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Gu Xiaoxi was momentarily baffled!

Their mission was very vague—to deliver intelligence to a designated location and help support the war effort on the resistance’s side.

Now, as they faced this scene of all-out artillery fire, they unexpectedly felt an unprecedented sense of panic and helplessness. War and bad people were not the same!

Gu Xiaoxi hid behind a large rock with everyone, hearing the tat-tat-tat of machine guns nearby, the heavy bombs roaring as they flew overhead, and seeing soldiers in armored vehicles, armed with weapons, heading towards the city in droves.

"We can’t just rush in, even if we said we came to help, they wouldn’t easily trust us." Gu Xiaoxi felt that this was probably a natural caution everyone had.

This world competition exercise had not been announced to them, so no one would recognize them.

"What do we do now?" Yun Xiao’s face had been dark all along, and he was even more worried.

"I think we need to go take a look. First, infiltrate the city covertly. Identify who the enemy is. Then help the resistance," Jing Haoran said. Since their superiors had sent them, they couldn’t expect an easy path.

The places they had passed through before were all completely destroyed; three months had turned this beautiful country into a landscape of vast wounds.

"Why war, are these people full and idle?" Ji Xinyu completely failed to understand what sense of superiority destruction brought them.

Gu Xiaoxi didn’t say much, maintaining a serious expression all along. She looked around; the dozen or so armored vehicles had already left. They bypassed a dust-covered concrete road and approached the city through the yellowing grass.

During this time, the city’s skies were constantly filled with the sounds of various weapons, and as they drew closer, the screams of people could also be heard.

They stood in front of a building breached by a tank, quietly crawling through the ugly breach, climbing to the rooftop of a tall building, and stealthily hiding on the broken windowsill to get a clear view of the street scene below.

Teams of ten soldiers were scattered on the main street; there were at least a dozen such teams, accompanied by two or three tanks.

The tanks roamed aimlessly through the streets, bombing buildings everywhere they went, leaving no structure intact.

It was now broad daylight, yet there was no sun, and the overcast sky looked ready to rain.

The temperature had also dropped several degrees compared to the previous night. Gu Xiaoxi felt that even in her overcoat, she would shiver from the cold.

A child’s cries broke the deadly stillness of the street.

A little girl, five or six years old, suddenly ran into the street, crying for her mother.

Because just a moment ago, her mother had been killed by the soldiers before her.

Her clothes were ragged, her face smeared with dirt, holding a hubcap, she suddenly burst out from a house.

The soldiers, seeing her, were stunned for a moment and then all began to laugh.

The little girl, putting up a desperate fight, threw the hubcap, but being so small, it rolled a few times and stopped at the corner of a wall, not even touching the soldiers’ heels.

The soldiers were saying something in the local dialect, and soon one of them stepped forward, grabbed the girl’s collar viciously, stripped off her clothes, threw her onto the ground, and kicked her hard while cursing loudly.

Another soldier, discontented with the man’s boring act, picked up a knife, ready to cut down the little girl.

Just then, three tall men burst out from the ruins, attempting to save the girl.

However, no sooner had they appeared than they were ruthlessly shot down without a chance to fight back.

Clearly, those were citizens of Dafen Country, unarmed, only able to use their arms to fight against the group of soldiers.

The air was thick with the scent of blood, and the little girl, terrified, cried loudly as she saw the soldier’s knife coming down on her head.

Gu Xiaoxi watched the scene with an intensity she had never shown before. Knowing it was dangerous to rush out at that moment, she still couldn’t help but jump down from the building and run swiftly towards the little girl.

Just as the knife was about to fall, the soldier was unexpectedly kicked away, crashing into another squad, instantly causing a number of people to fall.

Yun Xiao rushed forward rapidly as well, stabbing the surrounding soldiers with the Ice Needle and then covering Gu Xiaoxi as she retreated.

Bullets danced above as Jing Haoran had already crawled into the tank, killing all the soldiers inside.

The sudden intrusion by Gu Xiaoxi immediately attracted a large number of soldiers, who, holding their guns, chased after Gu Xiaoxi and Yun Xiao while ordering the assembly of more comrades.

They were very curious about these two unexpected intruders.

Jing Haoran didn’t hesitate to take control of the tank, covering Gu Xiaoxi’s retreat.

The scene immediately descended into chaos, and on the street, soldiers quickly got injured, while others immediately sought cover.

Without lingering, Jing Haoran covered for Gu Xiaoxi’s rescue, then immediately ran towards the designated rendezvous point.

Gu Xiaoxi, carrying the little girl, quickly crossed several desolate streets and finally hid in a dilapidated little house.

She put down the little girl, and Jing Haoran was already walking this way.

Gu Xiaoxi tried communicating with the little girl but unexpectedly found that the other party could not understand her language at all. Nor could she understand what the little girl was saying.

The little girl knew that Gu Xiaoxi had saved her and had killed the man who murdered her mother. Hence, she gratefully knelt in front of Gu Xiaoxi and seriously kowtowed.

Gu Xiaoxi was at a loss for words and lifted the little girl, asking again, "Do you have any other people?"

The little girl, with her big watery eyes, stared at her for a good while, then ran down the stairs barefoot.

She led Gu Xiaoxi through two streets and then arrived at a hidden attic with a passage underneath. After leading Gu Xiaoxi inside and walking some distance, they came out of the passage again.

Now, they were on a main street.

This place was completely different from the streets outside.

Here, the original urban facade was still preserved. Although the sounds of war were incessant, making people hurry by, this place seemed to be a resistance force.

For Gu Xiaoxi and the other two with different skin colors and appearances, they were surrounded by a military force in just an instant.

The little girl and the officer explained for a while; only then did the officer approach Gu Xiaoxi and ask in fluent International Language, "Who are you!"

Gu Xiaoxi felt relieved that she had finally found someone she could communicate with and immediately explained, "We have come from Xuan State to support you in resisting the war."

As Gu Xiaoxi finished speaking, the other party clearly hesitated, then the officer scoffed, "Xuan State is supporting us? That’s laughable... Only sent four soldiers to support us? If you said you were spies, that’d be more like it!"

Gu Xiaoxi’s face darkened; no matter how she explained, the other party wouldn’t listen.

The officer looked them over a few times, and considering they had rescued the little girl, he let them leave quickly.

Gu Xiaoxi stood in this unfamiliar place, feeling a headache coming on. Luckily, these soldiers were not like those brutal invaders outside, devoid of humanity, and had decided to let them go.

In Gu Xiaoxi’s bag was the intelligence; she had to deliver these items to a designated location in the shortest time possible.

So, she called the commander again and took out a map, "I need to get to this place now. Do you have a car, or is there a way to help me get there quickly?"

The commander looked at the map for quite some time and then became alert, realizing that the map indeed bore the emblem of Xuan State. He looked at Gu Xiaoxi again, "What proof do you have that you are the supporters sent from Xuan State?"

It wasn’t that they didn’t trust Gu Xiaoxi, but they didn’t trust Xuan State.

After three months of war and having sought support from the International Center without a response, they no longer held any hope for aid.

Yet at this time, just four people arrived, telling them they were the supporters.

Gu Xiaoxi and Jing Haoran exchanged glances. What else could prove their identity now? When they had left, they had been stripped of their clothes. They had nothing to represent their identity.

"Television!" Yun Xiao suddenly looked up at Gu Xiaoxi saying, "The recent competition was covered nationally on the network, wasn’t it? As long as you have a phone or a place with a television, you can see our performance in the arena."