235: Chapter 235: Everyone Can Be K.
(Long Chapter – Please Subscribe, Add to Favorites, Request Monthly Tickets) 235: Chapter 235: Everyone Can Be K.
(Long Chapter – Please Subscribe, Add to Favorites, Request Monthly Tickets) Danny’s question was soon answered,
The FBI supervisor in charge of transporting Kyle had been funded by the Nolanka Group all along, which allowed him to reach this point.
Thus, he reciprocated by answering Danny’s questions thoroughly and exhaustively.
According to the supervisor’s information, they had encountered an attack from a B-level exotic beast.
They successfully shook off the beast, but they were forced to change their original route, resulting in a delay in the transport.
After losing the exotic beast, they conducted a surprise interrogation on Kyle and found items on him that attracted the exotic beast.
Kyle tried to rely on the exotic beast to destroy the escort team and escape.
This tactic was very risky, and it was very easy to be killed by the exotic beast.
The supervisor stated that Kyle was now under strict supervision, and they had already requested backup from nearby units to protect him.
By the early hours of the day after tomorrow, they would definitely deliver the person.
He Ao pondered for a mont and then spoke softly to Danny, “Express my thanks to that gentleman for , and try to mix a few of our ‘friends’ into the new escort forces as well.”
“Understood.”
Danny nodded lightly.
He Ao looked at the docunt in his hand.
Kyle was a D-level Transcendent with the Talent ‘Talent Sequences 50: Fighter.’
For transporting a strong Transcendent, an electromagnetic restraint device is typically used to limit their movents, and they are held in a custom-made ultra-strong alloy prison cage.
The cage was very difficult to open; it required biotric verification, chanical key verification, and password verification—three-tier verification—and it could only be opened by two transport supervisors operating at the sa ti, with both their keys and passwords being different.
In addition to that, there were fully ard FBI agents on duty around the clock outside the cage.
Opening this ‘door’ was harder than opening a bank vault.
The chanical arms on the workbench were welding new structures, and the flashing welding light shone on the side of He Ao’s face, deep in thought.
If the other party’s goal was to rescue Kyle, what thod would they use?
The thod used by the other party to rob the Nolanka bank’s Cryptocurrency was consistent with that of the God of Chaos believers who had previously robbed Nord bank in Elantra City.
So, by reverse reasoning, was it possible that the party was the gang of robbers who had robbed Nord bank?
The circulation of Cryptocurrency was unregulated; in a few months’ ti, the other party could have turned all of the Cryptocurrency into cash, or goods of equivalent value, because, after all, in the black market, Cryptocurrency could be used for direct shopping.
Cryptocurrency worth five hundred million federal coins would be a significant amount for so smaller consortia, capable of buying most items for sale publicly in the world.
Including so of the most advanced weapons and equipnt; these falling into the hands of a crazed God of Chaos believer was not a good thing.
However, items that require Aptitude to purchase tend to have a twofold or even threefold markup on the black market, so their value can’t entirely be asured by the sale price.
Whatever he bought would leave traces.
He Ao turned his head to look at Danny, “Investigate the recent weapons trade orders under the conglorate, check if there have been a large number of weapons orders, find out through what channels they were purchased, who the buyers were; we need a detailed investigation of these data.
Also, check the orders of the conglorate’s shipping company, and ask if anyone has transported suspicious items in the past few months.”
He pondered a mont and continued,
“All rchant caravans entering the city from the wilderness are inspected by the City Defense Army.
Contact our ‘friends’ within the City Defense Army and ask them to provide a customs record for the caravans over the past three months, focusing on records pertaining to various weapons and energy, and yes,”
He Ao paused for a mont, “apart from weapons and energy, also provide as detailed a record as possible for tal, special materials, and the like.
Once these materials are in hand, directly input them to ‘Eve’ for analysis.”
Weapons and energy require strict inspection before entering the city; regulations demand detailed explanations of their origins and destinations.
Smugglers naturally couldn’t clarify these explanations, so so smugglers would collude with gangs inside the city, bribe so mbers of the City Defense Army, and disguise weapons and energy equipnt as tal and special materials for customs declaration—though this process is typically expensive and used only for smuggling high-value items.
“Got it.”
The butler nodded lightly and left the room.
He Ao turned his head to watch the chanical arms.
As ti ticked by, the structure of the components slowly began to reveal its form.
Its exterior was sowhat similar to the high-performance compression battery that He Ao had used before, cylindrical in shape.
But the exterior was no longer interspersed with flashing blue; it was all-over silver, with additional design on the edges, making it look aesthetically pleasing and smooth.
He Ao reached out and picked up the silver cylinder, weighing it in his hand.
Although the cylinder looked small, it was extraordinarily heavy.
In Vian’s design, the cylinder was cramd to its maximum limit with various intricate electronic components for controlling fusion reactors.
He Ao took the tal cylinder and walked deep into the room, his fingers lightly touching the wall, and a hidden door slowly opened.
Behind this door was a narrow and oppressive space with no doors or windows and exceptionally thick walls.
This was actually the most critical area of the small laboratory, the nuclear testing lab.
Vian’s father had set up nurous radiation protection devices in this lab.
He Ao extended his hand and placed the cylinder on a platform.
Imdiately, a chanical arm reached out, grabbed the cylinder, and retracted it into the wall.
Inside there was the actual nuclear reaction chamber.
As the chanical arm drew the cylinder into the wall, the originally quiet wall suddenly lit up, displaying rows of various data.
These were sensors in the room on the other side, which could reflect all aspects of the nuclear test.
He Ao’s prepared nuclear fuel was deuterium and helium-3.
Compared to the commonly used deuterium and tritium in conventional fusion, helium-3, though expensive, required lower conditions for fusion with deuterium and generated more energy.
More importantly, the high-energy protons released from the deuterium and helium-3 fusion reaction were easily controlled by magnetic fields, making it safer, unlike the high-energy neutrons released from deuterium and tritium, which were hard to control and created a lot of radiation.
After setting the paraters, He Ao left the room.
Now it was ti to use minute amounts of nuclear fuel to conduct fusion reactions in the designed container, testing the container’s performance, safety, and energy conversion efficiency.
This test was estimated to last all night.
He Ao could also see these monitoring data outside, and there was also the artificial intelligence Eve assisting in the supervision.
So he decided to go to the laboratory outside to repair the ‘Adam 1-type’ cha that had been damaged in battle today.
And see if he could upgrade and modify the weak points of the ‘Adam 1-type’.
Soon, ti reached the early hours of the morning, and as He Ao was repairing the cha in the laboratory, he suddenly received a ssage from Danny, saying that Lina wanted to see him.
He Ao thought for a mont, left the laboratory, took a tablet to monitor the experintal process, and let Lina into the study.
“A very serious problem, Mr.
Vian.”
Lina entered with a frown on her face.
“Hmm?”
He Ao looked at her, puzzled.
“The small consortia in Kaye City naturally can’t pose a threat to you, but what if they are led by a fierce tiger from outside?”
Lina spoke quickly, “After communicating with those executives, I found out that the Nord Consortium has always been coveting the ruling rights over the group.
If we push for reforms and affect the interests of the group’s board of directors and the original interest groups within the group, they are very likely to turn to the Nord Consortium.
These financial consortia will do anything for money, even if we hold the moral high ground, they might play so dirty tricks…”
“Do you know when the election for the mayor of Dawn City is?”
He Ao suddenly asked softly.
“I…”
Lina was taken aback, imdiately lifted her wristband, and opened the search engine.
He Ao did not interrupt her, allowing her to proceed.
After a while, she put down the wristband and looked at He Ao with a puzzled expression, “The election for the mayor of Dawn City is the day after tomorrow, what does this have to do with the Nord Consortium?”
“To be precise, it’s tomorrow; it’s already past midnight,” He Ao said with a smile, placing the tablet on the table and standing up,
“Dawn City is Nord Consortium’s stronghold; they will be too busy to pay attention to us soon.”
“Ah?”
Lina was baffled.
“In the coming period, the entire Federation’s attention will be drawn to Dawn City,” He Ao said calmly as he looked at her,
“And that will be our strategic developnt opportunity period.
This ti could be very long, lasting four years or even eight years, or it could be very short, not even lasting four years.
So the group must seize this brief opportunity period to quickly advance policies, unite everyone, and have enough self-preservation ability, including food, energy, and military industry—none of these can be neglected,”
At that mont, Lina saw a sense of urgent eagerness in the eyes of the young man who had always seed calm and in control.
Her mouth slightly agape, she said softly, “If the Nord Consortium is going to be unable to act soon, they will surely do their utmost to attack us in these two days…
They might do sothing to you…”
“If we cower before we even take the first step, then we will achieve nothing.”
He Ao waved his hand gently, sitting back down in his chair.
He leaned back in the soft chair back, revealing a smile, “Anything else?”
Lina stared into He Ao’s calm eyes.
She recalled her earlier conversation with He Ao when they first t; the young man in front of her had already known what he was about to face.
That was why he had asked her if she feared death.
Since she had already given a fearless answer, there was no need to waver here.
Her heart gradually cald down, and her jumbled thoughts cleared.
Looking at He Ao, she asked the question she had always wanted to ask, “Mr.
Vian, a personal question, do you…
know K?”
At this, she paused and then elaborated, “The K who gave that lecture about the Avis Group before.”
If you discussed K within other consortia, you might lose your job, and everyone was extrely cautious.
But in front of the biggest consortium controller in Kaye City, Lina felt surprisingly at ease.
“I know what you are suspecting,” He Ao said with a smile, “Strictly speaking, I am K, yet I am not K.”
Then he added, as Lina watched with a confused and stunned gaze,
“Anyone can be K.”
In the Federation’s language, K ans ‘king, leader.’
And in a deeper etymology, it stands for,
The heir.
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