Nie Chenglong stared at Meng Chao in disbelief. He was stunned for a long time before he placed his hands on Meng Chao's shoulders. "Take it easy, young man. I know that you want to fight, but your body is the most important. You just fought for seventy-two hours in the lair. You were injured multiple times, but you forced yourself to recover. You were even nearly dragged into the Gates of Hell by the Vortex.
"With your current condition, it's not suitable for you to immediately join an even more intense fight. You should rest, heal, and cultivate."
"I've already rested. I soaked in the highest grade medical fluid in Golden Tooth's headquarters and slept for a total of six hours," Meng Chao said with a solemn tone.
"Vice Director Nie, you said it yourself. Right now, the situation at the frontlines is really bad. Every single second the pitched battle drags on, there is a possibility of one more casualty. No matter how useful I am, even if I'm just a tiny chip, there's a possibility that I can break the balance and tilt the scales of victory in favor of the humans. Then, countless lives will be saved.
"So, let me go. To me, fighting is the best rest, treatment, and cultivation!"
The flames in his eyes stunned Nie Chenglong a little.
Nie Chenglong could sense Meng Chao's determination through his shoulders, and he thought about it. "But your body …"
"I'm really fine. The examination and treatment standards in Jin Wanhao's private medical room aren't inferior to the best private clinics in Dragon City."
Meng Chao took two steps back and swung his arms.
Wherever his fists went, the air was immediately torn, and two ripples tumbled outwards.
After a moment, a piercing scream came from it.
"Look, my problem right now isn't that I'm covered in injuries, but that I have too much violent power stored in my body, and I need to vent it to my heart's content!"
Meng Chao was full of confidence. "As long as I don't provoke Apocalyptic Beasts, I'll be able to fight the monster horde with no equal. Cutting grass won't harm me. Instead, I'll relax my nerves, and it'll be good for my mind and body!"
Nie Chenglong was a little convinced by his fists.
He looked at Lu Siya. "Siya, what about you?"
"Of course I'm with Meng Chao. Don't worry, Vice Director, I won't let anything happen to him." Lu Siya smiled faintly.
This was not a spontaneous idea, but something they had discussed in the lair.
Both of them thought that even though they had temporarily used the name of the government to intimidate the gangs and obtained nominal control over the Lair Reconstruction Committee, they were still in control of it.
Then, in the name of the Lair Reconstruction Committee, they managed to make the government acknowledge their control over the city.
But this control came from leveraging each other's power under asymmetric information.
Just like in the joke, a young man, with the identity of a "senior manager of a big bank", went to marry a rich man's daughter, and with the identity of a "rich man's son-in-law", went to the big bank to seek the position of a senior manager.
Right now, the lair had just been established, and the pitched battle at the borders of Dragon City had not ended yet. Due to the need to maintain order, the gangs and the government would not object to Meng Chao becoming the leader of Golden Tooth or even the master of the lair.
And once the situation stabilized, the major forces of power, including the mega corporations, would have the extra power to extend their hands into the lair.
If the pie of the reconstruction of the lair really grew bigger and the lair, which occupied a prime geographical spot, really turned into something like a central business district, it was difficult to say whether the various forces of power would have other thoughts.
In other words, even if Meng Chao had Golden Tooth Saber in hand, his foundation was still too shallow.
If he wanted to become the true master of the lair, he needed two things.
First, he needed absolute strength.
Second, he needed achievements, exposure, traffic, and the support of tens of millions of citizens.
The rules in Dragon City were very simple.
Whoever had a big fist and could use a fist the size of a clay pot to flatten a monster's head to protect the common interests of all citizens would be willing to extend their hands and place them on the dazzling throne.
This was also why Meng Chao and Lu Siya planned to fly around the lair in the most high-profile manner possible.
On one hand, it could calm the hearts of the people inside and outside the lair so that the terrified citizens could see that they had won!
On the other hand, they wanted to use the witnesses' eyes and their phones to let all of Dragon City know that Meng Chao and Lu Siya were the ones who brought victory in the battle of the lair!
In this day and age, it was not enough to just work hard.
It was only when they knew how to promote, attract attention, and create traffic that they could get more resources and continue contributing even more!
Speaking of which, the battle of the lair was rather sensitive. It involved a lot of classified information, so they might not be able to promote it openly.
Lu Siya's original plan was to shine during the pitched battle at the borders of Dragon City. For this, she had even mobilized elites from the public relations department of Sky Pillar Corporation to film a promotional video for her.
Since Meng Chao had fallen into the lair, she had rushed over in a hurry to provide reinforcements, so she could only set aside the promotional video for the time being.
She did not expect that the two of them would work together and settle everything in just a short forty-eight hours.
Since the pitched battle at the borders of Dragon City was still raging and they had taken a lot of cultivation resources from the Underground Emperor's secret lab, not only had their injuries recovered, their fighting strength had also increased to varying degrees.
Of course, they had to seize every second they had and make new contributions!
Nie Chenglong's gaze moved back and forth between them.
He knew that Meng Chao would sometimes be hot-blooded and reckless.
But Lu Siya was a meticulous person. She rarely fought a battle she was not confident in winning, and she would not let herself suffer the slightest loss.
Since Lu Siya had taken the initiative to volunteer again, they must have run into some sort of indescribable miracle in the lair, so he did not need to worry too much.
"Are you sure you're fine?" Nie Chenglong asked for the final confirmation.
"Director, don't worry. Look at how impatient Meng Chao is. If you don't let him go, something will really happen," Lu Siya said while holding back her laughter.
Meng Chao smiled as well.
Big sis Ya knew him the best.
Indeed, his greatest problem right now was not his injuries or fatigue. Instead, it was Hell's Blood and a lot of rampaging spirit energy had been accumulated in his body.
Meng Chao mainly relied on contribution points and spirit energy to level up.
In the past, most of the time, he had a lot of contribution points, but his spirit energy reserves were not enough, which was why even if he had hundreds of thousands or millions of contribution points, he could not get them to level up his skills.
But right now, he had dozens of magma rivers flowing in his body, and hundreds of ticking bombs floating in them. His last contribution points were all poured into the Skillfulness of Celestial Tyrant's Star Shattering Slash.
He really did not have a single drop left.
He was in a hurry to go to the fiercest battlefield to show off his skills and earn more contribution points so that he could completely digest Hell's Blood. Then, he could push Celestial Tyrant's Star Shattering Slash and Divine Nine Dragon Seals to Specialist Level!
To others, the monster was a fierce and ferocious monster, but to Meng Chao, it was a walking pile of contribution points. It was so handsome that it made people drool over it!
"Alright!"
When he saw that the two of them had made up their minds, Nie Chenglong did not try to persuade them anymore.
After all, the manpower at the frontlines, especially the high-end fighting forces, was still lacking.
Many of the frontlines that had been repeatedly fought over might lack one or two powerful fighters to serve as the spearheads, which was why they could not break through the frontlines and crush the enemy with ease.
Nie Chenglong arrived in front of the command center and turned on the battle network.
Dragon City had just broken free from the apocalypse, so it had yet to perfectly integrate all its armed forces.
Aside from the Red Dragon Army, there were also the private armed forces under the mega corporations, the youth armies of the universities, the superhuman squads registered in the Hunter's Association, the security companies with a large number of mercenaries, the secret police, the abnormal beast research department, and other disciplinary forces. There were also peerless fighters who believed in absolute freedom and did not need to be bound by anything.
When it came to the peak of fighting power, the Red Dragon Army was not even the strongest armed force.
When the monsters went through the space-time rifts and appeared in the center of Dragon City, having all the soldiers be soldiers and be mobile was good for them to react quickly and kill their enemies on the spot.
And in large-scale pitched battles, if they did not have a unified command and teamwork, it was inevitable that they would end up in a state of disunity and be defeated by the enemy.
To solve this problem, the nine great mega corporations, the Supernatural Tower, Dragon City University, the alliance of the five universities, the Hunter's Association, the secret police, and the abnormal beast research department were the strongest forces of power in Dragon City. They worked together to develop the battle network based on big data and quantum computing technology.
Through the tactical data link of the Internet of All Things, every drone, every soldier's portable camera, and every biochemical beast's eyes, which had data chips implanted in them, were all connected together.
The images they captured were all turned into a torrent of information with astronomical figures that were gathered in the supercomputing centers of the Red Dragon Army's headquarters, the Supernatural Tower, and the Survival Committee.
Through the integration of big data and optimized allocation of resources, the entire battlefield was split into different battlefronts. Then, they planned different missions in each battlefront and calculated the danger of the missions, the number of people needed to complete the missions, their cultivation realms, and how much rewards the missions could bring them.
All the legal superhumans who had registered themselves in the Supernatural Tower were bound to a battle network account that was unique to them.
Through the account, they could log into the battle network and check the development of the war, the latest missions, where they needed reinforcements, and other information at any time.
Of course, all the missions the superhumans completed, all the monsters they killed, their mission ratings, and other information would be recorded in their accounts to serve as the standard for determining their war achievements.
War achievements meant that the superhumans would have priority in housing, extra points for the national college examination, public servants, and public institutions, discounts when they bought treasures from the Supernatural Tower, and they would even be linked to the year-end bonuses and promotion chances of the mega corporations. It was the superhumans' lifeblood.
Only by relying on the battle network could they motivate all the superhumans to fight bravely and truly turn themselves into the sabers of all humans.
Meng Chao and Lu Siya activated their fingerprint and retina identification respectively and logged into their battle network accounts.
Instantly, colorful and dazzling special effects appeared on the screen.
Both of their names turned golden, and they even had burning wings of fire attached to them. There were also colorful fireworks that looked like celestial maidens scattering flowers to cheer and celebrate for them.
This meant that they had just completed an incredibly difficult mission, and their completion ratings were definitely not low. The war achievements and rewards they obtained would be astronomical.
Both of them stared at Nie Chenglong in surprise.
"Before you landed, I just entered the battle network's results."
Nie Chenglong chuckled. "Even though I haven't entered the details of the battle and given an evaluation, the lair is still as sturdy as a rock. This is a fact that everyone can see. With this alone, your contributions cannot go unnoticed. Of course, you deserve to be heavily rewarded!"
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