"Awaiting your orders, Chief!!!"
The thunderous call swept through the entire cemetery like a ferocious storm, shaking everyone to their core!
The entire cemetery-no, the sky over all of eastern Modu-seemed to tremble beneath that roar!
Chief?
Who was the Chief?!
Hou Liangbing's and Smith's brains had stopped working entirely, reduced to mush.
They stiffly turned their heads, directing their vacant gazes toward the centenarian surrounded by dozens of generals.
Elder Xu, who had leaned on an ordinary wooden cane from the very beginning!
It was him!
It was actually him!
The sight shattered their last shred of hope.
"..."
Jin Dapao's face, flushed with excitement, froze as well.
His mouth hung open wide enough to fit an egg, yet he could not make a sound.
How was this possible?!
Who the hell was this man?!
"Grandpa Xu..."
Even Yue Xiaofei felt towering waves of shock surge through his heart, and he could not help looking at Elder Xu.
He knew Elder Xu was no ordinary man. Not only had he been his grandfather's comrade, he had also been Bureau 7's second-ranked agent, [Green Pine], and an army commander who had terrorized the enemy on the Korean Battlefield under the code name [Silver Fox].
But all that glory belonged to the past.
Once someone left power, their influence faded. That had always been the way of the world.
How could an old soldier who had been retired for decades still wield such terrifying influence?
With a single command, he could mobilize an entire theater's Navy, Army, and Air Force?!
This went far beyond military rank or office!
It was supreme authority that defied all conventional explanation!
Even with his son serving as president of Naval Engineering University and his son-in-law as commander of the Longdu Military Region, it should have