"Your Majesty, an urgent battle report from the northeastern front!"
For a moment, Zhou Xu was completely dumbfounded when he heard that voice. The expression on his face was strange too, as if he were saying, What? The northeast?
It was no wonder Zhou Xu reacted that way.
After all these years, who didn't know that the Northeast Region was mainly occupied by scattered primitive tribes?
To Great Zhou, that was all uncivilized territory.
What threat could that region possibly pose to Great Zhou?
Even if extraordinary creatures appeared, Xie Liancheng and Qiansui could handle them.
Judging from the intelligence they had, even if the situation there couldn't be called completely foolproof, it was at least as secure as a fortress. How could there be an urgent battle report?!
Though Zhou Xu was bewildered, his hands were not the least bit slow. He quickly opened the battle report and began reading.
One glance at the handwriting told him it was Xie Liancheng's—ugly in a uniquely distinctive way. Zhou Xu couldn't have mistaken it.
Then the very first sentence made Zhou Xu's expression change.
The northeastern border had been attacked by green-skin forces!
The premise for the Northeast Region being completely secure was that the enemies they faced were the primitive tribes scattered throughout the area, along with any extraordinary creatures that might appear.
Even if some small forces showed up, with their equipment and Xie Liancheng's advantage in strength, they could basically deal with them.
But the appearance of the green-skin forces had completely exceeded Zhou Xu's expectations.
He hurried to a side hall and spread the map across the table.
"Damn it, how did green-skin forces appear in the Northeast Region?"
Before this, the only place within Great Zhou where green-skin forces had appeared was Plain Fortress in the