Ark, please stop getting mad at the host's operators

"There will also be people guarding the front lines to resist the enemy's continuous attacks."

"Others need to assist the special team in clearing out the members of the Fusion Faction to prevent them from causing any greater obstacles to us."

Tian Sheng explained to Li Ji in a clear and logical manner some issues concerning the border.

This was her third time to come to the border for support, but this time she was too anxious. She was still at the Essence of Evolution, leading the team to brush modules... She only hurried back in the middle of the night to pack her luggage.

At first, when she saw Rhodes Island led by Li Ji, she hesitated whether to team up with them.

Because compared to the combat benefits that Rhodes Island can bring, the risks are equally huge.

If you are sent to the front line of the battlefield, there will be no chance of success.

The front-line battlefield is also called the 'dungeon' by all teams.

As the defense line closest to the border city wall, it is necessary to resist the continuous influx of enemies within a fixed period of time every day.

If the in-depth team had cleaned up in time that day and there were still enough cracks in the seal, they would have been able to block fewer enemy attacks.

If the cleaning team slows down the sealing process because of problems that day, the number of enemies they need to stop will increase...

Although theirs is relatively safer than the teams going out, they need to fight at a high intensity for a long time every day.

Tian Sheng had heard other teams complain about this before.

Those on the front line need to stay inside the defense line for eight hours a day before they can 'go off work', and at that time the manpower and team can still support it.

But now the team at Wanghai Villa has been emptied out, and it is hard to imagine what the situation at the border is like now.

At this point...it's highly unlikely that we will still have an eight-hour workday, right?

But there was really no other way. After seeing that no team had formed a team with Rhodes Island, Tian Sheng could only make up his mind. He decided that no matter how tired he was, he would not abandon Rhodes Island, which had saved his team.

After all, no matter what, the Essence of Evolution event was only possible because of Flame Shadow Reed and the others.

So after a brief discussion with the team members, she decided to team up with Rhodes Island...

This avoided letting Li Ji join a team he was not familiar with.

Because the good teams will definitely be picked up by others... The remaining teams waiting to be assigned either have problems with team strength or problems outside the team.

If there are any conflicts in command or differences in decision-making between Rhodes Island and the assigned team, Rhodes Island will be in trouble.

That was also what Tian Sheng didn't want to see.

"So if that's what you said, then we don't have anywhere else to go except guarding the front line, right?"

After listening to Tian Sheng's explanation in deep thought, Li Ji shrugged helplessly.

"If nothing unexpected happens... it's like this."

Seeing Tian Sheng also smiling helplessly, Li Ji roughly understood some of the current tasks and situations on the border.

The job they are most likely to be assigned to now is probably guarding the front line, a task similar to clearing out a battlefield.

Li Ji was naturally no stranger to the battlefield of suppression.

If there are no major accidents, the most likely targets for the border defense are Longmen City and Longmen Outer Ring Road.

At most, we can add a Longmen Commercial Street.

Of course, there will be unexpected situations... If there are some strange cracks outside that are not sealed, it will be like the nature of evolution, causing countless monsters to pour in.

If the previous wave uses up the skills, the next powerful wave will not be able to withstand it...

This resulted in the loss of defense.

Therefore, at that time, we could no longer simply think about how to defend ourselves from the perspective of annihilation.

But these factors cannot affect his decision on selection.

If the opponent's strength is changing...then wouldn't it be enough for Li Ji to keep his side at a relatively high level?

Continuous skills are born to do this!

But just when Li Ji wanted to continue asking Tian Sheng some questions, Xing Yun walked to the front of the crowd and shouted:

"Okay, sorry to bother you all for waiting. Your tasks have been assigned. Next, please take the vehicle with the same number on your walkie-talkie to the border. We will send your luggage back to the dormitory later. You can pick it up according to your name when you rest!"

"So fast?"

Li Ji raised his eyebrows, pointed at the car next to him and asked Xiang Tiansheng, "Then let's get in the car first and talk on the way?"

"Okay, let's get in the car together and see where we end up."

……

The vehicle was bumping along the road, and the combined teams of Rhodes Island and Qingfeng were getting closer and closer to the magnificent walls of the border.

Along the way, Li Ji talked with Tian Sheng about some issues related to the border, such as whether the deep border was fighting the life and death calculation as he understood it, and whether there were any cracks or battlefields outside the border like security guards were stationed there.

Of course, he asked Tian Sheng questions in a relatively obscure way and did not explain it very clearly.

After getting one clearer answer after another.

They also arrived at their destination.

[Has completed stage 1 mission: arrived at the frontier. ]

[The second stage of the mission is now open for you: defend the defense line. Kill more than 1000 enemy troops without any enemy breaking through the defense line. ]

[Phase 2 Mission Reward: Open the proxy command system.]

"Acting commander?"

Li Ji didn't expect that there could be an acting commander here... What does this mean?

Logically speaking, operators in this world should be able to activate their own skills... Mace, Inès, and Black Horn and Zuo Le, who were fighting crickets by themselves, can perfectly prove this point.

Sometimes Li Ji doesn't even need to give orders, they all know what to do.

Then what use is this acting commander?

"..."

Li Ji was a little speechless, but since it was a reward from Presise, it should be of some use, right?

"Could it be...?"

But before Li Ji had time to think further, a voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

"Hello, this is the security check. Please give us your pass."

A voice came from outside the car window, and Tian Sheng handed the pass in his hand to the security soldier.

"Qingfeng and Rhodes Island...is that so?"

At the entrance of the passage, soldiers were holding the passes of the two teams and carefully comparing them with the ID photos of the two teams' members.

"Excuse me, what is the place beyond this?"

Li Ji pointed to the front of the passage and asked the soldier who was doing security check nearby.

"This is the West Pass. Once you pass this place, you'll be on the front line. Hurry up and make preparations for the battle. It may be your turn soon..."

The soldier sighed, as if expressing his regret for the Qingfeng and Rhodes Island teams.

"The last team has held out for sixteen hours. Now the enemy's strength and numbers have increased greatly. I hope you can hold out as well."

After hearing this, Li Ji and Tian Sheng looked at each other.

Especially Tian Sheng, it was visibly that even his smile became bitter.

The Qingfeng team members behind her began to look embarrassed.

They could imagine that they would suffer hardships, but they didn’t expect it to be so hard!

After confirming several times, the security soldier handed the pass back to Li Ji and let them pass.

At the same time, Li Ji quickly "dialed" another radio in his hand and pretended to say to the other party on the radio:

"Hello, hey, hey, can you hear me? Have you reached the border yet? Well, it's still not working. We don't have enough people in our team right now. Come over here. It's right at the West Pass."

"You have other teammates coming?"

Tian Sheng watched Li Ji hang up the radio and asked Li Ji curiously.

She was still immersed in the soldier's words just now: "The previous team has been defending for sixteen hours."

The operators on Li Ji's side are certainly very capable, and even just the few of them should be stronger than all the operators on Qing Feng's side combined.

But the problem is that the enemies keep coming...

This is not a question of strength or intensity...it's pure mental torture.

But seeing Li Ji calling for help, Tian Sheng suddenly felt a sense of relief for some reason...

What's the point?

"Yes, let's go and replace the others first. We can still hold on for a while."

Li Ji stretched his muscles a little and said to the Rhodes Island operators behind him, "It's okay. You don't fight much in normal times, so it's not your turn. The professionals will be here soon."

If the system can really be as 'automatically acting' as he imagined, then Li Ji doesn't seem to have to worry about anything.

……

West Pass.

"Hold on a little longer! Our team will be here soon, don't let up!"

Apple swung the sword in his hand at the top of his lungs, and shouted behind him after chopping down the last enemy.

Their four teams, totaling forty-eight people, have been here for nearly seventeen hours.

Almost everyone is now reaching their limits mentally and physically. Even a little slackness will cause them to fall like straw in the wheat field.

The intense battle left them no time to pay attention to time, and they could only use the sun to roughly judge how long the battle had lasted.

"Damn it, why are we so short of people?"

Apple spat on the ground and cursed, "I'll have to see which unlucky guys come here again. It's really hard for people to guard the West Pass, with planes and a strange sea!"

"You bastard, if I knew who put me here, I would dig up their ancestral graves and place their ancestors' ashes as tribute in front of other people's graves!"

"Captain, can you please be a little more civilized..."

A man covered his face and whispered to Apple.

"Why? I have to be polite when I scold someone here? When did you become so nosy?"

"No... the team coming to replace you is right behind you. They heard everything you said!"

"..."

Apple turned his head awkwardly and found Li Ji and Tian Sheng, one with a smile and the other with a sad face standing behind him... as if they were cosplaying as stupid and unhappy.

"Sorry, I was just joking. My name is Apple, and I'm the temporary commander here. Are you the team here to replace us?"

"It's okay, it's okay. I would scold you too. Did you just defend?"

Li Ji waved his hand and said indifferently.

"Yes, the next wave is probably coming soon. For some reason, more and more people are cleaning up the cracks these days, but more and more enemies are pouring out. Now there is a shortage of people everywhere, and we can't hold on any longer."

Apple sighed heavily, looked at Li Ji and Tian Sheng and asked, "When will the team behind you arrive? When they arrive, we will officially switch defense."

"The team behind?"

Li Ji and Tian Sheng asked at the same time, obviously unaware of this matter.

Seeing the two's reactions, Apple was also embarrassed and said with a headache: "You... don't want to use these few people to guard, right?"

Apple and his team have forty-eight people, while Qingfeng and Rhodes Island have less than twenty people combined!

This is more than half missing!

"Currently, the two teams assigned should be ours. We don't know if there will be other teams to support us."

"This... is the shortage of people so severe now?"

Apple sat on the ground, and all the tense muscles in his body seemed to relax. "Forget it, let's switch defense first. We'll rest not far away. If you can't hold on, come and call us."

"The order we have received so far is to switch shifts with you. Once we have rested, we will add some members of your team."

"We are a team now, we must advance and retreat together!"

Apple was still sighing. He was so tired that his brain could no longer hold anything except rest.