Chapter 748: Chief Officer
When Li Xiaofei returned to Chongque City, he immediately sensed that something was off. The atmosphere within the city was tense. The Military Guard Bureau had clearly entered a state of high alert. The level of security was dozens of times stricter than usual.
There was a sentry every five steps, and a security post every ten. Every soldier was fully armed and battle-ready.
Li Xiaofei had just stepped out of the office of the Third Operations Division within the Military Guard Bureau after finishing his debriefing when Director Hu Shuo arrived in haste and stopped him.
“What happened?” Li Xiaofei asked, curiosity piqued.
Hu Shuo replied, “Zhou Dongfei has died in action.”
Li Xiaofei froze. The name sounded familiar. He thought carefully, then suddenly remembered. When he had been ordered to escort Miss Fan back to Earth No. 1818, he had met a handsome and refined young man outside the teleportation fortress of the Military Guard Bureau. The young man had said he became a fan after watching Li Xiaofei’s battle with Nangong Longjian. He had seemed quite enthusiastic.
That young man’s name had been Zhou Dongfei. His mission at the time was to escort Zhu Yunwen back to another base planet. Li Xiaofei had not seen Zhou Dongfei since then. He had assumed Zhou Dongfei had completed his mission and returned safely to Chongque City. He hadn’t expected this...
“Just like you,” Hu Shuo said, “he completed the escort mission successfully. Afterwards, he was selected by the Military Guard Bureau to carry out an investigative task in an unopened base planet, where traces of Eden’s activities had been detected as well. Everything was going smoothly at first. But three days ago, the Dark Division of Chongque City received word of a sudden change on that base planet.
“When the special forces from the Military Division arrived, they found the planet had become a living hell. Almost the entire population had been slaughtered while Zhou Dongfei and his team were all killed.
“According to the investigation by the Dark Division, Eden’s God General, Angrus, had opened a space-time wormhole which allowed the Reapers to descend and annihilate the base planet... In the end, Chongque City had no choice but to use special measures to seal and reset the planet.”