Chapter 1544  : Siege of Friendly Forces

Pan-Asian Cooperation headquarters.

Sitting at his desk, Li Guangya was listening with a serious face as the commander of the Pan-Asian First Fleet gave a brief report on the situation on the front line.

Since the rebellion in Guanghan City, he hadn’t had a good night’s sleep. Now that good news was coming from the front line, although this result was not amazing, at least he could sleep peacefully.

“I understand.”

Li Guangya looked at the image in the holographic beam. His index finger lightly tapped on the table, and after thinking for a moment, he continued, “The top priority now is to help the refugees who have been displaced during the war.”

The commander nodded seriously.

“We are already doing that.”

“Very good.” Li Guangya nodded. “Then keep going... I will call the Guanghan City authorities in a bit and let them do their best to cooperate with your work. We have already lost too much in this war, we can no longer let our people lose hope.”

The commander replied cleanly, “Yes!”

The phone call ended.

Seeing the holographic light beam that faded away, Li Guangya’s shoulders slightly loosened. He leaned against the office chair, as if he wanted to close his eyes and rest for a while.

However, his colleagues apparently did not intend to give him any rest.

Wu Shuhua, who had just returned to the headquarters from the foreign affairs visit, said, “The day before yesterday, I was at the regional alliance summit.”

“What’s the opinion of other regional alliances?”

“We finally reached a consensus at the meeting that the safety of robots has become a global crisis.” Wu Shuhua paused for a moment and continued, “Their opinion is that we start a crisis response team, to work together to deal with this problem.”

“Crisis response team...” Li Guangya shook his head with a hint of self-deprecating at the corners of his mouth. “Is there any point?”

The only solution now was for the regional alliances and the member states to work together to completely remove the cancer of robots from the civilized society. Although it would cause severe damage to the Pan-Asian Cooperation and even the global economy in the short term, it was at least better than waiting for the inevitable to happen.

Like Guanghan City...

The wounds left by this kind of war couldn’t be smoothed without ten or twenty years of effort.

Looking at the worry in Li Guangya’s eyes, Wu Shuhua was silent for a while. He said, “Anyway... it’s better to have an action than no action.”

That’s true. But now we are racing against time...

At this moment, a blue call reminder flashed on the desk.

After seeing the name of the caller, Li Guangya reached out and took out an AR glasses from the drawer and put it on the bridge of his nose. Wu Shuhua didn’t say anything.

After all, most calls contained sensitive information, especially those from the security department.

If it was news that she could know, Li Guangya would naturally tell her later. If not, she wasn’t interested in listening.

Wu Shuhua waited quietly for the call to finish, but at this moment, Wu Shuhua suddenly noticed that the look on the chairman’s face changed from calm to stunned, then from stunned to solemn.

After saying “Let the first fleet support immediately”, he hung up the call.

Wu Shuhua frowned slightly. After hesitating for a while, she finally asked, “What’s going on?”

“A mutiny has occurred on Ceres...” Li Guangya pinched his glabella and said with a headache, “We may be in big trouble.”

...

At the supercomputing base deep in the valley, the empty corridors echoed with sporadic gunshots.

In the temporary command room at the end of the corridor, corpses laid obliquely there; their blood staining the floor.

On the command desk next to it, weak and lonely communications echoed.

“This is the garrison of Ceres. We have encountered a sudden attack...

“Repeat, we are under attack...

“Ah!”

The battle broke out almost in an instant. Almost no one had time to react. When their former teammates aimed their guns at them, the first reaction of many people was “this joke is not funny at all”, instead of drawing a gun and fighting back.

A soldier wearing exoskeleton armor fell to the ground before crawling backward with his elbows.

Blood oozed from his abdomen. Although the blood coagulant had sealed the wound, the feeling of colic continued to impact his remaining consciousness.

Even so, he still did not give up.

However, at this moment, a soldier in exoskeleton armor walked towards him.

Just when he was about to ask for help, he saw the gun being pointed at him.

His heart stopped beating for a moment, and the call for help had rushed to his mouth.

Almost exhausting all his energy, he condensed the confusion in his heart into a sentence and squeezed it out between his teeth.

“Why...”

However, his former teammate did not answer his question as he silently pulled the trigger.

The soldier closed his eyes in despair. Just as the scenes of his life flashed in his mind, a muffled noise suddenly came down the floor.

A light blue arc flashed at the end of the corridor.

The electromagnetically accelerated projectile was like a spear. It instantly penetrated the armor of the gunman’s back.

A thumb-sized blood hole was instantly tattooed on his chest. The soldier in exoskeleton armor seemed to have been knocked by something as his body fell down to the side.

Looking at the insurgent who suddenly fell to the ground, the wounded soldier raised his head and looked at the other end of the corridor. He immediately saw a familiar figure.

“Lu... Academician Lu...”

“Don’t move.”

Lu Zhou cast his gaze to Ling, who was holding the electromagnetic rifle.

Ling glanced at the soldier on the ground. He then turned around to look at Lu Zhou and shook his head slightly.

“He’s not.”

Hearing these two words, Lu Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, then walked forward.

“Can you still move?”

After taking a breath, the soldier nodded vigorously.

“The blood loss has stopped, I can...”

“Good, I’m afraid you will have to hold on for a while.” Lu Zhou pointed and continued, “Go along this road... Find where the quantum supercomputing array is located. When you reach the door, show your face at the access control system.”

Lu Zhou then told him the secret signal and that there was a safe zone. Also how Academician Wang and the information engineering expert were there.

However, after listening to Lu Zhou’s words, the soldier gritted his teeth stubbornly, braced his body with a rifle, and got up from the ground.

“I can still fight... It’s you who should take refuge.”

“Me?” Looking at the persistent expression on the soldier’s face, Lu Zhou smiled and asked, “What’s your name?”

“Yang Yi!”

“Okay, Soldier Yang, your courage is admirable.” Lu Zhou continued as he nodded approvingly, “But I’m afraid I can’t guarantee your safety. You have to be careful on the battlefield.”

Yang Yi smirked and spoke without fear.

“From the moment I joined the army, I have been ready.”