The sturdy cutting shears slowly rotated, constantly gnawing and grinding down the special steel wall in front of them, advancing step by step, until an outline in the shape of a door was cut open.
"Boom——"
The nearly 30-ter high special steel wall slowly fell, crashing down onto the facilities behind it, then revealed the enclosed space inside. As soon as the breach opened, one after another, detection-type Autonomous Units flew in, continually paving the way and searching. Soon after, squads of ard personnel in exoskeleton armor entered within.
Surrounding this area were heavy and extrely dense special steel structures. Even military-grade chas would take significant ti to cut through these walls, and ordinary explosives were even less likely to cause any damage.
Once inside, there were rows of huge military-industrial production equipnt on the ground. These massive processing machines, resembling semi-circles buried in the ground, stood about 50 ters tall each. Their interiors had turbine-like fan blade structures. The ard personnel walking into this production workshop were like ants moving through the realm of giants.
Luckily, these machines had already been shut down, only emitting residual heat and leftover Magic Power. One could imagine that when these devices operated at full capacity, they would roar and thunder as loudly as the heartbeat of a Giant Dragon.
'Bladeleaf·Red' Military Industrial Material Company, one of the rare military-industrial enterprises within the Saint Yingo camp, produced 'Bladeleaf Crystal Gold' with extrely high strength. It was commonly used as material for chas and certain large Starships' engine equipnt. The production process was complex, requiring 43 types of tals and crystal raw materials to be processed through 1282 procedures before finally being cast into 'Bladeleaf Crystal Gold'.
The equipnt that the ard personnel were now passing through was used to evenly fuse two kinds of crystal powders under the heat of high-concentration withering blue flas and to combine them with the appropriate catalysts, reactants, additives, etc., to form a stable special hexagonal crystal. This was one of the interdiate products in the production of 'Bladeleaf Crystal Gold'.
"We have now breached the 17th subterranean level and have yet to encounter any resistance." The commanding officer reported upwards, then his gaze fixed on the multiple projection screens in front of him, showing the scenes encountered by the forward squads breaking through in various directions.
Five days had passed since the previous full Star Domain announcent, and the majority of the enterprises and companies involved had already been sealed. Now, only a handful of companies had not yet been fully controlled, and 'Bladeleaf·Red' Military Industrial Material Company was among them.
The company was located on the edge of the South Second District, employing about 300,000 workers, and because it was a military-industrial enterprise, there were strong security forces within the factory and company areas, making sealings and arrest operations quite tricky.
A few days earlier, due to insufficient police forces, the area was only surrounded and sealed off without any forceful breakthroughs. Now, after five days, the Stellar Domain Officials had arrested most of the executives of the involved enterprises and sealed off nurous companies, thus freeing up manpower and focus to deal with these tough nuts.
"No sign of people?"
After pushing downward through another three floors, the advancing commander felt a twinge of puzzlent. Logically, the underground factory and headquarters of 'Bladeleaf·Red' should have been equipped with nurous security Autonomous Units and ard personnel, but they had not encountered any along the way.
If the high-ranking officials of 'Bladeleaf·Red' were sincerely in the wrong, they should have co out and surrendered voluntarily by now. However, they had not done so. Instead, they were hiding inside the headquarters in silence, which was highly unusual.
Continuing their descent, the ard tactical police teams saw even more gigantic production apparatuses. So were like spiral abyssal maws, others like soaring towers. The various reactors and equipnt still radiated heat and Magic Power, indicating that the other party had shut off these devices in an orderly fashion without causing any damage or accidents.
With curiosity and suspicion, the ard tactical police teams kept breaking downwards, level after level, until they finally reached the lowest underground plaza.
A gigantic underground space, hundreds of ters tall, slowly ca into view. Its do was dotted with square light panels softly illuminating the world below.
At this mont, the black steel plaza was lined with approximately 4000 humanoid Autonomous Units. They were equipped with dark red exoskeleton armors, their hands carrying special curved sabers made of 'Bladeleaf Crystal Gold,' their chests featuring small machine gun ports while their legs resembled those of mantises, allowing them to easily jump and were fitted with magnetic rollers to move effortlessly along the walls of the subterranean structure.
The faces of these Autonomous Units flickered with orange-red information, blinking on and off intermittently, and occasionally emitting a beep, indicating they were in a state of full readiness yet motionless.
When the screen zood in, the commander's assistant AI identified bloodstains on the blades of so Autonomous Units, likely from yesterday or today.
"We ask any surviving company executives to co forward." The detection units flying into the underground space started broadcasting their calls for surrender over the plaza.
Soon, a broadcast voice rang out over the underground plaza.
"Greetings, I am... currently the controller of the underground production base." The voice in the broadcast was very tense.
"May I know your identity?" ca the commander's inquiry via the detection unit above the ard personnel.
"I'm a High-Rank technical engineer of the base, normally responsible for optimizing and improving the production process."
"What about the original executives of the company? Is it just you left?"
"...Currently, in the base, it should be just left."
"Where are they?" the commander asked the question that weighed on his mind.
"They... they are dead." The voice of the responder was sowhat unstable.
"How did they die?"
"They were killed by the base's ard Autonomous Units."
"Why?"
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