"That means internal strife!"
Everyone was stunned.
Lin Shigong continued his analysis:
"An uncontrollable, massive internal conflict must have broken out in Freedom Underground City!"
"Someone was driven into a corner and used nuclear bombs to take everyone down with them!"
The deduction sent everyone's scalp tingling.
What kind of ruthless person would carpet-bomb their own underground city with nuclear weapons?
"Report the anomaly here to our superiors immediately!" Lin Shigong ordered decisively.
This was too serious. Nothing involving a nuclear explosion was a small matter.
"Also, mobilize reconnaissance satellites immediately. I want the entire fifty-kilometer radius around Freedom Underground City locked down!"
"Focus on the surface. See if anyone slips out."
"If there are survivors, send a special service team with World Tree branches to bring them back for questioning. I want to know exactly what happened inside!"
"Yes! We're urgently requisitioning satellites from other regions. They're changing orbits now!"
Time ticked by, second by second.
The giant screen in the Command Center was divided into several feeds, overlooking the ice field from every angle without a single blind spot.
Suddenly, an intensely blinding burst of white light erupted on screen three!
Even through the screen, they could feel its world-destroying power.
An enormous fireball rose, instantly melting the ancient permafrost. A mushroom cloud mixed with solid ice, mud, and rock burst across the surface and shot into the sky.
"The blast reached the surface?" Lin Shigong's brow twitched violently.
Freedom Underground City was at least several hundred, if not a thousand, meters underground.
For this nuclear explosion to erupt on the surface, they must have dug a tunnel through!
Had they used a nuclear explosion to blast through the last layer to the surface?
Did the people inside really no longer care whether they lived?
"Deploy the newly