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Although Sayyid used a question, his tone was very confident.

Reese gave an awkward laugh: "Old Reese, what did you say about satellites? I don't understand."

"You understand," Sayyid's voice turned cold. "Those SkyNet satellites over Asara, falling one by one, have destroyed countless villages and killed countless people. Don't you have any idea?"

"Don't play dumb with me!" Sayed, suppressing his anger: "Red Rat's Nest! Mandel Unit! Skynet Satellite!"

"Damn it! You even went after Faried's family!!"

"Old Sai, I won't lie to you. This... well, it really was me." Reese clicked his tongue. "Someone had to do the job of destroying the Skynet satellites. If I didn't, who would?"

"What are you going to do? With your half-baked militia?" Reis dropped his pretense, his tone full of impatience: "As for hitting people, well, that's just how it is."

"Are you even human?! Do you think our land! Our people! All the sacrifices!" Sayid gritted his teeth, "are just bargaining chips you can trade away at will!"

"You're so high and mighty, you're the most high and mighty of all!" Reis's voice rose as well: "What are you always spouting about, our land~ our people~"

"You really think you're a savior? Can you even eat that stuff??"

"Let the common people suffer, I'll bear the blame!"

"Sigh~" Reese put his legs on the edge of the table: "You idealists are always trapped in the fantasies of the past."

"All they do is chant about beliefs, revival, Asara."

"Let me tell you, the Asara you hold dear was already dead when that old bastard Divan signed the treaty with Jacob!"

What you're seeing now is just the process of its decay.

"You just wait, Reis!" Said cursed. "Whether Asara lives or dies is none of your fucking decision!"

"Hehe, getting anxious~" Reese chuckled. "What can you do about it?"

"Should I go complain to Youssef? Or go cry to GTI?"

"Waaaaah~"

Said, who had been furious, calmed down and said with a cold smile, "I'm suddenly not in a hurry anymore. I attacked the space base, but your Longbow Valley has also been badly damaged these past two days, hasn't it?"

"Huh?" Reese, who had been leisurely toying with his watch, sat bolt upright. "How did you know you did it?!"

"Said, you want to fight me?!"

"Hmph, someone will fight you for me!"

Ignoring Reese's frantic scrambling on the other end, Said slammed down the phone and redialed Farid, who was in charge of the Longbow Valley entrance: "Tell those GTI guys who run to Longbow Valley every day that it'll be free for the next month!"

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The news that the entrance fee to Longbow Valley had been discontinued spread faster than wildfire among players.

That evening, Chen Xiao squatted in the special operations office and scrolled through the knife-running group. The number of messages had already reached 999+.

"Brothers! Big news! Longbow Valley is no longer toll-free! Said announced it himself!"

"??? Did the racer suddenly become kind? Or did the GTI smash up the tollbooth?"

"Who cares? It's free, why not buy it? We'll make as much profit as we get!"

"Holy crap, Longbow's not charging anymore? Saeed's my own brother!"

"Brothers, charge! We've ripped that old bastard Reese's pants off!"

"Don't rush, don't rush, let me go scout out the location first."

"Forget about timing, just charge straight in. If we die, we'll just consider it coming home."

The next morning, a long queue formed at the entrance to Longbow Valley. More than two hundred players, dressed in all sorts of equipment—some in standard recruit uniforms, some in their own miscellaneous junk, and some even in uniforms stripped from the corpses of Hafk soldiers—all had their eyes shining.

Inside Longbow Valley, at the outpost on the outskirts of Amiya Town, the guards on duty frowned as they watched groups of people approaching.

People dressed in Hafk's clothes mingled with those dressed in Asara's clothes, and every now and then a few people with GTI logos on their helmets followed behind.

A squad leader carrying a machine gun yelled at the crowd, "Who goes there?!"

Before he could finish speaking, more than a dozen bullets flew in from different directions, riddling him with holes. The players didn't even wait for the gunfire to stop before swarming him, ransacking his machine gun, ammunition, body armor, boots, walkie-talkie, and even the half-pack of cigarettes in his pocket.

"Holy crap, there are still about twenty level 4 rounds left in this gun, what a steal!"

"This guy has three thousand haf dollars in his pocket! He's struck it rich!"

"Holy crap, what a pervert! Who pulled down someone's pants?"

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Inside the Diamond Queen Hotel, a gramophone played a melodious tune, and Reese swayed his dark body to the music. A call from a walkie-talkie interrupted his reverie.

"What's up?" Reese frowned as he answered the call.

"Boss, something's not right." The guard on the other end of the walkie-talkie spoke nervously: "There are clearly more people invading our territory today than before."

"Before, they were avoiding our brothers, but today they're swarming around us like locusts, showing no fear of death whatsoever."

"This is too weird. None of the brothers have ever seen anything like this before. They're all terrified."

"What exactly happened?" A sense of unease crept into Reis's heart.

"Oh, a bunch of people dressed in all sorts of random clothes came in from Amiya town today. There are Hafk people, GTI people, and a few people wearing Said clothes."

"They would stuff anything they saw into their pockets, and once they had stuffed enough, they would run back. Those who didn't manage to grab anything would grab a knife, put a painkiller in their mouths, and dare to rush up and stab our machine gunners."

"That's fucking terrifying, boss!"

"GTI, Said, and Hafk???" Reese's usually sharp mind was starting to malfunction: "How are these three connected?!"

"I don't know either, boss!" The guard on the other side said with a mournful face, "You'd better arrange for reinforcements quickly, we're really about to collapse here. It's not that we can't beat them, it's just that they're like locusts."

"Alright, alright, I'll have Amir's men help you." Reese hung up the phone impatiently, slapped the phonograph off, and dialed another channel.

"Hey, Amir," Reis's rough voice rang out, but the voices on the other end were noticeably more chaotic.

"What's wrong, boss!" Amir kicked away a player who was clinging to his feet and wouldn't let go, and yelled into the walkie-talkie with a frustrated expression, "I've run into some troublesome scum!"

"You encountered it there too?" Reis was clearly taken aback.

"Yes, they seem to have sneaked in from the south of the town. These fearless bastards are everywhere in Sandpath Ranch now!"

"So, do they just take whatever they see and chop people indiscriminately?" Reese asked, his face grim.

Amir paused while reloading: "Boss, you have some too?"

"Hassan has a batch too!" Reis said irritably, tossing his naval cap aside. "Fine, I'll take my personal guard and go myself!"