Miss Witch doesn't want to be a diva

The sturdy cutter winch rotates slowly, constantly chewing and shredding the special steel wall in front of it, advancing step by step until the outline of a door-shaped door is cut open.

"boom--"

The nearly 30-meter-high special steel wall slowly fell down, smashing open the facilities behind it, and then exposed the enclosed space inside. When the gap was opened, detection-type autonomous units flew into it one by one, constantly opening roads and searching, followed by a team of A team of armed personnel wearing exoskeleton armor entered inside.

The surrounding area is surrounded by heavy and extremely high-density special steel construction facilities. Even military mechas would take a long time to cut through them, and some ordinary bombs are even more difficult to destroy.

After entering, there are giant military production equipment placed on the ground one after another. These tall processing machines are like semicircles buried in the ground. Each one is about 50 meters high. There is a turbine-like fan blade structure inside. Walk into this production workshop The armed men were like ants walking through the kingdom of giants.

Fortunately, these devices have now stalled, and only the residual heat and residual magic power are emitted. One can imagine how loud and loud these devices will be when they are operating at full strength, like the heart pulsation of a giant dragon.

'Blade Red' military materials company is a rare military enterprise in the Saint Ingo camp. The 'Blade Leaf Crystal Gold' produced by it is extremely strong and is often used as a material for mechas and engine equipment for some large starships. The production method is complex, requiring 43 kinds of metals and crystal raw materials to be processed step by step through 1,282 processes before they can finally be cast into 'Knife Leaf Crystal Gold'.

The equipment that armed personnel go through today is to evenly fuse two crystal powders when heated with high-concentration withered blue flames, and add matching catalysts, reactants, additives, etc. to form stable special hexagonal crystals. This is the production of One of the transitional products of Daoye Jingjin.

"Currently, we have broken through the 17th floor underground, and no resisters have been found." The commander reported upward, and then stared at the projection screens in front of him. That was what the team in front saw when they continued to break through in all directions.

Five days have passed since the previous star-wide announcement. Most of the companies and companies involved in the announcement have been sealed off. Now there are only a few companies that have not yet been fully controlled. The 'Knife Leaf Red' military materials company in front of us is one of them. one.

The company is located on the edge of the South Second District and has about 300,000 employees. And because it is a military industrial enterprise, there are strong security teams in the factory and company, which makes seizure and arrest much more difficult.

In the past few days, due to insufficient police force, this place was only surrounded and sealed, and no forceful breakthrough was made. Now in the past five days, Star Territory officials have arrested most of the corporate executives involved and sealed many companies. This has freed up manpower and It takes energy to deal with these tough guys.

"Didn't you see anyone?"

After advancing down three floors, the advancing commanders felt a little confused. Logically speaking, the underground factory and headquarters of 'Knife Red' should be equipped with many security self-discipline units and armed personnel, but there were always Not seen.

If the executives of the 'Knife Leaf Red' company sincerely admitted their mistakes, they should have come out and surrendered long ago, but they did not do so. They just hid inside the headquarters without saying a word and were unusually silent.

Continuing to move forward, the armed SWAT police saw more giant production equipment. Some were like spiral abyss mouths, and some were like tall towers reaching the sky. There was still residual heat and magic power in various reactors and equipment, which indicated that the other party These devices were shut down in an orderly manner without causing damage or accidents.

With doubts and curiosity, the armed SWAT officers continued to break through, layer after layer, until they finally reached the lowest underground square.

A huge underground space about several hundred meters high slowly emerged, with square light panels distributed on the dome, softly illuminating the world below.

At this moment, there are about 4,000 humanoid autonomous units standing on the ground of the black steel square. They are equipped with dark red exoskeleton armor, carrying special scimitars made of 'Blade Crystal Gold' in their hands, with small machine gun muzzles on their chests, and legs. Similar to a praying mantis, it can be easily bounced up and equipped with magnetic rollers, allowing it to be easily moved against the wall in underground buildings.

Orange information slowly flows over the faces of these autonomous units, flashing and extinguishing, and occasionally making a beep sound. They are in a state of complete preparation but stillness.

When the screen lens was zoomed in, the commander's auxiliary AI recognized that there were still blood stains on the blades of some autonomous units, which should have been from yesterday or today.

"Please come out of the company leaders who are still alive." The detection unit that entered the underground space flew into the sky above the square and began to persuade them to surrender.

Soon a broadcast sounded in the underground square.

"Hello, I am... the current controller of the underground production base." The voice on the radio was very nervous.

"May I ask who you are?" the commander's voice came from the detection unit above the armed man's head.

"I am a senior technical engineer in the base. I am usually responsible for optimizing and improving the production process."

"Where are the original senior executives of the company, are you the only one left?"

"...I should be the only one left in the base now."

"Where are they?" the commander asked, expressing his doubts.

"They... they're dead." The answerer's voice was a little unstable.

"How did you die?"

"Killed by the base's armed self-discipline unit."

"Why?"

"Because I don't want to die..."

After another long conversation and questioning, the commander figured out why the situation encountered after breaking through the base's protective isolation layer was so abnormal.

It turned out that in the five days before they arrived, serious internal strife and fighting had occurred within the base. Some company executives tried to resist tenaciously to buy time, and then escaped through underground rivers. Others believed that even underground rivers could escape. If you don't go anywhere, you will be caught up sooner or later, so it is better to surrender directly.

Both sides believed that the other party's behavior was unreasonable, but it had not yet reached the point of internal fighting. However, the situation gradually spread, and many employees in the underground base gradually learned the truth and situation. They were completely in favor of surrendering because they He was just an employee and was not involved in the incident. The worst outcome would be a few years in prison, and the more likely outcome would be an acquittal.

The increasingly anxious employees began to worry about the departure of senior management, which would implicate their subordinates, and began to urge them again and again. This made the company's senior management also feel a great sense of insecurity, and conflicts gradually accumulated.

In a subsequent incident, the conflict between the two sides broke out. The advanced AI controlled by the company's senior management began to control the autonomous units and systems, sealing off the base at all levels, and mobilized armed autonomous units to suppress those employees who tried to resist.

Seeing some colleagues being killed in the conflict greatly stimulated the nerves of others, and some employees who already knew the company's internal systems began to exploit loopholes to counterattack, and gradually competed for control of high-level AI.

Fearing that these employees who were familiar with the base system and AI logic would find loopholes, the company's top management also began to order the massacre of these rebellious employees while escaping, which resulted in the death of a large number of people. Then in the crisis, the engineer used the backdoor program to change authority, gained control of the armed self-discipline units, and then had these armed self-discipline units destroy the central control AI and kill a large number of the company's remaining senior personnel.

In the end of the battle between the two parties, all the remaining senior officials in the base were killed, and no one had the authority to change or manipulate the base's systems. The few surviving engineers and staff, although they had control over the armed self-discipline unit, could not If you break through the base blockade on your own, you can only wait here anxiously.

"Is this what happened..." The commander rubbed his brows, and it took him a while to figure out what was going on.

"Excuse me, if we surrender, can we be exempted from guilt? We were forced to resist the murder." The engineer asked on the radio.

"I don't have the right to answer that. This is a matter for judges and inquisitors to decide."

"Now that you are out of the bunker, I can write down the circumstances of your surrender in the report and reduce some of your culpability." the commander informed.

"..." There was a long silence.

A few minutes later, another response came over the radio.

"If we can't be exempted from guilt, we don't dare to come out and surrender. The remaining members of us are very scared..."

Listening to the response from the other side, the commander felt a little troubled and had a headache. He glanced at the armed self-discipline units in the square. If these guys acted, casualties would inevitably be caused on the scene, but it was impossible for him to do so in his capacity. promise.

After pondering for a few seconds, he decided to report the situation to his superiors to see how to handle it.

The news was quickly reported to the military and police command headquarters and forwarded to the Star Territory Court and the Tribunal.

After a long and uneasy wait, the tense atmosphere spread in the underground space. Special police with weapons in hand stood guard at the entrance, watching the armed self-discipline units in the square below, and these units in the square also sent flashing reminders from time to time. sound.

Finally, an hour later, the announcement reached the scene. The commander connected the broadcast again, and then a huge projection screen appeared over the square.

In the picture, a black-haired girl sat against the background of the cobalt blue Star Tears logo, with an inquisition official and a court official on either side of her.

"I received this news suddenly, but this matter is caused by me, so I hope it can be resolved in a more peaceful manner." In the picture, the singer girl lightly pressed her chest with her hand, bowed her head and saluted, and then began to tell.

"I am Hesia Tilan, and I am surrounded by court officials and trial court judges in the Star Territory. If you have any ideas or demands, you can talk to me directly."

The girl's familiar and clear voice echoed in the underground square, relaxing the previously tense atmosphere.

"It's Hesia Tilan. I didn't expect that they really summoned a big shot." The special police standing at the entrance of the passage whispered.

"Given the importance the Federation places on singers, if Tilan makes a promise here, as long as it's not too outrageous, it will basically come true."

"I guess they are also afraid that the engineers underground will not believe the promises made by the Tribunal and the court officials. After all, if they are really caught, they will no longer have any room to resist or speak out."

Just like what the SWAT officers were talking about, when the singer girl appeared on the projection screen, the engineers hidden underground were obviously relieved and the tense atmosphere was slightly relieved.

After gradually listening to their descriptions, Heshia nodded slightly to express that she understood their thoughts and behaviors, and then asked the people around her about relevant precedents.

"I asked the court official on the side about the relevant laws and regulations. If you surrender, I can help you apply for leniency, which will not be too harsh."

In fact, if we follow federal law and practice, although they were forced to do so, their actions in killing cannot be easily offset. For some kind of stability maintenance needs, the court will still punish them severely, but this time the situation is really special. In this situation where both are possible, if Heshia pleads for mercy, during the court trial, there is a high probability that the sentence will be based on the lighter direction.

With the promise of this most famous singer in the star field, the armed self-discipline unit in the underground space gradually shut down, and then a group of engineers in shabby clothes slowly walked out. There were not many of them, only about 200 people, and inside the base before There are nearly 10,000 employees.

A few hours later, the special police officers who finally took full control of the underground production base breathed a sigh of relief. The mission landed safely. At the beginning, they were well prepared for various battles. You must know the protection system of military industrial enterprises. If Operating at full capacity, even if they, the special police, are supported by various equipment, they will still have to pay a certain price in casualties.

A week later, Tilan came to the prison where she was being held, met with the surviving engineers, and asked about the previous situation again. In front of the singer, the engineers present told everything they knew. Even if there were some small lies, the girl smiled. Didn't expose it, just listened silently.

No one is perfect, and in such a highly stressful and dangerous environment, they still require them to fully abide by moral standards, which is really a bit difficult. So as long as the whole process roughly conforms to their description and is not distorted, Heshia decided to forgive them and for They plead for mercy, but they are just asking for blame for something.

"I know, everyone was frightened a lot."

Standing outside the prison, the girl's blue eyes slowly swept across the people present. There was a slight softness in her voice, which made everyone calm down again. When they were stared at by those clear eyes, they felt a vague sense of shame. It arises in the minds of many people because they are not entirely telling the truth.

In fact, at the later stage, some of the remaining senior officials had lost the ability to resist, but because they were afraid of retaliation after leaving, they still chose to kill those people.

Blinking her eyes, the girl comforted these people, and then left the prison under the leadership of the investigator.

Back in the lounge, Emeranda asked Hesia what she thought.

"You should have noticed the loopholes in their words." As an elite of the Tribunal, she knew that the singer had the ability to easily read lies.

"Yeah." The girl sat on the seat, leaning her head sideways and closing her eyes slightly.

"How do you feel?" Emeranda asked curiously.

"I know they told some lies, but I also understand their fear and fear, their weakness and uneasiness." The girl slowly opened her eyes, and her light blue eyes seemed to be spinning with stars.

"You can't hold people in that position to high standards. That would be too harsh and harsh, because I know how helpless and unbearable it is to be at the bottom."

"Everyone is not doing well. It's not their fault, it's the environment that makes them make such a choice."

"I don't want this to happen again, and punishing them won't change the whole environmental situation."

"I want to change the Four-leaf Crystal Star Territory. At least in the future, they no longer have to lie to me, but can stand in front of me confidently and openly and tell me everything about their lives and work."