Chapter 1244 The Cost of Power, Waste Street
Compared with Ava, some of UPL's operations are suspected of being pig teammates.
UPL didn't even ask Ava's opinion, so the gang in Mine Town launched an operation against the workers' association.
From the point of view of fishing, the gang did a good job, and after killing and injuring dozens of people from the labor association, they successfully fished out the wolf extermination team.
However, the 'wolf extermination' was not in vain, they did not carry out hostage rescue, but launched a sweep of the black gang's lair.
Three people in groups, and the wolf exterminated nearly three hundred people.
That is, about a hundred battle groups are operating at the same time.
Kane only doesn't need to collect combatants as a source of clones, as he has a high-end and comprehensive GI personality template.
These templates are set on the members of the wolf extermination team, so that they have a very strong combat quality while not being afraid of death, supplemented by the biotechnology of the evil god cell series, and the weapon technology of the super era, compared to the black gang, they can be regarded as all heroic units.
With this operation, the Wolf Slayer team once again showed the world how professional they are as war machines. In less than 20 minutes, the gang that had been entrenched in the pit town for decades was wiped out, and the death rate of its members was as high as 90%.
In other words, in addition to one reason or another, the rest of the gang members who happened to be not in the pit town and who did not do anything to the laborers' mutual aid association were killed.
And the members of the gang who kidnapped the meat ticket killed all the hostages in desperation, and then carried out indiscriminate massacres in the neighborhood, but they were defeated not long after the beginning.
The fate of this part of the gang members is very miserable, the things they care about most with their own eyes are ravaged and destroyed, and the wolves don't care whether the destroyed person is innocent or not, they just want to express an attitude, offend them, and repay them tenfold. As for those who are alone, it is considered luck to dare to commit suicide before the punishment comes, otherwise they will be tormented by life worse than death.
The battle did not end with the destruction of the gangs. UPL finally led to the target, how could it be so easy to let go?
Their military operations department developed a two-pronged strategy.
On the one hand, strong combat units were assembled to launch tactical attacks on the wolf extermination team.
On the other hand, space-based weapons are used to strike at the area with the greatest concentration of combat power, that is, the hostage killing site.
In order to be able to destroy a large number of enemy targets at one time, the military operations department ignored the objective problem of a large number of ordinary people being affected.
However, just before the space-based weapon could be put into position and attempted to wield its power, it was destroyed by a planetary cannon that suddenly appeared from a mountain near Mine Town.
The smart artillery shell flew directly out of the atmosphere, and after the hit, it exploded violently, causing another explosion, and the space-based weapon station was shattered, and most of the fragments fell into the atmosphere and turned into a meteor shower.
Immediately afterwards, the UPL military operations department was mobilized and deployed in the vicinity, and the light fleet, which was used as a reserve, came under artillery fire.
What made the UPL military operations department cry out in horror was the ultra-high-speed physical shells, as well as the extremely accurate hit rate, 100% hits, twelve guns, a total of 100 scattered guns, none of them missed, even the stall flew down, and the shipboard AI could not accurately judge its own trajectory A battle cruiser was successfully mended twice, and it exploded in the air and turned into a big fire.
This incident can be said to have directly shattered UPL's last illusion that it has the ability to crush this evil force in terms of military force.
Originally, they felt that they had at least the right to control the track, and even the right to control the air, but the evil forces were naturally passive, and they were unable to prove that they were short or long.
He also felt that the evil forces were only lightly armed, and could only carry out military operations in the form of assassins, and were powerless to deal with the frontal battlefield.
But with the advent of the planet cannon, professionals analyze that this evil force is simply a veteran, they are not lacking in technology and military productivity, but walking on a style path that is very different from the mainstream military system of the Star Alliance. Its special technical level is only stronger than that of Star Alliance.
The strongest evidence for this inference is not the planetary cannon, but the underground towns.
UPL's spies, using nanomaterials hidden in their clothes, successfully made their own positioning devices to mark the location of Paradise Town. Although it was not long and was mistaken by UPL for a time that there was a problem with the equipment, UPL finally chose to believe that the lair of the evil forces was hundreds of kilometers underground.
UPL also knew that there were many super domes underneath the planet, but it still couldn't imagine building a nest in the mantle layer hundreds of kilometers above the vertical surface, where the environment was no longer as harsh.
Of course, in the final analysis, the main thing is that the capital is not profitable, the cost of underground development is relatively very high, there is not enough profit, and capital will not support related technology research and development.
Therefore, space can go, but the earth cannot go.
Now that you're encountering an enemy with that type of technology, your desire to quickly take it down will naturally come to naught.
Moreover, UPL's experts also made up the reason why this evil force recruited miners and waste pickers for Mao, and learned from each other's strengths, the other party stole the Star Alliance's mining, waste screening and recycling technology, but there were no people who were good at using these technologies, so they recruited and raised them, learned their special experience, and even professional ideas.
Some UPL experts even believe that the evil forces are underground civilizations. The cause of this is likely to be formed at a certain stage, when the humans of this planet escaped underground and took refuge. And the civilization mostly continued the utopian public ownership, and the wealth was shared.
Such a system is still more suitable for the lack of materials and small group communities. Later, inertia was formed, and the system continued. The closed social atmosphere and the relatively limited population have become the basic conditions for 'everyone for one, one for everyone, each performing his own duties, and putting an end to laziness'.
It is precisely because of this that these people hate capital extremely and believe that it is the ultimate depravity that actually subverts their cognition.
UPL's bigwigs don't take this inference too seriously. They are not scholars, they are not interested in thinking and speculating, they only care about objective facts.
The objective fact now is that this evil force is even more difficult than they expected, and it has already caught the snake by surprise.
According to the information obtained so far, this evil lair (Paradise Town) under Mine Town is only a newly opened settlement of the other party, and it is unknown where its headquarters is, and how many people and sub-nests it has.
However, it is an indisputable fact that the other side has a military-industrial system and combat units that are not weak and very distinctive.
Compared with these, in fact, the UPL bosses are more concerned about the ability of the other party in terms of intelligence.
Whether it is obtaining intelligence in a timely manner, firing at the enemy before it does, destroying space-based weapons, or destroying the Aerospace Fleet without missing a bullet, it has once again confirmed the ability of this force in terms of intelligence.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that it is hiding in the shadows, and it is likely that it has carried out intelligence espionage work many years ago, while the Star Alliance is in the open, and its forces are relatively scattered and passive everywhere.
However, regardless of the reason, it is an indisputable fact that the intelligence war itself is several points behind the other side.
This aspect cannot be reversed, and oneself will be passive and controlled by others everywhere.
However, Ava, who has made the most outstanding progress in intelligence, has fallen into passivity because of the fact that her own side has been in this round of operations. It may even collapse at once.
So the current situation can be said to be very bad, not just the loss of a light fleet, a space-based weapons battle, a few combatants and a small city of night pot people.
Among the UPL bosses, some people even proposed to convene a conference to deal with this evil force with an attitude towards the enemy country.
Naturally, some people raised contradictory opinions and asked if this was a bit too trivial.
Asking such a question is not all about really despising this evil force. But the power of the UPL is implemented, and there is also a cost.
The essence of UPL is to ensure that the capital harvests leeks smoothly.
There are no thieves in the world, which is about equal to less cost and good effect. OK! This leadership team is very nice.
On the other hand, if you suddenly want to hold a conference, it means that you are in trouble and need to pay additional expenses?
The capitalists are not very sympathetic to the hardships of the UPL managers, they will only say, the apportionment fee is not less to you, and you can use the authority given by the organizational structure to work for your own benefit, we also open our eyes and close our eyes to admit it, but the result is that you are too incompetent in the professional aspect you have done, or are you too hateful, so that the hounds lack food, drink, training, weapons, and even the ability to catch thieves?
The capitalists don't believe it, or they don't want to believe it, that there is a sudden emergence of such a new enemy that needs to be treated from the perspective of an enemy country, and that it jumps out of the cracks in the stones? Who is bluffing? An enemy that can wrestle with the Star Alliance does not need to develop and grow to take shape? It is better to say that it is more reliable to say that aliens are coming.
The key is evidence, and without enough evidence, there is no way to make a bunch of capitalists pay for it.
Even if you know that UPL is correct, it is not a trivial matter to treat the enemy country now, but to prevent trouble before it happens, and to kill the enemy in the cradle stage, you will pretend to be crazy and stupid with a conscience because of interests.
As for the heinous actions of the evil forces and magnates, in the eyes of these people, they are likely to be seen as opportunities.
It's just right, clean up the competitors, and it's a clean kill, not even a direct heir. The serious professional assassination team may not be able to do it so neatly. The vacated share of the cake will naturally be devoured by us when the situation stabilizes a little. Another wave of fat and delicious meat, ho!
It is precisely because of such a series of reasons that it is said that there is a cost to exercising power. Some powers, used beautifully, are equivalent to the cost of self-destruction.
Take this conference as an example, this conference was held, and it led to a large-scale military operation, so that several integrated fleets surrounded this planet, and then launched a series of attacks, even if everything goes well, this leadership team, most of them have done their job, don't think about being re-elected or anything, this is the result of what the capital father said.
Whoever controls the financial power is the real boss, and the politicians are just golden workers who serve capital. If the performance is not good, of course you have to get out.
And when several bigwigs of the UPL Standing Committee Council were in a dilemma about these things, Kane, the initiator, had already appeared in Hengguang City.
Hengguang City is the base camp of UA International, with a population of 130 million, a typical first-class giant city, and is divided into three regions.
Xiacheng District includes a commercial area called Waste Street, and most people directly refer to Waste Street as Xiacheng District.
There are few people in Zhongcheng District who call it Zhongcheng District, but call it a metropolitan area, taking the meaning of metropolis.
The Shangcheng District is known as the Cloud District. The area is indeed high enough, the average height is above the low rain clouds, most of the time you look around by the railing, and the dark clouds rolling like sea waves are under your feet, which is worthy of the name of the cloud area. At the same time, the district is also a paradise for the powerful. It's the kind of normal tip that just goes out to the door is enough for an adult on the waste street to make ends meet for two or three months.
Kane didn't have much interest in either the cloud district or the metro area. He likes to look at the grassroots ecology.
Although many well-known big Vs say that in this era, the progress of human beings has nothing to do with the bottom, and they can be completely replaced by automated machinery.
The starting point is the middle class, and if you mix well, you will enter the elite, and this social structure can truly represent the current level of human civilization.
To put it bluntly, people at the bottom should no longer be regarded as people, but as big animals. But in Kane's view, the people at the bottom are still the base of the pyramid of human civilization in this world.
There are many problems that cannot be looked at from an economic point of view alone. It is not what scientists say, as long as the population base is guaranteed to ensure that the abundance of the gene pool is at least guaranteed, human beings do not need to worry about the extinction of the population.
On this topic, Kane felt that it was useless to say more, and it was better to do it.
He's going to play big, isn't this society indifferent to the bottom, yes, I'll take it all, and you continue to show off your high-tech elite civilization.
However, this plan is obviously a bit too grandiose, after all, the Star Alliance has a population of more than 120 billion, of which it can be regarded as an integer at the bottom, and his plan is tantamount to emptying the population.
But it is man-made, with the technology he has mastered, once the industrial system reaches a certain level, it will begin to expand at a geometric speed, and it is far from being able to meet the productivity and facilities conditions to support 120 billion people. So it's something to look forward to.
So over the years, his main task has been waves.
To put it better, it is to make a name for yourself.
But in essence, knowing whether you are unknown is not the point, the power is big, the fist is big enough, and at that time, it will directly grab the population, and the Star Alliance can only be in a hurry.
If you want to talk about cyberpunk style, the waste slag street of Hengguang City is really very tasteful. Forever cloudy days, eternal cold rain, eternal neon light pollution, eternal cold and gloomy and fiery vitality coexist.
120 million people, more than 110 million at the bottom, such a big plate, not any gang can dominate the rivers and lakes, and UA International does not allow this kind of super night pot to exist.
Therefore, the waste slag street is very Jianghu, and there is no shortage of weapons and firefights, nor is there a lack of all kinds of crooked ways.
However, Kane is not interested in being slaughtered as Kai Zi like Glory Street in Mine Town, so two groups of cyber puppets have one group to follow in disguise.
There are police, military police, on Waste Street. And their main meal is to arrest people and fine, so they work harder, which also makes the implementation of the gun ban relatively good.
Of course, on the other hand, in this era of prosthetics, if you can't play with a few guns, you are embarrassed to say that you are a mess.
Therefore, all kinds of bizarre pistols, trolls (shotguns), energy guns, and so on are popular, and the creativity is addictive.
But the ban on guns is useful after all, at least it is rare to see high-power continuous rifles, and there are even fewer RPGs, machine guns, etc., which limits the intensity of the black gang's fierceness and even the mode to a considerable extent, plus seeking profit is the main goal, so the waste scum street is just more waste, and it has not yet become a battlefield.
In this context, the uniform dress of the cyber puppet who followed Kane's high-level molecular raincoat not only looks stylish, but also proves to a considerable extent that it is not easy to mess with. Thus there is a lot less right and wrong.
But after all, someone still tested the waters, and the first spy sent out was a boy in his teens.
In Waste Street, 90% of children of this age who are still active on the street after 21 o'clock at night are pickpockets.
One of the means of survival of such pickpockets is to take advantage of people's poor compassion and the tolerant instinct for the 'young beasts' derived from genetic inheritance. Once he was caught, his uncle begged for mercy and was let go.
If not, their backstage will appear, and in this world this kind of gangster who manages children is called a little dad or a young dad.
The tentative boy wielded a thin blade sharper than a scalpel between his fingers and brushed his body to scratch the coat of a cyberpuppet.
It's not stealing, it's material inspection.
The cyber golem easily stopped the boy's movements, and then reached out and twisted his head off.
This kind of performance, even in the Waste Street, is not very common, and two women standing on the street nearby witnessed the whole process, and one of them couldn't help but cry out in her voice, which attracted more people's sideways glances and surprises, and then showed a look of fear and resentment at the same time, and hastened to leave. There are also people who use the communication device built into the prosthesis to call the police.
Kane, meanwhile, points to a man in the crowd who looks like a cyberbiker.
The two cyber puppets immediately rushed over like the wind.
The man was stunned for a moment, then ran away, and flicked his arm, trying to use the energy hidden in the prosthetic forearm to hold back the enemy.
But the speed of the cyber puppet is too fast. Before he could take aim, he was already close, and 'click!', and the man's arm was snapped.
The other reached out and pinched the man's spine, pierced, clenched, and pulled, directly withdrawing the alloy spine and the skull.
With the body falling, blue blood flowing, the cyber puppet carries the head connected by the backbone, and returns to Kane to take his life.
Kane looked at the artificial blood vessels that functioned like arteries and were still bubbling blue blood, as well as the head with half of the artificial skin missing, revealing the alloy skull inside, and said, "I know you can hear, tell me what you know, and you'll have a chance to hold out until the police come to save your life." ”......
Three minutes later, Kane nodded, and the cyber puppet knotted the artificial blood vessel, making it stop the blue blood, and then hung the boy's head on a neon sign that was quite domineering nearby, and then quickly chased Kane and his party and left.
After another two minutes, the police arrived, and after some inquiry, it was decided to abandon the pursuit for the time being.
Kane, however, had no intention of stopping the trouble......