"What is it?"
Hearing the commotion outside, Fang Zheng immediately asked. This carriage naturally did not possess any high-tech capability like self-driving. The driver was a young man Clark had sent over, named Garrison. He was a clever kid. Because he was too young, he had not gone to the front lines to fight before, instead handling logistics work in the rear, so he had not been injured. On top of that, he was quick-witted and familiar with the terrain here, which was why Clark had assigned him to drive the carriage.
"It's like this—the outpost seems a little... off..."
"The outpost?"
Fang Zheng raised an eyebrow at that. Then he pushed open the door, stepped down from the carriage, and came to the driver's side. Seeing him approach, the clever young man immediately nodded respectfully and pointed ahead.
"My lord, look..."
Following Garrison's finger, Fang Zheng soon spotted the outpost not far below the hillside. According to Clark, this outpost was the safest place in the area. Fifty soldiers and a Holy Knight were permanently stationed there. It linked Order Fortress with the rear of the Northern Alliance, and was usually bustling and heavily guarded.
But now, it looked utterly dilapidated. Several breaches had been torn into the once-solid outer walls, and black smoke was still rising from fires. This was far more than merely seeming a little off. No matter how one looked at it, something was seriously wrong here.
"How could this be? Could even the outpost have been breached?"
Fang Zheng's body had been enhanced by the Zerg, and his eyesight was over ten times better than an ordinary person's—practically a built-in telescope. With one glance, he immediately grasped the situation at the outpost. The young man clearly lacked that ability. To him, the outpost was