The northern border of Xuya, Daraa province.

When the cold wind of the night drifted away from this desolate plain, a ray of light at the edge of the horizon finally rose slowly from below the horizon, and the gray sky suddenly reflected a misty light.

Nikolai didn't sleep all night, Polezhnev probably just returned to China at this time, because Polezhnev was not there, all the big and small affairs in Russia were entrusted to Nikolai alone, and it was in an eventful season, so in just less than half a month, Nikolai already felt exhausted, and his spirit has been in an extremely tense state, and last night, he sorted out all the things he had recently dealt with into a document to complete the handover with Polezhnev.

After finishing all these hours, it was more than two o'clock in the morning, Nikolai lay directly on the sofa in his office, and did not fall asleep for about half an hour, so he simply got up directly, stood on the balcony outside the office, looked at the land of Xu Ya at night, and stayed all night.

The place where he stood was the highest point of the tallest building in the entire military base, and he could see the whole picture of the military base here, and when the morning sun reflected the sky, he could also see the mist rising faintly in the darkness in the morning.

The whistle sounded at the base, and this was the time for the Russian troops to get up, and the soldiers quickly ran out of their camping tents, and after a brief formation, they immediately entered the battle mode.

The tense state of the past ten days has always made the soldiers here extremely nervous, and some people have even been mentally unstable, and Nikolai has also done his best in this regard.

On the floor below the office is the staff headquarters of the Russian army stationed in the Xuya region, and it is also a central system for commanding hundreds of thousands of troops here.

At this time, the staff was all in place, and after handing over the personnel who were originally on duty at night, they quickly put themselves into the working state.

Nikolai suddenly saw that an officer on duty who was supposed to have been laid off to rest was still sitting in his seat, constantly adjusting the machine, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely surprised.

When the man who handed him over arrived, he seemed to explain something to the man, and the man in charge of the handover hesitated for a moment, and then quickly trotted over to Nikolai's side.

"What's wrong, what's going on over there?" Nikolai saw that the man's face was also a little nervous, so he took the initiative to meet him and asked.

"It seems that something is wrong with the infected people in the province of Deira."

Nikolai's heart chuckled, and a bad premonition quickly spread in his heart, and he hurried behind the officer who was sitting to debug the machine.

The officer was in charge of the full surveillance of infected people in the province of Dara'a, and he had been in charge of this area since last night, until this morning, when he was about to carry out the handover with the people who had come to pick him up.

"Something went wrong, and we're checking whether it's a machine failure." The officer said, his forehead already covered with sweat.

"What's going on?" Nikolai asked.

The officer's lips trembled slightly. "Infected people in the province of Dara'a, disappeared 、、、、、、"

“？？！”

"Gone? When? ”

"Just now, just now, all of a sudden, it's all gone." There was a hint of tremor in the officer's tone.

"How is that possible?" Suddenly it disappeared, but don't forget that no matter how small the number of infected people in the city is, there are tens of thousands of people, and it is impossible for Nikolai to disappear suddenly.

"Check!" Nikolai gave the officer a sentence and quickly walked to the central screen.

Several staff officers who were in charge of command and troop movements surrounded him.

"Send out the reconnaissance troops, send them out, the reconnaissance units are scattered around the perimeter of Dara'a province and slowly go inward, and the reconnaissance aircraft are responsible for providing the reconnaissance troops with a safe view to prevent danger."

Nikolai pointed to several more directions on the map.

"In these places, send the mecha troops over to see if they have come into contact with the infected, if they are retreating, there are only a few ways to go, if that's the case, you can intercept them."

"Notify all the troops, and immediately enter the first-level combat state."

The Russian military base outside Daraa Province suddenly became busy, and the movement of various troops and equipment was carried out in an orderly manner, and everyone entered an unprecedented state of extreme tension.

Nikolai was in the central control room, looking at the map in front of him, and felt incredible.

Gone? Or does it disappear suddenly? Nikolai's first reaction was even to think that the officer had been slacking off in monitoring the city during his night duty before, and had missed the timing of the evacuation of the infected.

The inspection and debugging of the machine has been completed, and it has been fully confirmed that it is not a problem with the machine, that is, the infected people in Deira Province did disappear in the city of Deira Province at that point in time.

"What's going on?" Nikolai couldn't figure out the cause of the problem for a while, and he quickly summarized the situation here to Polezhnev.

"Director." The reconnaissance unit on the front line, which was responsible for the gradual deepening of the line, had reached the city of Dara'a, and the army leader in charge of that side was connected with Nikolai.

"Where are you going?"

"Arrived in Deira province." Surprisingly, he was not attacked by any infected people along the way, and passed through several lines of defense set up by the infected people without hindrance.

The city was empty, there was not a single human figure, except for the strongholds that had been specially arranged by the infected to ambush the Russian army, the rest of the place seemed to have been untended for a long time, the order was very messy, and some places were even covered with thick dust because of the wind and sand here.

"There have been no traces of infected people in the area identified so far."

Nikolai's contact with the front-line troops remained in a constant state until the reconnaissance team had searched all the provinces of Dara, and after completely confirming that there were no signs of infected activity in the city, Nikolai had mixed feelings.

The infected were tantamount to ceding the province of Dara to the Russian army, and there was not a trace or flaw in the retreat, Nikolai did not believe that they had any ability to suddenly disappear thousands of people in an instant, and there must be some special reason for this.

Nikolai ordered all the Russian troops to advance on all fronts, and they entered the province of Deira, where the people did not have time to leave except for the evacuated Xu Ya government army and the emergency evacuation of the Russian army and those who fled on their own, so the infected people stayed inside after entering the province of Dela, but at this time, no trace of any living person could be seen at all, and the whole city seemed to have become a dead city, The soldiers of the Russian army could see little intact except for the ruins of collapsed houses and crumbling city buildings everywhere, which had been completely destroyed by the infected.

They didn't seem to have intended to stay here for a long time from the start, and such a massive destruction would almost be devastating to the province of Deira, and it would take a long time to restore it to its original state.

Nikolai's helicopter slowly entered the airspace of Deira Province from the sky above Deira Province, and he was also quite surprised to see this scene in front of him, the destruction of the infected people had almost reached a level of madness.

"This group of guys 、、、、、、" A staff officer next to Nikolai looked very angry, he was one of the personnel who worked in the Russian military base in Xu Ya all the year round, and he was also very familiar with and understood here, and naturally had deep feelings, at this time, seeing the situation here become like this, he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

"I remember that after the infected people entered the province of Dara, there were still some people who did not have time to evacuate here or did not want to evacuate the province of Dara, although only a small part, but where are they now?"

"I guess I'm infected." Nikolai said that the people who have no resistance can naturally become a good tool for the black body to infect, and under the control of the infected person, the black body can quickly control and replace the human body.

"Director, I received a report from the European coalition forces and the Chinese military." The intelligence officers who stayed behind at the base sent a signal to Nikolai.

"Just explain the situation to me."

"From 2 o'clock to 4 o'clock in the morning this morning, the coalition forces responsible for monitoring the infected people in the western and southern parts of Xuya and the eastern border have all lost control of the infected people, and according to the information collected by the European coalition forces and the Huaxia military, the infected people in the three directions of Xuya in the west, east and south have all disappeared. They called to inquire about the situation on our side. ”

Nikolai's face changed suddenly.

Not only here, but hundreds of thousands of infected people in the entire territory of Xu Ya just disappeared??!

Surrounded by hundreds of thousands of allied troops, the infected disappeared so unnoticed, if the disappearance of the infected in Deira Province was just the quiet retreat of the infected to the territory of Xu Ya, then Nikolai could still understand, but under the siege of millions of troops, hundreds of thousands of infected people seemed to evaporate like this.

"Don't stop, all the troops, advance towards Xu Ya's territory at full speed, leaving only a small number of troops left along the way." Nikolai made a quick decision.

It was as if a huge fog had risen in my heart, and it couldn't be dispersed for a long time.

Nikolai looked at the ruins of the city that were still billowing black smoke in front of him, and the uneasy feeling in his heart gradually filled every corner of his blood, and he could not calm down for a long time.