I started with a portal, then turned around and handed it over to the nation.

Raine slowly squatted down, placed the money bag on the ground, and then drew the bone blade from his waist.

He walked to the camp gate and sat down next to the weathered stone pillar.

Raine placed the bone blade across his knees, leaned against the stone pillar, and stared intently at the dirt road leading to Stonehold Town.

"All beings are equal..."

Raine repeated the word in a low voice, his fingers lightly tracing the cold blade.

His lips slowly parted into a smile, revealing a set of white teeth.

"I'll be waiting."

Great Wall Base, training ground.

A piercing alarm suddenly went off.

"Level One Alert! Abnormal Peak Value in Space Band!"

"Coordinates locked! Central sector!"

On the empty concrete ground, the air suddenly began to distort in an eerie way.

hum-

This wasn't a sound; it felt more like pressure acting directly on the eardrum.

A pitch-black crack suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Instead of stopping at two meters high as usual, it expanded wildly, swallowing up the surrounding light.

three meters.

Four meters.

Five meters!

A massive black light curtain crashed to the ground, sending dust flying in all directions.

"Click click click—"

A series of teeth-grinding metallic scraping sounds filled the air.

Fifty meters away from the light screen, three 99A main battle tanks that had been waiting suddenly jolted, their hydraulic suspensions sinking.

The massive turret spun rapidly, and its dark muzzle locked onto the center of the light curtain within two seconds.

"Machine gun crew, in position!"

"Armor-piercing rounds are loaded!"

Behind dozens of sandbag bunkers, the heavy machine gunner gripped the trigger tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force.

All the gun barrels and cannon barrels were aimed at that giant gate leading to the unknown.

Ripples, like water, spread across the surface of the light curtain.

A military boot covered in mud stepped out.

This was followed by the distinctive mechanical hydraulic sound of the exoskeleton armor.

"Snow Wolf Team One, safe."

"Team Tigers, safe."

One by one, fully armed soldiers emerged from the darkness.

They were pushing several crudely made wooden carts that looked out of place, their wheels making a "gurgling" sound as they rolled on the concrete.

Long Fei walked at the back, carrying a modified rifle in one hand, and warily scanned his surroundings.

After confirming that all team members had come out, he turned to the side and nodded at the light screen.

The light curtain rippled again.

Lin Mo came out.

The moment he appeared, he froze on the spot.

A thick tank cannon barrel was pointed directly at his forehead, and the muzzle was less than half a meter away from the nose of Shi Lei, the Tiger Captain in front of him.

The chill emanating from the cannon muzzle was even more biting than the cold wind of another world.

The feeling of being locked onto by a large-caliber cannon sent chills down Lin Mo's spine.

The scene was deathly silent.

Only the engine of the 99A tank was humming low, and the heat waves spewing from the exhaust distorted the scene before Lin Mo's eyes.

"cough."

A soft cough broke the silence.

Zhang Yi poked his head out from behind a cart loaded with ore and tapped his exoskeleton helmet:

"Captain, isn't this welcome ceremony a bit too enthusiastic?"

He pointed to the cannon barrel that was almost touching Shi Lei's face:

"Every time they come back, they point this thing at us. It's only because we have good mental fortitude that we're able to do this; anyone else would have wet their pants by now."

Shi Lei, his face dark, pointed at the cannon barrel in front of him and cursed at the tank driver's compartment:

"Old Zhao! Move that damn pipe of yours! I just crawled out of a pile of corpses, and I don't want to get blown to bits by my own people!"

The tank turret emitted a "buzzing" motor sound and slowly rose five degrees in response.

Lin Mo breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and forced a wry smile: "Brother Zhang is right, this feeling... is indeed quite refreshing."

"Next time, I suggest trying something different, like having them line up in two rows and shout 'Welcome home!'"

Zhang Yi chuckled and shoveled the entrenching tool in his hand onto his back:

"Come on, if that were really the case, I'd think those bastards had been possessed by aliens."

……

Great Wall Base, Central Command Hall.

On the huge main screen, the training ground footage is being transmitted in real time.

But at that moment, no one paid attention to the special forces soldiers who were joking with each other.

All eyes were fixed on the still-open black door.

The data stream was refreshing wildly on one side of the screen, and the red warning box almost filled half of the screen.

"5.2 meters high, 4.1 meters wide..."

Commander-in-Chief Zhao Zhenguo braced his hands on the command platform, his fingertips pressing shallow fingerprints into the alloy tabletop with such force.

He abruptly turned his head and stared at the technical advisor beside him:

"Has the data been verified?"

The staff officer's voice was trembling, and his fingers were typing rapidly on the keyboard:

"It's been verified three times, sir!"

"My God..." Professor Sun Dehai was practically glued to the big screen.

His pen had fallen somewhere, and his hands were gesturing unconsciously in the air.

"Five meters by four meters...five meters by four meters!"

He whirled around, grabbed the collar of weapons expert Chen Yan beside him, his bloodshot eyes filled with fanaticism:

"Old Chen! Did you see that?! Did you see it clearly?!"

Chen Yan was so shaken he almost bit his tongue, but he was even more excited than Professor Sun.

He shoved Professor Sun aside: "It can fit... The 99A is 3.5 meters wide and 2.37 meters high... Even with reactive armor and external stores, it's enough!"

"We can go in! We can really go in!"

Chen Yan slapped his thigh suddenly, his usually serious face now twisted into a smile:

"Finally, we don't have to make those kids carry rocket launchers and fight monsters anymore! An iron torrent! This is the truth we want to bring to this other world!"

Wu Qian, who had been sitting silently in the corner, stood up.

The person in charge of the Night Watch project stared intently at the soldiers moving carts on the screen.

"It's not just tanks."

Wu Qian walked to the sand table, picked up a heavy vehicle model, and gently placed it on the spot representing the portal:

"Dongfeng Mengshi (Dongfeng Warrior), all-terrain vehicles, mobile medical pods, and even small construction machinery..."

"Once we can get in, our tactical system will be completely different."

"Before, it was special operations; from now on..." Wu Qian looked up at Zhao Zhenguo, "from now on, it will be mechanized swarm operations."

On the other side of the command center, Logistics Minister Liu Jianjun was yelling into the phone, spitting all over the operator's face.

"Don't tell me about scheduling difficulties! I don't care!"

Liu Jianjun hung up the phone, turned around, and his usually shrewd and calculating face was now beaming.

He pointed at the few shabby wooden carts on the screen and waved his hand dismissively: "I've had enough of this junk!"

"Now that the door is bigger, can my container truck fit through? Can my refrigerated transport truck fit through?"

"And my mobile kitchen! I've been wanting to stop the soldiers from eating dry rations for ages!"

Liu Jianjun strode up to Zhao Zhenguo, saluted, and his voice was so loud that the entire hall could hear him:

"Sir! The logistics department requests immediate dispatch of transport vehicles; we'll definitely need them later!"

"Now that the road is wider, we have to show them everything we have! I want to show this other world what saturated logistical support looks like!"