Milo instructed the Great Hoodwinker, “When y’all leave the stronghold, you must be careful to avoid the battle zone between the Pyro Company and the Virtuora Consortium. Right now, the Pyro Company has just destroyed the stronghold walls in the north, but I don’t think that that’s their only objective. So be very careful not to bump into them.”
“Mhm, I will take note of that.” The Great Hoodwinker said.
Bruce’s subordinates had already driven the buses out from the prison, and they even snatched walkie-talkies from the prison guards. This way, the five vehicles could communicate more closely while driving.
However, Bruce was a little puzzled. “Future Commander, you mean you’re not coming with us?”
Milo explained, “There’s still a medical team from the Stelaria Consortium in this stronghold. They’re very respectable people, so I can’t just leave them to die here in Stronghold 31.”
“Is it worth helping the Stelaria Consortium’s people?” Bruce asked doubtfully.
Milo said in a serious tone, “Those people have been working their entire lives trying to save the wounded and the dying. I can’t just watch them get implicated. I don’t know about the Stelaria Consortium’s people. All I know is that these people are all very respectable.”
The Great Hoodwinker looked like favonovel.com wanted to say something. However, favonovel.com did not try to dissuade him.
Meanwhile, Rudy patted the Great Hoodwinker on the shoulder and got into the bus with a smile. “No matter how many times you might’ve tried to hoodwink me, it’s only now that I feel I made the right decision to go to the Northwest. Come on, let’s go. Future Commander, we’ll meet again in the Northwest!”
In the end, Milo ordered the Great Hoodwinker, “After the buses leave Stronghold 31, it’s best to head south first. Not only are the Pyro Company’s people coming from the north, but new enemies will also be appearing there as well. I suspect that those enemies are even more terrifying than we can imagine.”
“Mhm, I’ll be careful,” The Great Hoodwinker said as favonovel.com got onto the bus.
Milo watched as the five buses drove off into the distance. He turned around and got into the off-road vehicle with Miriam as they prepared to rescue Nicholai and the others.
He wondered if Murray had followed his instructions to protect Nicholai. Logically speaking, since Nicholai was an esteemed medical figure of the Stelaria Consortium, Murray should be protecting favonovel.com seriously.
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At the same time, the Pyro Company in the north had broken through the cordon of the Virtuora Consortium and headed south by blending in with the escaping stronghold residents.
It had to be said that the Pyro Company’s strategy was really wise. They had first destroyed the stronghold walls to make the stronghold residents panic. As a result, the large number of the fleeing residents became their cover.
This caused the Virtuora Consortium to always have some scruples when they opened fire to stop them. It was only after the Pyro Company had broken through two defensive lines that the Virtuora Consortium finally made up their mind to shoot down the civilians together with them. However, it was already too late.
When the battle turned into street-to-street fighting, the Virtuora Consortium’s garrison troops, who had lost the protection of a proper defensive line, were no longer able to pose any threat to the Pyro Company’s elite strike troops.
All of a sudden, the Pyro Company’s troops split up and continued advancing through the different streets.
Someone on the communications channel asked, “Sir, what’s our target now?”
The T5 combatant said coldly, “It’ll still take some time before the main forces arrive. The Virtuora Consortium’s reinforcements stationed 40 kilometers away should be here soon. We must create more chaos in Stronghold 31 before dawn so they can’t form an effective resistance.”
“Then what should we do?” someone asked.
The T5 combatant thought for ten seconds and finally decided, “We’ll attack the Virtuora Consortium’s intelligence agency and blind them first. When two armies face off, the one with the better intelligence will have the upper hand. As long as we paralyze the Virtuora Consortium’s intel network first, the Virtuora Consortium will definitely lose this war!”
Saying that, the T5 combatant immediately turned towards where the Virtuora Consortium’s intelligence agency was located. During this time, they encountered two more attacks from the Virtuora Consortium. In the end, they still managed to penetrate past their attackers.
At this moment, the Virtuora Consortium realized they were simply no match for the highly mobile Pyro Company Special Forces in street battles. Furthermore, when the Virtuora Consortium observed the direction in which the Pyro Company was going, they were surprised to discover they were heading for the intelligence agency.
After the Pyro Company finally made it to the intelligence agency, the T5 combatant saw corpses strewn around the street and abandoned vehicles that had exploded. The intelligence agency headquarters were also emptied out.
“What’s going on?” The T5 combatant was clearly taken aback. They were the only Pyro Company team that had come to Stronghold 31 this time.
They had come to paralyze the intelligence agency, but someone actually beat them to it!
His subordinates checked the corpses to verify the identities of the deceased. Before they came here, they had already done their preparation work.
One minute later, they said, “Sir, the Virtuora Consortium’s intelligence director, Thomas Hendrickson, is dead…”
“And the newly appointed director of their 1st Military Intelligence Division has died.”
“The newly appointed director of their 2nd Military Intelligence Division has also died.”
The T5 combatant raised his voice on the communications channel. “All units, take note that there might still be another elite fighting force in the stronghold. They’ve carried out a decapitation strike against the intelligence agency with extreme precision. I’m afraid that the Virtuora Consortium’s intelligence agency has already fallen!”
“Who could have done this?” someone wondered.
“Probably the Stelaria Consortium’s elite troops. Be careful! Avoid them if you bump into them. The most important thing now is to destroy the Virtuora Consortium,” the T5 combatant said solemnly.
In his opinion, the other group should also be very strong and have quite a few people. Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to wipe out an entire intelligence agency that was situated in the center of the stronghold!
This made the T5 combatant a little hesitant. That was because favonovel.com did not hear about the Stelaria Consortium having a fighting force as strong as this in the vicinity.
“What do we do now?” a T4 combatant asked on the radio.
“Attack the secret prison.” The T5 combatant pondered for a moment before answering, “Releasing the prisoners inside will be enough to give the Virtuora Consortium a headache.”
But after running for nearly half an hour, they realized the secret prison had also been turned into ruins when they got there. Immediately, there was a chill in the T5 combatant’s heart.
Why were the Stelaria Consortium’s elite troops always a step ahead of them?
Moreover, how many people from the Stelaria Consortium were here?
After destroying the intelligence agency, they still had the strength to break into the secret prison?
The secret prison had already been demolished beyond recognition, and several hundred prison guards had died tragically in there.
Could the Stelaria Consortium have an entire independent regiment hidden in the stronghold?!
At this moment, only the stronghold walls in the north were damaged. The walls at the other parts of the stronghold were all intact. Therefore, the Stelaria Consortium must not have come in from the outside of the stronghold. They must have already been lying in ambush on the inside.
“Let’s head to the other prison.” T5081 did not hesitate any further.
In any case, their mission was to pin down the Virtuora Consortium’s garrison troops so they would not be able to organize their defenses. Here in Stronghold 31, the Stelaria Consortium was not their enemy.
However, when T5081 arrived and stood outside the normal prison, favonovel.com was shocked. At some point, favonovel.com even wondered if the Stelaria Consortium had really infiltrated Stronghold 31 with an entire independent regiment.
T5081 said in a daze, “Is the Virtuora Consortium’s intelligence agency useless? They don’t even know that their stronghold had been infiltrated by so many of the Stelaria Consortium’s people?”
However, the aftermath of the destruction to these two prisons was starting to give the Virtuora Consortium a headache, especially the intelligence agents that were set free from the secret prison. These people could even make a bunch of bombs with a single trip to the hardware store. It seemed like everything was about to go down in Stronghold 31!
