Chapter 129 Target Dawn City Council
At the same time, Chen She controlled Grantham to take two other priests and Gao Jingwu and other resistance fighters disguised as members of the Knights of Time and Space, and prepared to leave the underground.
After escaping from the underground, the Special Investigation Team had passed the order of the parliament and, with the cooperation of the DCPD, closed all the passages leading to the underground. But even so, it was not too difficult for the people of the Space-Time Knights to find a way out.
If they are some of the stronger members of the Space-Time Knights, such as these two priests, they can completely use their knowledge of space-time to create space-time rifts on their own and come to the underground without being noticed.
But if they want to bring along people like Gao Jingwu who don't have particularly rich knowledge of space and time and are not very familiar with space-time rifts, they can only forcibly open a passage to the ground through space-time particles.
The two priests also brought their own direct subordinates, but those people did not come underground with them, but have been scattered in Dawn City, lurking in some important nodes that will be attacked. As long as the two priests give an order, many terrorist attacks will break out simultaneously in the entire Dawn City!
At that time, time and space rifts will appear directly in Dawn City, and a large number of time and space creatures will unscrupulously attack some densely populated areas, causing widespread panic in Dawn City.
Once this situation occurs, the Corporate Alliance Army and DCPD will have to dispatch a large number of personnel to deal with the problems in Dawn City, and the pressure on the Time and Space Knights from the outside world will be greatly reduced.
This is the battle plan formulated by the Spacetime Knights Headquarters. It has to be said that it is still their usual style of doing things, simple and crude, but it will indeed be very effective.
However, Chen She was very resistant to this plan for a very simple reason: there would inevitably be large-scale civilian casualties.
The people of the Space-Time Knights are a bunch of lunatics. When they launch attacks, they don't care about the lives of innocent people. The locations they choose are either densely populated commercial areas or civilian residential areas.
It’s not that they are more hostile to ordinary people, but mainly because the population density in slums is high, while the population density in rich areas is low, and the security level is higher.
If a terrorist attack is launched in a wealthy area, on the one hand, it is easy for the DCPD to respond quickly, and on the other hand, most wealthy people have hovercrafts and the population density is low, making it difficult to cause serious damage.
If an attack is launched in a civilian area, not only will it cause heavy casualties, but it will also make these civilians more likely to become followers of the Knights of Time and Space when they are desperate.
For the Knights of Time and Space, these casualties are necessary sacrifices to achieve Epsilon's ultimate goal.
But in Chen She's opinion, this was completely a wanton killing of innocent people!
Chen She felt that he could not just stand by and watch, and he had to try his best to avoid all this.
At this time, everyone was still moving underground, and they had to choose the best place to return to the ground.
Because it would definitely cause a lot of noise if we had to force a passage from underground to the ground. The DCPD had imposed martial law and the streets were blocked by the corporate army. If we chose the wrong place to show our heads, we might be hit hard by the corporate army as soon as we showed our heads.
The two priests were somewhat puzzled and asked, "Where exactly are we going to attack? If we go further , it seems that we are almost at the core inner city of Dawn City."
The core inner city of Dawn City is relatively less populated, and the DCPD and the corporate army have stronger security forces. Originally, the two priests did not target the inner city as their main attack target, and their manpower was basically distributed at the intersection of the inner city and the nearby civilian settlements.
Grantham smiled and said, "Of course, we need to choose a more suitable place for the attack."
"Your original targets were all civilian and commercial areas. I don't think that makes much sense."
"Because you don't understand the thoughts of the bigwigs in the Silver Star Federation at all."
"Even if there are a large number of civilian casualties, do you think these bigwigs of the Silver Star Federation will send the corporate army to quickly provide support? Of course not! To them, civilians are just consumables and cannon fodder that can be sacrificed at any time. How could they possibly withdraw precious troops and risk losing the battle to save these civilians ?"
"So, the occurrence of space-time activities in civilian residential areas may induce large-scale escape and riots, and even cause a serious humanitarian crisis. However, with the corporate army and DCPD working together to maintain the law and order of the entire Dawn City, these rioting civilians are simply unable to break through the blockade constructed by the corporate army."
"The corporate army will do whatever it takes to keep the unrest small. Even if they see a large number of civilian casualties, they will not care. The media will not report how many people died anyway, and it will not be spread out at all."
"You mistakenly believe that as long as you are more ruthless than the Corporate Alliance, you can force the Corporate Alliance to retreat, but it is obvious that you know nothing about the true thoughts of the bigwigs of the Silver Star Federation."
The two priests, Meredith and Ferdinand, looked at each other, both a little shocked.
They felt that what Grantham said seemed to make sense!
Previously, they had chosen civilian areas as targets for their attacks in order to cause as many civilian casualties as possible, resulting in large-scale panic and forcing the corporate coalition forces to split up, thereby relieving pressure on the front battlefield.
But after listening to Grantham, they realized a problem.
What if the Corporate Alliance completely ignores the casualties in Dawn City?
After all, no matter how many civilians died, they were still just civilians. For the corporate coalition army, if they could directly wipe out the Space Knights on the front battlefield in the wild, they would gain great merit and even have the opportunity to immigrate to Silver Star.
On the contrary, if the Corporate Alliance Army returns to support Dawn City and causes failure on the front battlefield, the commander will definitely be blamed.
The question now is, are the commanders of the Silver Star Federation and the Corporate Alliance smart enough? Are they ruthless enough?
If he was smart and ruthless enough, he would simply ignore everything that happened in Dawn City. As long as the inner city of Dawn City was not seriously damaged and as long as the bigwigs in Dawn City were still living well, then even if many civilians died, as long as the Time and Space Knights could be severely damaged, this battle would be considered a success.
And the answer is obviously yes.
Meredith asked quickly: "Then where should we choose to attack?"
Grantham smiled, "It's simple. We need to fight a place that the enemy must save."
Ferdinand looked puzzled, "Where?"
He couldn't think of any place that the corporate coalition army had to save. Even if they attacked the houses in the rich area, it would not have the same effect, because the city of Dawn had been secretly sealed off some time ago, and the rich had already received the news and strengthened their own security.
In order to deal with various terrorist activities and extreme emergencies, Dawn City has many shelters in the inner city. These shelters have strong defenses and are easy to defend but difficult to attack. If you launch an attack on such a place, I am afraid it will not have a very good effect.
After all, although the people brought by these two priests are elites, they are not top masters. It is probably not realistic to attack these places by force.
Once all the space-time particles carried are consumed, subsequent attacks will inevitably be thwarted.
Grantham looked up and said, "Dawn City Council."
"Dawn City Council?!"
Both priests had shocked expressions on their faces.
They had never considered this place as a location for an attack before, for two main reasons.
First of all, the Dawn City Council can be seen as the symbol of the Silver Star Federation in Dawn City, and it symbolizes the highest authority in Dawn City. Such a place must be heavily guarded and have strong defenses. Wouldn't it be a way to seek death to rush into such a place?
Secondly, the Liming City Council only attends meetings at all levels. Usually, there are no council members living here. With the war approaching, the top council members and bigwigs have heard the news early. Some of them fled to the military base where their own groups are located, and some hid in the heavily guarded Liming City headquarters building of their own groups.
The deliberate dispersion is to avoid being wiped out at once.
In other words, attacking the Dawn City Council would not only encounter strong resistance and greatly increase the chance of failure, but even if it succeeded, it would be impossible to harm the Dawn City Council members, which would be tantamount to doing useless work.
How could such a place be chosen as the main point of attack?
Grantham gave a confident smile, as if mocking the two men's timidity and naivety.
He explained: "It is true that the Dawn City Council no longer has any members, but it is the power center of the entire Dawn City and the symbol of the Silver Star Federation's supreme power in Dawn City."
"If we attack other locations, whether it's a civilian gathering area or a wealthy area, or the headquarters of a large company, the Silver Star Federation and the Corporate Combine can just turn a blind eye and not rescue them."
"After all, the headquarters of the big companies are far away from each other. We can only pick one or two of them to attack. It is impossible to catch all the top executives of the big conglomerates at once."
"But we are the only ones who are going to attack the Dawn City Council. The Silver Star Federation and the Corporate Alliance will definitely not sit idly by."
"The Dawn City Council is the symbol of the highest power in the Silver Star Federation. If something happens to the Dawn City Council, then it will be impossible to conceal it."
"Once we cause serious damage to the Dawn City Council, there will inevitably be adverse and widespread impacts. Neither the Silver Star Federation nor the Corporate Combine can turn a blind eye. No one can bear this responsibility."
“Of course, the defense force of the Dawn City Council will definitely be strong.”
"But no one would have thought that we would choose the Dawn City Council as a target for attack. After all, even we ourselves did not have such an idea at the beginning."
"If we can launch a sudden attack and catch the opponent off guard, we might be able to achieve better results!"
The two priests looked at each other with expressions of sudden realization on their faces.
That makes sense!
It must be said that Grantham's words opened up their previous blind spots. According to this statement, targeting the Dawn City Council for this attack is indeed a good choice.
For these people in the Space-Time Knights, their goal is to create as large-scale commotion as possible and expand the influence of the Space-Time Knights.
Targeting civilians can indeed achieve such an effect. However, the Silver Star Federation can also suppress this matter through various means. As long as they don't care about the sacrifice of civilians and as long as they can completely control public opinion, then this series of attacks by the Space Knights will not have a very good effect.
However, if they could create a large-scale commotion in the Dawn City Council and cause serious damage, that would be tantamount to attacking the Silver Star Federation. Once things get too big, the Silver Star Federation would not be able to cover it up even if they wanted to!
The two priests nodded. "That makes sense! In that case, let's notify our knights to go to the vicinity of the Dawn City Council to support our operations!"
The two priests took out a little from the space-time particles they carried with them and performed a small summoning ceremony, informing the knights under their command of the goal of this operation through the space-time creatures.
Although the Internet in this world is built on hash space, once large-scale space-time activities occur, it will affect the most basic communication functions, but there are still other ways of contact.
The Spacetime Knights can use the spacetime world and spacetime creatures to carry out simple information transmission, ensuring that information can be transmitted during spacetime activities.
There are also some temporary command systems within the corporate army that can maintain communications within a small area, but they cannot transmit communications to any corner of the world like hash space.
With frequent space-time activities, the Space-Time Knights will obviously have a greater advantage in communications.
Soon, everyone came out from underground to the edge of the inner city.
They couldn't reach the underground of Dawn City Council directly, because the security level of the core area where Dawn City was located was the highest, and the underground part was not designed when it was planned. For safety reasons, the underground part of Dawn City Council was also specially reinforced.
So they could only find a place closest to the Dawn City Council, come to the ground and kill their way there.
“That’s about it.”
In fact, Chen She had no way to determine his exact location underground, only a rough range. But it didn't matter, no one in the team would question his command, after all, the entire Spacetime Knights acted in this way, just rush and it would be over.
For Chen She, he was not worried at all about any casualties in this activity. After all, Grantham was just a clone and Gao Jingwu and other resistance fighters existed in the other side of the space and occupied other people's bodies.
As for the other members of the Space-Time Knights and the corporate army in the Dawn Parliament, it didn't matter who died. For Chen She, he could only try to reduce the casualties of civilians as much as possible. It would be better if the Space-Time Knights and the corporate army were both defeated!
