"Since you've all realized your mistakes, hurry up and train. Otherwise, that helpless situation you just experienced will definitely happen again!"
"Yes!"
Ge Xiaolun and the others answered, then turned and headed toward the training equipment.
Just then, a figure came stumbling over from the base's main building.
A Jie's steps were unsteady. One hand clutched his chest while the other flailed wildly in the air, and blood that had yet to dry covered the corner of his mouth and the front of his clothes.
As he ran, he shouted in a hoarse, urgent voice, "Something's wrong! The general's in trouble!"
Everyone stopped in their tracks at once.
Lian Feng rushed over first, and Ge Xiaolun and the others hurried after her.
Rena jumped down from the low wall. Though her face still bore that dazed look, her steps did not hesitate.
A Jie practically fell to the ground when he reached them. Lian Feng caught his arm, her gaze darting over his injuries as her expression darkened.
"A Jie, what exactly happened? How did you get so badly hurt? And the general? How is he?"
A Jie took a few ragged breaths, his voice hoarse and trembling.
"I was just pushing the general over to the Gene Engineering Research Institute to visit the instructors from the Super God Academy. Everything was fine, but then a Taotie squad suddenly appeared and killed Instructor Li and all the others. I only managed to escape at the cost of serious injuries, and they took the general away!"
"What?!!"
At those words, Lian Feng's expression changed instantly.
Her fingers tightened around A Jie's arm, an urgency she struggled to suppress surging through her voice.
"I was just in the command room, and the Deno Three System didn't detect any unusual Taotie activity! How