Bai Zhizhan and his group did not fly directly to the Imperial Capital, as torpedo bombers could not cover such a distance.
At a naval base in the southern part of the Empire, a transport plane sent by the Navy headquarters was waiting for them. While the transport plane was preparing for takeoff, Gui Boyong made several phone calls to clarify why the Navy headquarters had summoned them back—it essentially confirmed their earlier speculations.
A great war had broken out, or rather, was about to break out.
Just last night, the Luosha Federation, under the pretext of protecting its citizens abroad, put the Northwestern Army, deployed near the border with an amassed force of over a million soldiers, on combat readiness. Subsequently, they issued a final ultimatum to the three countries along the coast of the Luowan Sea, demanding a response within seventy-two hours.
What kind of response?
To understand that, we need to go back twenty years.
