The rain gradually stopped.
The dark clouds overhead had thinned considerably, revealing a few rays of wan sunlight.
After paying their respects to the hero, the more than ten thousand soldiers of the Eastern Frontier Theater led by Xiao Tian Ce withdrew as silently as they had arrived.
That dark green Steel Torrent departed as swiftly as it had come, as though it had never appeared at all.
Only the wreckage strewn across the ground and the mud churned up by military boots proved that the magnificent scene moments earlier had been no illusion.
The officials of Jinling and the Military Region's top brass also slunk away one after another, their expressions conflicted as they offered various excuses.
What had happened today had shaken them to the core.
A twenty-year-old major general!
A Nine-Star God of War personally leading ten thousand soldiers to pay their respects!
Four White Emperor fighter jets, National Treasures, performing the highest tribute-the Missing Man Formation!
Any one of these things would have been enough to send shock waves throughout the entire Dragon Kingdom!
They needed time to digest everything they had witnessed today.
They also needed to reassess just how terrifying the connections and influence of this young major general, who had appeared out of nowhere, truly were!
Before long, the once-clamorous Qingshan Cemetery fell quiet.
Only Yue Xiaofei, the Reverse Scale squad, and the more than two hundred soldiers of the 800th Company who had voluntarily stayed to watch over their comrade's grave remained.
Yue Xiaofei took off the major general's dress uniform that had made him shine so brilliantly and handed it back to Wild Chicken for safekeeping.
He once again became an ordinary-looking young man in plain combat fatigues.
He walked up to Chen Ze's headstone, picked up a clean towel, and