Chapter 375: Sky Dome-class

Over Jinhai City, thick clouds rolled, and the night was like ink.

The streets and dark alleys were full of zombies and eerie shadows, and the city was desolate. After midnight, the wind rose suddenly, whistling through the rubble of broken high-rise buildings, making whining groans. The wreckage of billboards all over the ground was overturned, and the iron sheets smashed to the ground, only to be rolled up by the strong wind again, rolling and colliding on the street, as if telling the prosperity of this city.

Uh ah!!

Da da da da da, bang bang bang bang bang!

Outside the wall piled up in the industrial zone, the tide composed of hundreds of thousands of walking corpses was surging towards the high wall with a slow and unstoppable momentum.

Countless zombies rushed to the wall and began to climb constantly. On the wall, automatic machine cannons fired at all times. Around the periphery of the industrial zone, various buildings, sentry towers, and standing platforms, armed guards of the Federation wearing power armor constantly came to support, resisting the corpse tide.

The artillery fire in all directions became more intense, and various armed drones reinforced from the sky fired with all their strength in the corpse tide. The sky full of fire and thick smoke seemed to ignite this city.

On the rail station, military freight trains roared towards the east. The carriages loaded with various combat mechs, tanks, drones, and artillery stretched for several kilometers. The soldiers guarding the train constantly fired at both sides of the road.

With the order of the industrial zone's major transfer, the entire Jinhai seemed to be trapped in an abandoned tense atmosphere, and even those survivor convoys were in long queues at this time, swarming towards the outside of the city, and there were gunshots everywhere.

In addition to zombies, various eerie entities also put dark marks on these humans who evacuated in the middle of the night. Eerie creatures rose in the streets and alleys, screaming constantly. A small convoy was forced into a small alley, rushed out of the street after many turns, but desperately found itself in the ocean of corpse tide. Not long after, the sound of guns and screams were endless, drowned out by the howling night wind and the roar of the corpse tide.

"What's going on, Jinhai Starport is evacuating the whole line!?"

"Dawn City has an accident, this side is also going to suffer, run!"

"Where to run?!"

"Nonsense, definitely run north. Dawn City colluded with the Deep Red World, this must be the Phoenix Society hitting!"

"Finished, finished, the broadcast said that Dawn City has already fought inside, and many large convoys have withdrawn."

"I would withdraw too. Damn, if those red human eerie and population disappearances have something to do with Dawn City, then staying in the city isn't just a fat sheep, and you have to pay Blood Essence to enter..."

"Dog days Zhou Mingyuan, dog days Federation!!"

"Yes, it's really hateful. Now the Star Abyss is unstable. It seems that there is only a way to run to the polar region."

"Be careful, Black Eerie Centipede!!"

At this time, in the Jinhai orbital train loading line, the steel roared constantly, and the dazzling searchlights split the darkness like sharp swords. Teams of soldiers wearing power armor marched urgently with weapons in their hands.

"Everyone board the train! Complete loading within ten minutes!"

"Sky Dome-class interstellar train F-60 base carriage docking!"

In the giant floating orbital berth, a train carriage like a starship slowly flew out from the orbital factory loading line. This ordinary carriage looked at least more than 300 meters long, and its body width was more than five times larger than the orbital freight transport carriage. The entire carriage was countless starry sky thruster arrays underneath, and at the same time, it had a track bow that could run on the track. It looked domineering, and this was just one of the basic carriages of the Sky Dome-class train used for crew life and cargo transport!

"Last group, hurry!"

Swish swish swish, teams of power armor soldiers ran through, and there was a constant sound of air pressure valve whining on the scene. Various construction robots and precision equipment were hoisted onto freight trains and various flight transport ships. Electromagnetic cannons in the sky constantly illuminated the sky, shooting down the approaching flying eerie entities one by one.

Woo!

"Be careful!"

High in the sky, a multi-winged ghost bat that had its head shot through fell to the ground, smashing through the roof of a freight station. Suddenly, fire splashed everywhere. The industrial zone staff who were evacuating below screamed and scattered. Who knew that the ghost bat didn't die after falling to the ground, but jumped up frantically, directly pouncing on several engineers and biting them to pieces, screaming constantly.

Da da da!

Armed guards surrounded them, and the firepower in their hands poured out frantically, soon completely eliminating it.

On the other side, in the main control building of the rail loading line, in one of the offices, Jian Xuwei stood by the window wearing nano-armor, looking quietly at the busyness in the berth area, her face calm.

Behind her, the holographic communicator in the office lit up. On the screen, Wen Dong's face was full of annoyance, and he said to Jian Xuwei:

"Jian Xuwei, the Chairman ordered everyone in the Finger Group to evacuate Jinhai and enter Dawn City tonight. Why haven't your people moved yet!?"

Jian Xuwei didn't look back and responded slowly: "No large-scale eerie entity attack, no S-class detection, no abnormality in dark marks, why evacuate Jinhai?"

Wen Dong's eyebrows were annoyed: "Why so many whys, this is an order, can't you understand?!"

"Order?" Jian Xuwei turned her head when she heard this, with a cold smile on her face: "I remember we are cooperating, when did our Finger Group say we would be loyal to Dawn City? Since it is cooperation, I can naturally choose to refuse."

Wen Dong was stunned when he heard Jian Xuwei's words, then hummed and laughed:

"Jian Xuwei, don't you think our evacuation is because of Silent City, and then think that Silent City is here to relieve you?"

Clang clang clang.

Before the words fell, a series of footsteps swarmed in the corridor outside. A few seconds later, the door was opened, and more than a dozen armed guards wearing power armor pointed their guns at Jian Xuwei.

"It is said that Jian Xuwei, the head of the Finger Group, is a woman with deep city government, smart and ruthless. I didn't expect that apart from being aloof, I didn't see any intelligence at all. You picked the worst time to show your cards with me."

Wen Dong said coldly and smiled: "Do you think your Finger Group is of any use to us now?"

"One point."

"Oh?"

Wen Dong frowned and couldn't help asking: "Which point, it won't be your Jian Xuwei's face, right? Hahahaha."

Jian Xuwei didn't care about the dozen black gun muzzles, looked at Wen Dong in the holographic light, and said:

"I think it is that 'Sky Dome-class'. The design and construction are arranged by our Finger Group, and the master control right is naturally in my hands."

Wen Dong was stunned. He looked at Jian Xuwei incredibly, thinking that this woman's brain had some problems, and immediately said:

"Master control right? You don't mean some password instruction, or firewall. That kind of thing just needs to be overwritten. This kind of thing is worthy of being said. Jian Xuwei, I think you are crazy. I don't have time to talk to you now. Anyway, in this situation, you are of no use to us. If you don't want to go, then don't go!"

Who knew that when Jian Xuwei heard this, she smiled coldly:

"You are right, that kind of thing, just overwrite it."

As soon as the words fell, dozens of drones descended outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the high-rise building, and the crimson aiming rays aimed at the dozen armed guards. Before they could react, they had already fired instantly.

Swish!

The floor-to-ceiling window shattered, glass splashed, and those armed guards were almost simultaneously pierced through the armor of their heads and flew backward.

At this time, Wen Dong, who was sitting on the armed transport ship, looked at all the signals of his subordinates disappearing, and his face changed. He looked at Jian Xuwei on the screen and shouted angrily:

"Impossible, when did you control the drone hub system of the Jinhai Starship Port?!"

"Now, do you still think I have any use?" Jian Xuwei responded lightly.

"Jian Xuwei! Your Silver Star, your board members are all in Dawn City, do you want them to die!?"

"Let alone you and Zhou Mingyuan, Dawn City should be unable to protect itself. In this situation, who can you threaten?"

Jian Xuwei responded coldly: "Thank you for sending me to Jinhai. This 'Sky Dome-class' will be used as compensation for the losses of our Silver Star by the Federation and the Linglong Group."

"Jian Xuwei, that is the asset of our Wen family, you..."

Beep.

Jian Xuwei clicked her finger and directly closed the holographic call. Then she pressed the earpiece communication key and said in a commanding tone:

"Action."

Bang bang bang!

In the Jinhai orbital train loading factory, gunshots suddenly rang out. The giant train that was being loaded suddenly stopped, and even the electromagnetic light of the floating berth went out. A force of unknown origin rushed out from all directions, engaged in a firefight with the Federation's armed guards, and for a time, even an ability war broke out, and the roar was constant!

Wen Dong, who was on the armed transport ship, had an uncertain face. He looked at the monitoring of the mobile terminal in his hand, various picture signals were constantly lost, and the frequency band of the communicator was also disappearing. He suddenly realized something, gritted his teeth in anger, stood up, and smashed the ornament on the table to the ground.

"This stinky bitch, I should have shot her if I knew it earlier!"

Wen Dong didn't expect that in just one day, there would be such a big change in Dawn City and even the high-level Federation. Now Dawn City is in chaos, the high-level is turbulent, Chu Zhaonan suddenly transferred all Jinhai troops and starship materials, and Zhou Mingyuan, in order to stabilize the situation and not let Jinhai take action against Silent City with the Deep Red World, made them extremely passive for a while. What's more troublesome is that the Sky Dome-class interstellar train they spent all resources to promote construction was suddenly intercepted by Jian Xuwei.

"Damn!"

Wen Dong became more and more angry. He breathed constantly, his brain running wildly. At this time, he suddenly pressed the communicator and shouted to the transport ship pilot:

"Change course, return to Dawn City!"

In the current situation, going to Jinhai has no meaning for him. Jian Xuwei controls the orbital train loading factory, the starport has also been evacuated, and the garrison Lu Tianye is not within the scope of his mobilization. Once the eerie entity breaks out there, no one will support it. Wen Dong has already ignored Zhou Mingyuan's order at this time. He needs to go back immediately to discuss the retreat with Wen Hui.

2:00 AM, above the low altitude airspace in the west, a huge shadow covering the sky arrived majestically from the clouds and mist. The violent airflow shook away the sky full of fog. Suddenly, on that huge shadow, the tail flames of dense propulsion arrays, various air patrol lights, and searchlights were like the dense pupils of a giant beast, which was shocking!

Silent City Cloud Area, at this moment, all defensive weapons are in a state of alert. On the radar search surface, it is full of terrain and biological capture signals in the surrounding area.

"Calmer than expected."

On the main ship bridge, Mochizuki Shinji stood in front of the huge porthole, looking down at the city. Under the starry sky, except for the bright lights in the center of the industrial zone in the distance, the other 90% of the city area and streets were in a state of darkness and dilapidation. The corpse tide surged in the city, the industrial zone fire line was dense, and anti-aircraft guns and electromagnetic railguns shot into the sky like fireworks.

Although this is the case, in Mochizuki Shinji's view, this intensity of monster tide is not enough to pose too much threat.

"The resistance firepower is not strong, and no giant biological entities are seen." Lin Xian scanned, and said puzzledly at this time.

"The safer we are, doesn't it just show that Dawn City and the Deep Red World are closely related?"

"This problem has been settled." Monica walked to Lin Xian with her hands hugged: "The problem now is what Dawn City is cooperating with the Deep Red World, and whether it will involve us."

"It has already been involved."

Lin Xian said solemnly: "The abnormal influence of the Star Abyss affects all of us. Now the Phoenix Society has come. We take the opportunity to pick out the Deep Red World for self-protection, which should also be a suitable opportunity. As for negotiations, we just wait for the results."

"Then we enter Jinhai, Dawn City has no negotiations and no actions?" Ning Jing frowned: "This is too strange."

"There are even stranger ones."

Woo~

Several drones flew quickly over the main ship bridge. At this time, Qian Qian Qian Suxun walked over, his expression cold, and said to everyone: "Guess what my drone found."

Mochizuki Shinji turned his head: "The garrison withdrew?"

"Not just the garrison."

Qian Qian Qian Suxun's face also carried some doubts: "Along with all starships, aircraft, freight trains at the rail station, and transport vehicles in the industrial zone, they are all evacuating and transferring towards Dawn City, with great momentum."

"What?!"

Kiki's eyes widened when she heard this: "So strange, a Dawn City of millions of people, just their garrison is more than 100,000 people, this Jinhai is just abandoned?"

"It's really a bit strange. If it's because of the Phoenix Society, it shouldn't be. Their own industrial base is such an important territory, this group of Federation guys don't even have this courage?" Shi Diyuan was also incredible. They came to Jinhai with the purpose of showing their cards with Dawn City. Showing their cards does not mean starting a war. Strictly speaking, they did not want to directly conflict with Dawn City. But who could have imagined that they entered the city and saw that the entire Dawn City's Jinhai industrial zone was evacuating, which was really incredible.

"Lin Xian... could it be that something happened to Dawn City?"

Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian, but Lin Xian also shook his head, his face becoming more and more solemn.

"It's impossible for Dawn City to lose the Jinhai industrial base. Now that this situation is happening, I'm a bit worried instead..."

"Worried about what?"

"Are you worried that Dawn City will take a dead hand?" Mochizuki Shinji looked over: "This really looks very unreasonable."

Their purpose of coming to Jinhai is to enter the public view and force Dawn City to fear the rat, not daring to unite with the Deep Red World to take action against them. As a result, the entire Jinhai has evacuated. From Lin Xian's perspective, he would naturally think that Dawn City is preparing to make a big move.

"Too unreasonable, I don't think it will be like this!"

"Because to take action against us, Jinhai was abandoned, incredible." Qian Qian Qian Suxun shrugged: "Or we think too much, will it be... some other reason?"

Beep beep.

"Report, there is a communication access."

"Connect."

A current sound rang out. Just when Lin Xian and others were full of doubts, Jian Xuwei's voice appeared.

"Lin Xian, long time no see."

Lin Xian's eyes flashed: "Didn't we see each other during the day?"

"You received my message, right?"

"Yes."

"Thank you, and Mr. Mochizuki, my trouble here has been lifted, and now I have taken over the orbital train loading factory."

Lin Xian felt more and more confused as he listened, and couldn't help asking:

"Not... Jinhai, Dawn City, what happened?"

Jian Xuwei stood in the high-level office of the main control building, holding an electronic telescope and looking at Silent City in the sky of the city tens of kilometers away, and said in the communicator:

"You lit a fire, now..."

"Dawn City is about to take action!"

Dawn City.

Under the night sky, riots broke out in the city!

That "self-statement" video of Zhou Mingyuan was like a giant stone hitting the water surface that was already surging with undercurrents, instantly setting off a monstrous wave. The crowded Dawn City exploded, and the Federation high-level's rumor refutation not only did not play much role, but made the riots in the old city area and the outer city area more intense, forcing the Federation to dispatch the night patrol group with armored troops and the city defense battalion to suppress and control.

On the street, city defense police aircraft and night patrol armed forces shuttled quickly between high-rise buildings, and large floating image airships played rumor-refuting content in a loop.

"Federation Warning: Stop spreading and discussing rumor videos. This video is forged content. Any instigators and rumor-mongers will be punished by detention, confiscation of assets, expulsion from Dawn City, etc. Serious cases will be imprisoned according to Federal law."

"This video 2:03, ~2:51, 6:22-9:32, 12:02~16:33 are all AI-generated content, specifically manifested in..."

"Federal Vice Chairman Zhou Mingyuan issued a stern statement previously. Recently, individual individuals and organizations with ulterior motives have spread false information through illegal channels, maliciously fabricated and hyped so-called 'Dawn City colluding with the Deep Red World', 'dereliction of duty and corruption', 'coercing Finger Group organizations' and other accusations without any factual basis, attempting to smear the image of the Federal government and destroy the stability and harmony of Dawn City. Such behavior seriously violates the spirit of the law, tramples on public order and good customs, and is a public provocation to the rule of law of the Federation..."

However, in various districts, resistance, demonstrations, and riots occurred frequently. After the network was restored, the Dawn City intranet was filled with scolding. Forums, videos, and pictures were densely bombed. It seemed that someone was pushing behind the scenes, but more of it was the resentment and dissatisfaction of the public with Dawn City's high-pressure rule.

"Colluding with the Deep Red World, are you shameless, are you still human!!"

"No wonder such a high wall was built, and red human eerie still appeared in the inner city. It turns out to be a cooperative relationship!"

"Chairman Chu, you raised a ghost in your house, do you know!"

"The sand bandits in the Xidi Gobi robbed so many people, and there was no action at all. There must be a problem!"

"So many people disappeared, why no one cares!"

"Vice Chairman step down, the Federation must give an explanation!"

"Even the Vice Chairman is a person from the Deep Red World. Is the Federation raising us all as pigs?!"

"Zhou Mingyuan, I fuck your mother!"

Some demonstrated, some scolded, and more were those medium and large organizations that had settled in Dawn City, who were also discussing at this time. Especially with the arrival of the Phoenix Society's Zhen Tian ship, plus the constant Star Abyss anomalies, everyone felt endangered. Overnight, some convoys that felt something bad was about to happen had already begun to prepare to discuss leaving the city, and some even drove out of the city overnight towards Qingbo and Yongcheng Port.

An air patrol ship flew over the No. 1 City Wall at this time and headed towards the Twin Star Tower Starport. On the main ship bridge, Lu Tianye looked solemn. His sharp face and corners of his mouth that were downward all year round gave people a serious feeling of not being angry and self-prestige. His skin was tanned into a cold bronze color due to his long-term military career. There was a thin old scar on his right cheek. He was 1.9 meters tall and wore a set of dark blue Iron Hunter power armor. This special armor was more than half a ton heavy and covered with crisscrossing metal battle marks.

The helmet was placed aside. Lu Tianye looked coldly at the chaotic street scene below and said in a voice as deep as a bell:

"Which area is the Zhen Tian ship parked in?"

"Currently 20 kilometers in the Helan direction of the outer city area, waiting for navigation permission!" the adjutant said loudly.

"Permission to pass, A1 berth, Chen Feng, you take the mech garrison company to wait."

"Yes!"

"This should be the first time the Phoenix Society has returned to Dawn City since the collapse of the Federation." Lu Tianye looked at a man in a dark blue uniform with a straight figure beside him: "You should know why the Break Curtain Project was changed to the Vanguard Project, right?"

Captain Chu Jing had handsome facial features, and there was a bit of scholarly air under the officer's aura. He sank a breath and looked at the high-rise buildings in the city area, saying:

"Know."

Lu Tianye nodded: "You don't approve of him because you have your own views on saving humans, but from his perspective, the results are the same."

"I know the results are the same. For humans, if you want to survive, you must abandon old morality and live by any means."

"Then why are you so resistant to the Vanguard Project?"

"I am not resistant to the Vanguard Project." Captain Chu Jing turned indifferently: "I just think that the act of killing hope in advance is more than the doomsday..."

"Crueler."

Watching Captain Chu Jing's back as he left, Lu Tianye's eyes moved slightly, and he didn't say much.

"General Lu." Another subordinate walked over at this time: "Just received an order from Vice Chairman Zhou, asking you to go to the Core Administration Hall."

Lu Tianye waved his hand and walked directly to the ship bridge. The heavy armor stepped on the metal floor and made a clanging echo, saying in a disdainful tone:

"No time now, hang him up first."

"Yes!"

In the Core Administration Hall, Zhou Mingyuan's face sank when he heard the subordinate's feedback, but he didn't show anything, and said:

"Has the Phoenix Society's Zhen Tian ship entered the city?"

"It has entered the city, and will dock at the A1 berth of the Twin Star Tower in a few minutes." The secretary reported.

"Chairman Chu personally received it?"

"Yes, no one was notified."

Zhou Mingyuan nodded calmly, then said with a peaceful face: "There are guests coming tonight, but such a thing happened in the city, I am really not convenient to show up."

He stood up and said with a straight face: "But the situation in the city still makes me very worried. Xiao Li, help me notify the Population Control Bureau, the head of the City Defense Guard Battalion, the Night Patrol Group, the Information Department, and these people to come to me to discuss the issue of stabilizing the situation in the city."

"Okay, Chairman Zhou."

After the secretary left, Zhou Mingyuan's eyes changed, and he immediately pressed a communicator:

"Let Wen Hui come to my office immediately!"

2:12 AM.

The Phoenix Society's stellar-class warship "Zhen Tian Ship" slowly sailed into the A1 berth.

Chu Zhaonan stood on the connection platform of the starport, behind him was the Federal Garrison Guard standing like a steel forest. Apart from this, no officials were present. He stood alone in the middle of the guard, looking calmly at the black starship cabin door slowly opening.

The cabin door opened, and the night wind, which was originally blowing, suddenly calmed down in the Twin Star Tower Starport. Only the starry night remained. An elderly woman walked out slowly.

Fifty-six years old, silver hair like frost, thin figure, but still straight like a pine.

Her eyes were deep and calm, like ancient stars that had experienced countless destructions and rebirths. She wore a capable black wool coat with the golden emblem of the Phoenix Society embroidered on the cuffs. If it weren't for seeing it with his own eyes, few people would guess that this kind and solemn person who looked like a university professor was the commander of the Phoenix Society under the Apocalypse Day today, Ye Lan.

She walked down from the Zhen Tian ship, followed only by a woman wearing black power armor, and walked into Chu Zhaonan's steel army.

Chu Zhaonan watched Ye Lan walk over, his eyes changed complexly, then he nodded slightly and reached out his hand:

"Chairman Ye, oh no, it should be Commander Ye, long time no see."

Ye Lan smiled indifferently and reached out to shake hands with him: "Long time no see, Chairman Chu."

The palms overlapped briefly, one steady and powerful, the other vigorous like iron.

The surrounding Federal Garrison was silent, and only the engine of the starship was humming in the distance.

At this moment, the night wind rose suddenly.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 376 =====