Blue Star, outer space.
On a meteorite, A-Zhui and Angel Yan sat around bored, chatting while distractedly monitoring the situation on Blue Star.
Looking at A-Zhui beside her, Angel lazily stretched and teased, "A-Zhui, that war maniac Du Kao is making trouble for your little man again. Aren't you going to do something about it?"
A-Zhui shook her head. "As for Du Kao's actions, the queen wants us to ask A-Chen what he thinks. But A-Chen doesn't want me interfering. He wants to use this war to train the troops, and the queen agrees as well. All we can do now is wait.
"And I believe in A-Chen."
A-Zhui continued, "Because of A-Chen and its geographical advantages, the Yanhuang Empire has developed far too smoothly. Everything has gone its way, and it hasn't suffered a single setback.
"Combined with technology far beyond this era, it has been unstoppable since the war began. This made many soldiers grow restless and overconfident.
"But after entering the European battlefield, Du Kao's interference caused those countries' military equipment to improve far too quickly. Once the empire lost most of its weapons advantage, the soldiers performed rather poorly. After discovering this problem, A-Chen finally decided to use Du Kao's interference as an opportunity to train them."
Meanwhile.
Angel Nebula, Merlot Heavenly Court.
In the garden, Kesha and He Xi sat at a table, each leisurely sipping a glass of red wine.
"Man Woman, you said that little fellow Ye Chen might grow strong enough to oppose the Void in the future. How reliable was your deduction?"
"Hehe, to be honest, I don't know either. I've used the Holy Knowledge Treasure Trove (Celestial Computer) to calculate for so long, but the final result was still unknown."
Hearing this, He Xi shook her head speechlessly. She had thought Kesha had calculated something, but it turned out she had gotten nothing at all.
But precisely because she hadn't calculated anything, it meant Ye Chen's future held infinite possibilities.
Of course, infinite possibilities meant that anything from the upper limit to the lower limit was possible. He could rise infinitely high or fall infinitely low.
Two years ago, Angel Yan had uploaded to Kesha the phenomena triggered when Ye Chen broke through on Blue Star, along with a series of subsequent data.
After receiving that information, Kesha had discovered that Ye Chen was extraordinary. She deduced that once he matured, he would become another god-tier figure.
But after using the Holy Knowledge Treasure Trove to calculate, she had ultimately obtained the result: unknown.
That did not stop Kesha from valuing Ye Chen or investing in him.
Blue Star, European battlefield, Third War Zone.
Artillery thundered and smoke billowed. After two years of war, the cities that had once stood here had long since become utterly dilapidated.
Wata City, a small city, had now been completely reduced to ruins.
Among the crumbling walls, figures cautiously slipped around.
These people wore camouflage, rifles strapped to their backs, their expressions tense as they watched every movement around them.
Under the cover of night, they would have been impossible to spot without careful observation.
As time passed, they continued setting up throughout the ruined city. Clearly, they were laying an ambush.
In a concealed corner.
Lyle held a telescope and used the dim moonlight to observe the distant movements.
Meanwhile.
On the outskirts of the city, a group of fully armed Yanhuang soldiers hurried through the darkness. When they reached Wata City, they immediately stopped.
The officer in charge looked at the ruined city before him. It was utterly silent inside, without the slightest sign of life.
He then waved backward, signaling everyone to rest where they were while arranging for others to keep watch around the perimeter.
Seeing the officer's gesture, the soldiers behind him immediately breathed a sigh of relief. After traveling such a long distance, their legs were nearly worn out.
One by one, they then sat down on the ground without a care for appearances, or leaned directly against whatever they could find, clutching their weapons as they rested in a half-awake state.
After entering the European battlefield, they had suffered a major defeat and taken heavy losses. It had dealt a severe blow to their somewhat arrogant hearts. Fortunately, they had quickly realized what was happening and adjusted their strategy.
They launched a counterattack.
Now, two years had passed. After being tempered in the great furnace of the European battlefield and watching their comrades die one after another, they had matured and become true elite soldiers and capable officers.
Those who were not elite soldiers had all died. They simply could not survive in this great furnace.
In the city.
When Lyle saw this group, his eyes immediately lit up, because these were their targets.
Their mission was to intercept these people before they could reach the main battlefield to provide support, because the Alliance was ready to launch a counterattack against the Yanhuang Empire.
There were dozens of units like theirs scattered throughout this war zone for this operation, all to cut off the Yanhuang Empire's reinforcement routes.
They had come this time with the resolve to die, fighting until the last man and never retreating.
Although Lyle did not know what gave the Allied forces the confidence to counterattack the Yanhuang Empire, he was willing to believe them. He had no choice but to believe them.
After all, they had already been driven into a corner with no way out.
It could be said that, with the war having reached this stage, both sides had suffered devastating casualties and neither had a way out. At this point, whoever retreated would die.
Now, with Du Kao stirring things up behind the scenes on the European battlefield, the Yanhuang Empire had lost most of its weapons advantage. It could no longer overwhelm its enemies and was forced into a war of attrition.
Yet the outcome of this war of attrition was actually not in much doubt. Although the Yanhuang Empire's weapons advantage had been greatly weakened, it still possessed air superiority.
In addition, the Yanhuang Empire had a massive population and thirty years of wartime reserves. With its entire population serving as a pool of soldiers, it could replenish its forces at any time. In other words, the Yanhuang Empire could afford this war, while the European countries could not.
At the same time, this was also the confidence behind Ye Chen's decision to use the war to train his troops.
Sitting on a rock, Company Commander Zhou Ning suddenly felt uneasy and glanced around. The surroundings were so quiet that there was not even the sound of insects, and his eyelid began to twitch.
Sensing this, Zhou Ning immediately woke the soldiers around him. "Stay alert!!"
Having survived from the moment the empire began its war, Zhou Ning's special sense for danger had saved him countless times. That feeling had returned now. Although he did not know where the danger lay, he dared not be careless.
The awakened soldiers instantly opened their eyes. At the same time, they skillfully disengaged the safeties on their rifles and coldly surveyed their surroundings.
Elsewhere.
When Lyle, who had been preparing to attack, saw this scene, his face turned green. Although he had no idea what had happened, the arrow was already nocked and had to be loosed.
He immediately fired the first shot.
With that signal, the small city of Wata suddenly erupted into chaos.
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