278: Chapter 278 You traded the Dragon Kingdom for a ship ticket?

The Beijing channel remained connected.

Adam finished reading the espionage records and covered his thermos with his palm.

"Send the module back to Beijing."

"I will give you the investigation results."

Lin Yuan sat on the observation platform, took a sip of the coffee Feng Qingwu handed him, without even changing his position.

"What do you want to investigate?"

"I'll investigate it for you."

"I don't trust the people on your side."

Qin Yumo didn't sheathe her twin blades, the edges pressed against the neck of the engineering team leader.

Su Xiaonuan held her tablet and walked to the gate, closing all exits of the test field.

The transport plane's engine was shut down.

The Beijing engineering team's terminals were loaded into shielding cabinets one by one.

Su Xiaonuan looked at the soldiers in the field.

"Interrogate them separately."

"No one is allowed to talk or touch any equipment."

Gu Beichen was dragged out of the black gold damaged armor by someone.

He shook off the soldiers' hands, steadied himself, and sat down on a seat.

"Beijing would not steal your data."

"This is just a faulty component."

Lin Yuan glanced at him.

"Does a fault scan for Spatial Ability fluctuations?"

Gu Beichen's lips moved.

"It's normal for military equipment to have erroneous data."

The unknown black module was quickly sent into the shielding station.

Tang Qiqi put on her goggles and cut open the casing with an insulated knife.

Liu Qing sat at the control console, rows of data reflecting in her thick glasses.

Adam spoke.

"Share disassembly access."

"Read-only."

Lin Yuan gave these two words.

The Beijing control center could only watch and could not issue commands.

Tang Qiqi removed the second layer of the metal plate.

There were no military markings inside; three circuits bypassed the main control board and connected to a grain-sized crystal lattice.

The third layer of packaging was pried open.

A set of independent authentication chips was revealed.

Liu Qing pulled up the permission tree provided by Adam and compared it seventeen times in a row.

"Master, the serial number is not in the Beijing military System."

"It bypassed the mecha's main control and has an independent power source."

The Beijing engineering team leader stared at the screen.

"I've never seen this kind of chip."

Gu Beichen turned his head to look at the damaged armor.

The words "program malfunction" were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say them again.

Adam placed his thermos on the table.

"Control center, verify the source of the component."

The shielding station sounded an alarm.

[Crystal lattice temperature rising.]

[Executing destruction program.]

Red alerts filled Liu Qing's screen.

Tang Qiqi pulled out the external power supply.

The crystal lattice was still supplying power.

Flames rose from the motherboard, and three circuits began to melt.

"You dare to perform a physical format right in front of us?"

Tang Qiqi grabbed insulated pliers, reached into the protective plate, and snapped the crystal lattice circuit.

Golden flames leapt along the motherboard toward the storage chip.

Liu Qing typed with both hands, splitting the salvaged data into hundreds of parts and sending them into the Cloud Top Palace internal network.

[Data integrity: 63%.]

[41%.]

[22%.]

Second floor of Tiangong No. 1.

Anar was playing with Barbie dolls with Lin Motong.

Her four wings unfurled half a foot behind her back.

Holy Light flowed along her feathers toward the outside of the wall.

Lin Motong put down a dress.

"What's wrong?"

Anar raised her hand and pressed it against her chest.

"Holy... Light."

Black and red aura pressed onto the base of her wings, severing that summoning.

Inside the test field, the melted crystal lattice stopped glowing.

Liu Qing pressed the lock key.

"Got it."

"A callback address, and a maintenance log."

Gu Beichen stared at the black gold damaged armor.

He remained silent for a long time.

Lin Yuan stood up.

"Now you know that you were holding the knife for someone else."

Around the test field, soldiers turned toward the Beijing engineering team.

Muzzles were raised.

Liu Qing projected the maintenance log onto the main screen.

After Gu Beichen withdrew from Shanghai back to Beijing, the mecha did not enter the military factory.

The handover sheet showed that it was taken over by the Civilization Survival Committee for twelve hours.

Tang Qiqi pulled up the modification time.

Spatial Ability collector.

Independent authentication chips.

The equipment was all installed within these twelve hours.

Adam finished reading the file, the vertical line between his brows deepening.

"The Civilization Survival Committee is composed of consortium representatives and military-political Families."

"They were the funders of the National Emergency Response Team before the apocalypse."

Liu Qing unlocked the second layer of files.

There was another name within the committee.

Covenant Renewal Society.

Some of them believed that the Dragon Country would not survive the twelfth Red Moon.

They prepared to submit lists of the population, bases, Espers, and territorial data to the Holy Court in exchange for a few Families to enter the Holy Court's sanctuary area.

At the end of the document, a draft agreement was attached.

Opening of coastal ports.

Disarmament of eastern bases.

Registration of high-level Espers.

The Jiang-Zhe-Hu Region to be designated as a special supervision zone for the Holy Court.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen finished reading and gripped the edge of the table.

The metal edge sank in.

"Trading the lives of the whole country to get themselves boat tickets."

"They've even written the letter of surrender."

Adam did not refute this.

His System was adept at coordination, deduction, and devouring.

He was not confident in facing an SSS-rank combat unit like an Archangel head-on.

Gu Beichen still stared at the main screen.

"The maintenance log could be forged."

Liu Qing enlarged the last note.

[Gu Beichen is unaware, can be utilized.]

These words slapped Gu Beichen's face like a heavy palm.

He reached out to touch the screen.

The restraints pulled his wrists back to the seat.

Gu Beichen checked it the first time.

The second time.

The third time.

His shoulders and back slumped.

"I want to go back to Beijing and ask them personally why."

Lin Yuan walked in front of him.

"You have no right to choose the interrogation location."

"Not knowing what was installed in the mecha only proves that you are stupid."

"But for the out-of-control firing, we will still settle the score."

Su Xiaonuan completed the registration on the tablet.

"Gu Beichen, detained."

"Beijing engineering team, detained."

"Relevant mechas, transport planes, and terminals, seized."

Adam looked at Lin Yuan through the screen.

"I will clean it up."

Lin Yuan picked up the ledger found in the United States flagship.

"You clean up Beijing."

"I'll go and see how much this so-called Archangel is worth."

"The Covenant Renewal Society dared to put it in writing because they were convinced that Michael would win."

The European Continent Holy See channel connected.

Gray Dove's voice came through.

"Mr. Lin, have you considered handing over the Archbishop?"

"Michael's abilities."

"Method of descent."

Gray Dove paused for a few seconds.

"You must know that angels are not just the Holy Court's angels; they are also ours."

"This is the Holy See's top secret."

Lin Yuan tapped the intercom.

"Then I'll send the Archbishop and the angel back to the Holy Court."

"Maybe if they're in a good mood, they won't come to attack me."

Gray Dove's breathing pressed into the communicator.

"SSS-rank Superpower, [Heavenly Armory]."

"Michael can use Holy Light to create swords, spears, bows, and shields. Each weapon can suppress spiritual and dark-type powers."

"The descent requires consuming the Holy Court's last remaining [Seraphim Feather]."

Meanwhile.

Beijing underground conference room.

The members of the Covenant Renewal Society pressed the agree button one by one.

The combat power assessment of Cloud Top Palace was listed on the screen.

Lin Yuan: [Suspected of having forbidden weapons] Combat power estimate: SS

Lin Motong: [Corpse control, no direct combat power] Combat power estimate: SS

Wang Ya: [Only has combat power near water] Combat power estimate: S+

Qin Yumo: [Melee, gets stronger after being injured] Combat power estimate: S

Anar, [Lacks combat records after being controlled, no direct combat power]

[Lin Yuan's forces, comprehensive combat power cap SS-rank]

The final line of the conclusion was written into the operation file.

[Cloud Top Palace cannot contend with the SSS-rank Archangel Michael.]

[Suggest seeking peace with the Holy Sanctuary.]

[Hand over the Jiang-Zhe-Hu Region and Cloud Top Palace in exchange for the survival of the Dragon Country's core area.]