During the advance, Lu Yuan's troops encountered almost no resistance.
At this moment, the Stormwind Gang's true elite soldiers had all hidden underground in the main building.
Hart was not completely despairing yet; as long as these elite soldiers were present, he would still be a warlord in the Desert.
And this sturdy shelter would guarantee his safety.
"It's okay!"
Hart turned to look at his officers, spreading his hands.
"The enemy absolutely cannot break in here! Absolutely! Impossible! The shelter's large steel door is over three meters thick; any weapon can only scratch it!"
"My God!"
As soon as Hart finished speaking, the adjutant beside him let out a gasp.
"What is that!?"
The adjutant's tone was full of panic; through the periscope, from his underground position, he saw a giant "beetle" shimmering with metallic luster all over, flipping over the sand dune with agility disproportionate to its size, crawling towards them!
Seeing this war machine, Hart's whole body flinched, his pupils contracting.
He didn't know what it was, but his intuition told him it was over, completely over!
Lu Yuan had repaired the beetle-type mechanical boss equipped with the Blue Laser Main Cannon and unleashed this war beast!
It was hard to imagine that this thing had evolved all the way from robot dogs of the early 21st century.
Soon after, the mechanical beetle stood in front of the shelter's gate.
Hart sent a large number of elite soldiers to guard behind the gate, preparing for a final stand.
"Team Leader, look, the gate's locking mechanism is like this..."
Ye Xing had finished the scan and brought the pad displaying the mechanical blueprint to Lu Yuan.
The shelter's blast door was indeed very thick, but it wasn't the theoretically most robust single-sided sliding groove structure; instead, it was a double-leaf structure, relying on twenty thick locking bolts to complete the lock.
This structure was sturdy enough to face explosive shockwaves; even nuclear blast shockwaves could be withstood from a safe distance.
However, there wasn't no way to force it open; cutting off a sufficient number of locking bolts would suffice.
"Aim at the structural weak points and begin cutting."
With an order, remotely controlled by Nan Guo de Xue, the Blue Laser Main Cannon opened fire.
Compared to the previously recovered infrared laser, this more powerful laser cannon did not have a pulse firing mechanism; it could continuously illuminate for 3 seconds after charging for 10 seconds, making it unsuitable for attacking flexible, small targets but more suitable for continuous cutting and piercing the heavy armor of large targets.
It was perfect for the job of breaking down the door.
"It's okay!" The elite soldiers guarding behind the door were still comforting themselves, "There's no explosion sound outside; they definitely can't do anything about this door! They..."
Before the words were finished, a small red dot appeared on the door leaf, getting brighter and brighter, its color also getting closer to yellowish-white.
When this bright spot expanded to the size of a tennis ball, an extremely fine and extremely bright beam of light shone through it; the people behind were still curiously looking, when half of their heads were instantly sliced off.
"Ahhh!! They've broken in!"
Seeing such a miserable sight, the Raiders screamed, abandoned their posts they should have held, and fled.
Twenty minutes later, after consuming 55% of its power, the laser cannon cut off most of the locking bolts, and the heavily armored mechanical beetle stepped forward, lifted its thick front claws, its joint motors bursting with maximum torque, and forcibly pried open the hundred-ton blast door.
Behind the door was a passage, and at the end of the passage was a vertical elevator leading deep underground.
The elevator had already been powered off and disabled by the defenders, but Lu Yuan was prepared for this.
He ordered the Engineer players to install the pre-prepared climbing ropes on the surrounding steel structure, then cut open the floor of the elevator platform to expose the shaft below; Power Armor players took the lead, rappelling directly down the shaft.
The shaft was over 100 meters deep; after the players reached the bottom, only a gate remained between them and the main part of the final shelter.
"Prepare for demolition!"
Black Smoke led people to place ONC high-energy explosives on the gate; with a loud bang, the gate was blown down, and several rocket-propelled grenades flew out from inside, flying close past the players and exploding against the side walls of the shaft.
The space in the shaft was limited, only about the size of a badminton court; in such a confined space, flying shrapnel should have been deadly, but at this time, the players were all "iron-clad flesh," with combat suits as bulletproof lining under their armor; unless directly hit, rocket-propelled grenades simply could not penetrate their defense.
"Weak!"
The Power Armor stepped into the corridor behind the gate with heavy but not slow steps.
The defenders saw three angular figures emerging from the smoke and dust; the foremost one was even an ominous dark red blood color!
They raised the automatic rifles in their hands and sprayed bullets, the triggers pulled all the way down, the muzzles continuously spitting out tongues of fire.
However, when these weak bullets hit the Power Armor, they could only scrape off tiny sparks on the armor surface.
The magazines were quickly emptied, and the sound of dry firing echoed in the corridor.
Click click click,
That was the sound of fear and despair.
Guo Li Cheng, walking in the front, grabbed a Raider's head, exerted force, and smashed it against the corridor wall, spontaneously creating an abstract painting of red and white.
The next second, with a whoosh, she lit up the plasma greatsword in her hand; the light spread through the smoke and dust, illuminating the fronts of the three Power Armors.
Like an execution squad from hell.
Clang!
She swung out a horizontal slash as fast as lightning.
The upper bodies of two nearby Raiders fell to the ground, while their lower bodies remained standing for a few more seconds, the cross-sections at their waists and abdomens completely charred black.
"Damn... damn!! To hell with Hart! To hell with the Stormwind Gang!"
The Raider, about to become the next prey, was scared shitless, turned and ran; Guo Li Cheng easily caught up with a stride, first stabbing her greatsword through his back, then swinging it upwards, slicing his chest cavity and head in half.
The Raiders' remaining will to fight vanished completely before this scene.
They cried out, threw away their weapons, and fled in a panic.
Caoyuan and Ye Xing, following behind, couldn't help but click their tongues in amazement.
This woman, thankfully she's an ally!
Next, Cangyuan advanced irresistibly, sweeping through all the halls and rooms like a tornado destroying a parking lot; the Stormwind Gang inside wailed like ghosts and howled like wolves.
"Reporting, Executive Officer, all corridors cleared!"
"The remaining enemies... they didn't surrender, they blew themselves up!"
"Executive Officer, we've advanced to the last room; the Desert Sand Flea himself is probably in there!"
"Okay, wait for me to get there."
Lu Yuan followed the excited players to the door of Hart's combat command room, seeing Black Smoke and Manshen installing explosives around the door, preparing to breach it.
Behind the door, Hart stared at the cabinet in the corner of the room with bloodshot eyes.
He could no longer hear gunshots outside; he knew he was beyond salvation, and the Stormwind Gang, over 300 years old, was about to become history.
Let alone relying on holding out to negotiate, much less fighting back, he had no ability to resist at all...
What a nightmare! Yes, this must be a dream... Haha!
There was still a set of fully equipped Power Armor in the cabinet, but what difference would it make even if he put it on?
Could he turn into a damn Superman?! Those lunatics outside could even open a three-meter-thick steel door; would they be stumped by Power Armor?
Forget it...
There's a simpler way!