Lin Shigong took a deep breath, his chest heaving as he forced down his surging emotions.
He realized he had lost his composure just now, too. After letting it out, he felt much better.
He stopped looking at the carnage on the screen, his eyes regaining their reassuring steadiness and cold severity.
He could not fall apart.
If he did, those lives would have been thrown away for nothing.
He demanded coldly:
"Is the Antimatter Bomb ready?"
A middle-aged staff officer immediately stood up.
"Sir, everything is in place."
"The Antimatter Bomb is enclosed in a special safe made of Zheng Gold, secured aboard a modified heavy military vehicle."
"Even if the Demon God happens to step on it, it will remain intact and can still be detonated."
"The vehicle is currently stationed at the G7 Node in the Third Layer's main passage, escorted by a special operations squad."
The staff officer paused, his voice dropping:
"Under the contingency plan, once the Demon God enters the Underground City, the vehicle will immediately move to the nearest detonation point."
"Every member of that special operations squad... has signed a volunteer declaration."
Signed a volunteer declaration.
That meant those dozen or so brothers all knew that once the Antimatter Bomb went off, not even ashes would remain for kilometers around.
They were going to their deaths, the kind that would not even leave an intact body.
Lin Shigong nodded without dwelling on the heavy subject.
"Has the city been cleared?"
"Completely!" the staff officer answered crisply.
"Apart from the special operations squad escorting the bomb and our Command Center personnel, not a single person remains in Tianxiong Underground City."
"The city's power, communications, and essential maintenance systems have all been taken over by AI and robots."
Lin Shigong looked around the Command