Atlas of Heaven and Man

Yangzhi City center, the Molan Gaoling Corporation Building.

After entering the building, Supervisor Luo quickly stepped into the elevator and rapidly pressed a series of numbers on the button panel.

A moment later, the elevator began to descend, the lights flickering slightly, and the floor display above changed to negative numbers.

After about a minute, the elevator gently vibrated and came to a stop, the number above displaying negative twenty-nine, indicating that it had reached the main hall located one hundred meters below the company building.

As the elevator doors slid open, Supervisor Luo walked out, finding himself in a passageway illuminated by overhead lights and a row of lights on the floor.

On either side were glass partition walls, revealing enclosed bodies of water teeming with bizarre and strangely shaped creatures.

Supervisor Luo ignored them, walking along the passageway until he reached a pneumatic door that opened to reveal two slender women standing there.

Their heads were shaved, and they wore no clothes, their bodies covered in smooth, glossy white scale implants that shimmered in the light, accentuating their curves in a strange and unsettling way.

The two women opened their hands and curtsied in unison, before straightening up and saying in soft, melodious voices, "Supervisor, this way, please.

The directors are in Conference Room Three today; please follow us."

The two attendants spoke together, their voices creating an echo-like effect.

Supervisor Luo followed expressionlessly, walking about twenty meters before exiting the passageway and stepping onto a metal platform shaped like a blooming Molan orchid.

After waiting for a moment, the platform beneath his feet began to make a "clunk, clunk, clunk" sound, rotating until it aligned with a door marked with a "3" symbol, which suddenly lit up as the door rose.

The two attendants gestured for him to enter, and he walked forward on the solid metal passage, hearing voices from within before he even arrived.

"The research has reached a critical moment.

Once we overcome this hurdle, we will have mature implants ready to launch into the market, reversing the customers' stereotypical impression of Molan Corporation."

"So, Mr. Mo, how much time do you need?"

"Just three more months, no! Two months, and I will definitely present results that satisfy all the directors."

Supervisor Luo then walked in, seeing a conference hall with a semicircular wooden table inlaid with crystal light strips, behind which sat five people, all executive directors of Molan Corporation in Yangzhi City, each with delicate and ornate decorative implants on their faces and necks.

Standing in front of the five was an old man with blue-dyed hair, still trying to persuade the directors, saying, "We're out of time!"

The room fell silent.

Supervisor Luo looked at the five behind the table and said, "The directors should know that we're out of time."

Supervisor Luo said in a deep voice, "This time, Zhan Yi acted on his own accord, making concessions in the adjudication court, which exposed the company's true situation.

I also bear responsibility for this matter."

He couldn't say that it was his own negligence that led to a misstep, but someone had to take responsibility, so he made Zhan Yi disappear on the way back.

The directors looked at him for a moment.

After a while, one of them said, "Supervisor Luo, you failed to control your subordinates, so of course you bear responsibility."

Supervisor Luo remained silent.

Another director spoke up at the opportune moment, "Now is not the time to pursue who is responsible; we must first solve the problem.

Supervisor Luo, I'm asking you now, if the company were to face a foreseeable armed siege, how long could the External Operations Department hold out?"

Supervisor Luo had obviously considered this question before coming, as he replied, "With the original strength of Yangzhi City, there is no way to compare with the company.

However, when I returned, I received news that none of the school board members of Wu Yi returned, so it is very likely that people from the Central City Administration have arrived.

The personnel and manpower currently coming are unknown, making it difficult to make an accurate assessment.

But as long as the army is not mobilized, if we only defend the company, one month should not be a problem."

At this time, another executive director spoke, "Is this a conservative estimate or an optimistic estimate?

We need a definitive answer, as well as detailed data and reports."

Supervisor Luo could only answer truthfully, "This is just my personal optimistic estimate.

I will actively investigate and submit a report afterward, but…"

He looked up and said, "As long as the railway is not repaired, it will be difficult for the army outside Yangzhi City to mobilize in a short time, so we still have time to adjust our arrangements."

"What about the strength of the Administration, if we add the new batch of combat weapons we purchased?

Will that be enough?

If we launch now, can we destroy the existing armed forces of Yangzhi City?"

Supervisor Luo weighed it and said, "Perhaps we can, but I do not recommend using our combat weapons.

We have them, but Canghong Tianqu, Yuan'an Corporation, and others watching our company also have them.

If we expose ourselves first and let them know our bottom line, they will target us, which is not a good choice."

"What if we use the arrangements we made in Yangzhi City before?"

Supervisor Luo shook his head and said, "The Secret Sect Bureau is watching very closely.

Lei Guangcheng is an experienced expert in Secret Sect rituals, very difficult to deal with.

In recent months, he has gradually found and removed many of our arrangements, and many Secret Sect personnel have also been arrested.

It is too late to repair them now."

"What about the resistance organizations we have funded?

Where are they at this time?

Can they be utilized?"

One of the directors disapproved, "Those people can only cause some damage at most."

"No, they are still useful.

In the past, they helped us kill many people who stood in our way, and now they can also slightly contain the Patrol Bureau, which is better than nothing."

The director who spoke looked at Supervisor Luo and said, "Supervisor Luo, you are not allowed to leave the company during this period. You are fully responsible for the company's external defense affairs. You can leave now."

Supervisor Luo nodded to the directors in their seats and turned to leave.

After he left, the directors continued their discussion.

"We can try to negotiate with Canghong Tianqu to get them to withdraw. We can exchange the experimental data from the past ten years. They should be interested."

"The hope is not high. You all know what they want."

"We have already grasped several key water sections. If…"

"It's useless. The head office's data was leaked before. I suspect they may have already developed a special medicine. Even if they haven't, to achieve the theoretical deployment effect, it will only delay hundreds of thousands of people at most. The volume is too small, and it's basically meaningless. They can afford the loss."

The directors discussed for a while, confirming that the situation was irreversible under the siege of many forces. One of them proposed, "Since the Yangzhi City branch may no longer be able to be protected, in order to preserve the company's achievements, I suggest activating Emergency Plan No. 3."

"Seconded."

"Seconded."

"Seconded."

In the family area of the Patrol Bureau, in the Nian residence.

After Chen Chuan returned, he began to read the information that Commissioner Cao had given him.

The information above was a brief introduction to Molan Company. This information is public in Central City, but outside, only some professionals have the connections to find it.

The original founder of Molan Company, Sun Shang, entered a sleep pod and was injected with drugs due to lifespan issues, beginning extreme deep sleep.

The person now in charge of Molan Company is his grandson, Sun Shu, who is already eighty-eight years old. However, looking at the photo above the information, he is almost a man in his thirties or forties, in the prime of his youth.

After looking at it for a few glances, he continued to flip through the information.

In the past fifty years, Molan Company's headquarters has been attacked three times. The earliest time was forty-three years ago. Because the time was earlier, many of the people involved are no longer alive, resulting in missing data, so the information is unclear. The second time was fourteen years ago, a small-scale explosion, no need to mention it.

Among them, the most recent one was four years ago, when the headquarters was attacked by an unknown armed force, and it was suspected that a lot of confidential research data was lost.

This incident seemed to have led to Molan Company's subsequent strategic shift, with the focus placed on various branches, especially the Yangzhi branch, which was considered more important and could be called the second headquarters.

Nowadays, major companies are increasing the research and development of combat-oriented implants, and each has its strengths in various places, but Molan Company has always been relatively weak in this regard. Despite investing a lot of money, the results have always been few and far between.

It's not that they don't have strengths. The company's beauty and skin implants can be described as leading the way, at a leading level that no one can catch up with.

But in this era, every company and giant enterprise has its own armed forces. Only by mastering combat-oriented implants can the lifeline not be controlled by others.

In order to maintain its own military force, Molan Company has to buy a large number of armed implants and biological combat weapons from other companies every year.

And they specially invited R\u0026D teams from various companies to tailor-make an armed force called the "Blood Ink Guard". The entrants of the guard are strictly selected fighters, all equipped with the best armed implants on the market, and equipped with various protective clothing and special weapons.

The information shows that there may be three small teams, that is, ninety people, in the Yangzhi City branch. The combat power assessment marked above is enough to slaughter an old-fashioned army of one to two thousand people cleanly within half an hour. The strength is very strong.

In addition, Molan Company purchased a large number of combat mantises from Compound Eye Company in batches. Judging from the orders on the surface, there are about five hundred, but they should not have been completely delivered yet, and the current number is unknown.

Chen Chuan's expression became serious when he saw this. He had seen combat mantises before, and they were really powerful. As a biological weapon with extremely fast speed and the ability to fly and cooperate on its own, it would be really difficult to deal with five hundred of them gathered together.

But since it is marked on this, I believe that the above must have been prepared long ago.

And at the back of the information is an introduction about some important figures in Molan Company.

For example, Luo Qi, the director of the Special External Action Department. This person himself is a fighter, at least with the strength of the Third Limit. However, this person does not seem to have many implants on his body. Instead, such a person is more difficult to deal with, indicating that he has a firm will and absolute confidence in his own martial power.

At the same time, attention should be paid to Han Jian, the director of the Security Department, and Cui Hong, the deputy director. These two are responsible for all internal security of Yangzhi Molan.

Han Jian's specific information is unknown, suspected of being a pseudonym. This person has never appeared in public.

Cui Hong, on the other hand, is a graduate of Yangzhi Wuyi. Chen Chuan remembers the Mutual Aid Society's statement that this person was recommended by them. However, there should be some exaggeration here. If he was purely recommended by the Mutual Aid Society, he would at most be an idle job. This person should really be capable.

As for the rest of the executives and directors, most of them have combat implants. Although they seem to have martial power, because they are not fighters, their combat effectiveness is obviously very questionable.

Chen Chuan thought for a while. Commissioner Cao said to wait for his instructions. He didn't know what target he needed to deal with this time, but this time it should be a collective action, not a one-on-one fight. It seems that only those elites need special attention, so it is better to write down all the people on the information first and make full preparations.