Chapter 21: The Deadly Quagmire

It's not just Elta and Shuangyue who feel like they're on pins and needles, but their opponents are too.

Somewhere in the Sudetenland, thousands of miles away from the portal, a convoy was sparsely turning out of the mountain road. The leading Mercedes-Benz G-type is not painted with an iron cross on the NATO camouflage, but with an obvious hand-painted star and moon mark on the original iron cross. Whether it is the Weasel 1A5 in the back, the Leopard 2A4 also raised from the mothballed warehouse, and even the MAN truck in the back, they are all painted with the same star and moon mark on the basis of scraping off the iron cross with a knife.

The turret of the tank, which is supposed to be clean, is welded with countless Soviet-style handles, giving the illusion of tearing apart time and space. Tanks and trucks were filled with militiamen armed with all sorts of light weapons, not even uniformly dressed, white turbans and helmets appeared together, and Soviet-style camouflage and NATO tricolors danced. As for the guys in their hands, from FAL, M72 to G36 and Tekken, and even AKs and RPGs produced in various countries, there are all kinds of strangeness.

The convoy swaggered out of the valley, and that was the end of their good times.

In the bush in front of them, there was a group of PT-91s covered with camouflage nets, faintly revealing the red cross paint on a white background underneath. The once silent farmhouse is about to become a battlefield of steel collision, and it will also become a quagmire for the great powers.

Why is this happening?

Since five years ago, the friction between the refugee groups that had been accepted on the continent and the local powers had not brought stability to the refugees. The intervention of the Northern Alliance for Independence has also failed to quell the unrest in the source areas of the refugees. The outflow of refugees has only increased, not decreased, and the ongoing construction of camps is still insufficient to accommodate outsiders who want to integrate into local life.

They were shivering in the wagons of the Black Forest or congregating in front of the Channel Tunnel, waiting for a desperate gamble. There has never been a path they dare not take. From drilling the landing gear compartment to the pickpocket truck, as long as they want to survive, they can try any method.

Attempts to accommodate them have been met with a ruthless backlash. No matter how much the tone of tolerance and understanding is used to comfort residents and immigrants, the rising crime rate and the gradual apathy that has begun illustrate the harsh reality.

It is impossible for developed countries, which already lack low-end jobs, to accommodate these migrants on a large scale, who do not even have the language to integrate into their local society. They are only able to get on a stipend to survive, or they are not willing to make the transition from being fed and clothed to being self-sufficient. The closed nature of the migrant community has once again allowed the violent groups of Far Eastern immigrants to continue to take root here. Since the disappearance of the extreme standard-bearer of the black flag, this situation has not decreased but increased, and those extreme thugs have begun to land on the European continent.

Immigrants may not be extreme for all, and not all of the natives are extreme. But extreme black ink dotting on the paper will only make the surrounding paper surface turn black as well. Attacks on refugee camps, looting of residential areas - too many such petty fights have occurred in the past few years. The former center of civilization has also begun to become unpeaceful, and even the paramilitary forces have begun to be unable to suppress the two sides that are gradually going crazy.

The continent's shaky alliance since the last economic crisis is also starting to take a heavy hit. The east and west sides of the refugee influx have gone from ripping off refugee quotas to assertiveness. Instead of accepting refugees, the countries that insisted on not accepting refugees welcomed a new wave of immigrants - the suffering natives of the continent.

They either went to the New World or Asia in search of new jobs, while most of them began to look for a new life in their once-backward and isolated eastern neighbors.

On the other hand, the land bridge and the Gulf oil giants, who were once not accepted by the European Continental Union, have also begun to use these refugees to get their hands on the "untouchable" centers of civilization. Paramilitary-grade crimes, once ubiquitous in the refugee's homeland, began to spread with the refugees, and the SWAT officers were already exhausted, from planes to buses. All of this happened just three years before the arrival of the first 800,000 immigrants.

In the year before the portal appeared in North China, the real nightmare of the continent arrived. The scene of the Colbrandt Bridge being blown across by trucks loaded with explosives, and the screams of the beautiful and uniform cable-stayed cables that could not support the bridge deck and pulled apart are still popular hits on video sites. On that day, explosions from nuclear power plants to public telephone booths spread across the continent.

Half a year before the portal incident, the civilian function of the Strait Tunnel was shut down. The entire continent has become a refugee destination, and no one can say that they are out of it. The careerists who allowed the refugees to achieve their own goals finally found that this was a wolf into the house, and the refugees' own power finally crushed and collapsed the civilization that had lost its weak foundation, and became a thing of the past.

From the very beginning, the whole continent followed the route set for itself, and its hands were bound by its own rules and regulations, and it slid step by step into the irreversible abyss. And what will Europe look like just three months later?

The army was constantly putting out fires everywhere, and they had to find out that they were fighting a textbook Afghan street fight - nothing more than in their own homeland. Weapons stored in various places have been seized, armies mixed with the descendants of immigrants have mutinied or been easily annihilated, and the European Continental Alliance, which was once one of the three great powers, is now only the remnants of the east and north to maintain order. One of the five permanent ones is left with only a scattered fleet in the New World, and the remaining two are still battling cancer cells in their bodies. Even the New World began to worry about it, and China could not be left alone. Broad western border, complex southwest. The situation is deteriorating and the forces are starting to stretch their backs. The occasional portal doesn't have anything to do with the continent's mutations, but after resolving the POW issue, the Preparatory Intervention Plan will not give way to the Elta issue. For the portal, the worst outcome is to go behind the portal and conduct several nuclear tests to completely eradicate the threat, and then use steel and concrete to seal off the area here with steel and concrete, and there is no reason to step the other foot into the mire at a time when Mother Earth is already so chaotic.

No one cares about the magical portals that have appeared on Chinese soil anymore, except for those capitalists who are born with a keen nerve. Now that everyone in the world is staring at the upheaval in the western part of the continent, even the arrival of aliens may be snubbed by journalists.