Li Wei looked at her military wristwatch one last time.
The ghostly green digits glimmered with a sinister light in the pitch-black snowy night.
23:54:50
She held her breath and silently counted down in her heart.
The instant the timer hit zero, the entire defensive line seemed like a sleeping behemoth that suddenly awakened.
Countless dazzling beams of light shot into the sky. Some pierced straight into the heavens, while others crisscrossed and swept across the boundless darkness ahead.
On both sides of her, engines began roaring from the positions farther away.
Their voices were deep and thunderous, making the ground tremble faintly.
They belonged to the engineering units, the covering forces, and the roars of countless heavy vehicles.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Three scarlet signal flares dragged long tails of flame, tearing through the night and rising into the sky.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Behind her, the heavy mortars operated by the military-affiliated forces launched illumination shells one after another, sending them over their designated targets five kilometers away.
They burst open in succession, their ghastly white radiance illuminating the black earth as bright as broad daylight.
Little Sea Urchin, I'm coming!
Li Wei silently mouthed the words in her heart.
The next second, her qi and blood surged. Her entire body became an arrow loosed from the bow, vanishing from the spot in an instant.
The northern wind howled, carrying icy snow crystals that lashed fiercely against her face.
But she was far faster than the wind.
Moving at nearly a hundred meters per second, she charged straight toward the area beneath the illumination shells.
Countless snowflakes were swept up by the raging air currents, forming a white tornado behind her.
Less than a minute later.
Li Wei's figure abruptly halted in a relatively flat