The rest of the journey had not been easy, but they encountered no particularly thorny problems. Aside from one vehicle plunging into a fissure that led straight into the depths underground due to a sudden shift in the terrain, the Hunter Group suffered no further casualties.
The convoy safely arrived at the sinkhole area outside Nanhua Town.
"I'm going to meet Chen Jing and the person in charge of Tianshu Tower. I'll leave the task of setting up camp to you." After tossing those words at Cheng Ming, Bai Lingqiu left with Miss Shadow and several attendants, leaving Cheng Ming alone to face the entire convoy and the scrutiny of their fellow travelers, who had "been waiting here for quite some time."
Cheng Ming could not help but sigh.
Though he had no command experience, his training as a qualified Anomaly Hunter had included some command courses—after all, when hunting anomalies, Anomaly Hunters often had to cooperate with Anomaly Investigation Bureau investigators and ordinary soldiers. When communications were cut off, which happened often enough, command on the scene would usually be handed over to the most senior Hunter.
The relationship between Anomaly Hunters, anomaly investigators, and ordinary soldiers was somewhat like that between the fully augmented Space Marines and the mortal Imperial Guard in the Warhammer universe. The biggest difference, however, was probably combat capability—in Warhammer, an unarmed Space Marine could easily deal with a fully armed Imperial Guard soldier in a one-on-one fight, barring a few legendary units. But if an unarmed Anomaly Hunter wanted to kill a fully armed ordinary soldier in a head-on confrontation, at least two-thirds of all Anomaly Hunters in the Federation could not pull that off.
Cheng Ming glanced at Bai Lingqiu and the others heading toward the Tianshu Tower camp, then turned to