The sun had fallen powerlessly into the ground several hours ago. The starlight and moon were hidden behind thick clouds and pollution clouds. The light from stars hundreds of years ago and the reflected moonlight could not penetrate the thick clouds. Deep darkness enveloped the entire sky, like a curtain of pure black. The Mechanical City ushered in its first night without Sibylla's management and at the same time suffered an invasion by the rebels.
Various infrastructure failures caused by Sibylla's downtime have been repaired by logistics technicians and engineering robots not under Sibyllah's jurisdiction. Although the public network and anthropomorphic housekeepers are still under Sibyllah's control, they have been replaced by manual operations. was down and inaccessible, but basic functions such as public transportation and urban emergency power supply and water supply have been restored to normal due to the efforts of emergency repair personnel.
The city is lit up with little lights, but because it is a state of emergency and the power plant outside the city has been destroyed by resistance forces, every household can only maintain a minimum power supply. Those used for decoration in the past The dazzling neon lights have been turned off, making this mechanical city less dreamy and more lively with thousands of lights gradually lighting up.
But only the southern part of the city still maintained an incongruous darkness.
It was still an enemy-occupied area. The battle there had lasted for nearly ten hours since the automatic turrets joined the battlefield, and there was still no sign of an end.
The streets and alleys in Chengnan District not only did not calm down as night fell, but instead became more intense. The sound of intensive machine gun fire continued. From time to time, there would be traces of fire across the sky, the sound of flying grenades and rockets, Explosions sounded one after another in the quiet and dark southern district of the city, and could be heard clearly for several blocks.
In the darkness, lives disappear silently every moment. The automatic turret is a ruthless, precise and efficient killer. Every time it fires, it exists to destroy the enemy, even in an environment that is close to complete darkness. Next, it also has other ways to lock on to the target and accurately kill every target enemy it locks on.
Of course, the results achieved by the rebels are not bad. After paying a relatively huge price in terms of troops, there are very few automatic turrets left in Chengnan District. Chengnan District will soon fall completely under the control of the rebel forces. middle.
In addition to the remaining rebel troops who initially entered the city, more victims were buried silently in this darkness.
Every life was squeezed out of its last value under Sanming's precise calculations. She used Dr. Hyde's hand to eradicate the uncontrolled thorny troops in the Tekkadan who were recruited from other resistance forces. They were on the front line. They exchanged their lives for precious information, and the subsequent reinforcements sent to the front line to die even consumed the number of automatic turrets. But unfortunately, they unfortunately failed to persist until the end, and most of them died on the battlefield. Only A few defeated soldiers who had become useless survived.
Of course, their deaths were also meaningful. At least their deaths inspired the resistance forces to resolutely resist, and also allowed the smart people who had made a lot of profits from this purge to put away their small calculations.
Perhaps the vast majority of the unlucky ones who were sent to the front line would not know that they died because of the friendly calculations until they died. They would only think that this was the backhand and trap of the tyrant Hyde. What is even more unexpected is that this calculation had already begun during the Purge. It starts to show up during exercise. While these thorny troops were still complacent that Sanming was afraid of the power in their hands and did not dare to weaken their power and could only turn to internal fighting, little did they know that Sanming had already decided the time for their exit. .
In the headquarters, the staff were giving orders intensively. The mixed troops stationed outside the city who had been waiting for a long time finally received the order to attack, and they began to move under the cover of night.
The roaring engines of the armored forces broke the silence of the night. These armored vehicles, which looked like they were patchworked together from scrap metal, rolled over the fragile ground of the streets. Personnel carriers loaded with soldiers drove on the quiet streets. Those who arrived six hours later than the original time and were stuck on the high ground for a long time were unable to come down the mountain. The four-legged mechanical units known as Dragon Knights also followed the large troops and pushed into the city.
Tower of Babel, seventy-seventh floor.
The southern part of the city on the projected map has been completely painted red, and the last few statues symbolize the
The light spot of the automatic turret was attacked by a large number of rebel troops, including several icons representing armored units. The turret persisted for less than ten minutes under the siege with a huge difference in firepower. The icon representing the automatic turret The light spot flickered for a few times and was replaced by the destruction mark.
In the area occupied by the rebels in the south of the city, there were no more light spots symbolizing turrets, and all automatic turrets that went into battle were wiped out.
Looking at the silent Chengnan District, Hyde couldn't help but sigh: The rebels had completely taken over Chengnan, and it seemed that the other side had decided to officially take action.
Johnson also nodded in agreement with a serious look on his face: It can be seen that they learned lessons and changed tactics very quickly. They were able to quickly find loopholes in the terrain and turret layout, and develop targeted tactics.
Although the combat effectiveness of the automatic defense system in street fighting is unmatched by the rebels, the military qualities displayed by the rebels in these more than ten hours of high-intensity fighting are not free of charge, even if they exclude dissidents , the reason for deliberately taking human lives to consume the automatic turrets existed. The military quality demonstrated by the resistance army and the staff group behind them was still so high that he was a little surprised.
This can be seen in the annihilation battle of the last few turrets. The artillery fired electromagnetic interference bombs to block the detection components of the automatic turrets. The snipers clicked off the street surveillance probes to prevent Hyde from manually taking over the turrets to carry out counterattacks with the help of the surveillance probes' field of view. The armored units advanced by virtue of their not-so-obvious armor advantage. The infantry units followed the armored vehicles and advanced steadily, encircling them and not giving the automatic turrets a chance to reload and dissipate. They pulled out the automatic turrets one by one.
They have figured out whether the automatic turret is the weak point of the entire automatic defense system, and have begun to conduct targeted operations.
Hyde closed the small map of the southern area of the city, picked up the cold coffee on the table and drank it in one gulp: I have a hunch that the automatic defense system will be difficult to have any effect next, and the speed of the resistance will further accelerate. , and approaching the Tower of Babel. If the opponent is a madman who is good at gambling, he will even send a beheading force to sneak into the Tower of Babel to assassinate me before steadily advancing to the surrounding area.
From now on, my life is in danger.
Although he said this, there was no tension in his tone at all, as if he was telling a trivial matter.
Seeing how calm he was, Johnson couldn't help but wonder: Do you have any trump cards hidden? Just wait for them to make a shocking reversal when they come to kill you, and then satisfy your evil taste?
If there was a way to reverse the resistance's advantage in one fell swoop, I would have used it from the beginning. Compared with my bad taste, the lives of the whole city are more important. Dr. Hyde turned his head and looked at the ministers of each department who were working nervously and quietly: What is the progress of the work of each department so far?
All people in the Chengnan District emergency shelter had been evacuated three hours ago, and residents in the battlefield area are being evacuated first. Residents in the secondary area that will soon become the battlefield are currently being evacuated from the third ring area to the second ring area due to overloaded public transportation. Sixty percent, 40% of the city's residents have been evacuated. Although public transportation is at full capacity, our transportation capacity is far from keeping up with demand.
There is a big gap in construction support. We have found many construction robots that can still be used. With the help of workers and technicians, we have stockpiles of quick-construction materials and daily emergency supplies. Although we can build temporary residences in a short time, the scale is not high enough. I'm afraid it's not very optimistic to accommodate the whole city.
The front line has used damaged automatic vehicles and automatic turrets to set up roadblocks. With the cooperation of the two, we should be able to buy a lot of time.
The power supply is not optimistic. The bad news is that after the automatic defense system is activated, it may be difficult to rely on the power generation facilities and batteries in the city to survive until the next day. It is expected to be in a power outage at dawn. The good news is that the rebels have no air superiority. The Dyson cloud generator set floating high in the sky was not damaged. As long as the sun rises and the generator set starts operating, it can restart the power supply in various regions.
Food security is normal. Fortunately, there are sufficient strategic reserves to cope with various situations. We only rely on supplies from nearby storage warehouses to ensure that the entire city has enough to eat and drink three meals a day for a year.
Hyde listened carefully to the reports of the ministers. Just when he was about to answer, he felt a sharp pain in his head, as if someone took out a drill and drilled open his skull and dug a hole in his brain. The continuous whispers also suddenly increased in volume. The chaotic noise and the sudden increase in the amount of information made him unable to think. His eyes became blank, and his body staggered and almost fell down.
PhD? !
Hyde!
The ministers of various ministries screamed when they saw Hyde suddenly covering his head, staggering and almost falling, and Johnson quickly stepped forward and supported Hyde's shaky body.
After I was supported and rested on the chair for more than ten minutes, Hyde gradually recovered. His head was still throbbing as if he was being pricked by needles, but he still took a few deep breaths to suppress the pain. He forced a smile to comfort everyone and said: It's just that I'm a little tired from using my brain intensively for more than ten hours in a row.
Before they finished speaking, everyone felt that the ground under their feet was shaking violently like an earthquake. With a thunderous rumble, the cups on the table fell to the ground with violent shaking. Before he could realize what was happening, a sharp and piercing alarm suddenly sounded, and at the same time, the guard's urgent and surprised exclamation also rang through the entire building through the radio!
PhD! Enemy invasion! Enemies have invaded the Tower of Babel! Repeat it again! Someone has invaded!
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