As if eager to make sense of his current situation, he felt his eyelids grow lighter and managed to force them open. What first met his gaze was an endless expanse of sand rock, shimmering with golden hues. The high temperatures caused the air, thick with dust, to form a mirage on the horizon, distorting his vision. Above it all lay a sky of azure blue, alongside two suns, one crimson and the other cerulean, resembling the eyes of some deity.,Yu Lian could hear the rapid, heavy breathing, the grinding of mechanical bones, the clicking of bullets being chambered, and the roaring of power axes and chain swords. It must be said that all of this was so surreal to him that he didn't feel any tension at all, only as if he were in a bizarre farce.,A sergeant, easily taller and broader than him, gritted his teeth in silence beside him. He continued firing his rifle with one hand, the other gripping the power axe at his hip. He was the tallest and strongest man in the squad. Without a powered exoskeleton, he towered over even the armored Sergeant Major and that insufferable lieutenant.。