Without a doubt, the raiders had been "professional." They seemed to have left behind no obvious trail and almost no survivors.
After an inspection, Cheng Kai confirmed that the surveillance equipment and recordings at this internal transfer point had been tampered with in advance. Even a preset circuit board had been burned beyond recovery, leaving little of value to trace.
The clear involvement of an insider drew a string of cold laughs from him.
But the trail had gone cold.
As the first "temporary reinforcements" to arrive, Li Yun and the others stayed for a while. It was nearly half an hour before more personnel from nearby hurried to the scene.
There was no helping it. Traffic in the city was terrible, vehicles could not get through, and communications remained unstable. Those who could arrive quickly had mostly been close enough to make the forced march on foot.
Worse, the people arriving brought fresh news: during the earlier hours of "night," this station had been far from the only public facility or group of personnel attacked!
Unidentified people had deliberately stirred up conflict, steering crowds already gripped by disappointment and agitation through the city's erratic light. While spreading chaos, they had swept civilians into attacks on valuable warehouses and research sites, drawing away security forces and their attention so they could strike from the shadows!
Setting aside a few locations that appeared to be decoys, the primary targets all seemed to be small sites connected to spiritual energy materials or related research!
In truth, even during those few hours of "night," many incidents that had looked ordinary in public had been anything but accidents born of an enraged crowd!
Most had likely been planned long ago. When unexpected conditions suddenly presented themselves, the perpetrators had launched strikes on multiple fronts!