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Chapter 1159: A Thick Fog Blurs the Sight (Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 1159: Chapter 1159: A Thick Fog Blurs the Sight (Vote for Monthly Ticket)

"From a surface military objective, their target is indeed us,"

Following He Ao’s gaze, Owai looked at the troops constructing the fortress. "They first attempted using a traitor to attack. When that failed, they resorted to besieging the city to force our surrender,"

He frowned slightly, "If their goal is ’to siege,’ all of these actions make sense."

"Then why would they want to siege the city?"

He Ao rubbed his forehead, looking towards Owai, "General Owai, if you were to breach a city, what would be your reason for doing so?"

"From the perspective of a frontline commander, I only need to obey orders,"

Owai pondered, "But if I were the commander behind the scenes, the essence of war is to obtain victory. My enemy resides within this city, and he occupies it,"

He glanced at He Ao before continuing, "I must breach the city walls, kill him, and take control of the city."

"Yes, but there might be another possibility,"

He Ao, with head lowered, softly replied, "In some way, this city has a critical role. Seizing it doesn’t mean victory, but it could help achieve victory."

Owai’s thoughts actually leaned more towards the idea that the two Mercenary Corps had come for ’Suote’, and to assist the two corporations’ subsidiaries in taking over Minte City completely.

But, is it really necessary to mobilize all agents of the Church of Chaos and deploy both corporations’ Mercenary Corps just to deal with ’Suote’?

When Owai met He Ao, he had displayed remarkable ability, seizing control of the situation with a strong hand, which naturally led him to believe that the two corporations’ Mercenary Corps had come to deal with He Ao.

But in fact, before the Copy World began, the two corporations’ Mercenary Corps had already arrived.

’Suote’, at the end of the day, is just an ordinary C-class. His past achievements were largely due to the authority of his position as deputy chief of staff and the energy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Coming back to his own strength, he is just a rather strong old-school C-class.

To kill such a C-class, the two corporations dispatched a team of tiplike-poisoned Federal Bureau of Investigation traitors, a cultist named Carlo who is far superior to a typical B-class, and a bunch of Chaotic Believers armed with heavy firepower.

This is already an extremely over-the-top ’assassination’ configuration, such a setup could even take down a typical B-class without issues.

Had He Ao not appeared, this configuration would have been more than sufficient to bring down ’Suote’.

Even He Ao, when his Super Memory was not at B-class, would have had difficulty surviving in such a situation.

This fits the two corporations’ and the Order Church’s ’perception’ of ’Suote’s’ power, and the measures they had genuinely arranged to deal with ’Suote’.

As for the later appearance of the two main Mercenary Corps, if they were indeed meant to handle ’Suote’, it would be an understatement to call it overkill; it’s akin to using a Sky Behemoth to swat a mosquito.

When closing the gates of North City, He Ao had once encountered a suspected high-ranking member of the West Iron and Steel Mercenary Corps, a B-class individual.

The West Iron and Steel Mercenary Corps in the north brought a B-class individual, while the Note Intelligence in the south, with a market value even higher than West Iron and Steel, would likely have a B-class configuration for their Mercenary Corps as well.

A B-class Leader with a fully equipped Mercenary Corps is almost the standard setup for a main force Mercenary Corps.

Some smaller corporations can’t even muster such a configuration, unable to hire a B-class Transcendent or afford high-end weapons.

The firepower of such a main force Mercenary Corps can breach any small city.

In the last Copy World battle for Yilan City, only three such main force Mercenary Corps were deployed, and there were only two B-classes among them.

Yilan City is the Federation’s fourth-largest city, with a population nearing ten million.

Minte City, on the other hand, is a small city with a population of only one or two million and no particular specialties.

Two main force Mercenary Corps laying siege to the city, and inside there’s Denock, the Church of Chaos branch Leader capable of killing a typical B-class with his eyes closed, as their ’collaborator’.

If they were truly coming for someone, He Ao reckoned even the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation wouldn’t receive such grand treatment.

He Ao is well aware of his own capabilities; he’s not worth this high a configuration.

’Suote’s’ title as deputy chief of staff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is also not worth this much commotion.

Mobilizing a Mercenary Corps is no easy feat; personnel salaries, logistical support, and troop deployment—even the sound of the wheels means money flowing out like water.

Every time He Ao used his identity as Vian to mobilize the Nolanka Mercenary Corps, he would receive a costly bill.

Of course, by the time he received the bill, he’d already be lying back in his Coffin.

As a powerful industrial group, the Nolanka Group can produce many things themselves.

Furthermore, the soldiers of the Nolanka Mercenary Corps are mostly from the group’s internal employees and Kaye City residents. Carefully selected from good families, the soldiers possess a strong sense of belonging and honor towards the group, which keeps the costs of military mobilization from being too high — making the overall bill not too expensive.

Ordinary large corporations would have even greater expenses.

The presence of these two main force Mercenary Corps signifies astronomical military costs.

’Suote’ is not worth that much money; this configuration was not meant for him.

This could be inferred from the fact that when Dailot called He Ao, it was evident he didn’t have much preparation, which means the Order Church itself did not expect ’Suote’ to escape assassination or to reverse the situation.

Particularly after learning about the ’attackers’ above the wilderness and especially after obtaining the two corporations’ ’purpose’ in dealing with the attackers from their data repository.

He Ao had considered that the two major corporations might have sent the Mercenary Corps to clear the Wilderness Wanderers.

So he went to see Xiya.

And the intelligence Xiya gave him was that the attackers were actually not strong, just a makeshift team of Wilderness Wanderers trying to survive.

The security forces of the two major corporations were more than enough to suppress these Wilderness Wanderers.

That is to say, the reason ’the Mercenary Corps came for the attackers’ is fundamentally impossible, the two major corporations are not afraid of the attackers at all.

And the reason that the two major corporations came for interests in Minte City also doesn’t hold water.

Because before He Ao appeared, Minte City was already under the control of the two major corporations, even Lokte, fundamentally tends to cooperate with the two major corporations.

The benefits that Lokte wants, compared to the military expenditures of the two main forces of the Mercenary Corps, are negligible.

Rather, the action of killing Lokte and his party seems ’somewhat unreasonable’.

If the two major corporations simply wanted to make money in Minte City, Lokte is not the best partner, but he is not bad either.

Tracing back from these points, whether it’s for Suote, for the attackers, or for the interests in Minte City, they all seem like ’inducements’ that the two major corporations publicly put forth to make people think in that direction.

Putting aside these superficial reasons and merely looking at the actions of the two major corporations, He Ao could only come to one conclusion.

That is the two major corporations came for ’Minte City,’ unrelated to interests, people, or the Wilderness Wanderers around Minte City, and possibly not even much related to Minte City itself.

Their purpose was purely to control Minte City, a complete and unhindered control of Minte City.

So they wanted to kill Lokte in Minte City, who had a certain appeal and would hinder their entry into the city, and urgently activate the Church of Chaos and the Dark Seeds buried within the City Defense Army, attempting to break through the city gates and control the city in the shortest time possible.

But from this perspective, the behavior of the two major Mercenary Corps not being eager to attack and instead besieging the city cannot be explained.

Do they think that surrounding Minte City is nearly the same as controlling Minte City?

However, they must be anxious, otherwise, the Order Church would not have specifically called to ’persuade surrender.’

"What do you mean?"

Owai, standing beside He Ao, looked at He Ao, somewhat not understanding what He Ao had just said.

"I was just thinking,"

He Ao spoke slowly, "The corporations never make a losing deal, the expense of mobilizing troops is astronomical, they are doing this, spending so much cost, there must be the possibility of gaining far more than what they spent."

He paused, looking at the table in front of him, pondering, "The cost they’ve incurred is actually hard to recoup from Minte City,

"After all, Minte City has always been under their control, the profit they obtain from this action compared to the normal benefits they would get, that difference is their actual ’profit’ through this action."

"But they have already squeezed Minte City to the limit before, such a small city like ours can hardly provide higher benefits to them, it’s not likely for them to make money, you mean,"

Viko, who was beside him, realized something and pondered, "Their target is not Minte City? Capturing and controlling Minte City is just a step they take to achieve their ultimate goal?"

"Their target isn’t in Minte City,"

Owai at the side was slightly startled, he seemed to have some difficulty accepting the guess of the two, knowing what it means if the guess was correct.

But then he realized, this guess might be the closest to the truth, his voice lowered, he asked softly, "Then where is it?"

"Don’t know."

He Ao shook his head lightly, he raised his wristband and connected the data cable on the table to his wristband.

The screen on the tablet on the table changed rapidly, forming a large three-dimensional map of Minte City and the surrounding wilderness.

Everyone’s gaze fell on the three-dimensional map.

The map roughly depicted the structure of Minte City and the trajectories of the Mercenary Corps surrounding Minte City.

Outside the towering city and the densely packed Mercenary Corps, the area was covered with a thin mist.

He Ao looked at everyone and spoke slowly, "Our field of view is limited; we can only see a corner of the mist."

The information they could see and access was too little, they couldn’t restore the true essence of the events.

Owai clearly understood what He Ao said, he lowered his head, gazing at the scene in the screen, after a brief pause, he turned back, looking at He Ao, "What do we do next?"

"Wait,"

He Ao lowered his head, watching the soldiers outside the city walls on the screen, "Let’s see if they are really not in a hurry."

Owai looked at the man beside him, knowing that ’Suote’ must have some other arrangements that were not convenient to be directly exposed at the moment, and he also knew that he was becoming involved in a vortex that was probably far more terrifying and immense than he had anticipated.

But for some reason, he did not feel afraid but somewhat excited, like someone who has been underground for too long suddenly seeing the sunlight, with his dormant heart uncontrollably starting to beat violently.

At this time, He Ao seemed to remember something, turned his head back, looking at Owai, "How is the situation at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Building?"