279: Chapter 279 The Great Purge of Adam, Twelve Titans Ignited Simultaneously

Capital Underground Conference Area.

The Covenant Renewal Society had just passed the agreement to hand over the Jiang-Zhe-Hu Region when a notification sound rang out in the center of the conference table.

Three documents arrived simultaneously.

Maintenance Log.

Espionage Module Return Address.

Holy Court Agreement Draft.

Adam sat in another control room, comparing signatures, Family seats, and asset quotas page by page.

His thermos was already empty.

He closed the lid.

"Do not let a single person on this list out."

The direct guard unit chambered their rounds.

At the same time, power was cut in the Capital's Eastern District, the Southwestern Survival Zone, and Underground Shelter No. 3.

Several alloy doors jammed in the middle of the corridors. Nurses clutching medicine kits pounded on the door panels, stretchers blocked the slopes, and the cries of infants filled the sealed corridors.

The public channel was taken over by the Civilization Continuation Committee.

[Adam has been controlled by Lin Yuan and is attempting to hand over the Capital to the Cloud Top Palace.]

[The Civilization Continuation Committee is taking immediate control of the Capital.]

[All units are to arrest Adam and his direct personnel in accordance with pre-apocalypse special authorization documents.]

Inside the underground conference hall, several representatives pulled out their memory cards and threw them into the incinerator slot.

The lifting platform had already started.

A military-political Family representative picked up a briefcase.

"After the port opens, the Holy Court will retain the Capital's core population."

"Adam has no right to make everyone gamble their lives with Lin Yuan."

The alert troops blocked the intersection.

Two transfer orders were delivered to the same officer.

One demanded the detention of the Committee members.

The other bore the seal of the pre-apocalypse National Emergency Response Team and demanded the arrest of Adam.

The officer gripped his gun, his muzzle pointed at the ground.

"Who exactly should I listen to?"

Footsteps came from the end of the corridor.

Adam entered the control level with twelve guards.

The main power bus had been cut; thick cables hung on the ground, smoke rising from the severed ends.

He raised his hand and pressed it against the copper busbar.

Electric current crawled into the circuits.

A row of emergency lights lit up.

The second row.

The third row.

The stalled ventilation equipment began to operate again. Floor numbers popped up on the elevator screens, and the locked medical corridors opened one by one.

The technician responsible for the power cut leaned against the console, his access card slipping from his hand.

"You have an electric-type Superpower?"

Adam withdrew his hand.

"I have many."

A squeezing sound came from the walls.

Metal doors closed along their tracks, and all seventeen exits of the conference area were locked tight.

Sonic isolation covered the control room, and the orders issued by the Committee were reduced to nothing but electrical noise.

The direct guard unit crossed the intersection.

The leading officer tore Adam's arrest warrant into two halves.

The muzzles turned toward the Committee guards.

Inside the conference hall, the lifting platform stopped halfway.

The consortium representative stood up, slapping the agreement.

"Sacrificing three regions to preserve the spark of civilization—this is called making a trade-off!"

The gate was torn open by metal.

Adam walked into the conference hall.

The Covenant draft was projected onto the main screen.

The population of the three Jiang-Zhe-Hu Region areas was marked as expendable resources.

Further down were the private asset quotas, Bloodline seats, independent cabins, and crystal core quotas for twenty-seven Families.

Adam zoomed in on the last column.

"You shout about civilization."

"But the paper is filled with surnames, assets, and Bloodlines."

"The common people are put on the expendable list, while your descendants are assigned cabins based on their surnames."

An old man braced himself against the table.

"We provided funds, food, and equipment for the Capital!"

"So what?"

Adam raised his eyes.

"And you're using the Dragon Kingdom to settle the bill?"

Behind the conference table, three Espers attacked simultaneously.

Flames rolled across the table.

Rock spikes shot from the floor toward Adam's legs.

A mental shockwave pressed in against the walls.

Rock armor covered Adam's body, blocking the first round of attacks.

Gravity descended onto the conference table; two Espers were smashed into the tabletop, sending wood splinters and documents flying everywhere.

A mental barrier opened.

The last person's control ability slammed into the barrier, causing blood to trickle from their nose.

Rebar was pulled from the walls, transforming into long ropes that wrapped around the waists and arms of the remaining guards.

Adam walked forward three steps.

With every step, he switched Superpowers.

Electric-type for power supply.

Metal for blocking paths.

Sonic for isolation.

Rock armor for defense.

Gravity for suppression.

Mental barrier to cut off control.

The abilities accumulated through devouring formed a complete tactical set in his hands.

The conference table was overturned.

The evacuation passage hidden underneath was revealed, only to be immediately filled with metal.

The guards at the door lowered their muzzles.

They were no longer needed.

Liu Qing's remote data connection came online at this moment.

Maintenance records, Holy Court communications, internal votes, and Family lists were all broadcast onto the Capital's public channel.

The note "Gu Beichen is unaware, can be utilized" was also placed on the front page.

In the shelter corridors, the screens recovered one by one.

Residents pried open the isolation doors and surrounded the management stations set up by the Committee.

The garrison troops at the intersections tore down the Covenant Renewal Society insignia and escorted the Committee guards onto armored vehicles.

Adam stood under the main screen.

"Revoke the access of all signatories."

"Conduct separate reviews for the grassroots personnel who participated in the power cut but submitted evidence."

"Treat the rest as traitors."

The consortium representative slammed into the metal door.

"You can't kill us!"

Adam walked past him.

"Today, I can."

Gunshots rang out from the underground conference area.

One batch.

Another batch.

By noon that day, power was restored to all districts of the Capital.

The Covenant Renewal Society disappeared from the public channel.

Warehouses, medical supplies, crystal cores, and energy equipment were all sealed by the Control Center.

The same purge results were delivered to Tiangong No. 1.

Lin Yuan scanned the list and turned off the screen.

If Adam was willing to wield the knife, it meant he still intended to defend the Capital.

How long he could hold it depended on whether Michael would give him the time.

... B2 Research Level.

Twelve universal cores were lined up along the racks.

The locking protocols on the fifty sets of components sent from the Capital had been removed.

The interfaces were unified, the energy chambers were unified, and the control motherboards could be swapped out at any time.

The test field gate rose.

Twelve Titan-series units stepped out side by side.

Tank entered Unit 01.

Iron Arm King climbed into Unit 02.

Jiang Yun sat into feilong no. 3.

The remaining units were taken over by B-rank warriors and C-rank veterans.

Tang Qiqi hit the test button.

The twelve mechs charged simultaneously.

The alloy target walls were smashed open, crystal core cannons blanketed the front, and mechanical arms tore apart the simulated rock armor.

Unit 07's energy hit zero, and the pilot ejected from the cockpit.

A reserve veteran rushed into the field clutching a spare core, pulled out the spent core, and shoved the new one into the energy slot.

Blue light lit up along the power spine.

Swap out.

Charge again.

Tang Qiqi grabbed the loudspeaker.

"High-rank Espers can fight on their own."

"The Titans are meant to give ordinary core members a blade capable of contending with A-ranks."

"If a person falls, swap them out; the machine must keep moving forward."

She looked at the chest armor of feilong no. 3.

"Tiangong No. 1 will no longer rely on anyone burning away their life to plug a gap."

No one in the test field made a sound.

Jiang Yun pushed the control stick.

feilong no. 3 raised its mechanical fist and struck its chest armor heavily.

The other eleven units followed suit, raising their arms.

The sound of metal clashing echoed throughout B2.

Su Xiaonuan walked to the console clutching her tablet.

Independent contribution system for the Mech Legion.

Tiered maintenance system.

Spare core dispatch rules.

Pilot casualty replacement regulations.

One by one, the regulations were entered into the Tiangong Wartime Regulations.

Tang Qiqi leaned over to read two pages.

"I build the mechs, you register the mechs."

Su Xiaonuan pressed confirm.

"Without scheduling, the twelve mechs you built would start fighting over the spare cores."

"Fine, Housekeeper Su is in charge of using her brain."

The gate opened again.

Gu Beichen was brought into the test field by Captain Han Xue.

He agreed to become the mech consultant for the Cloud Top Palace.

His restraints had been removed.

"I am not defecting to you."

Gu Beichen looked at the twelve Titans.

"I just don't want the Capital's technology to continue being used by those people to commit treason."

Lin Yuan didn't even look up.

"No one is asking you to defect. List all the defects clearly to settle the debt for your out-of-control shelling."

Gu Beichen nodded.

"I will point out all the defects."

Tang Qiqi picked up the record board.

"Hurry up, stop yapping."