Torrential rain sent ripples spreading across the sea.
Twenty-three warships pressed through the waves, enduring the battering wind and rain.
At this moment, Feng Qi and the Mist Lord occasionally glanced toward the commander-in-chief, Wang Lin, standing on the deck of the lead warship.
They did not actually care about the joint exploration operation at all.
After all, the Eighth Steel Plant, the battle squad they had personally established, was merely a stepping stone that they would abandon sooner or later. No matter how many honor points it earned, they would be useless.
Compared to working hard to raise the battle squad's rating, having the Mist Lord directly possess someone was clearly much easier.
The reason they had joined this operation
was primarily because they had set their sights on Wang Lin, the commander-in-chief of this joint exploration operation, and the Reaper Battle Squad under his command.
Before the mission began, they had thoroughly investigated Wang Lin.
He had graduated from Victory Academy a year ago. He registered as a Domain Warrior in the Old Days Supply Zone with three classmates, and they had joined the Reaper Battle Squad together.
In the years that followed, the squad's members changed batch after batch.
The classmates who had joined the Reaper Battle Squad alongside him had all died in battle after battle, yet Wang Lin had steadily made it to where he was today.
He had now become the captain of the Reaper Battle Squad.
Under his leadership, the Reaper Battle Squad had risen from an F-grade battle squad to a Grade B Battle Squad.
The Mist Lord had chosen Wang Lin not only because he had taken the initiative to launch this joint exploration operation and walked right into their trap, but also for another important reason.
The Reaper Battle Squad's