Chapter 90: Mirror Lake Primary School

After arriving in Area 66, the first thing that Boss May did was instruct Red Spider to leave the bus and contact Mechguard. After receiving the latest information that Mechguard had to offer, she began to assign missions to everyone.

"According to what we've heard back from Mechguard, we still haven't managed to determine the exact location of the psychic mutants. The total population of Area 66 is around 4,000,000, and all-in-all, there are 13 main roads, 77 minor roads, three large childcare facilities, 10 large primary schools and kindergartens..."

May was giving everyone a detailed description of the situation in Area 66.

Sandrise City was a massive metropolitan area with a total of 100 areas and a population of 350 million.

This sounded utterly ridiculous, but in reality, similar metropolitan areas had already arisen as far back as 100 years ago. Even a century ago, the Tokyo metropolitan area had already reached a staggering population in the tens of millions, and at the time, the whole of Japan itself only had a population of around 120 million.

Ever since the conception of super smart apartment complexes and the Metaverse, the major metropolises had become more and more populous in order to cut down on all types of costs, particularly the cost of data transmission.

It sounded preposterous for a single area to have a population in the millions, but there was a very good chance that a certain smart apartment complex could be housing hundreds of thousands, or even over 1,000,000 residents. Furthermore, a single mega nursing facility could hold hundreds of thousands of infants.

"... Hence, even with the assistance of Mechguard, it's going to be virtually impossible to pick out the psychic mutants from all of the people in this area. We don't know the locations of the psychic mutants carrying out the attack, but we can ascertain their target of attack to be those three major childchare centers, as well as those primary schools and kindergartens. The three major childcare centers will be the most important targets for us to protect.

"I will be stationed at one of them in person, and there will be reinforcements stationed at the other two as well. As for the large primary schools and kindergartens, I will be assigning you to teams corresponding with those locations. If you get attacked, focus mainly on stalling the enemy and try to minimize risk as much as possible. Keep in mind that we have Mechguard on our side, so as long as the attack runs over a certain duration, Mechguard officers will definitely be able to track down the perpetrators.

"No matter how advanced those long-range synapse transmission devices are, they can only encompass a limited area. As soon as they're spotted and identified by the electronic eyes of the Mechguard officers, it won't take long for those officers to destroy the physical bodies of all of the attackers. Without their bodies, their minds will naturally also perish. Does everyone understand the plan?"

"Yes!"

"Good!"

"We hear you loud and clear, Boss!"

"Of course!"

The pawn shop wasn't an official army, so the responses were all varied and chaotic, but thankfully, everyone was on the same page. Even though there was no uniformity in their responses, everyone had issued a response, and there were even people raising questions.

"Boss, what should we do if the place we're assigned to protect doesn't end up getting attacked?"

"Yeah, and who are our reinforcements?"

"Are they strong?"

These three questions were all quite important.

May addressed these questions with a nod, then leaned back against the windshield of the bus as she answered, "All of you will be given signal transmitters that you can set off if the location you're assigned to is attacked. If those who are stationed nearby fail to discover any attackers, then they'll provide reinforcements to those who are being attacked. Of course, if your team has three people, then you only need to send two people as reinforcements.

"The last member of the team has to stay behind in case of any unforeseen attacks. As for the reinforcements that I mentioned earlier, they'll be coming from three sides. Out of the three, the Psychic Church will be providing the most reinforcements. I'm sure they don't need any introduction. The southern and northern congresses will also be sending people..."

"The northern congress? You mean the resistance army from last time?"

"That's right."

"The northern and southern congresses are working together?"

𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"On the surface, they still have to work together, but make sure to be wary of the people from the southern congress. They're in favor of establishing an adapter inspection department."

May didn't delve into this subject any further, only reminding issuing some words of caution to everyone.

"We are a for-profit organization, and we're only serving the authorities for the sake of self-interest, so remember at all times to avoid risk as much as possible. That's all I have to say about that, let's begin assigning teams now."

May conducted her team assignment in a very intuitive fashion, taking the powers and level of familiarity of the team members into consideration.

Adam's team was pretty much already assigned. A team of four was larger than what was standard, but the overall combat prowess of the team was quite mediocre. At their request, they were all assigned to the same team, then given a location to protect.

After exiting the "school bus", the four of them examined the map on their communicators.

"Looks like our target is Mirror Lake Primary School."

"How do we get there?"

"Let's get a taxi."

There were many passersby in the nearby area, and after exiting the carpark, they were greeted by the sight of a seemingly endless stream of cars on the streets.

All of the normal people in the area were completely oblivious to the storm that was about to arrive, and everyone was still going about their daily lives as usual.

Adam and his group were standing together, and one of them was arranging a taxi booking, while everyone else was examining the map.

"The location that we've been assigned to is up here in the north. The two closest targets to our location are Hank Street Primary School and Fuqing Brothers Primary School. If we need to call for reinforcements or are called on to provide reinforcements, we'll most likely be interacting with those two locations."

"Do you remember who was assigned to those two places just now?"

"I don't."

"Has anyone even been assigned to those places yet?"

"Not sure. Oh, here comes the taxi!"

As they were speaking with one another, a self-driving car arrived, and after getting into the car, it took about 20 minutes for the group to reach their destination.

As soon as they emerged from the car, they were approached by two security guards who conducted an identity verification procedure.

"Who are you?"

Adam was rather taken aback to run into a situation like this as soon as they arrived at their destination. "Have you already received news of what's happening?"

"Tell me who you are!"

The two security guards were both very burly in stature, and in addition to that, they were cyborgs whose bodies were fitted with special weapons that only security personnel working at schools could equip.

"We're from the pawn shop."

"We'll need to verify your identity." The two security guards pulled out a strange device. "This is a fingerprint scanner that can directly verify your identity from the Mechguard database."

Adam reached out and pressed a finger against the device. At the same time, he was carefully watching the two security guards with his telegnosis fully activated in case he was dragged into the psychic world.

A storm was imminent, and due to his special identity, he had to exercise the utmost caution with everything that he did. Aside from his teammates, he trusted no one.

Beep beep beep...

A string of electronic tones rang out, and the identity verification process was completed, following which the two security guards led Adam and his group into the school.

"The people from the congresses and the Psychic Church have arrived before you, so we're already aware of the situation." After verifying their identities, the hostility that the security guards was displaying toward Adam and his group immediately subsided. "Sorry for being so strict with our examination procedure, we appreciate your understanding."

"That's perfectly fine, it's just standard procedure. I'm glad you're taking your responsibilities seriously."

Adam entered the school before inspecting his surroundings.

Even though land in Sandrise City was extremely precious, Mirror Lake Primary School took up quite a large area. Not only did it have a playground and a sports field, there was even a lake in the school's premises, presumably the namesake for the school.

The lake wasn't very large, with a diameter of only around 100 meters, and it was quite round in shape, much like a mirror.

No wonder this place is named Mirror Lake Primary School.