Chapter 198 - 181: Welcoming the Dawn

Mercedes sorted out her thoughts: so now she had to continue pretending.

But on second thought, it wasn’t entirely pretense: Burger King not knowing the origin of the Lizard Man was intelligence in itself.

If that was the case, it made perfect sense that the Lizard Man related to biotechnology was then kidnapped by staff connected to the biodynamic system’s Night Wandering Ghost...

As an agent whose background was in intelligence, she was quite familiar with the process of insiders and outsiders colluding to sabotage a company, and she could handle it with ease.

However, to fully solidify the version Burger King had spun, those responsible for reviewing intelligence had to cooperate.

And when it came to these reviewers, the fewer, the better—ideally, only she would remain.

The watch commander involved in the operation at the border had to die—and the breakthrough was at the border wall.

How many people were in the border force?

The soldiers on record, two divisions, the southern high wall section had 536 including dedicated logistics and technical personnel, totaling 661.

Ninety-eight combat personnel had been killed tonight, which was no small loss.

The number was small because the military technology border forces were a highly automated border patrol force—

Here, border duty was generally quite simple: unpermitted approachees were to be shot on sight, with no need to consider other circumstances.

If you have nothing to hide, why not go through a border checkpoint?

Hence, apart from checkpoints and some maintenance and power stations on both sides of the high wall, there was no need for human guards.

Countless Griffin and Octant drones patrolled 24 hours a day, and anyone coming within a thousand meters of the wall was immediately shot down.

The energy for these unmanned drones was largely supplied by wireless solar panels scattered near the high wall.

These panels captured solar energy, used radio frequency technology to power the drones near the high wall, and were not far from the drone defense zones, almost defending each other.

Yet, precisely because of this relationship, if one could hack into the solar power stations, one could infiltrate the drone swarm.

At the very least, it was possible to hack the nearby drones through the solar station and create a gap for an attacking convoy.

Hence, these scattered solar power stations were the border forces’ heavily monitored areas.

Given the vastness of this area, this entire armored squad’s unavailability would indeed create a significant gap in security operations for those solar power stations in Evil Land.

Breaking through a couple of these power stations was not a problem.

Mo Xi leading the charge to dismantle the border wall was a big deal, significant for the border forces.

Once the breakthrough succeeded, that commander’s life was at risk; he had to deploy emergency defenses, and sitting in the office at that point would be almost laughable.

Lure him out, then take him down on the spot. The only eyewitness involved in the event would be her, perfectly obscuring and covering up the gaps in the story fabricated by Burger King.

To deceive the company, now she had to involve outsiders, and Mercedes had to see this path through to the end.

Lille’s voice appeared in Mercedes’ head:

"Listen, I’ve installed some discreet backdoors in your head; don’t think you’re out of my reach once you leave here.

You must remember, I saved your life this time, and your life is still in my hands.

After you return, you must not skimp on anything I want."

Mercedes’s body trembled slightly: this was the weakness caused by the loss of maintenance on her prosthetics after severe injuries.

Lille had given her preliminary treatment, but it was only enough to keep her from dying.

"...You’re asking for too much, the backdoors will be discovered by the company..."

"You’re not in a position to make demands, Director Stott—really, doing business with us, you’ve made a good profit; you figure out how to hide this little backdoor yourself."

In fact, Lille wasn’t worried about the secrecy of the backdoors.

These backdoors were linked to machines of the Marvel World; as long as no commands were issued, there would be no problem.

Even if commands were sent, how would military technology trace a signal from another world?

The high wall appeared in the distance along with the military technology solar stations.

"There are three hours left until dawn, last operation tonight, everyone stay sharp."

Mo Xi rapidly approached the solar station, the guards raised their hands, wanting to check identities—

but were met with gunfire instead!

Boom!

Every missile from Mo Xi launched, several military technology soldiers standing around the Bimong Armored Vehicle were engulfed in the explosion.

V lay on top of Mo Xi, shooting the driver’s head inside the vehicle.

Jack leaped from Mo Xi, taking down all remaining forces with the two deliberately captured alive in his hands, throwing them toward the maintenance port.

Lille got out of Mo Xi and jumped to the maintenance port, blacked out the unlucky duo’s systems, and then by bridging through it, bypassed the military ICE at the substation.

Looking back at the sky—the area’s drones were fast approaching the station, they were the only barrier to breaking through the controlled area.

The border forces’ main patrol consisted of drones, and ordinarily only two Mo Xi and two Valgris units were on duty; now one of each was here, the other still several kilometers away in another sector!

Once the drones went offline, breaching the wall with Mo Xi would just take a minute or two!

The approaching drones suddenly paused in mid-air, their red indicator lights flashing, soon turning green, dropping toward the two Bimong Armored Vehicles behind them.