Chapter 737
"Everyone—"
When the combat parameter adjustments and adaptation training for the new standard equipment had been completed, the frontline commander of this reconnaissance and rescue mission, Crimson Dragon Army Colonel "Train Cannon" Long Feijun, gathered the ten exploration teams together.
"In less than twenty-four hours, the Survival Committee will issue the highest mobilization order. All manpower and material resources in the city will be assembled and thrown into the final battle.
"So, we have absolutely no reason to doubt the outcome of this war. Dragon City will prevail!
"But in what manner will Dragon City Civilization bring this brutal war, which has dragged on for decades, to a perfect close?
"How many resources will be wasted in the depths of the mist and jungle? How much Transcendent blood will be swallowed by the endless swamps? How many young people who might one day become eminent ministers, great generals, and pillars of the nation will turn into rotting corpses and dry bones soaked in floodwaters? That all depends on our performance!
"If we can precisely pinpoint the location of Monster Civilization's ultimate nest and determine whether it still has a final trump card, we may achieve the most glorious victory at the smallest cost, allowing Dragon City to charge into the vast and boundless Otherworld in its fullest state.
"If we fail, Dragon City may very well win a miserable victory where we kill a thousand enemies at the cost of eight hundred of our own, returning to an age of scarcity and deprivation. Economic crisis might even cause social order to collapse once more, sending us back to that lawless Crimson Era that no one ever wanted to see repeated!
"I believe no one wishes to return to the past.
"Whether the age of deprivation or the Crimson