Violent Resistance to Enforcement During an Illegal Border Crossing, the Technology Minister's Fight for Her Rights

The office was quiet.

The Technician was still in the position of rushing in, his chest heaving from the rapid running, his lips slightly parted as if he wanted to say something, but the scene before him choked him.

On the main screen, the Scarlet crack continued to expand slowly and steadily. Like an unhealable scar, it was branded onto the pitch-black background of the Negative Zone. The piercing alarm had been silenced at some point, leaving only the faint noise of the silent Data Stream rolling by.

Lynn's gaze slowly shifted from the red area representing the highest level of threat to the communication window in the lower right corner of the screen.

Wanda stood in the Ministry of Department of Technology's data center, with countless servers flashing blue light as her backdrop. Her face appeared somewhat pale in the light from the screens, and her eyes, which always held a slightly neurotic gentleness, now resembled two bottomless, icy pools.

She didn't look at Lynn; her gaze was fixed on the energy source on the main screen, which shared the same origin as her but was filled with a primal and violent aura.

The air in the office seemed to freeze.

The Technician's breathing sounded exceptionally clear in the excessive silence.

Lynn picked up the teacup; the cup had already cooled down. He didn't drink, but simply rubbed the rim with his fingertips.

This is an open strategy.

The other side has torn away all pretense of procedural justice and directly resorted to the most unreasonable violence. This behavior is forcing the Negative Zone Management Committee to respond with equivalent force. Once the Undead Fleet takes to the skies, once the Chaos Magic indiscriminately explodes outside the jurisdiction, then regardless of the outcome, the Negative Zone has already lost legally.

"Illegal border crossing" will turn into "interdimensional conflict".

Mordo's arrest and Charles's mental backlash will provide the perfect pretext for the other side to launch a full-scale war.

Lynn's gaze returned to the cold face in the communication window.

He spoke, his voice steady, devoid of any emotion.

"Minister Wanda."

Three words were enough to make the stagnant air in the office start to flow again.

The Technician instinctively straightened his back.

Wanda's pupils twitched almost imperceptibly in the communication window, and she finally looked away from the main screen to meet Lynn's gaze.

She didn't speak, but simply watched him quietly, waiting.

"Department of Technology," Lynn said slowly, "How do you characterize this unusually high-energy response in the C-9 Quadrant?"

Wanda's lips moved, and the sound that came out was equally cold, yet carried a mechanical precision, as if she were reading a pre-prepared report.

"Director, according to Articles 7 and 15 of Chapter 3 of the 'Airspace Safety Management Regulations of the Management Committee,' the Department of Technology Monitoring Center detected an unreported high-energy entity 30 seconds ago, which is physically damaging the C-9 Quadrant boundary and attempting to illegally intrude. Its actions have seriously endangered the airspace safety and flight path stability of our jurisdiction."

She paused for a moment, then added.

"Based on the energy signature comparison, the entity's code name can be tentatively set as ' Scarlet '."

Lynn nodded, as if he were just listening to a routine work report.

What about the contingency Contingency Plan?

"According to the 'Standards for the Exercise of the Right of Self-Defense in the Jurisdiction' in the supplementary provisions of the regulations, in response to such acts of violent resistance to law enforcement, the jurisdictional defense units have the right to take all necessary forced removal measures to restore border stability, provided that the conflict is not escalated and no consequential ecological damage is caused."

Wanda's voice remained completely calm.

The logic of the Illuminati is to defeat magic with magic.

The rules of the Negative Zone are to regulate magic with regulations.

Lynn put down her teacup.

"Then, let's do it according to the rules."

"I authorize the Department of Technology to be fully responsible for handling this 'illegal border crossing incident.' The Stability Maintenance Office and the Liaison Office shall remain on standby and shall not intervene without the permission of the Director's Office."

"Yes, Director."

Communication cut off.

The small window in the bottom right corner of the screen went dark.

The main screen's view changed in the next second. It was no longer a macroscopic Star Map, but a real-time monitoring view of the C-9 Quadrant boundary.

From the monitoring perspective, a violent Scarlet energy was surging out of the spatial rift like a tide, causing ripples even in the void wherever it passed.

Immediately afterwards, another Scarlet energy quietly rose from the inner side of the Negative Zone.

If the invaders' energy is like raging volcanic lava, filled with a furious rage capable of destroying everything, then the energy rising from the Negative Zone is like a precisely forged Scalpel, cold and restrained, with every Energy Unit output having undergone astronomical calculations.

Two Chaos Magic, though originating from the same source, were completely different and collided at the invisible border.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

The surveillance footage showed only a pure white expanse caused by the extreme energy clash. All light and matter were decomposed and Oblivion in that area. The silent destruction was far more chilling than any loud noise.

The intruder "Scarlet's" energy continued to advance, attempting to break through the invisible Defense Line.

The energy of Technology Minister Wanda transforms into a boundless net. This net is constantly being torn apart, yet it is also constantly being instantly reassembled and repaired with the support of computing power. It does not seek to retaliate, but passively, stubbornly, and repeatedly analyzes, neutralizes, and cancels out the opponent's violent energy.

This was an extremely unequal contest.

On one hand, it's about giving it your all without considering the consequences.

On the other hand, they are dancing in shackles within the framework of "compliance defense".

However, the battle situation presented a strange balance.

The intruder "Scarlet's" attack methods appeared extremely mechanical, relying solely on brute force and lacking variation, like a program that only knew how to execute the lowest-level instructions.

Time ticked by, second by second.

Just when the Technician next to Lynn thought this intense standoff would go on forever, the situation on the monitor suddenly changed.

The intruder codenamed "Scarlet" suddenly abandoned all offensive postures.

She stopped emitting energy, leaving herself completely exposed to the energy beam the Technology Minister used for "forced removal."

This is a tactic that disregards any cost.

Or rather, it was a suicidal exchange.

The Department of Technology's precise energy beam encountered no resistance and pierced straight through the intruder's body.

However, the anticipated Oblivion did not occur.

In the White Bone Hall, on the main screen in Lynn's office, a blood-red alarm box suddenly popped up, covering all the surveillance footage.

A line of cold, system text appeared on it.

"Warning: Hostile target has completed reverse beacon lock using our 'forced removal' energy beam."

"Local coordinates: White Bone Hall, Director's Office."