Mariana's face was flushed red, sweat soaking her uniform.
As the deputy commander of Baiying Base, she had fought for many years, yet she had never encountered such changes during an expedition.
They had barely left the base before enemies intercepted and attacked them. Then Commander Lilan, their leading general, died on the spot, and the rest were dealt with as well. Only she had sensed danger and returned at once, making it back to the Sacred Artifact's coverage in time. With the Sacred Artifact and Biological Weapons, she had forcibly driven back the enemy.
Fortunately, the Xuanmiao Sect Daoist disciple she feared most had charged fiercely into the defensive system.
That had triggered a chain of defensive counterattack mechanisms.
Those defensive counterattack mechanisms were so powerful that even if Lilan were still alive, he would not have dared to test them himself.
Among them were numerous powerful weapons and giant cannons operated by knight-level experts, lying in wait as an ambush.
And then there was the final trump card—the Crimson Demon Splitting Cannon.
Knight-level experts could not defeat Grandmasters, but they could still operate weapons and aim at Grandmasters suppressed by a Sacred Artifact.
Back then, the Deep Sea Dragon King, Mo Nian, had defeated two High-ranking Masters, only to grow overconfident and press too deeply. He was then caught in an ambush and grievously wounded by the detonation of countless Black Demon Splitting Bullets.
Though Crimson Demon Splitting Bullets were less powerful than Black Demon ones, they still possessed horrifyingly high destructive power.
Counterattack!! The thought flashed through Mariana's mind.
Now that they had dealt with Wei He, the most troublesome Xuanmiao Sect Daoist disciple, only Xiao Ling and Cai Menghuan remained. They could seize this chance to counterattack and take them down.
Lilan had already died. If