148: It's your fault for not guarding well enough. You take the blame!

The final plan was very simple: Tang Gao had the Demon God Lord use a disguise skill to transform into the Sniper Instructor, and then used the Sniper Instructor's ID card to enter the Treasure Vault.

Next was a re-enactment, but the difference was that only the Black Shadow Clan appeared. With the intelligence gathered from multiple Reincarnations, they easily took down the few remaining guardians, and after destroying the surveillance equipment inside, Justice, Shennong, and Machine went in to destroy the Formation and looted everything.

Before anyone could react, Tang Gao clicked to submit the mission.

“Mission complete, reward issued.”

“Heh heh, damn Liu Town, you big idiot, you make me so angry! You choked me!”

At the main military base in Qingcheng Wilderness.

General Liu Zhen and Li Nezha were still staring blankly at the small green poisonous snake crying in front of them.

Li Nezha was completely puzzled: “Is someone playing a prank on you? Did you offend anyone recently?”

It was a Spell that inflicted low damage but extreme humiliation.

General Liu Zhen was baffled: “I’m busy with military affairs all day. How could I offend anyone? Others should be the ones trying to offend me.”

As he spoke, the small green poisonous snake in General Liu Zhen’s hand stopped wailing, trying to puff out its cheeks and hold it in, waiting angrily for General Liu Zhen.

Question marks appeared above General Liu Zhen’s head: “What does this guy’s small poisonous snake want to do?”

Li Nezha looked bewildered: “You know, this cursed Spell is quite unique.”

The small green poisonous snake tried hard to hold in a large mouthful of saliva, then “Plurururu!” it spat towards General Liu Zhen.

General Liu Zhen raised a hand speechlessly, blocking the small green poisonous snake’s saliva: “Is it trying to drown me with its saliva?”

General Liu Zhen put down his hand and found that the small green poisonous snake, having expended its energy after spitting, had eyes like mosquito coils, lay limply in his palm, its body becoming transparent, and disappeared in a breath.

General Liu Zhen was surprised: “It’s quite cute.”

Li Nezha complained: “So, the matter is resolved? Alright, I’m going back to eat and drink.”

General Liu Zhen rolled his eyes: “Resolved what? I still haven’t figured out who was so bored as to cast a curse on me.”

“Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling…”

General Liu Zhen’s phone rang. He picked it up and connected, and a deafening, tragic cry came from inside.

“General! The Treasure Vault has been robbed! They stole everything!”

General Liu Zhen stood up abruptly, his eyes wide: “What!? What about the barrier!? Didn’t the barrier work!?”

“I don’t know! They used our internal personnel’s ID cards and were very familiar with our internal Formations. They specifically destroyed the nodes! They broke through with Formation-breaking abilities!”

General Liu Zhen’s eyes turned red, his voice fierce: “Whose card!!! Whose card did they use!!!”

“General, something’s wrong! Instructor Liu’s ID card wasn’t lost. They used fake cards made with some high-end replication Spell!!”

General Liu Zhen completely lost his mind: “Lock down the entire state, investigate for me!!!”

The Treasure Vault contained not only the Materials needed for the entire city of Qingcheng this year, but also the high-end essential Materials for the forging industries of several nearby cities. The amount of Materials stored there was enough for ten years of war.

Damn Heaven-Defying traitors! Stealing our reserve Materials!!!

Crazy! Truly crazy!!!

These were enough Materials to upgrade and iterate one-third of Qingcheng’s core mechanical industry!!!

Li Nezha’s phone also rang. He answered it, and a bewildered congratulatory voice came from inside.

“Revered One Li, in the Commercial Street area of your jurisdiction, they just held a meeting and said that all core industries will use new machines and new technologies to upgrade by one generation. Are you aware of this?”

Although Li Nezha was an idle Zunzhe, he nominally had a jurisdiction to guard, which was the area surrounding his research lab, coincidentally encompassing the nearby Commercial Street.

Of course, because this jurisdiction was surrounded by other powerful figures, everyone basically assumed that Li Venerable Gou Dan did no work.

Although, in fact, Li Venerable Gou Dan had never done much work.

But, as the saying goes.

A person standing there breathing is a golden guardian god.

Li Nezha was also bewildered: “What? The entire Qingcheng is iterating? Where did they get the Materials?”

“I don’t know, we haven’t found out clearly. This information was secretly sent to me by an informant.”

General Liu Zhen was furious, crushing the phone in his hand: “Li Venerable Gou Dan! Tell me the address, I’ll go investigate myself! I just lost Materials here, and you’re upgrading technology there! How can there be such a coincidence in the world!”

Li Nezha rolled his eyes: “Alright, you go investigate what’s going on first. I need to talk to General Liu Zhen about something.”

General Liu Zhen grabbed his head with both hands, looking like he had gone mad: “Damn Heaven-Defying traitors! They actually stole my Materials!!!”

Li Nezha was not ambiguous either. He performed a Heavenly Secret deduction in front of him, then presented the result using Water Mirror Spell.

“It’s too late. The Materials over there have already come out of the smelting furnace and are being finely carved on the machine tools. Even if you go now, it’s too late. You can’t possibly reverse-refine the Materials back, can you?”

Turning a cow into beef is simple, but turning beef back into a cow is a Heaven-Defying difficulty.

General Liu Zhen clutched the mirror with both hands, his eyes bloodshot as he watched the scene presented within. Those groups of foul-smelling, money-grubbing merchants were grinning disgustingly, sprawled over the core production machines, revealing the most nauseating, despicable, shameless, vulgar, and filthy smiles in this world!

General Liu Zhen was insane, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins, screaming hoarsely: “My Materials!!!”

Li Nezha clicked his tongue twice: “Do you have evidence? This is clearly a high-end syndicate crime. Besides, I checked, and these Materials were indeed used to upgrade Qingcheng’s core industrial equipment; they weren’t used anywhere else.”

General Liu Zhen grabbed his head with both hands, completely mad: “I’m going to report to the Heavenly Court!!! Kill these damned scoundrels!!!”

Li Nezha looked at him sympathetically: “And then it’ll be endless bickering? Do you think they’ll spit it out?

Your best bet now is to organize the Materials report and submit it, asking them for compensation.

The Business Alliance will most likely compensate you, but these Materials definitely won’t be recovered.”

General Liu Zhen was oscillating between madness and numbness: “Then I’m just taking the blame for nothing!!!”

Doing this would likely result in a light punishment, but he would definitely bear the blame and certainly lose a significant amount of merit in the future.

“It’s your fault for lax supervision. Just bear it, bear it.”

A roar echoed throughout the entire base.

“Damn Heaven-Defying traitors!!!”

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It’s too hard… Please give gifts!