Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

"Bang!"

Having slammed the trunk of the car shut, Bai E instructed Zero, "Call them over."

With the situation here resolved and Grey Iron City's trio turned into supplies stuffed into sacks and tossed into the trunk, it was time to call over the other two teams who had won without lifting a finger.

Bai E didn't want to hand over Grey Iron City's "prisoners" for the time being, due to the too unique existence of the white-haired one and the city's upper echelons' decisions being too chaotic and unknown. Bai E planned to swallow this windfall himself.

The two dead bodies and the "seized" vehicle would serve as proof of this battle... anyway, the photos had already been taken.

Under the still-intact floodlights of the smart fortress, the two squads called in over the regional radio saw the remnants of the battle littering the ground and, with incredulous glances at the unscathed Bai E and his four companions, eventually swallowed hard in silence.

The traces of battle were still very fresh, and they were all experienced veterans who could roughly reconstruct the combatants involved through the scene—a basic skill.

Which was why the fear in their hearts grew.

["Lucky Strike" charge +10.]

"My goodness, you guys took all this down?" Even after confirming it, Squad Leader 5 still asked in daze.

"A few friends from Grey Iron City lent a hand," Bai E said, widening his eyes as he stated the fact.

"Oh~" Squad Leader 6 nodded and asked, "Where are they?"

"Over there," Bai E pointed, and the two corpses on the ground "greeted" them.

"..."

An "8" and a speckled star, both quite ghastly.

Neither looking like the work of humans, which somewhat proved the horror of this battle.

So, how did a team with only five members manage to survive to the end without losing a single one?

How strong exactly was this squad?

"Gulp!"

The two squad leaders exchanged glances, once again grateful that they hadn't been too unruly when they first met.

They were quite amenable to "advice"...

"So, do you need us to clean up the battlefield?" Squad Leader 5 rolled up his sleeves, feeling that he and his people needed to do something to not look so useless.

"Has the base station been rebooted yet?" The technician following the two squads also stepped forward to ask.

"No need," Bai E said, smiling at them, "I just wanted you to take a look. Let's prepare to retreat."

"What?"

Bai E looked at the increasingly dark sky, heavy as if about to pour down a torrential rain, and then glanced in the direction of the smart machine transport team's approach.

"If nothing unexpected happens, the smart machines' main force should arrive soon. Does anyone want to stay here?"

"..."

"Smart machines?"

"Main force?"

After scanning the horribly battle-damaged debris on the ground, the team members from both squads shivered, "That doesn't seem to be part of our mission."

"That's fine then," Bai E said cheerfully, clapping his hands while pointing to a corner not too far away.

A series of logic cubes were stacked in the corner, which were the spoils of war Bai E had the two survivors from Grey Iron City drag over from where they previously stored their supplies, "Could you move those to the vehicle and pack them up? Those are important resources we've captured, and they'll count as military achievements when we get back."

"Us?" Squad Leader 6 asked with a hint of luck in his voice.

Bai E smiled slightly, "Us."

["Lucky Strike" charge +3.]

"Deal!" The two squad leaders immediately beamed with joy, hustling their members to get to work, "Hurry up, hurry up, once we load up the stuff we can head home!"

...

"Boom!" Out of nowhere, a thunderclap struck the empty space behind the three SUVs.

The weather in this era was far more temperamental than during the Golden Age; one moment it could be clear skies, and the next, overcast with dark clouds.

The thunder dragons surging in the dark clouds, under the influence of an unknown compound, actually sparkled with a hint of purple flash. Find more to read on My Virtual Library Empire

The harsh weather made Bai E think of the day he was "born."

Speaking of which, since he "awoke," he hadn't encountered such severe weather many times.

The heavy dark clouds pressed oppressively on the earth, making it almost suffocating.

Soon, the curtain of rain caught up from behind, pattering against the metal shell of the vehicle like pebbles.

"It's acid rain!" a teammate's voice came over the radio, and the window that had been open instantly closed.

The downpour shrouded the world...

Thus, the inside of the vehicle felt even quieter.

A head with soft fur popped out from the trunk of the car, resting on the backrest of the rear seat, "Phew~ I was about to suffocate."

Next to her, the other two "prisoners" from Grey Iron City, wrapped in bags, also wriggled out of the bags on their own.

Sitting in the backseat, Bai E glanced at the white-furred head next to him and said in an unrippled tone, "Didn't I tell you not to come out until we reached our destination?"

"But it was getting so stuffy~" the white fur's tone was soft and sticky, and her lively eyes spun around, "So where are we going now?"

"To the military camp..." Bai E didn't peep, so Rose took over the conversation.

"What is the military camp?"

"A military camp is where we live?"

"Where do you live?"

"It's the military camp..."

"..."

"Rose." Bai E suddenly spoke up, interrupting the conversation between Rose and the white fur.

If he let the two of them talk, they could go on for a whole day. In the brief awakening exchange just now, Bai E had already realized this.

"Nova, have you forgotten all the things your sister told you?"

Nova, was the name that the new owner of the white-furred body had given herself, and she seemed to be quite opinionated.

As for Feier Ade, who had left her some memory inheritance including those words, she was considered a sister.

"I remember..." Nova placed her hands on the back of the chair and counted on the tips of her fingers with her right hand, "Stay vigilant, don't trust others easily, observe more, think more, express less, be less impulsive..."

"So..."

"So, are you guys bad people?" Nova moved closer to the side of Bai E's face, her eyes blinking rapidly.

"..."

Unable to answer.

Bai E sighed and compromised in resignation, "At least don't talk so much, it's noisy..."

So Nova instantly narrowed her eyes, curving them like a crescent moon, "Got it, Bai."

Watching their squad leader now looking obedient and sweet, and then recalling Bai's past capriciousness in front of them, the two remaining members from Grey Iron City looked at each other and couldn't help but shiver.

It was too strange...

Fortunately, the personality that had come out this time was quite good, and she seemed to be completely unaffected by the stigma. Feier Ade's experiment had really succeeded...

The girl with clear eyes appeared again in front of Bai E, smiling softly before leaving.

...

"The sun?"

The ethereal girl with white hair looked down at her semi-transparent palm curiously, her body felt as light as if she were floating on clouds, not subject to gravity. In the distance, a massive white orb emitting a cold light hung firmly in the sky.

What was that?

"The sun?"

"And where is this?"