The blazing sun hung overhead as over a hundred people raced across the grassland, with the rear base gradually vanishing from sight behind them.
Su Xiao was running among the crowd as well. For the moment, he was moving with the assault team. He would break through the fortress's frontal defenses with them, then find a chance to slip away and infiltrate the fortress amid the chaos.
Several Fissionals flew high in the sky. Seeing the people running below, their instinctive thought was that these humans could no longer hold out and were abandoning their defensive position to flee the Fallen Zone as a group.
The fact that these Fissionals had such thoughts meant that the twelve contractors from Paradise of Light had not leaked any information. After being captured alive, they would not be able to hold out for long—not because the women from Paradise of Light lacked courage or resolve, but because Parasites existed.
Bang, bang.
After two short gunshots, two Fissionals plummeted diagonally from the sky.
A dozen seconds later, all six Fissionals had been silenced.
Their own hundred-plus people would be exposed sooner or later. The Other King would definitely send out large numbers of flying Fissionals to scout.
Sure enough, after everyone had traveled at full speed for over forty minutes, more and more Fissionals appeared in the sky, scouting in groups.
Woo~
A low horn sounded, occasionally stopping and starting. It signaled an enemy attack.
Three kilometers away stood a magnificent fortress. The walls at its front were over sixty meters high, built from massive boulders. Looking through the gaps between the rocks, one could see that each boulder had slots, locking tightly together.
At the four corners of the walls stood a black pillar each. The pillars were hollow and looked as though