He spent one last day at home with his parents.
Faced with his parents' worry and reluctance to see him go, Li Wen comforted them with gentle words, saying only that it was a normal change of duties.
Li Wen's mother, her eyes red, endlessly reminded him to be careful, while his father just clapped him hard on the shoulder. Everything was left unsaid.
The next morning, before the house where his parents stood watching for a long time, Li Wen didn't delay any further.
He took one last, deep look at the home that held his childhood memories, and his figure transformed into a faint, almost imperceptible beam of purple light, silently vanishing into the horizon.
His new assignment was the Panshi Underground Fortress, located on the eastern front thousands of kilometers from Bluestone County.
Its scale was far beyond anything Bluestone County could compare to; it was a true medium-sized combat fortress that was under immense defensive pressure year-round.
