315: Chapter 316 Money Power, This is Like Building a Heavenly Court

D-3 Region returned to a deathly silence.

Rain washed the ground, gradually carrying away the scent of blood and traces of battle, leaving only that completely scrapped Gaia Law Imaging Instrument, twisted like a piece of modern art, and those four black totem poles that had lost their luster and stood quietly, silently telling of how thrilling everything that had just happened was.

The Federal fleet came quickly and left even faster.

Like a flock of startled crows, they left a mess and chaos behind as they fled in panic.

Zhang Wei watched the last point of light disappear on the distant horizon, his entire being still in a state of extreme excitement. His fat face was flushed red, looking much like a cooked prawn.

“Seven Bro! Awesome! This is so damn awesome!”

He was so excited his speech was incoherent, waving his fleshy fists wildly in the air, spittle flying everywhere.

“You didn't see Old Zhao's expression just now—his face turned green! And that bullshit director, he pissed himself on the spot! I saw it, he really did! Hahaha! Serves him right! Let him try to act like a big shot in front of us again!”

“This is great. Let's see who dares to come here and act wild in the future! Seven Bro, you are a god! My god!”

The fatty had completely transformed into a fanatic fan. The way he looked at Lin Qi was as bright as two two-hundred-watt light bulbs; he was just short of kowtowing on the spot.

Although Instructor Su Qing wasn't as exaggerated as him, as she stood to the side, those eyes that were usually cold as frost now held a layer of shimmering light that wouldn't dissipate.

It was admiration, awe, and total conviction.

Toying with the Federation in the flick of a finger.

Summoning and dismissing gods with a single thought.

This god-like power had completely exceeded her understanding of the concept of a 'powerhouse'.

She had originally thought she was following an unfathomable martial arts Grandmaster, a peerless expert capable of rewriting Laws.

Looking at it now, she had been too naive.

How was this a Grandmaster?

This was clearly a god walking among mortals!

“Alright, stop howling.”

Lin Qi waved his hand, interrupting the fatty's solo concert.

The calm and breezy expression on his face quickly vanished after sending Zhao Shouzhen away, replaced by an unprecedented gravity.

He turned around, his gaze sweeping over the fanatical Zhang Wei and the admiring Instructor Su Qing. He spoke word by word, his voice not loud, yet striking their hearts like a heavy hammer.

“The game has officially begun.”

“What happened just now was only the opening CG animation, shown to the audience for free.”

Zhang Wei's smile froze on his face, and Instructor Su Qing's gaze instantly became sharp.

They both heard the weight in Lin Qi's words.

“Instructor Su, Fatty.”

Lin Qi's gaze became incredibly serious.

“Our time is running out.”

“From now on, laboratory construction enters wartime status. The authority I'm giving you is unlimited! I want this fortress to rise from the ground within one month!”

“The goal for the first phase of our new version is—”

“To survive!”

The words 'To survive,' coming from the mouth of someone who had just shattered a divine phantom with a single finger, did not make anyone laugh. Instead, it brought a suffocating sense of urgency.

If even he felt the need 'to survive,' then what kind of terrifying disaster was about to arrive?

Zhang Wei's fat face instantly turned pale, and cold sweat poured down.

“Seven... Seven Bro, it's... it's not that exaggerated, is it?” he asked stuttering.

“It will only be more so, not less.” Lin Qi's answer directly shattered his last shred of illusion.

He looked at the two of them, knowing he had to give them some pressure, but also some direction.

“Su Qing.”

“Boss, please give your orders.” Instructor Su Qing immediately straightened her body.

“From today on, you don't need to call me Boss anymore.” Lin Qi shook his head. “In wartime status, there are no bosses and employees. Call me Seven Bro, or call me Commander.”

He took out a blueprint made of some special beast skin from his robes and handed it over.

As the blueprint unfurled, the dense, talisman-like lines and symbols on it instantly made Instructor Su Qing feel a wave of dizziness.

She couldn't understand it, but she could feel that the blueprint itself contained an extremely vast and exquisite power of Law.

“This is the foundation array map, codenamed ‘Pangu’. Your task today is to command the engineering team to clear away the ‘scraps’ in this area, and then follow the blueprint to dig out the foundation for me. Remember, not even an inch can be wrong.”

Lin Qi pointed at the few assassins he had neutralized on the ground and those four totem poles.

“Yes!” Instructor Su Qing didn't ask why. She took the blueprint and nodded solemnly.

Lin Qi then turned to Zhang Wei.

“Fatty.”

“Here! Commander!” Zhang Wei imitated Instructor Su Qing and stood straight, though his trembling belly betrayed his internal nervousness.

“This is the first batch of Materials procurement list, also codenamed ‘Nuwa’.”

Lin Qi similarly handed over a beast skin blueprint, but this one didn't have symbols; it had lines of tiny characters.

Zhang Wei leaned in curiously to look, and with just one glance, his eyes nearly popped out.

[Main Material: Three hundred tons of 'Guixu Stone' from ten thousand meters deep in the ocean. Requires integral cutting, Law integrity not less than 95%.]

[Auxiliary Material: One hundred 'Core of Eternal Burnings' from the Earth's Core Fire Realm. Requires energy activity not less than ten thousand units.]

[Array Eye Material: Fifty kilograms of 'Instantaneous Plasma' born from Void Storms. Must be sealed using 'Klein Bottles'.]

[Law Stabilizer: One liter of spinal fluid from a living 'Space-Time Dragon'.]

[Energy Core Alternative: Three 'Kuafu' class fusion reactors from the Federal Academy of Sciences' 'Tiangong' Space Station...]

...

Zhang Wei read down line by line, his mouth opening wider and wider. By the end, he wasn't shocked anymore; he was completely numb.

He felt like he wasn't looking at a procurement list.

But at a fantastical, madman's project plan that was enough to bankrupt the entire Federation!

Guixu Stone? Didn't that stuff only exist in legends? It was said that a piece the size of a fist could sell for an astronomical price on the black market to stabilize the spatial structure of a private Domain. Three hundred tons? And integrally cut? Is he trying to dig through the ocean floor?

Core of Eternal Burnings? A specialty of the Earth's Core Fire Realm and a strategic material strictly controlled by the Federal Military. A single one could provide energy to a B-class city for ten years. One hundred of them? What's the plan? Lighting fireworks?

And that Instantaneous Plasma, Space-Time Dragon spinal fluid... what on earth were those? He had never even heard of them!

The most ridiculous part was the last one!

‘Kuafu’ class reactors from the ‘Tiangong’ Space Station?!

That was the pinnacle of the Federation's technological achievements! A national treasure! Never mind three of them—if you even tried to touch one, you'd be shot on the spot as a spy!

How was this procurement?

This was robbery! This was directly declaring war on the entire Federation!

“Seven... Seven Bro...”

Zhang Wei held that thin piece of beast skin, feeling it was hotter to hold than a nuclear bomb. His voice was trembling.

“I... I'll take the liberty of asking... Are we building a laboratory, or... are we building a Heavenly Court?”

Lin Qi glanced at him and said indifferently:

“Is there a problem?”

“There's a huge problem!” Zhang Wei was almost in tears. “Seven Bro, these things—never mind me, even if you kidnapped the Federal President, he couldn't get them! This... this simply isn't a problem that money can solve!”

“I just told Old Zhao to have them open the highest-level material channels.”

Lin Qi's tone was as calm as if he were saying, 'I told Fatty to go to the convenience store downstairs and buy a bottle of soy sauce.'

“He agreed.”

Zhang Wei: “...”

“So, now it is a problem that money can solve.”

Lin Qi looked at him with a very serious gaze.

“Fatty, don't you have the ‘Money Can Communicate with Gods’ talent?”

“Now, I need you to go and buy the moon.”

“Can you do it?”