The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 332 Bad News

Zhou Xiuwen led a group of people to a temporary command center set up on the field to coordinate personnel. For now, they are relatively safe and have not been affected by the chaotic battle, but given the current situation, it is not impossible.

According to military intelligence, in addition to the main person arrested this time, Angel Burgan, nearly eleven mid-level rebels were also identified. Six of them knew Angel and were invited to watch the match, and surprisingly, four of them actually came.

The military initially thought they were joking, until they received the list and realized it was real. This group of rebels had indeed banded together because of some unknown amount of personal connections. But that was fine; it made them easier to capture…

The fact that the rebels would send another group was actually within their expectations. After all, if they were the upper echelons of the rebels, knowing that their subordinates were foolish enough to huddle together, they would definitely want to send someone to wipe them out immediately.

When these individuals with questionable identities entered, the military marked them one by one and assigned special personnel to keep watch. Unexpectedly, the number of infiltrated rebels was far greater than they had imagined. They mingled among the ordinary civilians, with one side stirring up chaos while the other provided support, taking advantage of the confusion to cause trouble.

With a large crowd gathered, and fearing for their own safety, the military faced a difficult battle.

In fact, the military had anticipated this, but they did not expect that the rebels would possess such a batch of high-risk, prohibited weapons with the latest technology.

These are not ordinary high-powered weapons, but rather the kind of large-mass weapons specifically designed for use by the Imperial Army. These are generally only manufactured by Imperial laboratories and certain designated institutions, and their production is extremely rigorous. Each one has an accurate serial number, and even damaged or defective products are collected in a special warehouse and inspected and destroyed by relevant personnel at each level, making it highly unlikely that they will leak out.

Therefore, there are only two possibilities when such weapons appear in the hands of rebels. One is that the technology has leaked out and been copied by the rebels. The other is that there are rebels among the technical personnel or even high-ranking members of the manufacturing chain... Either way, it's terrible because it means that the rebels have already infiltrated the military quite thoroughly.

The military was caught off guard. They also possessed such weapons, but as had been mentioned before, their primary concern was the potential for unintended consequences, meaning they were bound to be constrained. Furthermore, even if the military were willing to disregard civilian lives, they would first have to obtain Zhou Yuanjing's approval; most of those present were Zhou's men, and he had previously stated that civilian lives would be prioritized…

So the battle dragged on and on, and that's how the casualties came about.

Zhou Xiuwen could already foresee how angry his father would be after seeing the mission report.

The intelligence gathering was actually quite thorough; it's normal to miss some people, as even the most powerful intelligence network can't cover everything. The execution was also decent; the Third Corps' special forces lived up to their reputation, managing to maintain a general grasp of the situation even in the face of such sudden chaos. Casualties were unavoidable, and both sides were aware of this.

The only thing they hadn't considered was the weapons... What exactly happened in the capital?! If even such core weapons could be leaked to the rebels, wouldn't it be possible that one day the rebels might want to replace one of their own as marshal?

Even though Zhou Xiuwen only had a superficial understanding of military affairs and didn't know much about them, he could still get a general idea of ​​the laxity in the management of the Central Military Region.

Because the weapons issue was somewhat unexpected, Zhou Xiuwen's group was a little confused, but after a period of adjustment, they quickly returned to normal.

After Zhou Xiuwen signaled to his father for reinforcements and reassigned his scattered men to the chaotic battle zone, he was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. Things had been so chaotic before that Zhou Xiuwen hadn't had time to pay attention to anything else. Now that he finally had some free time, he remembered sending guards to escort Jiang Hui and the others.

None of the soldiers returned, and Zhou Xiuwen was too busy to contact them. Those soldiers had served by Zhou Xiuwen's side for many years and had taken good care of him since childhood. Although they were nominally his superior and subordinate, they were actually like his elders.

Now, Zhou Xiuwen realized that besides wanting to know about Jiang Hui and the others, he also wanted to see where they were.

He turned on his dedicated communicator and found that he had received more than a dozen messages in the past hour from different people.

The most frequent request naturally came from his father, Zhou Yuanjing. It turned out that the other side had received the message and dispatched reinforcements after he sent out the request for help. According to the timeline, they were expected to arrive soon and would immediately relieve their predicament.

Zhou Xiuwen turned his gaze to his father's last message asking if he was alright, and replied with a "good" by curling his fingertips.

The rest were mostly from the personnel handing over duties between different departments, and were intelligence information that he didn't have time to look at one by one. He was about to skip them to find the contact information of those soldiers when he suddenly saw a familiar name at the very bottom. The latest message was marked with a red signal, clearly an urgent message.

The other party was John Kerr, one of the sergeants sent out by Zhou Xiuwen. He had been a veteran under Zhou Yuanjing for many years, but was transferred due to health issues, and later came to work for Zhou Xiuwen. Although he had retired from the front lines, he was more than capable of teaching Zhou Xiuwen, a newcomer to the profession.

He was also the head of Zhou Xiuwen's guards, and the person Zhou Xiuwen had just wanted to contact was him. But what had happened to warrant such an urgent message? It's important to understand that, according to military regulations, not all information can be marked as urgent. Because the battlefield is ever-changing, victory or defeat can be decided in the blink of an eye with just a single message, so intelligence of insufficient importance cannot be marked as urgent.

Zhou Xiuwen immediately sensed something was wrong and clicked on the link. Upon seeing the message clearly, his expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly ordered his men to investigate.

But before he could finish speaking, another message came in.

It was the same person, the same dialog box, but it was no longer highlighted in red, and it wasn't even posted by the same person. Yet every word carried immense weight.

—This is a message automatically sent by the system, indicating that the person monitoring the situation in real time has lost vital signs and has died. Therefore, the system promptly reports this situation to the person in charge at the online end.

Sergeant John Kerr, who had been protecting him, is dead. Just now.

Zhou Xiuwen's face was blank. The person next to him listened for a while and was a little confused. He asked for the instructions again, but little did he know that his task had become meaningless and was no longer relevant.

(End of this chapter)