Border, ten thousand meters in the air
The red lights in the cabin flashed as the piercing alarm echoed.
"Major Fang Tianyi, prepare to parachute in thirty seconds! We have reached the border area!"
The Y-20's rear hatch slowly opened, and the biting wind poured into the cabin, making Tianyi's robes flap wildly.
He stood at the hatch, looking down at the pitch-black earth below. This was the northern night sky, with scattered pinpricks of light like fireflies in the darkness.
"Repeating: prepare to parachute in thirty seconds!"
Tianyi took a deep breath. He did not answer, merely giving a slight nod.
Thirty seconds were up.
He leaped!
The cold wind howled as his body plummeted, the ground growing clearer and clearer.
Tianyi's Magnet Release power instantly spread out.
His descent abruptly slowed. Like a feather, he drifted down through the night sky and landed silently deep within the forest.
His toes touched the ground without making a sound.
Tianyi dropped to one knee and swiftly scanned his surroundings—the dense forest was silent, save for the occasional chirp of night birds. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
He took out the Beidou locator he carried with him, opened the map, and used the faint glow of the screen to confirm his position.
"Off by around two hundred meters..." he muttered. "Not a big problem."
He pressed a special button at his waist.
An invisible laser, imperceptible to the naked eye, shot from his waist into space.
It was an encrypted signal that only the satellite overhead could receive.
At the command center far away in Upper Capital, a point of light quietly appeared on a massive screen.
"Signal confirmed! Major Fang Tianyi has landed safely!"
Commander Tian stood before the screen and nodded slightly without speaking, though his gaze became