Chapter 180: Planning and Constructing Base 093 - Part 2

Although as the "Super-Overflow" state dissipated, the combat power level of the Dragon Squad soldiers would gradually decline to some extent, it would at worst not drop below the F5 rank. This was equivalent to directly shortening the growth time of supernatural personnel by hundreds of times!

Such a growth rate was practically impossible to achieve even among those powerful supernatural factions that could afford to assign "nannies" to feed and cultivate their reserve forces.

First, supernatural biological tides like the rat infestation in Hualan Mountain and the snake disaster in Gulu Lake were not things one could encounter frequently. Even if those supernatural factions were willing to feed their reserves by hunting live prey, they would still struggle like a housewife trying to cook a meal without rice due to the difficulty of finding massive numbers of mutated creatures.

Second, the conversion efficiency of ordinary trans-limit soldiers absorbing super-energy particles was only around 1%, which further increased the cost of cultivating combat power. Calculated altogether, the time and cost required for a supernatural faction to cultivate an F5-rank trans-limit soldier was thousands of times greater than that of the Dragon Squad!

Not to mention, the supernatural resources accessible to the Dragon Squad, backed by the military, were so abundant that Bai Yuxi and the others couldn't help but feel that they were "filthily wealthy without a shred of humanity."

Batch after batch of Super-Vitalization Potions were chugged down by them like yogurt, and they had practically relied on these potions to forcefully prop themselves up.

As for trans-limit equipment, it was supplied with open arms to these rookies who had awakened less than 48 hours ago. Although the Xiaolong Armor still couldn't match Bai Yuxi’s "Nightmare-7 Generation," and fell quite a distance short of the "Nightmare-9 Generation" already fielded by the "Meta-Super Alliance," as a domestically produced standard trans-limit armor, its performance was more than adequate even if equipped by D-rank and above trans-limit soldiers. Letting them, a bunch of F-rank trainees, use it could almost be considered a sheer waste of heavenly treasures.

One must know that the vast majority of trans-limit soldiers were still using pieced-together miscellaneous gear and homemade show-off equipment. Those in slightly better conditions could only manage to scrape together a set of domestic civilian-version "Silver Eagle" series gear.

As "Dragon Squad Consultants," Bai Yuxi and his companions naturally enjoyed these same welfare benefits, which could be considered upgrading from birdguns to cannons.

And the benefits gained by the Seventh Squad didn't stop there!

Aside from supernatural resources and trans-limit equipment, the elevation in security clearance was the most advantageous thing for them.

Not only could they use the identity of "Dragon Squad Consultants" to directly query a large amount of non-sensitive, non-top-secret supernatural intelligence from the Multi-dimensional Super-Net, but Su Xiaoke could also leverage the Dragon Squad's channels to commission high-security supernatural research institutions to custom-build instruments and equipment that were forbidden from external sale for her research.

For the Seventh Squad, who had long suffered from overly closed information sources and scarce resources that were difficult to procure, this undoubtedly solved a major problem.

Moreover, because the organization was newly founded, although Xie Long was already setting about improving the Dragon Squad's system, it was naturally difficult to cover every aspect in such a hasty manner.

Upon hearing that 03 (Su Xiaoke) intended to procure some high-precision equipment for research, Xie Long, acting as the squad leader, decisively waved his hand and appointed 03 as the "Director of the Scientific Research Division of the Logistics Department" of the Dragon Squad. She was specifically responsible for establishing the Dragon Squad's scientific research department; whatever equipment she needed, she just needed to draw up a procurement list, and all expenses would be covered by the organization.

Well, in order to build a trans-limit combat force under its own control, the Yan State military was truly willing to spend a bloody fortune, lavishly unreasonable beyond all reason.

Once the massive state machine started running, its execution efficiency was simply astonishing. The Dragon Squad, established merely 48 hours ago, had already mobilized the entire Yan State's supernatural resources even before its primary personnel had shown their faces, and had even selected the location for its future base.

The rat cave ruins located on Hualan Mountain in Jiangcheng were temporarily designated as "Base 093." After large numbers of engineering troops moved in, it would be remodeled to the highest standards of a nuclear-defense base within the shortest possible time.

With such a massive move by the Dragon Squad, it was naturally impossible to completely shield it from prying eyes. However, the LDH Trans-limit Management Department showed no reaction whatsoever; obviously, the top brass had already communicated secretly.

When all was said and done, the Trans-limit Management Department nominally still belonged to an institution governed by the Yan State authorities, and without the support of the Yan State authorities, it could not have developed to its current scale.

As for the Six Paths Society's consistent self-preservation work style, its internal management might also feel that a balancing institution capable of rivaling the Trans-limit Management Department could help share the authorities' misgivings about the Six Paths Society and prove more conducive to the future development of the Yan State's supernatural community, thus adopting a tacitly acquiescent attitude toward the emergence of the Dragon Squad.

The considerations of top-level decision-makers were not something these executing subordinates could interfere with. Not to mention Bai Yuxi and the members of the Seventh Squad, whose identities were merely external specially-hired personnel affiliated with the Dragon Squad.

Therefore, out of the tacit understanding gradually established with Xie Long and the others, Bai Yuxi and his group adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye and pretending not to know about certain hidden secrets within the Dragon Squad.

A cooperative relationship, to put it bluntly, was just mutual utilization and taking what one needed. As long as it didn't affect or threaten them, why should small fries like them bother with so much?

Watching Xie Long, who as the "Preparatory Group Leader" was lying in bed while maintaining a constant stream of communications with various parties and remote-controlling the construction matters of Base 093, so busy that he didn't even have time to drink a sip of water, the members of the Seventh Squad all felt exhausted on his behalf. Taking advantage of the downtime during their recuperation, they obtained a lot of previously inaccessible hidden intelligence from Zhou Hao, who had been promoted to "Executive Deputy Group Leader."

For instance, the large anomaly point at the bottom of Base 093 on Hualan Mountain, which was currently under remodeling, had already been sealed off layer by layer. However, unlike those anomaly points that had appeared in the past—which would self-annihilate and disappear after being open for a period of time due to unstable dimensional spatial field fluctuations—this one, on the contrary, grew increasingly stable in structure, thus exhibiting a constant trend.

The reason why the Trans-limit Management Department yielded that location to serve as the future base of the Dragon Squad was inevitably linked to an intention of having the Dragon Squad shoulder the responsibility of blockade and defense to alleviate its own pressure.

For the newborn Dragon Squad, this could hardly be considered good news. Once the Trans-limit Management Department withdrew its high-end trans-limit combat forces, the pressure of defending against high-risk dimensional creatures would fall squarely onto the shoulders of these newborn trans-limit soldiers of the Dragon Squad.

Thinking about letting a bunch of F-rank rookies guard a large anomaly point that could potentially spit out C-rank or even higher-level high-risk dimensional creatures at any moment made Bai Yuxi and the others feel immense pressure.

However, there were still benefits. After consulting with Su Xiaoke, who had conducted research on supernatural creatures, Xie Long had decided to utilize the special field environment of Anomaly Point 093 to artificially raise mutated rats as "training materials" for the trans-limit soldiers.