Promotion to Cadre

The three major surface districts had basically been dealt with.

Meanwhile, after the Quicksand Team worked through the night, the collapsed Underground City's outer perimeter had also been cleared, rescuing batch after batch of Quicksand Team members.

Liu Ge and the others were among them.

When they saw daylight again,

they turned back, filthy and ragged, to look at the ruined district, then at the Underground City buried beneath countless chunks of rubble and sand. There was not the slightest joy of achieving their goal on their faces—only deep helplessness.

Liu Ge's once-vibrant wine-red hair had become dull and lifeless.

The reason they had to resort to schemes in the first place was because they lacked strength.

And once they chose to use schemes, they had to accept unforeseen events slipping beyond their control. The world would not revolve around any one person—at least, not around them.

"So it really was mutual destruction..."

Baimu stood nearby. From Liu Ge and the others' descriptions, he learned what had happened after they entered the Underground City.

With the combined forces of the three groups pressing in, the Rocky Group's cadres and members had been no match for the Quicksand Team. They could not even keep the situation deadlocked. Within a few hours, they had suffered defeat after defeat, abandoning one area after another.

By the time they had retreated into their final tiny patch of territory,

the Quicksand Team immediately tried to persuade Rocky to surrender, hoping to avoid wasting any more unnecessary strength. Who would have thought that he would disregard his subordinates' wishes and choose to perish together with them, detonating the Voltorb planted in advance at every support point throughout the Underground City.

Then the entire Underground City began to collapse. The Quicksand Team's forces were trapped underground and