Great Xia.
Chenglong Pass.
Inside the unfinished steel pass, a group of people worked feverishly amid the collapsed communications tower, while the Night Watchmen and the military garrison beside them carried out their routine inspections in an orderly fashion.
Throughout Chenglong Pass's construction, the outermost steel walls had been completed first, followed by more than four hundred mid-level heavy-weapon storage and installation points, then the core internal administrative areas such as the central control room. At present, only 10% of the interior remained under construction.
Once that final 10% was completed, Chenglong Pass could officially enter service, activate wartime mode, and become the easternmost frontline War Pass of Great Xia's East Sea.
Lu Qiu stood atop the steel wall, looking down at the communications tower still undergoing emergency repairs. For some reason, he felt a faint sense of unease.
He turned around and stared through the telescope in his hand at the rolling mist border in the distance.
It couldn't... be that much of a coincidence, could it?
Lu Qiu stood there for a long time before lowering his telescope. Just as he let out a long breath and steadied himself, a thunderous explosion erupted from the distant mist border!
Lu Qiu's pupils suddenly contracted.
He swiftly raised his telescope and looked toward the mist border. Within the invisible wall standing before the mist, countless dense black dots burst out of the fog, skimming across the sea at astonishing speed and surging toward them like a tidal wave!
Behind them rose a monstrous wave hundreds of meters high!
The wave was like a gigantic hand blotting out the sky, completely swallowing the clear heavens overhead and plunging everything around them into darkness.
That was...
Watching the countless black dots surge forth with the massive wave, horror appeared on Lu Qiu's