Chapter 1 The Beginning

Lu Chi led his men to the corpses of the green wolf and the wyvern. The bodies of these two ancient creatures were covered with sword and knife wounds, and fragments of steel blades were mixed in their bones. Obviously, the pioneers had paid an extremely heavy price to kill them.

Around the corpses of these two most unique ancient creatures, Lu Chi bent down and picked up a piece of cyan steel.

It was a piece of armor from the rear waist of the Tyrannosaurus Rex armor, which was very strong, but now it had been shattered into pieces the size of fingernails...

Even the battle armor was broken into this state, let alone the pioneers?

From the way he had come, Lu Chi had not seen a single complete corpse of a pioneer!

Not even a relatively complete one!

What they faced were brutal, ferocious beast kings and ancient creatures. The opponents would not leave the pioneers with complete corpses at all. After killing them, these monsters would gnaw, chew, and swallow their bodies into their stomachs!

Lu Chi suddenly closed his eyes, tightly grasping the cold steel armor fragment.

*Ka-ka!*

Lu Chi and three hundred pioneers stood at attention and saluted.

"I'll take you home," Lu Chi said softly, looking at the mountain of corpses and sea of blood in front of him, and began to bend down to collect the bodies with the pioneers behind him!

This was an extremely difficult task. The three hundred and twenty pioneer warriors, led by Lu Xiao, had almost been completely shattered on this battlefield. Their battle armor and weapons were all destroyed in the battle. It was not until five hours later that the entire North Asia battlefield was cleaned up.

Lu Chi and others carried the remains of three hundred and twenty pioneers and the corpse of a green wolf, and boarded the plane back to Kuangxi Island in the dark of night.

By the time Lu Chi returned to Kuangxi Island, it was already late at night.

Li Tianran did not wait until the next day. He summoned all the pioneers who remained on Kuangxi Island in the dead of night and held a grand funeral for these three hundred and twenty people.

Under the witness of three thousand pioneers, Li Tianran personally dug a huge tomb under the swords and hibiscus flags of Kuangxi Island. Lu Chi sent the remains into the tomb and then began to fill it with earth.

"I... I want to fill a handful of soil!" someone among the three thousand pioneers suddenly shouted in a painful voice.

"Let us see our comrades off for the last time!"

"..."

Although the pioneers came from different countries, they shared the same fate. They had been abandoned by their countries and rescued from the brink of despair. The same life experiences brought them closer to each other, and then they quickly established a solid friendship in the war. How could they not be touched when they saw this scene?

Li Tianran did not object. At Lu Chi's suggestion, three thousand pioneers walked up one by one and filled a handful of soil for the comrades buried in the tomb!

Until the last pioneer finished filling, the tomb had been completely filled.

*Clang!*

Steel knives were drawn and pointed to the sky!

*Da-da-da!*

Machine guns fired in unison, and gunfire bloomed in the dark night sky.

The departure of a warrior is different from that of an ordinary person.

They don't need yellow paper, yuanbao, paper figures, or paper horses!

Use swords and knives to build a bridge, and send them off with gunfire!

My comrades, go all the way!

This was the only thought in the minds of all the pioneers at this time.

...

"Three hundred and twenty pioneers died in battle. This is no small matter... What exactly happened on the North Asia battlefield? Have you investigated the specific situation?"

After the funeral, Li Tianran spoke to Lu Chi alone.

"More than 30,000 beast tide invasions, with three second-stage evolved ancient creatures hidden inside..." Lu Chi was silent for a moment, recalling the scene at the F country garrison camp today, and said, "The F country troops also suffered heavy losses."

"Two of the three ancient creatures were killed, and I brought a corpse back."

"I left the remaining one to the local garrison troops, after all, they also contributed to the war."

Lu Chi said softly.

Li Tianran was silent for a moment. The corpse of a second-stage evolved creature was a very precious thing for Kuangxi Island, but it required the lives of more than three hundred pioneers to obtain it. Was the price a bit too expensive?

"Send the corpse to the research institute." Li Tianran rubbed his brow. "I will consider sending more people to the North Asia Plain defense line to assist in the defense!"

"Yes." Lu Chi left, leading people to drag away the green wolf's corpse.

Li Tianran stood in place, looking at the huge cemetery under the flag for a long time before turning and walking towards the castle.

This sudden loss of combat power made Li Tianran's mood, which was originally excited about the progress of the North Heavenly Gate plan, a little low again, but he also knew very well that if a war broke out with the ancient civilization in the future, this situation would be impossible to avoid.

Not to mention the Pioneer Corps, even the core figures in the farm and the heads of various countries could die.

If Li Tianran became depressed because of a single battle loss, then he would not be able to become a qualified leader.

Adjusting his mood, Li Tianran returned to the castle, ready to rest.

But at this moment, Qin Yiming came up with a pale face and said, "Boss, I... I just received a video, it should have been sent by the ancient civilization controlling our monitoring satellite!"

"Ancient civilization, still want to co-opt me?" Li Tianran smiled. The ancient civilization had used this method of controlling satellites to send information to the monitoring room many times before. He was not surprised. Although the ancient civilization's technology is now powerful, most of Kuangxi Island's weapons are controlled by Li Tianran's system, so it did not disconnect from the satellite like other countries.

"The content of this video... you should watch it yourself!" Qin Yiming's face was ugly, and he hesitated.

Li Tianran frowned.

Soon, he followed Qin Yiming to the monitoring room, and a video began to play!

"It's a second-class sequence creature of the ancient civilization!"

"Second squad, assemble and kill it!"

The video began to play, and a roar sounded. Soon, the faces of Lu Xiao and others appeared in the picture!

This turned out to be a war recording from the North Asia Plain battlefield!

In the picture, a vast expanse of beast tide surged, and Lu Xiao and others fought a bloody battle!

Li Tianran's pupils constricted.

The ancient civilization recorded the actual situation on the North Asia battlefield and sent it to him. Why?

Just to stimulate him again?

"Accelerate!" Li Tianran said in a deep voice.

The picture accelerated, and the battle between Lu Xiao and others and the green wolf became more intense, blood splattering, extremely tragic!

At this time, Li Tianran finally noticed something was wrong.

As the war progressed to this point, the front line of the beast tide remained as stable as Mount Tai, and not a single F country soldier came out!

"Hurry up and save us!"

"There are two more!"

"Notify the F country army, no need to rescue us, just drag this green wolf back!"

As the picture changed, Lu Xiao's voice became shrill.

His battle armor was broken, and he slumped on the corpse of the green wolf, weakly waving the steel knife in his hand, driving away the surrounding beast king.

Two ferocious wyverns swooped down, and more pioneers surged up, tearing a passage through the beast tide with their own flesh and blood, and finally converged with Lu Xiao.

The war became more and more tragic. Finally, with the pioneers' desperate fight, another wyvern was killed!

At this time, only three pioneers could stand!

The last wyvern was covered in wounds, swooping down and crushing a pioneer's head, but its eyes were also pierced, and it was finally shrouded in the fear of death, screaming and flapping its giant wings to escape to the eastern sky!

After the wyvern escaped, the beast tide also began to collapse and flee in all directions!

Unlike the received information, the pioneers were fighting alone from beginning to end. The F country army did not send a single person to participate in the battle!

It was not until the ancient civilization creature escaped and the beast tide collapsed that the F army corps came out of the defense wall and marched mightily towards the fleeing beast tide!

The picture ended here abruptly!

The face of an ancient king appeared on the screen. He looked at Li Tianran expressionlessly and spoke softly.

"Your allies let your soldiers fight alone and bear the brunt of the beast tide!"

"The wounds on your allies are not left by directly fighting the beast tide, but by chasing the beast tide!"

"Guess, were your last three surviving soldiers trampled to death in the chaos by the fleeing beast tide... or were they casually killed by your allies out of a dark desire to keep the process of this war secret?"

The ancient king's face gradually disappeared, and the video ended!

Li Tianran stood there blankly, his eyes already bloodshot!