Chapter 420: The Tenderness of a Young Songstress
The solid cutter capstan slowly rotated, constantly gnawing and crushing the special steel wall in front, advancing step by step, until a door-shaped outline was cut open.
"Boom--"
The nearly 30-meter-high special steel wall slowly fell down, smashing the facilities behind it, and then revealing the enclosed space inside. Seeing the gap, one detection-type autonomous unit after another flew into it and kept clearing the way and searching, followed by teams of armed personnel wearing exoskeleton armor entering the inside.
The surrounding area is full of heavy and extremely dense special steel building facilities. Even military mechas will take a lot of time to cut and break them, and some ordinary bombs are even more difficult to destroy.
After entering the inside, there are giant military production equipment placed on the ground. These tall processing machines are like semicircles buried in the ground. Each one is about 50 meters high and has a turbine-like fan blade structure inside. The armed personnel who walked into this production workshop are like ants walking through the country of giants.
Fortunately, these devices have been shut down and stopped, and only the residual heat and residual magic power can make people imagine how loud these devices are when they are running at full capacity, like the heartbeat of a dragon.
The 'Blade Leaf Red' military materials company is one of the few military enterprises in the Saint Ingo camp. The 'Blade Leaf Crystal Gold' produced by it is extremely strong and is often used as mecha materials and engine equipment for some large starships. Its production method is complicated, requiring 43 kinds of metals and crystal raw materials to be processed step by step through 1,282 processes before it can be cast into 'Blade Leaf Crystal Gold'.
The equipment that the armed personnel are passing through now is to make the two crystal powders evenly fuse when heated by high-concentration withering blue flames, and add matching catalysts, reactants, additives, etc. to form stable special hexagonal crystals. This is one of the transitional products for the production of 'Blade Leaf Crystal Gold'.
"Currently, we have broken through the 17th underground floor, and no resistance personnel have been found." The commander reported to his superiors, and then stared at the projection screens in front of him. That was the scene seen by the team in front when they broke through in all directions.
Five days have passed since the previous star-domain announcement. Most of the enterprises and companies involved in the announcement have been sealed off. Now only a few enterprises have not been completely controlled. The "Daoye·Hong" military materials company in front of us is one of them.
The company is located on the edge of the South Second District and has about 300,000 employees. Moreover, because it is a military enterprise, there are strong security teams in the factory and the company, which makes the sealing and arrest much more difficult.
In the past few days, due to insufficient police force, this place was only surrounded and sealed off, and no strong breakthrough was made. Now, in the past five days, the star domain officials have arrested most of the senior executives of the companies involved, and many companies have been sealed off, which freed up manpower and energy to deal with these tough bones.
"Don't you see anyone?"
After pushing down three floors, the commander in front felt a little puzzled. It stands to reason that the underground factory and headquarters of "Daoye·Hong" should be equipped with a lot of security self-discipline units and armed personnel, but they have never seen them along the way.
If the senior executives of Daoye Red sincerely admitted their mistakes, they should have surrendered long ago, but they did not do so. They just hid inside the headquarters, saying nothing and being unusually silent.
Continuing to advance downward, the armed special police saw more giant production equipment, some of which were like spiral abyssal mouths, and some were like towering towers. There was still residual heat and magic in various reactors and equipment, which showed that the other party had shut down these equipment in an orderly manner without causing damage or accidents.
With doubts and curiosity, the armed special police continued to break through, layer by layer, until they finally came to the underground square at the bottom.
A giant underground space about hundreds of meters high slowly appeared, with square light panels distributed on the dome, softly illuminating the world below.
At this moment, there are about 4,000 humanoid autonomous units standing on the ground of the black steel square. They are equipped with dark red exoskeleton armor, with special scimitars made of "Blade Crystal Gold" in both hands, and small machine gun ports on their chests. The legs are similar to mantises, which can be easily bounced up and equipped with magnetic rollers, so they can easily move against the wall in the underground building.
Orange-red information slowly flows across the faces of these autonomous units, flashing on and off, and occasionally making a dripping sound. They are in a state of being fully prepared but still.
When the screen lens zooms in, the commander's auxiliary AI recognizes that there are still traces of blood on the blades of some autonomous units, which should be yesterday or today.
"Please ask the surviving company leaders to come out." The detection unit that entered the underground space flew into the sky above the square and began to persuade them to surrender.
Soon a broadcast sounded in the underground square.
"Hello, I am... the current controller of the underground production base." The voice on the broadcast was very nervous.
"Excuse me, your identity." The commander's questioning voice came from the detection unit above the armed personnel's head.
"I am a senior technical engineer in the base. I am mainly responsible for the optimization and improvement of production processes."
"Where are the original senior executives of the company? Are you the only one left?"
"...At present, I should be the only one left in the base."
"Where are they?" The commander asked the doubts in his heart.
"They...they are dead." The answerer's voice was a little unstable.
"How did they die?"
"Killed by the armed self-discipline unit of the base."
"Why?"
"Because I don't want to die..."
After a long conversation and questioning, the commander finally figured out why the situation he encountered after breaking through the base's protective isolation layer was so abnormal.
It turned out that in the five days before they arrived, serious internal strife and fighting occurred inside the base. Some company executives tried to resist stubbornly to buy time and then escape through the underground river, while others believed that even if they went through the underground river, they could not escape anywhere and would be caught up sooner or later, so it was better to surrender directly.
Both sides believed that the other's behavior was unreasonable, but it had not yet reached the point of internal fighting. However, the situation gradually spread, and many employees in the underground base gradually learned the truth and the situation. They fully agreed to surrender and turn themselves in, because they were just employees and were not involved in the incident. The worst result was just a few years in prison, and more likely they would be acquitted.
The increasingly anxious employees began to worry that the departure of the top management would implicate their subordinates, and began to urge them again and again, which made the company's top management feel extremely insecure, and contradictions gradually accumulated.
In a subsequent incident, the conflict between the two sides broke out in full swing. The advanced AI controlled by the company's top management began to manipulate the self-discipline units and systems, blocking and cutting off the base layer by layer, and mobilized armed self-discipline units to suppress those employees who attempted to resist.
Seeing some colleagues killed in the conflict greatly irritated others, and some employees who were already familiar with the company's internal system began to use loopholes to counterattack and gradually compete for control of high-level AI.
Fearing that these employees who were familiar with the base system and AI logic would find loopholes, the company's senior executives began to order the massacre of these rebellious employees while escaping, which caused a large number of deaths. Then, in a critical situation, the engineer used the backdoor program to change the permissions and gain control of the armed self-discipline units, and then let these armed self-discipline units destroy the central control AI and kill a large number of the company's remaining senior executives.
In the end of the fight between the two sides, all the remaining senior executives in the base were killed, and no one had the authority to change and manipulate the base's system. The few engineers and employees who survived, although they had control of the armed self-discipline units, could not break through the base blockade on their own and could only wait here anxiously.
"Is this the result..." The commander rubbed his brows and took a long time to sort out what happened.
"Excuse me, if we surrender, can we be exempted from the crime? We were also forced to resist and kill people." The engineer asked on the radio.
"I have no right to answer. This is something that the judge and the inquisitor can decide."
"Now you go out of the bunker. I can write the surrender for you in the report to reduce some of the guilt." The commander said.
"..." There was a long silence.
After about a few minutes, the radio came back with a response.
"If we can't be exempted from the guilt, we dare not come out to surrender. The remaining personnel among us are very scared..."
Listening to the response from the other side, the commander felt a little tricky and headache. He glanced at the armed self-discipline units on the square. If these guys took action, casualties would inevitably occur on the scene, but he could never make a promise with his status.
After a few seconds of hesitation, he decided to report the situation to his superiors to see how to deal with it.
Soon the news was reported to the military and police command headquarters and forwarded to the star court and the trial court.
After a long and uneasy wait, the tense atmosphere spread in the underground space. The special police with weapons in hand stood at the entrance, watching the armed self-discipline units on the square below, and the units on the square also emitted flashing beeps from time to time.
Finally, an hour later, the notice reached the scene, the commander connected the broadcast again, and then a huge projection screen appeared above the square.
In the picture, a black-haired girl sat against the background of the cobalt blue star tears logo, with an officer of the Tribunal and a court officer on each side of her.
"I received this news very suddenly, but this matter was caused by me, so I hope it can be resolved peacefully." The singing girl in the picture pressed her hand lightly on her chest, bowed her head first, and then began to tell the story.
"I am Heshia Tilan, and there are also court officials and judges of the Tribunal in the star field around me. If you have any ideas and demands, you can talk to me directly."
The girl's familiar and clear voice echoed in the underground square, easing the tense atmosphere before.
"It's Heshia Tilan. I didn't expect that they really summoned such a big shot." The special police standing at the entrance of the passage whispered.
"Given the importance that the Federation attaches to the diva, if Tilan makes a promise here, as long as it is not too outrageous, it will basically be fulfilled."
"I guess they are also afraid that the engineers underground will not believe the promises of the Tribunal and the court officials. After all, if they are really caught, they will no longer have room to resist or speak out."
Just as the special police discussed, when the diva girl appeared on the projection screen, the engineers hidden underground were obviously relieved a lot, and the tense atmosphere eased a little.
After listening to their descriptions, Heshia nodded slightly, indicating that she understood their thoughts and actions, and then asked the people around her about relevant precedents.
"I asked the court officials about the relevant laws and regulations. If you surrender, I can help you apply for leniency. It won't be too harsh."
In fact, according to the federal legal practice, although they were forced, their killing behavior was by no means easy to offset. For some stability maintenance needs, the court will still punish them severely, but this time the situation is really special. In addition, if Heshia pleads for mercy, the court will most likely refer to the lighter direction during the trial.
With the promise of this singer who is the top of the star field, the armed self-discipline unit in the underground space gradually shut down, and then a ragged engineer walked out slowly. There were not many of them, only about 200 people, while there were nearly 10,000 employees in the base before.
After a few hours, the special police who finally took full control of this underground production base breathed a sigh of relief. This mission was safely landed. At the beginning, they were well prepared for battle. You know, if the protection system of the military-industrial enterprise is fully operational, these special police will have to pay a certain price in casualties even if they have various equipment support.
A week later, Tilan came to the prison where they were held, met with the surviving engineers, and asked about the previous situation again. In front of the singer, the engineers present told everything they knew. Even if there were some small lies, the girl smiled and did not expose them, but just listened silently.
No one is perfect. They asked them to fully abide by moral standards in such a highly tense and dangerous environment, which was really a bit difficult. So as long as the whole process roughly matched their description and was not distorted, Heshia decided to forgive them, plead for them, and not pursue some things too much.
"I know, everyone was frightened."
Standing outside the prison, the girl's blue eyes slowly swept across the people present, and her voice was slightly soft, which calmed everyone down again. When they were stared at by those clear eyes, a vague shame also rose in the hearts of many people, because they did not tell the truth completely.
In fact, at the late stage, the remaining senior executives had lost the ability to resist, but because they were afraid of retaliation after getting out, they still chose to kill those people.
Blinking her eyes, the girl comforted these people, and then left the prison under the guidance of the search officer.
Back in the lounge, Emeranda asked Heshia what she thought.
"You should have noticed the loopholes in their words." As an elite of the Tribunal, she knew that the singer had the ability to easily read lies.
"Yeah." The girl sat on the chair, leaned her head sideways, and closed her eyes.
"What do you feel?" Emeranda asked curiously.
"I know they lied, but I also understand their fear and fear, their weakness and anxiety." The girl slowly opened her eyes, and star sand seemed to swirl in her light blue eyes.
"You can't hold people in that situation to too high a standard, because that's too harsh and too hard, because I know how helpless and miserable it is to be at the bottom."
"Everyone is not doing well, and it's not their fault, but the environment that makes them make such a choice."
"I don't want this to happen again, and punishing them can't change the entire situation."
"I want to change the Four Leaf Crystal Star Domain, so that at least in the future, they don't have to lie to me anymore, but can stand in front of me confidently and tell me everything about their lives and work."
(End of this chapter)
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