Chapter 155: Oasis City Total Offensive
“For yourselves, and for your families, lay down your weapons!”
Cheng Yun continued to persuade them to surrender.
“Change is coming. This is your last chance to make the right choice and join the righteous cause of overthrowing Kohl!”
After Cang Yuan fully demonstrated his strength, no guards dared to continue fighting. They emerged from their patrol vehicles, threw away their weapons, and surrendered.
“Let’s go!”
Cheng Yun’s subordinates ran over to take control of the patrol vehicles, and young citizens picked up the guns that originally belonged to the guards.
“Everyone, follow me!”
Cheng Yun stood on the roof of a vehicle, raising his right hand high, using his charisma to maintain the situation and order, preventing the situation from deteriorating into a riot.
“Kohl said we are Madmen. We must prove to him that we are not. Tonight, we are disciplined warriors!
“Follow me! We will go occupy the power plant, factories, hospitals, and schools! Do not be afraid. Go root out those pests who stubbornly resist and poison the city!”
The patrol vehicles started, and Black Smoke spewed from their exhaust pipes.
“Come on! Keep up with me!”
“Okay, let them go. The city terrain is too complex. We will not intervene in the street battles for now,” Caoyuan told the assault team members.
“Everyone, enter the palace! Do not split up. Pay attention to scanning to find the passage to the underground air defense facility.”
“Understood!”
The armed transport aircraft dropped a total of 50 power armors from a height of 1000 meters, 40 of which flew to the City Lord’s Palace.
The remaining 10 had also successfully landed on the top of the pyramid.
“Scans show there’s space inside the pyramid top, but no other equipment was scanned,” a player said, using a specially made grappling hook to cling to the 45-degree angled steel exterior wall.
“Should we still do it the old way, demolition?”
“No!” Ma Lou quickly stopped him. “The reason we can’t scan it is because the space is large, and the scanner’s range is limited. Reckless demolition could damage the things inside. Let’s cut it open. Where is Guo Li Cheng?”
“Got it!”
Guo Li Cheng made several slashes, cutting open a square hole. After the team members filed in, they saw below that it was indeed a huge four-sided conical space, with an unknown device placed in the center. It was quite large, about the size of a heavy truck.
The device was clearly in working condition, emitting a blue light throughout.
This must be the kinetic shield disassembled from the golden age spaceship!
Guo Li Cheng: “Heartbeat detection has a response. Someone is running up from below.”
Soon, groups of monks, carrying automatic rifles, ran up the stairs on both sides of the hall.
“Wow, there are even warrior monks!”
Upon seeing live people, Guo Li Cheng, dressed in bright red, was the first to jump down.
“Protect the sacred object! The sacred object cannot be defiled by evil demons!” the leading old charlatan shrieked, pointing his hand at the kinetic shield generator behind the players.
From his appearance, he must have known long ago that the “miracle” of the reservoir not evaporating was created by Black Smoke technology, but the young monks behind him were clearly unaware, looking bewildered and extremely shocked.
What is this...
This place is not what we imagined, and even less what the Great Priest said!
Didn’t they say there was an “Aetherian” envoy’s coffin?
Didn’t they say there was a psionic beacon?!
What the hell is this machine?!
At their level, they usually weren’t qualified to enter this “sacred area” at the top of the pyramid, but anyone who wasn’t an idiot could see that the so-called “sacred object” was a machine, and undoubtedly a human-made machine.
Because there were still letters and yellow and black warning lines on it, the latter being universally recognized.
The clergy’s minds were in extreme confusion, their faith severely tested.
“Looking at you, you’re very surprised, aren’t you? What, you’ve been bowing your heads to human technology for three hundred years. How do you feel now, how do you feel now?!”
Ma Lou also jumped down. His words were even more salt in the wound, a spiritual bomb.
Lies don’t hurt people; the truth stings.
The monks who had swayed people’s hearts for three centuries never expected that one day, they too would doubt life itself.
“Demonic words! This, this, this, this—this is a technological creation of the Divine Race! It’s not ordinary technology; it’s technology with psionic power added!”
The leading Great Priest was still stubbornly refusing to admit defeat.
“You’re even conjuring up machine spirits now, huh!” Ma Lou couldn’t help but retort.
This old fellow’s thinking was quite agile, and his adaptability was strong. No wonder he could become a top-tier figure in the field of deception.
“Indeed, what I hate most are charlatans!”
Guo Li Cheng rushed up, slashing from the old fellow’s left shoulder to his right ribs with a sword, helping him expose his true feelings. The others then opened fire.
The monks’ resistance was, overall, very weak.
Soon, most of them laid down their weapons, the light gone from their eyes, their entire being deflated.
The squad then thoroughly searched the entire building, herding the clergy together and bringing them under control.
Soon after, Cheng Lei arrived with her people, taking over the custody of the clergy. Armed transport aircraft air-dropped humanoid security robots recovered from industrial routes to strengthen the defense of the temple area.
The pyramid temple was built on an island, making it relatively easy to defend. The security robots’ armaments had long been replaced from non-lethal weapons to the standard “Madman” assault rifle plus grenade launcher.
The now-free 10-person player squad headed towards the palace to support Caoyuan and his team.
The Oasis City time-limited large dungeon, of course, had to be played to the fullest!
At the same time, the aerospace plane flew to the large oilfield area in the river valley outside the city, air-dropping a team mainly composed of Engineers and Scholars, as well as Lu Yuan himself.
This squad had the highest equipment rate of firepower-type power armor.
The members’ high intelligence and high mental attributes enabled them to analyze and select a large number of ground targets more quickly. They had already completed target lock-on while still descending from the air.
Subsequently, a large number of smart missiles and loitering munitions were launched from their backpacks, scattering and flying rapidly towards their respective targets, like a large fireworks show in the night sky.
Chang Kong and Loulan provided support from the air. This time, the two did not fly “Bailao Bird” space fighters but chose “hummingbird,” which had better atmospheric hovering capabilities.
After a round of missile bombardment, half of the enemy targets in the oilfield area had been eliminated, and all of the enemy’s heavy weapons, equipment, and vehicles were destroyed.
“Continue.”
At the oilfield, Lu Yuan did not plan to persuade them to surrender first. He could not give the defenders any chance to ignite the oilfield in a fit of rage.
If they didn’t surrender, they would be fought to the death.
“Brothers, charge!”
Black Smoke was the first to land, joining the ground forces composed of new players to clear out the remaining enemies.
The firepower-type power armor was now equipped with newly produced 20mm Gatling autocannons. This type of cannon had a high rate of fire and sufficient firepower, but the recoil from firing was close to two tons, and the weight of the ammunition drum was a full 200 kilograms.
Such a powerful main weapon could only be handled by high-level Engineers.
The reason was that most of them chose hydraulic muscles as their first skill, greatly exceeding the static strength of other professions at the same level.
Lu Yuan felt that it was already possible to form a second battle group with Engineers as the main body, specializing in heavy armor and heavy firepower!
Soon, the oilfield was occupied, becoming the second secured battle result. Only 2 out of 75 oil wells were accidentally ignited, and they were promptly shut down, resulting in minimal losses.
At the same time, on the east side of the city.
Under Xian Yu’s command, over 100 various types of ground vehicles, along with more than 200 mechanical servant troops, lined up in a single file across the Desert, advancing at full speed towards Oasis City.
All players participated, no matter which echelon you were in; tonight was for having fun.