From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 361 Public Execution
In the scope of the sniper rifle in the Hanged Man's hand, the crosshairs were now locked on the head of a federal soldier outside the cordon of Atlas Camp V.

As long as he pulls the trigger, the high-speed penetrating rod will be able to blow the head of the man wearing the tactical mask apart like a watermelon at a speed that no one can react to.

However, the Hanged Man did not do so. After staring at the place where the two parties were negotiating for a while, he turned the muzzle of his gun and aimed in another direction.

That was a wave of refugees slowly moving towards Atlas Camp.

The Hanged Man quickly locked onto a man in the crowd who was wearing a tattered long windbreaker, with his head lowered and looking at the ground, moving forward numbly.

Next came another older middle-aged man who was nearby.

The families of these two men are under the control of the Hanged Man. With their families under coercion, all the people the Hanged Man has met so far are as obedient as the two men in front of him.

They even died for their families.

The gun turned again, and this time, an imperial soldier in combat uniform appeared in the center of the cross. He looked even more numb than the two middle-aged men just now, and looked like a "walking corpse".

This is also the best effect that The Hanged Man can achieve when using mind control.

Especially when controlling two imperial soldiers at a time and being able to make them act according to his instructions was the result of his special training in this area.

The will of soldiers is naturally much higher than that of civilians, even though most of these imperial soldiers are temporarily recruited "mobilized soldiers".

Plus, there is nothing on this planet like family or loved ones that can restrict them, so in order to prevent the other party from escaping control, the Hanged Man can only resort to mental control.

But the consequence was that these two unfortunate imperial soldiers were turned into walking corpses who had no ability to think and could only follow the Hanged Man's orders.

However, it did not matter to the latter because the two soldiers carrying military-standard high-energy explosives would disappear in the self-explosion soon anyway.

No evidence, perfect.

After receiving the latest orders from their superiors, the Hanged Man and Aurora began planning this round of attacks.

These psychic agents who were airdropped into the war zone were different from the psychic agents Amber had previously assigned to military bases.

In essence, the former is highly independent of the federal army and will only accept direct command from the CIA.

Even on Pyra IV, only a handful of people in the ground forces high command knew of their existence.

Therefore, when planning the multiple suicide bomb attacks on Pyla IV, the Hanged Man and Aurora did not consider the situation of friendly forces, or it can be said that friendly forces were also part of their "calculation".

Just like today, taking advantage of the negotiation and conflict between the federal ground forces and Atlas, the pawns hidden among the refugees and surrendered soldiers launched an attack.

And this time the attack was directly aimed at Atlas' units.

The Hanged Man knew exactly what he was intending when he gave this order.

They are putting extreme pressure on Atlas - when the refugees start attacking you, can your humanitarian aid operations continue?

The crowd was moving slowly forward, the chess pieces were lurking silently according to the instructions, the soldiers on both sides were arguing, and the slightly chaotic warning area.
Everything is going according to the Hanged Man's plan, and it looks like this will be another successful operation.

But for some reason, from the moment he approached this area, the Hanged Man had a feeling that he was being watched.

This is also why when he was ambushing behind the slope just now, he even made a momentary mistake in maintaining his psychic invisibility because of this feeling.

He vigilantly searched all the suspicious places around him with a high-powered scope, but found nothing unusual. The feeling of being watched seemed to be just an illusion.

"In the state of psychic invisibility, even a higher-level psychic would have a hard time detecting my presence."

"But why did I have such an illusion? Could it be because of the lack of rest during the high-intensity combat during this period?"

As he thought this, the Hanged Man aimed the cross again at the two controlled refugees.

Whatever the reason, the top priority now is to keep the plan going.
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"Memphis, do you think the other party has discovered that we have discovered him?" "Why do you say this in such a roundabout way?"

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In an infiltration and reconnaissance vehicle used exclusively by the special operations team of the teaching team, several veterans of the teaching team were staring nervously at the screen inside the car.

In the center of the image displayed on the screen, where the marks and lines pointed, a group of humanoid units lying on the ground were emitting a "faint blue light".

"It shouldn't be discovered. Boss said that this new thing is also a passive detection method in theory. Only a psychic as sharp as him, or a psychic of a higher level, can detect the clues."

While answering his companions' questions, Memphis operated the device a few times to make the blue figure in the picture clearer.

The 'new stuff' he mentioned is part of the latest distributed 'anti-psychic combat system', that is, the 'psychic detection radar' installed on this infiltration reconnaissance vehicle.

At this time, the radar is detecting the surroundings through the raised optoelectronic mast.

This infiltration reconnaissance vehicle is currently remaining in a hidden state. The tarpaulin covering the vehicle body and optoelectronic mast is also one of the latest "black technologies" issued.

After being connected to the interface on the outside of the vehicle body for power supply, this huge tarpaulin can provide the dual effects of optical camouflage stealth and anti-psychic wave detection.

As for the 'psychic detection radar', which is said to be developed based on the technology found in a certain forerunner relic, it is able to detect the existence of 'psychic energy emission sources' through similar passive detection methods.

Obviously, psychics are also a type of 'psychic energy source'.

Even if the Hanged Man activated psychic invisibility, this kind of invisibility, which requires psychic energy to maintain, will still be discovered when facing the "psychic detection radar".

Of course, the source of this technology is not entirely from the Forerunner ruins, but more from Saleh's "friendly contribution".

After learning that humans currently have no reliable means of detecting the "source of psychic energy", the pioneer couldn't help but complain: "How come after so many years, you Homo sapiens are still so backward?"

Of course, after she finished complaining, Amber immediately "kneaded" her mind through mental shackles, and she begged for mercy in the end.——
As the atmosphere in the security zone of Camp No. 5 gradually became tense, there was also a busy scene inside the Hermes in the outer space orbit of Pyra IV.

At this time, there are still 5 minutes left before the real-time battlefield broadcast on the official channel of "True Eye". In the "Frontline Director Center" under the External Propaganda Department of the Intelligence Analysis Center, the staff are doing the final touch-up for a cat girl anchor.

Everyone understood the importance of this battlefield live broadcast, and no one dared to neglect it.

Soon, the dispatchers began to make final confirmations for each department.

"The Group Communications Business Center Technical Department is preparing to shut down the Federation-side communications service for Pyla IV and the surrounding space areas."

"'Eye of Reality' Director Center, prepare to connect to the live footage of the ground forces. Anchors, get ready. 10 seconds left before the live broadcast goes online!"

"54321!"

The staff at the broadcast center made an 'OK' gesture, and the cat-girl anchor in the anchor seat quickly entered the live broadcast state.

"Hello, everyone. Welcome to the official live broadcast room of 'Eye of Truth'. We just received an urgent message from the humanitarian aid force. The federal forces are outside the warning zone and are requesting to enter the refugee camp for a search."

The cat girl anchor paused and said in a tense and serious tone:

“At the same time, the humanitarian aid force also discovered a suspected federal psychic agent around the warning area!

For details, please see the on-site footage! "

When the images on the screen of the infiltration reconnaissance vehicle were synchronously broadcast, the audience watching the live broadcast were shocked when they saw the "little blue man" lying on the ground in the center of the screen.

Meanwhile, in the CIA's conference room, the agency's top brass who were also watching this emergency live broadcast were collectively petrified in their chairs.

(End of this chapter)