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Chapter 237 Armor-piercing Shells, 11:27 pm
Robert stared at Catherine, who was in disarray, with a stern expression and did not speak.After a long time, he pushed her shoulders away and walked slowly to the French window.
The Civic Center was taller than most of the buildings in the city. From here, the fence on the edge of the bustling area could be seen from a distance. The elites in the meeting room followed him to the window and looked out through the glass.
Before this group of well-dressed elites, the night was lit, and the fire dyed half of the sky.Less than a quarter of an hour had passed since the launch of the missile, and the previous appearance of false peace was completely broken. Sparks spread in the dark city, like black paper covered with dazzling gold powder.
No one can be seen from such a long distance, but every flicker of gold powder represents the flames ejected from the barrel and muzzle of the gun, and tens of thousands of tiny lives disappear in infinite flickering.
Poseidon has launched all-round defense measures. The last time this level of defense was applied was ten years ago on Bloody Christmas, when the government hunted Rosie.Between the buildings that make up the fence, a dark blue honeycomb-shaped transparent barrier flows, just like the high-voltage power grid pulled up by the rich outside the garden;Died in the poisonous gas that filled the building.
STF soldiers and combat androids hid behind high-voltage electric barriers and opened fire on the mob, blood pooling in thick streams on the edge of the fence.Back then, they used such a net to trap Rosie in the bustling area. However, facing thousands of hunters and people, the defense line of the fence inevitably crumbled, and there were gaps in several places.
"Mayor, the rich people in the bustling area are about to overwhelm the special line of the municipal center," Catherine wiped the cold sweat from her forehead with a tissue. Although she was calmer than when she came in, her face was paler and her voice was nervousTrembling, "They are worried that their companies and mansions will be looted by mobs, and they beg you to suppress this unrest as soon as possible, otherwise they will consider supporting other candidates in the next election."
"They dare to threaten me? This group of rich and poor people are just idiots who inherited the family business." Robert stared at the scene in the distance, frowned and said coldly, "Of course I will end this rebellion, Catherine, youTell them, instead of crying to me, it is better to put pressure on the hunter guild, those hunters who make trouble are the source of the turmoil."
Catherine nodded, and immediately contacted the public relations department to contact the rich people.Home beside her glanced at the secretary who was busy on the tablet, and suggested to the mayor:
"Actually, what Catherine said just now makes sense. We might as well try to negotiate with the high-level guild to see what conditions they will offer. The essence of bounty hunters is still businessmen. If we can gain an advantage on the front line, we can promise them morePresumably they will consider the more generous post-war rewards of 'technique'."
"You mean," Robert pondered, "we have to convince the guild that they made a wrong bet by helping the 'surgery', and that the main city is the final winner?"
"That's right. The guild got the news that Rosie activated the brain lock, and thought that the second district would win. If we can find a way to eliminate the threat of the brain lock and regain the upper hand in the battle, thoseThe hunter will surely fall on us with the wind."
Holm expressed his point of view and asked cautiously, "I heard that you ordered the R&D center to submit a schematic diagram of an instrument that can generate an electromagnetic shielding field two days ago, and CyberRose's factory has also mass-produced these shielding instruments. This is absolutelyThe best way to fight against the lock of the brain, are you still not going to use it?"
"Yeah, electromagnetic shielding might be a solution." Robert lowered his head slightly to think, and two opposite thoughts alternately occupied his mind, "But the bionics on the front line cannot do without the guidance of Poseidon. If electromagnetic shielding is turned on,The problem of the brain lock can be solved, but the signal commands sent by Poseidon will also be blocked, and we will also lose the control of the bionics."
He turned away from the floor-to-ceiling windows, and stood beside the projection of Poseidon, thinking, "Rosie's moves are very careful. No matter what we do, we will fall into different difficulties. What I am worried about is that the electromagnetic shielded battlefield environment willGive Rosie the edge..."
When Robert said this, he suddenly froze, as if a spiritual light flashed in front of his eyes, tearing the sky like a white lightning—maybe, Rosie was just inducing him to activate the electromagnetic shield?He has always had doubts about the fall of East 5, but if it is said that all this is an illusion created by Rosie, just to facilitate the occurrence of electromagnetic shielding, wouldn't it make sense?
Maybe...his opponent actually has nothing, just holding the smallest bad card and pretending to have a chance of winning, trying to lure him to give in?
He was shocked by his bold vision.This logic is so logical and yet unbelievable.If his conjecture is correct, how much is Rosie's gambler?You know, once he sees through Rosie's scheme, everything sacrificed by the other party, including the lives of soldiers and killers in East 5, and more than 30 new bases, will be wasted, and Rosie herself will lose her life.
Is Rosie such a person?Leaving the real brain lock unused, he chose to take the most difficult and dangerous path, and if he didn't pay attention, he might lose his life forever.Such a person who desperately bet on the entire second district to protect the illusory principles... Should he be called a human being or a god?
Robert couldn't believe that this was the thinking of a normal person.He shook his head in fear, trying to get rid of such thoughts. He didn't want to believe that the person who was playing games with him was a nearly perfect personality full of divinity. This familiar feeling of being completely suppressed seemed to bring him back to his student days.The boy who exuded soft light smiled at him, but he humbly huddled in Rosie's shadow, not daring to look up.
He thought he had completely destroyed a part of Rosie in Red Christmas, assimilating her into a ruthless politician like himself.Seeing the other party instigating and taking advantage of the people, he was actually slightly relieved in his heart, but in the end, the bright and pure Rosie was still there—as if the overwintering seeds broke through the ground in a more powerful way.
"Mayor, mayor!" Catherine's anxious call dragged him out of the suffocating feeling like drowning. She tried her best to pull his arm, trying to pull him towards the door of the meeting room, and the surrounding crowd also began to flow.They all fled outside the door.
"What's the matter?" Robert had already got the answer as soon as he asked these words.Without Catherine's explanation, he saw a corner of the fence in the distance, the dark blue protective barrier was removed by some hacker, like a water film slowly fading away, forming a gap.
One after another hoverbikes flew out of the gap, heading straight towards the direction of the city center.Those were the craziest bounty hunters. Everyone carried an RPG on their shoulders and hung grenades on their waists. They aimed at the floor-to-ceiling windows of this conference room from a high altitude, dived at full speed, and arrived close in the blink of an eye.
The elites shoved each other in panic, rushing to the door.Robert broke free from Catherine's hand, turned around and stood still in the confusion, and said in a calm and loud voice: "Poseidon!"
"Everyone, don't panic, the defense system of the city center has been activated." Poseidon's steady voice came from the trident logo, "The intruders will be wiped out by the laser beam when they step a hundred meters around the building.would pose a threat."
Halfway through the artificial intelligence's words, the flames rose from the bazookas carried by the hunters, and several fragments emitting white smoke drew long trails and hit the glass of the floor-to-ceiling windows.Poseidon intercepted several of them, but there was another shell with the fastest speed that broke through the defense, crushing the entire piece of glass in an instant, and the shell crashed into the room with tiny fragments!
"Lie down!" Holm yelled, rushing over, pressing Robert's shoulders and leaning behind the sofa.Shrapnel as violent as a storm swept across the meeting room, and the wailing of the crowd was endless. The shrapnel splashed into their eyes and cut their throats, and the smell of gunpowder smoke permeated the room.
The dazzling laser beam blasted out from the gun barrel controlled by Poseidon, crushing the flesh and blood of the few hunters who launched the attack.The grenades on their bodies exploded at the same time, but the orange flames did not light up, replaced by a series of pink cross flower patterns, like a small firework show, the thyme quickly bloomed and withered in the wind.
Robert stood up from behind the sofa in shock, staring at the pattern of the string of thyme, his face pale as if he had seen a ghost.Around him, in the meeting room that was leveled by armor-piercing shells, there were countless elites rolling and crying among the rubble, and more than a dozen corpses fell silently on the ground.
"I need to adjust the lead parameters of the defense system." Poseidon's voice sounded again, with a sense of black irony in the ruins, "The data set by the technicians is wrong, this shell should have been stopped."
"Are you a waste, you can't do this well!" Robert scolded, "This is the hunter's guild demonstrating to the government. They want to tell us that they can take our lives at any time, but you let themIt worked!"
"I'm sorry, mayor." Poseidon said lightly.Robert could easily hear that the AI didn't really apologize at all, because Poseidon was a simulated personality made by extracting his memories.
He stood in the pile of corpses with a sullen face. On the shoulder of his suit, a cloud of dark red blood slowly spread.Only then did he feel the pain. In the explosion just now, a piece of shrapnel hit his shoulder. He thought it was just a slight scratch, but when the effect of adrenaline faded, the severe pain felt like a burning fire.
Catherine noticed his strangeness, leaned over and said in amazement: "Mayor, you are injured! I'd better help you out of here first, and call a private doctor to take a look..."
"I'm not going anywhere, I'm just directing here." Robert said in a deep voice.He picked up a broken chair, put it heavily on the edge of Poseidon's terminal, sat on it, and beckoned all the living people to come over, "Contact me Laura McGill and say that I want to negotiate with her. Whether sheWhat kind of request..."
He took a deep breath, as if he was trying his best to suppress the humiliating anger accumulated in his chest, which was about to burst, "No matter what kind of request she asks, I will agree to it first. The main city needs the ally of the guild. At least, they cannotis the enemy."
Rosie sat quietly at the long table in the conference room, reading the documents at hand, and glanced at the military sand table from time to time.The light from the ceiling lamp fell on the top of his hair, and he rested his head leisurely. In his eyes covered by long eyelashes, his expression remained unchanged and indifferent, which brought some peace of mind to the officers on both sides.
Today was the evening of the third day after he announced that he had opened the lock on his brain, and the sand table was as silent as if it was shrouded in the sultry heat before the thunderstorm.The bionic army stood firm, and the soldiers of "Shu" also stayed in the remaining new base. The atmosphere was dull and depressing, and both sides were waiting for a deafening thunder.
The civic center was hit by a suicide attack yesterday, and Rosie asked Rolla to put pressure on the main city government, and she did it decisively.However, after that, Rolla received an invitation from the mayor to negotiate. Although she promised that she would not waver, a day passed and there was no news of the outcome of the negotiation, which made the officers present a little anxious.
Piper read the tactical information patiently for a while, and finally couldn't help but look up at Rosie, opened his mouth, hesitated to speak.Rosie noticed her gaze, but didn't look up, and turned the document in her hand, "What?"
"Don't you think Rolla McGill is suspicious?" Piper was waiting for him to pick up the conversation. She lowered her voice and poured out all the words impatiently, "Robert and her have been negotiating for a whole day.During this day, Robert showed no signs of turning on the electromagnetic shield, which is unreasonable. Do you think Rolla will turn against the main city?"
"I also asked Huai Ling a similar question, and he said no." Rosie flipped through the text message sent by Deng Huailing and said, "His reason is that completing commissions is the most basic professional ethics of bounty hunters.It's normal to play petty tricks, but high-level hunters will never breach the contract and damage their own reputation, and Rolla is the face of the guild, if they break the contract and defect, will the guild still be able to do business?"
"But this is not a business, it's a matter of Cesina's life and death!" Piper said frantically, "You just rely on Deng Huailing's text messages to make decisions?"
"Many major decisions in history were made casually, and some people used turtle shells for divination. Why isn't text messaging the basis for decision-making?" Rosie smiled, "Just treat me as a fatuous emperor who listens to my favorite concubine's advice..”
"You...well, even if your judgment is correct and Rolla didn't defect, we can't afford to wait anymore." Piper approached Rosie and whispered, "You shouldn't have forgotten that the energy in the second district can only control threeOne-tenth of the bionics, right? The electromagnetic wave generator will reach its maximum power tonight, that is to say, after three to four hours, this area will no longer expand!"
She pointed to the part covered by green shadows on the sand table, which represents the area controlled by the imitation product. It has been expanding at a constant speed for several days, swallowing the garrison points in the main city, "If Robert notices that the expansion has stopped, whether he sees through us or notplan, you will find that the energy resources in the second district are very limited, and even cannot swallow half of the garrison points... At that time, the entire second district will be dead without a place to die!"