PFC Chapter 609: Human Values and Melee
Chapter 609: Human Values and Melee
Chapter 609: Human Values and Melee
K.K. and Stephen stood in front of a huge steel gate, looking at the condition of the gate carefully.
"It's amazing. There are hundreds of layers of protective spells attached to this door alone. Moreover, this door should also be made of a variety of special alloys... Can you make so much money by selling weapons?!"
With the help of the tactical helmet and the analytical instruments on his personal terminal, K.K quickly recognized the various spells cast on the gate and the materials of the gate itself.
It is no exaggeration to say that if a store like Gild's Arms Store wants to install a door of this level, even if it involves some illegal business, the profit in a year will only be enough to buy a door.
"Of course you can't make that much money from selling biochemical weapons and illegal human body modification, but you can make that much money from selling humans."
Stephen opened the visor of his tactical helmet and looked at the door in front of him, his eyes full of anger.
Of course, trafficking in humans can bring in so much stolen money. After all, humans are extremely popular as a delicacy in the other world.
This is not to say that humans have any special taste or function compared to other races in the alien world. On the contrary, in the face of the vast variety of food ingredients in the alien world, if humans are regarded as "food ingredients", their taste and function are not worth mentioning at all.
Moreover, the humans in the other world themselves are a group that is not easy to deal with.
Humans are not a race from the other world itself. Before the two worlds merged, all humans who were able to reach the other world and survived were top-level warlocks with extremely strong powers.
Only such an existence can open a space teleportation array across two worlds, and maintain the stability of one's body and survive under the completely different rules of the world.
The first group of warlocks who crossed the world formed the seeds of the human population in the other world. Later, these warlocks married and had children with each other, and then slowly expanded the population.
But even so, the human population in the other world has never been too large. After all, there are only a few top warlocks who can cross the two worlds, and the other world is also quite dangerous. Even the top warlocks cannot completely ensure their own safety after leaving the group.
What's more, the children born by humans in the other world are still alien creatures and cannot be subject to the rules of the other world, so most of the babies will die the moment they leave the mother's body.
Fortunately, the combination of warlocks will greatly increase the possibility of the baby being born with talent and power, so there are still a small number of babies who survive because of their innate powerful powers.
Under such a cruel selection mechanism, it is difficult for humans to rapidly expand their population even with their reproduction speed, which is not weak among all living creatures. However, the strength and quality of the human race itself are frighteningly high.
Even before Femto was born, powerful human warlocks had already killed multiple divine beings by relying on the power of group spellcasting.
Faced with humans, a special alien species that requires few resources due to its small population, does not bring much benefit to eating or killing them, and each one is extremely strong, the creatures from the other world initially ignored them.
The real reason why eating humans became a "trend" in the other world was the fact that Fimto became a superior being.
Simply put, the reason why creatures from other worlds want to eat humans is purely out of a "superstitious" mentality.
Although it may seem strange to talk about superstition in a world full of magic and gods, it is indeed true.
To put it simply, it is a bit like eating a fried dough stick and two eggs before an exam, or the act of promoting the ability of a certain organism to enhance sexual performance.
In the eyes of people from another world, humans, as a group that can give birth to superior beings, must have their own uniqueness. Maybe I can get some blessing by eating a little.
The reason for this idea is very simple. Feimto is a rare superior being with a large number of tribes.
Except for those superior beings who are so ancient that even their names and deeds have been completely forgotten, there are a total of thirteen superior beings whose records can be found in the other world, namely the Thirteen Kings.
However, among the Thirteen Kings, only a few truly possess the concept of "tribe". The vast majority of the Thirteen Kings are super individuals born out of various accidents, and they belong to the category of "individuals that are both tribes".
At this stage, there are only three known thirteen kings with tribes, namely Femto, Arijira and the Tyrannical King.
Among them, the tribe to which Alykira belongs belongs to the immortal species, and their number is pitifully small, so it is a question whether they can be found.
Moreover, as immortal species, each of them is incredibly powerful. Even if they are found, it is still uncertain who will defeat whom.
The same situation applies to the humans to whom Fimto belongs. In the other world, they are also a synonym for being rare in number and extremely powerful, so normally for a period of time, the ones who really suffer are actually the tribe of the Tyrannical King.
Because the Tyrannical King existed for too long and was always obsessed with training, his attention to his own tribe was greatly reduced, so that the Tyrannical King's tribe was even on the verge of extinction at the worst time.
Fortunately, the tyrannical king later noticed this incident and took the remaining tribesmen into his own territory.
As a result, the three superior beings in the other world gradually evolved into a rare, difficult to obtain, and "superstitious" food ingredient.
Even for a long time, the blood realm followers relied on their appearance that was no different from that of humans and their strong regenerative ability, and relied on selling their bodies to trade with other races for the resources they needed.
It is conceivable that when the two worlds were about to collide, how surprised the people from the other world would be when they discovered that there were billions of humans in the other world.
Unfortunately, this surprise lasted too short a time, as the human world soon demonstrated its unparalleled military power.
When the two worlds collided, why was it that the Warlock Guild was the only one in New York City working hard to set up the barrier?
Although other forces have provided a lot of resources to the Warlock Association before, it always feels like the attention they receive is much less.
The main reason is that at the time when the two worlds had not yet fully come into contact, other top supernatural forces all ran to the other world to beat up the forces of the other world.
Although the extraordinary forces on the human side have few high-end combat capabilities, due to the particularity of historical development, humans are extremely good at using the power of the group to defeat the strong.
Therefore, without any intervention from human technological power, the human world relied solely on its extraordinary power to defeat many forces from the other world, forcing them to sit down for negotiations.
Of course, after this battle, the major supernatural forces in the human world suffered heavy losses, and then all returned to their headquarters to recuperate, leaving only the Warlock Association in Hersharemz.
But the Warlock Guild itself also suffered considerable losses, and finally had to introduce small forces like Libra to assist them in governing Hersharemz.
Fortunately, in addition to supernatural powers, the human world also has a power called technology. So when the affairs of the two worlds were exposed and the Five Constant Virtues were killed, their combat power was not inferior, and they could even be said to be full of martial virtues.
In short, under the threat of a big enough fist, although the people from the other world envy the large number of weak humans in the human world, they can only sign the Chrysler Galadna Contract humiliatingly, defining any act of stealing, eating, and trafficking humans as illegal.
Of course, although this contract restricts the overt sale and consumption of animals to humans, it cannot prohibit illegal activities in secret.
It is also because of this that humans are a very popular "commodity" in the other world. There is no shortage of sellers, and the profits are quite high.
But no matter how high the profit is, in order for Gild's Arms Shop to raise so much money, the number of humans it sells must be quite large.
Stephen's eyes became gloomy when he thought about how so many humans had been killed without their knowledge.
While Stephen was thinking, after hearing the team leader's order, two team members came out of the team carrying a large black box that looked like a suitcase, came to the steel gate and began to install it.
"Tsk tsk, the latest model of Kemea Alchemy's Nejitron anti-magic cutting device not only has extremely strong particle cutting capabilities, but can also make all magic defenses ineffective and penetrate the target. This machine produced by Kemea Alchemy is a masterpiece among precision tools."
K.K was marveling at the mechanical device that was gradually assembled by the team members. It seemed that he wanted to stick close to it and hold this treasure to examine it carefully.
"That policeman really spent a lot of money this time. In order to buy this thing, the police station must have spent half a year's research and development funds, right?"
"It's not that exaggerated. The police have a cooperation agreement with Kemea Alchemy. Things like this can be mobilized in the name of testing." Stephen explained after he came to his senses.
"Mobilize?! Can treasures of this level be mobilized at will? When did Kemea Alchemy become so corrupt? Don't those alchemy lunatics believe in equal exchange?" K.K was a little confused.
"This is of course an equal exchange. Although a top-grade precision tool was consumed, we also received orders from the police department for the next year."
After thinking for a while, Stephen added, "By the way, you just calculated wrong. Some time ago, the United Nations announced an increase in funding for the Hersharemz government district. Now they only need one month's research and development funds to buy this thing."
"What dirty politics..."
“But it does come in handy in situations like this.”
Looking at the deployed cutter, Stephen stopped talking to K.K. and gave orders to the team members:
"Start cutting! Everyone, get ready for battle!"
hum...
As the machine was started, a subtle air mist light appeared out of nowhere and became louder and louder as time went on.
A disc-like device at the front of the machine began to spin rapidly, and lines composed of spells slowly lit up in front of the disc, forming an extremely complex magic array.
hum!
After the formation, the magic circle spread rapidly, and soon hit the steel door in front of it and disappeared. Then there was silence for less than half a second, and then...
boom!
The huge sound of air pressure explosion hit the ears hard, and the bodies of everyone present couldn't help but vibrate violently along with the air.
The composite material in front of him seemed to be three meters high and more than twenty centimeters thick. There was a circular hole with a radius of one meter in the middle of the door, and a large part of the material that should have been the door panel in the middle disappeared with the buzzing sound just now.
"Wow, I love this stuff!"
K.K whistled lightly, raised his hand and fired a few shots casually, killing all the enemies surrounding the door.
"Attack! Three minutes left!"
Looking at the enemies rushing over after hearing the noise in the distance, Stephen stepped into the gate without hesitation and rushed forward at the lead.
"Enemy attack!"
Following the shrill alarm, the interior of the huge underground base suddenly became chaotic.
Because of the sound of the air explosion just now, the desperate criminals inside the base had already been alert.
When all the garrisons guarding the gate lost contact, these desperate criminals rushed towards the gate without hesitation, holding their weapons.
Faced with the enemies pouring out of the passage, Stephen and K.K naturally didn't say much, and the battle between the two sides was about to break out.
The special operations team led by Stephen and K.K. this time has about a dozen members in total. They are talents carefully selected by Inspector Daniel Lowe from within the police station, and each of them can be said to have special skills.
In comparison, this group of armed men hiding underground seemed a bit "amateur". The weapons in their hands had decent firepower, but the models were uneven, and there was no coordination. They almost fired all their firepower at once, and then fell into a long period of firepower gap.
After the special operations teams blocked the enemy's most ferocious wave of firepower with the huge protective shields that were protected by layers of magic, they took advantage of the opponent's firepower gap to quickly eliminate the enemy.
As a result, the first batch of dozens of strong men of various shapes who rushed out all fell to the ground within ten seconds.
However, criminals also have their own advantages, that is, they have a large number of people.
Moreover, the structure of the dim underground base was extremely complex. It seemed that they had anticipated the possibility of an attack from outside, so they prepared many shelters and obstacles inside the base.
The multi-layered battle line and the seemingly endless flow of reinforcements from within overwhelmed the special operations team for a time.
The most important thing is that although the combat skills of this group of criminals are shockingly poor, the weapons in their hands are genuine good stuff.
Relying on the racial advantage, Stephen even saw an alien directly set up a rapid-fire cannon that was supposed to be fixed on the battleship, trying to rely on its terrifying firepower to directly destroy the special forces team including the bunker.
"Trouble!"
(One more chapter to go.)
(End of this chapter)