272: Chapter 272 You want to investigate me? Settle the rescue fee first.

The King of the Deep Sea dragged his severed arm and sank into the East China Sea.

The landing sea beasts retreated past the breach in the port area.

Shells scraped against the embankment, fish tails slapped up muddy water, and tens of thousands of sea beasts retreated into the sea along the gray-white water ripples.

The United States' fleet was not having an easy time either at this moment, constantly suffering attacks from mutated sea beasts in the ocean.

But they did not know that a greater threat, the King of the Deep Sea, had already locked onto them.

The fifth red moon retreated behind the clouds.

Zhao Dingshan picked up his military cap and put it back on his head.

"Recover the bodies."

"Rescue the wounded."

"Inventory the ammunition, Team 3 seal off the port!"

Lin Yuan bent down, picked up Wang Ya, and placed her on the examination bed at the temporary medical station.

Wang Ya was still clutching his sleeve.

"Mr. Lin, did Shanghai hold?"

Lin Yuan pulled over a sheet and covered the wound on her side.

"With me here, it is time for you to rest."

Wang Ya let go.

The gray-white pupil ring stopped spinning.

The teddy bear in her arms was pressed against the pillow.

The cleanup of the port area also yielded results.

Soldiers cut open the giant octopus's head and dug out a black crystal core.

A crystal core of the same level also rolled out from under the giant armored crab's abdominal shell.

The two S-grade crystal cores were placed into a waterproof box.

Inside the other sea beasts, gray, white, and red crystal cores littered the counting area.

Soldiers brought in one box, then another.

Zhao Dingshan personally sealed off the scene.

"Take the two black ones to Miss Wang Ya."

"Register the rest according to standard procedures."

"No private hoarding allowed."

Lin Yuan walked out of the medical station.

"Casualty compensation takes priority."

"Distribute the crystal cores based on combat contribution."

The soldiers on the embankment all turned their heads in unison.

Some had clothes still dripping with water, others had their arms in slings made of bandages.

The squads that had been scattered everywhere reformed their lines.

Two Beijing recovery vehicles drove into the port area at this moment.

The mechanical crane extended into the broken wall and dug out Gu Beichen along with his damaged mecha.

Gu Beichen lay on the stretcher; as soon as his oxygen mask was removed, he pointed at the fist-shaped hole in the clouds that had not yet closed.

"Human physique cannot create this kind of destruction."

He coughed up blood foam, but still held his chin high.

"Lin Yuan used a forbidden weapon."

[During the target's punch, Superpower fluctuation: Zero.]

Gu Beichen pressed down on the stretcher's side rail.

"Scan his entire body."

"This concerns the safety of millions of survivors."

"Any unregistered large-scale destructive means should be subject to Beijing's supervision."

An attendant walked toward the crystal core box.

"The sea beast spoils should also be uniformly allocated. Hand over the two S-grade crystal cores to the recovery team first."

The Shanghai soldiers did not give way.

Muzzles raised half an inch.

The wounded on the stretchers propped themselves up, their gazes falling on the attendant's face.

Gu Beichen raised his voice.

"Think clearly, this is protocol!"

Adam forcibly accessed the channel.

"Gu Beichen, stop escalating the dispute."

Gu Beichen ripped off his IV tube.

"Mr. Adam, it is precisely because the power is so great that it should be subject to supervision!"

"If he can punch through a tsunami today, what happens if this punch lands on Beijing tomorrow?"

Lin Yuan walked over to the damaged mecha.

A piece of rebar was embedded in the half-section of the chest armor, and even after the crane pulled twice, the wreckage remained stuck in the concrete.

He gripped the edge of the armor with one hand.

The rebar was pulled out from inside the embankment.

Several tons of wreckage left the ground and were thrown onto the recovery platform by him.

Boom!

The platform's supports bent downward.

The Beijing attendants retreated to the side of the vehicle; no one touched the crystal core box again.

Gu Beichen propped himself up on the railing, his mouth still hanging open.

Lin Yuan walked past him.

"Saving you was just a convenience."

"If you bring up my spoils again, you and your mecha will stay at the port to fill the sea."

Gu Beichen's hand fell back onto the stretcher.

The sea breeze blew through the damaged cockpit, the alarm light flashed twice, then extinguished completely.

Only Lin Yuan knew that the punch came from the fifth red moon.

The Superpower he had possessed in his past life reawakened at the same moment the red moon rose.

[Physique Enhancement.]

[Ability Effect: Physique multiplied by two.]

[Enhanced Physique: 248.]

No techniques.

No weapons.

248 points of physique, directly blasted through the SS-grade King of the Deep Sea's water cannon.

Adam finished reviewing the data on the mecha wreckage.

"Lin Yuan, are you willing to share this forbidden weapon?"

He also felt that Lin Yuan had used some equipment he had never seen before.

Lin Yuan chuckled.

"What do you think?"

No one answered in the channel.

Lin Yuan continued.

"Shanghai rescue fee."

"Wang Ya's medical expenses."

"The cost for cleaning up Gu Beichen's mess."

"What is Beijing prepared to pay with?"

Gu Beichen continued to shout.

"I am here representing Beijing to provide support, and you dare to charge me?"

Adam cut off his speaking privileges.

The only sound left on the public channel was the muffled thud of Gu Beichen hitting his communicator.

"Beijing will pay."

"What do you want?"

Lin Yuan thought for a moment and pointed at Gu Beichen's set of broken mecha.

"Give me some of the materials from this thing."

"And get some supplies for Shanghai."

A list of supplies was projected onto the screen.

Mecha energy components, thirty sets.

High-strength alloy, 800 tons.

Military medical supplies, twelve standard warehouses.

Grain, 20,000 tons.

Lin Yuan looked at the list.

"Not enough."

Adam paused for a few seconds.

Energy components increased to fifty sets.

Grain increased to 30,000 tons.

Lin Yuan nodded.

"That will do."

Inside the Shanghai command headquarters, several staff officers stared at the growing numbers.

Those who had previously echoed the call for an investigation lowered their heads and put away their documents.

The two S-grade crystal cores were sent by Zhao Dingshan into the Cloud Top Palace transport vehicle.

That night, the combat data was transmitted back to Cloud Top Palace.

Tang Qiqi dismantled the Beijing mecha structure into over three hundred blueprints.

"A single boutique machine."

"S-grade pilot, high-cost materials."

She raised her hand to switch the screen.

titan no. 1 withstood the shelling of Wan City to destroy the artillery positions.

shadow protector no. 2 crashed into the church, overloading to cut off the holy sound.

"Two prototypes, both pilots are B-grade."

"The core material usage is only one-tenth of the Beijing mecha."

An engineer spoke up.

"Gu Beichen suppressed the sea beasts in the early stages. The titan no. 1's firepower is still a notch behind."

Tang Qiqi pulled up the damage report.

The Beijing mecha's destruction rate was 87%, and the repair time was incalculable.

titan no. 1's overall damage maintenance is estimated at six hours.

shadow protector no. 2's power arm replacement is estimated at three hours.

"If one Beijing machine breaks, they lose a top-tier combat force."

"If one of ours breaks, we eat a meal, come back, and keep driving."

Su Xiaonuan signed the approval on her tablet.

"Hurry up and set up the production line."

"All the energy components provided by Beijing as compensation are to be incorporated into the first batch of mechas."

Tang Qiqi patted the design table.

"They dress one S-grade in a tuxedo."

"I give a squad of B-grades swords."

Three days later.

The cafeteria served extra sea beast meat and hot soup.

Wang Ya returned the cleaned teddy bear to Lin Motong.

On the other side of the dining table, Qin Yumo occupied the seat to Lin Yuan's right.

She had entered the master bedroom for three consecutive nights, and her contribution list remained in first place.

[Target Qin Yumo (Beauty 85), Current Favorability: 70%!]

Jiang Xiaowan stirred her soup.

"The Valkyrie is about to get a long-term residency permit for the master bedroom."

Su Muxue put down the prescription list.

"Excessive exercise affects recovery."

"Her heart rate was consistently abnormal last night."

Wang Ya picked up a piece of fish meat.

"Mr. Lin should change his palate."

Xia Qingqiu folded the same page of the lesson plan three times, her red pen hovering over the paper, not falling for a long time.

Qin Yumo finished the meat in her bowl.

"Come and hit me."

The table went quiet.

Yu Qingyi picked up her soup bowl; she had just joined this group and had no qualifications to join the siege.

She only peeked at the others when Qin Yumo said "Come and hit me."

Tang Qiqi bit her chopsticks.

That night, B2 was brightly lit.

Liu Qing pushed up her thick glasses and transmitted the structure of the master bedroom door into the design table.

Light armor.

Electric amplification.

Breach module.

Late at night, Tang Qiqi stood in the second-floor corridor wearing silver-white knight mecha.

Su Xiaonuan leaned against the wall holding her tablet, and Wang Ya, Captain Han Xue, and Jiang Xiaowan all walked out of their rooms.

Tang Qiqi raised her mechanical longsword, the blade pointing at the master bedroom.

"Tonight, I will defeat the Great Demon King."

"And rescue the imprisoned Princess Yumo!"