Thanks to the darkness of the sky, the dark red beam that shot down from above stood out starkly against the night.
So Lu Bai wasn't the only one who noticed the dark red beam.
All across Forward Base, countless people looked up toward where it had come from.
The senior officers at Combat Command Center were even more anxious. They rushed straight out of the command room, hoping to witness the attack with their own eyes.
They hadn't received any reports from the front lines.
More precisely, after the dark red beam struck, they lost contact with the frontline troops.
At first, some people optimistically believed it might just be some kind of signal-jamming technique.
But once the footage captured by the drones came through, that optimistic guess was immediately dispelled.
There was no sign of any life left in the enormous crater, which was more than three kilometers in diameter.
In terms of destructive power, it actually wasn't all that great.
But this kind of attack dealt a tremendous blow to morale.
Anyone in the military who saw it once knew that an attack traveling at a speed practically comparable to light was almost impossible to intercept by any conventional means.
This time, the target was the forward position. What if the next attack hit Forward Base instead?
An attack that couldn't be stopped meant there was always a blade hanging over every one of their necks.
The fact that their command center still existed at all was thanks to the Mona people not choosing to strike them first.
Everyone in Combat Command Room looked unsettled and uncertain.
In fact, each person in the room felt as if they were sitting on a powder keg, liable to explode and take their lives at any moment.
If they hadn't