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Chapter 87 - Chapter 087: D99 Virus, Tech-Priests, and the Adeptus Mechanicus!

Koichi Shido had been chosen a nice destination.

Most of the dead bodies there were young children, so their teeth wouldn't be too developed, and they wouldn't take big bites when gnawing.

And having used the Panacea, he couldn't become a companion to the dead bodies, so they would keep gnawing at him continuously.

As for the certain high school boy who had gone mad believing himself to be a savior, he was later given a relatively quick exit from this world, having his head cleanly severed.

In the blink of an eye, time had come to exactly twenty-four hours remaining before Ejie had to return.

That is to say, he had been in this world for over three days now.

On the third day, he had mainly been helping to deal with the dead bodies in this city.

Of course, completely eliminating all of them wasn't something that could be accomplished in a single day—it was about identifying other survivor areas, conducting rescues, and opening up passages.

As for large-scale mass production of the Panacea, it now seemed that the location where Black Label was situated would be more suitable, with complete facilities.

So, to make this place relatively stable as well, he—

"I never expected this old man..."

Bang—

The gunshot interrupted the elder's words, and both his body and the chair he sat on were almost vaporized.

This underground emperor of Tokonosu City, the absolute authority figure in a family whose influence controlled most of Tokonosu City, was sent away by Ejie who couldn't be bothered to listen to his final words.

As for the members of this family, he felt almost no guilt in cleaning them up—they were all people who deserved to be shot ten times over.

Especially that young master, a disgusting fat pig, who was also made to experience Koichi Shido's method of death.

Additionally, this family also had some connection with "Syringe"—some cooperation, but also some antagonism.

To put it simply, this family's relationship with "Black Label" and "Syringe" could be compared to a three-kingdom power structure.

Seeing that "Black Label" had slightly more power, they would choose to secretly help "Syringe" to suppress "Black Label," preventing their dark industries from being struck.

Conversely, if "Black Label" was too weak, and this family didn't want to directly face "Syringe" or let "Syringe" grow stronger, thereby causing too much loss to their own family's power, they would secretly leak "Syringe's" intelligence instead.

If possible, it would be best if "Black Label" and "Syringe" simply destroyed each other completely, or at worst both suffered heavy damage, so this family could eliminate both organizations in one fell swoop and harvest the fruits of both organizations.

"This is probably the difference between cheating players and pay-to-win players."

The person muttering this was Nashida Oriha.

The Hirano family was the biggest tumor in this city, and moreover a malignant tumor that was already terminally ill. Although "Black Label" knew about it, they found it difficult to surgically remove.

Now, it had been annihilated in less than an hour.

Oh, to be precise, in less than ten minutes—after entering their headquarters, he had easily cut through them.

So the Hirano family, which had been vampirically draining this city for so long and accumulating vast wealth, could be described as pay-to-win players—the top-spending players in this city, definitely the strongest.

Unfortunately, they encountered this rule-breaking cheating player who directly wielded power beyond this era and easily dominated them.

Looking at the cheat on his body—that sci-fi armament—made Nashida Oriha, who loved tinkering with weapon technology, practically drool.

The laser attacks, ray cannons, and those special bullets that didn't need casings all made Nashida Oriha desperately want to research and play with them.

So, increasingly enamored, Nashida Oriha couldn't help but approach and reach out to touch.

"..."

Ejie looked somewhat speechlessly at this giant loli who was actually drooling from the corner of her mouth.

"It's handled. Now take me to your base."

Going to Black Label's base, Ejie had one main purpose: to obtain a genuine sample of the D99 virus.

If this thing was truly as special as described, allowing people to easily perform limb transplants without rejection, it would be like godlike power for surgeons.

And if this thing could be taken to the Warhammer side and applied there, in the modification surgeries of Space Marines "Astartes," it would be a massive revolution.

This way, the Imperium would have more Space Marines, making them more powerful against all kinds of monsters and demons.

Of course, it wasn't that he empathized so much with this world's Imperium and humanity that he wanted to contribute so passionately for improvement.

It was purely that a safe environment would raise the quality of his life, entertainment, and other aspects.

As long as he couldn't completely separate from this world, since he had the power to improve this world's environment in his hands, he would naturally invest it so he could live more comfortably.

However, to have the Imperium use D99, he definitely needed someone capable to believe in him.

Find the Regent King?

Although he had been brought to work by the Emperor's big light orb, people like Guilliman didn't know him at all.

That big light orb Emperor had never revealed his information—this was probably also out of concern that he'd be noticed by those several Chaos Gods.

However, it wasn't that he couldn't find someone with status.

Ejie had long suspected the identity of a certain tech-priest he had been trading with.

The so-called tech-priests referred to those who had modified almost their entire bodies into machinery.

These people all worshipped the Adeptus Mechanicus, whose headquarters were on Mars and ruled there.

They provided most of the Imperium's technology and manufactured various types of weapons, armor, vehicles, and Titan Legions, etc.

It could be said that the Imperium's science and technology were almost entirely in their hands. So they also controlled almost all mechanical and ordnance production in the Imperium.

And the certain tech-priest Ejie suspected was also considered a heretic within the Adeptus Mechanicus.

The reason such a heretic could still exist was because he was too capable, only making the conservative tech-priests who didn't want to adapt gnash their teeth in hatred.

Because this tech-priest was trying to modularize all production and manufacturing—that is, to enable assembly line production.

Such behavior was heretical within the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Their manufacturing preferred to be done by hand, and they also had to perform various mystical rituals, making efficiency pitifully low.

That is to say, once this tech-priest successfully promoted modular production, most tech-priests would become unemployed.

Incidentally, the Adeptus Mechanicus were in some sense his colleagues. Because one important task of the Adeptus Mechanicus was to excavate STCs throughout the Imperium's territory, so science had become archaeology.

The Adeptus Mechanicus were equivalent to official archaeological expert teams, while he was a tomb raider.

Furthermore, these guys also took high-pressure measures against civilian autonomous scientific research, strictly prohibiting anyone outside the Adeptus Mechanicus from conducting scientific experiments without authorization—they were one of the major factors causing such stagnation in the Imperium's technological development.

Oh right, since it was a religious order, they naturally had an object of worship—that Emperor whose projection in the Warp was a big sun.

For this reason, Ejie also called him the Emperor Light Orb.

Initially, he had thought it was the Main God Light Orb, thinking he had arrived in the Main God Space.

It turned out this was the Emperor Light Orb, and this was the Warp.

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