In addition, there were four advanced armored hovercars, twelve sets of centaur exoskeletons, and a series of standard tank armors produced by working overtime.
Actually, a lot of these were originally intended to be sold by Hansen, but Mercer generously distributed them all at this moment. All drones and robots will be under the command of Venus, patrolling 24 hours to reinforce the armed forces lost by Dog Town.
Meanwhile, the Octopus Arm production line, under Mercer's arrangement, rapidly resumed production to produce more robots and drones with the available materials as soon as possible.
Mercer's ultimate goal was to have the number of drones and robots greatly exceed that of the Netherworld Dogs. In this way, he could use more robots to perform tasks that should have been executed by the Netherworld Dogs, greatly alleviating his manpower pressure.
He was well aware that this group of Netherworld Dogs was usable, but not reliable. If he hadn't said that Major Hanssen was just seriously injured and in a coma receiving emergency treatment, some Netherworld Dogs would have vanished without a trace when he mentioned dissolution.
And the remaining Netherworld Dogs were not about to obediently bow their heads and listen—they were just biding their time, waiting to see what would happen.
Mercer acted too quickly and too suddenly; even Hansen didn't expect him to go on a rampage suddenly. In his view, what good could Mercer's current sudden actions bring him?
If the Cubans lost Dog Town, they would indeed send assassins limitlessly to take Mercer's life!
Aside from Arasaka, to provoke another more brutal group of Cubans currently on the North American Continent? Does he have a death wish?
And the upper echelons of the Netherworld Dogs were clearly aware that merely suppressing a group of Netherworld Dogs with force was pointless. The lifeline of Dog Town was a global smuggling network and the supporters behind it.
So, it's more accurate to say that they were not cooperating with Mercer's arrangement but were just waiting to see if Mercer had really lost his mind.
After handling these personnel arrangements and equipment distribution, Mercer went straight back to his long-awaited Spark Base with Hansen.
The emptiness of the base left Mercer momentarily dazed—V, Rebecca, and others had all been sent out by him to stabilize the situation and implement an emergency lockdown.
Even Kyoko was assigned a task, to dive deep into the servers to guard against hacker attacks, and assist Venus in online operations.
At this moment, Venus was also overwhelmingly busy, barely making do with both the stadium and Gem Cyan's servers—the computational power was just enough as it had to control thousands of electronic devices, and monitor all personal terminals in Dog Town in real-time to prevent any insiders from causing trouble.
It even had to operate the ctOS System... It could be said that the server cooling was maxed out, and when Mercer arrived at the server room, the noise of the servers sounded like construction work.
It seemed the servers needed to be expanded again.
As Mercer thought of this, a sudden inspiration struck him—executing the Little Beidou plan would definitely require a huge server to provide the computational power needed.
Given the current network situation, the safest approach would be to use a local server in a LAN for the plan.
That server... It shouldn't have been dismantled by Military Science yet!
Perhaps, after he took over the Little Beidou Facility, he could even acquire a large server!
But the only risk is... that server could very likely be compromised—some fools attempted to control a rogue AI, which could very well turn the tables on them.
No one understood the power of these high-intelligence AIs better than Mercer.
Mercer shook his head, momentarily pushing the troublesome matter of Little Beidou to the back of his mind.
Looking at Hansen, who was injected with a sedative by the robot and remained in a state of coma, Mercer rubbed his face, then pulled himself together, taking off his helmet, and used his six Octopus Arms to replace the mechanical hand at the arm's end.
After switching from the combat-oriented mechanical hand to a multifunctional tool hand suitable for surgery, Mercer proceeded to perform a craniotomy on Hansen, just as he had done with Evelyn, installing a neural slot.
Then, having inserted a Relic Chip into his head, Mercer fully focused on the most crucial final step of taking over Dog Town.
Mercer was going to use the Soulkiller Program on Hansen.
Unlike using the Soulkiller on Evelyn to modify and reduce her memories.
Mercer needed Hansen to retain his complete consciousness, even all his memories, but make him conform to his every word—in other words, it's not consciousness modification but brainwashing, enslavement.
Is it doable?
To be honest, Mercer didn't have much confidence either; it's entirely different from simple memory modification—two completely distinct processes.
But he couldn't afford to fail.
Once failed, considering the many risks afterward, Mercer would unhesitatingly drain every asset of the Netherworld Dogs, then lead his team into exile, starting all over again.
He must even go into hiding because those hunting him afterward wouldn't just be Arasaka, but also the Cubans with influence across North America.
Mercer sighed, then without hesitation, plugged himself in as well.
Since he chose to step on the gas pedal, now, it was all about speeding down the road.
Soulkiller!
Activate!