188: Chapter 188 Divine Needle Smashes Ship, Iceberg CEO Takes the Initiative to Visit

Mio rubbed her forehead.

"It's a Tier 6, little sister."

"If you rush up there now, you might get turned into a specimen."

Su Xiaoqi immediately hugged her meat bun tight.

"Then I'll eat my fill before rushing in."

Shen Wanxing nodded quietly from the side.

"I don't think Xiaoqi eating her fill will necessarily be enough..."

Su Xiaoqi turned her head.

"Sister Wanxing, why are you boosting someone else's morale?"

Shen Wanxing shrank back behind Shen Wanbing.

"I'm just timid, not stupid..."

Chen Chen looked at Shen Wanbing.

"Conclusion."

Shen Wanbing switched the holographic map to the resource layer.

"The resource cap for the Tier 2 map has hit a hard limit."

"If we stay here now, we can at most reinforce the Sea-Air Composite Fortress to the Tier 5 limit."

"Against a Tier 6 Mechanical Overlord, our win rate is very low."

Jiang Jiuyou continued.

"We'll be dragged to death in a siege battle."

"The opponent doesn't need to kill us all; as long as they dismantle the Teleportation Array, the Energy Hub, or the main reactor of the Sea Scale, we're finished."

Yi Chang came up from the lifting platform, holding the list for the bottom hold disposal.

She listened to a few sentences and directly interjected.

"There are too many people in the territory."

"We just incorporated over a hundred thousand people; we can't afford a long war of attrition."

"The life support system can hold, but the order cannot."

Shen Wanbing expanded the final layer of the map.

That was the cross-boundary Teleportation Array.

"The only solution."

"Activate the SSS-grade cross-boundary Teleportation Array."

"Abandon the permanent coordinates of the Tier 2 map."

"The entire Sea-Air Composite Fortress, along with the Sea Scale, the Ghost Fortress, and the core population, will warp to the Tier 3 map."

Mio widened her electronic pupils.

"Are you crazy?"

"The ecological suppression of the Tier 3 map will double!"

"Tier 5 is just an admission ticket there!"

"Tier 6 units appear in swarms!"

Jiang Jiuyou instead laughed.

"If we don't go to the Tier 3 map, we'll be blocked at the door by the Tier 6 Mechanical Overlord in three days."

"If we go to the Tier 3 map, at least the resource cap will be opened."

Blood Rose clapped slowly.

"This is more like our team's style."

"Others run for their lives when chased; we move house and upgrade along the way."

Su Xiaoqi's eyes lit up.

"Is there higher-grade meat in the Tier 3 map?"

Mio was silent.

"Yes."

Su Xiaoqi immediately raised her hand.

"I agree to move!"

Shen Wanxing spoke weakly.

"Can I disagree?"

Chen Chen glanced at her.

"No."

Shen Wanxing sighed.

"Then I agree too..."

Chen Chen looked at the gray-white fleet assembly point on the map and withdrew the sea-stabilizing needle.

"This isn't called running away."

"We're going to the Tier 3 map to restock."

"And by the way, wait for that Tier 6 tin can to deliver itself to our doorstep."

Jiang Jiuyou immediately entered her work mode.

"I'll go rearrange the Fleet Link."

Yi Chang opened the data pad.

"The bottom hold will only take those with acceptable obedience levels."

"Should we leave all the rioters recently sentenced to hard labor in the outer pollution cleaning zone?"

Chen Chen looked at her.

"Take the laborers."

"It's a waste if they die."

Yi Chang nodded.

"Understood, I'll have positioning rings installed on them."

Mio muttered softly.

"Your territory is really looking more and more like a villain's lair."

Blood Rose looked at her with a smile.

"You only just realized?"

The City Lord Tower became busy again.

Shen Wanbing put the remnant scroll into a special sealing box and issued twelve consecutive material accounting orders.

Chen Chen did not stay on the command level.

The great battle had just ended, and a new crisis was already looming.

But for him, three days was enough.

...

Late at night.

Room on the second floor of the City Lord Tower.

When Chen Chen pushed the door open, someone was sitting on the sofa.

Shen Wanbing.

She wasn't wearing a coat.

Her white shirt was stuck to her body with sweat, two buttons at the collar were undone, and her snow-white skin was dazzling under the light.

She hadn't changed out of her black tight-fitting skirt, her legs were wrapped in ultra-thin black stockings and crossed, and her high heels were resting on the carpet.

She was holding a data pad in her hand.

Her posture was upright.

But her fingertips were gripping it tightly.

Chen Chen closed the door.

"Still reporting?"

Shen Wanbing raised her face, her tone still steady.

"The cross-boundary Teleportation Array needs recalibration."

"The hull of the Sea Scale is too large; when crossing the boundary of the Tier 3 map, there may be three structural tears."

"Also, I have already prepared the screening plan for the bottom hold population..."

Chen Chen walked over, snatched the panel from her hand, and tossed it onto the table.

Clatter.

Shen Wanbing's breathing skipped a beat.

"Chen Chen, I haven't finished reviewing the data."

"Review it tomorrow."

"There's a Teleportation Array test tomorrow."

"Then review it the day after tomorrow."

She wanted to say more, but she had already been pulled into Chen Chen's arms.

The moment his scorching body temperature pressed against her, the shell of calmness that Shen Wanbing had maintained all day finally cracked.

She raised her hand to push against Chen Chen's chest, but her fingertips didn't exert any force.

"My Mental Power is still sufficient."

"I didn't ask if you had enough."

Chen Chen lowered his head and leaned in close.

"Tonight, it's your turn to rest."

Shen Wanbing's earlobes turned red very quickly.

"Are you sure about this way of resting?"

Chen Chen's hand landed on the side of her leg.

The black stockings tore a long, thin slit under the friction of his rough fingertips.

Shen Wanbing's body trembled slightly, a golden light instinctively glowing in the depths of her eyes before she suppressed it again.

"You're always so rough every time."

"Dislike it?"

She lifted her chin, her voice lowering slightly.

"No."

Chen Chen picked her up directly and placed her on the edge of the bed.

One of Shen Wanbing's high heels fell off.

The other was still hanging from her toe.

She reached out to hold onto the edge of the bed, but her wrist was caught by Chen Chen.

"The data pad can be picked up tomorrow."

Shen Wanbing closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, that bit of aloofness could no longer be suppressed.

"Then be gentle."

Chen Chen leaned down.

"We'll see."

Midnight.

A system prompt popped up.

[Unique SS-grade growth affix: Physical Overlimit triggered.]

[constitution +10.]

[agility +5.]

[Current constitution: 227.]

[Current agility: 113.]

A massive surge of Qi and Blood heat exploded within Chen Chen's body.

Shen Wanbing originally wanted to stay awake, but the next second, she lost her voice under the pressure of that Qi and Blood.

[Forbidden Domain Dual Cultivation triggered.]

[Qi and Blood Mutual Nourishment started.]

[Detected that the beauty Shen Wanbing's Spirit attribute is higher than the host's partial threshold.]

[Spirit feedback started.]

The acoustic isolation layer in the room automatically lit up with a green light.

First floor hall.

Shen Wanxing had just picked up her water cup; hearing the muffled sound from above, her hand shook, and half the water spilled.

She silently pulled the blanket over her head.

Su Xiaoqi looked up while holding her midnight snack.

"Did Sister Wanbing level up too?"

Blood Rose leaned on the sofa and lazily turned over.

"Yes."

"And the commotion from the upgrade is quite loud."

Jiang Jiuyou sat in front of the deputy command console, her fingers pausing on the keyboard.

After two seconds, she expressionlessly turned off the soundproofing monitor.

"Boring."

Blood Rose chuckled.

"Commander Jiang, you turned it off too slowly."

Jiang Jiuyou pulled out her sidearm and placed it on the table.

Blood Rose immediately shut her mouth.

Second floor.

Shen Wanbing's Mental Power continued to soar.

Her brain region, which had already been close to its limit, was opened up again by the Qi and Blood feedback.

[Shen Wanbing Spirit +6.]

[Shen Wanbing constitution +9.]

[Host Spirit +8.]

[All-Seeing Eye resonance enhanced.]

[When in the same vehicle, Radar analysis speed is additionally increased.]

Shen Wanbing gripped Chen Chen's arm, her black hair spread across the pillow, and her white shirt was wrinkled beyond recognition.

She uttered a sentence intermittently.

"Chen Chen..."

"Tier 3 map... I will find you the optimal coordinates..."

Chen Chen lowered his head and kissed away the rest of her words.

That night, the lights outside the City Lord Tower did not go out.

The Teleportation Array was being recalibrated, the Sea Scale was being repaired, and the laborers in the bottom hold were being escorted to clean the pollution tanks.

And the system prompts in Chen Chen's room didn't stop until the second half of the night.