ground made their hearts clench again.

They looked in the direction of the sound, and suddenly, an officer pointed in astonishment to something flashing with metallic light above a collapsed building in the distance, and asked, "What's that?!"

The others looked closely, only to be surprised to find that it seemed to be... a person?

But it's not a real person.

Instead, it was a creature with metal joints and a white plastic shell-like structure. It only had a rough human shape, but in fact, it looked more like a headless dog standing with its legs bent. However, its two forearms had five fingers, just like a human's. At this moment, the dog climbed to the top of the building, reached out, and pressed a loudspeaker on the roof.

"A loud and clear voice!"

The next moment, a British-accented male voice rang out throughout the base, "All American soldiers, listen up! We are the 32nd Composite Brigade of the Soviet Union. Texas has been taken over by us, and you are all prisoners! Lay down your weapons, stay put, and do not put up any futile resistance!"

Before he finished speaking, a low wall in the distance was pushed down, and in the dust, mechanical dogs led the way in an endless stream, followed by some heavily armed Soviet soldiers.

Everyone was in a daze as they stared at the monstrous mechanical soldiers.

"What kind of enemy are we fighting?"

An officer suddenly burst into tears, exclaiming, "The devil! It must be the devil!"

"God has abandoned the beautiful country!"

(End of this chapter)