The Terra Travel Diary of Neither Sacred, Rhea, nor Terra

A researcher raised his hand weakly and reported.

"..." The core laboratory became even quieter than before, because all the researchers present and Director Marcus standing on the podium knew very well that the one who was using high temperature to melt the gate was the Defense Department of Rhine Life.

The deathly silence did not last long, because after a while, the center area of ​​the gate melted due to the high temperature and a piece fell off, splashing a bunch of metal sparks on the floor of the laboratory.

"Open the gate." Director Marcus straightened his collar and tried his best not to look so ugly when he was captured.

However, the last security force shook their heads at Director Marcus regretfully.

When these Rhine Life Defense soldiers began to melt the gate, they had already lost control of it.

So the beach umbrella staff in the core area of ​​the honeycomb laboratory could only watch as the more than one-meter-thick gate melted bit by bit.

After it was completely melted, the commander of the Rhine Life Defense Division walked in with a lit lightsaber.

The other soldiers who followed him in also lit up their lightsabers.

This lightsaber, which is considered a rare item for most Terrans, is considered a conventional weapon in the Rhine Life Defense Department.

Even the medical soldiers responsible for battlefield medical care have one in their hands.

Looking at the dazzling lightsabers, the beach umbrella security soldier who had just witnessed how the gate was melted by these lightsabers immediately raised his hands high.

The researcher, fearing that he would be treated the same as the gatekeeper, did not blame the security soldiers and followed suit.

After all, Director Marcus has expressed his intention to surrender, and it is not shameful to lose to Rhine Life.

Marcus, the head of the beach umbrella company in Tikalendo, did not surrender.

And

He walked down from the platform in the core testing area and walked towards the commander with a serious expression.

After checking that there were no other messy things hidden in the laboratory, the fully armed commander raised his hand and said:

"Take them all away."

Director Marcus, who was about to say something polite, was lifted up by two Rhine Life soldiers, each holding one arm.

This was because he was the person in charge and was given special care, while the other researchers were just pointed at with weapons and forced to line up with their hands covering their heads.

Director Marcus, who considered himself a big shot in Colombia, struggled a little angrily.

However, what he got in response was just a shot of "anesthetic" that could make a person lose control of their body instantly, but still keep consciousness.

By the time Director Marcus, who had turned into a puddle of mud, was dragged past the commander.

The commander, who was one of Director Saria's deputies in the Rhine Life Defense Department, raised his hand again and signaled.

The defense soldiers who saw this action dragged Director Marcus, who only had his eyeballs still moving, to his commander.

The commander looked up and down the beach umbrella supervisor with the trypophobia-inducing observation eyes on the enhanced eyepiece, and the only corner of his mouth that was exposed curled up slightly.

Then, as Director Marcus noticed something and looked horrified, the Rhine Life commander standing in front of him tore off his clothes in a few seconds.

Then he took out a tactical knife and cut a hole in his chest, and took out a small memory chip that was still stained with body tissue fluid from the ribs.

In the eyes of Director Marcus who instantly lost hope, the commander of Rhine Life weighed the chip in his hand and said sarcastically:

"You want to clear the data so that you can sell this thing you secretly kept for a good price, right?"

Unfortunately, Director Marcus, who had lost the ability to speak, was unable to give any response to the commander.

However, those beach umbrella researchers who reacted immediately looked at their superiors with anger on their faces.

"Lock him up with his subordinates later." said the commander as he put away the memory chip.

"Do you need to remove the anesthesia?" asked the escorting soldier, who nodded.

"Relieve some of it, but not too much. At least let him regain his sense of touch, especially his sense of pain." said the commander.

The commander of Rhine Life has absolutely no good feelings towards this kind of supervisor who does not treat his subordinates as human beings.

Especially since the other party was thinking about selling the information secretly by himself in the end, it turns out that the saying that beach umbrellas gathered all the scum in Columbia's scientific research community is not an urban legend.

As for why the commander of the Rhine Life Defense Department could detect that the other party had hidden the information on him.

Because Rhine Life's defense department not only has to deal with the various big tasks created by its own crazy scientists.

Another responsibility is to sniff out and eliminate commercial spies who attempt to steal Rhine's vital information.

Hiding information in front of the commander is like waving a sword in front of Guan Gong... although this proverb does not exist in Terra.

The beach umbrella staff who understood what the Rhine Life commander meant immediately looked at Director Marcus with dangerous eyes.

It is understandable to sell information in exchange for security, but it is too much to let others delete their information and then secretly sell it.

After making sure that the entire Hive Laboratory was cleared and sending some soldiers to escort the prisoners back to the factory, the commander contacted General Christen again.

Originally, he should have been responsible directly to Director Saria, but the problem was that Director Saria was fighting with someone, so he simply skipped the chain and reported to the chief commander.

The commander immediately received a reply from the commander-in-chief. It seemed that the commander-in-chief was quite idle at the moment, and Director Saria was probably still fighting.

"Let's go to our next destination, Thor Industries."

The commander who received the new order said to the remaining troops.

110: The short-haired cat whose fate was changed

When Miku and his team moved from the Rhine Life branch building to the factory, there was a huge convoy.

Now the regular army of the Rhine Life Defense Department is like a mighty chariot.

After confirming that the opponent was the super trust of John's mother, Saria directly took out all the hidden treasures in the Rhine Life Defense Department.

Except for the landship which was not brought here due to its moving speed, basically all the ships that could be brought here were brought here.

However, due to the limitation of the mobile city's own carrying capacity, the landing vehicles are all small vehicles, the largest of which is only half the size of the Bear Child.

The real killer, such as the experimental self-propelled cannon that can destroy mobile city blocks from a distance, is currently parked 60 kilometers away from Tikarendo.

However, even if it is a small vehicle, it is already exaggerated enough for combat within a mobile city.

At least the area where the tanks passed was cleared passively across several streets.

Without encountering any obstacles, these tanks quickly arrived at the branch of Thor Industries in Tikalondo and surrounded this supermarket that specializes in selling various weapons like an iron barrel.

Thor Industries' branch in Tikarendo is not an office building or a weapons factory, but a supermarket.

A large weapons supermarket that only sells weapons and armor and provides after-sales maintenance services.

This kind of feeling

This situation is very rare in Colombia, because John's mother relies on her own "Food Monopoly Law" to not only monopolize Colombia's food supply.

They also used the "Monopoly Act" to confine the business concepts of "supermarkets" and chain stores to their own territory.

According to the unspoken rules of the Colombian business world, for Thor Industries to open such an arms supermarket, it must have the franchise authorization from John's mother.

This is just like the fact that there is only one company in Columbia, Raytheon Industries, that can carry out serious arms production.

If Rhine Life wants to produce weapons directly, it needs to cooperate with Thor Industries.

It is difficult to quantify the cost of obtaining a franchise that touches the foundation of a business because money alone cannot buy it.

After John's mother forcibly demanded several high-speed moving target tracking missiles that were still in the testing phase, and used them to shoot down a big shot of Rhine Life.

The Tikarendo branch of Thor Industries has already prepared itself for being visited by Rhine Life.

However, when this large number of combat vehicles appeared at the doorstep, the head of the Thor Industries branch in the supermarket branch was still frightened.

Has Rhine Life dragged all of its troops here?

Could it be that those missiles really shot down General Christen of Rhine Life?

As soon as this idea came into his mind, it was rejected by the head of this Thor Industries branch.

If General Christen was really beaten, then the team that came would not be from Rhine Life.

Instead, it is one or more cluster missiles developed jointly by Rhine Life and Raytheon Industries, which are specifically used to destroy land ships or clean up the surface buildings of mobile city blocks.

Then Tikarendo...oh no, Colombians will be able to watch a head-on confrontation between the two major arms companies.

Although he was confused, the head of the Thor Industries division responded immediately without hesitation and pressed the emergency response button.

There was a sign outside the closed shopping mall door saying "Closed for the day".

Thick gates fell down with a "clang, clang, clang". Each one was of the same model as the high-voltage electric gates that had been melted not long ago, and had also undergone customized modifications unique to high-end customers.

In addition, one artillery array after another extended from the roof, side, and parking lot of this large but not very high supermarket.

These artillery arrays include single-row and double-row ones, and the largest ones are quadruple-row ones.

Each row has four to six gun barrels of varying numbers but of the same caliber.

After a while, the supermarket was transformed into a battle fortress with a very Thor Industrial style under the protection of these artillery arrays.

Just looking at the neatly arranged artillery array, it is much more stylish than the anti-aircraft fortress that Miku designed for Rhine Life's factory.

As for which of the two has better defensive effect, it is still unknown.

The commander of the Rhine Life Defense Department in the command vehicle did not mock the Thor Fortress in front of him as he had previously mocked the Beach Umbrella Company's defense.

Because when this defense system was being designed and built, he also participated as a representative of the Rhine Life Defense Department.

Many people in the army behind him were directly involved in the construction of this fortress.

If you mock someone, you are mocking yourself as well.

Because he participated in the construction of this fortress, the commander of Rhine Life was very clear about the defensive capabilities of this fortress.

If they fight hard, it's not impossible for the Rhine Life Defense Division to defeat them, but it will cost a huge price.

Fortunately, this Rhine Life Force is not here to start a new corporate war, at least not for this purpose so far.

As for whether it will develop into a new corporate war, it depends on the other party's response and whether General Manager Christen is satisfied with the other party's response.

In preparation for the possibility of a new war front, the Rhinelife commander ordered everyone to wear armor.

After receiving the order, the Rhine Life soldiers immediately came to the carriage of their vehicle and lined up.

The fully automated robotic arms inside the carriage picked up the modular armor components hanging on both sides of the carriage and attached them to the soldiers who were already wearing armor.

After a while, these Rhine Life soldiers turned into steel soldiers, carrying Originium-powered backpacks that provided extra power. Their size was no less than that of the heavy-armored warriors of the Skitarii who had been transformed by Miku and were mistaken by the mercenaries as Ursus shield guards.

The iron warriors, who were in line with the Rhine Life style, came out from chariots of different models, holding various light and heavy weapons that were too big for the Terrans.

They formed an infantry-tank coordinated lineup and faced the Thor Industries battle fortress which was similar to the Hedgehog.

People from other companies who watched this scene also suspended their meetings and prayed to the one who could pray that Rhine Life and Thor Industries would not really fight each other.

This is not a question of size, it is purely a question of firepower.

If these two designated arms dealers of Colombia come to blows, no matter who wins or loses in the end, the mobile city of Ticalenda will probably become history.

Those who depend on this city

All small companies will go bankrupt one by one.

After the soldiers were in position and all the tanks were ready for battle, the commander, who was standing in a position where he would be hit by the first shot if a fight really started, said into the communicator:

"Send a message to each other and tell them that their little princess is in our hands."

"Yes," the operator in the communication vehicle responded immediately.

"Wait..." The commander who had just finished speaking remembered something and said quickly: "Change the wording and say that the other party's little princess is with us."

The difference of one word can express completely different meanings.

Unfortunately, the correspondent was stunned for a moment and then responded:

"I have sent out what you just said, sir."

"Why so fast?" The commander was stunned.

"We used recordings, and the official cooperation communication channel between us and the other party is still there." The communicator said innocently.

"...That's fine..." Since the words have been spoken, there is no need to correct them. The commander just hopes that the person in charge on the other side will not pay too much attention to the wording.

Fortunately, the head of the Thor Industries branch in Tikarendo City did not pay attention to the wording of the message, because he was completely shocked by the content.

"What? Miss Jessica is in the hands of Rhine Life? Didn't President Brinlei say that he had found an absolutely safe and reliable relationship to send Miss away?"

The head of the Thor Industries branch fell into a state of panic. Even though he was surrounded by a large number of Rhine Life chariots, he was not so flustered.

It doesn’t matter if a branch is lost, it doesn’t matter if a company war breaks out, and if someone dies on the battlefield, the company can arrange all the funeral arrangements.

But if something happens to Miss Jessica in his hands, committing suicide now might be the best outcome.