At Shangjing Base, while everyone was preparing supplies and training for Operation: All Out War, a piece of news abruptly burst into the meeting room, which should have been beyond anyone's interruption.
"General, General Chu Han!" The reporting officer who rushed in looked terrified, even stammering as he spoke. "He's disappeared! He's disappeared from the Battle Power Ranking!"
Whoosh—
The ongoing meeting came to an abrupt halt, and everyone shot to their feet in an uproar.
"Disappeared? Say that again?!"
"He really disappeared!" The officer did not dare be careless now and immediately poured out the entire report in a rush. "We checked again and again. General Chu Han's name isn't on the Battle Power Rankings from Tier Six to Tier Ten either!"
The entire meeting room exploded into chaos, abruptly thrown into this unexpected turmoil.
"What does disappeared mean? He's dead?"
"If he can't be found on any of the Battle Power Rankings, that can only mean he's dead."
"That can't be possible, can it? How could he just..."
"Could he be undergoing an assessment and have temporarily disappeared?"
"Have you ever seen Chu Han's name disappear during an assessment? He always jumps ranks in one go, from first on the left to first on the right."
"Then it really is... What are we supposed to do now?!"
"The war is about to begin. How could something like this happen?"
"Report to Commander Mu immediately! This is bad. Who knows what will happen over at the Wolf Fang Regiment now!"
The upper ranks of Shangjing Base were thrown into disarray by this sudden change in the rankings. Aside from those desperately trying to minimize the impact, people everywhere else discovered the development at the same time. Even ordinary survivors watching from the sidelines were stunned by the news before