It was evening.
A military camp was stationed hundreds of kilometers west of East Lake City.
A tall wall of about a kilometer wide formed the shape of a square. There were watchtowers facing each of the four directions, and every building had a red flag which was flapping in the wind.
A transport convoy full of supplies was parked at the entrance of the camp. The trucks entered the camp one at a time to unload their supplies.
Wang Jianyan and an officer from the logistics department checked the amount of supplies before leading the convoy to a stop at the foot of a mountain on the west side of the camp.
The transport team planned to spend the night near the camp and return to East Lake City the next morning.
The reason they had chosen to station their vehicles on the west side was that the lake was on the east side of the camp. If creatures from the otherworld ran out of the lake at night, the troops would be the first line of defense.