Chapter 652 - 412: Journey to the Grand Eagle Federation to Retrieve Three Patriotic Researchers

Chapter 652: Chapter 412: Journey to the Grand Eagle Federation to Retrieve Three Patriotic Researchers

When Lu Xiaoying and Gong Qing’s figures disappeared at the door, the heavy wooden door was gently closed.

In this quaint and elegant study, only three people remained.

For a moment, the room was truly silent, with only the faint sound of birds chirping from outside the window.

Huang Tangshi personally picked up the teapot and poured a cup of clear tea for Lu Xuan, the misty steam rising between them.

Mr. Huang looked at Lu Xuan, the solemn demeanor he had shown in front of others earlier had been put away.

What was left in his eyes was pure emotion of reuniting with an old friend, and an enduring, deep-seated envy.

"Mr. Xuan," he spoke again, his voice more relaxed and sincere than before, "now there’s no one else here."

"Your energy... I’m truly envious, looking at you is like recalling those days we stood shoulder to shoulder on the snowy plains, it seems like it was just yesterday."

To say he’s not envious would be self-deception.

Mr. Huang clearly remembers, if talking about actual age, Mr. Xuan is already ninety years old, nearly ten years older than himself.

But now?

He himself was already tottering, needing someone’s support, while Mr. Xuan still had the vigor of a dragon and tiger, his vitality strong.

He had watched the video footage sent a few days ago—this ninety-year-old Mr. Xuan, at the top of the hundreds-of-meters-high Yingnan Tower, walked as if on flat ground, the power and agility displayed in his every gesture, simply transcended the realm of human capabilities!

How could this be an elderly person near the end of life? It’s clearly a Land Immortal from a mythical legend!

Mr. Huang looked at Lu Xuan, his voice filled with a complex emotion, both amazed and with a slight, almost imperceptible sense of melancholy.

"Mr. Xuan, your physique... saying you’re ninety, who would believe it? In front of you, we old guys might as well have lived for nothing."

Hearing this, Lu Xuan just nodded slightly, not responding, quietly waiting for what was to come.

Sitting beside him, Huang Tangshi saw the moment was right, his expression turned solemn, finally revealing the true purpose of inviting Lu Xuan out this time.

"Mr. Lu, I’m truly embarrassed to trouble you to personally make this trip,

We have rudely invited you this time, for an important matter concerning the nation’s future."

He paused slightly, organizing his words, and continued: "Currently, there are three meritorious-level scientific researchers, vitally important to our country, located in the Great Eagle Federation,

After several rounds of tough negotiations, they have agreed in principle to lift the restrictions, allowing them to set off for return in ten days."

"However," Huang Tangshi’s tone shifted, becoming serious, "You are well aware of the Great Eagle Federation’s style of conduct."

"Although they seem to agree on the surface, there’s no guarantee they wouldn’t resort to some despicable tactics, setting up obstacles on the return journey, even... creating ’accidents’."

"To ensure nothing goes wrong, we have already invited two covert Grandmasters to secretly escort them.

But after much deliberation, we still felt it wasn’t stable enough, so my father and I shamelessly request you to come out again, to go personally to the Great Eagle Federation, and oversee this welcoming operation,

With you as the stabilizing force, we can truly be at ease."

The Great Eagle Federation!

According to the integrated memory, it was indeed a domineering country that instinctively repulsed the original body.

More importantly, this mundane world was far from simple on the surface.

On Dragon Country’s side, there was a profound magic skill lineage and a consummate national martial arts system, capable of nurturing Land Immortals like himself who have achieved Embracing Elixir.

And on the vast world stage, other countries also hid unknown talents and strangers.

The island countries of the devils had ancient Onmyoji who could communicate with ghosts and gods, manipulate Shikigami, and stealthy Ninjas skilled in assassination and escape techniques.

And Kulaman Country flourished with strange and mysterious Sorcerers who could kill with spells out of thin air.

In the Western Empire, there were Wizards studying elements and contracts, mastering mysterious magical powers.

As for the Great Eagle Federation, this country, converging immigrants from all over the world, was full of all sorts of characters mixed together.

No one knows what kind of unimaginable beings they secretly recruited and cultivated.

Underneath this seemingly calm mundane world, in reality, turbulent undercurrents lay—a silent battlefield of different extraordinary systems and power rules.

The most well-known of the Great Eagle Federation to the world were their two major reliances: genetic modified warriors and mechanized body soldiers.

Among them, genetic modified warriors were feared for their disruptive way of gaining power.

They forsook the traditional path that Dragon Country’s magicians and national martial artists needed to practice diligently year after year, instead utilizing cutting-edge biotechnology.

They forcibly pried open the human genetic lock, inducing targeted mutations, with the aim of mass-producing experts comparable to National Martial Arts Masters in a very short time.

However, this ’shortcut’ that violates the laws of nature has fatal flaws.

Emotional deficiency and a killing instinct.

When genetic modified warriors gained power, the emotional control center of the reformers would suffer irreversible damage.

They could easily fall into an indiscriminate frenzy, controlled by the most primitive desire for slaughter.

And trying to obtain genetic modified warriors came with a very low success rate and high risks.

The entire transformation process had an extremely low success rate, and even scarier, even if transformation initially succeeded, the subject could lose control at any time.

In the history of the Great Eagle Federation, there was a painful precedent of an entire cutting-edge laboratory research team being slaughtered from the inside by a newly empowered and unhinged reformer.

Because of this, the number of genetic warriors in the Great Eagle Federation was always strictly controlled within a minimal range.

They were both the sharp blades in the hands of the Great Eagle Federation, and highly dangerous ticking time bombs that could backfire at any moment.