Chapter 992: War Under the High Wall

Heavy breathing echoed in the silent corridor, and the young officer stared blankly at the old man's profile drinking tea.

The old man didn't seem to be surprised at all by what happened at this moment. He just sat there quietly, as if the director of fate had arranged the ending of this moment from the beginning.

Bang bang bang——

There were rapid footsteps from the other side of the corridor.

The young officer raised his head and saw Meade running this way.

At this moment, the old man in the office also put the black tea in his hand back on the tray, gently closed the book in his hand, and stood up slowly.

"Mr. Lynn."

The young officer raised his head and looked at He Ao, who had already walked to the door with a book.

His eyes subconsciously glanced at the book in He Ao's hand, and landed on the title - "Lost City-States in the Catastrophic Era - Archaeological Record of the Relics in the Central Federation".

"Um,"

He Ao glanced at the young officer in front of him, smiled and nodded, then he looked at Meade who had already run over, glanced at the two of them, and said quickly, "Pass my order to assemble the troops near the North City command center and activate Defense system on the inside of the high wall, our General Scott should be arriving soon, he should be very anxious now, we have to lower his fire."

Meade and the young officer paused at the same time, immediately put their hands across their chests, stood up straight and performed a military salute, "Yes! Commander!"

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Wick

"General, there is no gunfire on the high wall,"

The long-haired officer's projection appeared on the floating fighter console. He looked up and looked ahead. "The mercenary group of Copes Mining has not started to attack the city yet. We still have time."

"When does the General Staff estimate that Copes Mining will be able to reach outside the high wall?"

Scott lowered his head and asked hoarsely.

"About this time,"

The long-haired officer paused slightly, "If they were fast, they should have started to attack the city by now. However, we did not see the artillery fire of the siege. It is also possible that they were delayed for something. After all, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and we also It’s unclear exactly what will happen.”

"Um."

Scott raised his head and glanced at the sky. The thick clouds had slowly come down, and there were scattered raindrops hitting the windows of the floating fighter. He seemed to have thought of something, and chuckled, "Maybe they are here." Wait until the city opens itself."

"General, what do you mean?"

The long-haired officer was a little confused.

"None of that matters now,"

Scott shook his head and looked at the long-haired officer, "Allow the entire army to be on alert. We will enter the combat area immediately. Once a battle starts in our city, the Copes mercenary group outside the city will definitely notice something is wrong and start to attack the city. We don't have much time. , we must capture and deal with Linn before the Copes mercenary group."

"Yes! General!"

The long-haired officer immediately performed a military salute, then he paused and asked hesitantly, "General, can those consortiums really be trusted?"

"Whether they can be trusted or not, there is no turning back,"

Scott stood up straight and looked up at the high wall towering in the darkness ahead, "In this world, risks and benefits have always coexisted. I really like a sentence I saw in the classics of the Cataclysm Era,"

He spoke calmly and slowly, letting the raindrops hit the windows of the floating fighter plane.

"Those who steal hooks will be punished, and those who steal the country will be made princes."

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The patter of raindrops passed through the abandoned buildings. The aerial fighter plane had its back against the Beicheng Command Center building in the distance and hovered directly above a silent old building.

The old man in a silver-gray suit jumped from the floating fighter plane and stepped on a pool of water on the top of the building, causing a splash of water to bloom.

The young officer jumped down following He Ao's footsteps and looked around with some confusion.

Soon, his eyes fell on a large antenna not far away, "Is this a military signal receiver?"

He turned back and looked at He Ao, "Mr. Linn, where is this?"

"Missile silo."

He Ao replied casually, raised his eyes, glanced at the dense lights that were quickly approaching the high wall in the rain curtain in the distance, and walked towards the locked rusty door on the rooftop.

"Missile silo?"

The young officer was stunned and quickly chased He Ao.

At this time, He Ao had already opened the rusty door with a bang, walked into the stairwell behind the iron door, and walked slowly down the spiral staircase.

The young officer quickly pulled out his gun and chased after him. He followed He Ao and walked around the stairs twice, and found that the old brick walls around him were gradually transformed into exquisite new steel structures.

Immediately afterwards, a control platform appeared in his field of vision.

"who?"

A group of soldiers guarding the control station seemed to hear their footsteps. They raised their guns, pointed them in the direction of the stairs, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Mr. Lynn! Be careful!"

The young officer couldn't help shouting.

However, before his voice fell, he saw the old man moving forward slowly, passing through the sudden rain of bullets. At the same time, bright red flowers bloomed on the chests of the garrison soldiers almost at the same time.

Bang bang bang——

Accompanied by the muffled sound of corpses falling to the ground, the entire platform fell silent again, leaving only the echo of the young officer's shout in the empty space disturbing the night.

The old man was already holding his cane and calmly passed through the surrounding corpses and arrived at the control console on the other side of the platform.

The young officer patted his head, took a breath, ran down the stairs and chased after him.

He almost forgot that this was the mayor who single-handedly defeated the entire elite force remaining in North City. Just because he was old didn't mean he couldn't handle a knife.

While moving forward, the young officer also glanced at the corpses of the surrounding guards. Judging from their uniforms, these guards belonged to the most elite first brigade that was transferred by Scott.

Why are there soldiers from the First Brigade here...

He raised his head and looked to the side.

Only then did he realize that the entire 'abandoned building' they were in had been opened vertically, forming a deep 'well'. Countless steel structures clung to the walls, supporting the entire abandoned building. stand up.

The platform he is standing on now is the only platform in this abandoned building that has been opened up.

He walked to the edge of the platform and looked down. At the bottom of the 'deep well', pitch-black high-energy guided missiles with their signs erased appeared in his field of vision.

He swallowed, left the edge of the platform, walked to He Ao, and looked at the control console in front of He Ao, "Mr. Linn, is this a missile base built privately by Scott?"

"Um."

He Ao nodded slightly and quickly operated the console.

The system of this missile base is relatively simple and does not have an accurate auxiliary guidance system. Scott did not install these and directly used Beicheng's auxiliary guidance system.

In this way, the guidance part of this base must be connected to Beicheng's main system. Scott played a trick and disguised this missile base as within the authority of a formal missile formation. At first glance, there was no problem. .

But this could not be hidden from Eve. She quickly checked out the signal of the missile base and controlled the control system of the missile base through the connection with Beicheng.

However, I don’t know if Scott has considered this situation. The control system version of this base is relatively simple. It can only manually control the launch of missiles, but cannot directly launch them through the intelligent system.

So someone still has to clean this place up.

"Are there any other guards here?"

Seeing that He Ao seemed busy, the young officer held his gun, looked left and right, and said warily.

"No, Scott only left a team of people here."

He Ao replied casually.

There is surveillance in this base. When Eve controlled the main control system, she also checked all the surveillance and figured out all the structures and personnel of the building.

While speaking, He Ao had already raised his hand and pressed the mechanical buttons one by one to put all the missiles into the ready-to-launch state.

This missile base had already fired most of the missiles last time, leaving only seven missiles, one of which had a damaged warhead.

Accompanied by violent mechanical sounds, pitch-black missiles with a diameter of two to three meters were slowly lifted up by mechanical arms extending from the surrounding steel frame.

He Ao turned his head and looked at the dark missiles.

The dark paint on these missiles is not only to erase serial numbers, but is also a light invisible paint that can shield radar detection to a certain extent.

At this time, He Ao seemed to suddenly remember something and looked at the young officer behind him.

But before he could speak, his bracelet vibrated, and a voice communication request was sent.

He glanced at the contact marked 'Lense' displayed on the bracelet, then lightly touched the earphones, "Eve, help me block out the ambient sound."

Then he raised his hand and chose to connect.

"How is Mayor Linn's situation lately? I heard that you have now taken control of North City?"

A slightly smiling voice sounded in He Ao's ears.

"You are quite well informed,"

He Ao answered casually, "So you called to congratulate me?"

"Of course, I must first congratulate Mayor Lynn and give Mayor Lynn some 'little reminders'."

Renser on the other end of the phone smiled and said, "Mayor Linn, you are a very capable person. You have also seen the current situation. There are people from the Copes mercenary group outside the city, and there are people from Scott's inside the city. Rebels, even if you control Beicheng, you will only be crushed under such a front."

He paused and continued to smile,

"But our Nord Bank is very talented. As long as you surrender now, I can convince Scott not to kill you.

"The conditions I offered you before are still valid, cash and equity worth one billion federal coins, the opportunity to be promoted to B-level, and a bright future for your daughter.

“Countless people in this world want these things, and now you can get them easily with just a nod of your head.

"Mr. Linn, I think this is your last chance. Although we Nolde have enough patience, it is obvious that the Copes Mercenary Group and Scott do not have that much patience.

"Survival or death, it all depends on your thoughts."

"Well, your conditions do attract me."

He Ao laughed slowly.

"So, you..."

The other end of the phone also smiled.

"but,"

He Ao lowered his head and glanced at the ruby ​​​​on the cane, "I prefer to control my destiny in my own hands."

The smile on the other side of the phone froze, "Mr. Lin En is still so confident. I hope you won't regret it when the army breaks through the city."

"Then I'll wait and see."

He Aowen smiled and hung up the phone.

"The call background sound is being analyzed, the human voice is being weakened, and the call background sound is being restored."

When He Ao hung up, Eve's voice also rang in He Ao's ears.

For a moment, the sound of raindrops hitting the window, the honking of cars, the noise of the crowd, the vendors' broadcasts, blurry outdoor advertisements, the shouts of drinkers, the noisy dance music in the bar, and the slight sound of gunfire in the distance echoed. He Ao's ears.

It seems that the calling software used by Rense is very good. When making a call, even with Heao's hearing, he can only hear human voices and a bunch of tiny noises.

In the city, there is the sound of cannons in the distance, probably from Nancheng. The only people fighting outside the city are probably Yilan City.

Rense should be in Yilan City now.

The rain was caused by He Ao using extraordinary items, and the coverage area was limited, just near the north gate.

"The possible location of the caller has been determined through background sounds."

While He Ao was thinking, Eve's voice also rang in He Ao's ears.

He lowered his head and glanced at the address Eve sent. It was a bar, not far from the North City Command Center.

It seems that Mr. Renser is quite confident.

"Mr. Linn, there is news from Deputy Commander Meade,"

The young officer on the side raised his head holding the bracelet and looked at He Ao, "Scott's army has arrived at the abandoned buildings outside the North City Command Center and is confronting our army."

"Um,"

He Ao nodded slightly and looked at the young officer aside, "Are you in charge of the most elite mecha unit now?"

"Yes, that mecha team is on standby not far from us. It is specially designed to protect you,"

The young officer nodded and looked at He Ao doubtfully, "Do you need anything?"

"Give me a mecha."

He Ao looked at the missiles ready to be launched.

"Can you pilot a mecha?"

The young officer's eyes widened.

"I know a little."

He Ao raised his cane and said slowly.

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Beicheng Command Center

Under the scattered rain curtain, standing in the floating fighter plane, Scott looked at the densely packed army below, as well as the high wall and command building behind the army, and took a deep breath.

"General,"

At this time, the projection of the long-haired officer also appeared on the console, "Do I need to send a broadcast to ask them to surrender?"

"Need not,"

Scott shook his head, "Lynn will not surrender. If he wants to surrender, he has surrendered long ago. Only a fool would still think that he will surrender now."

In fact, in the previous year, he looked down on the new mayor named Lin En, even though the other party allocated a lot of extra military funds to him in an attempt to win him over.

He never thought that he would change his mind about the mayor in just a day or two.

Only in the raging fire can you reveal who is the true gold.

"Our old mayor is a heroic figure. Only the flames of war are the best respect for him,"

He raised his hand and pressed the army communication button himself, "The entire army is ready, attack!"