Wenren Sheng understood as soon as he saw this.
Unless these soldiers used missiles from afar, covering the area with large-scale destructive weapons, it would be difficult to deal with these elite Martial Artists.
The problem was that this was in the middle of a bustling city.
And these people had only come to rob gold and jewelry; they posed no threat to the bigger picture.
Yet they would directly fire missiles at their own city.
Most people could not make such a decision under that kind of pressure.
How would they explain it afterward?
Use missiles against a group of robbers?
They stole several billion worth of jewelry and gold, while you fired missiles and destroyed tens of billions worth of buildings, injuring thousands in the process?
The robbers only used pressure-point strikes, but you killed even more people while catching them? Most people could not withstand that kind of pressure.
Firing guns and cannons was one thing, but launching missiles directly at one's own city was simply too shocking.
Unless one possessed great resolve and determination, it would be difficult to make such a decision decisively.
And these martial arts masters seemed to have studied this modern world long ago.
They had not acted on a whim without any preparation.
Thus, they succeeded once again.
Wenren Sheng now understood perfectly why they had sealed the pressure points of so many people.
They were being used as hostages.
Clearly, they knew the purpose of cameras and surveillance equipment.
They might even have known about the internet.
As long as a large number of hostages remained alive, machine guns and artillery could not be used freely.
Sniper rifles had to be used against them instead.
But although sniper rifles were powerful, these martial arts masters had keen instincts and could