[Kase: What the fuck do we do now? We're surrounded!]
[Masamune: Two minutes.]
Actually, two minutes was only an estimate. He didn't know exactly how much time they had left, either.
But right now, he had to give them a precise number.
The situation was overwhelmingly against them. Maybe those mercenaries had taken out a few cars full of Sixth Street, but they'd killed very few people. They could just switch cars and keep chasing.
And every one of those mercenaries had been beaten until they could no longer move. Only nine of them were still active on the front lines.
The good news was that, according to plan, they had successfully drawn Sixth Street's attention to the people who had already been exposed, and the area they had to defend had shrunk considerably--
That meant they had control of the power lines in the outer area.
It was hard to say the mercenaries on Sixth Street's side had fallen into their trap, because what they were about to do was simply unimaginable:
The hacker behind him would use the Civilian Power Grid in other parts of the Coronado Farm area in Santo Domingo to create a massive EMP targeting Woodhaven Street.
Civilian power infrastructure was designed to transmit electricity steadily. To achieve this, they had to break through the grid's security throughout the entire area, take control of the distributed energy resources in the power system, and make them work together to generate enough energy for an instantaneous release.
This was a technique favored by veteran hackers. The higher the power grid's specifications, the larger the EMP they could produce.
And in an area like Santo Domingo, achieving this required coordinating a power grid that covered almost the entire Coronado Farm area-that was, half of Santo Domingo.
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