Chapter 1 A Special Mission

Under Tertun's order, an air squadron departed from the capital's military base, warplanes roaring across the sky toward Bolan City.

The main purpose of this air squadron was reconnaissance, to investigate the movements of the Gale Apostle, so the number was small, but they carried Tertun's warrant. Once they discovered any signs of the Gale Apostle approaching the borders of the European Union, they could mobilize the EU forces near the border with Gaozhou to immediately intercept and eliminate it.

Before the advent of the North Gate Security Network, reconnaissance and troop deployment missions that used to be very simple had now become quite complicated and difficult.

Tertun's idea was to avoid engaging the enemy as much as possible.

Therefore, the reconnaissance unit deployed the Nightingale stealth fighter, which had better concealment. Although its firepower was not as strong as the Black Hawk, its speed, reconnaissance system, and tracking ability were all top-notch among EU air combat aircraft.

About an hour later, the EU reconnaissance squadron entered the airspace of Bolan City.

Fearing an ambush, the reconnaissance squadron slowed down significantly. They scouted the surrounding area after traveling a certain distance. As a result, the journey of less than a thousand kilometers took the reconnaissance squadron three times as long to complete.

Two Nightingale fighters circled three thousand meters above Bolan City.

The two fighter pilots communicated through the area intercom matched to the fighter. This device did not need to connect to a large network, but the signal was very poor. It was a product from many years ago, but because the ancient civilization's intrusion into human network communication was too serious at this time, the EU had to reactivate this type of equipment.

"At our current altitude, we can't observe the actual situation in Bolan City at all... we need to descend to at least one thousand meters," Pilot No. 1 said in a deep voice.

"Damn it, an altitude of one thousand meters is too dangerous. If that ghost thing hasn't left Bolan City, we'll be attacked!" Pilot No. 2's voice was full of dread and annoyance, and it was clear that he was very dissatisfied with this reconnaissance mission. "Why won't those damn Gaozhou people just ask Kuangxi Island for help?"

"We can't take down an Ancient King!"

"Who asked us to be so... unlucky..." Pilot No. 1 said helplessly, his voice intermittently transmitted through the occasionally disconnecting intercom: "Rather than tracking an Ancient King, I'd rather... defend the line."

The two pilots complained, but still maneuvered the fighter planes to descend in altitude.

Two thousand five hundred meters.

Two thousand meters.

One thousand meters.

Finally, the fighter planes descended to an altitude of one thousand meters, and the most advanced night vision cameras on the planes began to photograph and scout Bolan City.

Swish, swish, swish!

From the tail of the fighter planes, a small hatch opened, and four small drones went straight down into the darkness of Bolan City. In the assistant pilot seats of the two fighter planes, two surveyors turned on the electronic screens connected to the drones.

The drone was a separate reconnaissance device on the Nightingale fighter, equivalent to a mobile camera. It used single-unit signal control and did not need to be connected to the network. It could also carry out reconnaissance photography within a range of one hundred kilometers.

Under the dual exploration of the fighter's night vision camera and the drones, the entire macroscopic and microscopic scene of Bolan City immediately appeared on the electronic screen.

Almost the entire Bolan City had been turned into ruins.

Buildings collapsed, shelters toppled, and the ground looked as if it had been crushed by some terrifying ancient beast, with countless intersecting ravines appearing.

Fragments of tanks and chariots were scattered among the ruins, and large amounts of blood and fuel were mixed together, burning fiercely.

"This... wasn't this really invaded by a giant beast tide?" One of the assistants looked at the scene on the monitor and his voice began to tremble, "The entire city has been destroyed, and even the steel-built shelters have collapsed!"

"Are there any survivors?"

The four small drones circled in the ruins, trying to find a survivor, but not to mention living people, there was not even a complete corpse to be found in this ruined Bolan City!

"Not even bones left!"

After nearly half an hour of exploration, the personnel on the two reconnaissance planes finally determined that no one had survived in this city.

All the creatures in this city were destroyed along with the city.

A terrifying chill enveloped the EU soldiers on the two fighter planes.

It should be known that although Gaozhou was only a medium-sized country, this was the capital, and the number of troops stationed here exceeded thirty thousand, including hundreds of Evolver soldiers.

And at this time, only two hours had passed since the helicopter carrying Bolan City's request for help had left for the EU.

Within two hours, the 30,000 soldiers and nearly 200,000 civilians here had been completely slaughtered, and even the city had been destroyed...

And all of this was actually the work of a single creature.

The power and cruelty of this creature completely exceeded the imagination of the EU soldiers.

To some extent, the Gale Apostle who slaughtered Bolan City tonight, in the minds of the EU soldiers, had surpassed the Qinghei (Azure-Black) Dragon that had once destroyed the Cartier Castle defense line in terms of ferocity!

"That direction... there seems to be something in that direction!" Suddenly, Pilot No. 1 exclaimed and directed the assistant sitting behind him: "Straight ahead, one o'clock direction!"

Buzz!

Under the control of the assistant, the drone went in the direction indicated by Pilot No. 1.

There was a huge ruin there, the location of the Bolan City Presidential Palace.

At this time, as the drone approached, the scene here slowly came into their eyes.

"Fuck..."

"Oh God..."

When they saw the scene in front of the Presidential Palace, several EU soldiers couldn't help but exclaim at the same time.

In front of the Presidential Palace.

Flames were burning fiercely.

And directly in front of the flames, no less than three hundred people were lying on the ground in a kneeling position. Judging from their clothing, they should be military officers from Bolan City!

Beneath them, a large amount of blood flowed, like a sea of blood.

These three hundred people were naturally all corpses!

It was unknown what kind of mentality the Gale Apostle had, but when killing these people, he had to make them pose in such a humiliating posture.

"There are words!"

Just at this moment, Pilot No. 2 discovered that in the direction where the three hundred or so corpses were kneeling, there were some characters written in blood on the ground.

Pilot No. 2 flew the fighter closer to that direction, and then used the drone to photograph the characters.

"Prepare to return! The rest is not something we can solve," Pilot No. 1 said very calmly. He had no intention of going deep into the ruins to find survivors. Their mission was completed being able to take these photos!

"These words are in Federation script... obviously, the Apostle who slaughtered Bolan City left these bloody words, wanting to show them to that one on Kuangxi Island!" Pilot No. 2 said in a trembling voice, looking at the photos:

"I used to study Federation language!"

"These words, when translated, mean..."