Chapter 428 - Why Dont You Come at Me Together and Get Well Acquainted With Me! (1/2)
The four windows letting the warm daylight into the wide space of the office made it exceptionally bright.
Under the warm sunlight, an average-sized shadow of the officer sitting behind the desk was formed.
Bright sunlight and dark shadow! Qin Fen felt the temperature of the entire room drop immediately. But this drop in temperature didn’t give the feeling of a bright and beautiful day in spring as the temperature here was very high.
Snake King sized up Qin Fen calmly. A momentary surprise flashed in those eyes that rarely expressed emotions.
Fifteen-star!? Snake King raised his furrow slightly. The thumb of his crossed arms involuntarily twitched a few times.
It had not been a year since Qin Fen had left the army; it had only been eight months since he had left for the Sacred Martial Hall, nothing more, nothing less. But much to his surprise, his eight-start level strength from after the recruit tournament had jumped to the ten-star level of True Inborn Blood Transfusion Rebirth, and then all the way to the fifteen-star level of Great Inborn Nirvana Marrow Transformation!
Many martial artists who had been praised as prodigies were still stuck at the Blood Transfusion Rebirth, and an even larger number of otherworldly prodigies had been stuck at the fourteen-star level for what seemed like forever, unable to pass through the barrier of the Nirvana Marrow Transformation.
Snake King was momentarily unable to hide his shock. Even though he was optimistic about Qin Fen, he was still taken aback by Qin Fen’s performance. The barriers in the world of martial arts never seem to exist for this young man.
“Originally, I believed no matter how good you were, you would be stuck at the fourteen-star level for a while after entering it.” Snake King soon regained his calm after the surprise. “This was out of my expectation, you actually crossed that extremely difficult barrier.”
Qin Fen could not help but admire Snake King for his reaction. Many people in the world believed themselves to be very smart. They always believed that their fleeting emotions weren’t noticed by others. They believed that they could hide everything from the world. They didn’t realize that they were only deceiving themselves.
When Snake King’s surprise was out in the open, he acknowledged it generously at once; he didn’t make an attempt to conceal it. By doing this, he instead made it even difficult to understand him.
As Snake King pressed the desktop keyboard, the window curtain behind him fell down slowly as the room lights suddenly dimmed. A huge projection floated over the desk in the next moment.
Qin Fen’s pupils shrank to the size of pinhole as a pair of cold gleams shot out from them.
The video playing in the projection wasn’t a science fiction movie but Qin Fen’s own experience that had happened in the past.
Insect warriors! It was the scene of the insect warriors wantonly wreaking havoc on the day of East Asian mock battle!
Head-sized weird bugs were moving very quickly, those tentacles pressed on a person’s face. Very soon, the weird possession would be complete, making an ordinary martial artist’s strength soar in the blink of an eye.
Qin Fen still remembered the overwhelming strength of Neo Sumo martial artist, who could’ve been easily defeated, after having been possessed by the insect warrior.
As the situation of that day was being played out on the projection, Snake King continued, “This image was captured by the camera installed in that vicinity. After we sent a rescue team, they recovered the video from the camera. Come to think of it, you must also have at least some sort of understanding about them, right?”
Insect Warrior! Qin Fen shouted these monsters’ name in his heart as he nodded with a solemn look on his face. But he didn’t shout Chen Feiyu’s name.
“According to our information, these monsters are called insect warriors.” Snake King continued speaking, “They are just one of many dangerous test subjects from the Genesis Society.”
Genesis Society!? Qin Fen was hearing of this for the first time. He felt a dangerous premonition.
“Not long ago, I found one of their bases.” Snake King’s fingers bounced on the keyboard flexibly. “Because you have had some experience with these things, you will be leading a team to destroy their base. Your mission is to capture as much intel as possible.”
Insect warrior’s base!? Qin Fen suddenly recalled that a long time ago Lin Liqiang had specially called him and asked him to be hungry.
“General.” Qin Fen asked, straightening his back, “How much time do I have for preparation?”
“You have very little time.” Snake Kick flicked his finger on the table as a magnetic disc flew spinning into Qin Fen’s hands. “Here, it contains all the intel we have gathered from surveillance as well as the intel gathered by the members of the task force. Celerity is the most important factor in war, you must be very clear about this. The team is already assembled, they have been waiting for you for three months. Therefore, you need to complete this task as quickly as possible.”
The projection disappeared, the huge and thick curtains slowly rose up as Snake King’s wrist quivered a few times slightly. “Go, get as much intel as possible.”
Qin Fen returned a military salute, turned around, and walked out of the door. But suddenly he turned back to a seemingly dark corner and lightly bowed, “Thank you.”
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The corner remained quiet. Snake King’s evaluation of Qin Fen improved a little. It was very difficult to discover his shadow and yet his existence had been found by Qin Fen so easily.
“Kid, well done.” Zhao Huzi walked side by side with Qin Fen. “If this mission is completed in time, no one can stop you from returning to the army.”
Qin Fen nodded again and again; there was no discussion about returning to the army! Back in the recruit tournament, he had accumulated a lot of military merits by performing various tasks. As a result, he was half-kicked out of the army, leaving him to wander outside the military system. It was hard to say if someone else would make trouble again and get him kicked him out of the army completely.
In that case, all the work he had done for the army would have been in vain and the reward given for his retirement would have vanished into a puff of smoke.
Work for nothing!? Qin Fen had been pitted twice in middle school, and since then he had decided not to experience this unlucky thing again. He had gone through life and death for the army, now the only question was how he should get back what he deserved.
This had nothing do with the amount of the reward, it was just a habit Qin Fen had developed over the years, forming a principle: You mustn’t work hard for nothing!
After he left the office building, Qin Fen immediately boarded a mag drive flying car and flew to a nearby military base; Snake King had already prepared everything.
As a major city of Zhongshou, Shengjing naturally had many secret military bases.
The military base Qin Fen entered was under the Great Wall. There was a section of the Great Wall that had not been developed for tourism. It looked very desolate. Wild grass was growing just about everywhere, and it didn’t look like it was an artificially developed environment.
Qin Fen looked around and gave a high evaluation of the architecture and the construction staff. If he had not been trained by apex-level drill instructors in spying and counterspying, he truly would not have been able to make out the periphery of this military base, let alone find its entrance.
Standing in front of what seemed to be a grave, Qin Fen kept staring at that very natural stone and shook the magnetic disc given by Snake King a few times.
The grave moved to one side without the slightest sound of gears turning, revealing a staircase tunnel leading to the underground.
Qin Fen jumped into the tunnel. Feeling that iron blood aura of the army hiding underground, his body was inexplicably excited; a feeling of having returned home rose in his heart.
The tunnel ran a straight hundred meters underground, followed by large independent rooms, one after another.
Following the instruction of the magnetic disk, Qin Fen came to the room at the end of the gallery.
The huge iron gates were tightly shut. Even when he placed the magnetic disk at the sensor, the two huge and thick iron gates remained completely still.
Colonel Jessica Wehr, specializing in computer programming, modification, and attack and defense.
Qin Fen suddenly recalled the information of the several members he had read on the mag drive flying car.
Have been assembled for a mission but had to wait for three months just for a single member…!? The corner of Qin Fen’s lips rose into a wry smile of understanding. If he had to wait for three months for someone because of this task, perhaps he, too, would have ragged the last person to vent his dissatisfaction.
The program of this thick door had been obviously tampered by someone. It was impossible to open the doors through the chip.
“You think I can’t go in without opening the door?”
Qin Fen shrugged his shoulder before raising his arm and pushing the door open! The two heavy iron doors were pushed to either side bit by bit. A smell of metal heating slowly wafted out of the room.
Creak… creak… creak…