Accompanied by the screeching sound of metal breaking in the air, a burning spacecraft carrier slanted down into the South District below, followed by a burst of a huge fireball, which toppled many buildings and added a beautiful burst of color to a city already smoking from various corners.
"Hello, friends and viewers, this is the London weather forecast, predicting a battle severity level of 6 today, with winds from the northeast. Please be sure to maintain stability. Avoid passing under tall buildings or trees during shockwaves, as both parties have employed nuclear weapons, leading to small to moderate levels of radioactive dust in the sky today, with a radiation index of 1.5mSv. Please prepare for travel according to the situation. If you see a mushroom cloud, lay down facing away from it and cover your head with your hands."
Sun Jack, annoyed, directly smashed the nagging floating screen with a punch, his expression serious as he observed the battle conditions in front of him.
"Lurking Resistance Army, Wild Men, Clone Sun Jack, even Himalayas has acted as a military fortress. Why is the occupation progressing so slowly?"
"The entire London City is too large, it won't be quick. Anyway, the Holy Grail Class has been completely handled, this city is already ours," Tapai said.
Just as Abu finished speaking, with the activation of the Himalayas Gravity Interferer, a spacecraft carrier in the distance was instantly crushed by its own weight, plummeting to the ground like a piece of scrap metal.
After seeing that the network map of London City was covered with red dots representing Clone Sun Jack, Sun Jack finally let out a slight sigh of relief, lowering his head to light a cigarette. "It's a battle of wits and surprises, all cards laid out, to achieve such a result; I thought it would be smoother."
"It's fine, the process isn't important, the outcome is. At least you've already occupied London City, haven't you?" Tapai said from the side.
"It's just one city, this is just the beginning," Sun Jack said as he opened the 3D imaging map and started checking it.
He noticed that perhaps because Lan Meng was from an older era, the 13 cities he controlled were mostly the capitals of European Union Countries. Even if they weren't originally, he had renamed them to their former names, with the city coordinates more or less the same.
Berlin, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Luxembourg...
These are the cities fully controlled by the FFP, where FFP can act unilaterally without having to compete with any capital.
Although the FFP has capital infiltration in other cities, these 13 cities are the strongholds of the FFP. As long as these 13 cities are secured, other capital bases are of no consequence.
With the occupation of London City area, Sun Jack felt a little less tense inside, knowing FFP wasn't invincible. He still had a chance.
But Sun Jack's happiness wasn't just due to occupying London City. More importantly, as the Sun Jack software spread and took hold, the dying flames in other cities were rekindled.
Advantageous information from other cities continuously arrived, especially with the help of the Wild Men.
With the emergence of Clone Sun Jack, those headless and agenda-less units of the Resistance Army could now plan, learn patience, build up their forces, and wait for the moment Himalayas would strike, instead of recklessly throwing their lives away.
Just as Sun Jack contemplated his next major moves, the door was pushed open, and X entered, looking constipated. "I'm almost done with my job! Time to settle up!"
"No problem, just go to my finance office, you did well, I'll give you an extra layer,"
This time, the insider did well, greatly helping with many details. Without his help, taking over London wouldn't have been so smooth. Sun Jack was very generous about this.
"Which city are you going to next? Can you tell me?" Sun Jack asked X with a smile,
"What? After I tell you, you're going to follow me and snatch the city? Do you really think I'm your scout?" X said indignantly.
"How can you say that? Haven't we been cooperating well? You get your Golden Stock, and I get my city. I suggest you go to Berlin next. How about that?" Sun Jack offered again.
"Do you think others are fools? Do you think the same trick will work a second time? I'm going to another city now! Even if I'm willing to make a huge capital sacrifice, others might not let me in!"
Hearing this, Sun Jack's eyes lit up, and he quickly put out his cigarette. "Really? That's great! Since you can't go to other places, why don't you just come back to the Himalayas? From now on, we'll be our own people."
"I really..." X began to say but his face suddenly changed, and he looked at Sun Jack with an extremely ugly expression: "Did you have this in mind from the beginning? Were you trying to corner me with no way out and then pull me into your scheme?"
"Anyway, you don't have many choices left, do you?" Sun Jack said with a smile as he stood up. Without waiting for the other to say anything more, he directly reached out and patted X's arm, "Welcome to the big Himalayan family, no need to be formal, just like it's your own home."
Hearing this, X was about to explode. "This damn place was originally my home! You stole it from me!"
Sun Jack gave a beating and immediately followed it with a sweet date. "Don't say that, how about this, I'll give you an extra layer of the Golden Stock scavenged from London City, does that work now?"
Just as Sun Jack was trying to lure the other party in, his system interface began to emit alarms frantically. At least a hundred high-yield nuclear bombs were flying towards them at extremely high speed!
"Himalayan air defense system initiation." Facing the severe crisis, this metallic city suspended in mid-air automatically reacted.
As soon as Sun Jack synchronized his consciousness with that inside a clone in an open area, he witnessed a staggering scene. Explosions burst from all around in the air and on the ground, tearing the clouds above into shreds full of holes.
As the external enemies appeared, all the combat units engaged in suppressing the lingering forces in London began to retract, unifying against external threats. Instantly, the bustling London City quieted down, and the atmosphere became incredibly oppressive, each person feeling as if a heavy stone weighed on their heart.
Under everyone's watch, the origin of these nuclear bombs finally appeared in the sky.
A dim matte black triangle slowly emerged from the thick smoke in the sky, gradually expanding, and eventually turned into a spacecraft carrier that shrouded the sky.
However, this was just the beginning. Numerous spacecraft carriers continuously appeared from all around, forming a gigantic encirclement, slowly pressing towards London and the Himalayas in the sky above.