More than half a year had passed since Chu Han left Gale Valley.
Gale Valley, once stable and orderly, with a steady battlefront, was now engulfed in brutally fierce fighting.
The flames of war swept across the land, smoke filled the sky, and the situation had become perilous in the extreme.
After abandoning Black Death Abyss, the insect race had poured all its combat strength and resources into the human race's other major war zones.
Gale Valley, adjacent to the front near the insect race's main nest and relatively weakly defended, bore the brunt of the assault, becoming a primary target of the insect race's offensive.
Now, Gale Valley was tightly encircled by an insect tide army jointly assembled by three Insect Queens.
The three Insect Queens commanded countless insect soldiers in successive waves of savage attacks. Their ferocious offensive drove Gale Valley's human defenders back again and again, shattering one defensive line after another and leaving them in desperate danger.
Seeing this, military headquarters urgently dispatched powerful fighters from various legions as reinforcements. Yet after arriving, they not only failed to turn the battle around or stabilize the defenses, but suffered devastating losses themselves.
The three War Zone Main Cannons that had originally held Gale Valley's battlefront steady—treasures embodying the pinnacle of human technology—had now been destroyed by the insect race's combined assault, reduced to useless wreckage.
Without the main cannons to deter it, the insect tide attacked with ever greater impunity, and Gale Valley's situation continued to deteriorate.
It had already joined the ranks of the most dangerous and bloodiest war zones across the human race's entire Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
The elite fighters who had withdrawn together from Black Death Abyss also knew how dangerous Gale Valley was.
Every one of them harbored misgivings. No one wanted to step