"Drip, drip."
The rain poured down.
Water droplets splashing onto the ground fell into the murky mud and water, bursting with a smack into countless tiny beads.
The filthy puddles vaguely reflected the leaden sky. Everything was so oppressive.
At the foot of the mountain, Zhang Tie, who had stationed an elite squad outside Wangjiang City, sat somewhat dazed on top of an armored car and looked up at the mist-shrouded mountaintop.
Under his buttocks, the sturdy alloy armor seemed to have been pressed inward by his weight. The armored car, with its six pairs of road wheels, was sunk deep into the muddy water.
The entire team was silent. The few awakened soldiers responsible for operating the drones merely controlled them in silence as they flew back from the distance, trying to find some useful information in the pictures they had captured.
They did not dare—or rather, could not—approach that mountain.
Although they were an elite Dragon Security squad of relatively high rank, they were elites qualified to accompany Zhang Tie on missions outside.
But perhaps aside from the few people at the Dragon An Core, no one knew who was staying on that mountain.
They had been accompanying Zhang Tie here for a long time, as if waiting for something.
"Why hasn't Team Leader Lin come back yet?"
With a silent sigh, Bear Dunce felt a little sad and shifted his weight backward. His high-density body immediately pressed the armored car beneath him until it creaked.
He knew who was on the mountaintop. He also knew that guarding this place with his men might be meaningless, but he had never been willing to leave—not even half a step.
Therefore, even though Dragon Security was currently severely short-handed, with disturbances of varying degrees breaking out in all the major