Hansen sat in his seat, his prosthetics wildly dissipating heat, steam billowing everywhere—
For the Big Brother Trio, this mission was indeed as simple as a field trip, but not so for them:
The Black Wall bomb was truly impressive, instantly crippling the enemy’s command system, with half the soldiers losing combat capability on the spot, but there’s still the other half—no matter how you look at it, they’re still people, holding military weapons, people who can pull the trigger.
Even so, it was still a major victory: not a single one of their side was killed, at most, just so unlucky fellow who lost half his body—
If this were Military Technology, it would be almost the sa as being dead, since the company wouldn’t keep dead weight, but in Night City, Prosthetic Technology would help him get back on track; Lille never had a habit of abandoning his own people.
Yorinobu was passionately explaining to Lille in great detail how they did it:
"Once the attack order was issued, we directly activated the Black Wall bomb. The entire vanguard of New Arica was paralyzed. Their people either caught fire on the spot or were as dull as fools, with cars out of control and machines crashing down, we just broke through their lines and went straight to the city..."
"The city was full of their people, but our floating car was incredible! We suppressed them from the air, beating them so they couldn’t lift their heads!"
"With the cover of gunfire, we started descending, and this equipnt... this equipnt is just too powerful, we busted in from the tops of buildings, stord from the outer walls, they had no ti to react!"
"They thought the buildings could provide them shelter, but for us, they were practically undefended!"
"I took down every Southern California official hiding in the buildings!"
Upon seeing Lille co in, Hansen took a puff of an inhalable recovery pharmaceutical, stood up straight, and seriously said, "Actually, not all, but it’s enough.
The troops I led broke through the military base, all the personal weapons, vehicles, and exoskeletons inside were distributed to the locals. I brought back so brand new ACPA armors and fuel from the warehouse... just take a look at the list, there’s a lot of stuff.
Those mobs in Southern California are rioting as if they have nothing to lose, seems like Los Angeles is already dood.
How do you plan to control the order?"
Lille glanced at the list of spoils: Hansen brought back 50 sets of ACPA armors, these armors are almost the pinnacle of modern infantry, their protection and firepower are top-notch.
Night City doesn’t lack the technology to produce, it just lacks the capacity, and it seems like Hansen figured he could seize so.
In addition, Hansen also managed to swipe the locally stationed Magic Lizard Tanks and armored vehicles with the help of the Lark, even including a Chira tank—
At this very mont, several Mackinaw Floating Shados are hauling this stuff to the underground base.
As for the other things that Night City can produce, they were basically handed out to the locals: the companies in Los Angeles are going to suffer. Most people in this world are barely surviving on the subsistence line, and the recent unrest has made it even harder for many to just get by...
Under such circumstances, looting and rioting are instinctual.
Of course, this is bound to be a brutal process, nearly half of the United States would be covered in chaos, and many people will die...
The good news is that those rioting know who handed them the weapons, they know who gave them this opportunity, in the early chaos, such idol-like moral restraint can sowhat mitigate the robberies against ordinary people.
However, this can’t last too long.
Just as Hansen finished asking, Lille said, "Continue producing intercontinental missiles, this batch of goods will allow the production of about 4 more intercontinental missiles of the sa scale, test data looks good, next ti, we’ll directly strike Washington.
The remaining materials will be used to add a nuclear reactor to the underground city, and we’ll continue expanding the underground space."
The so-called "underground space" is increasingly resembling a small underground tropolis.
The underground city originally had a nuclear reactor, but at other tis relied on thanol-2 fuel reserves, solar, and wind power for electricity.
Solar and wind power are stored up in batteries and transported to the distribution stations as backup energy sources, which will almost imdiately be cut off in case of war.
Regarding thermal power generation, Lille brought back genetic editing technology for thanol-2 wheat from Europe, and is gradually restoring agriculture, with nurous vertical farms in the underground city, but if war breaks out, surface farms will all be useless.
And underground there is no sunlight, unless Lille can get a crop that grows by absorbing radiation, otherwise by then agriculture that depends on the underground city’s energy for developnt will have to fully focus on food production.
The good news is, the nuclear fuel Lille brought back this ti can start another nuclear reactor, aning as long as they control ti underground, they won’t face an energy shortage temporarily...
Moreover, cross-dinsional production will reduce energy consumption and increase production efficiency, indicating that two nuclear reactors can support more industries.
Once Lille confird all these circumstances, the Illuminati started sorting information per social division and delivering it to the prosthetic systems of people of various groups.
Once work tasks were issued, the excitent imdiately cooled down, not that their mood turned bad, but because they knew they were heading for a greater victory—
However, so remained vigilant, Hansen raised his head after reading and asked Lille a question:
"When do you think Europe will... make a move?"
When will it be?
Strategically predicting the future is based on the capability to gather information. Night City has no satellites, not to ntion colonies on the Moon, and all battlefields Lille has engaged in share a serious problem:
The vast ocean of the masses is powerful but difficult to send out well-trained spies and agents, or rather, so far, the situation hasn’t allowed Lille the opportunity and event to do this.
As for those big shots in the European Space Agency, Lille has never even seen them in person.
So the answer is: Lille is also unsure.
He can only speculate.
"After the missile launch, I’ve already prepared a priority for refuge notification and issued the first batch of migration orders—" Lille paused, "From the mont we launch the intercontinental missile, every mont, we must be ready to be struck by a teor the next second..."
A reasonable answer, neither exaggerated nor boastful, though not the kind that inspires morale, it certainly brought Hansen so comfort...
He couldn’t even figure out why he felt reassured, so he laughed to himself: because it should indeed be this way.
He didn’t notice that Lille paused for a brief mont.
[Illuminati: Munemasa detected a teor.]
[Illuminati: Preliminary calculations show impact in 3 minutes, Munemasa is performing the final round of calculations.]
Lille suddenly changed his tone, "In three minutes, teor impact."
"Huh?"
Hansen was startled for a mont, and then the alarm systems of the entire underground city, the whole of Night City blared!
The sudden upheaval left those who hadn’t completely erged from the joy of victory with their brains crashing on the spot—
teor strike in three minutes!
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