Deposed? I couldn't be happier! I wouldn't even be a dog to the crown prince.

"Within a quarter of an hour, I will eradicate the underground black market in Chang'an."

The voices in the encrypted channel were chilling and piercing.

Xu Xiao was startled, and his hand trembled.

The rice bowl I had just picked up fell to the ground with a thud.

White rice was spilled all over the floor.

He didn't care about wasting food.

Because Li Chengqian's dead fish eyes, seen through the screen, were filled with such terrifying killing intent.

That was a truly murderous look in his eyes.

"Your humble servant obeys!"

Holographic communication was cut off.

Xu Xiao did not hesitate at all.

He pushed aside the table in front of him and strode out of the military tent.

"Clang!"

The high-frequency microparticle knife at his waist was drawn directly from its sheath.

The blue plasma blades drew a dazzling arc across the military camp in the early morning.

"Great Snow Dragon Riders! All Heaviest!"

Xu Xiao's roar, amplified by the mecha's loudspeaker, shook the entire military camp.

"Activate the highest-level anti-suppression plan! Target: Underground area of ​​Chang'an West Market!"

Chang'an West Market.

In the dark underground room of the slum.

Old Wai was unaware that disaster was about to befall him.

He was sitting on that dilapidated iron bed with his legs crossed.

He fiddled with two physical credits in his hand, his face beaming as he boasted to Zhiyuan.

"Hey bald monk, see that? With my abacus overclocking skills, I'll hack the Tang Dynasty Tian Shu system sooner or later..."

boom!

Before he could finish speaking...

The moss-covered brick wall above the dark room, along with the heavy iron hidden door.

It was blasted apart from the outside by a brute physical force.

Broken bricks and tiles, mixed with dust, rained down like a storm.

It landed all over Lao Wai's head and face.

"What are you doing! This is robbery!"

Old Wai jumped up in fright, dropping his pipe to the ground.

The dust settled.

A heavy, all-black single-soldier mech, standing five meters tall.

I walked heavily into the small basement, stepping on the broken bricks scattered on the ground.

The scanner on the mech's head emitted a cold red light.

The plasma rotary machine gun on his shoulder was already loaded.

The dark barrel of the gun was pointed at the two people inside the house.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of dense tracks crushing against the ground came from outside.

An entire battalion of Snow Dragon Riders surrounded the slum.

Dozens of armed drones hovered in the sky, sealing off all blind spots.

"Squat down! Put your hands behind your head!"

Xu Xiao's cold, electronic voice rang out from inside the mecha.

Zhiyuan instinctively wanted to resist.

The gears on the right arm of the machine he had just repaired started turning, and the hydraulic rod suddenly lifted up.

boom!

The Great Snow Dragon Riders didn't even give a warning.

The high-voltage electric shock gun on the mecha arm opened fire immediately.

A burst of blue high-voltage plasma struck Zhiyuan precisely in the right shoulder.

"what!"

Zhiyuan screamed in agony as his mechanical right arm exploded with sparks and became completely paralyzed.

He was electrocuted and collapsed to the ground, his eyes rolling back in his head.

Faced with this kind of devastating firepower from the state apparatus.

Street hackers' proudly displayed broken abacuses and secondhand prosthetics.

It's like a pile of paper toys.

Vulnerable.

"Sir...it's a misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding!"

Old Wai was so scared that he wet his pants.

It dripped down his trouser leg and onto the ground, emitting a foul odor.

He crouched in the corner, clutching his head and trembling.

Two soldiers wearing exoskeleton armor strode in.

They roughly lifted Lao Wai off the ground and locked him tightly with electromagnetic handcuffs.

"search!"

Xu Xiao coldly gave the order from inside the mecha.

The soldiers began a violent cleanup.

Those second-hand scrap parts piled up in the corner, and smuggled inferior chips.

The soldiers melted it into scrap metal on the spot with laser cutting guns.

A soldier walked up to Lao Wai's worktable.

I saw that huge sandalwood abacus.

It is also connected to a dense network of fine copper wires.

"Sir, we've detected an unknown computing device," the soldier reported.

"Smash it." Xu Xiao didn't even bother to look at it again.

Click.

The heavy metal combat boots of the mech armor stepped on it without mercy.

The sandalwood abacus frame shattered into pieces instantly.

Those wooden abacus beads that Lao Wai had polished to a shine.

Under the force of several tons of machinery, it shattered into countless pieces of wood chips.

It rolled and tumbled all over the ground with a clatter.

Old Wai watched as his livelihood was crushed into dust, and his heart ached so much that he trembled.

But he didn't dare utter a single word.

The emerging cyberpunk trend in Chang'an.

It was ended by an iron fist under Li Chengqian's irritable command.

The physical clearing was carried out quickly.

Less than fifteen minutes.

The entire underground black market was looted, and all illegal equipment was destroyed.

"Reporting to the general, the clearing of Block 4 in the West Market has been completed, and no survivors have escaped."

The adjutant reported to the commander over the communications channel.

"Fall back."

Xu Xiao coldly issued the order.

I'm preparing to return to Hawaii to report back.

Just then.

"ah--!"

A piercing scream came from the innermost corner of the dark room.

Xu Xiao suddenly turned his head.

The snow dragon knight who just crushed the wooden abacus.

He was clutching his chest, kneeling on the ground in agony.

The heavy iron armor he wore was a source of great pride for the Tang Dynasty military and was said to be able to withstand the bombardment of the Red Coat Cannon.

It's happening at an astonishing speed.

It looks like it's weathering.

Starting from the point where it connected to the chest, it turned into clumps of black dust.

Black metallic dust fell down in a flurry.

It fell onto the muddy ground.

"What's going on!"

Xu Xiao piloted his mecha and charged forward.

The soldier's helmet was also starting to weather.

The mask shattered, revealing a terrified face underneath.

"General...the armor...is melting..."

Before he could finish speaking...

The armor on his entire left arm instantly crumbled into a pile of black ash.

The insulation layer and shock-absorbing gel inside were completely destroyed.

The soldier lost his balance and fell into the dust.

This is not hacking.

That broken wooden abacus could never produce something like this.

Xu Xiao looked at the ever-increasing black dust on the ground.

His expression changed instantly.

A chill even colder than when he faced the Crown Prince's murderous intent sent a shiver down his spine.