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The setting sun was like blood, and yellow sand filled the sky!

Hundreds of kilometers inside the enemy country's border, on the western frontier.

A three-month long, earth-shattering battle was nearing its end. The battlefield resembled a human hell, littered with broken limbs, corpses, and blood that stained half the sky red.

A young man in plain clothes, holding a blood-stained shadow sword, sat on the ground. Not far from him was a headless corpse.

The young man in plain clothes was named Ling Hao, the supreme commander of the Blood Shadow Squad and the King of the Western Region!

The headless corpse was that of the enemy's number one commander, the Demon War God!

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

In an instant, five figures flashed from five different directions at high speed, appearing beside the young man in the blink of an eye and kneeling on one knee.

The five men, clad in battle armor, stood tall and proud, their bodies emanating a suffocating aura of bloodshed.

"Reporting to the General, the enemy's elite have been completely wiped out!" The warrior in armor, at the head of the line, respectfully spoke.

His name is Lu Yue, he is Ling Hao's deputy general!

The remaining four were the four commanders of the Blood Shadow Army, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.

"Get up, take a break, and return to the capital!" Ling Hao lit a cigarette and took a puff.

"Greetings, Lord Du Shuai!" The five people rose simultaneously.

Beep! Beep!

Just then, the phone's message notification sounded. Ling Hao took out his phone and looked at it. There were two voice messages.

"Daddy, you... why don't you answer me? I... I'm Ruirui... I sent you so many messages... you... why don't you reply to me..."

"I... I'm so scared, I've been locked up by bad people... I can't find my mom..."

The voice belongs to a little girl, and you can tell she is in extreme fear.

"Kid, you sent the wrong message. I'm not your dad. Did you meet a bad person?"

After adjusting his emotions, Ling Hao replied.

This number, I already sent him two messages last night, with content similar to this one.

However, he was too busy fighting to deal with the wrongly sent message.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

The message came again, and the little girl was crying loudly now.

"Daddy is lying, Mommy said... This number is yours, isn't it? Ruirui has been naughty, Daddy doesn't want Ruirui?"

"Ruirui is really scared. She...she heard those bad people say that after...after today, Ruirui will never see her parents again...I'm so scared..."

"Daddy doesn't know what RuiRui looks like yet, I...I took a picture of myself last month for my birthday, I'll send it to Daddy right away. Daddy has to remember what RuiRui looks like!"

After the voice message, a photo was sent. It was a picture of a delicate little girl.

At four or five years old, a pair of big eyes that seem to speak, and a pair of dimples make them particularly adorable.

Boom!

After seeing this photo, a surging wave of murderous intent erupted from Ling Hao like a raging flood!

Heaven and Earth will be destroyed, soaring straight into the clouds!

At this moment, the temperature of the surrounding air instantly plummeted to freezing point. The entire void felt oppressive, like a dark cloud hanging heavy overhead.

Five young men standing nearby shivered involuntarily, their faces pale with fright.

Having been by the marshal's side for so long, they had never felt such a level of killing intent!

"Captain, what happened?" Lu Yue asked after taking a deep breath.

Ling Hao didn't answer him, picked up his phone and dialed the little girl's number.

But then, an automated voice told me the call couldn't be completed.

Ling Hao was not reconciled, and again called out, but the situation remained the same.

"Lu Yue, no matter what means you use, I need to get to Dongzhou immediately!" Ling Hao turned to Lu Yue and roared in a low voice, his whole body filled with murderous intent.

"Yes, sir!" Lu Yue didn't waste any time, pulled out his phone and made a call.

"Xuanwu, mobilize all resources and immediately locate this phone number!" Ling Hao then turned to the other four and gave them the little girl's phone number.

"Yes!" The four of them stood up and saluted, then quickly got to work.

Five minutes later, an off-road vehicle sped toward the border.

"Commander, what exactly happened?" Inside the car, Lu Yue looked at Ling Hao, who was still radiating murderous intent in the passenger seat, and asked.

"She is really my daughter!" Ling Hao's voice was icy cold, his eyes bloodshot.

As he spoke, scenes from the past came flooding back to him.

A difficult life path, leaving home at a young age, drifting to the Eastern Continent, and being adopted by the head of the Zheng family.

Five years ago, on a night, his foster family was slaughtered. He was stabbed multiple times but luckily escaped and was saved by Qin Yuxin, the eldest daughter of the Qin family.

Qin Yuxin took him to a hotel, and shortly after, he fainted from exhaustion.

Qin Yuxin bought medicine for him to heal his wounds, and it wasn't until the evening two days later that he recovered a little bit of consciousness.

After waking up, he was filled with grief and anger. He hugged Qin Yuxin like a child and cried loudly.

Qin Yuxin, out of compassion, allowed him to hold her tightly in his arms. She knew Ling Hao needed an outlet for his emotions.

At that time, Ling Hao was half-conscious. What happened later, he had no memory of it at all.

The next day, Qin Yuxin was gone, leaving behind a note.

Tell him that the person who killed his foster father might find here very soon, and ask him to leave Tozan as quickly as possible and never come back.

And she told him, she had taken the dragon pendant he wore as a souvenir.

He originally thought that Qin Yuxin was just a benefactor he had met in his life, and he thought to himself that if there was an opportunity in the future, he would definitely repay her life-saving grace.

The moment he saw the jade pendant in the little girl's hand, everything became clear to him.

Five years ago that night, he did something worse than an animal, not only hurting Qin Yuxin but also getting her pregnant!

What pained him even more was that his own daughter had been reaching out to him for help since yesterday, and he had mistakenly thought it was a wrong message!

"Ruirui was so scared, listening...listening to those bad people say that after...after today, Ruirui would never see her parents again...I'm really scared..."

Thinking of his daughter's voice filled with despair, his heart bled, an endless agonizing pain, wishing he could slap himself hard!

He is not only a bad husband, but also a bad father!

What king of the West, master of the Shadow Gate, is all bullshit!

To fail to even protect one's own daughter is a disgrace to be called a father!

"General, my five subordinates request to follow you to Dongzhou!"

Half an hour later, the SUV drove into a restricted airport. Lu Yue led the four generals and shouted in unison.

Along the way, they also learned the general idea of things, each one with murderous intent.

To actually dare to lay a hand on the marshal's daughter, does he want to be exterminated with nine clans?!

"Lu Yue, follow me. You four stay behind in the Western Territories to handle the aftermath. If anyone disobeys, they will be dealt with by military law!"

Ling Hao said in a deep voice, then turned and rushed into the plane. Lu Yue followed closely behind him.

Two minutes later.

A military jet zoomed into the sky, streaking across the heavens like a bolt of lightning and heading straight for the east.