Night falls.

High in the sky, the only satellite of Shayuan Star hung alone in the sky, and the dim moonlight fell weakly, shining on the already dead city.

A squad of Gambino warriors on night patrol carried crudely crafted alloy battle axes and walked slowly through the streets with heavy steps, their blood-colored armor glinting in the light of the streetlights.

Due to the lack of energy supply, most of the lighting system on the street has long since failed, and only some of the unspoiled fluorescent lights are still stubbornly lit, so the surrounding environment is far from being able to reach the point where you can't see your fingers. Especially for Xiao Junling, it is like a fish in water to come out and do activities in such an environment.

As a former elite of special forces and a powerhouse of the Falling Star Realm, he knows too well this alien civilization that has fought a war with the Empire for decades, and these low-level Gambino warriors, because of some inherent characteristics in their genetic genomes, are generally in a sluggish mental state in the dark environment, and their vision is not strong, which has more or less affected their combat ability. Therefore, it can give him more chances of success in his next actions.

He hid his body in a shop facing the street, his eyes covered with sunglasses, silently observed the guys not far away, and spent an hour figuring out the patrol team's movements, and then decided to start moving.

The silver light flickered on the surface of the body for a moment, perfectly concealing the scattered body temperature and all other vital features, and then slowly got up, quickly jumped out of the window, and followed the pre-estimated safe route, carefully and quickly.

A moment later, he had already crossed two streets, dodging six or seven waves of patrols, and approached a skyscraper nearly 100 stories high.

This is the main goal of his operation: the branch hall set up by the Imperial Silent Star Temple in this city, its function is to manage the affairs related to the folk abilities, including the promotion assessment of the abilities, the release of tasks, the provision of various resources needed for the cultivation of the abilities, the customization of ability equipment and various genetic potions, and the most important purpose: to select talented seedlings from the people, send them to the Silent Star Temple for training, and after graduation, join the Empire's Ability Corps, and fight for the expansion of the Imperial army outside the galaxy.

The square in front of the gate was paved with hard alloy floor tiles, flat as a rock, but now it had become potholes, and the gate made of ten meters high stoneware alloy had melted into a large pool of dark red molten metal and then solidified, and the entire building was full of traces of high-energy weapons wreaking havoc inside and outside! It can be seen that the battle was fierce when it fell.

Xiao Junling observed for a while, but did not notice anything abnormal, and immediately clinged to the corner of the wall, and walked quickly towards the gate, his body light and agile. Under the shield of the spiritual energy field, even if there was a patrol of Gambino people passing by, it would be difficult to spot him if he did not get close to within a hundred meters.

He squinted slightly, and occasionally a faint silver glint flickered in his eyes, but it was blocked by thick sunglasses. The whole person is like a ghost in the dark night, silently blending into the interior of the building.

There were no lights in the deep hallway, and the occasional source of light came from discarded cold materials, but it was enough for him.

There were dark brown blood stains on the smooth floors and walls, both human and Gambino, but there were no corpses to be seen, they were all carried away. The faint smell of blood still did not dissipate, and occasionally I could see the metal door frames torn apart by the huge external force, and some instruments and equipment of unknown purpose were scattered on the ground at random.

The elevator room was naturally unusable, Xiao Junling discerned the direction, and quietly crossed several corridors to the secret corridor leading to the underground.

It's just that there are traces of fierce battles here, looking at the huge knife marks, paw prints, and burning marks left by high-energy lasers that can be seen everywhere on the wall, he sighs secretly in his heart, and he doesn't have too many expectations for the gains of this trip.

All the way down, a moment later, he had reached the bottom level, and he was slightly relieved that although the metal giant door at the end of the aisle had been melted, there was not much trace of destruction near an inconspicuous intelligent weapon defense point not far away, which meant that he would not at least return empty-handed.

Because of the experience of serving in this kind of department for a short time in the previous life, I am very familiar with the architectural layout and structure of this kind of place, this kind of secret warehouse located deep underground, in addition to the main warehouse through the main entrance, there is also a very secret design of the auxiliary warehouse, only the most core principals know its entrance and opening method.

And thanks to his status as a senior officer of the special forces, he is qualified to know the password to open the treasury of such special departments, so he does not have to worry about how to enter.

Naturally, the things in the main warehouse have been looted by the barbaric aliens, but there should be a lot of suitable equipment in the small warehouse, and if you can find a special light armor set for high-level ability warriors, it will make a lot of money!

After cautiously observing for a while, making sure there were no anomalies around him, he made a few light jumps and approached his target.

After groping around on the smooth wall for a while, selecting several specific positions, tapping a few times in an orderly manner at different frequencies, a palm-sized circular protrusion appeared on the wall half a foot high from the floor, gently pressed, and then rotated three times to the left and right.

There was an imperceptible humming sound of machinery in the thick walls, and a two-foot-square window slowly emerged, and a delicate and small touch screen stretched out from it, on which an image of a purple crystal-like ancient disc appeared, densely covered with pictograms like heavenly books, arranged according to some mysterious pattern.

Xiao Junling pondered for a moment, looked at the layout on the password disk, and then scrutinized the password program in his memory, and then began to move, quickly clicking on dozens of specific symbol keys.

The humming sound became louder, the crystal cipher disk slowly began to glow, and the mysterious and magnificent purple halo rippled out layer by layer, and a two-meter-high portal on the wall next to it quietly opened.

He breathed a sigh of relief, looked around again, and dodged into the vault. The portal closed instantly, and from the outside it was still tightly sealed, and no trace of the anomaly was detected.

The central light brain realizes that someone has entered, and the sensing light source inside immediately lights up automatically. As he expected, the environment in the storeroom was neat and clean, and the silver-white floor was clean and dusty, and there was no sign of damage, indicating that it was indeed safe.

The vault is not very large, hundreds of square meters of space, separated by thick mahogany boards, divided into more than ten semi-independent compartments, each compartment is more or less stacked with some boxes, which should be special weapons and armor for the supernatural, all kinds of sealed genetic medicines, some precious raw materials, high-level instruments and equipment, etc., are all stacked in different categories.

Xiao Junling opened the boxes one by one, and after carefully inspecting them, he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. He didn't have much equipment to use, only a few high-frequency particle concussion knives, a few old-fashioned beam guns, high-strength metal hard crossbows, dozens of sealed combat suits, a bunch of battlefield first-aid healing agents, and more than a dozen unopened intelligent robots, etc., and most of them were used for maintenance, reconnaissance, and medical purposes. In addition, there are a lot of supplies such as energy blocks and nutrients, and there are two small camping tents.

There was also a bunch of expensive precision equipment in the corner, which he looked at and used to process some special equipment, which didn't mean anything to him now. At the end of the pack are a couple of the latest models of medical pods, which are pretty good.

It seems that most of the supplies here should have been transferred in advance, and only this little remains, in addition to ensuring his survival, some plans in the making had to be abandoned.

"It's better to ...... I'll move the shelter here in the future, it's comfortable and safer anyway. He thought about it in his heart, and quickly made up his mind.

……

Black River Star Field, the border of the Empire.

The iron-gray heavy battleships were densely packed and could not be seen at a glance, like a terrifying torrent of steel rolling in. This is the Empire's newly formed Northwest Strategic Attack Group, which concentrates almost all of the mobile forces in the vast Northwest Galactic Region of the Empire, and there is also a transport fleet that is several times larger and provides logistical support for this huge legion.

Near the border, nearly 100 large wormholes and star gates on more than 10 main channels have all been activated, and fleets are being transmitted one after another, and dozens of large logistics bases have been established in nearby star fields.

It seems that the bold raid of the Gambino clan has seriously stimulated the nerves of the upper echelons of the empire, making the bigwigs of the Supreme Council really determined to concentrate their efforts on giving this group of arrogant outliers a little color.

"Your Excellency Marshal, the two major armies of 'Bingfeng' and 'Fuxi' have rushed back, and it is expected that they will be able to join us in a day, but it is ......"

In the secret conference room of the war fortress of the "Longyuan", an officer wearing a brigadier general's epaulette was reporting to his immediate superior.

"Just what?" The middle-aged man on the main seat pursed the corners of his cold lips and asked calmly.

"The 'Frost and Snow' regiment that sent Lu to meet the top-secret expedition fleet has not yet been contacted, and according to some of the information we have gathered, combined with the analysis and deduction of the regiment of wise men accompanying the army, it has been preliminarily concluded that it is ......" The brigadier general looked at the marshal's face and plucked up the courage to continue:

"They're already more than lucky!"

Marshal ...... squinted slightly, and a cold smile slowly appeared on his face:

"Hey...... Good! Very good! Eat an elite legion of formations all at once, these damn aliens, they haven't seen each other for decades, but they're getting more and more breathing! Lao Tzu brought a whole ten legions this time, but I want to see if they still have such a good appetite! ”

Xue Cangyun is a famous general of the Chinese Empire, one of the six marshals of the Imperial Military Department, born in poverty, and joined the army after graduating from university. Starting from the most ordinary warship and miscellaneous soldiers, it lasted for decades, relying on indisputable military exploits to rise step by step, until fifteen years ago, in the war between the empire and the alien civilization Busramron Alliance for resources, it successfully defeated the opponent's millions of fleets, slaughtered countless foreign civilians, and more than 20 resource-rich star fields were included in the empire's territory! Therefore, he was nominated by the Supreme Council as a candidate for marshal, and was unanimously approved, awarding him the gold-striped handsome staff, becoming one of the few pillars in the imperial military circles, and the existence of many unruly alien civilizations!

This time, the Gambino royal court, which had been silent for many years, suddenly went crazy and attacked many overseas dominions adjacent to the northwest border of the empire, and actually captured dozens of star fields in less than a month! The higher-ups finally realized the seriousness of the situation, so they urgently transferred this famous general and appointed him as the supreme commander of the Northwest Strategic Attack Group, overseeing the war against the Gambino.

"Your Excellency, this matter is not as simple as you imagined," the brigadier general frowned and said cautiously:

"With such confidential information, how could those aliens know about it? Besides, at the moment when the enemy is obviously strong, don't you think it's a little strange that those two legions will suddenly be transferred for something? If they can reach the border in time, relying on the defensive line to hold on, the Gambino people will definitely not succeed so easily, and they can buy enough time for the arrival of the Empire's follow-up reinforcements, but now ......"

Xue Cangyun gently rubbed his eyebrows and said slowly:

"I think I've got some understanding, there should be something wrong with a key link, and it seems that these guys are not infiltrating the empire very much...... Forget it, we're not in charge, let the guys from the safety committee worry about it! This time the matter was indeed too big, hundreds of overseas dominions, as many as dozens of star fields, countless resources and populations, actually let that group of damn aliens take advantage of it, it was a shame that the empire had never had in thousands of years! ”

"I'm going to see how hard the bones of those bastards really are this time, I hope it doesn't disappoint me too much, huh!"