Chapter 1117 None Survived

Five minutes later.

Captain Caspin was sipping hot, handcrafted coffee.

The temperature had dropped again, and since the fortifications were built outdoors, they couldn’t possibly have the complete facilities like those in the cities, so drinking hot coffee was simply a pleasure.

"Ah~"

Captain Caspin felt the warmth of the coffee and sighed, "I wonder when this damned war will end?"

Although he had taken loyalty serum and was utterly loyal to the Federation, with no thoughts of betrayal in his mind.

But he was human after all, bound to have some thoughts, and he felt this war was meaningless, only costing soldiers their lives in vain.

The adjutant kindly reminded him, "Boss, it’s best to avoid such sensitive topics, we’re soldiers, just need to follow Azure Palace’s orders."

Captain Caspin couldn’t help but chuckle, "Eduardo of Azure Palace has committed treason, it was his order to start the war, should we still follow it?"

The adjutant had no words to respond.

After a while.

The adjutant suddenly turned towards the observation window of the bunker, his face changing: "Boss, I think I heard a sound, I feel something dangerous."

He had awakened a superpower trait that enhanced auditory sensitivity, faintly hearing very subtle sounds coming from outside the bunker.

Just as he finished speaking.

"Dingling~"

The old-fashioned telephone rang.

Initially, the Federation Army had long canceled the "operator" role, but now operators were appearing extensively at the army’s grassroots level.

At this moment, the operator quickly picked up the receiver, and after listening for a few sentences, his face changed dramatically.

He turned to the Captain and shouted loudly, "Boss, the Upper Command says the ’Supernatural Prediction Group’ made a prediction, the southern border is in danger, it’s highly suspected that the Great Xia People will soon attack, orders to prepare the frontline."

Captain Caspin felt as if he had been slapped in the face.

Earlier he was insisting loudly "Great Xia People won’t attack," but now a warning came from above.

The man demonstrated his professional military demeanor, immediately becoming alert: "Everyone, stay vigilant, prepare for the bombardment!"

Until this moment, this officer still believed the Great Xia People would start their attack with missile and rocket bombardments.

The Carmenians’ advanced technology indeed lagged far behind the Great Xia, but their general technological development was still decent.

The quick-setting cement used for constructing fortifications was all mixed with mutant material, and the hardened strength wasn’t much less than steel plates.

Additionally, the bunkers used a "semi-buried" design, with half buried underground and the exposed half covered by a soil layer, significantly reducing the impact of explosions.

Thus, Captain Caspin was very certain that the bunkers could definitely withstand the upcoming bombardments.

He also believed the Great Xia People would shed enough blood in front of this defense line.

In the darkness a hundred meters away.

A dozen Silent Hunters maintained stealth and had surrounded this field fortification group.

The super AI, based on digital modeling of the fortifications, individually planned "personalized" attack routes for each drone and designed various attack plans.

If human targets were found from the enemy, personnel would be prioritized for injury.

If no soldiers were found, internal fortifications would be exploded.

As soon as the modeling was completed, the intelligent AI simultaneously used "finite element" analysis to calculate which positions of the fortifications were the weakest, and breaking here would achieve maximum destruction.

Overall, the Great Xia Military, leveraging the Great Xia’s black technology wave, played intelligent, unmanned warfare to the extreme.

A few seconds later.

A supernatural spectrum wave descended silently from the sky, instantly received by each drone.

This was the command center finally issuing the attack order.

Now, the Great Xia Military had long abandoned traditional electromagnetic wave communication, fully adopting supernatural spectrum waves researched during the Superpower Era.

Because electromagnetic waves can be detected and easily interfered with or suppressed.

While supernatural spectrum waves have strong concealment, their coding method differs from electromagnetic waves, thus the difficulty of cracking is elevated by a level of magnitude.

At the next moment.

This batch of Silent Hunters pounced on the fortification group from all directions.

Each drone flew almost skimming the ground, at a height no more than half a meter from the ground, further enhancing concealment.

For drones, this is quite a dangerous height, as an inadvertent collision might occur.

Silent Hunters, however, demonstrated extraordinary agility, perfectly avoiding every obstacle.

This indirectly indicates their intelligent level had already reached a very high standard.

Soon.

A Hunter flew over a concrete anti-tank barrier and precisely flew towards a narrow observation window.

The observation window was only about a palm in height, with a layer of metal camouflage net installed on the surface.

The Federation Military intentionally used its own drones for testing, confirming drones couldn’t break through the camouflage net.

But the Carmenians underestimated the technology of the Great Xia.

At this very moment.

A Carmenians soldier was sitting behind the observation window, vigilantly observing every move outside through night vision.

He suddenly heard a faint sound.

"Boom~"

The camouflage net broke open a hole.

The Silent Hunter used flying momentum to violently break through the camouflage net, directly penetrating the bunker interior.

The drone’s nose only left a small dent, and no internal components encountered any problems.

Now, the Great Xia Military held high expectations for drones.

It wasn’t just "able to fly" that’s sufficient; they must also meet a series of requirements like waterproof, dustproof, collision resistance, meaning they should be durable and resilient.

For instance, during full-speed flight, if the drone crashes into a branch or a man-made obstacle net, it should not immediately lose combat ability but continue to fly.

At this moment.

The Carmenians soldier realized something seemed to have breached the camouflage net, opening his mouth to yell "Enemy attack."

But it was too late.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a loud explosion.

The once silent hunter suddenly turned into an intensely blazing light blue fireball.

The flames reached an astonishing temperature of over 4000 degrees, and the unfortunate soldier was instantly vaporized.

The wall behind the soldier instantly left a human-shaped imprint.

The fireball continued to spread, with the high-temperature shockwave infiltrating every corner of the bunker.

Inside the bunker, there were six more soldiers, all vaporized in less than a millisecond.

Anyone with military knowledge knows that explosions have three essential elements.

The first is the rapid release of energy, the second is gas generation, and the third is confined space constraint.

The interior of the bunker happened to be a confined space, and the high-temperature gas expanded rapidly within, meeting all three conditions for an explosion.

"Boom!"

Another loud explosion followed.

The bunker exploded like an eggshell, sending countless pieces of cement shooting in all directions.

Tens of meters away.

The fortification where Captain Caspin was located was three meters underground, equipped only with ventilation pipes connecting to the outside, with no observational windows.

The fortification was connected to other bunkers through underground tunnels, with robust alloy doors installed at both ends of the tunnels.

This allowed Captain Caspin to luckily avoid the first wave of the drone swarm’s attack.

"Boom! Boom!"

Several thunderous sounds reached the captain’s ears from nearby, instantly knocking him unconscious.

The entire fortification shook violently as if an earthquake had hit, causing cracks in the walls, with dust filling the interior, turning all soldiers into "little gray men."

The power system was destroyed, leaving the bunker in instant darkness.

Only a moment passed.

Captain Caspin regained consciousness.

He felt his head buzzing as if a symphony orchestra was playing inside, could hear nothing, and it seemed there was liquid flowing from his nose and ears.

All he could think of was, "This must be a Great Xia missile striking the bunker!"

"Cough! Cough!"

Inhaling dust, Captain Caspin coughed desperately, realizing that his chest hurt terribly, indicating his lungs were likely injured by the shock.

Having experienced the horror of being bombed firsthand, he began to earnestly reminisce about the peaceful times.

Nevertheless, as expected, the bunker withstood the missile, and he survived.

"Buzz~"

The ground continued to tremble.

He couldn’t hear any sound, but from the vibrations, he could tell they originated from a relatively distant place.

This signified an unprecedented scale of bombing.

Damned Great Xia people!

Fuck it!

Stumbling, Captain Caspin attempted to stand up, intending to fulfill his duty as an officer and rescue his subordinates.

Wiping his nosebleed with a dirty sleeve, he fumbled towards the location of his adjutant according to memory.

After groping around a bit, he successfully grabbed a limb, which should be the adjutant’s.

A second passed.

Captain Caspin saw a glimmer of light.

The adjutant also came to and pulled out a tactical flashlight from his pocket.

Captain Caspin immediately noticed the immense fear in the adjutant’s pupils.

"Snap! Snap!"

He patted the adjutant’s shoulder twice and waved at him.

This was to signal that the Great Xia bombing had passed, and they were now safe.

He believed that the Great Xia would not bomb the same location again, as missiles were not cheap, even for the most industrially capable country on Canglan Star.

However.

The fear on the adjutant’s face did not diminish; instead, his complexion twisted in terror.

Captain Caspin glanced over, feeling a thump in his heart.

He was aware the adjutant had some special ability, and the adjutant was undoubtedly sensing something ominous, hence his fear.

Without hesitation, Captain Caspin reached out to support the adjutant, intending to drag him along to leave the bunker.

At that moment.

The adjutant suddenly turned his head towards the metal door on the right side of the fortification, shining his flashlight in that direction.

The metal door had deformed from the explosion impact, creating a gap in one side.

Instinctively, Captain Caspin looked over.

He immediately saw dust emerging from the gap.

This was the Silent Hunter from the second wave of attack, its surface coated with dust, giving it the appearance of a "dust cloud."

"Boom!"

A loud thunder echoed.

Captain Caspin saw a flash of light before losing all sense of awareness.

He and the adjutant were both vaporized.

Within just thirty seconds.

The entire infantry company led by Captain Caspin, totaling more than 160 personnel, along with twenty-eight fortifications assigned for defense, were obliterated by the drone swarm’s destructive assault.

No one survived!