220: Chapter 220 All the spoils are stored away

"Cut it off!"

"Shen Wanbing, perform a physical cut, fast! Don't let it finish transmitting the coordinate packet!"

Shen Wanbing's fingers were already pressed against the isolation console; the wind caught the cuffs of her white shirt, lifting them halfway, and her fingertips moved so fast they left afterimages.

"The source is in the Hunter King's severed skull."

"It's using its post-mortem backup cranial cavity to send the packet; standard shielding can't stop it."

"Three seconds remaining."

"Why are you still analyzing with only three seconds left?!"

Mio was going crazy.

Chen Chen didn't respond.

He raised his hand, pulling the sea-stabilizing needle from the wasteland crystal sand, its blue-gold patterns glowing all the way to the tip of the rod.

Inside the Hunter King's severed skull, that broken vertical pupil was still flashing.

"Coordinate synchronization—"

Boom!

The sea-stabilizing needle descended.

The hundred-meter crystal spike on the ground was smashed clean through by Chen Chen, and the tip of the spike, along with the Hunter King's severed skull, exploded into powder.

The Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court's voice cut off abruptly.

The fragments of the severed skull bounced twice on the ground before being crushed into waste by a Gravity Collapse.

Mio froze for half a second.

"... Truly physical."

Su Xiaoqi was squatting nearby, hugging her pot, and nodded seriously.

"This way of cutting it off is good; it saves electricity."

Shen Wanbing didn't smile.

She dragged the coordinates of the second remnant scroll she had just intercepted into the system's highest-level isolation chamber, applying seven layers of lockdown outside it.

"A portion of the coordinates leaked."

Chen Chen looked at her.

"How much?"

"The complete coordinates weren't sent out, but the directional sector leaked."

Shen Wanbing pushed the projection in front of him.

"The Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court can confirm the second remnant scroll is in a certain area in the eastern part of the Level 3 Map, with a precision of about eight thousand kilometers."

Mio immediately added.

"Eight thousand kilometers isn't much for the Mechanical Holy Court!"

"They will send scout ships, The Dismantler, and proxy city-states to search together. Last time it was just the Hunter King; this time it might be an entire relic legion."

Jiang Jiuyou cut in from the main control channel, her voice still carrying the hoarseness from the recent battle.

"Perfect."

"They are searching for the second remnant scroll, and we need to find it too."

Yi Chang immediately followed up.

"But we just integrated over a million people, and our resource lines aren't fully stable yet. If we provoke a war now, the internal political pressure will explode."

The Landlady interjected remotely.

"Just don't let it explode in the commercial district; I just installed the golden toilet wine barrel."

Mio almost glitched out again.

"Can you please show some respect for an interstellar-level crisis?"

Chen Chen retracted the sea-stabilizing needle into his palm.

"What is there to fear?"

He patted the Tier 6 core beside the Hunter King's corpse.

"The positions of prey and hunter were always going to swap."

"The exposed coordinates will just serve as our new fishing platform."

Shen Wanbing looked up at him for a second, then immediately lowered her head to execute the order.

"I'm establishing a fake coordinate pool."

"Information regarding the second remnant scroll will only be open to core members."

Chen Chen turned around.

"Store all the spoils of war."

"Dump the Tier 6 Hunter King's flesh and blood residue to the butcher. If the contamination can be suppressed, turn it into combat rations; if not, use it as biological material."

Su Xiaoqi immediately raised her hand.

"Brother, can I try the combat rations first?"

Mio broke down.

"That's a Tier 6 Hunter King!"

Su Xiaoqi was very serious.

"That's why we have to eat it while it's hot."

Chen Chen ignored her and tossed the Tier 6 Star-Splitting Hunter King core to Shen Wanbing.

"Load it into the Star Sea composite energy furnace."

Shen Wanbing caught the core, her fingertips tightening slightly.

"The Tier 6 core's energy is too violent; the connection must be done in three stages."

"I'll give you thirty minutes."

"That's enough."

She turned and left, her white shirt clinging to her waistline, her movements frighteningly efficient.

Chen Chen took out that blueprint again.

[SSS-Class Blueprint: Star-Splitting Main Cannon Array]

As the dark red blueprint unfolded, the fire control system on the entire main control deck flickered.

Copper Hammer's voice cracked from screaming over the industrial channel.

"An SSS-Class main cannon?!"

"Lord! Give it to me! Give it to me quickly!"

Jiang Jiuyou had already stood before the blueprint, her silver-white hair tied back, her dark red cloak still stained with cannon soot.

She scanned the first layer of the blueprint's parameters, and her breathing noticeably hitched.

"Star-Splitting Main Cannon Array."

"It requires the Sea Scale's main cannon well, the Star Core's main mineral heart, and the Tier 6 Hunter King's core for triple power supply."

"The finished product can pierce Tier 6 outer armor."

Chen Chen slapped the blueprint down in front of her and Copper Hammer.

"Twelve hours."

"Let the Sea Scale grow its fiercest fangs."

Copper Hammer's beard was covered in crystal sand dust, and he was trembling with excitement.

"Twelve hours?"

"I'll have the cannon barrels installed for you in ten hours!"

Mio immediately shrieked.

"You are not allowed to weld it crookedly!"

Copper Hammer glared at her.

"As long as it can blast a Tier 6 to death, that's all that matters!"

Mio was so angry her projection flickered wildly.

"Your sense of aesthetics is truly hopeless!"

Jiang Jiuyou tucked the blueprint into the fire control console.

"Copper Hammer handles the structure, and I'll handle the fire control."

"Qin Hongye's weak-point prediction scope will also be connected to assist the secondary cannons."

Qin Hongye had just come down from the sniper tower, her right shoulder still wrapped in repair bandages.

Hearing this, she simply raised her rifle.

"Leave the first round of calibration shots to me."

Chen Chen glanced at her shoulder.

"If it tears again, you'll be stuck lying down tonight."

Qin Hongye paused, her ears turning red, but she insisted anyway.

"I can still shoot while lying down."

Blood Rose leaned nearby, wearing a loose coat over her red dress, her shoulders trembling slightly with laughter.

"Sister Qin, if the Landlady heard about this fighting spirit, she'd want to open a betting pool on you."

The first-floor bottom hold and the commercial district were already in an uproar.

After the news of the Tier 6 Hunter King being decapitated spread, the mine slaves, craftsmen, and prisoners of war all crowded in front of the projection.

The Landlady stood under the golden toilet wine barrel, her abacus clacking away.

"Line up!"

"Those who bet on the decapitation outcome, bring your point tokens to redeem!"

"Don't push! If you break the counter, you pay ten times the cost!"

A thin mine slave held out half a point token, handing it over carefully.

"Landlady, my half-bowl of soup points..."

The Landlady stared at the bill, her fox ears twitching several times.

"One to thirty."

"You kid, your luck is truly outrageous."

Gritting her teeth, she exchanged a new point card for him, then turned around to hang up a new sign.

[Fox Tail Tavern Point Credit System Trial Run]

[Credit allowed, consignment available, craftsman commissions accepted, war merits can be mortgaged]

The Landlady swept her tail, smiling like someone who knew how to do business.

"See that?"

"The Lord beheaded a Tier 6, so our credit has doubled."

"Open an account today, 20% off transaction fees!"

Yi Chang passed by, her high heels stopping.

"Upload the transaction fee accounts."

The Landlady's smile froze.

"Vice City Lord, why don't you make any sound when you walk?"

Yi Chang flipped open her data pad.

"I'm saving you. If you miss another entry, the commission cut drops to 1.2."

The Landlady straightened up instantly.

"Register everyone! Whoever dares to skip out on the bill, I'll personally send them to the bottom hold to scrub pots!"

In the corner, Su Xiaoqi was pulling Shen Wanxing to squat in front of a red and black lump of flesh.

That thing was still heaving slightly.

[Hunter King Flesh-and-Blood Battle Armor Embryo]

Shen Wanxing hugged her blanket, her face full of resistance.

"Don't get so close to it; will it suddenly bite me?"

Su Xiaoqi wiped the grease from the corner of her mouth.

"I think it looks like a beef roll."

Mio swooped down from mid-air.

"That's battle armor!"

"It's not a beef roll!"

Su Xiaoqi tilted her head.

"But it's layered."

Mio's voice was trembling.

"It's a living armor embryo!"

"It needs to be cultivated, bound, and have a combat system implanted!"

Su Xiaoqi looked down at her pot.

"Then can we cut off some trimmings first?"

Shen Wanxing shrank back.

"Xiaoqi, I suggest you stop asking. I'm afraid it'll hear you and hold a grudge."