Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 900 - 128: The Trap

Perfikot did not know how the saboteurs planned to sabotage the Energy Tower, nor which route they would take to infiltrate.

She merely set an irresistible bait for them—her own inspection of the Energy Tower.

This temptation, absolutely irresistible for the saboteurs, was like dangling a piece of fresh meat in front of a hungry pack of wolves, waiting for them to deliver themselves.

After all, for those who wished to resist the Empire, they would not miss the opportunity to send both the Empire's Regent and the city's Energy Tower skyward.

Blowing up the great figures who have been oppressing them? That would be superb!

Destroying the symbol of Victorian rule? That would be worth sacrificing a life!

If both tasks could be accomplished simultaneously? Even if it meant blowing up half the city, so be it!

They wouldn't care about how serious the impact would be on the city if the Energy Tower were destroyed, or how the residents would withstand the cold without it.

In a dark basement, a grimy map had red pen marks showing several optimal blast points.

And in another damp tunnel, a homemade timing device ticked away, a yellowed photo of a child frozen to death on the streets last year wedged between rusty gears.

A young man in a tattered cotton coat assembled a detonator with frozen fingers, echoing the bold words of his comrades in his mind: "Let those willing to be slaves freeze into ice sculptures with the tyrants!" while selectively forgetting about his feverish sister in the attic at home.

Of course, Jiang Bo'er wasn't the only one among the insurgents and saboteurs, and their plans went beyond overloading the Energy Tower.

Their targets weren't limited to the Energy Tower Perfikot was inspecting; the city's other two Energy Towers were also within their scope.

As for the destruction and aftermath following the Energy Tower's bombing, they did not care; perhaps in their eyes, the cold wasn't that hard to resist?

Perfikot didn't want to dwell on this issue because it was utterly meaningless.

Much like saying 'they lost everything but gained freedom,' or 'life is precious, love is higher, but freedom above all is worth any sacrifice,' for some, the 'freedom' of not being oppressed and ruled is something they're willing to risk everything for.

Only some risk their own everything, while others risk everything of others.

To Perfikot, none of this mattered; what she required was total obedience, and she didn't spare a thought on how people lived under the heavy oppression.

She even had a premonition that, although the attacks by the gods earlier had been intense, with even a military formed by pseudo-Demigods, it still felt like mere depleting and probing.

The real battle was yet to arrive.

She must prepare for its arrival by all means possible.

As for these people suffering all under her oppression... perhaps they could endure and survive, but their choice to resist would only lead to their doom.

Thus, she laid the trap, waiting for the saboteurs to expose themselves, succumbing to temptation.

The strict security around the Energy Tower was disrupted as Perfikot ordered an inspection of the sewers, and even the guards at critical nodes 'just happened' to rotate shifts, creating an illusion of opportunity for those lurking insurgents.

Of course, though she waited for the saboteurs to expose and deliver themselves, Perfikot wouldn't actually let them sabotage the Energy Tower.

So she made some arrangements, like having her head maid stationed in the Energy Tower's core since last night.

With Beifa's intensity and capabilities enhanced through numerous upgrades by Perfikot, it was difficult for any traces of life within five kilometers to escape her surveillance.

From heartbeats to breath, the flow of blood, intense emotions, even the very traces of life existence itself were within Beifa's detection range.

Those insurgents thinking themselves concealed were merely torches burning in the night in Beifa's vision, so clear they had nowhere to hide.

This was powerful performance born from ancient alchemy combined with divine materials, bolstered by the alchemy knowledge Perfikot acquired from the "Jade Record"!

In terms of sheer intensity, Beifa might even surpass most Divine beings.

The Godslayer in her name was well-deserved, even though she was merely an Alchemy Puppet, without self or soul.

Using the latest and strongest Godslaying Armor against a group that likely didn't even include an Extraordinary was like using a cannon to shoot mosquitoes.

But if nuking a fish pond were necessary, then so be it.

Beifa's surveillance could effectively detect the infiltrating saboteurs, preventing actual damage to the Energy Tower while capturing all the saboteurs.

The insurgents who thought their plans were flawless didn't even realize their every move had long been recorded, analyzed, and predicted.

In fact, at that very moment, Perfikot had already detected Jiang Bo'er crawling in the sewers through Beifa, along with the surrounding insurgents.

The small figure curled up in the sewage pipe, clutching the metal device at his chest with frostbitten fingers, unaware that Beifa was approaching him.

Although Perfikot didn't know the name of the sewer-crawling Jiang Bo'er, it didn't matter that the access to the Energy Tower's core area had already been sealed off with safety gates, blocking all paths.

The heavy alloy gates silently descended, thoroughly cutting off every potential escape route.

Jiang Bo'er and the other insurgents were no different from mice trapped in a bellows, incapable of escape. Their supposed attack was merely the net-closing moment Perfikot had calculated long ago.

Even the Perfikot reaching the Energy Tower was merely a substitute puppet, as she had already returned to the Floating City the previous night.

At this moment, the insurgents throughout Marsel in her eyes were merely mice exposed under the lights.

By capturing these individuals and tracing the clues, the entire Marsel rebel organization could be uprooted!

Yet more than these matters, Perfikot was truly concerned about how to handle these insurgents effectively to create enough deterrent so no one in this city dared to rebel.