"Makes sense." Lin Xian nodded.
At this mont, Zhou Jin said, "The Iron Guard Brigade will enter the city for support tomorrow, but I reckon it’s not that easy. The military units here are all garrison troops. Although Dawn City is nominally handed over to the Phoenix Society, we are worried that Lu Tianye won’t let the Iron Guard Brigade enter the city easily."
Ning Jing frowned, "Are you worried that the garrison will clash with the Iron Guard Brigade?"
"Very normal." Jiang Yun said at this mont, "From the standpoint of the Phoenix Society, it’s reasonable for them to have such concerns. Strictly speaking, the garrison and the Night Patrol Team are of the sa nature, the only difference being they are officially part of the Federation military system, led by Lu Tianye. So, specific negotiations are needed."
Lin Xian, holding a mobile terminal, quickly browsed the situation inside the city.
The internal network was nearly paralysed, just like the night when Apocalypse Day arrived. All main roads in the city were completely jamd by two-way traffic, with the sounds of car horns and curses intertwining. Refugees from the Outer City District pushed carts full of belongings into the Inner City, creating a deadlock with caravans attempting to leave the city. The people from the City Defense Camp, Night Patrol Team, and Population Control Bureau were nowhere to be seen, and all order was now under the control of the garrison.
The Galagher Black Market and so comrcial transaction areas were erupting into riots of various sizes, and even the garrison patrol’s warning shots could not quell the chaos.
A large number of caravans were fleeing, rumors were spreading in the alleys, with survivors conveying the news of "dissolving parliant," and voices shouting "open the city gates," causing more panicked refugees to hurriedly pack and rush onto the streets.
The streets were filled with vehicles loaded with heavy weapons and armor, but flying vehicles were scarce. In the sky, only the original City Defense Camp patrol airships and various types of drones from surviving caravans were left. After the curfew and controls were lifted, these flying devices took to the sky en masse.
A queue of cars stretching several kiloters ford at the city gates, with the roar of engines interrupted by children’s cries. After the garrison removed checkpoints, they only checked entrants for Dark Marks, with all other screening canceled.
Lin Xian sensed impending doom, pinched the bridge of his nose, while the team’s discussions echoed overhead. He took a deep breath.
"Tonight is destined to be restless, Captain Zhou, we must hurry our actions."
Zhou Jin understood Lin Xian’s words, pressed the communicator, and Information Expert Li Su brought a mobile terminal over, then opened a strategic map.
"This is the original strategic map of underground military facilities in Star City, which is highly confidential. I already checked it before; there are several passages that lead directly to the Inner City Star Port of Dawn City, but the Inner City is now completely sealed off, and I’ve heard the people from the Underground City have been driven out."
"The people from the Underground City are surely driven out because this place is related to the Vanguard Plan launch."
At this mont, information from Chu Yan’s team ca through the communicator.
"Target Wen Hui has been controlled. The bad news is, from Wen Hui’s consciousness, we’ve learned that neither Wen Hui nor Zhou Mingyuan, nor the people from Deep Red World, know the specific launch ti of the Vanguard Plan. After preparing the Vanguard Plan, Deep Red World did not synchronize any information with Wen Hui. She is currently abandoned, and she and Zhou Mingyuan are planning to escape Blue Star with a starship nad Traveler 1 following the Vanguard Plan. The specific location is at a secret military base outside the city. Zhou Mingyuan plans to transfer through Fungal Consciousness to beco another superpower user, and that Qin Feng is Captain Ji Kun of Zhou Mingyuan’s Night Patrol Team..."
Chu Yan quickly synchronized the information obtained from Wen Hui with Lin Xian’s side, "But there are two critical pieces of information: the first is that according to personnel movents by Chu Zhaonan, Wen Hui and Zhou Mingyuan believe the Vanguard Plan will definitely launch during the day, specifically in the morning. Secondly, the Blazing Angel Departnt secretly transported a device containing Dark Erosion Cells to the Star Port, which is presud to be the key equipnt for the Vanguard Plan’s breakthrough!"
Everyone on Lin Xian’s side took in this ssage with grim faces, realizing the gravity of the situation.
Now, the Underground City is already evicting residents, and the entire garrison and Blazing Angel Departnt have encircled the Inner City tightly, making it extrely difficult to enter the Underground City.
Lin Xian pointed to their location on the map below them: "Looks like we can only enter from here."
"Find the people from Deep Red World?" Zhou Jin asked.
"Perhaps we don’t need to find them," Lin Xian said at this point, "Since the Vanguard Plan launch requires the activation by the S-Class organization using fungal threads, if we find the starship, we may be able to find the person connecting the fungus threads for the Vanguard Plan. Even if we can’t, Shinji and I have mastered Deep Red World’s neural conversion technology; if worse cos to worst..."
"Then we’ll have to connect it ourselves!"
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