"The village definitely has a problem, and the level-five warrant officer we were sent to support, Sen Jin, most likely disappeared because of them!" Yang Rui concluded.
"But our mission is to support Officer Sen Jin. We can't just go back because we didn't find him, can we?" Chen Shanshan asked with a frown.
Even though they knew they should be more cautious, if they heard that the group had turned back without even entering the village simply because of a suspicion, they would probably be punished for retreating anyway.
The other soldiers nodded as well. If they went back empty-handed and it turned out to be a false alarm, they would lose face. Even if their suspicions proved correct, returning without any intelligence would likely make their superiors think them incompetent.
Opportunities to visit a new battlefield were rare. New soldiers did not get many chances to come here. After all, in the First Army, most missions involved serving as armed guards on local planets. If they did that kind of work for decades, they might never get promoted even once. Many demons who had enlisted alongside them were envious of their luck, so they did not want to be transferred back in disgrace.
"This..." Yang Rui frowned at Chen Shanshan's words. What she said made sense, but...
"How about this? We'll send someone back to report the situation and ask our superiors what we should do next. The rest of us will enter the village tomorrow during the day and take a look. What do you think?"
There had not been much information about the village's abnormality in the previous reports, but Yang Rui remembered one detail. The report said that once night fell, very strange magnetic fluctuations would appear in the village. By daytime, those fluctuations would