Revenge
However the District Government's arrangements notwithstanding, more and more people were learning through their Jixin Terminals that, besides the Capital Prefecture, several other core cities had also been attacked.
Besides obvious targets like political and economic centers, the most important places in District 022 were technology cities specializing in instrument development, energy cities, and places concealing Super Dimensional Instruments and super-large instruments.
It was unclear whether these three categories overlapped, but the public was familiar with at least some of them. After discovering that nearly all the important core cities in the district had been attacked at the same time, the people realized this was no ordinary Attack Incident, but a large-scale attack capable of sweeping the entire district into war. It might even develop into a district-wide war...
Of course, things had not yet reached that point. Judging from the information disclosed through the Jixin Terminals, although many cities had been attacked, most were densely populated economic cities. Technology cities had also been attacked, but not many of them. As for the most important energy cities, there had been no activity so far.
If this really was a district-wide war between evenly matched sides, the attackers' first priority would be to destroy energy sources and advanced instruments, followed by taking hostages. In fact, if things truly reached the point of a district-wide war, taking hostages would be secondary. Ordinary people would be no more than sand and dust in a war of this scale, and the District Government certainly would not prioritize them.
But people were fragile. If fewer places had been attacked, the public might still have been willing to believe that the District Government would focus on the Capital Prefecture and arrange for people to properly handle the problem without letting any harm come to it.