At the southern pass of Lost Valley, a truck sped through.
Si Si glanced at the layered mountain peaks beyond the window. Leaning back in the driver's seat, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned her attention to the road ahead.
At this point, the nuke's power had been reduced by at least half.
"Just one last step."
Muttering to herself, she stomped on the accelerator, sending several Gnawers wandering by the roadside flying. She followed the dirt road the Legion had carved out and drove straight toward the center of Lost Valley.
Ten minutes earlier.
She and Rou Rou had loaded the nuke onto the truck, and she had driven alone toward Lost Valley.
When their group had snuck into the valley earlier, they had confirmed that a giant pit several hundred meters wide and bottomless lay at the very center of Lost Valley.
It looked like a quarry pit.
Some terrifying weapon had directly collapsed the geological structure in this area, causing the rock veins several kilometers away to bulge and tilt upward. The battlefield from the previous era was likely beneath that pit.
To explore the pit and transport the excavated earth, the Legion had dug a circular dirt road along the funnel-shaped slope, just wide enough for two vehicles to pass side by side.
Following that dirt road downward, Si Si was almost at the very center of the pit when she suddenly spotted a jeep stalled by the roadside.
Before she could wonder why there was a vehicle here, two heads popped up behind the jeep, followed by a pistol and a submachine gun aimed at her.
"Don't move!"
"Stop the truck! Hands on your head!"
Their faces were full of tension and wariness. From their uniforms, they were clearly Legion officers, and