Chapter 690 Accident

Olan left, but a week later she visited the fortress again. This time, she brought a basic version of the biological modulation system, 20 research assistants and an intelligent management system.

The fifth floor of the main building of the fortress has been transformed into a biological laboratory. Although it cannot be compared with the laboratory in the previous zero-point company base in terms of implementation, it can at least carry out the most basic modulation work. Zero intends to add another expanded version, but Ista will not be delivered until a month later, but now these devices are enough for pre- modulation.

It took two days to install equipment and debug, and the five floors have completely become a forbidden place, and only zero can freely enter and exit. Other people need to use identification to ensure the confidentiality of information.

As for the intelligent management system brought by Oran, it was also quickly put into practice. An intelligent brain host was placed in a room on the fourth floor and connected to five operating sub-machines. At the same time, the recording terminal was transferred to three small towns such as the fortress and Marley, and it took nearly a week to register the identity of workers and soldiers and back up the information in the smart brain host.

At the same time, a smart card is issued to everyone who serves zero, through which they can complete the points update through the recording terminal when they pay zero salaries or trade certain supplies and food.

So far, the zero-neck underground economic system has been established, and the integral system has been used with reference to Asgard. It is carried out at the rate of exchanging 1 gold coin for every 10 points, which reduces some unnecessary links in zero financial operation, thus saving a lot of time.

Olan also provided five data clerks to Zero to manage the system for him, which is a gift from Ista.

Next, the fortress and three towns went all out. Cannon Fortress is mainly engaged in mining and training. With the help of a steady stream of workers and recruits, several mining areas are finally able to operate full, resulting in a monthly output of more than one million gold coins. 2,000 new recruits have been recruited, most of whom are from the hard-working islands, so these recruits are very resolute by nature and their physical fitness is not much worse.

What they lack is combat experience, and in this regard, they still let the soldiers on the Destiny train them.

The original fortress area of Cannon obviously could not accommodate so many people, and Zero could only build simple shantytowns near the fortress or even on the edge of the mining area for workers to live in. The soldiers lived in the original fortress building. After the transformation of the previous slave camp, it could accommodate nearly 5,000 soldiers.

The three towns of Marley, Mongo and Tucson also operated. After the soldiers in the Pope's Hall were beaten away, the residents of the town did not escape. For them, it doesn't matter which town they occupy. What matters is that Zero still provides food and accommodation and raises their salaries. Of course, there was resistance, but after the soldiers suppressed it several times, they accepted their fate.

The principle of zero is very simple. If you work for him, everything will be as usual, and even the treatment will be better than before. But if you make trouble, especially if you incite others to resist together, you will be ruthlessly suppressed. There is no compromise in this regard. His kindness is aimed at his own people, so unconvinced or scheme-hearted guys only give them cruelty.

His enemies are far away, and Zero has no time to stay for these branches, but to trim them by the fastest means. After the first two weeks, the order of the three towns was re-established. Factories in the towns of Montgomery and Marley continued to start, and the supply of food and clean water was endless. The time for Tucson Town to restore order is faster. Most of the residents of this town are family members of the army. After the war, the families of the dead soldiers were expelled. Their family died in battle and had a blood feud with Zero. Naturally, they would not work for Zero.

Zero doesn't want to kill them, which will give himself a cruel reputation. He doesn't want the Pope's Hall to make an article. A lord can be strict and iron-blooded, but if it is cruel, the meaning is completely different. Therefore, he only chose to expel and give them enough food and water so that these people could reach another city 500 kilometers away.

There are hundreds of these people, and once they all flood into Cage, it should affect their food reserves. At that time, how to settle the families of these war dead will become a headache in the Holy See. If it is not handled well, the Holy See will be criticized.

The rest is basically the family of the 200 surrendered soldiers. For the surrendered soldiers, Zero dispersed them and assigned them to work in the mining area. The soldiers and their families knew that the city of Rome could not go back. Under Sauron's high-pressure policy, the Knights basically dealt with the surrender. That is to say, even if they agree to release them, they will be executed if they are caught when they go back, and their families will become slaves.

Under such a rule, the Pope's Office undoubtedly pushed the surrender to zero. At least stay here, they can still live, although they all know that the Pope's Hall will call back sooner or later. But without being defeated for a day, they can get shelter. Most people know how to choose between dying immediately and dying later.

So he got more than 400 workers, and the new workers he recruited, after training, he also restored most of the production capacity of the arsenal.

Now, this zero-occupied fortress and three towns are extremely busy, and Zero himself is also very busy. Instead, these high-level pixels are doing nothing. Now they only think about when the Pope's Hall will call to move their rusty hands and feet.

After the third week of the occupation of Cannon, a scout team outside Tucson found that an army had finally arrived from the city of Cage 500 kilometers away.

Commander Mesa, the deputy commander of the 2nd Army, who escaped from Tucson, this time he integrated three major towns around Cage, a total of 5,000 soldiers, 100 paladins and 30 griffin knights to Tucson.

Mesa wants to take revenge and recapture the military base in Tucson. I was very happy when I heard the news. She called Bereon, who stayed in Tucson, and then took 300 soldiers and quietly touched Mesa's army.

Mesa's fighting style has always been steady, otherwise he would not have brought so many soldiers in one breath, which was intended to defeat Tucson's enemy by numerical advantage. But if there are many troops, the march will naturally not be fast. At a speed of 100 kilometers a day, I saw Tucson in the evening of the fifth day. Mesa ordered the whole army to rest and officially attack early tomorrow morning.

But on the same night, Su led the team to touch the door. After she handed over the soldiers to Berian, she single-handedly entered the barracks in Mesa. It should be known that Mesa's army is stationed in the wild and there is no danger to defend. Although the military camp was very rigorously arranged, it could not withstand the rush of the ninth-order destroyers. He sang all the way and went straight to Mesa's main business.

In the end, if Mesa hadn't transferred intensive mecha troops to fire on Su, maybe Mesa would have died that night.

With the strong firepower of the mecha force, he had no choice but to withdraw. After meeting with Berian's team and killing left and right, Berian gave Mesa's barracks army a fury, and the continuous electric fire formed a bright line of fire that isolated the pursuers. By the way, it blew up more than a dozen Paladin mecha, making Mesa angry and helpless.

Only in this raid, Mesa lost hundreds of soldiers and more than a dozen mecha, which caused the morale of the Knights to fall sharply.

The next day, Zero, who received the news, came with the battle group of Huke and Manshan, and Haiwei Yeliu and other high-levels also followed. At 9:00 a.m., Mesa launched an attack. First, 30 griffin knights were set into the air, which were the most advantageous air firepower of the Knights. The griffin knight's light machine gun strafing poses a threat to ordinary soldiers, while the pocket missile is a high-level firepower that is not willing to face.

Mesa's first wave of offensive obviously needs to form air suppression on Tucson, which is indeed true tactically. Unfortunately, there are many capable people on this side, especially those in the elemental domain such as Berien, who have obvious advantages on such a battlefield. What's more, Zero also updated a batch of equipment from Istana. As soon as he saw the Griffin Knight take off, under Zero's order, the soldiers who had occupied various commanding heights immediately picked up the newly purchased Anqila cannon.

When the Griffin Knight approached, they were greeted by a powerful air-fighting fire network built by the Anqila cannon and the continuous lightning fire released by Berian's hands. In such a situation, even if the Griffin Knight had thrown out the guided missile, it had been intercepted and detonated by the zero-side fire network before it fell to the ground.

Seeing this situation, Mesa gave the general attack order with a gloomy face. So hundreds of paladin mechas scattered everywhere and advanced towards Tucson with ordinary soldiers. From a high altitude, 5,000 soldiers formed a magnificent wave and pressed down to Tucson City.

Finally, a full-scale battle broke out outside Tucson.

After the occupation of Tucson, considering the attack of the Pope's Hall, the city will definitely become the front line of the war. Therefore, some time ago, although Su and Berien were idle, the other soldiers did not rest. About 100 people were left to maintain order, and others went outside the town to dig fortifications. In addition to the trenches, several useless armor plates were sent from the steel mill in Marley Town.

They serve as shelters fixed outside the trenches, and let people cut square holes on them for soldiers to shoot after covering.

These arrangements are finally useful now. Even if the armor plate allows the Paladin mecha to shoot fire, it can persist for a period of time. As for ordinary rifles, they cannot pose a threat at all, and only heavy fire strikes such as rockets and missiles can destroy these things. After Mesa found that his army was advancing against accidental and strong resistance, he ordered the armor plates to be removed first.

So nearly half of the mecha's firepower was aimed at those armor plates, and soon, two sides were bombarded into scum. Seeing this situation, Zero has no reservations. Point towards the knight's mecha, and Zero will rush to this army first. What he meant was to clear the other party's power armor first.

After Zero, Huke, Manshan, Ye Liu, Haiwei and other capable people participated in the war. The paladin mecha of the Mesa army was quickly reduced, and the griffin knights were also removed one by one with the cooperation of Berian and Anqila cannons. When the casualties of the mecha troops exceeded two-thirds, the balance of the war began to tilt towards the zero side.

After cleaning up the mecha troops, Zero and others began to rush into the Mesa army. In the face of their killing gods, ordinary soldiers could not stop them at all. Zero, they did not compete with those ordinary soldiers, and their target was the other party's officers. These figures are at the nodes of the entire command network. When these officers also have commissioned, Mesa found that the command could not move the army.

The battle lasted from day to afternoon and finally came to an end.

Mesa's army killed more than 3,000 soldiers, and the mecha troops were almost completely destroyed. Most of the officers were killed or injured, and even Mesa himself died at the hands of zero. About 500 of the remaining Knights chose to surrender, and the rest fled back to Cage.

After the war, more than 700 soldiers were killed in this battle, most of whom were bombed by enemy troops on armor plates. Compared with the loss of the Knights, the zero side can only be regarded as a minor injury, but if there are not too many high-level subordinates under Zero, otherwise the other side's mecha forces cannot be removed in time. In that case, there will be more people who will die. This time, they will not receive much equipment. Most of them are ordinary equipment, and the return can't be compared with the previous ones.

Only after this battle, there is no force that can pose a threat to zero within nearly a thousand kilometers. The next morning, Zero took 1,000 soldiers and several seniors and went straight to the city of Cage. Three days later, the useless city was defeated by zero in a few times. The scale of Cage City is not small, which is probably the sum of the three towns of Mali. There is a training camp for the Holy Seal Knights. Only then did you know that 3,000 people in the army summoned by Mesa are actually recruits in the training camp.

Basically, the soldiers in the training camp were transferred to Mesa, and it is no wonder that the remaining soldiers are not enough to resist the zero attack. After the news of Mesa's defeat reached the city, the mayor and some officials of Cage City withdrew from the city knowingly and threw zero to only more than 20,000 civilians to guard such a city unless another 1,000 soldiers had to be transferred.

However, Cage City is located on the plain and has no danger to defend. Zero asked himself that his current strength is not enough to swallow a big city like Cage, so in addition to the materials left only ten days for the residents of Cage City, other materials that can be taken away are taken away as much as possible. Among these supplies, zero priority is food and water, followed by the Knights' equipment, which are nearly one million converted into gold coins, of which the most valuable is 20 Paladin mecha. With them, coupled with the remaining round table knights of Cannon, Zero has a mecha team.

As for the life problems of residents after that, it has naturally become another headache in the Pontifical Council. And as long as it can give the Pope's Hall a headache, Zero is willing to do it.

When he returned to Tucson, he received an unexpected news.

Oran is here again, but this time, she also brought the mysterious funder behind Ista.

Zero returned to Cannon on the same day. When he arrived in the evening, he met Oran first. Oran had heard about the battle outside Tucson Town and said, "Lord Zero, congratulations on defeating the Pope's Hall again."

Zero said disapprovingly, "It's just a small victory, not a heavy setback. You are flattered."

"No, you are modest. It's not a small victory to defeat an army of 5,000 people from the front.

"Quantity does not explain the problem."

"When the number is large to a certain extent, that's a problem." Oran smiled.

Zero had no intention to continue to entangle with her in this matter. He changed the topic and said, "I heard that you didn't come alone this time."

"Yes, I also brought the adult who supported us behind the scenes."

"I don't know which big man is in the Pope's Hall?" Zero asked casually.

The two came to the command room on the fourth floor. Oran stood outside and said, "You will know when you go in. I promise you will be surprised."

"Oh? The person who can surprise me can't be the young pope. Zero joked and pushed the door in.

There was only one person in the command room. He stood in front of the French window and looked at the inner city of the fortress. He was covered with a cloak that wrapped his whole body, and even his face was buried in the shadow of the hood. When Zero came in, he sighed, "Now Cannon can talk about the real iron wall."

Zero also walked to the window, and the evening skylight painted a golden color in the fortress. The outer wall composed of armor plates has been basically assembled. In a few days, the gate will be completed, and heavy artillery turrets and anti-aircraft machine guns will be installed on the wall, and the defense of the fortress will jump to several levels. The wall composed of a row of metal armor plates, flowing with the luster of metal in the light, is indeed an iron wall.

"Nothing in the world is eternal. No matter how strong Cannon is, it can never fall. Just like Sauron, he can't sit on that throne forever. He said in a plain tone.

The cape shook gently and turned his head. From the shadow of the hood, he could see a pair of bright eyes: "Are you confident to enter Rome?"

"It's not confidence, but definitely."

"I really don't understand where your confidence comes from?"

"It's very simple. In front of the peak I'm going to climb, Rome is just a small hill." Zero simple sentence, but with strong self-confidence.

"That is to say, in the process of climbing to the top, the hillside of Rome is just an obstacle that you are bound to jump. I understand, strange outsiders, although I don't know where your end point is. But I'm glad that I can spend a short time with you on your life journey. The cape finally pulled down his hood and showed a handsome and sunny face: "For the first time, I'm the current Pope Paul VI."

Zero's pupil shrank slightly, and then showed a wry smile. He said it casually, but he really got it right.

The behind-the-scenes supporters of Ista turned out to be the contemporary pope!