Chapter 333 Discovery
Although Huan Xian was designated by the military as the contact person for Marshal Zhou's army, his main responsibility was not such a simple matter.

He is the commander, the command weapon that the laboratory, once hailed as the "most genius," has carefully cultivated and researched over many years.

Although Huan Xian didn't want to admit it, he had indeed been positioned as such for many years. Even the military couldn't deny it; his life had always been different from others, predetermined and beyond his control.

Although the military and the 19th Army Corps both wanted him to receive a normal education, return to ordinary human society, and live a normal life like his peers, these were all limited. This was something that both Huan Xian himself and the military were aware of.

Huan Xian was destined to be unable to escape the military's watchful eye throughout his life, and he would never be able to gain true freedom, let alone seek the life he wanted.

So even though he was sent to this place to study, supposedly to experience the lives of his peers, he didn't really escape those storms. This was to pave the way for his quick return in the future.

His involvement in this arrest operation was also at the military's behest, intended to increase the mission's success rate.

Huan Xian had thought this would be another tense and tedious command activity, just like in the past, where he would cooperate and interact with people from various forces to complete the army's orders... However, things seemed to be a little different.

After saying goodbye to his friends, he was taken to the rear of the military command to direct the entire operation.

Unlike Zhou Xiuwen, Huan Xian's responsibilities were far more complex. He had to consider many more things and was responsible for the fate of many people, so he could not afford to be distracted.

The enemy's heavy weaponry immediately disrupted their plans. Just as Zhou Xiuwen said, the military hadn't anticipated this at first, and was thus caught off guard.

Huan Xian also exerted a great deal of effort to barely balance the battle and prevent the rebel army from succeeding, but the casualties and losses caused were still immeasurable.

Although this incident was not Huan Xian's fault, and it was only thanks to his exceptional abilities that the chaos was barely quelled, the fact that these casualties occurred right under his nose meant that, for an army commander, the inability to save more lives was the greatest failure of this operation.

Therefore, Huanxian kept a tense face throughout the entire process. He could no longer maintain the mask he usually used to blend into the crowd, and his whole person appeared frighteningly cold.

"An accident has occurred in Zone V2. It is suspected that some military personnel in the chaotic combat zone have defected on the spot. They also attacked the exit passage of V2-3, resulting in casualties among a large number of civilians who had not yet left the area. More than half of the soldiers responsible for this zone have also been killed or wounded. We have not yet been able to ascertain the full situation and need to send more people to investigate." A miniature human-shaped projection suddenly appeared, and the voice echoed in the small, dimly lit but very quiet command room, drawing everyone's attention.

Huan Xian's face was terribly gloomy. He listened quietly to the other party's information and calmly replied, "Understood."

His gaze returned to the holographic disk of magnetic energy darts in front of him, which was displaying the situation of all the chaotic battle zones in the arena. More than a dozen chaotic battle points, large and small, were scattered like stars around the arena.

This clearly demonstrates the enemy's meticulous preparation for the attack; the deployment was obviously carefully rehearsed. Although the number of men sent to each point wasn't large, each of them possessed a formidable arsenal of weapons and was intimately familiar with the military's intelligence, as if the enemy had anticipated this. Huan Xian would say the military had already been thoroughly exposed. If they weren't properly purged, it wouldn't be long before the rebels rose to the rank of marshal, completely transforming themselves. Unfortunately, some factions within the military were not thorough enough, arresting one and letting another go, which was ultimately futile; the rebels would still uncover everything the next day.

It's a real shame that Marshal Zhou and the Third Army Corps' special forces assisted in the battle; if they had had some more reliable teammates, things wouldn't have turned out this way.

Now that the traitor who had been hiding so well has shown a little of his true colors, it finally explains how the rebels knew in advance that the military was going to arrest Angel.

What on earth are those guys in the military doing? Haven't they ever bothered to carefully select their personnel all these years? Look at the kind of people they've chosen...

Huan Xian's mood was in a very subtle synchronization with Zhou Xiuwen's at this moment, and he was very dissatisfied with the army's current situation of being almost riddled with holes.

This is like you're working hard to fight the enemy at the front, only to find that your comrades guarding the gate behind you have let the enemy in. How can they tolerate that?!
Huan Xian was seething with anger, but since he was only directing the battle and not the actual commander-in-chief, the command authority was not in his hands. The military had sent a mixed force comprised of personnel from several factions, making it difficult to even coordinate, let alone handle such sensitive matters. So he could only swallow his anger for the time being.

"Have you gotten the footage from Zone V2 yet? Don't worry about anything else for now, get the 3D footage back no matter the cost..." Huan Xian said to the communicator, and a 3D image came back shortly after.

Upon opening the short video, Huan Xian's gaze first fell from the arrogant and ferocious enemy to the corpses strewn across the ground, and the small group of soldiers stubbornly holding on... Suddenly, when his gaze unconsciously shifted to the lower left, Huan Xian's expression changed drastically, and he could hardly control his expression: "!"

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So what's the situation with Jiang Hui and Clarence on the court? Actually, it's just so-so, it couldn't get any worse.

Although they were supposed to be fleeing, they still had very few places to hide.

The chaotic battle was far more terrifying than they had imagined; a single cannon shot could blast anything within a radius of hundreds of meters. The melee didn't last long before the arena was reduced to ruins—utter ruins. There wasn't even a place to stand, let alone the areas where fighting was still raging; they dared not approach them.

Jiang Hui knew it was virtually impossible for her to find another exit. All she could do was wait for the war to truly end and then await rescue.

But that's only if they survive until then. If they're not afraid to run around the site during that time, or if they're too conspicuous to be avoided, they might immediately become part of the ruins.

Moreover, Jiang Hui was carrying Clarence, who had difficulty walking, so she couldn't run very far to begin with. The two of them could only choose relatively flat areas to walk on, avoiding the paths of chaotic battles, and carefully avoiding potential minefields based on their intuition and judgment. The journey was quite difficult.

(End of this chapter)

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