This is a military base located somewhere in Siberia. It hides in the snow and jungle, dormant in the night.

There is no breath of life within a radius of hundreds of kilometers. No birdsong could be heard, not even the chirping of insects. As for the large animals, they have long been extinct. This is not due to indiscriminate hunting by humans – it is they who have fled the area themselves.

Because this base is codenamed "South Gate II".

Every ten days, the land within a radius of hundreds of kilometers around the base is flooded with violent electromagnetic fields. Every creature that strays into this place will be tormented by the mania, despair, panic, throbbing that fills the atrium, and it will become a Jedi - nothing can survive in this place, not even humans.

That's when the base was testing weapons. One of the most powerful strategic weapons ever built by mankind - the light quantum generator.

Its core technique comes from what was once Southern Luzon. In the chaotic years when the barrier had just descended, this weapon slaughtered more than thirty powerful species, saving human society from the brink of collapse.

After that, the Empire built the base and built it into an even more powerful and powerful array of generators.

So it became one of the protagonists of the night.

18:34.

The commander-in-chief of the base closed the computer in his hand, walked out of the office, and issued an order - emergency drill.

This is not common, but it is the duty of a soldier to obey orders. So the soldiers, who had planned to enjoy the evening, went into action, opened the main control panel, adjusted the main power supply, and merged the repeaters. And a notice was issued to the surrounding area that the generator would consume a lot of electricity when it was running, and several nearby towns would have to stop supplying power to satisfy the monster's appetite. It would take nearly an hour after that to get back to normal - if the base auxiliaries didn't need additional cooling for the main controllers.

But this is the most important weapon of the country. Therefore, the deputy commander asked to confirm with his chief officer the documents received by the other party - whether there was a good reason to conduct such a hasty "emergency exercise" at this time.

However, it was a bullet that answered him. The commander dumped his body in his office and did not hide it.

Because he knew very well that this would be the last night of his life—his life would burn with the brilliant pillar of light in the sky.

Many programs were skipped, and the preparation time was reduced from 15 minutes to 3 minutes. This anomaly caused unease among the operators. But the commander stood right behind them—in a cold and unquestioning posture, as if the battlefield was ahead.

This sense of majestic oppression made them suppress their doubts in the bottom of their hearts.

But at the same time, somewhere outside the general control room, a non-commissioned officer on a special mission is trying to get in touch with his superiors. There will be such a person in every important base. He is usually an inconspicuous soldier, but once he reaches some kind of hypothetical crisis, he will have the privilege to skip the top of his department and directly contact some of the big people at a higher level.

The non-commissioned officer fulfilled his duty. But the reply he got was "everything works". So he came out of the shadows and returned to his sentry post.

The operators get the coordinates from the mouth of the commander. The "imaginary enemy" they were about to strike was in the air at a distance of 5,637 kilometers. On top of such a long distance. Even the best of sight is unlikely to be able to see the target, because the curved effect of the earth will block what he wants to see.

The operators realized. That target was located somewhere in Yanjing. Even those who are sluggish should realize what this "emergency exercise" means when they are at such a time.

However, the commander had already walked to the main control pad and pushed aside the sergeant who had been sitting there, his eyes burning with raging flames. Press the button.

The circular slide on the surface of the base slowly opens. The remnants of snow fell on it.

This behemoth came to life in the night of Northern Siberia. A ring of shining lights appeared around it. The entire space was trembling uneasily, and the air was unusually dry and cold.

If you look at this area from outer space, you will find that the lights of the entire northern Siberia dimmed almost at the same moment - it was as if it had returned to primitive society in this instant.

An incomparably huge "javelin" rises from the open arc cover. It is a 461.5-meter-long launch tube. At this moment, it was emitting a faint blue light, and countless firefly-like bright spots separated from its body, and then suddenly disappeared into the night. The light it emitted gilded the entire surrounding forest with something like moonlight, but it was the color of death.

The tube adjusts its direction and inclination, and at the end it points to the northeast.

Ray after ray of light surged along its long body towards the emitter, where a huge amount of energy converged, first turning into a ball of light with a diameter of fifty meters, and then slowly collapsing inward. Forty seconds later, the ball of light was compressed into an extremely bright dot that illuminated every speck of dust on the ground.

That's when the commander pressed the button.

The tip of the "javelin" flickered at a frequency imperceptible to the naked eye. Then the light dissipated, and immediately dimmed.

Compared to the preparation time of up to four minutes, the process of launching can only be measured in microseconds – the entire process is one millionth of a second, or a subtle one.

The forest was dark and quiet again.

Tonight, there will be only the wind of Northern Siberia here.

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At a distance of 5,600 kilometers, the "Observer" has almost completed scanning the terrain of the area below. Twelve seconds later, a huge amount of data is transmitted to a supercomputer that can then be analyzed with incredibly precise results.

And Lieutenant Colonel Hou Buzhu shook his head at this moment and sneered: "Ridiculous twelve-level order." ”

He then looked up, trying to find the "Observer" in the sky.

However, the "observer" is 6000 meters above sea level. No matter how good the vision is, it is impossible for a person to see it. The lieutenant colonel smiled - he was equally aware that it was an impossible.

But in the next moment, he saw it.

A pillar of light pierced directly through the weak armor of the "observer". For a millionth of a second, the behemoth hovering in the air turned into a gaseous mass of metal from head to tail. The mass of metal then cools rapidly and releases unparalleled heat. The air is rapidly ionized, turning into a mass of plasma hundreds of meters in diameter in no more than a second. The plasma then continued to expand, transmitting the furious energy to the colder gases around it. However, the process of transmission could not keep up with the spread of the air mass - two seconds later, a cloud of fire two kilometers in diameter appeared in the sky.

The incomparably brilliant light reflected the entire Yanjing, and the sun seemed to rise again.

God opened his blood-colored eyes in the sky, and a violent shockwave and a chilling warm wind spread wildly across the sky.

Fifteen seconds later, the stunned lieutenant colonel was swept to the ground by the air whistling from the sky, and the lush trees and weeds in the community lowered their heads in unison, as if they were worshipping the terrifying force in the sky!

Twelve Level Orders!!

This was the only sentence that appeared in the mind of Lieutenant Colonel Hou Buzhu, who was lying on the ground and his soul was temporarily taken away.

It took him three seconds to regain his senses and roll over and jump. Then he grabbed the major by the collar next to him. The calm and smug look on his face disappeared, and he only shouted frantically to the other party in the rumbling thunder: "Are they crazy?!" Are they crazy?! What the hell are they crazy?!! That's the Light Quantum Emitter!! Optical Quantum Emitter!! ”

The Major was shaken back by him. The rumbling thunder above his head seemed to be directly imprinted in his heart, and his panic and surprise were not inferior to Hou Buzhu in front of him.

But what he was surprised was not that the other party actually used a strategic-level weapon like the light quantum generator, but that he was surprised by ......

They actually used such a weapon for Dai Bingcheng, a waste man who had lost all his abilities!!

Why didn't they just destroy the palace!?

“…… Kill him. The major grabbed Hou Buzhu's shoulder. At first, he said in a deep voice. Then say it in a high-pitched voice. "We have to kill him!! Did you hear that?! ”

The lieutenant colonel was stunned for a moment, quickly let go of his hands, and pressed the communicator around his neck like a mosquito: "Sir." We are exposed! Did you see that? They used the light quantum generator, and the matter was exposed! - You're going to have to throw a missile here!! ”

However, he couldn't hear any reply from the other end - all the communications were disrupted. Even the internal chips of the five land fortresses were destroyed by the electromagnetic jets from above, and they completely lost power, turning into heavy and silent giant steel balls.

"We ...... What to do? Hou Buzhu asked the major in a daze.

The Major didn't mind that the supreme officer on the scene threw himself a problem that should have been solved by him. Because just ten seconds ago, even he didn't realize what that "twelve-level order" meant.

"We ...... Stick to it. The major said.

"What did you say?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes widened, "But there is a possibility that this place will be blown off!" There is only one pit left! You know that this matter must have alarmed the emperor! That one will not give the emperor a chance to see Dai Bingcheng! ”

"What's more—that's a twelve-level order! I guess their big army will be there in a moment! Are they all a bunch of crazy people!! The lieutenant colonel roared frantically.

But the major stared at him coldly, and a cold fire burned in his eyes: "Yes. This place will soon be erased – and so will Dai Bingcheng. So we have to stay here - before the missiles arrive, snipe their reinforcements. ”

He said meaningfully, "Now, we have become the prey." ”

The lieutenant colonel was stunned for a long time. It took more than ten seconds before he said in a slightly trembling voice, "What do you mean...... Are we going to bury him? ”

"No, he's going to give us a funeral."

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The major's judgment was not wrong.

The light in the night sky has made the entire Yanjing City active again. And there are only a few of the busiest people - among them the Secretary of Defense.

The first thing he did was not to enter the palace and explain to the emperor what had happened, but to give three orders through some very secret channel.

The first order was sent to the Northern Siberian Military District - to immediately arrest the commander-in-chief of the 2nd base at the South Gate and kill him on the spot.

The second order was sent to the Jingu missile launch base, the closest to Yanjing, to wipe all targets in a designated area off the map of the empire within three minutes.

The third order ordered 136 people from a certain company of the Gyeonggi Praetorian Guard to rush to a certain place to encircle and suppress the rebels and terrorists who might endanger national security.

The subsequent issue was referred to the Minister of Defense of the capital for resolution. And the Minister of Defense wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and entered the palace as quickly as possible to meet the emperor.

He had never been so angry and flustered as he was tonight. Because he can't figure it out anyway, how did a "small matter" that was not very important poke the hornet's nest of "organization"?? (To be continued......)