Chapter 251 Big Problem (Subscribe Please)
Two hours later, Fei Yunlai, with the posture of a defeated figure, knelt in an underground warehouse full of corpses, his expression one of pain and confusion.
This was a hidden warehouse located at the southern outskirts of the ninth base city, not recorded on any map.
Above this location was a seemingly normal elderly care center, but underneath lay a tunnel leading directly to a massive warehouse in the lower district.
The entire warehouse consisted of seven cavern groups, covering approximately 170,000 square meters, filled with various goods including medicinal herbs, food, clothing, various models of machine tools, processed metal ingots, and even a large number of weapons, impressively stacked inside the warehouse.
Originally, there were more than 430 Martial Cultivators guarded in special suits, but they had all been taken care of.
Lin Rui's combat plan hadn't changed, still first using poison to incapacitate the people, then swiftly concluding the fight.
The method was old-fashioned, but very effective.
Moreover, now he had a capable assistant. With the help of the hacker Lin Xi, they had paralyzed the warehouse's intelligent defense system before the fight began.
Lin Rui no longer needed to carefully avoid those posture-sensing devices because they had been shut down in advance by Lin Xi.
Due to the vast size of these cavern groups, the spread of Lin Rui's anesthetic couldn't cover everyone completely.
However, it was enough, the few remaining were no match for him and Fei Yunlai.
After implanting the Golden Core, Lin Rui's knife work had ascended to a whole new level, incredibly fast, now even a normal slash could enter the realm of one two-thousandth to one thousandth.
His movement techniques had also become quicker and more unpredictable.
Of course, the main force in the battle was still Fei Yunlai, who, worried about exposing his identity, unleashed his full firepower from the start, sparing no effort.
The pair had managed to resolve the battle in just over two minutes, much smoother than expected.
The situation after this battle was also different from that with the Iron Fist Entertainment Company.
The owner of this warehouse hadn't called the police, and the nearby armed police force had already moved to the star port for rotation, allowing Lin Rui to leisurely scavenge various spoils after the battle.
The problem arose here, when Lin Rui blew open the cold storage inside, he actually found 155 preserved suits in refrigerators, various types included, ranging highly in price.
Fei Yunlai estimated that just these suits were worth 12 to 15 billion Federation coins.
Lin Rui also found a large quantity of precious gems from Tianji Star and thirty-five anonymous bank cards in the office area safe.
These bank cards were of a unified standard, issued by the same underground bank for about-in-hand illegal trade, similar to the silver notes of Tianji Star, each valued at ten million.
Fei Yunlai wondered why he hadn't realized that although the smuggling business was heavy in capital, it didn't mean that they didn't have cash!
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On the contrary, they needed to have a large amount of cash on hand at all times for transactions with various parties.
Moreover, how had he not thought that these people might also be smuggling such merchandise as suits?
Suits were not only small and easy to carry but also very valuable!
Fei Yunlai thought about how he had twice missed huge sums of money and was so regretful that his heart ached—it was twice, not once!
At that moment, Lin Rui was standing in front of a database that was not connected to the external network, asking the Spirit Guard.
"Spirit Guard, how many Soul Power points do I have now?"
Prompt: You currently have 334,134 Soul Power points.
Lin Rui raised an eyebrow, wondering how after killing more than 380 Martial Cultivators with his flying needles, he had earned only so few Soul Power points.
He sighed inwardly, thinking that the path to exchanging for the Level 7 Imperial Flame Battle Dragon was still long and arduous.
At that moment, Lin Xi posted a message in the combat group.
Summer End Shallow Thought (Lin Xi): Bro, I've cracked this database and am copying the data. I found their ledger inside, and there's a special case—the smuggling warehouse is involved with at least half of its goods with the Dreaded Pirate Gang.
"Huh?" Lin Rui looked surprised upon hearing this.
A month earlier, Lin Rui had tasked Lin Xi with finding places with a high occurrence of suit psychosis, preferably illegal ones like the Blood Lizard Gang, deeply entrenched in crime, and if he could make some money along the way, all the better.
After all, hiring Fei Yunlai even once started at eighty million Federation coins.
Lin Xi had quickly identified the elderly care center.
She discovered that the care center ordered many psychoactive drugs related to suit syndrome every month and then uncovered unusual electricity usage nearby.
After infiltrating this elderly care center, not only did Lin Xi discover a warehouse filled with a large amount of drugs, but she also found many mentally disturbed Martial Cultivators in suits there.
Lin Rui had never expected that this underground warehouse would also be related to the Dreaded Pirate Gang.
Gu Ying Tiandao (Lin Rui): So, did you find their smuggling route? How do they transport the goods to the star port?
Invincible Bull (Fei Yunlai): The passageway is on my side, different from what you expected, this passage doesn't go to the star port but directly to the surface of the satellite.
While sending the message, Fei Yunlai also uploaded a video to the group, which showed the scene he saw after opening the triple gates.
In front of Fei Yunlai was a pitch-dark tunnel, its end not visible to the eye.