Zhou Yi activated Panoramic Reading through the Cat God.

The dark giant hand displayed as [Light Core Body LV1·Unknown].

[This unit does not possess intelligence, its consciousness is weak, it has been modified into a tool.]

It really is a Light Core Body.

Zhou Yi was a bit stunned.

How?

The Legal Front has only been in power for half a year, how could they develop a Light Core Body? Does this Mechanical City come with a feature to get stronger when it encounters stronger opponents?

The battlefield confrontation escalated.

The black lines extended from the giant hand and wrapped around the Ice Pot's golden core, condensing a layer of ice crystals on its surface, forcibly shrinking the fog-like structure of the Ice Pot by a large margin.

It was trying to pull the atmosphere creature down, attempting to capture it.

Both sides were momentarily locked in a stalemate of power struggle.

Zhou Yi issued a command to the Cat God: "Support the Ice Pot."

He thought to himself, fortunately, he had dispatched a Double Light Core Body and Condenser unit, otherwise, it would be impossible to take down this large city.

"Chairman, the Ice Pot says this level of challenge is not a problem."

The Cat God replied: "It is testing the opponent's strength and energy nature to confirm the source, so it is on the defensive."

"The mission is not affected, the entire city is still cut off from external information."

"Huh? Wait a minute."

"The Ice Pot's consciousness analysis is complete. That thing is not a true complete life form, its consciousness is empty, devoid of self, containing only the purest killing and attack instructions."

"It unfolds pure consciousness attacks outwardly, with extremely strong destructive power. However, the Ice Pot has a large number of consciousness units with a special Golden Elephant Flag structure, able to pull and deplete the opponent, otherwise, it would indeed be difficult to handle."

"That thing needs to charge, the dense firing of missiles and anti-aircraft guns earlier was to buy it time to charge. The large upright device is a control platform that projects it outward through a series of operations."

Zhou Yi stared at the source of the "Giant Slayer," a large jellyfish-like structure on top of the mechanical jellyfish, comprising a circular pillar of transparent crystals.

The more he looked, the more familiar it seemed.

Isn't this the Heavenly People Gem Cells?

Zhou Yi, frequently manipulating Gemstone Bodies, was too familiar with these basic units.

The Legal Front used Heavenly People Gems as a foundation to create such Light Core Body devices, able to unleash powerful consciousness attacks through the Giant Slayer.

It seems the Heavenly Kingdom, which holds some gemstones, and the Mechanical City that first surrendered, both have them.

At the same time, information was confirmed by the Cat God from the electric cats.

"Chairman, that mechanical jellyfish is 'David'."

"It is a regulated strategic-level device of A-level strength, capable of carrying many high-risk weapons."

"The 'Giant Slayer' is a weapon activated by the city's command when we delivered our ultimatum, used to attack and delay us."

"The entire city's energy is supporting the Giant Slayer, it will be quite difficult for the Ice Pot to defeat it."

"The electric cats have been persuaded by me, they have already controlled the mechanical spiders to retreat into the Dead Sea."

Zhou Yi frowned as he listened.

He glanced at the black Submariner on his left wrist.

The countdown now only had three minutes left.

According to the information provided by the Red Kestrel, the Mechanical City of Spring City had a population of about 20,000 mechanical residents.

Although the first to flee were the flesh-and-blood beings after the appearance of atmosphere creatures, few mechanical lives departed.

The vast majority of mechanical residents remained in the city to fight.

On the battlefield, they were the enemy forces.

Time was almost up.

There was no point in delaying any further.

Zhou Yi ordered: "Don't wait. Drop the bomb."

"Yes!"

The Cat God immediately relayed the command.

High above, the crystal layers outside the Golden Ball shattered, creating ripples of shockwaves, pressing and lowering the black lines step by step.

A perfectly shaped dodecahedron crystal slowly emerged from the Golden Ball.

It was now covered in a layer of golden radiance.

[Solid Cloud Elixir] plummeted straight down at high speed.

The Giant Slayer's operator seemed to notice something amiss and tried to capture and block the energy block with its black claws, but once near the golden radiance, the numerous black lines melted and dissipated immediately.

The Cat God's view was filled with blinding golden light.

When the vision cleared, Zhou Yi found that the city below had disappeared.

The explosion's center was a giant crater, one kilometer in diameter and over 100 meters deep.

Within a five-kilometer radius, all buildings were completely destroyed, factories, streets, and numerous above-ground and underground defense fortifications were razed to the ground.

There were no signs of life.

On the ground were large areas of glass-like substances melted by the high temperature, reflecting odd hues under the sunlight.

The entire city was wiped out.

Zhou Yi gained an immediate understanding of the power of the LV4 Light Core Bomb.

This was a genuine heavyweight nuclear weapon.

Just drop and detonate one of these, and it could instantly destroy a large city.

Zhou Yi issued another command: "Strategic objective achieved, retreat."

Three Armed Rights Protection employees became streams of light and vanished over the ruins.

After a while.

Two drones approached the steaming ruins of the city, beginning surveys with beams of red light seeking various data.

…

The whole event had only taken 2 minutes.

Duke Destructive promptly contacted him: "Spring City has completely disappeared from the satellite map. There are rumors that it was you?"

"It was me."

Zhou Yi admitted.

"Good, good, good! This has created an unprecedented history!"

"Since the birth of Mechanical Cities, never before has a large Mechanical City been destroyed by external forces!"

Duke Destructive was suddenly excited: "Tell me, what are the defense systems of a large Mechanical City like? How strong are they?"

This part was observed in detail by the Condenser.

Zhou Yi informed him: "In cohesion and organization, they are not on the same level as medium and small cities. They have larger populations, more resources at their disposal, high maneuverability, possibly also benefiting from the Legal Front model."

"Regarding city defense, they have at least 10 medium and large launchers capable of firing long-range missiles, equipped with dense anti-aircraft cannons, and more than 400 drones for aerial interception."

"At the high-end combat power, the core of Spring City is the 'Giant Slayer,' a special weapon transformed from the Heavenly People Gem, it has extremely strong destructive power."

"The Giant Slayer charges and activates, reaching Light Core Body level under the city's energy supply. It is installed on the A-level device 'David,' controlled by mechanical life..."

Duke Destructive listened carefully, occasionally querying specific parameters and structure models.

After listening, he said heavily: "The adjustment and optimization ability of Mechanical Cities is indeed very fast. They obtained a lot of combat data just from the battle in Chuneng City. Under normal circumstances, even atmosphere creatures wouldn't be able to break through this city, possibly even getting seriously injured or captured."

"The Black Emperor's long-term vigilance against Mechanical Cities is indeed justified."

Zhou Yi also agreed.

The Warlord had also said, the potential of Mechanical Cities is immense, if they become enemies, they will be extremely troublesome.

Duke Destructive then asked: "By the way, why did you destroy Spring City? Was that city trying to turn and poach your company's employees?"

Zhou Yi said: "It was Armed Rights Protection."

"Armed Rights Protection... What do you mean?"

The other party did not understand.

Zhou Yi explained.

"..."

Duke Destructive was silent.

After a long time, he finally said: "Although at first glance the reason sounds incredibly far-fetched and fake, I believe your words to be true."

"That's good, in a way."

Duke Destructive said: "The loss of Chuneng City, the Mechanical and Electrical City Group can overlook, as that was under the common agreement model."

"But the scale, size, and influence of Spring City are completely different. There are fewer than 30 such large cities, they carry significant weight in the city group and greatly influence the data center's ratings."

"If large cities cannot protect each resident, then the security rating and overall evaluations will massively drop. This will affect the overall evaluation of the entire Mechanical City system."

"Building trust and common knowledge takes a long time, but destruction and decline happen in an instant."

"I estimate the destruction of Spring City will result in two outcomes:"

"Firstly, the Legal Front will likely come to discuss patent fees with you. Considering the risk of a large city being destroyed, paying some patent fees as a public safety expense is a small price to pay."

He said: "Secondly, more residents will realize that even large Mechanical Cities are not absolutely safe. Risk assessment will influence their decisions, and some mechanical lives will consider relocating to other external places. Population movement outwards is inevitable; it's just a matter of how the Legal Front mitigates this and how many end up leaving."

Zhou Yi hadn't thought that much.

He had a clear goal from the start.

Just pay your patent fee!

If you don't respect the rules, then I'll find my own way to get justice.

15 minutes later.

The Armed Rights Protection squad returned to Jade City and reported to Zhou Yi in detail.

Jiong Hecang, who had observed the whole process, said: "I conducted high-precision observations of Spring City throughout the process. The city had many missile launchers below, stocked with a large number of B-level missiles."

"Drones in the nearby skies collected considerable data on the Ice Pot, which poses a potential risk. In future encounters with Mechanical Cities, atmosphere creatures will be increasingly countered."

Zhou Yi nodded: "So we need to enhance the diversity of our combat capabilities and be ever vigilant."

"Additionally, Chairman,"

Jiong Hecang continued: "Spring City was equipped with many new recording devices, recording our entire strategic strike, controlled by mechanical spiders and robot dogs, which attempted to escape with the footage. However, like those launchers, they were all destroyed under our strategic strike. I also eliminated those that escaped here and there."

"Moreover, through cross-observations of energy and consciousness with the Ice Pot, we learned that the local mechanical lives did not choose not to escape. The Legal Front mandates that residents have a duty to protect the city and, during exceptional times, are urgently conscripted to defend the city and all public property."

"Therefore, most could not leave; only disabled residents, those too weak to use tools, and special professionals who were exempt from service were evacuated."

"This time, a total of 17,811 Spring City residents participated in the battle, all 17,811 died, with no survivors."

Zhou Yi's frown relaxed.

So that's how it was.

The Legal Front had a mandate of nationwide conscription, no wonder all mechanical residents were united in their efforts this time.

This mechanism's pros and cons were evident.

It compulsorily allowed all residents to be readily transformed into warriors, directly participating in the fight, enhancing the city's defense and cohesion.

But when faced with a Light Core Level bombing, it led to the entire city's residents perishing together.

The battlefield has always been cruel, with inevitable casualties.

Zhou Yi didn't expect, instead of waiting for people from the Legal Front, an envoy from the Heavenly Kingdom came first.

"Mr. Zhou, long time no see, you are still so vigorous."

"This time, I have come under orders from His Majesty the Black Emperor to visit."

The visitor was the ambassador of the Heavenly Kingdom to the Shuanghe Region, Feng Che.

The address changed from 'you' to 'you' (a more respectful form).

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