Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 1295 - 1261: Unfriendly Visitor

"Someone wants to prevent us from continuing the investigation. Whether they are in collusion with the 'Sagali' civilization, there is no evidence yet."

Chen Fei received the news of the fireball rising slowly in the suburbs.

A yard of several thousand square meters turned into a big pit, which, after a few rains, would become a large pond. Put some fish fry in it, and it could become a proper fish pond.

Ponds like these are not uncommon in the outskirts of Chapa City, some have been refilled and turned into new bases for military contractors.

The military contracting industry is not a feast; it's all about fighting. When Jiu Defense Company was founded, it also created several ponds.

Weakness and ignorance got them boomed; in the outskirts of Chapala City, it was like a daily routine. So a certain distance was maintained between the various bases to avoid collateral damage.

Unbridled Earth workings in the city are rare unless there's some deep-seated hatred, normal circumstances don't lead to such violent confrontations.

The municipal management of Chapala City has always been highly challenging, demanding a 'big heart' from its civil servants.

Having signed the indenture, well, an all-inclusive hiring contract, Kraken asked, "Do we still pursue this further?"

No trace of panic or fear could be seen on his face.

Having chosen this line of work, he entrusted his life to God, whenever it gets taken away is up to fate.

"Of course, this is our stress response as we close in on the truth."

Chen Fei pointed to the room adjacent to the living room. There is no hate without reason; cause leads to effect.

Although the clues abruptly broke off, hindering further pursuit, Chen Fei wasn't left empty-handed after being attacked by military contractors hired by unknown forces.

Ding dong!

The doorbell rang.

"Who is it?"

Kraken opened the door security system and saw the scene at the ground floor unit's entrance.

There were riot police, along with armed mechanical beings, numbering no fewer than two hundred, with the ratio of humans to mechanical beings being roughly 1:10.

Mechanical beings do not fear casualties and can often stand at the forefront to serve as shields or even fodder.

The fully armed police spoke into the security camera: "Police! Are there people inside?"

"We're all here, you can come up!"

Kraken reported it, after all, Chapa City is a modern city with the rule of law; his home was just focus-fired by several armed drones, attacked by a group of military contractor employees, yet it was treated as though nothing had happened.

Caught in the act, demanding judicial intervention is a normal right of a lawful citizen.

If caught red-handed or without direct evidence, once nabbed, well, the people from Six Whip Military Affairs Co., Ltd are going to be in big trouble.

Accused of first-degree murder—a serious crime—even if they eventually walk out alive from prison, they can't engage in the military contracting business for three successive generations.

Yes, that's collective punishment!

One person's crime implicates the entire family: parents, brothers, wife, children, all the way down to grandchildren can only work in industries that do not involve any military equipment.

Although Chapala City cannot completely eradicate private arms within and outside of its boundaries, it never shows leniency towards criminals it catches.

Of course, the prerequisite is catching them.

One of the key survival instincts of the municipal government is to intimidate the weak and fear the strong.

Riot police armed to the teeth streamed into Kraken's home, capturing the stripped-down former military contractor employees, the current criminals, and after escorting them away, left behind two administrative officers to do the follow-up work such as site documentation.

As soon as the police left, Chen Fei directed the projector in Kraken's living room to throw images onto the wall.

He didn't idle around; the Kilometer Flying Ship "No.2 Command Ship" launched six small transport airships, carrying three hundred combat mechs and heavy combat equipment, heading toward the locations of three suspects.

At this moment, a team of the two small transport airships had successfully reached a private manor in the neighboring country of Tuiana.

Only 30 kilometers from their destination, they were intercepted by anti-air fire, with at least six anti-air missiles screaming towards them.

Conflict was inevitable; the anti-air missiles were quickly exploded mid-air by high-energy laser beams.

Waves stirred as the protective barrier faced the fierce large-caliber anti-aircraft machine gun fire, and the two small transport airships forcibly landed on the manor, engaging in firefights with the manor guards, explosions erupting one after another.

The third-ranked suspect on the list of suspects evidently wasn't as simple as the intelligence described; his exposed firepower alone was regal by South Continent of America standards.

The hundred combat mechs and ten mobile armors carried by the two small transport airships were barely enough against the manor's defense forces.

Combat mechs and mobile armor also existed among the manor guards, with directional energy beams exchanging blows, and large kinetic projectiles fired by railgun weapons constantly taxing each other's protective barriers.

Chen Fei's combat mechs couldn't form up immediately and could only rely on the protective barrier of the small transport airships, dragging into a hard battle.

Thus, it started as a war of attrition.

"That Borlundi manor is really like this, it's practically a military camp."

Seeing the aerial view from the sky, information broker Kraken was dumbstruck, one hand grabbing the phone to snap at the projected image, the other hand typing away on the keyboard instinctively; what he saw, heard, and captured was all intelligence, all money!

No wonder he stood out in this field; gathering intelligence is deeply ingrained in his reflexes.

"Deploy the 'No.2 Command Ship', use thermobaric bombs to clean the site."

Chen Fei remotely instructed the Kilometer Flying Ship stationed at the civilian public spaceport.

It's estimated that the other two locations also require the heavy firepower support of the 'No.2 Command Ship', with the active military forces of the minor sovereignties in the South Continent, taking down such tough targets is bound to be challenging.

As a citizen of The First Sovereign, Chen Fei treats mobilizations involving tens of thousands of troops as commonplace.

However, dispatching troops numbering in the thousands was considered a significant national war for small sovereignties in South Continent of America; dispatching tens of thousands was a major campaign at full national strength.

Tactical-level tons of thermobaric bombs in Chen Fei's hands were considered regular firepower, with hundreds to thousands in stock.

Yet in Blue Star's active military stores, they were top ten exclusive toys of major sovereignties.

Deploying such tactical weapons in South Continent of America would undoubtedly result in a massacre.

Drop a ton-level thermobaric bomb, and the entire manor's resistance forces would be wiped out instantly.

However, drones detected underground shelters within the manor, designed at least at nuclear-strike-resistant deep-tube level; relying on ton-level thermobaric bombs alone would not suffice to annihilate the entire manor. The manor's lord and his confidants might have already retreated into the underground refuge.

Elsewhere, skirmishes were ongoing at the Leaf Army's territory, with anti-air and ground missiles exchanged in volleys; the dispatched two small transport airships also engaging fully with ground armed forces.

Unexpectedly, there were ability users among the tropical rainforest forces affiliated with the Leaf Army, continuously sending attack spells into the air, fiercely bombarding the protective barriers of the two small transport airships.

Kraken's list contained almost no compliant subjects.

The only position left unexpressed was the guardian force of the Prehistoric Temple at the continent's southern end, evidently also not easy to manage.