The news of Carmela's robbery spread throughout the city the next morning.
What happened on the eve of the war was nothing less than a slap in the face to the Arrent Empire.
The people of the empire were agitated and demanded severe punishment for the murderer.
It's just that the murderer has already escaped, and there is no way to catch him if he wants to. He can only vent his anger on the Lion Heart Kingdom. The war mobilization is getting faster and faster, and the border between the two countries is on guard, and they are fully prepared for the coming war.
Central City itself was under martial law, and many people were accused of this.
Although Krautmann died heroically, others were unwilling to let him go.
Many comments have accused him, saying that it was precisely because of his heavy siege and not heavy defense that the assassin easily sneaked into the prison and rescued Carmela, and he must be held responsible for this incident.
Of course, since everyone is already dead, there is no need for any additional punishment.
In the eyes of most people, when such a big thing happens, there is always a need for a scapegoat. Finding someone to take the blame is undoubtedly the most merciful expression.
But things didn't end there.
After learning that Carmela had been kidnapped, Atkins was furious and criticized the city's poor defense. However, what he mainly criticized was not Krautmann, but the performance of the empire in the early and late stages - why the assassins could easily and unimpeded.
The border line passed all the way? Why haven't our troops caught up with the assassins who escaped from Central City even though they were seriously injured? If Krautmann is said to be incompetent, then one night has passed and there is still no one.
What do other generals who capture people count?
This series of sharp criticisms made a group of generals anxious, but Atkins was unable to do anything. After all, he was the main victim of Carmela's assassination. He had reason to be angry, and it was because of him that the Empire was able to capture Carmela.
A healthy Carmela was caught by Atkins, but a weak Carmela ran away while being chased by a group of people. Comparing the two, Atkins' performance became even more dazzling.
In order to appease Atkins' anger, the Emperor ordered that Atkins be promoted one level to lieutenant general, and promoted from the former deputy commander of the Twelfth Legion to the official commander of the legion. The former commander had already retired due to his old age.
I have to retire just because the issue of successor has not been decided yet, and now the dust has finally been settled.
After receiving the promotion, Atkins quickly called Shen Yi.
"That's it. Thank you very much, General." In the factory office, Shen Yi smiled into the phone.
"You're welcome, thanks to your reminder."
"It's what I should do... Well, I know you must be very busy now. You have to prepare for war and take over the legion... No, this is the expectation of the soldiers. You will definitely bring them a glorious victory... Then
You go about your business first, I won’t waste your time.”
After hanging up the phone, Shen Yi turned around and said: "A big order. The Twelfth Army needs to replace three thousand sets of soldier equipment."
"Yea!" Shirley, Michelle and Zhou Yiyu raised their arms and cheered at the same time.
Shen Yi added: "Also, General Atkins officially hired our security company to assist the Twelfth Army in participating in the battle against the Lion Heart Kingdom, and promised that every time a city is conquered, the Second Army can participate in the distribution of spoils."
Shirley sneered: "The so-called distribution of spoils is just looting, right?"
Shen Yi replied seriously: "No way, this is called reallocation of resources."
Then he smiled and said: "Don't worry, this part is also legal. As a subject of Yrente, as long as it is income recognized by the Yrente Empire, it is legal!"
Shen Yi said without shame.
"This is really exciting." Zhou Yiyu said with a smile.
Chu Sheng snorted coldly: "That's right, but the money for the vase will be deducted, right?"
Shen Yi's face immediately dropped and he sighed helplessly.
On the coffee table in front of the sofa in the office is the vase that Shen Yi photographed.
Shirley almost went crazy when she saw that Shen Yi spent two million on a vase - every penny of the factory's funds was used to the limit, and a considerable part of it was earned by the airborne troops' frugal work money. , Kafka even performed eight operations in one day and received sixteen red envelopes.
He got double the red envelopes.
As a result, Shen Yi spent two million in one go.
Fortunately, Shirley reacted quickly and promptly pointed out that the money was earmarked for use by General Atkins' troops, and then requested the money owed after the donation was completed.
When Atkins heard that the donation was still in arrears, his eyes almost popped out of his head - the technological continent is not the earth, and there is no such weird thing as arrears of donations.
Of course Atkins agreed and generously gave them the vase first.
It's not worth much money anyway.
At this moment, Zhou Yiyu laughed: "It's okay, isn't it just two million? That's a bloody thing of twenty thousand. It's not like we can't earn back. Besides, we earned more than this amount yesterday."
After killing Krautman yesterday, Wen Wenwen opened the box and saw that there were two boxes of special bullets, one box of sonic bullets and one box of earth bullets. In addition, there was a skill scroll for the off-hand elbow attack. In addition, those few machines were destroyed. The Colossus of the God of War also allowed Wen Wen to get some points and a piece of the energy crystal of the Colossus of the God of War.
But if you really want to do the math, considering that Shen Yi also used a box and a half of special bullets, a bottle of mental recovery potion and 5,000 points for this support, there is actually neither profit nor loss. Zhou Yiyu just tried his best to save Shen Yi.
Shirley doesn't care about this: "The problem is that spending 20,000 yuan and throwing away 20,000 yuan have different feelings!"
She put her hips on her hips and said, "You can still hear a sound when you hit the water."
It's so damn weird. Zhao Linger's speech is becoming more and more Western. How come this girl's speech is becoming more and more Eastern?
Shen Yi looked at the vase in a daze for a while, and finally said fiercely: "I will definitely sell it!"
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Beverett Street.
The residents have been evacuated, the bodies have been collected, and the entire area has been cordoned off, leaving only dilapidated ruins on the street, and of course, the ubiquitous stains of blood.
Bernard Jenks squatted in front of a white outline of a corpse and looked at the ground carefully. He seemed to see something and gently picked up a deformed warhead from the ground with tweezers.
"Another armor-piercing bullet..." Bernard muttered: "What do you think? Ellie."
"Snipers are very rich." A female agent behind him in a smart suit with short hair answered, taking the bullet from Bernard's hand and putting it into a plastic bag.
This answer made Bernard chuckle: "122 rounds of armor-piercing bullets, 24 rounds of violent rounds, at least 20 rounds of smoke grenades, and more than 150 rounds of special bullets alone... This is no longer a problem that can be solved with money. Okay. By the way, did you find the video?"
"Unfortunately, no, the battle destroyed all the video facilities. However, a photography facility on a street in the south accidentally captured the flight path of a bullet. It was confirmed that the sniper fired from the south. The speed of the bullet was
Soon, the preliminary estimate is that the speed will be more than 1,200 meters per second."
"Got it." Bernard took out a small notebook and wrote down on it: shooting position, south, bullet flight speed above 1,200 meters.
Then he put away the notebook and asked, "Did you find the shooting point?"
"All shooting vantage points within a three-kilometer radius have been searched, but nothing has been found."
"Ask them to expand the search area to five kilometers."
"Okay." The female agent turned to leave.
"Oh, by the way, Elini, find some survivors. I have questions to ask them."
"Okay, sir, do you have any other orders?"
"...bring me another glass of milk, a hot dog, more chili con carne, and two sausages."
"Okay boss."
The survivors soon arrived. They were all soldiers who had experienced the battle last night. The fear still remained on their faces.
Bernard looked at the soldiers confidently, then coughed slightly and said: "Just last night, you experienced a hard battle, and I know you have fought hard..."
"That's not a battle, Major." A soldier interrupted him and replied: "That's a massacre, a one-sided massacre..."
When he said this, his body couldn't help but tremble.
"Shut up!" an officer next to the soldiers said angrily: "Are you still soldiers? Can a battle scare you like that?"
"Don't be like this, Lieutenant." Bernard waved his hand: "You have to learn to understand them."
He looked at the soldiers and said: "I know you don't want to recall the battle last night. After all, for you, it was a nightmare. Nearly four hundred soldiers died in the battle. Even General Krautmann was brave.
Sacrifice, but I'm sorry, I need your help, I need you to recall what happened during that battle, only in this way can I help you find the sniper."
Another soldier looked at him: "But I don't know who you are."
Bernard chuckled and took out an ID from his body: "I forgot to introduce you, Major Bernard Jenks, the executive director of the Imperial Bureau of Investigation. It was the military who invited me to come over to solve this case. Of course, they
The main thing is to ask me to find the sniper, after all, digging out hidden moles is part of our job responsibilities."
"Mole?" a soldier asked suspiciously.
"Yes!" The female agent Elini came over and said, handing the hot dog and milk to Bernard: "The person who helped Carmela escape was a gunman, and a very powerful gunman. This shows that this person is likely to
They are from the Arent Empire. The military asked us to assist in the investigation, and Major Bernard is the most outstanding person in this field."
Several soldiers looked at each other, and finally one asked: "What do you want to know?"
"Tell me about what happened to you yesterday. Tell me in detail. Any details are fine. Even if you tell me what kind of socks you were wearing yesterday, I won't find it troublesome." Bernard began to eat the hot dog.
Then several soldiers started talking.
Bernard listened attentively, occasionally asking some questions, and remaining silent most of the time. But the soldiers' accounts had already sketched out a picture of a bloody battle in his mind.
This picture shocked him.
"Originally we had the situation under control, but bullets flying from nowhere suddenly hit the Colossus. It only took three shots to destroy the God of War, and then he never stopped attacking. We couldn't see where the bullets came from.
Wherever it came from, those bullets would turn in the air, and they would hit us no matter where we were hiding..." The soldiers said as they recalled, with panic in their eyes.
"That woman is very powerful, but at least we can still see her, but the gunman is like a ghost seeking life... We can't see him at all, we can only watch our companions being killed by him one by one. This is simply terrible."
"Jerrol hid under the car. He thought he could escape, but the bullet went directly around the car and hit him... He died."
"Emmanuel was hiding behind the wall, and the bullet also flew over and penetrated his temple. His skull fell at my feet. I was terrified."
"This is how another Ares Colossus was shot alive. At that time, we thought we were fine and ran out, but the Colossus fell down, and soon, bullets were fired at us again."
"Later General Krautmann came, and the snipers attacked the general with all their strength. The general dodged one shot... He only dodged one shot."
"Then we came out, and some of the attacks turned towards us again..."
Bernard's brows furrowed as he listened. He suddenly waved his hand: "You just said that some of the attacks were turned towards you. Are you saying that the shooter is not the same person?"
"No, it's not."
"How many do you think it is? I mean, how many attacks can appear at the same time?"
"Three times." A soldier replied after only thinking for a moment. This was not difficult to confirm. After all, there were many attacks on Shen Yi and the two clones that fired at the same time.
"So... what is their shooting frequency?" Bernard took out a small clip: "Think about it, is it like this... bang tower... snap tower, or like this, snap tower... snap tower... snap tower
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"Longer!"
The clamp clicked five times.
Several soldiers shouted: "That's almost it!"
"Is that about five seconds? Are they all shot every five seconds? Or is there a change?"
"It's all at this frequency!" a soldier affirmed.
"Is it stable?"
"It's very stable. In the end, we can almost know when the bullet will come!"
"Understood." Bernard took out his small book again and wrote down: There were three gunmen, and the shooting frequency was once every five seconds, which was extremely stable.
Then he continued to ask: "Tell me about the specific characteristics of the soldiers who were killed while hiding in the bunker, I mean in terms of operations."
Several soldiers looked at each other and then shook their heads together.
"Think again, for example, did they hide for a long time before being killed, or did they hide for a short time and then be killed?"
This time several soldiers reacted somewhat.
A soldier pointed to the alleyway in the distance and said: "Over there, I remember that Emmanuel and Jerol were both there at the time. They just hid for maybe a few seconds, and then the bullets came."
"How long? I'm asking how many seconds the longest evasion time is?" Bernard said immediately.
"...I...I don't know." The soldier replied eagerly: "I didn't care about it at the time."
"Recall the memories again!" Bernard said anxiously: "Count the seconds yourself."
The soldier covered his head and thought hard, with a look of pain on his face: "About... about six... eight... no, maybe ten seconds! Rick hid for a while. He thought he was fine, and then his
My head suddenly exploded!"
"Ten seconds?" Bernard touched his chin: "If it is a locked shot, it means that the bullet flew in the air for at least ten seconds, and the bullet flew at a speed of more than 1,200 meters... Oh, my God!"
Bernard took a breath, and this discovery made his whole body tremble.
He turned back and shouted: "Expand the search range to twenty kilometers! And... a total of nearly 600 bullets were found at the scene. With an attack frequency of three times every five seconds, the three snipers should have stayed at the shooting point at least...
…15 minutes! Damn, why is this
How long did it take for no one to notice it? A silencer, it must be a silencer! No, no, this is an ultra-long-range shooting, and a silencer cannot cover up all the sounds. Ask nearby residents to see who was there at 9pm last night.
Gunshots were heard between half-past and ten o'clock."
Elini nodded and left.
Three hours later, Bernard was rewarded. As many as twenty people heard a continuous dull sound near St. Mary's Church, fifteen kilometers away from Beverett Street.