"What a patient viper."
Zhou Shan's voice carried a chill as he immediately gave his orders:
"All infantry in the D7 Section, withdraw immediately!"
"Abandon your supplies and retreat at full speed! Do not look back!"
"Send every nearby fifth-order combat robot over there!"
"Keep it pinned down right there!"
He paused, then gritted his teeth and issued his final order.
"Logistics team, prepare a hundred-kiloton nuclear bomb."
The clatter of keyboards stopped for an instant.
A hundred kilotons.
Detonated inside a completely enclosed Underground City.
This was not as simple as blowing up a street. It would destroy D7 and the two adjacent sections, foundations and all!
"What are you waiting for? Execute the order!" Zhou Shan slammed his fist onto the desk.
"That's seventh order!"
"We can't overwhelm it with fifth-order robots, and conventional firepower is useless!"
"Have a fifth-order robot carry the nuclear bomb to D7 and detonate it in its face!"
"I'd rather destroy three sections than let this thing run rampant inside Tianxiong City. Otherwise, we're all finished!"
The staff officers hesitated. One of them asked:
"Can a hundred kilotons kill it?"
"The seventh-order Demon Venerables we killed before took at least two hundred kilotons."
Zhou Shan said:
"That was because they moved too fast, so we needed high-yield nuclear bombs to cover a wide area."
"This is different. We only need to pin it down in a fixed area and make sure it's caught at the center of the blast."
"Otherwise, if we use a nuclear bomb over two hundred kilotons inside the city, our entire division will be done for."
"Yes, sir!" The staff officers hesitated no longer, and orders raced through the Underground City's network.
The main thoroughfare of the D7 Section.
Forty-seven fifth-order combat robots converged like a pack of