Inside Stronghold 108, the pedestrians on the streets were all in a hurry. There was no longer a bustling scene here. Instead, everything looked bleak and desolate.
Some of the noodle shops along the streets had already closed for the day, and many people were queuing up at the jewelry stores to buy gold bars. However, the price of gold in the stronghold was rising steadily.
Military vehicles often sped past on the streets, as though the atmosphere of war was not strong enough.
A curfew had been imposed in the stronghold. After 10 PM, all pedestrians on the streets would be locked up in the Public Order Division, and they could not even get anyone to make an exception for them.
In the past, the stronghold residents liked to "build relationships." If they committed a minor offense, they would just have to inform an acquaintance and everything would be fine.
But it was different now. It would probably be very difficult for the people who were locked up in the Public Order Division to be released until the war was over.
The concept of "building relationships" had suddenly become ineffective.
Before the curfew, a thin girl wearing a cap arrived in front of a hardware store. The girl's hair was not considered long and only hung between her chin and shoulders. Her slender and beautiful neck could be vaguely seen through her hair. She was wearing form-fitting sportswear, and when she raised her arms, the sportswear accentuated her slender waist.
She knocked lightly on the shutter door six times in a row and paused for two seconds before knocking again.
The shutter door was lifted halfway up, and the girl bent over and entered the store.
The owner of the store, whose hair was sparse, said with a smile, "Are you from the north?"
"Mhm," the girl answered and said, "I'm here to report on the recent situation."
"It's nothing special. Rumor has it that the Divine Arms Battalion encountered an accident at the Kyung Clan's territory and were attacked by a mysterious sniper on their way back —"
Before the owner could finish speaking, the girl interrupted, "Okay, I got it."
The owner was surprised but did not ask any further. "Also, a group of private troops wiped out the Kyung Clan's Special Forces at the front line at Mt. Tantou yesterday. This incident caused quite a stir. After all, everyone knows how strong the private troops are. Who could have expected them to defeat the Kyung Clan's Special Forces? There's nothing else. I haven't gotten the Li Consortium's defensive deployment map yet, but I'll send it to them in time. "
Half of the girl's face was hidden under the shadow of the cap. She suddenly said, "You don't have to tell me about the defense plan. I'm not going to participate in this war. Now, I need you to help me find a young man named Ren Xiaosu."
"Alright, I'll keep that in mind." The boss whispered, "Do you have any clues?"
The girl thought for a while and said, "We'll look wherever there's something unusual."
"Unusual?" The boss said, "There doesn't seem to be anything unusual recently."
"That's not right." The girl seemed to have thought of something. "Find me a list of the private troops' combatants."
The boss was stunned. Was this girl suspecting that the young man named Ren Xiaosu was in the private army? Just because it was strange that the private army could defeat the special forces?
Who was that young man? How could he be regarded so highly by this girl?
At this moment, in the Li Consortium's 613 Research Institute, a middle-aged man in a white coat walked out of the laboratory and said, "Bring in a batch of samples."
When the beautiful secretary heard this, she immediately called the sample storage room to inform them. The manager of the sample storage room checked the time when the samples had been sent in, then counted 100 bottles of nanomachines and sent them over.
One of the bottles even had a note attached to it: "After testing with a 0% synchronization rate, the nanomachines showed abnormalities."
Elsewhere, in the nanomachines recycling factory, several operators were facing the corpses of several nanosoldiers. They were preparing to recycle the nanomachines from the corpses before unlocking and reconfiguring the nanomachines.
A huge robotic arm was manipulated to hover over the corpses. The staff were already getting a little numb from facing these corpses all day long.
Outsiders might not know what kind of experiments the Li Consortium was conducting, but the staff would perform the same recycling operation on a large number of corpses every day. They were not concerned about how these corpses were produced, where they came from, or where they would end up.
What they were concerned about was whether there would be too many corpses being shipped back tonight and it would affect the time they got off work.
Of course, the work they were doing involved top-secret information. After they got off work, they could only return to the enclosed dormitories where they would be watched by a whole battalion of soldiers.
But this was still better than facing the corpses. At least when they got back, they would still have free beer to drink and could watch some videotapes. At least their lives would not be too boring.
At this moment, the robotic arm buzzed and descended vertically toward the corpse lying flat on the stainless steel bed. A needle-like catheter was inserted into the skin at the front of the robotic arm.
The operator pressed a button on the console, but he was stunned the next moment. "Why didn't the recycling succeed?"
A colleague next to him said calmly, "Something might have gone wrong. Try again."
"OK." The operator at the console tried to extract the nanomachines again, but there was still no response. "Do you want to operate it manually? Captain, please authorize me. I need to operate it manually. "
A middle-aged man walked over and keyed in a password on the console. He instructed, "Try activating the C2 remote connection program."
The robotic arm still did not respond. The middle-aged man frowned and said, "Is it still not working? We can only try the C1 remote connection program. But I don't have C1 clearance, so I'll have to apply to the Board."
But the operator was stunned. "Captain, it doesn't work no matter what we do. The nanomachines in his body … have disappeared!"
…
The military transport truck rumbled north on the mountain road. Li Qingzheng sat in the driver's seat in high spirits and shouted, "Xiaosu, you're still the best! How did you become a major in the Li Consortium's regular army in the blink of an eye? You have such a bright future ahead of you! You don't know this, but there's a world of difference between the status of the Li Consortium's regular army and the private troops! "
Ren Xiaosu said with a dark expression next to him, "Cut the crap. Let me drive for a while."
"That won't do. There are soldiers sitting in the back, and the cliff is right next to us." Li Qingzheng decisively rejected his battalion commander. He was really afraid something would happen. It was fine to let Ren Xiaosu drive on flat ground, but he really did not dare let Ren Xiaosu touch the steering wheel on a mountain road. Even if Ren Xiaosu had been promoted to battalion commander, he would not allow it.
His life was more important!
By this time, the private troops had been upgraded. After the battle, their numbers had been reduced to 511 people. But now, everyone was equipped with automatic rifles and had an ample supply of ammunition. They even had four heavy machine guns.
Although their equipment was still not as good as the Li Consortium's regular army, and they were not even given an RPG, they were much better equipped than the other private troops.
Li Qingzheng touched the steering wheel and said with a chuckle, "It wasn't until today that I finally felt like a soldier! Just thinking about it feels like a dream. I didn't expect we could wipe out the Kyung Clan's Special Forces! "
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