"What is your relationship with Xiao Qing?" Wang Lan asked in a deep voice.
"Fifteen years ago, in the Northwestern Military Region, the Seventh Battalion of the Third Star Martial Army received orders to rescue a squad trapped in a Different Dimensional Space. The Exotic Beasts inside were far more powerful than we had imagined, and we paid the price of fifty casualties before we finally found the besieged squad.
"The battalion commander ordered us to cover their retreat and wait for reinforcements while holding off the enemy. For three days, we held the line in the Different Dimensional Space. But in the end, what we received was the closure of the portal, with only two of us left out of thirty brothers.
"My younger brother, dying in my arms, asked me, 'Have the reinforcements arrived yet? When will they come?' Heh heh heh... Hahaha... He was worried about reinforcements until his last breath. But the higher-ups had already abandoned us.
