Chapter 1019 - 62: The Sun (Part 4)

A sense of dizziness appeared in Miles’ heart:

From receiving the message that Night City’s army was discovered outside Los Angeles to the loss of contact with Los Angeles, the fire in Texas, the terrorist attacks in Iowa City and Las Vegas, plunging into complete chaos, it took less than 5 minutes!

In just 5 minutes, the unified and powerful New America became as precarious as a robust boxer being carried into the ICU!

This attack on Night City wasn’t just her decision alone as the President of New America, nor was it supported by just Military Technology:

EBM provided orbital satellites for real-time detection of Night City, Network Supervision provided network technical support to prevent rogue AIs from launching cyberattacks, Arasaka clearly stated they wouldn’t interfere with her assault on Night City, and Peizhuo Petrochemical even offered a vast amount of fuel and energy as material support...

It could be said that the entire capitalist world, both openly and secretly, hoped she would take down the Night City tumor that was entrenched in the orderly society, to fundamentally remove this tumor that had already had a major impact on world order and operation, to remove that "Burger King trading big shot" who was up to no good!

This action was tacitly approved by even the autonomous states within New America, and the more powerful companies, individuals, and organizations. Before the action, she even considered that Lille might secretly join forces with other Free States to stir up internal trouble and had made backup preparations...

These preparations turned out to be useless: In these few states, the executives and politicians who promised to stand by her side were all dead!

The three criminals killed them all in the instant the war began, like chopping down stray dogs by the roadside!

And from EBM’s espionage satellites, these cities and states were seen plunging into unprecedented chaos: a chaos that couldn’t be caused by just three people —

It’s those country bumpkins!

The good news is that with the help of Network Supervision, the unified government network of New America had an isolation capability, which severed the connections after these state governments fell, so even if there were rogue AIs helping Night City, they wouldn’t directly interfere with the operation of the entire government network...

[Minnesota: Madam President, something seems off. We want to know what happened in these states? Why are they all offline?]

[Louisiana: Our drones captured a... fire in Texas? That’s definitely not a wildfire; it’s too large in scale!]

[Kansas: How large?]

[Louisiana: It seems to have started from Houston!!]

The virtual assembly was in an uproar: Houston is the headquarters of Peizhuo Petrochemical, and the fire started there?!

It couldn’t have been caused by a nuclear bomb, right?

[Wyoming: President, are you sure we understand our... enemies so well? They...]

Doubts, tension, skepticism, suspicion, fear...

The atmosphere was pounding against Miles’ brain, leaving her mind in chaos, even the sophisticated prosthetics on her body couldn’t control this dizziness...

The dizziness of crashing from the heavenly heights to the ground!

[President Miles: Silence!!]

The meeting quieted down, and Miles adjusted her emotions:

[President Miles: Burger King launched terrorist attacks in these cities, and the state governments temporarily lost contact while resisting attacks from rogue AI—]

[President Miles: But this is only temporary! The terrorists use nothing more than a bunch of country bumpkins!]

[President Miles: I want you to allocate more funds, directly hire mercenaries locally—anyone willing to join the army, anyone wanting to make this money, give them whatever it takes, retake those cities immediately!]

[Utah: But Madam President... Euros can’t buy people now...]

[President Miles: Then give them food, clothing, supplies, shelter, anything they want, understand! If it’s not in stock, give them guns to take from those around them!]

The meeting paused for a moment, then the same idea sprouted in the minds of the immoral people in each state...

Eventually, someone voiced it out.

[Arkansas: I understand, Madam President, but in that case, we may have to amend the law if we don’t restore the powers of the National Guard, it’s going to be tough...]

Miles’s face turned grim, but that emotion was buried inside. The lawmakers were left with a professional, unchanging indifference.

[President Miles: I’ll issue a presidential order right now, don’t disappoint me, the country’s future depends on patriots.]

[Arkansas: Haha, I understand... Zzz!]

Severe static noise was cancelled out by the noise reduction software, but everyone heard that momentary anomaly —

Even more anomalous was that the governors of Arkansas, Minnesota, and Illinois disappeared from the meeting simultaneously!

A deathly silence enveloped the cyber network— it was identical to the situation with the governors of the three states under attack!

At the same time, Miles received information observed by EBM through espionage satellites...

If the previous dizziness was like a crash from heaven, now it was as if someone had smashed her head fiercely.

[Colorado: Madam President... what happened?]

Miles was clenching her teeth so hard they might shatter:

[President Miles: Nuclear explosion.]

After speaking, she disconnected from the network and immediately switched to Military Technology’s internal network, issuing a series of command codes.

[Military Technology special command confirmed, instruction verification passed.]

[Air Combat Joint Unit activated, deploy code LOK6-BTA9-DPZ3-WKD6-SET1-ACX2]

[Nuclear arsenal ready.]

You’re not the only one with nuclear bombs?

Miles had completely lost her baseline: since Night City couldn’t be reclaimed, might as well nuke it.

After all, it’s just a city of seven million people.

In the air force military base, the launch platform slowly rose, and the airborne fortress for deploying high-yield nuclear bombs soared into the sky—

Though not sure how they managed such a long range, everyone has nuclear bombs.

And the sky, belongs only to Military Technology.

...

In Houston, as Peizhuo Petrochemical was engulfed in a sea of flames, Lille stood in the energy vault that hadn’t yet been affected by the explosions and fire —

The explosion at Peizhuo Petrochemical headquarters wasn’t caused by a bomb, but was instead an experiment...

A special method of compressed oil experimented by the Rocksen Company in the Marvel World.

Unfortunately, Lille didn’t observe anything unusual, which means the so-called "Singularity Particles" exist only in the Marvel World.

"Seems this idea isn’t correct..."

Spark Energy flowed, with the mechanical arms behind Lille plugged into a hydrogen-alcohol fuel tank extracting fuel.

Theoretically, Lille could maintain his state relying solely on the ark reactor at his chest but high-intensity combat consumes a lot and being at the world’s largest energy company headquarters, leaving without taking something would be a waste.

Moreover, cross-dimensional industrial grounds further enhanced the power brought to him, allowing him to share energy across different worlds, meaning he could lie in a giant power station in another world, burning the energy storage here fiercely.

The next battle was to take place in the sky.

Buzz——

The ark reactor on his chest emitted a low buzzing sound, as the mechanical prosthetics on his body were constantly transforming and making soft sounds under the prompt of Spark Energy, electric current infused, energy flowing, the thrusters located under his feet and at his back began to emit faint blue ions——

The iron body seemed like a giant beast awakening, all energy storage systems in motion, popping, tightening!

With his first step, the ground made a cracking sound under the heavy pressure, deeply dented, the thrusters instantly pushed to maximum power, rushing skyward!

Not only he has nuclear bombs, flying in the sky isn’t a privilege exclusive to Military Technology!

If these planes stayed hidden in the hangar, waiting for the company to develop more sophisticated combat methods, managing them would be really tough.

"Let’s see whom the sky belongs to."