The orange-red sky was cloudless, and a sandfinch flapped its wings lazily and flew slowly towards the horizon. At ↗ this time, the sun that was gradually sinking in the west was still scorching the red earth, and occasionally a warm little whirlwind blew, which swirled on the ground, rolling up a small amount of dead grass and light red dust and scattering into the air.

In the vision of the sandfinch, the surface of Desert No. 5 appears light red, while the partially raised, grayish-green places are a bunch of spherical grass. As far as the eye can see, the vegetation on the surface is very sparse, as if it is about to die out at any moment. However, hundreds of millions of years later, they still stubbornly grow in this dry red earth, and the density of their distribution has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

For the vast majority of plants, the living environment of Desert 5 is extremely harsh. On the one hand, there is a lack of water, and it is a dry season all year round, and the number of rains is only a handful; On the other hand, the sun exposure time is too long, nearly 60 hours of daylight; There is also a large temperature difference between day and night, which is hot during the day and cold at night.

Despite such a harsh environment, there are still some plants that can survive here. There are six main types of vegetation in Desert No. 5, namely Wasteland Grass, Sand Pear, Grass of the Sea, Dandelion of the Styx, Aspen of the Dead Sea, and Tree of Heaven and Earth. Although these six plants have different morphologies, they have one thing in common, that is, the rhizomes are particularly developed. The roots of the tree can even penetrate thousands of meters into the ground, drawing directly from the groundwater.

At this moment, a steel castle appeared in the sandfinch's sight. I saw its little black eyes flutter, fold its wings and descend. Moments later, it flew towards a lone Dead Sea aspen and finally landed on a thin bare branch, looking out at the castle in the distance. Then, it brushed its feathers with its little paws and flapped its wings twice, as if it was doing a warm-up exercise. The human castle ahead was its target, with plenty of food in it, and if it was lucky, it could find some animal bones and a bit of minced meat between the cracks in the bones.

After a while, the little paws of the sand finch kicked hard, flapped its wings and flew towards the castle. From above, the castle is oval-shaped, surrounded by tall walls and in the middle of a trapezoidal building. If you look closely, there are square platforms on the wall every few meters, and two Vulcan cannons are placed on each platform. And the building in the middle is full of dense shooting holes. Looking further up, there was a large platform at the top of the building, and in the middle of the large platform was a huge cannon, the diameter of which was more than a meter long. This is a 120cm caliber super-heavy mortar called "Lava Behemoth". It is the largest caliber artillery gun in mankind at present, and it is also the largest area of effect weapon.

At this time, the castle was full of traffic and people. I saw hundreds of Templars dressed in white "Holy Light" power armor scattered throughout the castle, directing a large number of logistics personnel in blue overalls to carry various materials, equipment, and equipment.

It wasn't long before the sand finch flew over the castle, rolling its little eyes and sweeping around the ground, looking for food discarded by humans. However, it hovered in the air for a few moments, but found no sign of food. Today's luck was terrible, it let out a cry of disappointment and circled again for a week. But just as it flew close to the city wall, and was about to leave, a pile of grain flashed through the small vision. It quickly looked around, and when it was sure it was safe, it flew over and ate it.

At the same time, in the dead end of its line of sight, a middle-aged man in a white "scorching sun" power armor was watching it with his hands on his chest. This middle-aged man is a burly man, with thick eyebrows and small eyes, and a standard poker face. His name is Arnold, he is a fifth-order psionic being, forty-eight years old this year, and he is from the seventeenth silver city of the Northern Wilderness Continent.

Silver City No. 17, also known as Bauhinia City, is the territory of the Lombal family under the rule of the Golden Grand Duke, and he is a veteran of the Lombal family for many years. He is currently the captain of the Princess Guard's Sixth Squad, leading twelve psionic warriors and twenty-four psionic soldiers to garrison the fortress of Tyre. He was the supreme commander here until the arrival of the interim head.

However, he was not good at conducting on a large scale, and he knew this better than anyone. Therefore, at this moment, he personally patrolled the city wall, waited for the arrival of the temporary person in charge, and threw this hot potato out as soon as possible.

According to Assistant Green, the newly appointed interim head dared to raid the underground queen with only a few subordinates in the war in the dark jungle, and laid the foundation for victory in the entire war, and finally received the silver medal of the Academy Alliance. Although he had yet to meet the new commander, he liked the brave and resourceful commander who was willing to rush to the front line with the soldiers.

He always thought that he was a stupid soldier, and the only thing he could do well was to follow the orders of his superiors. So, he needs a good boss who is really capable. As a soldier, he was not afraid of death, but he was afraid of being worthless. Fortunately, whether he served in the Guards of the Lombal family or in the Princess Guard of the Third Lady, he had a good promotion system and a rigorous evaluation system, which could eliminate most of the officers with mediocre abilities and low moral bottom lines.

Watching the little sand finch happily eating the grain, he thought of the little daughter at home, and involuntarily showed a loving smile on his face. After about ten minutes, the little sandfinch was full, and the little claws kicked and flew away. Then he stepped out of the shadows and watched the little sandfinch fly into the sky......

When he turned back, he suddenly noticed a cloud of smoke and dust in the southeast, so he immediately picked up his telescope and looked carefully. Looking at the gray wolf head painted on the roof of the truck, he quickly concluded that the wolf legion that Assistant Green had spoken of had arrived. After putting down the binoculars, he quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and gave the order: "All members obey the order and immediately go to the gate of the fortress to line up to meet our new commander." ”

"Uncle Arnold, you don't know the name of the new chief." "yes, where is he from? Is it from our Northern Wilderness? "What's his title?" "At least a viscount, right?" For a while, there was a chatter of the team members on the intercom.

"We are all soldiers, just do our part." Arnold said in a deep voice, "As a soldier, it is very rude to talk about a new commander. ”

"Yes." "Uncle is right." "Okay, don't ask, everybody." "Gone, gone."

Arnold then dressed himself and steadily descended the walls. During this time, the walkie-talkie on his waist rang again: "Captain, the trucks of the Dawn Expeditionary Force are blocked at the door, and we can't line up." ”

"Let them go right away." "I've already said it, and they won't." "You tell them that the new prefect of the fortress was personally appointed by Assistant Green." "Okay."

By the time Arnold walked out of the fortress gates, all the trucks blocking the gates had already left. Then, under his command, the thirty-six members of the sixth squad of the princess guard lined up in two columns and stood on both sides of the door to welcome the arrival of the wolf legion.

About a quarter of an hour later, a red locomotive flew over the horizon in the distance. It wasn't long before the locomotive came to a stop at the front of the queue with billowing smoke and dust. When I looked around, I saw a young man sitting on the locomotive. Perhaps because the sun was too dazzling in Desert Five, the young man was wearing wide sunglasses at the moment, and the dark lenses completely obscured his appearance.

"I'm Sachio, the temporary head of the Tyre Fortress." After stopping the car, the young man said loudly.

Arnold immediately walked out of the queue, trotted all the way to the young man, kicked hard, "snapped", stood up and saluted, and then said loudly: "Arnold, the captain of the sixth squad of the princess guard, report to you." ”

"Hmm." Iron Slag nodded.

"Report to the chief, all the members of the sixth squad of the princess guard have arrived, and they will receive the captain's review at any time." Arnold exclaimed.

"Hmm." With that, Iron Slag got out of the car and walked back and forth in style, symbolically inspecting the members of the sixth squad. On the way here, Eva Green told him that the team based at Tyre Fortress would be directly under his orders.

After a round of inspection, the team consisted of thirty-seven people, including Captain Arnold. One of them was wearing the second-generation psionic power armor "Scorching Sun", twelve were wearing the first-generation psionic power armor "Holy Light", and the remaining twenty-four were equipped with various psionic firearms.

In most cases, beginner psionics have a thin spiritual power and do not have the ability to drive psionic power armor, so they can only use psionic weapons with lower costs. Since these psionics cannot wear power armor, they are often referred to as "psionic soldiers" or "psionic marines".

There is an essential difference between a psionic soldier and a psionic warrior, the former has no obvious advantages over ordinary human soldiers, the only advantage is that psionic weapons are more powerful, and ammunition is relatively cheap. It's just that psionic soldiers have a chance to advance, while ordinary soldiers don't. Once they succeed in their advancement, they will be able to wear the first generation of psionic power armor and become psionic warriors. At this time, the advantages of psionics over ordinary humans or other types of evolutionaries are fully reflected. One by one, they are like divine soldiers wearing golden armor and soaring through the clouds, bringing destruction and redemption to the world.

About an hour later, the convoy of the Wolf Legion arrived at the fortress of Tyre, dragging billowing smoke and dust. Afterwards, under Arnold's arrangement, they drove into the fortress one by one.

At this time, the Dawn Expeditionary Force in the camp had not yet completely withdrawn, and was bustling with supplies to carry supplies. Perhaps out of respect for Assistant Green, they stopped what they were doing and made way as the Wolf Legion vehicles passed by.

A moment later, more than a dozen trucks rushed in and stopped in an open field. Arnold then arranged for three logistics officers to lead the Wolf Legion into the fortress. With all that in order, he took the newly appointed young commander and two of his female subordinates into the trapezoidal fortress in the very center of the fortress of Tyre.