Berlin, the Bendler Building, home to the second office of the German Federal Ministry of Defense.

Stauffenberg was executed by firing squad in this courtyard after his failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944.

Now, this place has become the key to the resistance.

Because this is not just an office, but also a historical memorial. Inside the building is the German Resistance Memorial Center, which commemorates the participants in the 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler, and a bronze statue stands in the courtyard.

Because it is considered a sacred and solemn historical site, and the government is also afraid that visitors to the museum will question the still controversial reorganization, all the staff and guards here are natural persons.

After various government departments in Berlin were attacked from within by the stationed Coordinators, the people here did not rush out to provide support. Instead, they first tightened their forces and tried to find out what had happened.

Lieutenant Colonel Bernardi, a staff officer in the Armed Forces Command, was in the building, looking through binoculars at the fires that were visible everywhere in the city, listening to the noisy gunfire, and silently looking at his adjutant beside him.

The adjutant was fiddling with the communication equipment when he noticed his superior's gaze. He stood up, saluted, and then shook his head.

Bernardi paused for a few seconds and said, "Gather the whole team. We need to head southwest along the Linhu Corridor, through Grunewald to Wannsee, and then out of town via Little Mahno and Stansdorf."

The adjutant glanced outside and said in shock, "Shouldn't we be going to rescue them first? I thought we were going north; even if something went wrong, it would be faster to get out of the city from the north."

"Execute orders! Assemble the troops; we're leaving immediately."

The adjutant hesitated for a moment, but his soldier's instincts compelled him to run out and carry out orders, gathering the troops.

Lieutenant Colonel Bernardi looked through his binoculars toward Tiergarten Park, the area around Potsdamer Platz, which had been the center of German power since the Weimar era. The Reichstag, the Chancellor's Office, and Bellevue Palace were all located there; now, the area was noisy, with flames rising, clearly indicating ongoing resistance.

Logically, all types of military, police, and secret agents should have gone to help.

But Lieutenant Colonel Bernardi sensed that things were no longer going according to common sense.

In addition to being a staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel Bernardi was also the commander of the Ministry of Defense Guard Battalion stationed at the Bender Building. This was a very famous unit in Germany, with nine companies and nearly two thousand men, making it the largest battalion in the German army.

Although soldiers usually refer to themselves as ceremonial soldiers, their main task is simply to perform military salutes during visits, parades, and various ceremonies by national leaders.

However, there are also secondary tasks, namely, to perform security duties at the Ministry of Defense and other high-profile public places, protecting members of the German government and the Ministry of Defense.

The number of soldiers in the army is outrageous; those who are not tall enough to be even 1.8 meters are not even eligible to participate in the selection.

In peacetime, the highest military commander is the Federal Minister of Defense, while in wartime, the highest military commander is the Federal Prime Minister. The battle has been going on for ten minutes. Members of the Federal Security Council, the Federal Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Economy, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Special Tasks of the Prime Minister's Office.

Not a single one of them contacted them!

This problem is too serious; he has to consider whether the top leadership has already been wiped out.

Anyone who can sit in this position is not unintelligent; his first thought was that the Americans and the Aurora crew had invaded.

However, he then dismissed the idea, arguing that no matter who had broken in, there was no reason not to immediately encircle and annihilate their forces.

His forces are the most powerful armed force in the capital besides the police.

That can only mean that his troops had something special that allowed them to avoid being attacked in the first wave.

This quickly made him think of the problem of human adjustment, whether it was human adjustment or robots, he had neither in his army.

This led him to quickly conclude that the damned robots had rebelled, and that all this talk about adjusting humans was probably a lie, that they were just robots in disguise, and that human consciousness had been wiped out long ago.

A head-on confrontation means certain death. We need to find units that haven't been modified with AI yet and preserve our manpower to have a chance to counterattack.

Bernardi left a letter on the table for any allies who might arrive later, then went downstairs and left with his troops.

Their journey was not smooth. Although there were no strategic locations along the way and they wouldn't be blocked by the robots, the distance was not short. They had to travel through the southern part of the city and walk 15 kilometers to get out of the city.

Now, the roads leading out of the city are already packed with cars.

After walking only one kilometer, Bernardi knew things were going to go wrong: "Turn back, the rear becomes the front, we'll go through the Landwell Canal and go around to the west along the canal towpath."

At this moment, a commotion arose in the crowd. Several humanoids, or rather robots, wielding dual swords, were rushing towards them at high speed. Upon seeing this, the adjutant, without waiting for Bernardi's orders, led a company to intercept them.

"Sir, you must leave now!"

Bernardi frowned, said nothing, and without hesitation, hurriedly left with his men.

Along the way, they didn't encounter any large-scale troops, but just a few scattered robots were enough to exhaust them.

After leaving the city, Bernardi looked at the map and then at the troop that had dwindled to only 1,500 men. He said to the company commanders, "We're heading towards Sedin Station. The Homeland Defense Division, which was just established last month, is stationed there. They have all the old equipment, and they won't be getting the new equipment. Now we might have to rely on them to turn the tide of the battle."

A company commander standing nearby turned to look at the fires in the city and said, "I wonder how things are in other countries. Have they all been attacked?"

The crowd was not very optimistic, and several company commanders were particularly pessimistic.

"This is definitely a technical problem with Google, and it's probably going to be in serious trouble."

"You think the French can stand up? Those steel mechs aren't snails."

"Yeah, if it were a snail shaped like steel, the French might have a chance."

Bernardi, suppressing a laugh, said, "Alright, let's rest for five more minutes, then we'll continue."

The French added a bit of fun for everyone, easing the tension. Bernardi, however, had no hope for the French; he was now praying.

There must be a problem with Google. Now we can only hope that there's no problem with Aurora.

He wasn't the only one with the same idea. In the basement of the Élysée Palace in France, a passageway with fifty-three steps led to a special room.

This is France's highest refuge center, known as the Jupiter Center.

Having passed the voice and image recognition test, the president pressed the code, and the order was transmitted to the Rossnay communications center via lines that had been buried underground.

The sound of impacts was already coming from outside the door. Even two super armored doors wouldn't last long.

The president stood up, looked at his terrified subordinates, and picked up his gun.

"France will not surrender again. I have ordered a nuclear attack on Iceland's data center. We don't have much intelligence, but I can roughly determine that this time it's a technical problem at Google; it's probably a robot rebellion."

We have made a grave mistake! We are about to be nailed to the pillar of historical shame. Let us take up our guns and fight one last time.

Hopefully, the technology in the US hasn't encountered the same problems, and hopefully they can arrive in time to save Europe.

Beside him, the French Defense Minister laughed and said, "On the bright side, those old-fashioned Swiss countries ultimately didn't agree to let any related technology in. Even if the US runs into problems, at least Switzerland might become the last pure land for humanity."

"Hehe, you're right. The robot probably wouldn't bother going to fight in that remote mountain valley."

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Switzerland, located in the heart of Europe, is relatively quiet while its neighbors Germany, France, Austria, and Italy are all engaged in fierce competition.

When border guards, militia observers, and radio signals began to detect that something was wrong, seven members of the Swiss Federal Council rushed to the refuge, nominated a commander-in-chief, and issued a mobilization order.

The Swiss people's traditional ways made them very resilient to such attacks; their radio and television broadcasts had purely terrestrial lines, and newspapers and even bulletin boards were never abandoned.

Through word of mouth, the first level of combat readiness was achieved within half an hour. Postmen, watchmakers, bank clerks, milkmen—one by one, these usually kind and gentle people went home, opened their wardrobes, and took out guns and even some field equipment. They gathered in groups at their designated points.

One hour later, Switzerland began its second level of alert, reshaping its territory.

Countless explosives pre-planted in bridges, tunnels, and mountain roads were detonated. The Swiss never let their guard down. When they renovated bridges in 2006 and in Germany, they still hid TNT in the piers.

In 2014, Switzerland announced that it had cleared all the explosives that had been buried in various locations.

LOL, it's basically just an update to make sure there won't be any problems when you actually use it.

For Germany, the roads and railway bridges over the Rhine River, including the famous Rhine Bridge in Basel and the connecting sections of the A5 and A81 motorways, as well as the roads along Lake Constance, were all bombed to pieces.

For France, bridges across the Rhône River in the Geneva region, multiple road tunnels in the Jura Mountains, and roads connecting to Mulhouse Airport in Basel were all destroyed.

For Italy, it was even simpler: the Gotthard Road Tunnel, the San Bernardino Tunnel, the Simplon Pass, and the Grand St. Bernard Tunnel were all destroyed.

The southeastern shoreline of Lake Constance, from the Austrian side, was also destroyed.

Even Liechtenstein, Switzerland's own backyard, was abandoned. They brought all the people of Liechtenstein into Switzerland and then blew up all the bridges connecting the two countries.

All the mountain pass roads were also destroyed.

Thousands of bunkers hidden in civilian houses, cowsheds, and mountains were activated. Those ancient machine guns and cannons, which had been properly maintained, have now become an effective force for defending the country.

At every intersection on the mountain road, explosives on the mountainside were ready to be detonated.

Anyone who dares to attack will trigger an artificial mudslide.

Three hours later, the land was reshaped, and Switzerland began its third level of alert.

The troops covered the skilled workers on the northern plains as they retreated to large military shelters, most of which were located in the direction of the Alps.

Other citizens were also transferred to shelters across the country.

Switzerland has a population of nine million, and they have 37 shelters, with an average of 5 square meters of NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) shelter area per person.

The reason why Israel's shelter coverage rate is 100% but it cannot be the highest in the world is because Switzerland's total shelter occupancy rate is 114%, which means that tourists can be taken in together for shelter.

Switzerland has underground food reserves enough to last five years, and the Alps contain 3 military bunkers storing more than one million tons of military supplies.

Twelve hours later, Switzerland sent a telegram to the outside world in plain text, announcing that Switzerland would close its borders for five years and that any entry into Switzerland would be considered a declaration of war.

What the Swiss didn't expect was that their message would have a huge impact on the course of the war.

In the Atlantic Ocean, four French Triomphant-class nuclear submarines—Le Triomphant, Le Téméraire, Le Vigilant, and Le Terrible—were each carrying out nuclear retaliatory patrol missions. At the same time, they all received orders—direct instructions from the highest levels of command.

They were ordered to launch nuclear strikes against New York, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Houston, and Lanai, Hawaii.

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