The shattered sky, the collapsed earth, the panicked crowd. The distant future, all hope, the people who save...

— "Ancient Prophecy"

"Captain, what is our mission this time? We were about to take a vacation and it was suddenly canceled."

"This mission is a mission of extermination and recovery. The specific content is confidential. You only need to know that after arriving at the location, kill all movable targets! Then wait for me to recover the items, and then you can go back and continue your vacation.

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Accompanied by Captain Seve's voice, the team's shuttle was flying across a yellow desert. This was the shortest journey to their destination, and the person who just asked was the new member who had just joined the team.

Member, Qi Hai, a combat psionicist recognized by the empire who uses a variety of similar "psionic" attacks.

Qi Hai and the other team members were all squeezed into the small space inside the shuttle. The bumps along the way made no one want to talk. Only Qi Hai had never participated in such a time and seemed a little excited.

"Captain, we are approaching Xinghai Town for our response!" Suddenly, a muffled voice came from the cockpit of the shuttle. The captain nodded and signaled the cockpit to prepare to stop the shuttle for a safe landing. Then Captain Seifer

Let everyone check whether their equipment has enough bullets and whether their protective equipment is complete. After everyone has completed the inspection, Seifer sent a mission briefing to everyone.

"Please note the Third Processing Detachment of the Imperial Affairs Bureau. Deep in the Xinghai Desert, Xinghai Town received a distress signal. After investigation, it was determined that there is a small sect here that does not conform to the truth of the empire. Early investigations also found that there is a war-torn person here.

The imperial artifacts that have disappeared since ancient times need to be recovered. Individual specific tasks have been issued!"

"The mission briefing has been sent to you! Now cheer up, for the empire!" Cypher held his two guns and made a standard imperial salute and waited for the shuttle to stop. "Uh... Captain, there is something going on here.

I need you to take a look!" Suddenly the people in the cockpit called the captain to let him enter the cockpit.

When the captain heard the driver's tone, he frowned, and turned around and entered the cockpit. As soon as the captain left, the others in the team seemed to be relieved and started to sigh.

He looked at Qi Hai, who was both excited and nervous about his first mission.

At this time, Qi Hai's legs were shaking due to nervousness and excitement. Looking at his reaction, the other members knew that this should be his second time participating in this kind of mission. They all laughed and told Qi Hai not to worry.

The third team has carried out this kind of mission countless times. These cultists who do not conform to the truth of the empire really deserve to die. Qi Hai nodded, took a deep breath, and was ready for his first battle at any time.

"Beep! Beep!" With two rapid sounds, the door of the shuttle opened. The team members first saw a sky filled with yellow sand, and then they rushed out of the small shuttle and came outside to see the wind-covered sky.

The raging Xinghai Desert and the Xinghai Town not far away.

It’s just that Xinghai Town has changed at this time. Xinghai Town, which should have had a large population, has been destroyed by some huge force. The ruins are covered with traces of being burned by flames. With this,

At the same time, there are some burnt human remains on the ground. "Everyone, weapons are loaded and ready to fight!"

With Seve's order, all the team members raised their weapons one after another. Among these team members, Qi Hai was the most special. He held a seemingly very petite weapon in his left hand, and a continuous weapon in his right hand.

The vibrating sharp sword. Then Qi Hai released spiritual shields that could protect each other, and a faint light shield enveloped all the team members.

Everyone looked at the mission briefing and the attached map on their wrists and began to form a search formation and moved towards the location marked on the map. The number of charred remains among the ruins along the way continued to increase. Everyone searched the entire

When the burned down Xinghai Town came to the entrance to the cult gathering place, they counted and found that at least 300 people had died in the entire Xinghai Town!

Hearing the numbers summarized by the team members, a look of doubt appeared on Seifer's face, because according to what he knew, there should be at least about 600 people in Xinghai Town! "Everyone, prepare to enter the gathering area! This is

There may still be hostages in the hands of the cultists!" After hearing Seve's order, Qi Hai and his team members entered the trail leading to the back mountain deep in Xinghai Town.

As soon as he stepped onto the trail at the back of the mountain, Qi Hai felt something was wrong. The whole place was shrouded in some kind of power. This kind of power was so weird that it made Qi Hai shiver. "Captain,

There seems to be something wrong here, the entire back mountain is covered by some kind of force!" After hearing Qi Hai's report, Seifer signaled the entire team to stop advancing.

"Are you saying that there is some kind of power that has enveloped the entire back mountain? Is this power hostile?" After hearing Seif's question, Qi Hai sensed it carefully and found that this power was very strange, but there was nothing wrong with it.

A little hostility, and even a feeling of wanting to accept everyone. This feeling made Qi Hai shudder again, and he shook his head to express that there was no hostility in this kind of power.

Seifer nodded and said to Qi Hai: "If this force is hostile, you must inform it in time. If there is no hostility, just ignore it for the time being." After instructing Qi Hai, he signaled all the members to continue moving forward. After walking for a while, the team members looked at

There were two flags hanging on both sides of the branch. The patterns on them were blurred. The only thing that could be seen clearly was the word "Truth". After seeing these two words, Cypher sneered at the two flags, and then everyone came

Arrive at the entrance of the gathering place.

This gathering place is placed in a valley inside the back mountain. Two tall sentry towers stand on both sides of the mountain wall. The wooden gate completely blocks the road leading to the interior of the gathering place! Sai

After Fu discovered the two sentry towers, he asked everyone to hide.

"Alfa, Blue Wind! You two should investigate the situation of those two sentry towers. If appropriate... um!" Seve gave Alpha and Blue Wind the order to investigate, and then made a gesture of wiping their necks.

The individual nodded, put the sniper weapon he was carrying on his back, put on his experimental invisibility cloak and moved closer to the two sentry towers.

Others were quietly observing the actions of Alpha and Cang Feng in the dark. Gradually, the two people approached the two sentry towers. Due to the problem of sight, others could not see if there were other people in the sentry towers.

And when Alpha and Cang Feng quietly entered the top floor of the guard tower, they found that these two guard towers were no longer manned.

"Captain, these two guard towers are unmanned, but there is something very strange. The food in the guard towers is still steaming. It seems that people have just left. However, we found from the traces in the observation area of ​​the guard towers that there are already three to four people here.

No one has been here!" After listening to the reports of the two investigators, Sever asked them to find the switch that opened the door.

"Creak!" An unpleasant sound sounded, and the door to the closed valley slowly opened. Seve led the team members into the valley. Not far forward, everyone discovered that a layer of light red mist appeared around them.

, at the same time, the ground under everyone's feet also turned into a swamp-like mud with great viscosity, making people feel extremely uncomfortable every time they set foot, as if they were being sucked in place.

After entering the red mist, Qi Hai felt that the strange power seemed to have increased, but there was still no hostility. However, as the crowd gradually deepened, Qi Hai released a spiritual protective shield on everyone.

A little ripple, it seems that there is some very weak attack attacking everyone.

"Crack!" As their feet stepped into the "puddles" in the valley, everyone gradually felt a sticky and disgusting touch. As everyone moved deeper into the valley, the ground turned into extremely muddy.

In this place, the thick red fog also completely buried the figures of all the team members!

"Ah!" A scream made everyone's nervous hands tremble, and then it was discovered that it was Arcee, the medic in the team, who screamed. "Arce, report the situation!" After hearing the exclamation, Sever immediately asked everyone

The members moved closer to Arcee's location. Thanks to the communication settings in everyone's equipment and the magic hair link Qi Hai released for everyone, everyone successfully found Arcee who fell on the ground.

At this time, Arcee looked like she was in shock. When she saw everyone rushing over and throwing themselves on her brother Alpha, she kept trembling. After a while, she told what she saw...
Chapter completed!