The mercenaries’ equipment wasn’t exactly top-notch; even flagship products were few and far between.

On the other hand, Liu’s Heavy Industries seemed to have anticipated tonight’s siege by the Mercenary Corps.

A full ten heavily armed A-Class Prosthetic Implanters, in the most blatant display of force, openly surrounded the Liu’s Heavy Industry Building.

From head to toe, they were all equipped with A-Class flagship products.

Prosthetic Body production was the Liu Clan’s core business.

Based on the Prosthetic Body inventory in Greenfield City, the Liu Clan could build more than ten additional fully-converted A-Class Prosthetic Implanters within a few days.

But the time left for the Liu Clan was too short.

Only two days had passed since the last attack by the Round Table Knight.

To be able to build over ten new fully-converted Prosthetic Implanters was already a testament to Liu’s Heavy Industries’ deep resources.

The value of a single Prosthetic Body alone already exceeded one hundred million Credit Points.

"With this level of security, the two mission targets must be inside the building. The intel wasn’t wrong."

"More than forty Mercenary Corps have shown up. What can a mere ten security guards do?"

"The big shots from the Holy Relic Legion should also be in Greenfield City. I wonder if they’ll make a move."

Watching. All the Mercenary Corps were watching and waiting.

In terms of sheer numbers, the Mercenary Corps had the overwhelming advantage.

Forget just taking on Liu’s Heavy Industries; if they added the Si Clan to the mix, they might still win a head-on fight.

But this was the combined combat power of over forty Mercenary Corps, and you couldn’t expect this mob of mercenaries to cooperate fully.

The Si Clan had long anticipated this situation.

At some point, personnel in uniform began to appear from all directions around the Liu’s Heavy Industry Building.

There were over ten of them, all A-Class Prosthetic Implanters.

Furthermore, under Lin Qi’s observation, their fundamental physical attributes were very high, basically at the Level of Tier One Extraordinaries.

However, judging by their Spiritual Power, they had only reached that physical Level by taking massive amounts of drugs, and were not true Extraordinaries like Martial Artists or Knights.

’The Greenfield City gang, Endorphin, controlled by Si Ranran.’

Lin Qi recognized their identity.

This was the Si Clan’s backup plan in Greenfield City, their hidden force.

All the Mercenary Corps in Greenfield City had long suspected who the mastermind behind this gang was; they could all be almost certain that they represented the Si Clan’s will.

But the problem was, there was no proof!

What Lin Qi needed was evidence that pointed directly to the Si Clan—not just their betrayal of the Si-Liu strategic alliance, but their betrayal of the Asian Administrative Region’s Big Business Alliance.

Lin Qi watched as these gang members grew closer and closer to the Liu Clan’s security personnel.

He didn’t rush to make a move.

To disrupt the Si Clan’s plans, Lin Qi needed an even more chaotic situation.

A member of the Endorphin gang suddenly spoke up, shouting to the surroundings, "Everyone, we’re just a gang, not a Mercenary Corps! Our goal is different from yours. We just want these A-Class flagship Prosthetic Bodies to expand our gang’s strength. As for what you want to do, please, feel free!"

With that, all the gang members took the initiative and charged.

Their goal was simple: tie up the Liu Clan’s A-Class security personnel and incite all the Mercenary Corps to rush in first.

The Si Clan wanted to completely remove themselves from the situation.

"Move out! Find the targets, full assault!"

"Charge! At any cost! Unleash all firepower! As long as we can complete one mission, our Mercenary Corps can disband!"

In an instant, the Mercenary Corps hiding in the shadows no longer concealed themselves.

A full-frontal assault, the tactic least used by Mercenary Corps, now became the unanimous choice for over forty of them.

A chaotic battle was about to erupt.

But at that very moment, the Spiritual Power belonging to a Wizard, belonging to Lin Qi, enveloped the entire area.

Among those present, there wasn’t a single Tier Three Extraordinary.

Only a few Tier Two Martial Artists and Knights were mixed in among the Mercenary Corps.

Spiritual Vision, Blood Manipulation.

The power of these two Abilities combined was demonstrated in that instant.

The group of mercenaries charging at the front suddenly stopped in their tracks.

Their Intelligent Brains began to blare insane warnings.

Their Prosthetic Bodies immediately initiated a self-diagnostic.

Abnormalities appeared in the blood supply to their hearts and brains.

Lin Qi was creating blood clots inside these Prosthetic Implanters at an extremely rapid pace.

For those with hearts, he arranged for both heart attacks and strokes.

For those whose hearts had been replaced by prosthetics, he gave them a cerebral thrombosis, then randomly doubled the momentum of their prosthetic heart’s circulation pump components to spike their blood pressure.

Some A-Class Prosthetic Implanters were even more extreme.

They didn’t have a single drop of blood left in their bodies, and had even had a good chunk of their brains removed.

For people like this, killing them was even easier for Lin Qi!

He targeted the remaining brain tissue and hit it with Rapid Growth.

The newly grown brain tissue was rejected by the prosthetic framework, but there was no extra space for it. For mercenaries so heavily augmented they barely had enough flesh to fill a dumpling, death came much faster than for the others.

Around Liu’s Heavy Industries, a terrifying scene unfolded.

The mercenaries launching the assault would be running one moment and dead the next.

They died inexplicably, as if an invisible grim reaper’s scythe was harvesting their lives, row by row.

The few Tier Two Martial Artists and Knights witnessed their teammates and comrades collapse, their faces filled with shock.

"Run!"

"Retreat!"

"Brothers, it’s not that I’m abandoning you! There’s a powerful expert in the shadows! I can’t handle this!"

...

Greenfield City, Intercontinental Stability Trauma Emergency Company.

At that moment, a flood of communications poured in, with over a hundred rescue requests arriving almost simultaneously.

Prosthetic Implanters were tough to kill. The process of dying from a heart attack or stroke wasn’t instantaneous, and with the sheer workload of inducing them, Lin Qi had given most of them just enough time to send out a distress signal. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Flying vehicles from the Intercontinental Stability Trauma Emergency Company streaked across the sky of Greenfield City—a city shrouded by the Iron Curtain—like red and blue silk ribbons, all converging on the Liu’s Heavy Industry Building.

But when all the field team members from the Greenfield City branch of the Intercontinental Stability Trauma Emergency Company arrived at their destination, they were collectively stunned.

The company’s important clients were dead all over the place.

Most were already cold, with no need for medical treatment.

Only a few Black Gold Level clients could receive treatment from the trauma squad.

Heart stopped beating?

Swap in a prosthetic heart on the spot to get the blood supply going.

Brain stroke?

Perform an emergency craniotomy on the spot.

With this method of treatment, one or two Lucky Ones were actually saved.

But this medical procedure would leave them with a debt of three million Credit Points, per the rules of the Intercontinental Stability Trauma Emergency Company.

The cost for a team’s emergency response and treatment would not exceed three times the member’s annual fee.

Furthermore, the team’s emergency treatment only covered revival, not subsequent recovery.

Three million. A mercenary revived in this state could never hope to pay it back.

Their only fate was to have their Prosthetic Bodies removed and auctioned off by the Intercontinental Stability Trauma Emergency Company, as stipulated in the contract they signed.