The intensive and short hand-to-hand combat left Hesta in no mood to stop and think carefully about the reasons for the failure in predicting the enemy's defense tonight. During the virtual attack and defense, she began to hesitate whether to forcefully break into the Golden Crow tonight.
Unless she had to, she didn't want to have a life-and-death fight with these mercury needles... It wasn't worth it.
It was out of this consideration that she had previously chosen a night to warn all the mercury needles guarding Lixi. Unexpectedly, Avinash understood immediately, while Victoria became more and more frustrated.
She observed the mercury needles stationed in the Golden Crow Palace tonight. Although she was always the one who fought far away from the large army, there were several faces here that she was familiar with, even though she had hardly spoken to these people. He couldn't tell their names, but Hestad was sure that he had met these people during several dangerous battles with chelate waves.
There are ten people here in total, except for Victoria, there is at least one Mercury Needle who has not shown up.
Where is this person and what is he doing?
And Victoria...what is she doing now?
After several harassments, all the mercury needles returned to the Golden Crow Palace again. They once again returned to their original guarding formation, and Hesta also fell into a forest not far from the Golden Crow Palace.
Everything is back to square one.
If this continues, there will be no end.
Mixed emotions arose in Hesta's heart.
If only what Victoria said tonight at Central Hospital was true.
…
"The target is at two o'clock, about 150 meters away from us. It has been dormant for four minutes... What should we do now? Just wait like this?"
"How about I lead the team to attack it again?"
A faint electronic noise came from the earphones, and then Victoria's voice sounded, "Everyone, prepare to evacuate."
"...You're back? Where are you?"
“It’s also nearby. I just arrived. There was something delayed on the way.” Victoria whispered, “Zoe, where you are standing is too far from the escape point. It will be too late to evacuate in a while. You should go east now. Let’s go to Susie’s side.”
Zoe protested, "But my side is the best to face the assassin head-on--"
"It should have made up its mind to rush into the building by now. It doesn't matter whether you can block it or not."
Zoe let out a reluctant sigh and quickly obeyed Victoria's order.
"And Theresa, please leave the basement immediately. It seems we no longer need to implement the fourth plan... You go to Endai's side."
"receive."
"Attention, all personnel, make sure you have reached your respective escape points within thirty seconds. I don't want to see anyone injured or killed due to accidents."
"receive."
…
Victoria was lurking in the forest further away. She couldn't see the assassin at the moment, but she could see the little red dot belonging to him on the electronic map.
Victoria's mood was also very complicated at the moment.
During several brief encounters, she felt that the assassins always seemed to have a subtle fraternal sympathy for the Mercury Needles.
Although the assassin showed inhuman cruelty when dealing with Hoffman and others, when faced with the pursuit of mercury needles, the assassin obviously exercised the greatest restraint.
This extremely difficult opponent almost never retaliated against the mercury needle's attack head-on - except for Avinash, the assassin seemed to be accustomed to dodging, or in a taunting way, making everyone who got in the way be disgraced.
This stark difference had already caused Victoria to exclude her from the "chelate".
Of course this guy couldn't be a chelate.
But...she couldn't be Mercury Needle. There was no such character in Mercury Needle, Victoria was sure of it.
If she hadn't met in this way, she really wanted to walk up to this person and ask her face to face: Who are you? Where are you from Where are you going?
I don’t know what answer the face behind the mask will give.
The reply from the companions came from the earphones. They had all arrived at the back of the Golden Crow Palace. When the assassin rushed towards them, they would leave here as quickly as possible.
Everyone took off their headphones, stared closely at the little red dot belonging to the assassin on the screen, and prepared to escape.
The night became quiet again, leaving only the low howling of the wind——
"It's now!"
The little red dots began to move, and all the mercury needles shot out from the roof of the Golden Crow Palace in the same direction like arrows. Everyone used their fastest speed——
There was a loud noise, deafening.
It exploded suddenly, and this violent explosion quickly solidified all the wind-like souls. All the houses, wooden sheds, abandoned inns in the wilderness... all collapsed quickly under the huge shock wave.
Thick black smoke rose from the ground and gradually floated to an altitude of more than ten meters, with a pungent burnt smell lingering in the air.
The explosion directly ignited the buildings and firewood within one kilometer, and the blazing flames engulfed everything behind them, making the entire Golden Crow Palace dazzling, like a real sun.
After arriving at a safe area several kilometers away, everyone's first reaction is to look for the assassin on the screen - whether it is the chelate or themselves, everyone has a common weakness:
Unable to withstand high temperatures
No one could survive the 2947°C temperature at the center of the explosion.
On the map, the activity coordinates belonging to the assassin had disappeared, and its last location stayed at the Golden Crow Palace.
In the joy of surviving a catastrophe, the mercury needles leaned back and collapsed to the ground. They were all too tired to give each other high fives.
Looking at the fire and smoke of the Golden Crow Palace again, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
In the distance, dawn appeared on the horizon.
All this should be over.
…
In the early morning, as the investigation of the subsequent battlefield continued, another thing that exceeded everyone's expectations happened: a large-scale circuit collapse occurred in Tanyi City, and all communications were cut off.
At first, the military thought it was an electronic bombing from an unknown party, but then they received an explanation from the AHgAs headquarters about Victoria's team's actions in the Golden Crow Palace last night - this was a planned combat action by the Mercury Needles, so there was no need to make a fuss. .
In addition, the bomb used at the scene did not contain an electromagnetic bomb, so it was impossible to cause an electric shock. There should be another reason for the power outage.
Staff from the city hall were dispatched urgently and went directly to each block with communications cut off to inform residents that the explosion last night came from the normal activities of AHgAs and had nothing to do with the power outage. The cause of the power outage is still under investigation. Tan Yi is safe and has no injuries. was attacked.
Tan Yi is indeed safe.
The large number of woods near the Golden Crow Palace offset most of the impact very well. The explosion itself did not cause actual damage to the urban area of Tanyi, and the residents in the area of Cleye Farm had long been evacuated by AHgAs... No matter from which point of view, this It's all a beautiful battle.
Crisp, neat, and fatal in one move.
