That day, the new players had only received text notifications and had yet to receive their game visors. But that night, once the players logged in, Wasteland Base's operation against a certain mine—the metal mining company's mine pit—was finally declared underway.
See?
The players logged in at 00:00:00 Earth time, while the time "in-game" was still 08:00:00. Everything remained exactly as it had been when the players logged off.
Then, when the "in-game" time—Wasteland time—reached 08:05:00 in the morning, with all preparations complete, the 180mm Impact Cannons positioned long ago on a highland roughly ten kilometers from the mine, already switched to siege mode and calibrated with their firing data, opened fire at the command of Base Commander Gao Lanlan!
BOOM—! BOOM—!
BOOM—! BOOM—! BOOM—!
BOOM—!
BOOM—! BOOM—!
In an instant!
As deafening explosions erupted one after another like crashing thunder, enormous orange-red fireballs swelled and burst across the mine's stockyard. Before long, the entire mine was completely blanketed by artillery fire.
Almost instantly, the Chaos monsters, Chaos cultists, twisted miners, and demons that had been wandering there were all engulfed by flames and explosions.
And after one round of bombardment, there was no sign that it would end. A second barrage swiftly followed.
BOOM—! BOOM—!
BOOM—! BOOM—! BOOM—!
BOOM—!
BOOM—! BOOM—!
Several minutes passed, yet the artillery barrage, having swept over the area several times already, showed absolutely no sign of stopping.
Those 180mm Impact Cannon shells, those high-explosive rounds, continued shrieking down from the sky, relentlessly pounding and blanketing the mine that had once dealt hundreds of players a crushing defeat.
Countless monsters that had originally wandered the mine had long since been blasted to ashes. The Chaos monsters, Chaos cultists, and Chaos natives that had been startled into emerging from hidden places or rushing out from the