'This is the Qinggang Defense Center. I hereby announce that you have illegally entered our protected Industrial Zone. Put down your weapons and surrender immediately, or we will launch a blanket assault!'
'Put down your weapons, and we will overlook your previous crimes. You have ten minutes to withdraw. Otherwise...'
'It will be a fight to the death.'
"Not a chance."
Bang.
A bullet shot from a Marauders' gun barrel and struck the rumbling loudspeaker dead-on. The "noise" coming from it abruptly ceased.
Put down their weapons?
Not happening.
In less than twenty minutes, the entire Industrial Zone had already been completely engulfed in the flames of war. Explosions raged through the factories, and countless materials were destroyed in the sea of fire.
The pampered guards of the Qinggang Shelter were especially no match for the wanderers.
Without their advantages in equipment and morale, thousands had become casualties of the war almost as soon as the two sides clashed.
The ground was littered with severed limbs and broken bodies. Black-red blood gushed through the sewers like rainfall.
For the vengeful Mole People, such a heavy loss was enough to make torturing everyone to death over three days seem merciful.
The wanderers weren't fools. They could naturally tell whether the other side truly wanted them to surrender or was merely trying to slow down their destruction.
As a result, they sped up their destruction even further.
Many wanderers who couldn't carry away the supplies hardened their hearts and threw Molotov cocktails into factory warehouses before leaving.
"Burn it! Burn everything we can't take with us!"
"The bigger the fire, the more it'll distract them from chasing us!"
"They say we can ignore all this destruction as long as we leave now? Who are they kidding? Do they really think the crimes