Chapter 1 The Night Wind

The night wind was biting. After leaving the detention room, Cage went straight to the hold. Lu Chi hadn't been idle all night either. Cage had sent several waves of people to interrogate him in shifts.

Their interrogation methods were very clever. They placed some repetitive questions in the middle of a large number of inconspicuous questions. If Lu Chi was distracted and said something wrong, he would be immediately identified.

Under continuous questioning, Lu Chi didn't sleep all night. If it weren't for the fact that the mental strength of an evolver was higher than that of ordinary people, he would have collapsed under this kind of interrogation.

In the early morning, before the daylight had completely broken, nearly three hundred soldiers from the fleet landed on the Mad Sand Islands. They followed Cage's instructions. One hundred of them were the main combat team, and the remaining two hundred were responsible for transporting some small mining equipment. Soon, news from the soldier squad responsible for scouting the terrain spread back.

Lu Chi's answers last night were true. The soldier squad responsible for surveying discovered the production point of the 098 crystal within the Mad Sand Islands.

Cage was extremely excited to receive the news. He immediately ordered the soldiers to set off, and at the same time personally followed the main force to supervise the work.

Since there was no large-scale mining equipment on the warship, Cage transported some cross-border equipment such as diesel cutting saws and fuel-powered electric hammers as mining equipment to Mad Breath Island. This was also something that couldn't be helped. After all, if he applied to the EU Naval Headquarters for transportation of mining equipment now, it would easily make people suspicious, and the secret of the Mad Sand Islands would not be kept.

For Cage, who was single-mindedly trying to take all the credit for himself, he would dig through the Mad Sand Islands even if he had to dig with his bare hands!

The mining team set off in a mighty manner.

This fleet had a full complement of eight hundred and sixty people. After excluding some shipbuilders, maintenance personnel, and doctors, there were less than seven hundred people who could be投入 into combat.

The war last night caused this fleet to lose more than one hundred soldiers, and now, another three hundred people had left the fleet.

There were less than forty people left on each warship, and some of them needed to take care of the wounded and sick.

Under these circumstances, the defense force of this fleet had fallen to its weakest point in history.

…

At the same time, a certain "098 crystal mining location" on the Mad Sand Islands.

There were more than a dozen soldiers who had been assigned by Cage to be responsible for scouting the terrain lying unconscious on the ground. Only one soldier remained, trembling all over, speaking into the communication device, "We have discovered the mining point of the 098 crystal. After a simple excavation, we discovered traces of a small amount of 098 crystal!"

The soldier's tone was very calm, but the muscles in his neck were tense, and his forehead and eyes were full of horror, forming a great contrast.

Standing opposite him were two young people, a man and a woman, and a little girl.

Tang Su said expressionlessly in a low voice, "We have discovered..."

The soldier was like a puppet on a string, completely copying Tang Su's movements and language.

After finishing the reply, Tang Su calmly snapped his fingers, and the "puppet" spirit descent effect on the soldier disappeared. He collapsed on the ground, grabbed the dropped walkie-talkie next to him, and was about to report the real situation to Cage loudly.

Bang!

A gunshot rang out, and the walkie-talkie was instantly blown to pieces.

Tang Su played with the pistol in his hand, looked at the soldier calmly, and said, "Do you know how difficult it is to learn this damned EU language? I studied it all night to learn that sentence you said... If you dare to ruin my previous efforts, I will skin you alive."

The soldier didn't understand what Tang Su was talking about, but from the other party's expression and actions, he knew very well what the result would be if he continued to resist.

"Boss, isn't it a little too risky for us to do this?" Tang Su turned to look at Li Tianran, who was sitting on the rock next to him, and said with some worry, "Even if we can grab the supplies on those warships, but if something happens to the other party here, the people from the EU will soon notice. It feels a bit... irrational to provoke a major enemy for the sake of these supplies."

Tang Su deliberated for a long time, replacing the word "stupid" with a slightly more elegant "irrational," but in reality, the original meanings of these two words were not very different in this matter.

"I know what I'm doing." Li Tianran smiled.

In this plan, the most difficult thing was not to seize the warships and the supplies on the warships, but how to clear himself of suspicion, so that even if the EU knew that something had happened to the warships here, they would not come to investigate...

Through Hanhan's brain invasion of these soldiers just now, Li Tianran learned what had happened on the warship. Cage seized power and blocked all external news, which was a good thing for Li Tianran, giving him more room to maneuver.

However, these warships all had satellite positioning. Even if the news was temporarily blocked, the EU would be suspicious once the satellite positioning disappeared here.

How to make these warships disappear reasonably here was the most important point in this plan.

This seemed a bit difficult, but Li Tianran seemed confident.

Buzz!

The patrol radar spread out, hovering不停 in the sky, providing Li Tianran with all the picture information on the Mad Sand Islands.

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The landing mining team was moving forward silently and steadily. At this time, they were less than 3 kilometers away from their destination. They passed through last night's battlefield on their way. There were many corpses of soldiers on the battlefield. The members of the mining team wanted to bury the bodies of these companions, but were stopped by Cage, who ordered them to move forward at full speed.

Helplessly, everyone had to follow Cage's order and step over the remains of their companions, continuing to move towards their destination.

Cage tidied up his military uniform. Before setting off, he had sent drones to conduct a comprehensive patrol of the entire Mad Sand Islands, but he had not found any traces of heavy weapons. Combined with the interrogation of Lu Chi last night, Cage felt that even if there were still enemies on this island, they would definitely not be able to pose any threat to their team.

At this moment, a whistling sound similar to a heavy object breaking through the wind suddenly rang out on the calm Mad Sand Islands.

Moreover, this whistling sound quickly串联 to gather, forming a violent roar like a typhoon.

Cage was stunned for a second, and then his pupils reflected the crimson color of the distant sky. His pupils shrank!

That crimson was not the rebirth of the long-lost sun, but hundreds of artillery fire tails划破 the sky and connected together, almost burning the horizon into a red color!

Cage looked at this sudden, overwhelming artillery barrage, felt his brain go blank, and subconsciously sucked in a cool breath into his chest.

It wasn't until the first榴弹炮炸开 in the center of the team that Cage screamed out loud.

"Enemy attack!"