Enforcer Manual
Chapter 259: Open the Door, Shadow Guards Investigate Corruption_1

Chapter 259: Chapter 259: Open the Door, Shadow Guards Investigate Corruption_1

After learning the truth, Lu Xiang felt no joy whatsoever.

The current state of Unified Technology was undeniably a dragon’s den, filled not only with an unknown number of dormant Cyber maniacs but also the Humanoid Weapons mentioned by Lador.

If he took the special ops team and stormed in overnight, even with exoskeleton armor for protection, it’s likely the entire team would be decimated.

"What are you thinking about?"

After leaving the hospital and wandering aimlessly on the streets for a while, Song Lan finally broke the silence.

"Thinking about how to deal with Unified Technology. It’s too dangerous for the special ops team," replied Lu Xiang.

It was almost no different from sending them to their deaths.

Without knowing the number and capabilities of the enemy, any rash decision could lead to irreparable losses for the team.

He thought for a moment, then added, "Plus, what we just heard was only Lador’s side of the story, unless we get solid evidence, it won’t be easy to sanction them through legal or public opinion."

"Then you’re thinking along the right lines," Song Lan said, relieved that he finally had an appropriate opportunity to introduce Lu Xiang to the Shadow Guards. The emergence of Unified Technology provided him with the perfect chance. "Law and social opinion are tools of the Law Enforcers, but your identity is not limited to just being the Director of the Law Enforcers.

"Hmm?"

"Do you remember what I told you before? You should lead the Bug Swarm."

Song Lan continued, "The Bug Swarm has its own methods."

Moreover, discussing law and morality with a large company like Unified Technology was obviously pointless; in many other cities, they had already bribed the Inspection Department and Law Enforcers. If Lu Xiang hadn’t been transferred to District 17, it would have been the same here, with large corporations and families representing the law.

"Not long ago, considering the possibility of future problems that conventional methods couldn’t solve, I created an elite squad. I call them the Shadow Guards."

"Sammuen and those Cyber maniacs?"

Song Lan’s thinking was somewhat similar to that of the "Abnormal Case Investigation Bureau"; they also periodically invited some mild Cyber maniacs to join their ranks, following a theory they proposed, legally allowing Cyber maniacs to kill as a form of psychological remedy.

Most mild Cyber maniacs could stabilize their emotions this way.

"They’re no longer Cyber maniacs, but your left and right arm," said Song Lan. "As the leader of the Bug Swarm, how could you lack an elite squad to clear the path for you?"

"How many people are in the squad now?"

"Currently, there are Sammuen and Losa. They should have completed the joining Ceremony by now."

"Losa? The corporate employee who had a Shell Launcher transplanted?"

"Yes, him. Our chief engineer, Ge Fu, modified his prosthetic body to make it more suitable for the covert operations of the Shadow Guards."

"Only two members?"

She admitted that Sammuen and Losa’s fighting capabilities far exceeded those of the special ops team, having removed the disadvantage of indiscriminate attacks and possessing strong self-healing abilities due to the Devourer’s traits, but there were many more Cyber maniacs like them at Unified Technology.

Not to mention their Humanoid Weapons...

"Isn’t this too much of a stretch for them?" she asked.

"Not a stretch, because you haven’t yet realized the strongest aspect of the Shadow Guards."

This evening would be the perfect time for both Lu Xiang and Unified Technology to witness the power of the Bug Swarm.

............

Half an hour later, at the branch office of Unified Technology.

"Director, the Law Enforcers are here," reported an employee.

The executives at Unified Technology were not surprised by this turn of events; they had foreseen this moment coming after Lador was rescued.

Therefore, they spent an afternoon transferring important documents and data from the branch office. The core executives and researchers took a private plane back to the core region beforehand, leaving behind nothing but an empty shell at Unified Technology.

Given the presence of "concerned citizens," the management in the core region believed that even deploying Humanoid Weapons might not guarantee victory.

Yet, this was still a meaningful experiment, and emptying the entire floor was also to provide a better environment for it.

Before the evacuation, they witnessed a technology they had never considered before.

Merging the madness of Cyber crazies with the Genetic Transformation Technology of Cloud Biological Pharmaceutical was an idea previously conceived, but impossible to carry out—due to competition, neither side would reveal their core technologies to the other.

The only enemy of a corporation is another corporation.

"Director Falena, we meet again."

After an afternoon, Lu Xiang once again encountered the ever-composed Director of Unified Technology, her makeup exquisitely done.

"Director Lu."

Falena rose to her feet, shaking hands with Lu Xiang in a manner both polite and friendly, "Just the two of you?"

The arrival of Lu Xiang and Song Lan disappointed her; she, or rather Unified Technology, had hoped to see Sammuen and Losa, who had been taken away by Sammuen. They needed to collect more data on these two unique individuals, which was precisely why she had stayed behind.

"I heard your company’s private plane flew to the core area an hour ago. I didn’t expect you to stay behind."

"All this was to welcome your arrival."

With a smile, Falena activated the holographic projection. Since things had progressed to this point, there was no need for them to beat around the bush. Currently, the core region’s management urgently wished to test the performance of Sammuen and Losa after being ’infected’."

The holographic projection showed a gloomy room, with a scene that was somewhat horrifying — in a cramped basement, over a dozen beds were crammed together, each bed holding a person who appeared to be "sound asleep." They were restrained to the beds by innumerable devices, their heads covered with masks reminiscent of gas masks, attached to breathing tubes.

It was clear from their chests’ faint rising and falling that these people were still alive.

"This lab is right beneath our feet."

As Falena pressed a button, in a series of uniform clicks, the shackles restraining these people one by one came undone.

And this was the first experiment that the management had been hoping to conduct.

Firstly, they wished to understand just how many of their own kind could Sammuen and the others confront after being ’infected.’

Facing an enemy force more than five times their number, what strategy would they adopt?

This experiment was a test of combative power as well as strategic intelligence. The biggest problem with Cyber crazies was their inability to stay rational and clearly distinguish between friend and foe, but Sammuen, who had been ’infected,’ had clearly overcome this shortcoming.

The restrained Cyber crazies then seemed to awaken, removing their breathing tubes and tearing off the gas masks on their heads.

Falena considerately explained the current situation to the two, "It will take them less than ten minutes to get from the basement lab to here. If there’s anything you need to do, you better hurry."

However, her next words got stuck in her throat.

The severely ill Cyber crazies did not immediately commence a slaughter, nor did they head to the floor they were directed to by the last command injected into their brains.

They merely stood quietly in place, as if waiting for something.

And shortly thereafter, a familiar figure appeared in the holographic projection.

Sammuen.

The individual who had been ’infected’ and whom the management had been so anxious about!

At that moment, he flung his arms, revealing two dazzling heat cutting blades before their eyes.

"For the Bug Swarm!"

These four words seemed to ignite a spark, and those failures previously deemed uncontrollable by the corporation now clung to these words, revealing their combative cybernetic enhancements and responding to Sammuen’s call.

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