Biochemical Martial Arts: Supreme Heavenly Venerate

Chapter 602: Chapter 575: Struck it Rich (Three more for monthly tickets)

Lin Rui, together with Xianyu Yan and others, was dismantling Qi Tianquan’s two 9SS+ ‘Lord’ Combat Robots when he received a message from Lin Xi.

Xia Moqian (Lin Xi): Brother, we’ve struck it rich!

Gu Ying Tiandao (Lin Rui): Not bad, we’ve saved the equipment costs of four Heavy Equipment Divisions.

Lin Rui touched his nose, thinking that this time it could be considered quite a profitable haul, right?

Picking up the equipment from four whole Heavy Equipment Divisions of Qi Tianquan, they also seized numerous Dragon Transformation Level Martial Artists’ gear.

Especially the Exoskeleton Armor and Combat Mecha, which included six units of type 8SS+ Exoskeleton Armor and one 8SSS+.

Lin Rui couldn’t possibly return this equipment to the captives; the next step was to let Wang Yinyue and others modify the AI and programming, so that his subordinates could use them.

Normally, type 8S+ is the highest grade of Exoskeleton Armor that the Armored Martial Cultivators can acquire.

To get armor above the 8S+ level, one must either spend a lot of money to have a Mechanic modify it or obtain a permit from the government to purchase it from those mechanical companies.

So now among his subordinates in the Eighth Realm, only Wang Tianwu and Lu Hanyuan have 8SS+ level armor, Fei Yunlai and Gong Hengdao are still using Type 7 Battle Armor, and Xianyu Yan is also using one unit of 8SS+.

Additionally, Lin Guangming, Wang Yinyue, and Lin Xi managed to secure 4 units of 8SS+ Red Spiders—real Type 8, not the 8PRO.

The AI of Type 8 Red Spider has extremely high computing and protective capabilities, so it took a lot of effort from Lin Guangming and the others, with the help from Xianyu Yan’s team, to accomplish this.

First, they dismantled the six legs of the Red Spiders, then removed their cannons, leaving these four Type 8 Red Spiders immobilized, allowing several hackers including Lin Guangming to crack them.

The main bodies of these four Type 8 units are undamaged, and with some modifications and repairs, they can be used as pivotal firepower for the future naval base.

Lin Rui’s biggest regret was that Qi Tianquan’s two 9SS+ ‘Lord’ had extremely high network protection capabilities, making them beyond even Lin Guangming’s team’s capabilities, so he could only dismantle them.

The remaining parts could still be used, and in the future, they could be used to enhance and modify other Combat Robots, but their value is far less than intact ‘Lords’.

Xia Moqian (Lin Xi): I’m not talking about those equipments, I was just taking inventory of the storage under the pharmaceutical base, guess what I found inside?

Lin Xi sent over a video.

Xia Moqian (Lin Xi): Just these medicinal materials are worth more than 230 billion federal coins, plus there are exactly 500 Type 5 Combat Mechas and 100 Type 6 Combat Mechas, all are star battle models! Besides, there are a large number of second-hand refurbished combat robots and ship parts, including at least 800 different types of ship cannons, along with 40 medium quantum migration devices suitable for armed cargo spaceships and cruisers, and 30 small ones.

After watching the video, Lin Rui muttered, damn, what was Qi Tianquan hiding so many Combat Mechas and ship cannons in this pharmaceutical base for?

As is known, Type 7 and below Exoskeleton Armors have poor durability and lack long-range firepower, making them more suitable for atmospheric combat.

In outer space, they generally need to wear an additional layer of star battle Combat Mecha over the Exoskeleton Armor.

However, these Combat Mechas are very expensive, as a single 6SS+ level Combat Mecha is worth the price of a Guardian Battleship.

Currently, Lin Rui’s Forest Alien Body Company only owns 30 Type 6 star battle Combat Mechas, all pieced together from various parts, and their combat effectiveness isn’t that great.

Lin Rui thought that this indeed was a huge score, with just these 100 Type 6 star battle Combat Mechas, they could elevate the overall strength of the Forest Alien Body Company by a notch.

Xia Moqian (Lin Xi): These were procured for the Star Chain Pirate Group, I saw the tags of Star Chain Pirate Group on them, all are second-hand refurbished items.

She was not only acting as the Deputy Commander of the Divine Supervision Bureau but also participating in the management of Forest Group as a director and chief intelligence officer, her horizons gradually broadened, and she became thoroughly familiar with various weapons and equipment of the Earth Federation and also understood the market prices of various medicinal materials and materials at Tianji Star.

Xia Moqian (Lin Xi): These Combat Mechas and ship parts likely were assembled and refurbished by some influential heavy industrial machinery group in the Ninth Base City. I asked Wang Yinyue, but she couldn’t tell which company made them, it seems a bit like Yuwen Heavy Industry, but not exactly.

When Lin Rui saw the words ‘Star Chain Pirate Group,’ his expression suddenly grew cold.

The grudge he had formed with Star Chain Pirate Group had not yet been settled.

Gu Ying Tiandao (Lin Rui): Transport these goods back to the naval base as soon as possible. After the war ends, Xiaoxi, you should particularly check which heavy industry group supplied these goods.

Lin Rui thought to himself that as a Thunder Admiral, he had truly been negligent, to have such a heavy industry group colluding with pirates right under his nose, yet being completely oblivious.

At this moment, Lin Xi sent another message: Also, brother, among those from the Eighth Realm captured earlier, there was one named Zhu Youheng. He expressed his willingness to serve you. He mentioned that he had signed a short-term employment contract with Qi Tianquan as a ‘military advisor.’ Now that he is captured, the contract is effectively terminated, and he can directly transfer to our side.

Xia Moqian (Lin Xi): I checked Zhu Youheng’s records in the security bureau’s backend. I found this person quite interesting. He used to be the Vice Admiral of the Third Division of the Second Starship Group of the Federation. 40 years ago, because he offended the Commander of the Second Starship Group, Zang Shaochen, he was accused by the military court of being the mastermind behind a massacre of pirate prisoners of war and was forced to retire. Since then, Zhu Youheng has successively held the position of admiral for the escort fleets of three major companies and served as military advisor for two companies.

Xia Moqian (Lin Xi): The interesting part is here. I found that Zhu Youheng also has a confidential file in the military intelligence bureau. I personally suspect that this person might have been an undercover agent dispatch…

Xia Moqian (Lin Xi): Moreover, this person most likely did indeed massacre the pirate prisoners of war. I have checked this person’s several pirate suppression operations, and he rarely leaves any prisoners alive.

Lin Rui raised his eyebrows and immediately checked the file information of Zhu Youheng on the internal network of the Security Bureau.

However, apart from finding some of Zhu Youheng’s personal records during his service and the personal file specially set up by the Security Bureau, he couldn’t find anything else.

Although the Federation Security Bureau shares the intelligence database with the Military Intelligence Bureau, there is still a lot of reservation between them. For instance, the intelligence about Thunder Admiral and Lin Hao is unreachable for the Military Intelligence Bureau.

The reason why Lin Xi could find that secret file on Zhu Youheng must be through her hacking abilities.

The issue is that Zhu Youheng is a master of the Eighth Realm of Super Emperor, his strength not inferior to Wang Tianwu! It’s indeed too extravagant for the Military Intelligence Bureau to have such a powerful master from the Eighth Realm go undercover, no?

But perhaps not quite, as Zhu Youheng retired from the military only at the mere Sixth Realm.

Isn’t he the same? This undercover role, after all, led him to become the Hidden Crown Prince of the Great Song Dynasty.

Lin Rui thought for a moment and then replied: Ask Fei Yun to bring him here, and by the way, ask if he is willing to sign a long-term contract, and a Level Nine Divine Contract.

In reality, whether this person is willing or not, Lin Rui would recruit him regardless. Why not use ready-made combat power?

However, the Divine Contract and long-term contract determine the extent to which Lin Rui would prioritize this person.

Lin Rui then posted in the group chat: All units speed up! Within ten minutes, all prisoners and all seized materials must be sent back to the dock base.

At this moment, all major pharmaceutical companies’ private armies began to halt and some even retraced their steps, returning to their garrisons to hold their positions.

Lin Rui was originally worried that these pharmaceutical companies would adopt a strategy of attacking the enemy to save allies, directly attacking his vulnerable dock base.

Fortunately, this situation did not occur, possibly because his adversaries were deterred by him, not able to see through his reality and acting very cautiously in their tactics.

Of course, this was also related to the strong intervention by the government.

What Lin Rui needs to do now is to quickly and safely send back the numerous seized goods and prisoners to the base to preserve the fruits of victory.

This won’t be easy, given that more and more masters of the Eighth and Ninth Realm are gathering nearby.

Most of them come from other forces, here to probe the reality, but a small portion obviously harbors hostile intentions.

Currently, Linghu Mingde is battling Yang Lingxiao in outer space, and the private army of the Linghu Family is also confronting the forces of the Taiyi Group along the pipelines of area B421.

For Lin Rui, the priority is first to send the captured prisoners back to base so he can free up forces to reinforce Linghu Mingde.

However, in the next moment, Lin Rui slightly raised his eyebrows with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

He received two new pieces of intelligence: one was that the Sky Blue Group, led by Fang Kongfang, had actually sent troops?

—No less than three Heavy Equipment Divisions and six Mechanical Infantry Divisions of private army surged into Ninth Base City from surrounding farms!

Three of these divisions are owned by Sky Blue Group, while the other six were composed of farmers and cowboys employed by the Sky Blue Group from various large farms.

Though the market capitalization of Sky Blue Group is small, currently just over 250 billion federal coins, maintaining three Heavy Equipment Divisions is hard; yet their potential for war is very significant.

Those farmers and cowboys living on the periphery of the base city, in order to combat robbers and gang powers, nearly every household practices Biochemical Martial Arts and is equipped with heavy firearms and exoskeleton armor, with some even possessing substantial Biochemical Cultivation.

In those outer regions of the base city, maintaining a foothold is impossible without sufficient martial force.

If the Sky Blue Group organizes them a little and provides substantial firepower, they could reach the standards of a Mechanical Infantry Division.

Lin Rui couldn’t help but click his tongue inwardly, thinking that the endorsement deal probably couldn’t be avoided.

He, as a person, is too virtuous; since Sky Blue Group hadn’t wronged him, he wouldn’t be ungrateful to see gains and forget rightfulness.

The other piece of intelligence was related to Li Xianglong. This First Commander of the Security Bureau has already arrived at Ninth Base City on a ship.

Lin Rui shook his head: “Xianyu! Go to outer space and help that old man, this war should end.”

Xianyu Yan looked somewhat worriedly at Lin Rui before turning around and obediently flying into a distant traffic pipeline, navigating inside her armored internal intelligence system.

Lin Rui’s personal security is a concern as he lacks pillar-level masters around him, especially with numerous high-level masters lurking in the vicinity, but Xianyu Yan believed that if Lin Rui gave such an order, he must have sufficient confidence to ensure his own safety.