The two consecutive waves of assault left the alien forces outside the cave stunned. Out of about three hundred Shell People Race members outside, more than half were killed or injured in less than ten minutes.

With the suppression of artillery fire added to the mix.

The Shell People Race members inside the cave also couldn't break out. After several attempts ended in them being blown to pieces, they abandoned this tactic.

Another ten minutes passed.

The camp outside the cave was completely slaughtered by the Security Bureau and the warriors from the Tiger Wolf Race. The roaring flames engulfed the camp, painting half the sky red.

Baiyu, wearing a black military coat, walked onto the scene, surrounded by soldiers who had just come off the battlefield.

"Sir, a total of two hundred and ninety-one aliens were killed, all from the Shell People Race. There were no deformed weapons of mass destruction."

Reported a Little Commander from the Security Bureau.

Deformed Weapons.

These are items used only by aliens, akin to magical items, but deformed weapons are more malevolent, highly destructive, and possess various bizarre abilities.

As for the side effects.

They are terrifying.

Each deformed weapon could possibly cause large-scale disasters.

"Count the battlefield, organize the troops, and treat the wounded first."

After thinking for a while, Baiyu said, "Make sure the cave is watched, don't let anything come out; no matter what it is, just fire cannon to kill it."

This is a large mountain.

The cave's entrance and exit are also very large, and the entrance has a concealed spirit array, which clearly wasn't built in just one or two days.

The entire area outside the cave is shrouded with concealment and protective spirit arrays.

Baiyu dared not order a direct attack.

After all.

The number of people inside the cave is unclear, and what's inside is also unknown. If it turns out to be an alien stronghold that has been established for a long time, wouldn't the whole army be annihilated?

Baiyu could never make such a reckless mistake.

After achieving a great victory in the first blade battle, the entire unit settled in place, and the injured soldiers began receiving treatment from Physicians.

Due to the significant disparity in strength, and Baiyu taking the initiative with a surprise attack and suppressive numbers and firepower, the casualties were not many this time.

The Security Bureau only lost ten people.

The Tiger Wolf Race soldiers, combined, lost four people.

As for the bounty hunter squad and the Anomaly Bureau squad, there were no fatalities, only injuries.

However.

This loss still made Baiyu somewhat uncomfortable.

Although he knew there would be losses and casualties in war, and Baiyu had long thought he'd gotten used to it.

After traveling from Linjiang City to Zenith City, then to Villiduo.

Baiyu had seen many human martial artists killed at the hands of aliens and had witnessed scenes of corpses strewn everywhere.

Yet.

When these people died under his command, the feeling was truly unpleasant.

Baiyu ordered the deceased soldiers' bodies to be placed in coffins, to be properly buried on the return journey.

The night of the No Darkness Realm.

Like the sun shrouded in dust, it was a grayish hue, the sky dim, but without affecting visibility.

Various sounds of Exotic Beasts started resounding from the Heavy Fog Forest around.

Among them were some powerful ones.

Soldiers from the Tiger and Wolf Race began to scatter powder around the area to prevent Exotic Beasts from approaching, while bounty hunters began setting up various small warning protective spirit arrays around.

Baiyu and Xu An arrived at the cave entrance.

Outside the deep cave entrance, a light membrane flickered faintly, clearly the protective spirit array of the cave.

The two had tried many methods just now.

Finally, it was discovered that besides using brute force, breaking it through other means was almost impossible.

"Baiyu, we are stuck here unable to get inside, and if it takes too long, there might be changes."

Xu An's expression was somewhat serious.

No one expected the aliens to have a fortress-like cave here, easy to defend and hard to attack.

In case of asking for reinforcements from the City of He Mountain, it would take two days back and forth.

Might be too late.

Baiyu frowned, also thinking about how to handle a cave, initially thinking it was a skirmish.

But it eventually evolved into a siege battle.

They didn't bring any siege equipment, now caught in a dilemma.

The joy brought by a battle victory was somewhat diluted.

Xu An was at a loss.

Though Baiyu had methods to break through, he didn't want to use such trump cards unless it was a critical moment.

The two hadn't come up with a plan yet.

A soldier from the Security Bureau hurried over, saying to Baiyu, "Commander, there's a situation. There's a living Shell People Race member over there! Moreover, he can speak the human language."

Baiyu and Xu An's expressions changed swiftly at these words.

An alien prisoner!

The majority of alien prisoners could not speak human languages, and those that could usually were special individuals.

After all.

Few in the alien races could learn language knowledge.

Baiyu and Xu An quickly arrived outside the military camp, just in time to see a group of Tiger Wolf Race warriors surrounding a creature lying on the ground on all fours, with a green head and a large shell on its back.

The creature resembled an enlarged old turtle.

But its limbs were more like human hands and feet.

This is the appearance of the Shell People Race.

They could walk upright, but they preferred lying on the ground, said to be because the Shell People Race's Earth-Binding God they worship also constantly lies on the ground, continuously absorbing the earth's power.

As long as it remains in contact with the earth, no one can kill it.

This strange belief, Baiyu didn't want to elaborate much on, but the Shell People Race before him piqued his interest instead.

The reason being the green head of the creature had a small grass growing from it.

It appeared.

As if it truly grew from flesh and blood.

Good heavens, is it cosplaying as Slow Sheep?

"This is Knowledge Grass, usually only grown on the heads of older Wise Men in the Shell People Race," Xu An explained.

A peculiar thought popped into Baiyu's mind: does this guy grow more the more he learns?

Wouldn't it be one day that his head would be covered by an entire prairie?

At this moment.

The Shell People Race prisoner, upon seeing Baiyu and Xu An, started babbling incoherently, making it incomprehensible for both of them.

He indeed knew the human language.

However, what he spoke wasn't the common language of the East Prosperity Imperial, and judging by the accent, it was more akin to the language from the Steel Frontline region.

Steel Frontline.

A major human power comparable to the East Prosperity Imperial.

It is located in the Northwest of the East Prosperity Imperial, using a parliamentary system, differing from the Federation system of Free Federation and the monarchic system of East Prosperity Imperial.

Of course.

When faced with the threat of alien races, humans from major powers do not harbor hostility or antagonism towards others due to different systems.

The East Prosperity Imperial, the northern Free Federation, the northwestern Steel Frontline, and the eastern Great Yan Country, all have relatively good relations.

And amidst the great human powers of the East Prosperity Imperial, Free Federation, and Steel Frontline lies the Great City.

This massive, magnificent city, so vast it can be called a nation, sits at the borders of the three powers.

The Shell People Race prisoner spoke a dialect from the Steel Frontline region, near the Great City.

"Does anyone understand the language from the Steel Frontline region?" Baiyu turned around and asked.

The Tiger Wolf Race warriors were out of the question; these were all muscle-headed and many were even illiterate.

In the Security Bureau's ranks, no one spoke the language from the Steel Frontline region either.

However.

Among the bounty hunter group was an old hunter who had once traveled to the Steel Frontline and the Great City years ago.

He hadn't studied it systematically but could understand some.

"Sir, he seems to be saying that he can tell us important information, just in exchange for being let go and allowed to return," the hunter named "Old Stone" hesitantly reported after listening to the Shell People Race prisoner's mutterings for quite a while.

"Ask him what the information is," Baiyu instructed Old Stone.

The old hunter nodded, starting to communicate with the prisoner in broken language and hand gestures.

The communication between both sides was extremely difficult.

Old Stone could understand part of what the prisoner said, the rest needed to be guessed.

However.

Eventually, he pieced together the message: "He said the Shell People Race knows this battle will fail, so they are prepared to perish together with the City of He Mountain!"