Players Invade Cyberpunk

Chapter 1159 - 377: Operation Codename: Battlefield Old Six

Cannon fire and gold by the tonThat’s no joke

After a month and a half of war, if calculated by market value, Lin Miao has already spent over a billion Orokin, purely invested, not a cent recovered yet. And that’s before deploying the heavy artillery and armored groups, while the air force costs are covered by self-funding military technology.

Otherwise, even tripling or quadrupling the number might not be enough.

But there’s no choice, he must fight like this.

Neither an airborne assault on Havana’s capital for a decapitation strike, nor a frontal push to swiftly crush the Cuban drug cartels is an option.

Some things sound quite inhumane

That is, small countries and their citizens do not have human rights, including Lin Miao’s Horizon Corporation.

From the very beginning, Cuba was used by several companies through Lin Miao to draw the European Community in, and then take advantage of bleeding them dry.

So this war cannot end quickly, and people on this land will inevitably suffer the most brutal war torment.

Despite knowing nothing, having done nothing, they must face this unexpected catastrophe, endure the pain of this war’s onslaught, crushed to pieces in the tug-of-war between both sides, their families destroyed.

Is it painful?

Is it tragic?

But this is reality, Lin Miao can only try to minimize casualties, concentrate rescuing Cubans and settle them in the underground city to work, which is the only thing he can do.

Fortunately, these people are not completely without skills

They can make medicines and farm, and these two industries are considered lucrative in today’s market.

The production lines dismantled from drug factories have started operating underground, with pharmaceutical company data fortresses found in the old web, players have uncovered many pharmaceutical process documents, drug formula sheets, and raw material synthesis methods.

After analysis and comparison by Hathaway and ERO with similar drugs on the market, dozens were quickly selected.

Fifty years can change many things, but it’s far from enough for drug research and iteration, not to mention much stored in the data fortress is secret experimental information yet to be produced, reverse engineering and then production is not difficult for them.

Among them are inhibitors, electrical signal conversion liquids, wartime military supplies like these.

Apart from keeping some for personal use, the rest were used in combination with West Fire Grass to swindle away a large amount of military aid material given to the Cuban army by Europe, selling this replacement military aid worldwide for money.

In this way, the Horizon Corporation’s base in Cuba gains a capacity for self-sustaining apart from just waiting for Lin Miao to provide support; otherwise, he would soon be forced by several companies to use shares as debt payment.

With the expansion of the underground base, Lin Miao’s long-desired new energy development can begin here too.

With Kasper responsible for recruiting and forming a nuclear energy department, and Lin Miao using favors from Dong Hui to obtain thorium salt fuel and a large number of critical components, he can now claim to have independent nuclear power technology (assembled).

The building underground city now relies on the power from three thorium-based reactors.

But I’ve said so much, it still comes down to the frontline battlefield, if the frontline battle cannot be won, it’s all for nothing.

"Arnold is currently launching an attack on the red earth mine to the west, with more than sixty people. They estimate to take it in about two hours.

The freight convoy is already headed there; at least six thousand tons of crude nickel ore can be hauled this time, worth a few million. No wonder militarism likes war; looting is profitable."

Wildman, holding the freshly delivered battle report, was smiling broadly

They have won many victories in the past month, but the opponents are no pushover as they realized the disparity in strength and started fortifying their camps in resistance.

"Don’t get too happy yet; it’s just some ores."

Family Joy

"This little bit means nothing to them, plus I heard those Europeans have already landed. The enemies we’ll face next will be much stronger than Cubans; underestimating them would be a huge loss."

The players have attempted several rush attacks on the opponent’s main base, and they almost lost an entire squad under enemy artillery fire in just five minutes.

It’s not the Cold War where artillery fire rains down randomly hoping to blow someone up by luck. With artillery observers working with an information network to relay positions, even if Cuban soldiers aren’t great, their artillery can still hit accurately, albeit a few seconds late.

This targeted bombing, were it not for players’ high exoskeleton adoption rate, with each owning a Sianweistan to dodge in time, the death toll would easily multiply several times.

"Your news is outdated!"

The Commander-in-Chief jumps online excitedly, appearing in the cyber command room

"I have the latest battle news, absolutely sensational."

Wildman: "What is it?"

Commander-in-Chief: "That group of Europeans plans to airstrike us, scheduled for today at 6 PM, targeting Pig Bay Port, with two flying squadrons and Black Forest paratroopers, preparing a fierce attack."

Family Joy was puzzled, he asked

"How do you know so clearly?"

Even Wildman hadn’t heard this news; could it be the Commander-in-Chief has some exclusive insider info?

"Haha."

The Commander-in-Chief laughed heartily

"Those European numbskulls, their officer completely revealed this attack plan on a live-streaming app for fan donations, even boasting about punching us back to California to call for our mom, it’s honestly hilarious; now this news has made it to all the major media’s newspapers."