CHAPTER 1079: CHAPTER 88: PERIOD

When Sergeant Palmer of the Swift Army placed that head into the protective container, he let out a slight sigh of relief.

The non-Newtonian fluid inside the container could slightly mitigate the G-force caused by acceleration. He had already consumed most of the fuel and could not return at high speed. But for this dying guy in his hands, any acceleration was unbearable. And his mission was to bring this thing back, so this insurance was necessary.

Additionally, these non-Newtonian fluids were mixed with special compounds that could penetrate the spinal nerves, traveling along the nerve cells all the way to the brain, temporarily suppressing the activities of the brain’s advanced areas.

Under the effect of this potion, one would temporarily lose some cognitive abilities, especially the ability to commit suicide. Any suicide mechanism not strongly bound to self-consciousness was easily pre-empted by external interference. Even the "Supervising Battle Officer" mechanism of the Protector was an independent structure not connected to other machinery, detecting specific thoughts in the brain by itself.

Therefore, as long as the person was made unconscious, it could ensure that most self-termination methods that didn’t require hands would fail.

This was necessary.

Meanwhile, Palmer also roughly completed his self-inspection. He slightly moved his wrist. Processing decreased by ten percent, and after this return, at least thirty percent of the parts in his body needed replacing. Perhaps the framework of the torso was slightly deformed, requiring minor adjustments.

However, everything was still within an acceptable range.

The Swift Army has always had the tradition of "massive parts replacement after battle." The King’s divine skill was peerless, his reaction speed the quickest, requiring only a replacement of ten percent of the body parts after a forced march across the battlefield. This was considered a humanly unattainable miracle.

What terrifying control and reaction skills that would require. Palmer thought it was frightening just thinking about it.

However, since the damage this time was acceptable, there was no need to be wary of the martial artists of Chaldea.

He turned around.

This was also the first time the martial artists of Chaldea got a clear look at the sergeant of the Swift Army.

The sergeant’s body was painted with a matte texture, in blue-purple paint, mixed with various patches of color. At the same time, there were also some elongated or shortened small white spots on him.

This was the starry sky camouflage.

A row of vector injectors lined up behind him. A series of prosthetic limbs resembling spider legs were arranged behind him.

Just now, these prosthetic limbs redirected the vector injectors forward. But now, these vector injectors, with their edges glowing red-hot, lined up behind him.

Like the wings of a black angel.

He said, "I came this time just for this one head. Someone in Chaldea assisted me in this task; otherwise, it wouldn’t have gone so smoothly. If you all are curious, it shouldn’t be hard to find out. But I’d advise you not to investigate, or even if you do find out, politely send that person to Mars. Hmm, that’s about it. I have to be on my way."

Saying this, he was about to leave. Before he did, he glanced at Xiang Shan: "I had the feeling you were starting to react. What a pity. If it weren’t for the mission, I might have sparred with you."

He calmly flew to his large gun, pulled it out. The part of the gun barrel that had been distorted and deformed due to the impact peeled off successively. This gun seemed to be composed of several modules. The central part provided the main mass, while the exterior, which would have direct collisions, was replaceable. After pulling out his gun, Sergeant Palmer of the Swift Army left just like that. He accelerated again, flying toward space.

And Tumor Xiang Shan just silently watched him. The other Guardians of Chaldea did the same, except their stance showed that the anger in the Guardians had compressed to a critical point.

Until he felt a dizziness.

Jeanne’s consciousness reappeared. The "Restriction System" existing in the neural network was back online.

Xiang Shan said nothing, letting out a breath.

...............

This battle led to Chaldea permanently losing an outer wall. A block was completely destroyed, and the data in the block was greatly affected due to the irreparable fissure.

The civilians of Chaldea began the reconstruction work.

Meanwhile, Chaldea’s city defense forces had more urgent matters to attend to.

They had to lay trick mines within the trail left by the sergeant of the Swift Army.

The propellant nuclear fusion engine used by that Swift Army sergeant was a system that directly expelled fusion products. While humans could achieve propellant-less propulsion, the major downside of a propellant-less propulsion system was that "acceleration/deceleration was not fast enough." Nuclear reaction technology was fundamentally insufficient to convert one hundred percent of matter into energy—this belonged to the domain of matter-antimatter annihilation. For nuclear reactions, the byproducts themselves were "unexploitable resources," better used as propellant to be expelled.

And this fuel would naturally leave a trace.

The sergeant of the Swift Army had effectively created a breach in the "advantageous position" that the Neutral City-States prided themselves on. All the routes he took were marked with conspicuous signs—the easily detectable radiation.

Even so, this Swift Army could return with some reinforcements, following this conspicuous radiation path, flying over with similar speed.

As a strategy to prevent future attacks, Chaldea’s city defense forces began laying trick mines around the radiation trajectory.

To prevent the Swift Army from wiping them out one day.

As for the insider...

Just as the Swift Army sergeant said, Chaldea could find the insider if they wanted to.

The Swift Army sergeant heard about the battle between Protector Shi and the Guardians while on his way near Chaldea, continuously adjusting his targets, planning his actions and every move.

This obviously required continual intelligence coming from within Chaldea.

Palmer’s route was so clear that to verify where he was at any given time in a certain airspace, and then cross-reference to find records, looking for any bystanders who purchased "broadcasting services" during that time period, to see who bought services related to "broadcasting information on specific events to specific areas," it would be quite easy to find.

But the real problem was what to do once they found the insider.

Reportedly, Chaldea’s high command had been arguing over this for three days.

No one wanted to let such a person go, but no one dared to kill such a person either.

Of course, all this had nothing to do with Xiang Shan and his group. Jeanne and her group, by displaying such power this time, had brought them into Chaldea’s view. And Xiang Shan tricked some of Chaldea’s captured materials for that bastard surnamed Li to research.

Jeanne said, "I always feel your mood seems a bit strange."