Eolseu Underground City, central Command Center.
At that moment, the room was packed.
City Lord Park Chang-da sat in the leather command chair in the center, holding a cup of coffee from who knew where, his expression grave.
A row of officers and aides stood behind him, all looking grim.
The Seismic Wave Monitoring System had been sounding alarms for several hours.
At first, there had been faint tremors from far away.
After analyzing their frequency, waveform, and intensity, they had reached a conclusion: those tremors had been caused by nuclear explosions!
And there had been more than one.
Since detecting the first seismic source, the system had recorded over forty large-scale explosions suspected to have come from nuclear bombs in just these few hours.
Most terrifying of all, the seismic source was moving.
It was approaching Ersu City.
"Report!" A technician stared at the screen, his voice tight.
"The latest seismic source analysis is in."
"The initial seismic source was at an azimuth of 32 degrees, approximately one hundred and thirty kilometers away. The corresponding coordinates... were in the direction of Eagle Country's Freedom Underground City."
"The seismic sources then moved south-southwest, clustered densely about forty kilometers from us. The corresponding location... is the Great Xia Tianxiong city area."
The Command Center fell silent for a moment.
Then everyone began talking at once.
"Eagle Country's direction? Does that mean Eagle Country and Great Xia are fighting?"
"They're getting closer and closer... We'll be all right, won't we?"
"I hope so. Those two, honestly, why do they love starting wars so much? They should all go to hell!"
Park Chang-da set down his coffee cup and said,
"Everyone, calm down!"
"Judging by the seismic sources' trajectory, the situation is quite clear."
He stood, walked over to the screen, and picked