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Chapter 603 Surrender

The gangsters worked furiously at their mortars, shouting hurried commands as they adjusted angles and loaded shells. Sweat mixed with grime on their faces as they prepared to fire. Four mortar positions were spread across a makeshift field, each team racing to strike before the Spirit Fox operatives could retaliate.

Unbeknownst to them, the first shell was already inbound.@@@@

The whistle came too late.

The first position vanished in a fiery blast as the shell struck dead center. The explosion sent fragments of metal and body parts flying, while the shockwave flattened anything within a few meters. Secondary detonations followed as the gang's ammunition ignited, creating a mushroom of fire and smoke that consumed the entire emplacement.

At the second position, gang members barely turned to look before another shell descended. It punched through their defenses and erupted with deadly force. The mortar shattered into jagged pieces as the operators were thrown backward, their screams cut short by the concussive wave. A second explosion followed when their stockpile of ammunition caught fire, erasing what little remained.

The third team scrambled to abandon their post as they realized what was happening. The shell that landed, however, didn't allow for escape. The explosion obliterated the mortar and sent shards of heated metal ripping through anyone in its radius. The air filled with smoke, screams, and the smell of charred earth.

At the final location, panic had already taken hold. The crew desperately tried to scatter, abandoning their equipment. Yet, before they could make it far, the last shell struck true. The blast hurled bodies into the air, and another secondary explosion erupted as their ammunition detonated.

Each strike was surgically precise, guided by the unwavering eye of Athena. The devastation left no survivors, only smoldering craters and the eerie silence that followed destruction.

One position where the gang attempted to build a mortar position above a residential building wasn't bombed much. Most of the powerful explosions happened above the building's top floor.

Only a secondary explosion created some damage to the building. Nonetheless, Kilo 1's shelling didn't cost any civilian casualties here, except for the frightening shock and vibration, since the operator purposely triggered the proximity fuse mode to ensure the shell blew up before touching any obstacles.

In shelling, there are three modes the operator could select before launching it into the hollow tube:

Normal mode, where the shell explodes on impact.

Proximity fuse mode, where the shell explodes before touching something hard.

Delay mode, where the explosion is triggered after a few seconds chosen by the operator.

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This mode of attack ensured the strike reached underground or inside a bunker after going through an obstacle like walls.

The Spirit Fox had completed its work with efficiency, leaving no room for retaliation.

The battlefield had been silenced. The gang's final hope of a counterattack was reduced to ash.

Apart from Kilo 1, every other Kilo team watched in amazement at the destruction and the sound of the aftermath.

Particularly, Kilo 9 and 10 from the military. Based on their experience, they recalled that the weapon used by friendly units should belong to mortar shells.

However, this scenario was quite impossible since Spirit Fox operators consumed very little of their energy. They were similar to characters in card games like Captain America and Amazonians.

Of course, metal exhaustion still existed, but it was negligible.

In the next few hours, Spirit Fox met little to no resistance, and the circle kept getting smaller. The girls became more vigilant as victory drew near.

Suddenly, a group of gangsters showed up, but Spirit Fox operators didn't shoot them like before because these bastards were in a group, hands raised above their heads, without any weapons. They also had a few members tied up and controlled among themselves.

They were now frightened to give any excuse for their opponents to release any restraints, not the slightest expecting their opponents to consider human rights.

After all, where had they seen righteous forces bombarding their target among civilian presence? Though the shelling was dead precise, they couldn't bet on this psychology.

Spirit Fox also never regarded any unarmed person as a civilian, apart from the early stage of combat, since civilians should now be informed about what to do and what not to do.

Athena completed multiple stages of broadcasts—SMS, voice calling, and hacking into public speakers, regurgitating multiple times.

These kept going on despite the heat of battle. The latter hacking had now stopped to avoid confusion.

Although reluctant, Spirit Fox members ordered these men to line up and checked through one by one, zipping their hands and allocating them behind the lines. The tied-up people were leaders forcing them as cannon fodder.

Now that all the roads were closed, and the entire syndicate gang had met its demise, most understood they were doomed. So what if they disobeyed? The Warlord, once feared and awed, couldn't afford them now.

He must be thinking of ways to escape. Nobody could take care of their actions. But the enemies killing them in the city could.

Upon understanding the situation, Tang Ziyi sent in Kilo 9 and 10 to watch over the prisoners and investigate everything.

Even if everyone among Spirit Fox wanted to commit extrajudicial killing, Tang Ziyi and Ling Qingyu discussed and decided to oblige by international standards.

Public image and reputation must be standardized when in front of outsiders. Their deeds and actions might have been rumored, but nobody had any evidence, and people could quibble out of trouble.

Nevertheless, Kilo 9 and 10 were military members, helping the mission. Plus, there were more non-combatants present. These factors led Tang Ziyi to restrain her subordinates.

It didn't matter if they killed during gunfire or when the enemy surrendered, meeting their barrels in the battlefield.

Mass execution was completely impossible. Not to mention, both Tang Ziyi and Ling Qingyu didn't want to demonize their girls. Just like the saying, balance was essential.

When you stared at an abyss, the abyss would also stare back. They didn't need to go extreme when unnecessary.

Of course, if Tang Ziyi, Ling Qingyu, and others unearthed the gang's atrocities and years of sins, they wouldn't think so.

Even the military might turn a blind eye to the possible war crimes by Spirit Fox. Anyway, these operators didn't belong to Country C; they were private entities. An utter plausible strength of deniability.