After first riding one of the Terra Empire's low-altitude, low-speed transport vehicles to sneak away from the enemy encirclement by sheer luck, then flying in the planned direction for nearly a full day and night, and finally abandoning the vehicle and walking for almost another day, the escort team at last reached the outskirts of a dilapidated, abandoned town. The team consisted of five members—their leader, Awen; deputy leader, Yuehan; machine gunner, Mai Kun; medic, Wang Qing; and communications specialist, Liu Li—who had brought along their wounded comrade Mianxing and the unconscious ace pilot, Gao Lanlan.
It was obvious that the dilapidated, abandoned town was indeed the final destination of their escort mission!
However, because their transport plane had crashed and they had been surrounded and hunted by Terrans, they had arrived more than three days later than the time specified in the mission.
So when they carefully made their way into the town and found the coordinates listed in the mission, then entered the ruins of the huge building, which had long since fallen into disrepair, all they found was a scene of utter chaos: the broken corpses of Warp Daemons, food scraps, and the feces, urine, and vomit of some unknown creatures.
They didn't find a single Warp Daemon here, nor any of the creatures that had left behind the food scraps and the feces, urine, and vomit. They also didn't see the allied forces who were supposed to show up and meet them—the target of the top-secret "Greening Work" delivery mission.
"Hey!"
"Anybody here?"
"We're here!"
"Is anyone there?"
Naturally, the group was puzzled. After waiting patiently for a while, the short-tempered machine gunner, Mai Kun, grew impatient and shouted into the ruins.
"Shh!"
"Kun, shut up!"
"Keep it down!"
"Are you crazy?"
Mai Kun had barely