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Chapter 302. The Great Battle Begins

The trending topic on the forum, marked with the word "explosive," kept soaring.

Being on the front lines of war, Jiang Jianxin could feel the tension of an impending storm even more keenly.

"Om..."

Another beam of light from the monitoring tower swept across the night sky, accompanied by the roar of machinery turning and the tearing sound of helicopter rotors approaching from afar.

—Clearly, the purpose of this tower's turn was definitely not to illuminate the outline of Xiayang City.

Jiang Jianxin clearly saw that the dark mass of fighter jets and bombers followed closely behind the second beam of light, like a dark cloud carrying death, silent yet ferocious.

"Om——"

Two searchlights simultaneously locked onto Xiayang City.

The bomber group, which had not yet entered the area of ​​sunlight, had already opened fire.

"boom----"

Several shells, trailing orange flames, plummeted into the city, landing with deafening roars and blinding white light.

All the puppets, transport vehicles, and sacks in the strike zone were instantly engulfed in flames.

"boom----"

"boom----"

Explosions continued, and fireballs shot into the air.

The once quiet city of Xiayang is now completely engulfed in flames.

Jiang Jianxin found a secluded corner, soared into the air on his sword, and quietly looked down at the turmoil below.

She blended into the night in her black robe and went unnoticed.

The Rose Group's army was marching towards Xiayang City. In the darkness, they carried flashlights, and from a distance, they looked like a winding, flowing river of light.

[Rose Transportation actually deployed bombers to begin bombing?]

Jiang Jianxin had anticipated that the Rose Group would not remain silent, but he had not expected their counterattack to be so swift.

"Of course, that's the Rose Group."

Intuition struck her:
This area was originally riddled with contaminated zones, and the Rose Group had already stockpiled a large military force to contain its spread. These bombers were specifically prepared to completely eliminate the threat should the pollution get out of control.

[But you've cleared many contaminated areas for them these past few months, leaving this force idle. Given this opportune moment of provocation, the Rose Group naturally didn't hesitate to retaliate immediately.]

Intuition paused briefly, then added:
[The sheer scale of the bombing of the main thoroughfare of Xiayang City is extremely serious—it's tantamount to a direct declaration of war. You should understand how much manpower and resources Rose Transportation invested in building this city's main road.]

Jiang Jianxin nodded solemnly.

Having spent several months at Rose Transportation, she has gained a deeper understanding of the organization and now has a clear grasp of its basic operations.

It used to be responsible for separating gifted societies from ordinary societies. To give a common example, in many novels set before the apocalypse, people traveled to another new world by passing through the walls of a train station, taking a strange subway, or even more tragically, being involved in a car accident and falling on the road.

Most novels depict this kind of plot, not because they all fantasize about the same thing, but because of the forces that divide the world in reality—Rose Transportation, which controls transportation.

The dividing line between ordinary society and gifted society is mostly set at these transportation stations or routes, which is why all the bizarre experiences happen at train stations and subway stations.

After the apocalypse, although there was no longer a need to hide the existence of the gifted society from ordinary people, Rose Transportation's network did not fail. Instead, it took on an even more serious mission—to cut off and isolate contaminated areas, preventing them from merging and expanding. Every bus route and every section of underground rail was meticulously calculated and strategically arranged; they were not only transportation arteries but also barriers that bound the contaminated areas.

Some routes even traverse highly polluted areas. They were carved out inch by inch by the soldiers of Rose Transportation, through their blood and flesh, and through their shattering talent.

Behind these channels lie countless sacrifices and perseverance.

Therefore, the complete destruction of Xiayang City's main roads and the suspected demolition of its underground tracks are far more than just physical damage—the destruction represents the loss of the defense system that Rose Transportation built at great cost.

Rebuilding a city means reinvesting immeasurable human, material, and human resources.

Rose Traffic's outrage was entirely understandable.

Jiang Jianxin saw countless bombers pouring shells down, and a dozen transmission rings suddenly unfolded in the distance, with familiar music coming from the depths of the rings—it was the music from the singers she had met before.

This time, they mobilized all of them.

She glanced down at her phone; new trending topics had already appeared on the hot search list:
#BlackEyePharmaceuticalsClarifiesXiayangCityIncident#
#RoseTrafficRefutation#
She clicked on each one and glanced at them. There wasn't much content; it was basically a statement from the Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals' public relations department explaining that the Xia Yang City incident was actually caused by Fu Rongjun and was an accidental event, unrelated to Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals.

Rose Transportation's public relations department then released high-altitude remote sensing images from the monitoring tower, which clearly showed a large number of puppets, obviously products of Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals.

And the fact that the so-called "accidental" event in the latter's public relations could "accidentally" destroy the entire main road is quite remarkable.

Furthermore, the Rose Group's public relations department pointed out that Rose Transportation's roads are protected and difficult to destroy with ordinary external attacks. This time, someone strapped on explosives and infiltrated the roads to act as a human bomb from the inside.

Such extreme tactics are not common. The most recent similar incident was when Hope Base used a human bomb to destroy the mainframe of the super artificial intelligence, A Xiang.

Therefore, the Rose Group suspects that all of this was a scheme meticulously planned by conspirators at Black Eye Pharmaceuticals, with the aim of provoking the Rose Group through Rose Transportation and intending to start a war.

After Rose Transportation's public relations department issued this rebuttal, Black Eye Pharmaceuticals has not provided any new explanation.

It's likely because the former's logic is so sound that it would be extremely difficult for Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals to explain it further.

So, is this incident really an attempt by Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals to provoke Rose Group?

Jiang Jianxin asked.

Intuitively, I answered:
It's not that simple.

At this moment, at the Rongjun garrison in Xiayang City, Yuan Ziqi stared wide-eyed in disbelief at the aerial remote sensing image accompanying the latest announcement from the Rose Group, which showed sections of roads destroyed by bombing.

He considered escalating the incident, but his initial idea was simply to blow up the subway station.

So he ordered his men to bombard the subway station.

—But it was stopped by the protective barriers provided by the Rose Transport Line.

He hadn't expected the Rose Road's protective barrier to be so sturdy; three mortar shells landed without it moving an inch.

Fearing discovery by Rose Traffic's defenders, they had no choice but to send their men back to their base.

He had only recently returned when Rose Traffic issued its declaration of war.

So now, here comes the problem.

If he hadn't succeeded in blowing up the road at all...

These roads, presented in the battle reports, were completely destroyed—

Who did it?