The Sunset Province had a mutant species called sandworms. Those things stood as tall as buildings when they reared up, swallowed children whole, and possessed terrifying combat power.
Before those creatures, let alone Awakened, even power armor could be snapped in half.
A widely circulated claim on the forums at the time was that the sandworms' savage destructive power would wipe out all infrastructure beyond the riverbanks. Unless the sandworm infestation was dealt with, it would be pointless for the Alliance to build any number of roads or railways in the Sunset Province.
For that reason, many players further speculated that, to ensure construction proceeded smoothly, the Alliance would release a massive number of sandworm extermination missions as a limited-time event. Some veteran players had even devised a series of tactics specifically for this unusual mutant species.
Yet, to many people's surprise, the limited-time event never appeared.
The sandworms they had expected to significantly influence the course of the war never even entered the sight of the frontline or logistics forces.
Naturally, this was not because the sandworms feared the Alliance. Expecting beasts to think that much would be far too idealistic. The real reason was that, from the frontline troops' campsites to the logistics troops' transport routes, the Alliance had perfectly avoided every area where sandworms were active.
So the question was, sandworm activity zones did not mark themselves on maps. Even the most experienced merchants would not dare claim they knew the locations of every sandworm nest in the desert. How had the Alliance command managed it?
That was a long story.
To ensure that the roads and railways leading to the Lion Kingdom could begin construction smoothly, Chu Guang had specifically dispatched the Guards Regiment deep into nearby villages to question merchants who had traveled the Sunset