In the southwest of the Imperial Iasi County, about 2,500 kilometers away from the plains, there is a traditional large city of the Xixuan Federation.

Before the Great Annihilation, it was a place where the Brown Devil, the Black Devil, the Red Devil and the White Devil lived together, and all kinds of primary, mixed-race races were artificially divided into different levels by the White Devil, and they were passed down from generation to generation.

After the Great Annihilation, it became the frontline city of the Western Xuan Federation and the huge Great Xia Empire in the Eastern Earth World.

The Soul River, which runs from northwest to southeast, flows through the Shenzhu Plateau with a bubbling stream that stretches for thousands of miles and snow-capped mountains, converging with thousands of ravines of ice and snow meltwater, roaring and rushing all the way, from incomparably clear to turbid, forming a magnificent river.

The area it flows through forms a vast alluvial plain over a vast expanse, and then converges with more tributaries and winds its way southeast.

This traditional metropolis on the vast alluvial plains is the home of Pathon, where countless Sixuan people were born, raised, laughed, wept, died and buried.

The Great Annihilation caused countless Xixuan people to die silently, the population was drastically reduced, and the fertile land was reoccupied by forests.

Countless trees that are more than 100 years old have turned the entire Soul River Basin into a paradise for wild animals.

On June 25, 111 years of Apocalypse, the Western Expeditionary Army arrived in Patbang.

Looking down from the huge display terminal on the "Kunpeng" vehicle, the entire vast land is boundless.

In the green, the soul river is like a white exercise, bending in the green of the ground, extending the sky.

To the Empire, this Western Xuan world is unfamiliar.

His Majesty the Emperor, who reorganized Great Xia and cleaned up the old mountains and rivers, expelled the Xixuan people who were all over the world after the annihilation with peerless martial arts.

Then, he integrated the different forces of Great Xia, balanced the interests of the four major lords and eight families, and returned the empire to the ranks of the world's leading powers.

However, even with such unworldly combat power, the army of the empire led by His Majesty has never stepped out of the traditional territory of Great Xia.

This is because, even before the annihilation, Bactria was an ancient country with nearly 6,000 years of cultural heritage, and the love of peace was a characteristic engraved in the genes of every Bactrian person.

Great Xia's armies never went abroad easily, unless it was for defense.

After the great annihilation, the human race, which had already experienced the tragedy of annihilation of the country and the extinction of the race, faced with such an empty home planet, what was the need to go to war?

Countless wise men have never been able to figure out one question, that is, why Xixuan must fight to the death with Great Xia.

Perhaps, the trip of the Western Expeditionary Army is one of the ways to find an answer to this question.

At this moment, General Wang Cassia was standing in front of the display system and pondering.

It wasn't until the Western Expeditionary Army's fleet of flying vehicles approached Pathon that he woke up.

As far as the eye can see, a huge city appears in the sky, and the farms around the city are dotted around.

Based on the scale of the city as we see it, it can be concluded that the main body of the city in Patbang is most likely not underground, but in the traditional above-ground buildings of the old days.

There may be a certain number of high-level natural persons who will live underground all year round in order to avoid the residual radiation of the great annihilation, but certainly not all.

"All disperse and hang in the air, release a small reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle!"

As the order was given, dozens of small flying machines rushed out of the various portholes of the "Blue Bird" or "Kunpeng" and flew towards Patbang to the west.

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In the heart of the city of Patbang, in a bend on the west bank of the Soul River, surrounded by countless ancient, decaying, and ruined walls, there is a large square.

Coarsely polished granite is paved to the square floor.

An unusually solemn building stands in the middle of the square.

The style of this building is very offbeat.

Its outermost part is four triangular black metal pillars up to 100 meters high, pointing straight to the sky.

The tops of the giant columns meet high in the air, forming a sharp corner, forming an empty frame of a pyramid as a whole.

Under the grand and magnificent pyramid frame, in the middle of the square, a pyramid of 30 meters high and wide was built, still made of black metal.

The four-sided tower is covered with a variety of fine line patterns.

The spire of the pyramid is kept in a vertical line with the spire in the sky, creating an alternative and avant-garde aesthetic.

This aesthetic makes this grand building, completely cut off from the architectural style of the whole of Paterstate, and it seems so out of place.

It is precisely because of this incompatibility that the building is so mysterious.

All the Xixuan people who survived after the Great Annihilation knew that this was the Great Temple of the Divine Lord.

A new religion that emerged only after the Great Annihilation, the landmark of the Bishop of God.

It is a place to guide their souls into the embrace of God, and a place of spiritual solace for liberation from suffering.

Inside the empty temple, there are hardly any ornaments to be seen, and the four walls extend upwards and converge to the roof.

There is a triangular window in the middle of the upper part of the wall, allowing sunlight to shine in a triangular pattern onto the floor of the empty temple, making the obsidian floor shimmer and fluoresce.

Directly below the roof of the temple, there is a black wire with a huge emblem hanging from it.

This emblem is a huge cross, with a circle at the upper end and one at the left and right ends, and the center of the three circles forms a mysterious triangle.

Because of the pyramidal structure of the temple, the interior forms a four-sided triangular enclosed space, and with its natural stability, this huge hall does not have a single pillar, and the space becomes more and more huge.

Around the hall stood more than a dozen monks, all shrouded in grey linen robes.

Directly below the great cross, in the middle of the empty hall, there was a simple stool.

On the stool sat an old man in a black hooded robe.

The old man's old face was covered with dry wrinkles like orange peel.

But on this wrinkled face, there are eyes, deep and bright, that seem to perceive everything.

This old man was communicating with a white-robed man who was crawling on the ground in front of him:

"Go, kid, everything that needs to be done has been done, and the God Judge will leave the rest to the chief judge!"

The white-robed man looked up, it was none other than Carlos, the commander-in-chief of the West Mexican Alliance.

His face was full of bitterness, and there were tears that had not been wiped away:

"But, Lord Divine Servant, did the Pat Nation just hand it over to the Yellow Devil Empire?"

The old man shook his head:

"No, no, it's not something you should think about, if you need it, leave it to the Yellow Devil Empire, the god lord will decide......"

Carlos's expression was a little painful:

"My lord, nearly 200,000 allied troops have been wiped out, and there are millions of civilians in this Patbang who are about to face aliens......

But, but ...... After all these years, why should we provoke the Yellow Devil Empire? ”

Carlos was still a little unwilling, looking into the old man's eyes.

The old man's eyes were still clear and firm:

"Child, I see doubt in your eyes, I see unwavering in the Lord of God, and this should not be the cowardice you should have.

We are all servants of God, our lives and faith, our bodies and our blood, all given by God, in order to live forever in His kingdom, you must be steadfast! ”

Carlos lowered his eyelids, stood up, bowed, and drew an invisible triangle with his hand on the front of his chest, left and right:

"Yes, Lord Divine Servant, as you wish, all the armies of the Federation have retreated to the Great Plains of Bespis to the west of the Sacred Sound Blessing Mountains.

All the remnants of the Pathstate army have withdrawn and retreated into the endless forests and mountains.

All the mages and ascetics who participated in the temporary war have returned to the ascetic places of the Divine Lord Plateau......"

The Great Priest nodded, and there was no sadness in his deep eyes:

"Okay, don't hesitate, go ahead, you go back to the federal government and continue to do your duty for the Xixuan Federation.

Remember, the world you see, the beings you have compassionate, the life you want is only a test for you!

The current defeat may be the best foreshadowing for future success! ”

"Yes, I'll go and say goodbye to the Speaker before leaving."

Carlos no longer hesitated and turned to leave.

The old man looked up at the huge badge above his head, and did not retract his gaze for a long time.

After a long time, he lowered his head and muttered:

"At least, we're on the right path, aren't we?"

……

Western Expeditionary Army, the flagship of "Kunpeng".

Dozens of small "Yellow Sparrow" vehicles have returned.

All the detection data was aggregated, and in the center of the flagship's war room hall, the latest holographic system of Patbang City was generated.

It can be seen from the system that the city built along the banks of the Soul River is fifty or sixty kilometers long from east to west, and this scale can be regarded as a very large city even before the great annihilation.

However, the whole city is extremely desolate and decadent, and in many places, the most basic civilian factories are still using the most primitive fossil fuels to convert into electricity, and the huge and towering chimneys are always smoking.

All kinds of shape-shifting, winding streets, with broken pavements and potholes.

Many of the decaying houses have been covered with various vine plants, and there is no trace of their original appearance, which is full of life and decay.

A large number of civilians are busy and struggling to make ends meet.

The city in front of me seemed to have stumbled out of the dust of history, and it had not had time to shake off the smoke and dust on its body.

The depraved appearance of the old era of Patbang City does not show any improvement and development of the federal government in the past hundred years.

The county towns of the Empire, even the most remote and unstrategic, would be a dream city compared to this place.

However, these dilapidated, old, and backward are nothing, and the most important thing is that the holographic system shows that there is basically no city defense and armament in the entire city-state at present.

Around the periphery of the city, in different directions, there are countless wide open spaces, littered with all kinds of domestic garbage and sundries, as if there was once a large army temporarily stationed there.

The Western Expeditionary Army's envisaged Union army assembly center was not found.

The Patbang Arsenal, the material production and distribution center envisioned by the staff officers and the Iasi side are simply like a legend without a shadow.

At the very least, there should be a large number of panicked and collapsed remnants of the Federation.

However, there is still none.

The whole state city, even the scattered police officers who maintain order on the streets, wield the most primitive batons.

General Wang and the other command and staff officers were a little dumbfounded.

Is the federal government arranging the legendary ancient conspiracy to empty the city?

Or are they simply completely rotten?

"Where did so many of the Federation's mechs, artillery fire, mines, and defense systems come from?"

"Where are so many warlocks, oh no, the magicians they call them, trained?"

"Don't you need even a minimum of military force?"

The surprised information of the crowd kept coming out in General Wang's mind.

General Wang vaguely felt that things were a little different from what Iasi had expected, and the situation was a little beyond expectations.

"Probe again! Use a bluebird loaded with large geological exploration instruments to fly to the sky above the city for surveying and mapping to prevent military forces lurking underground! ”

General Wang was not at ease, he thought of a city that went deep underground like Iasi, so he gave this latest order.