Chapter 502: Chapter 491 Selfish
At first, the two mistakenly thought there were indigenous people inside.
But the smoke directly erased this possibility.
These are traces left by modern weapons...
Who could it be?
Baoxue Empire?
Or the Land of Light?
Blue Star is now divided into three, with the Three Great Empires facing off... It can be confirmed it’s not someone from the Great Xia Empire, so is it Baoxue Empire or the Land of Light?
What are their real intentions in venturing deep into the Secret Realm?
Xu Lingjun and Han Yun City’s instincts nearly screamed at them...
Perhaps, they were right to come here.
"Let’s go!"
Two nearly invisible transparent figures continued advancing.
Further ahead, they even saw the scattered human footprints... On this soft, primordial land, it could take years for a footprint to dissolve.
And they clearly couldn’t bother hiding traces.
After all, in this deserted, primitive atmosphere-filled forest, who are you hiding your steps from?
But as Xu Lingjun and Han Yun City walked, they became more and more shocked.
"Looks like the people who came are elite among elites!"
Han Yun City was a recon soldier back then, excellent at detail scouting, and Xiaoya was practically a computer capable of artificial scanning.
With their joint effort, hardly any detail was overlooked.
But because they saw too many details.
Xu Lingjun and Han Yun City’s hearts felt heavier instead.
Especially upon seeing the uncollected corpses.
"It’s people from Baoxue Empire!"
"Why would people from Baoxue Empire appear deep in the Secret Realm?"
They finally realized that for the past two years, they had overlooked a crucial piece of information.
For the past two years, the Great Xia Empire had been strategizing to expand the battle to the Polar Star Battlefield.
They couldn’t even spare attention to the secrets of Blue Star, merely sending a dozen Grandmasters to investigate, seemingly taking it seriously, but actually... that’s all the manpower they could spare.
The reason they couldn’t spare more manpower is that while the Great Xia Empire was battling at the Polar Star Battlefield, they also had to guard against attacks from the Baoxue Empire and the Land of Light.
The Three Great Empires were not a monolithic bloc... Rather, they were overtly and covertly competing. If anyone showed a flaw, no one would miss such a good opportunity.
So the Great Xia Empire was well-prepared for simultaneous internal and external wars.
But there were two things they completely didn’t foresee...
One was the appearance of Xu Lingjun, which ended the war extraordinarily quickly.
In just two years, the Great Xia Empire had completely overcome the trouble from foreign enemies.
The second was that they were prepared for a two-front attack, but neither the Land of Light nor the Baoxue Empire seized the opportunity to attack when weak.
Could it be that they were concerned about the so-called Blue Star Co-prosperity Circle?
At that time, everyone just felt fortunate.
But now, a question had to be considered.
For the past two years, the Great Xia Empire was busy with foreign wars... so what were the Baoxue Empire and the Land of Light doing?
Or rather.
What were the people from Baoxue Empire doing?
Now, they somewhat knew.
By this time, the two had arrived at a broken battlefield.
To this day, the land remained yellowed, alongside the deadly radiation... and those mountains of skeletons.
There were human, and Demon Beast ones.
Evidently, long ago, an extremely brutal battle erupted here, the enemy even used nuclear weapons.
Using nuclear weapons on Blue Star soil.
Their madness is evident!
"Truly a dog can’t change its habit... If you say those bastards from Baoxue Empire wouldn’t seize an advantage, I’d rather believe the Chi Yu mysterious clan annihilated my mother’s clan all for cosmic peace!"
Han Yun City angrily spat on those remains, saying, "I really don’t want to speak of bloodlines, but the descendants of criminals can’t breed anything good. Is having a few nuclear bombs impressive? Do they think this planet belongs to just them? We painstakingly protect our homeland like this, yet they’re ruining it... damn... don’t they care about future generations?"
"They are hedonists, selfish to the point of not even loving their own country... Future generations? What’s that, do you think they care? The biggest issue now is why they invade the Secret Realm? Even resorting to nuclear missiles, that heinous thing!"
Xu Lingjun said solemnly, "For over a hundred years, it’s mostly been the Secret Realm offending us, and we merely defended passively... What lure made Baoxue Empire provoke the Secret Realm when external threats hadn’t subsided, risking simultaneous internal and external wars?"
Han Yun City said, "The secret of Blue Star?! It seems to be the only possibility... Otherwise, simultaneous internal and external wars would be unbearable even for Baoxue Empire, they are courting self-destruction."
"But we knew the secret because of Sun Yangwei’s dying advice. Frankly, if not for chance, we might not have known this secret at all, so where did the Baoxue Empire learn of it to act on their temptation?"
Xu Lingjun glanced at Han Yun City.
Han Yun City glanced back at Xu Lingjun.
Both thought of an extremely terrifying possibility.
"Unless they no longer have those worries."
Xu Lingjun’s heart pounded.
He said, "Let’s go, we continue forward, given so many traces, we are likely very close to people from Baoxue Empire."
"Alright!"
Han Yun City also held his breath.
The two walked forward side by side.
Sure enough...
Going a bit further, Xiaoya started alerting them about military surveillance in the vicinity.
Both understood that Baoxue Empire had been stationed here for quite a while, even setting up military surveillance.
Unfortunately...
When it comes to technology, my cutting-edge tech doesn’t fear your stuff.
The two continued deeper.
By now, the ground began to continuously shake violently.
With their rich experience, it was evident that there was a battle ahead.
And it was extremely fierce artillery fire...
Both moved more lightly as a result.
Under the cover of the Invisibility Device, they rushed forward.
After traveling roughly more than ten miles.
Upon crossing a thriving thicket...
They saw a broad open field.
At this moment, the battlefield roared with fire.
A fierce war was ongoing with intensity.
On one side, fully armed humans.
Various high-tech weapons were announcing powerful destructive capabilities.
Countless cannon shells and lasers, mixed with powerful bullets...
Were pouring upon their enemies.
The explosions resonated, and the earth trembled.
Countless smoke billowed, the pungent smell mixed with scorched flesh, the once flat primitive forest, now almost turned into ruins under the bombardment!
But their human enemies were not humans.
Instead, they were gigantic Demon Beasts.
Giant pythons, giant leopards, giant tigers, Xu Lingjun even saw a giant ape with snow-white fur, holding a giant tree with its branches stripped as a club, leaping into the crowd of people.
Sweeping with its club, dozens of warriors were flung out, bones and muscles snapped, none could survive!
But a huge iron net was raised, trapping the giant ape within.
And then forcefully tightened...
The giant ape was directly crushed into chunks no larger than fists, scattered on the ground.
The Demon Beast died.
But it further roused its companions’ frenzy and rage-filled roars.
Countless Demon Beasts surged through the fierce barrage, charging towards the humans.
