With the sound of the first-level alarm, the originally peaceful city suddenly became noisy.
A large number of border guards poured into the dome, various combat mechs entered the city, and many battleships and airships blocked the sky.
The people hurriedly followed the garrison's instructions and entered the underground protective bunkers.
People were talking a lot, and their eyes were filled with fear and anxiety, as if the scene when the central curtain fell in the past was happening again.
However, there were not too many sudden bloody scenes this time. When entering the city, the border guards had already conveyed a comforting message to all the residents living in Percival, telling them: "The main goal of this operation is to clean up the people who are rooted in Percival."
The underground criminal group 'Hong Yan' took emergency evasive measures in order to protect the safety of law-abiding citizens."
The public's uneasiness has somewhat subsided after receiving such a notification, but such a large battle is still unavoidable and frightening.
Because most people don't know what "Hongyan" is at all. Even if they know it, they just think it is a den of thieves. Is there any need to mobilize troops like this?
Officials have provided clear explanations for these doubts.
By around 11 noon that day, Percival had initially completed the evacuation of residents in the city, and only a small number of illegal immigrants at the lowest level without legal citizenship certificates were still wandering in their activity areas.
Considering the time factor, Nan Yingjian did not continue to wait for them to evacuate, but directly ordered the defense forces to use the watch cannons on the Percival Dome to blow up the entrances established by Hongyan in various corners of the city.
Along with the roar of artillery, the hearts of the people in the protective bunker trembled. Everyone was silent, feeling and imagining the tragic scene outside the bunker.
After the entrance exploded, Nan Yingjian did not let his border guards directly break into Hong Yan's lair. Instead, he ordered various departments to block the entrance area. He also ordered that if anyone with weapons and equipment was found coming out of the entrance, they would not disarm.
Anyone who surrenders will be shot without mercy.
The garrison would never dare to issue such an order.
But for people like Nan Yingjian, who has been guarding the border line between humans and foreign spirits all year round, it is just a basic operation, and no one will think there is anything wrong with this order.
However, the people in Hong Yan are not stupid either. How could they rush out despite the hail of bullets?
Therefore, until about 1 o'clock in the afternoon that day, only a small part of the trash fish had been cleared at each entrance, and there was no sign of the power in Hong Yan's lair showing up at all.
Nan Yingjian was not surprised by this, because the Yincheng team had already launched a search outside the Percival Dome before the entrance was blown.
Therefore, the purpose of blowing up the hole was just to shock the mountain, and those in Yincheng were the backbone of the effort to clean up Hong Yan.
Another two hours passed, and it was about three o'clock in the afternoon.
Nan Yingjian received news from Yincheng. They found Hong Yan's main force in an iceberg canyon that had been frozen for nearly 50,000 years to the southwest of Percival Dome and were fighting with it.
After receiving the news, Nan Yingjian ordered the entire army to dispatch and attack Hong Yan's lair.
For a time, explosions occurred one after another in the city.
With the cooperation of various large motherships, the ground was penetrated and the underground defense force was destroyed.
After more than four hours of fighting, the Hongyan headquarters was captured, and the Border Defense Force lost five combatants.
More than a hundred people were killed, more than 2,000 were injured, nearly a hundred combat mechs and tanks of various types were damaged, a Vil-class battleship was shot down, and "Thermale", the originally most magnificent central city in the east city of Percival, sank to a similar extent.
60%, the remaining urban structure is also riddled with holes and turned into ruins.
After the clean-up operation against Hong Yan's lair was completed, the last remaining hard piece was the original auction center located in the center of Hong Yan's lair.
At this time, the auction center has been completely isolated by the "battle formation", and it is impossible to enter it from the outside.
Based on the information received before the operation started, Nan Yingjian was basically certain that Concubine Wan Xiao, Wei Yining, Ouyang Lailai and the mysterious "sir" were all in this "battle formation".
As for Ye Xin and Xue Yi, the forces sent by Nan Yingjian found nothing after searching. The coordinates they sent back before entering the underground ruins indicated an empty underground warehouse, and the warehouse had been emptied at this time.
Ye Xin and Xue Yi were nowhere to be found.
Nan Yingjian: "Keep looking, they can't be missing."
The adjutant immediately restarted the search after receiving the order.
Another hour later, the battle in Yincheng also came to an end.
Because they came into contact with Hong Yan's core strength, it was not easy for Yincheng to win this battle.
Hong Yan's accumulation over the years has also opened Yincheng's eyes.
Although they do not have as complete an air and space combat system as the Border Guards, their ground forces alone are enough to compete head-on with the Border Guards.
Outside the dome, in the cold wind of more than 50 degrees below zero, after a bloody battle.
Yincheng lost more than 2,100 combat personnel, which was mainly directly related to the destruction of a Thor-class battleship, more than 500 ground combat units were lost, and more than 700 combat vehicles and mechas of various types were damaged.
In contrast, Hong Yan's nearly 10,000 core combat units were completely wiped out, leaving only a portion of those who voluntarily surrendered and those who came to participate in the auction to be captured.
The battle iceberg canyon was like a volcano after an eruption. Not only did the glaciers melt, but the canyon also showed a bright red scorching color, which was the trace left by the ultra-high-energy energy beam. This attack was carried out by one of the main battleships of the Border Defense Force——
The "Zhenchuan" was completed, resulting in the destruction of more than 4,000 Hongyan combat units.
After detailed statistical comparison after the war, Yincheng confirmed that all members of Hong Yan's power structure had escaped, and that the core force leading this force was just a puppet and not Zhang Yi himself at all.
Yincheng was also puzzled by such a generous decision to sacrifice soldiers and protect commanders. Judging from the previous battles, these core forces of Hong Yan were simply here to die. If they wanted to escape, the strength of the border defense force would really
It's difficult to block outside the dome.
But Yincheng was happy to see such a result, so he did not overestimate Zhang Yi's thoughts.
After this cleanup, it can be said that Hong Yan's vitality was severely damaged.
Not only was the headquarters destroyed, but most of its backbone force was also lost.
Even if Hong Yan's number one talker Zhang Yi and the mother-in-law behind Hong Yan are still there, it will be impossible for Hong Yan to make a comeback in a short period of time.
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At about ten o'clock in the evening the next day, Xue Ming arrived in Percival.
At this time, the garrison had allowed some people to return to their homes, but most of the people were still waiting in protective bunkers for notification.
Xue Ming was very satisfied with this arrangement, but when he learned that Xue Yi and Ye Xin were still missing,
When you don't know something, you still feel worried.
"I have arranged for people to expand the search area. As long as he entered through this door, he must still be around here. It's just that there is something that we have overlooked and haven't found yet." Nan Yingjian said to Xue Ming.
Xue Ming looked at the damaged protective door in front of him.
Although it is well-made, it is still just an ordinary door. Outside the door is the large warehouse of Hongyan Auction Center. Previously, there were endless auction items here, but Hong Yan removed them when he evacuated.
They were all taken away, and Yincheng did not intercept these auction items.
Inside the door is a relatively smaller space, which is also empty. However, what is more concerning is that the space inside is not the usual warehouse-style rectangular structure, but a vacuum hemisphere.
There is an empty slot in the center of this hemisphere, as if something had been standing here before.
After Xue Ming stood in the empty slot for a while, he suddenly noticed that the light inside the empty slot seemed a bit strange, so he turned on the strong light on his fingertips and looked into the empty slot.
It turned out that the empty slot seemed to be covered with light-absorbing material and was not affected by light at all.
Regarding this situation, Nan Yingjian explained: "I have asked someone to look at it. This empty trough is ten meters deep. It is empty inside and there is nothing special at the bottom. It should not be a critical point."
Xue Ming nodded, then stood up, and suddenly said with a smile: "What do you think these people want to do here by brazenly and vigorously holding an auction?"
Nan Ying simply said: "When my wings get stiff, I want to fly. When my courage gets fat, I want to bite people."
Xue Ming burst into laughter, and then sighed: "But before Concubine Xiao lost contact with the headquarters, she sent a series of distress signals to the central core. From these distress signals, I can feel how helpless she was at that time... and
Based on my understanding of Concubine Xiao, there should be nothing in this world that could scare her like this, unless... what she sent was not a cry for help at all, but a warning!"
"Warning? Are you trying to say that Concubine Xiao hopes we won't come over?"
Xue Ming didn't speak. He looked around and then took out a small box from his pocket.
Inside the box was a small pebble with an unattractive appearance.
When she saw it, Nan Yingjian felt as if she had gone back decades ago, back to the time when she and Yincheng first went on missions and carried out hunting missions together.
Xue Ming took out the pebble and said, "Since you can't tell, let it tell us the answer."
As he spoke, Xue Ming gently threw the pebble forward.
The stone crossed an arc and fell to the ground with a thud.
The crisp sound echoed in the hemispherical room...
Nan Yingjian didn't know the meaning of Xue Ming's actions, but she saw it clearly.
The moment the stone hit the ground, Xue Ming's face turned pale.
…
At the same time, Xue Yi and Ye Xin did not realize that there was anything wrong with the door they passed through. In their minds, they should still be in some ruins below Percival, and the border defense force was
Come here, they can move forward without any worries.
But in fact……
They have inadvertently entered an unknown abyss, and... they have fallen deeper and deeper.