The story begins on the Shenhai Expressway in early summer May, near a service station on the outskirts of a city in the north.

Today's highway and this service station will definitely go down in history, not a series of car accidents or the like, but a wave of shocking unlucky people, who are about to embark on a new Huangquan Road here, opening a big blood and tears picture. Of course, this picture scroll is just a legendary second cover.

Three o'clock in the morning. Xiao Chen, the driver of West Asia Logistics, was already drowsy. It's been half an hour since the last mint dissipated in my mouth. He should have turned right into the city thirty kilometers ago to stop and get a good night's sleep, and if he had known what had happened next, he would have been more obliged to do so than to make it to the service station he knew.

The eight-wheeled logistics truck is still walking on the unmanned lane with high beams, and the speed is 100 per hour, and everything looks the same as usual. Until under the high beams, a lot of soldiers in red cloaks and metal armor appeared in his vision, but he just rubbed his eyes and subconsciously flashed. "the chicken, I need to stop the emergency lane first."

Before he could hit the steering wheel to change lanes, the solid collision woke up Xiao Chen - he hit someone! His awakening came too late, and the high-beamed eight-wheeled truck was like a bowling ball, driving through the one-way five-lane military formation. It's just that the bowling ball rolls into the side lane, and the truck will get a flat tire if it doesn't run well. After sweeping a phalanx, the overloaded logistics truck finally resolutely rolled over on its side, compressing the half of the cavalry phalanx behind.

After witnessing the steel beast rushing towards him with magic light, the cavalry commander who had just taken control of his horse waved his chain ball in horror and shouted, "Go and tell General Collins that the enemy's steel rhinoceros has taken away a whole group of spear boys!" ”

General Collins, the forward commander of the Elta Imperial Expeditionary Force, was studying the bottle of mineral water from the Ten Year Old Mountain at the convenience store at the service station with potato chips. The thing was transparent and soft, and the large glass on the exterior wall and the lights that looked like daytime were even more astonishing. And these palace-level sealed sweets, steaming magic traps......

He began to be glad that he did not push down the forward mandate, knowing that before the expedition, the ambiguity of the priest who opened the door of the Double Moon Church, but let several generals take turns to shirk the task of the striker, although the troops under the command of the vanguard are strong enough, including not only the light and heavy cavalry, horse archers, spearmen, archers, light and heavy infantry and orc shield soldiers that are standard in the Western Army, but also the additional strengthening of the Wyvering Dragon Cavalry and the elite team of magicians from the Magic Association. But for the unknown behind the gate, even if the entire Western Army is strengthened under his command, not to mention the stupid words of whether he can win a big victory, there is no guarantee of whether he can retreat after defeat. Not only is the act of opening the door a gamble for the Elta Empire, but for this general who serves as a striker, it is a gamble of life and death for wealth. Other generals may have had floating wealth, but in the end they still spared their lives, and he, a cavalry general who had fallen into the nobility, stepped forward to fight.

Now he enjoyed the satisfaction of the successful gambling and of course the air conditioning in the room. These tributes in front of him are enough to make his son sit back and relax, and the world on the other side of the door is indeed full of wealth! A small shop is so rich, and when they loot the metropolis and then swagger back behind the door, Shi Shiran closes the door, and the army on the opposite side can win the empire even if the gods descend to earth? Even if they can't be captured, these treasures, along with the incredible magic they contain, can greatly increase the power of the empire. Ten thousand steps back, as long as you can return to your hometown behind the door with all the treasures and troops, then how big of a problem is there without other substantive results?

The panicked cavalry commander dismounted and ran into the convenience store in a panic. The armor still kept ratting.

"Lord Collins, the enemy seems to have sent a terrifyingly large steel rhinoceros!"

Collins wasn't surprised, this was the main road of the country—he didn't know exactly where it led, but judging from the width of the square, it wasn't a big deal to say that there were often strange beasts running on it.

"Just one head?"

"Yes! Like the horseless carriage on wheels we captured here, only bigger and more ferocious! ”

"Gather your men, rest well at night, and start marching along the route tomorrow, we are going to attack the city!"

Collins breathed a sigh of relief. But such a big monster, it was really impossible to stop the rush into the formation, and he could only disperse his troops first, so as not to let most of the army gather in this terrain suitable for impact. So he gave a new order in an instant.

"All the soldiers of the Lufthansa Mountain Regiment, head towards the lighted place outside, open the barrier on the side of the road, and go full speed! In addition, let the Wyvern Cavalry go to the periphery to spy on the information! And the magicians and the Guards, load the prisoners and booty now and send them back to the Western Army camp! ”

Collins' original plan was to wait until dawn to start the assault with all his might, but now he was starting to feel that time was precious.

The soldiers of the Hansa Mountain Regiment, who faithfully carried out the order, cut down the iron fence on the side of the road and marched along the cement road of the township towards the village that was dotted with lights. Few of them had actually opened the village, but each of them had a blood-red greedy look in their eyes. In this kind of otherworldly country, no one will pay attention to the safety of the locals like counterinsurgency or conquest, all they have to do is destroy the village and then do what undisciplined troops should do. But when they reached the village, they found that it was almost empty. If they could understand what the big red circled character on the wall meant, the soldiers of the Lufthansa Mountain Regiment would have been disappointed.

That's a word for "demolition". It has long been planned as a new vertical farming park. The villagers had already gone to the city to settle down with the compensation money, and there was no oil or water here at all.

The heralds of the Lufthansa Mountain Regiment were running well again, which added to Collins' pre-sunrise worries. Could the enemy have been aware of it and have transferred all the inhabitants beforehand? He ordered the Hanseatic regiment not to advance too deeply. The Wyvern Regiment continued to expand the search area, while the ground forces continued along the highway after the Wyvern reconnaissance.

Before the invention of radio, the reaction speed of human society was measured in days. It's a pity that the information society they are facing is based on seconds, and one step behind is death. The highway was closed in both directions after seeing the video of the service station in the duty room. The Type 09 infantry from the nearby rapid reaction forces quickly assembled and drove towards the highway overnight. In an hour it will be the dawn of early summer, and the real showdown time after the first contact will come.