Biochemical Martial Arts: Supreme Heavenly Venerate

The commander of the Ninth Marine Division was named Changsi Davis, a middle-aged military man in his forties with short flaxen hair, a full beard, and an air of masculinity.

As Lin Rui led the main force of the Security Bureau and the mayor's trusted aide squad into the underground tunnel, this Armored General was on a video call with a certain Four-star Marshal.

"Marshal, I understand, and I'll use every means at my disposal to maintain the current situation! The Ninth Marine Division will hold our position and, if necessary, will not hesitate to use force!"

"Of course, I'll keep the conflict contained, limiting it to light weapons and cold weapons under a 40 mm caliber, ensuring that the situation does not escalate."

"However, Marshal! I still feel that our response is too soft. Their artillery barrage has crippled our five main battalions that were advancing on the Jinhao Group headquarters, resulting in at least 700 casualties. Additionally, 12 Mecha Dragons and 12 model-7 combat robots have been damaged. Damn it! They've brought in over 420 artillery pieces of various calibers from the surroundings for fire coverage and fired an entire ammunition base worth of highly lethal High Explosive Neutron Bombs."

"Yes! Considering that the Security Bureau might react even more aggressively, I hope the Star Navy can dispatch two more divisions and twelve fire support gunboats to reinforce us as soon as possible—we can't lose in terms of momentum—"

"Marshal, the morale of the various units of the Ninth Division is very unstable right now; we've suffered heavy losses and yet cannot retaliate—Marshal! We acted on a formal order from above. We're not rebels."

When the call ended, this Star Navy Armored General, full of fury, scratched his head.

"Damn! Damn the Security Bureau, damn Thunder—"

His stomach full of rage with nowhere to vent, he suddenly kicked the military desk in front of him, turning the desk and all the equipment on it to smithereens.

At this time, the Ninth Marine Division's Chief of Staff, Mu Shaoling, was sitting opposite him, holding a cup of coffee. He watched the well-maintained desk in front of him turn to smithereens, drifting about in the air, yet he sat calmly in his seat, not moving an inch.

However, not a single speck of the wooden dust managed to come close to his body.

At this point, Changsi Davis tried to calm himself and sat down in his office chair.

"Mu, you really shouldn't have advised me. Perhaps an immediate counterattack would have been the best choice. It's more manly. Do you know what the soldiers are saying about us in their group? They're calling us cowards. So many people from the Ninth Division have died, and yet we dare not fight back."

Mu Shaoling pinched his coffee cup and snorted with laughter, "Counterattack? It'd be satisfying, but it would be a bad end for both of us. Besides, our main battalions have been badly hit by artillery. What can we use to counterattack now? Once we open fire fully, not only will the Ninth Division be unable to preserve itself, but the five Eight Realm experts sent by the Marshal might also fall here.

Huo Bangguo might be visiting temporarily, but his top fighters are still in Ninth Base City, as are several other families; they won't allow us to make trouble in Ninth Base City. Did you see the Marshal's face just now? He's also very helpless."

Mu Shaoling shrugged his shoulders, "Obviously, this is not our responsibility. We Easterners have an old saying, 'The brave are afraid of the reckless, and the reckless are afraid of those who are desperate.' We've met a bastard who is audacious, daring to gamble his life and political career against us, and willing to go down with us."

Changsi Davis's facial muscles twitched slightly and he then frowned, "Who exactly is this Thunder Admiral? I've just checked his file; the information is classified as 3S level, and I couldn't see anything, not even information about him on the internet."

"The information on the internet has been deleted, and all major media platforms have been warned not to publish personal information about active Security Bureau Admirals. However, I worked at Ninth Base before, and there was a lot of news about him then. It is said that he was from the Eagle Brigade, recruited into the Security Bureau by the Second-in-Command after retiring."

Mu Shaoling shook his head, his expression calm as he narrated: "This man's capabilities are outstanding, and he's recognized by the public as the nemesis of crime. He has a very high reputation amongst the civilians of Ninth Base City. Since he took over the Special Service Center of the Security Bureau, the 'Guang Ming Breeze' operation he launched has resulted in the arrest of over 43,000 gang members and the killing of over 33,000.

This guy almost wiped out the Upper District's gangs, even the long-established Loyalty Gang Li Family was eradicated under his command. Now, in Ninth Base City, the gangs shiver at the mention of his name, all keeping their heads down. In short, his style is very aggressive and ruthless."

Hearing "killing over 33,000 people," Changsi Davis's eyebrows twitched involuntarily, thinking this was indeed a ruthless man.

His Chief of Staff had good reason to advise against retaliation.

At this moment, Mu Shaoling took another sip of coffee: "But, I just spoke to a friend at the Military Intelligence Bureau to find out more about this Thunder Admiral. I heard an interesting rumor. There are intelligence analysts at the Military Intelligence Bureau who suspect there might be some connection between the Thunder Admiral, the university Martial Arts Star Lin Rui, and the Children's Song Killer."

Changsi Davis was startled at the words, "That sounds a bit absurd, doesn't it? I know Lin Rui, currently a hotshot Martial Arts Star, but how could he be linked to Thunder? One is Fourth Realm, and one is Sixth Realm; saying Lin Rui might be the Children's Song Killer could be somewhat possible."

"It is a bit absurd. It started when You Ming, the First Deputy Director of the Ninth Division of the Security Bureau, went to seek help from the Atlantic Union and the North American Federation, using their supercomputing models to calculate the real identity of the Children's Song Killer. Five models pointed to Lin Rui, and two models gave both Thunder Admiral and Lin Rui as the answer."

Mu Shaoling's eyes gleamed, "Interestingly, these supercomputers weren't connected to any network, nor did they access the federal government's personal information database. They used some privately constructed databases of certain institutions. However, the Military Intelligence Bureau doesn't have any evidence and is still observing, collecting information on these two individuals—"

Mu Shaoling's words had barely faded when his expression subtly changed.

His pupils dilated, his eyes filled with terror, "What a Thunder, I underestimated him."

Changsi Davis's reaction came even before Mu Shaoling's; he notified the group in the Division Headquarters combat team instantly, "Enemy attack! Watch out for the blast below!"

It was in that instant that the ground boomed, dust and smoke billowed upwards, shockwaves surged, and a large area of land around the entire perimeter of the Ninth Division Headquarters collapsed.

Changsi Davis and Mu Shaoling had both sensed the explosion coming through telepathy and had already been floating in the air a step ahead, even maneuvering their Mecha Dragons to take off from their readiness vehicles.

However, the surrounding buildings, and all the staff and the direct-command guards of the Division Headquarters, collapsed with the ground, falling into a huge pit six meters deep.

"Damn it! There's an illegal immigrants' Lower Zone dug out underneath."

Mu Shaoling's scalp tingled with anxiety, realizing there had been a serious oversight in his work.

When selecting the location for their Division Headquarters, they were only concerned with the command convenience, and the surrounding buildings were very sturdy, capable of resisting bombardment from heavy artillery—yet they had failed to consider such a fatal flaw in the Lower Zone.

The military's public maps they were using did not record this Lower Zone space.

As the situation on the ground slightly stabilized, and the soldiers of the Ninth Marine Division buried under the soil layer, whether activating their magnetically levitated armored military vehicles or digging out by hand, struggled to break free from the mud and rocks, the two men saw a huge pipe exposed by the collapse, suddenly spewing out intense flames.

Mu Shaoling recognized it as the Z53412 pipeline, 65 meters below to the left of their headquarters, a traffic conduit of the Lower Zone.

This pipe, originally buried deep underground, should've been around 70 meters away from the core area of their Division Headquarters, but with the enemy's extensive blasting and underground collapse, it had now become a broad avenue for the enemy to launch their assault.

"Beasts!"

Changsi Davis, seeing his soldiers and tank units half-buried and being blown up one after another by the flames spraying out of that pipe, his eyes rounded in fury, near splitting with rage.

He once again called for reinforcements from the many Dragon Stage experts in the vicinity, while he himself dove down quickly, bringing with him his Battle Dragon and the already assembled guard squad, to the front of the Z53412 pipeline.

The sight inside the pipe made Changsi Davis's scalp go numb; he saw over sixty Mecha Dragons and nearly two hundred combat robots and Armored Warriors in their exoskeleton armor.

—It was clearly a well-planned assassination attempt.

Changsi Davis then set his gaze on a figure in the formation, wearing the 'Wisdom Dragon' Model 8 Exoskeleton Armor, their face covered by a face mask.

—That was none other than Thunder Admiral!

Changsi Davis's pupils dilated, and without hesitation, he pounced toward the Thunder Admiral, his Seventh Realm Super Emperor Battle Dragon following close behind.

In a blink, man and dragon passed through the wall of enemy fire to appear before Thunder.

"Kill!"

The Security Bureau had underestimated his strength! This assassination attempt targeting him would surely become this Lin Rui's grave!

Just when Changsi Davis, brimming with boundless killing intent, was about to bring his blade down, Lin Rui also narrowed his eyes.

In that instant, a giant figure, standing 24 meters tall, appeared behind him!

—That was his Emperor Hao Shenlong!