166: Chapter 86: Ambush 166: Chapter 86: Ambush Daijiu Tai’a leaned his left hand against the wall, seemingly lost in thought.
anwhile, Secretary Officer Ming Jing repeatedly urged him to hurry back to the guest room to take refuge.
After a mont, Daijiu Tai’a finally spoke slowly, “This won’t do.”
“What?”
“I can’t just wait here.” Daijiu Tai’a said, “I request to join in the defense.”
“Ah?” The request stunned the Secretary Officer.
He whispered, “Mr.
Tai’a, I’m afraid this doesn’t align with our original intent.
You are the Captain’s guest; we are responsible for protecting you…”
“You are responsible for defending the Scientific Knight Order!” Daijiu Tai’a emphasized, “You don’t serve a specific Scientific Knight but dedicate yourselves to the truth— it’s just that Scientific Knights happen to be seekers of truth.”
“Now that the Mona Knight Order is in danger, you should go do what you’re supposed to do!”
The Secretary Officer said, “But what I am supposed to do is to protect you!
If sothing were to happen to you in this building, we couldn’t bear the responsibility.”
“You underestimate ,” Daijiu Tai’a swiftly adjusted paraters to make his tone sound just the right amount of “arrogant” and “proud,” “I am not so bookworm holed up in an ivory tower.
The Oslo Knight Order has had a glorious tradition of field research from the start.
My prosthetic body possesses enough martial power.
I have even faced off against well-known heroes in Jianghu.”
“But…” the Secretary Officer hesitated.
Daijiu Tai’a said, “The person you truly serve must also be in danger, right?
The seven hundred and thirties…
I rember you ntioning he is probably around that area?”
The Secretary Officer was slightly confused.
He seed to have no recollection of this, yet his mind couldn’t grasp this point and instead turned in another direction, “Indeed, I’m not a formal Civilization Protector and can only stand my ground here by relying on the young master.
However, if I were to go against Vice Captain Bengel’s command now, I would…”
“Then report to Mr.
Bengel,” Daijiu Tai’a said, “Tell Mr.
Bengel it’s my suggestion.”
The Secretary Officer hesitated for a mont, then nodded and closed his eyes—or to be more accurate, the protective structure over his prosthetic eye, temporarily blocking visual signals.
A mont later, a communication request popped up in Daijiu Tai’a’s field of view.
Bengel’s virtual image appeared before Daijiu Tai’a.
“Mr.
Tai’a,” Bengel said, “I am very grateful for your offer of friendship at this ti, but please trust in our defensive forces.”
“Mr.
Bengel, you should also be aware of a common sense— heroes do not advocate for suicidal attacks.
A hero infiltrating here indicates that he most likely has the confidence to achieve a certain goal…”
“But often, they are limited by intelligence and due to ‘adventurism’, they develop plans that exceed their own strength,” Mr.
Bengel shrugged, “It’s common for heroes to fail.”
“But we can’t expect heroes to fail every ti,” Daijiu Tai’a said, “I cannot accept the current situation—staying here and splitting a portion of the defense force to guard .
I can’t accept that.”
“I understand the sentint…” Mr.
Bengel nodded, “Moreover, our combat power is now dispersed across different areas.
Due to the explosion erasing nearby storage devices, we lost all un-synchronized surveillance data, so we don’t know if the enemy used a remote bomb or had an accomplice detonate it.
Furthermore, we can’t be sure if they have other accomplices.
Protectors must guard every sector with care.
Your thinking makes sense.”
Daijiu Tai’a said, “So, let join you!”
“However, you are still a guest here to conduct business.
We cannot place you on the front line.”
Daijiu Tai’a said, “I understand.
But at least allow to take these protective forces with and stay with you.
That way, we can at least save so manpower.”
The greatest advantage Civilization Protectors have over heroes is the superiority of resources.
Although Protectors cannot recruit enough hands due to their rules, limiting their powerful dominance, their miscellaneous troops are still enough to crush heroes engaging in guerrilla warfare.
And the perfect counter to “external strength” just happens to be “numbers.”
After thinking for a mont, Mr.
Bengel said, “All right.
However, I hope you can co to my office.
Shall we et there?”
—The office…
I rember it’s on the seven-hundred-thirtieth floor, not far from where the incident was discovered—
This thought flashed through Daijiu Tai’a’s mind, aligning with his original plan.
He nodded and said, “Yes, that seems reasonable.”
“Let’s do that then, Mr.
Tai’a,” Mr.
Bengel ended the communication.
The Secretary Officer soon received the command too.
He said to Daijiu Tai’a, “Please, Mr.
Tai’a.”
Daijiu Tai’a nodded and asked, “According to your original expectations, how long will it take for the remaining Protector Troops in this city to arrive at this building?”
“Hmm?
Normally, the two closest barracks would need about ten minutes response ti.
However, the City Lord led away many forces in pursuit of a hero, leaving the remaining mbers to spread across several important nodes throughout the city, so…
Mr.
Tai’a, what seems to be the matter?”
Daijiu Tai’a looked out the window and pointed to the faint arc of fire on the ground, saying, “Look at that…
Do they now need more ti to reach this building?”
…………………………………
This had occurred almost simultaneously with the explosion.
The mont the explosion occurred inside the iyii Building, a command was sent from within, hopping several tis via servers, bypassing multiple zombified CPUs, and entering a row of weaponry.
This was one of the secret weapons of the ng Hand Gang, the most crucial row of tactical missiles.
The last Double-Flower Red Stick of the ng Hand Gang watched as one of these missiles activated, auto-adjusted, and then launched.
And the target, naturally, was one of the few viaducts in the city.
This viaduct connected the iyii Building with another superstructure.
And when the missile locked on, a train full of soldiers happened to erge from the other building.
That was one of the governnt’s tactics for troop dispatch.
As the missile took flight, the train was speeding along.
When the explosive part of the missile detonated and a train derailed and fell from a hundred ters in the air, Double-Flower Red Stick’s mind went blank, completely losing the ability to think.
—What is this…
why…
—Wasn’t our strategy to “hide for a while”?
—Why attack the governnt’s forces?
But clearly, he no longer had the luxury to continue pondering.
For they were instantly locked in as the new target.
More missiles launched from afar, falling towards Double-Flower Red Stick and his group.
In a sequence of explosions, the wrongdoer who had been a gangster for over a decade and a Green Forest Martial Artist for just over a day t his end.
But that was all.
Right now, only a handful of thugs had shown any sign of aggression against the governnt; thus, policymakers would not lightly saturate an entire city with missiles—this would contradict the very principles of their existence.
More units abandoned the efficient routes and instead attempted to resort to more primitive thods—naly, land travel—to reach the iyii Building.
What awaited them was an endless array of landmines, infinite landmine formations.
Under the influence of a certain Hero, the ng Hand Gang had bet everything, quickly liquidating the resources they had accumulated over the years.
Every mine and smart weapon that could be scavenged in the city had been amassed in their hands.
And under Xiang Shan’s arrangents, these weapons ford a massive circle around the iyii Building.
It was a “defensive line”.
Originally, the ng Hand Gang had issued a command to these weapons; they would only attack “Martial Artists who were clearly not mbers of the governnt”.
But then, soone with high-level clearance secretly rewrote this setting.
The smart weapons’ target beca “the governnt”.
In the first few minutes, the small governnt units rushing towards the iyii Building were wiped out in a succession of explosions.
However, the news of these troops’ demise was promptly reported.
No human brain was involved in processing this data.
The tactical AI instantly judged— the local gangs appeared to be under the control of an external force, attacking Protector forces.
They had a high probability of being connected to the invaders inside the iyii Building.
So, within that minute, all the soldiers in the city received their orders.
[Command—Priority termination of all ard society group mbers]
A Military Officer heading towards the iyii Building scratched his head, puzzled, but having undergone brain adjustnt surgery, he wasn’t inclined to dwell too much on the matter.
Since the order was given as such, then it should be executed accordingly.
The Military Officer grasped his weapon, then opened the rear gate of his vehicle—a troop carrier with more than twenty Cybern soldiers with standardized prosthetic bodies inside.
The Military Officer shouted and leaped from the armored vehicle, charging into the narrow alleys.
The ng Hand Gang were actually petrified at first—they never imagined they’d one day face the governnt.
But the madness of the past few hours had slowly eroded their reason.
Although the governnt soldiers invoked a primal fear in them, another freshly ingrained soul-deep violent pleasure compelled them to pick up their guns and kill all the “enemies” who dared to attack them!
In the process, hardly a few gang mbers even realized they should step forward and offer an explanation.
Thus, the support forces from the Scientific Knight Order imdiately got bogged down, unable to advance rapidly.
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