"Everyone in the Dawn Consortium, listen up! You're surrounded. Surrender immediately. Anyone who resists... dies!"
Alpha Wolf's voice rang throughout the Twin Towers.
"Damn it, someone's breached our system."
Someone immediately realized what had happened.
"Quick, everyone get ready for combat! We have enemies incoming!"
The earlier gunfire might not have been enough to prove anything.
But now the Dawn Consortium's senior officers were certain they were under attack.
And the enemy was most likely Dead Mine Town.
Under orders from their superiors, some began gathering people and putting on equipment, while others tried to contact the other sections.
But they soon discovered that, aside from speaking face-to-face or shouting through walls, every radio, walkie-talkie, and other communication device had stopped working.
On top of that, the electronic doors in every section were locked tight. If they wanted to reach another section, there was only one way.
They would have to blast their way through.
But the few heavy weapons in the Twin Towers were normally kept in the ammunition depot. With the sections sealed off, they had no way to get those weapons.
Even if they had explosives, the Twin Towers were the Dawn Consortium's headquarters. Years of continuous modifications had been made with a single goal: turning this place into the strongest possible fortress.
The electronic doors all had high protection ratings, but now they had become the strongest bars of the prison trapping them.
"Commander Alpha Wolf, the Twin Towers' weapon and ammunition depots have been sealed. All internal communications have been cut off, and every floor and section has been isolated..."
The voice of the operator aboard the Phantom electronic warfare armored vehicle came through.
Alpha Wolf knew it was time to strike.
"Pioneer Corps, move out!"
At his command, the Pioneer Corps members who had