August 16. The sky was clear and the air crisp.
Jiang Yue led his team toward Yun City. Everything proceeded in secret, without any fanfare. Even the other teams from the Central South Military Region had no idea where Jiang Yue was taking his team.
Director Liao of the Western Frontier Military Region and He Jin of Heng City were mobilized through official documents from the Joint Command Group.
They traveled to Yun City by transport plane as well. The flight took less than two hours, and the team arrived in Yun City without a hitch.
Jiang Yue split the team into two groups. The larger force headed for the Yun City base, while Jiang Yue took a few people and continued by plane to survey the situation around Yun City.
Among all the major cities in the Western Frontier Military Region, Yun City could be said to be the very front line—the foremost line of defense.
The plane flew over Yun City toward the territory ruled by the Bizarre Tree. The landscape along the way was clearly much more desolate and far more tragic.
The flames of war had clearly reached the outskirts. The villages farther out were almost completely devoid of human life, leaving only the dense vegetation that had grown after the Bizarre Tree occupied the area.
The Western Frontier Military Region was already vast and sparsely populated, and this was even more apparent in the territory occupied by the Bizarre Tree.
From the plane, the view was almost entirely endless stretches of green forest. Towering trees resembled a green ocean with no visible end, having utterly swallowed the land.
Under this cover, which blocked out the sky all day long, not only could humans no longer live there, but aside from the trees and weeds, no