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After receiving Li Qinwu's orders, Bruce Crocodile opened his blood-filled maw, gulped down a mouthful of seawater stained with blood, lashed his tail, and swam toward Everfrost Island.
He had not been far from Everfrost Island to begin with, and after a little over an hour, he successfully came ashore.
Meanwhile, the two Noble Councils were still preparing aircraft and mobilizing Knight Mechs to encircle and suppress Bruce Crocodile.
Unless it was an especially urgent situation, a Knight Mech required a highly complicated process to go from cold shutdown to preheating and activation.
The Plasma Engine needed to be warmed up gradually, while the Knight Mech's Machine Spirit needed to be placated by a Tech-Priest.
Unless something truly major happened, this process ideally had to last at least a full day.
Thus, in most cases, the Knight Mechs operated on a rotation system. Once a Knight Mech was ignited, it would remain on duty continuously for several days or even weeks.
After several weeks, it would be replaced by another Knight Mech that had gone through the complex prayer rites.
To crusade against Bruce Crocodile, the two councils intended to mobilize every Knight Mech and smash Bruce to pieces!
All one thousand Knight Mechs were undergoing activation rituals, and that would take quite some time.
Taking advantage of this gap, Bruce Crocodile successfully landed on Everfrost Island.
Everfrost Island was a large island within the Arctic Circle. It was blanketed in snow, and the surrounding seas remained frozen year-round.
Temperatures there stayed below minus thirty degrees Celsius throughout the year, accompanied by relentless blizzards.
Without advanced cold-weather equipment, ordinary people simply could not survive there, so Everfrost Island had no human activity.
However, the first human pioneers to arrive on this planet had