Published: February 12, 2025
“How long has it been missing?”
Xia Bai's face was terrifyingly dark as she listened to Xiao Min's report, a hint of bloodlust already seeping into her voice.
“About fifteen minutes,” Xiao Min replied. Although she was the actual commander of the red dress guard, she still had to follow Xia Bai’s orders, especially in critical situations like this one.
An hour ago, two female warriors from the red dress guard had taken two members of the Youth Army to collect snow in the wilderness to make drinking water. However, they had not returned by the scheduled time, and now it was fifteen minutes overdue.
Fifteen minutes might not seem long, but the red dress guard was not like the lax and chaotic ordinary teams of the apocalypse. There was no talk of management; they operated in a disorderly fashion.
Cloud Summit was different; from the very beginning, they had implemented strict management. Little Tiger, Xia Lei, and Mo Ye had brought the management methods of the national machinery here. After Guangyao joined, the military management system combined with the apocalyptic context was improved, and Cloud Summit began to operate according to this system.
This was also a crucial factor in Cloud Summit's ability to remain strong, united, and enhance combat effectiveness. The red dress guard adhered to various regulations even more rigidly, much more than other fighting units in Cloud Summit. It was unthinkable for them to be late by even five minutes, let alone fifteen.
They were located at the rear of the human alliance, surrounded by very few mutated life forms, making it almost impossible for them to face an attack of this nature. Even if some mutated creatures were to appear unexpectedly, the two missing members being seven-star evolvers alongside two six-star Youth Army members meant that it would require at least two eighth-level or ninth-level lives to take them down silently, or a large number of beings of the same level.
But if life forms of that caliber were present, Xia Bai and the others would definitely notice.
Therefore, the only possibility for their disappearance was that it was caused by their own kind!
And here, the only "kind" present were Peijia and his battle squad!
“Everyone, go out and search until we find them!”
On this morning, the evolvers in the rear camp of the human alliance witnessed such a scene. The once quiet Eastern team suddenly opened the camp gate wide, and squads of warriors rushed out, running in all directions.
Soon, the entire town became bustling with activity.
Safrashenko was a squad leader in Peijia's battle squad, a trusted subordinate responsible for a material warehouse, which contained a batch of equipment for evolvers to replace damaged weapons during battle.
Of course, it wasn't free.
The highest-level equipment inside consisted of ten pieces of blue equipment, all brought by the grand leader of the alliance, Achinas. It was said that one of his subordinates was an exceptionally skilled craftsman who created these high-quality items.
Safrashenko guarded this place tightly, almost hugging those ten pieces of blue equipment when he slept.
He was cautious, and in fact, no one dared to cause trouble here. Not to mention that Safrashenko was a powerful seven-star evolver and Peijia was an eight-star evolver; both of them were formidable opponents. Just considering that the ten pieces of equipment were worth a fortune, who would risk their life to mess with them?
So Safrashenko felt relatively at ease.
But today, an unexpected event occurred.
A small team of Eastern warriors burst into the warehouse.
Yes, they burst in!
The warehouse's large doors and guards failed to stop these women and youths.
Fifteen people—ten women and five boys.
Safrashenko was furious. If he didn’t know they were guests of the boss Peijia who paid protection fees, he would have ordered his subordinates to take action.
His expression darkened, and he angrily yelled at the intruders to leave their equipment behind and get out.
However, the fifteen Easterners seemed to hear nothing, their eyes scanning the warehouse as they moved to search unseen corners, as if looking for something.