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Chapter 224 If you won't listen to nice words, then your fists will do the talking.
Even on the distant moon, Chen Yuan's deep symbiotic connection with the super-intelligent optical brain Loongson was not interrupted.
With a thought, he sent a short but clear message to Bai Yuekui on Earth through the Dragon Core: "I am safe and sound, no need to worry, awaiting my return."
After finishing this task, Chen Yuan began to stroll around Ironblood City seemingly casually.
This city, built by space pirates, is filled with chaos and ruggedness. The buildings are mostly pieced together using abandoned ships and some common materials from the lunar surface. The streets are teeming with all sorts of space pirates, speculators, and outlaws.
Chen Yuan appeared aimless, but in reality, the Dragon Core silently infiltrated the Ironblood City's underlying data network whenever his fingertips occasionally touched the walls or metal structures.
In the virtual world, massive streams of information are rapidly filtered and analyzed.
Soon, a clear outline of the current state of the moon became clear in Chen Yuan's mind.
"Moon Palace... Star Pirates... I see."
Chen Yuan understood, but at the same time, a sense of absurdity arose within him.
……
Archives: At the end of the Old World, before the full-scale outbreak of the Mana ecosystem, a segment of the elite class who controlled the world's core resources and technologies foresaw an irreversible catastrophe for Earth.
They launched a top-secret escape plan called the Moon Palace, and used the resources of the entire nation to build a sustainable refuge on the moon, which became the site of the lunar colonization.
The current population size is approximately 5 to 8. After several generations of reproduction, the population has remained relatively stable, and strict policies on eugenics and gene screening are implemented.
Social structure: A parliamentary society composed of the original scientists, engineers, military elites and their descendants, with the highest authority, the Lunar Council, composed of seven of the most outstanding family leaders or authorities in their respective fields.
The society is highly ordered and professional, with efficiency as its top priority, but this also means a lack of human touch and a relatively rigid class structure.
The newborns on the moon are the legitimate inheritors and sparks of human civilization, viewing Earth as an infected and abandoned laboratory.
Their approach to Earth's survivors is to observe, study, and, when necessary, "disinfect" and "recycle."
The Lunar Council's technology tree is completely different from Earth's, focusing on vacuum environments, high-energy physics, quantum technology, and bioengineering.
Energy technology: Mature helium-3 nuclear fusion reactors, with the lunar soil rich in helium-3 providing them with a virtually unlimited supply of clean energy.
The Moon Palace possesses a variety of ships, with the main force being the Lunar Patrol-class combat ship (approximately 150 meters long, equipped with plasma cannons and missile arrays) and the "Guanghan Palace-class" strategic mothership (approximately 500 meters long, which can serve as a mobile base and carry a large number of fighter jets and airborne troops).
Thrusters: Widely utilizing ion thrusters and nuclear fusion pulse propulsion, enabling efficient travel between Earth and the Moon.
Lunar Palace utilizes the moon's unique environment and zero-gravity factory to produce lunar crystal steel, a super steel material with strength and toughness far exceeding Earth's alloys, featuring adaptive nanofibers and self-repair capabilities.
Biotechnology: Through gene editing technology, newborns on the moon are generally stronger, smarter, and better able to adapt to the low-gravity environment.
They studied the ecology of mana, attempted to extract and purify the life essence, and developed a essence stimulant to enhance their own soldiers, thereby artificially stimulating superpowers.
The armed forces of the Moon Palace are officially called the Moon Guards, and their core individual equipment is the Jade Rabbit series of exoskeleton armor.
Jade Rabbit is a series of exoskeleton armors with common features. The main material is a composite of moon crystal steel and carbon nanotubes, which is lightweight and strong.
The Dynamic Micro-3 power core provides extended battery life.
It is a fully enclosed environment with a built-in life support system, enabling it to operate in various extreme environments such as the vacuum of space, the moon, and Earth.
Weapon interface: Standardized energy weapon interface, compatible with a variety of modular weapons.
The exoskeleton armor's mobility: integrated vector thrusters on the back and legs provide powerful mobility and short-range flight, as well as hovering capabilities.
Despite the progress made so far, the human elites of the old world who fled to the moon still could not escape the fate of internal strife, and long ago they split into two major forces: the Moon Palace and the Space Pirates.
"What a cruel twist of fate."
Chen Yuan sighed softly, but his gaze grew even sharper.
Unlike the human elites of the Lunar Council who fled, the Blood Corpse Pirates originated from darkness and chaos.
On the eve of the collapse of the old world, a highly secure military prison called Tartarus MAX experienced the worst riot in history due to system failure and the collapse of its guards.
The ruthless and cunning prisoners banded together, overthrew the guards, and seized the prison's armory, armor, and several heavily armed transport ships used to transport special prisoners.
They escaped in the chaos, spreading like a virus through the collapsing order.
These people's motto in life: "The law of the jungle is the truth."
They believe in egoism, that power is everything, and that plunder is survival.
As space pirates, they have no fixed moral bottom line; all their actions are solely for satisfying their own desires and survival needs.
These people's clothing and their core symbol, usually featuring a planet crushed by a dark red skeletal hand, signify their desire to plunder and destroy everything they see.
Based on the transaction records and personnel flow information obtained by Loongson, Chen Yuan quickly located Viper's current location.
On the outskirts of Ironblood City, in a bustling bar called Ice Agate.
……
The Ice Agate Bar was dimly lit, and the air was filled with a mixture of cheap alcohol, sweat, and the smell of corroded metal.
Viper was sitting in a booth, with one arm around a scantily clad cyborg woman, and the other hand holding a bottle of liquor and chugging it down.
He had just been caught cheating at the gambling table and had been severely beaten.
Although Viper didn't suffer a major loss thanks to his meager muscle hardening ability, he was still asked to leave by the bar's security personnel, leaving him extremely unhappy.
"Damn it, you dare to lay a hand on me? If it weren't for the Butcher Boss's sake, I would have torn this lousy shop down!"
The viper roared drunkenly, spitting everywhere.
Just then, a mysterious person silently sat down opposite him.
The newcomer was dressed in an inconspicuous gray hooded jacket, his face hidden in the shadows; it was Chen Yuan.
"Get out of the way, this spot is taken!" Viper said irritably without even looking.
Chen Yuan slowly raised his head, his gaze beneath the hood calm yet carrying an invisible pressure.
"Viper, is it? I've already reviewed your file before coming here. I'd like to speak with your leader. Could you lead the way?"
Upon hearing this, Viper paused for a moment before looking directly at Chen Yuan. He felt that the other man looked familiar, but his drunkenness and anger prevented him from remembering where he had seen him before.
"Who the hell are you? What are you trying to do? If you don't have anything to gain, why should I take you with me? Get lost and stop bothering me while I'm drinking."
As he spoke, he grabbed an empty wine bottle from the table, stood up unsteadily, and smashed it hard against Chen Yuan's head.
As the bottle was about to fall, Chen Yuan sighed inwardly, "Sigh, forget it. I'm really not suited for negotiation. I won't listen to sweet talk. If I can solve it with my hands, why use words?"
Just as the bottle touched the hood.
"brush!"
A layer of flowing, silvery-blue nanoparticles, as if possessing a life of their own, instantly surged out from under Chen Yuan's skin, covering his entire body in a fraction of a second.
A streamlined, futuristic Loongson 10 nano-core suit was prominently displayed.
The surface of the suit shimmered with energy veins, emitting a heart-stopping energy fluctuation, and the power amplification of the nanopulses had reached 2000%.
Chapter 225 Code Name: King Kong
Chen Yuan didn't even make any obvious attack move; he simply flicked his hand, which was covered by the nanotech suit, upwards the instant the bottle smashed down.
"boom!"
The glass bottle shattered, and then…
"vomit……"
Viper felt as if he had been charged head-on by a prehistoric behemoth. His eyes bulged out, and he was sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing into the metal wall behind him with a dull thud.
He collapsed to the ground, his stomach churning violently, vomiting up even his leftover food and bile. His bones felt like they were falling apart, and he couldn't even muster the little muscle hardening he needed.
The scene fell silent instantly, the entire bar was completely quiet, and all the guests stared in disbelief at the figure that had been instantly covered in strange armor and had casually knocked down the viper with a single blow.
"What kind of armor is that? It looks really powerful?"
"Although the viper is useless, it's not weak either. How could it not withstand even one strike?"
"Who is that guy? How dare he make a move on the Butcher's turf?"
The whispers grew louder after a brief silence.
The manager of the Ice Agate Bar, a burly, bald man with a bloated belly and wearing a single electronic eye, walked over with a few thugs, his face grim.
His name was Fatty, and he was a minor leader in this area.
Hey, friend.
Fatty took a deep breath, his voice filled with suppressed anger, "Isn't it too disrespectful to make a move here? According to the rules, you have to leave something behind."
Chen Yuan turned around, retracting the visor of his nanosuit to reveal a calm and expressionless face.
He glanced at the fat man, then at the groaning viper on the ground, and said calmly, "Judging by your fat head and big ears, you should be easy to talk to."
Upon hearing this, the fat man's face darkened.
Chen Yuan continued, "Since you are in charge here, then he is useless."
He stomped on the viper, killing it instantly. Blood splattered everywhere, and the viper's head was crushed, the blood splashing onto his fat face, making him slightly taken aback. "I want to see the person who's really in charge behind you. Can you introduce me?"
Fatty was amused by Chen Yuan's matter-of-fact attitude: "You want to see our boss? You think you can? Hahaha, you ignorant brat, take him down!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several thugs behind him pounced on him.
These people have clearly been enhanced and basically possess awakened abilities. Some have arms covered in rocks, some are extremely fast, and some have energy balls condensed in their palms.
In the face of absolute speed and power, these fancy abilities seem utterly insignificant.
"They're all flaws..."
Chen Yuan didn't even move his feet, but his body swayed slightly, and his hands, which were covered by the nano suit, left behind a series of afterimages.
"Bang! Crack! Thud!"
Several muffled thuds were heard almost simultaneously.
The thugs who rushed at them flew back even faster than they had come, crashing through a bunch of tables and chairs. They were all broken and lying on the ground howling in pain, but they all avoided vital organs and were not in mortal danger.
Chen Yuan has already held back; he's not a serial killer.
Fatty was terrified and broke out in a cold sweat. His electronic eyes flashed frantically as he analyzed Chen Yuan's combat strength, only to receive a series of ERROR warnings.
"Fatty, lead the way!"
Chen Yuan appeared in front of him in an instant, and the fat man was so frightened that he took a few steps back. However, he quickly calmed down, frowned and thought about whether or not to take this person to see the leader.