Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

Chapter 656 Chapter 653 The Grass Hiding in the Corner
Compared with the capital Constitution City, Peicheng puts less pressure on Zhuang Xuteng. Although this is Zhuang Xuteng's hometown and base camp, and is very important to him, for the company, this place is just a declining second-tier city. The only highlight recently is the exhibition, which set an example for the company to promote the plan. Now, matters such as Safety Blue, Dream Mist Machine, and social public work points are not only on the right track, but have also developed vigorously and unstoppably. Then Peicheng's only important task in the company's plan is to capture Zhuang Xuteng.

According to the advice given by the intelligence analysis department: Naike will focus on attacking the company's key departments, because only by constantly posing threats can he feel safe. If Naike stays quiet, it means buying time for the company's search, which is actually a good thing. The company will never give up hunting down Zhuang Xuteng. It can ignore the cost, but the smaller the loss, the better.

The company also considered Zhuang Xuteng returning to Peicheng, but it is unlikely that he would cause trouble here, after all, it is his hometown. Therefore, the company mainly arranged investigation and tracking personnel in Peicheng. The number of defense personnel is much lower than that in the capital, and they are mainly combat-type execution puppets. The God Execution Puppet·Ia has been activated and stationed near the bases of the four major companies. Although this thing is unlikely to defeat Zhuang Xuteng, the company hopes that it can delay for a while until Anzu arrives.

Obviously, this arrangement was made based on old intelligence. Zhuang Xuteng's battle with Badenburg had refreshed the company's cognition, and all intelligence analysis and strategic arrangements had to change accordingly - all of which took time. When Zhuang Xuteng fell into Peicheng, these changes had not yet occurred, so he used the disintegration effect to protect himself and the invisibility cloak to enter the city.

Disappeared as soon as he landed. Zhuang Xuteng had lived here for many years and was familiar with the place. He certainly knew which places were dangerous and which places could give him a break. In an abandoned construction site, he sat down in the shadow of a building, extended his sensing tentacles to monitor the surroundings, and at the same time gave himself life energy to heal his arm.

"I fought well, I fought well... Although I didn't win, I did fight well." Zhuang Xuteng's mouth curled up slightly, and his self-encouragement was completely based on facts. "Above Badenburg, the company's mobile strike force is that Anzu, right? Hehe, although I may not be able to beat Anzu, I didn't expect that I am so strong..."

Zhuang Xuteng was a lone ranger, but Badenburg led a whole team. Although Zhuang Xuteng was at a disadvantage in the later stages of the battle, didn't he still manage to escape? On the other hand, Badenburg's team was wiped out, leaving only Badenburg, which should of course be considered Zhuang Xuteng's victory. To put it bluntly, Badenburg didn't need victory, but Zhuang Xuteng needed this victory to boost morale and give him more confidence to face the many difficulties ahead.

"That martial art is very strong, honestly strong, and the movement efficiency is too high. With this point, you can directly suppress it. It won't work just to change your moves. It would be better to improve the defensive ability and form a balanced state of offense and defense, instead of my state where the attack is good but the defense is basically all dodging."

Strengthening defense is not easy. Zhuang Xuteng only had the armor-piercing hammer and the disintegration shield on his body to block Badenburg's attack. He was already using both hands to defend, but he was still broken through. After careful consideration, Zhuang Xuteng had to admit that Badenburg's attack mode was indeed very strong and there was no flaw that he could exploit.

"The supercomputing martial arts is not the strongest martial arts in the world. This is expected. It's nothing. I spent only as much money as Badenburg's equipment. Oh, right, after the airship crashed, Badenburg's martial arts had many flaws and could be induced by the Eight Flashes. Could it be that his martial arts are related to the people in the airship? Are those intelligence officers giving him advice all the time?"

It is a good habit to carefully analyze the gains and losses after the war. The company relied on this method to continuously improve itself and survived the wars; Zhuang Xuteng also made continuous progress by summarizing experience. "The company's enhanced people are supported by the system and rely on the system to fight. As long as they lose the system, their combat effectiveness will drop sharply. Eh? If I use the shadow energy collected from the surroundings to create a giant shadow right from the start to cover the observation and assistance of his team, can I gain a great advantage?"

There is no answer to this question, unless he goes to fight again, which is quite unwise. Zhuang Xuteng slowly raised his left arm. It had recovered its basic functions, but all the muscles and blood vessels were covered with wounds. It was still too fragile to fight. Similar to his left arm, Zhuang Xuteng's internal organs and other parts of his body were also quite tired and needed a good rest. When fighting, he could fight hard with one breath, but that would definitely damage his health.

He felt around for things on his body and finally found half a nutrition bar. Badenburg had cut his armored jacket, and the intense activity had shaken off a lot of small items. This half of a nutrition bar was the last remnant. Zhuang Xuteng ate it in small bites, but it didn't satisfy his hunger at all. He had to find something else to eat. However, the food on the market had safety blue added to varying degrees. He really didn't want to touch that thing. What should he do...

There is a way! Zhuang Xuteng's mind was still bright, and he thought of protein worms. As a child who grew up in a protein worm farm, cooking protein worms directly is a necessary skill. When they were cleaning the worm pond, they would put back the unhealthy worms that could be cured, and of course they would cook and eat the ones that were not worth curing. Protein worms are all nutritious in themselves, but genetic modification adds a bitter and nauseating taste, just to prevent people from eating this thing directly instead of buying processed synthetic food, which would affect profits.

But the people always find a way.

After his body had recovered, which also made him hungrier than usual, Zhuang Xuteng set off for the logistics warehouse in the hub area. Most of the protein worms from the surrounding farms would be processed on site, but the scale and processing capacity of the satellite city were limited, so a considerable portion still had to be transported to the factory in the city. Zhuang Xuteng had accompanied his parents in delivering goods before, so he was familiar with the process and of course knew the location.

Protein worms are the basis of everyone's food. They will never be replaced, but workers can. Zhuang Xuteng came to the unloading area and observed from a distance that more than 90% of the workers in the entire factory were execution puppets. The rest of the people (except the boss) also seemed worried, not knowing when they would be replaced. Although social public work points are always recruiting people, the income there is obviously not comparable to the actual salary in the factory. Besides, everyone has learned skills for the job at hand, spent so much energy and time, and then the only work they can do in this life is to lie down and sleep?

Little did they know that the less motivated they were to work, the more the boss wanted to replace them with executive puppets. He heard that the new generation of executive puppets already had accounting capabilities and could independently complete simple process control, statistics and distribution tasks such as warehouse management, which was enough to meet the daily management of a simple factory like his. The only thing that made him hesitate was the price and the launch date.

Soon, his executive puppet reported a problem: a 30-kilogram barrel of protein worms had a handover problem and was likely lost. The boss first checked the handover form, then retrieved the video, but couldn't figure out what was going on for a long time. It was at this time that he felt that real employees might still make sense, at least they could discuss with him and give him some advice.

Of course, those protein worms were taken away by Zhuang Xuteng. He could sneak out of the capital Constitution City and steal a factory without any difficulty.

For the first time in his life, Zhuang Xuteng had an appetite for the squirming live protein worms. It was obvious that he was very hungry. He took one out, removed its head, and put it in his mouth. The taste was still disgusting. Even hunger could not overcome the advanced technology of biological transformation engineering. Fortunately, Zhuang Xuteng did not pursue the taste. He only needed to wait for his stomach and intestines to digest and absorb the nutrients.

First, you can only make your tongue bitter to create a feeling of fullness, so that the digestive system and the attached implants can work at full capacity. The vitality absorbed by necromancy is very weak. Only what you eat is real and can solve the problem. Zhuang Xuteng ate more than twenty protein worms in a row, and when his appetite disappeared, he stopped and sat against the wall to rest. "Where will Dao Ge be?" Zhuang Xuteng thought about it. First of all, we can rule out their homes. There must be close surveillance by the company, and there may be soldiers ambushed around, waiting for the two of them to come. Lucy's place is also unlikely, because he and Ge Gongdao know that mercenaries and people in the mercenary industry are essentially working for money, and they will definitely not offend the company for the two of them. Only those who have established a solid personal relationship, can truly be brothers and trust each other, can become Dao Ge's choice.

"I should go eat wontons... Oh, it seems that fighting Baden-Berg is really too tiring, and my brain is not working anymore." Zhuang Xuteng looked at the blue plastic bucket with most of the food left beside him, thought for a while, and decided to have a good rest first before going to find Boss Suo.

This wait lasted a whole day. He ate half of the protein worms, and used the other half to cover his body and absorb damage. In order to reduce the risk of exposure, he did not use the "family cooking method" in the end, and relied entirely on technology - the power of the implant - to eat the protein worms raw. The severe nausea covered his taste buds, constantly irritated his nerves, and even made him feel dizzy all the time, including on the way to sneak in search of Boss Suo.

He also knew that his condition was not good, so in order to avoid implicate Boss Suo, he stopped in advance and found a hiding place 3 kilometers away from the wonton stall, and quickly adjusted his condition. At this distance, he could use his sensory tentacles to check the situation ahead, and it didn't take long for him to find Dao Ge, Zhuang Feifei and Boss Suo. The three of them were fine except for feeling a little moldy. Judging from the garbage piled up in the house, these guys seemed to have never left the house and all survived on the inventory in the house.

Fortunately, Boss Suo had been selling wontons for a long time, and he had a lot of flour and canned synthetic meat in stock, so the three of them always had food to eat. Zhuang Xuteng wanted to recognize them immediately, but he was not sure if he would be exposed and discovered by the company if he was in a bad condition. So he sent the sick lady to approach them in an invisible way and penetrate the wall and the ground, and then suddenly appeared in the middle of the three people.

Ge Gongdao immediately raised his hand and cut the head and body of the sick lady apart. Fortunately, the sick lady's basic body was a vengeful spirit servant. After the head was cut and separated, it evaporated on the spot. The part below the neck squirmed for a while, forming a smaller sick lady. Ge Gongdao blinked, as if he thought of something, and did not rush to cut the second time.

Under the direct command of the sensing tentacles, the patient used her fingers to communicate by making letters until Zhuang Feifei found her a pen and paper. "I'm nearby, testing whether there is a tail. You guys hide well, I'll come to you when there's no problem here - Zhuang Xuteng."

Zhuang Feifei immediately covered her mouth and started crying, but Ge Gongdao asked a few questions before he believed that the information came from Zhuang Xuteng. They asked each other about each other's situation: Zhuang Xuteng said that he had a fight with Badenburg in the capital Constitution City, but ran away without winning. He could only eat protein worms to fill his stomach and was currently feeling sick; Ge Gongdao said that they did not dare to leave the house, and they must have eaten much better than Zhuang Xuteng, but they also began to feel sick, and welcomed him to share the joys and sorrows.

Zhuang Xuteng promised to go there only after he was sure he had not been discovered, but he could help now, such as throwing away the garbage and getting them some new food. Boss Suo suggested that Zhuang Xuteng go to his storage room to get something. The freezer inside contained a lot of fish caught and processed from the Pei River, as well as a large amount of sauces and condiments for making fish wontons.

"Whether you steal or buy, there's a chance you'll be exposed - it's safest to take it from my warehouse."

Zhuang Xuteng was busy all day, using his sensing tentacles to investigate the situation and letting the ghost servants to carry the things. In one day, if the company had discovered him before, they would have come to kill him by now, so Zhuang Xuteng was relieved to meet them. I thought Zhuang Feifei would cry non-stop and need to be comforted, but this experience obviously made her grow up. Zhuang Feifei hugged her brother tightly, hummed a few times, and then let go, completely controlling her emotions.

"Okay..." Zhuang Xuteng wanted to pat his sister on the head, but changed his mind when he stretched out his hand. He patted Zhuang Feifei on the shoulder and praised her, "You are starting to feel like a warrior. You have improved a lot compared to before."

Zhuang Feifei blushed, smiled slightly, and then tried to change the subject: "Brother, your clothes are all torn, take them off and I'll see if I can mend them for you."

"I was in such a mess after the fight with Battenberg that my armored coat was in tatters, like a homeless man." Zhuang Xuteng took off his coat, handed it to his sister, and said, "I don't think it can be restored to its original state, so I'll make it smaller for you! I can get you a few more sets. If you meet someone like Battenberg, the protection of this coat can only be said to be better than nothing."

"Is he very powerful?" asked Ge Gongdao.

"His martial arts are very strong and have no flaws - as long as he has the support of an intelligence officer behind him." Zhuang Xuteng sat down and described Badenburg's tactics in detail, concluding: "He is equivalent to having a super brain, and he avoids all strategies that may lead to greed and recklessness. As you know, our supercomputing martial arts like others to change their moves and cause them to lose their composure, rather than this kind of absolutely steady and cautious approach."

"If I had met Badenburg..."

"Go for it, you can't escape anyway. He has a total of ten high-speed, high-explosive shadow slaves on him, which can fly and have short bursts. You can pretend to run away, and then turn around and attack. I think it will be effective. However..." Zhuang Xuteng said: "I am worried about a guy named Anzu. It is said that he is the number one enhanced person in the company now."

For some reason, when Boss Suo heard the name Anzu, his hands shook and he almost spilled the wontons he was about to serve.