The "Sea Urchin" that had just been squeezed out of the gray mist rolled once, then vanished back into the chaos.
It was as if it had never appeared.
The battlefield fell into an eerie silence for a time. Only the continuous rumble of thunder on the northern horizon made the earth tremble faintly.
Qin Lan leaned against the trench wall and quietly edged over to Li Wei, lowering her voice. "Something's wrong. Very wrong."
She pointed behind them. "The 9th Army Group is still sending people this way. I saw the designations of two more divisions. And there are new troops gathering in the open ground between the trench zone and Dragon Tooth Bunker."
Then she gazed at the gray mist ahead and gestured a huge circle with both hands. "I'm guessing we've run into something really big this time."
Something big?
Could it be that there were a lot of monsters?
Li Wei was not alarmed. She was delighted.
More enemies meant more essence.
She had not gotten her fill yesterday. Was today going to make up for it twice over?
She patted Qin Lan on the shoulder and said firmly, "What are you afraid of? If the sky falls, I'll hold it up. Just stay close to me."
Qin Lan looked at Li Wei's devastatingly beautiful face and remembered the illusory longsword she had seen on the plane—the one Li Wei had drawn from the White Lotus mark between her brows...
What kind of person was she, exactly?
Why had someone like her come to the 19th Army and joined their squad?
Qin Lan was somewhat bewildered, but the tension in her heart inexplicably faded quite a bit.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the firepower from the direction of the Arctic Alliance grew increasingly ferocious.