Qi Jingyu's expression changed.
He turned to issue an order to his bodyguards to investigate the situation.
The next moment.
Several soldiers from the Snowwind Mercenary Corps, clad in exoskeleton armor, kicked open the door.
They stormed into the command room.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Without offering any chance for conversation,
The intruding soldiers opened fire mercilessly.
Qi Jingyu grunted in pain as a bullet pierced his forehead.
His body collapsed in front of the command room's screen in defiance.
Within seconds.
The exoskeleton-armored soldiers who had massacred everyone in the room
Stepped in front of the camera.
They locked eyes with Su Wu.
Then, they reached out and shut down all the power.
Half an hour later.
The Snowwind Mercenary Corps, through the 1st Official Shelter's broadcasting channel,
Announced that they had successfully decapitated all the high-ranking officials of Jianghe City, including the head of the 1st Official Shelter, Bai Rui'an.
From this moment onward,
They would begin taking control of the entire governance of Jianghe City.
"All shelters that try to resist to the end,"
"Will be subjected to the harshest purging."
The broadcast ended with a cold, murderous warning from the Snowwind Mercenary Corps' supreme commander, Lan Yu.
This iron-willed commander
Had already proven with his actions at the 4th Official Shelter that his threats were not empty words.
He truly had the power and resolve to annihilate any shelter that resisted.
The events at the 1st Official Shelter, and the announcement from the Snowwind Mercenary Corps,
Set the entire Jianghe City into chaos in an instant.
Not only did the 1st Official Shelter fall into deep disarray due to the loss of its leadership,
But civilian shelters also erupted into widespread panic.
All shelter leaders who could contact Su Wu
Could not help but send messages to him,
Trying to probe his stance and gain the latest information from him.
After the fall of the Official Shelter,
Su Wu had become the largest remaining force in Jianghe City.
With everyone lost and uncertain, their first instinct was to turn toward Su Wu.
In the underground control center of the farmhouse courtyard,
Su Wu did not respond to any messages.
He sat quietly in front of the console.
His gaze fixed on the open map of Jianghe City on the screen.
Tens of thousands of green dots
Were rapidly moving toward the vicinity of the 4th Official Shelter.
These dots represented the mechanical army of heavy-duty main battle spider robots and standard spider robots,
The primary military force under Su Wu's command.
As the ruler of a shelter with reconnaissance equipment spread across the city,
Su Wu perhaps had the clearest view of the entire situation in Jianghe City, other than the Snowwind Mercenary Corps' upper brass.
Though the Snowwind Mercenary Corps' infiltration of the 1st Official Shelter, eliminating its leadership, was shocking,
In reality,
Only a small number of forces were capable of such infiltration.
Their main force,
Was still stationed near the surface of the 4th Official Shelter.
As long as the main force was destroyed, the rest would not pose a significant threat.
On the side of the map on the screen,
The previously bustling online joint command room now seemed somewhat empty.
Still operational,
But with all the senior officials of the military having been wiped out,
Only Su Wu remained with the authority to issue commands through the joint command room.
In other words,
Su Wu now temporarily held the highest command of the surface-based official security forces.
From this point onward, as long as he wished,
The war could continue,
And would not stop due to the fall of the 1st Official Shelter.
A new communication request appeared on the screen.
The request was from the supreme commander of the Snowwind Mercenary Corps.
Su Wu pondered for a moment,
Then rejected the communication request.
There was nothing to discuss.
Since the moment the Snowwind Mercenary Corps wiped out the leadership of the Official Shelter,
They had already crossed into a state of extreme opposition with him.
The Snowwind Mercenary Corps
Could not, after securing such an absolute advantage,
Allow any force to share the benefits of Jianghe City.
And Su Wu,
Had no intention of sharing Jianghe City's resources with these outsiders.
The fall of the Official Shelter's leadership
Had also released the shackles on his own mind,
And he could not help but feel an urge to act.
Since Jianghe City was now without a ruler,
Why couldn't he be the next one?
"The Snowwind Mercenary Corps dispatched a special forces team to infiltrate the 1st Official Shelter,"
"Executing a decapitation strategy against our high-ranking officials."
"Now, in the name of the Jianghe City Joint Combat Command Room,"
"I order all shelters in Jianghe City to reinforce their defenses."
"Everything else,"
"Will be dealt with once the Joint Combat Command has wiped out the Snowwind Mercenary Corps' main force on the surface."
As all the mechanical units got into position,
Su Wu, for the first time in the name of the Joint Combat Command Room, issued a response announcement.
The announcement did not carry much weight,
But it was enough to temporarily stabilize the morale.
It allowed those areas of the Official Shelter that had not yet fallen to restore some order,
Preventing them from immediately siding with the Snowwind Mercenary Corps.
And for Su Wu, that was sufficient.
The rest would depend entirely on the results of the battlefield.
On the surface,
The 4th Official Shelter area, still burning,
The Snowwind Mercenary Corps' main force, which had just pulled back from battle,
Heard the shrill alarm of the early warning radar.
They were forced to drag their weary, injured bodies,
Reattaching their exoskeletons and rushing to their assigned combat positions.
"Those rookies, still have the courage to come at us now?"
An old soldier was somewhat puzzled.
It felt like overreacting.
Most of their casualties had come from the enemy's heavy weapon bombardment.
In actual hand-to-hand combat,
The enemy had given him the impression of nothing but a bunch of rookies.
He could take them all on himself.
"They say the opponent's changed."
"This time, it's all robots."
"Just like those robots that were almost wiped out before."
The old soldier's commander had a serious expression,
His concerns much heavier than his subordinate's casualness.
"How many?"
The soldier's expression changed,
He felt the pain in his arm, which had been injured by the robots' electromagnetic guns.
"Lots."
"Maybe ten times as many."
The commander wasn't quite sur
e himself,
Only making a vague guess.
And soon,
What appeared in their view was an overwhelming mechanical army,
Shattering their previous assumptions.
It wasn't ten times,
But at least thirty times that many.
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