Combining previous calculations, a more comprehensive new plan quickly took shape.
The monstrous Red Abyss creature lurking at the seabed slowly opened its giant mouth, revealing its jagged white fangs.
However, that’s all for the future, right now he still had to face the big trouble looming before him.
Before Ren Zhong could speak, Ma Dafu, on the other side, already anxiously said, "Talking about serious matters, how did you divert the topic with alien ore again? Honestly, I know very well my daughter’s strength. Even if she is suppressed to three hundred kilowatts, and you have already demonstrated your strength by defeating Lin Wang, it won’t help. She and Lin Wang are fundamentally different, not on the same level."
Ren Zhong sighed, "I know."
He understood this very well.
If at this moment his various parameters had increased to the Fourth Level, and he had switched to a Fourth Level helmet, and also activated the Five Senses Resonance and the Sixth Sense, he might have been able to spar with Captain Ma back and forth for a while.
But now, his carrying power and physical index were dragging him down too much, even the audio-visual neural link resonator built into the Third Level helmet could only perform half of its auditory function.
His brain reaction index, as high as 5965.26, could only sigh helplessly.
Brain Reaction: I can’t carry you guys!
"At this point, she definitely won’t listen to reason. When she comes to block you later, I’ll be watching from the sidelines. If things get really out of hand, and your life is in danger, I’ll step in to forcibly restrain her. But by doing so, your adversarial relationship with Yang Bingzhong in his eyes will naturally devalue, and it might not achieve the intended purpose."
"Although Yang Bingzhong will definitely be watching in secret, it’s useless. With my daughter’s temper, if she really wants to kill you, Yang Bingzhong won’t be able to stop her. He could probably only make Fourth Level professionals forcibly intervene, but they definitely wouldn’t dare to really hurt my daughter. But even if she’s only three hundred kilowatts, it might not stop her."
"And Yang Bingzhong certainly wouldn’t have thought you’d add new ingredients to a farce of a love triangle to exacerbate the situation."
There is a saying that brute force overcomes ten tactics.
Faced with someone as formidable as Ma Xiaoling, even Ren’s great calculations are futile.
The two discussed for a long time, yet couldn’t come up with a solution, and could only go step by step for now.
In the end, Ma Dafu even wavered, "I say, Ren Zhong, could it be that what you said about that matter is true? Then you’ve really let down my trust in you."
Ren Zhong was silent for a long time, then suddenly said, "Now I truly believe that Captain Ma is your biological daughter."
Half an hour later, the team members coordinated seamlessly, using a combination of trickery and brute force to deal with three Third Level Ruined Beasts and six Second Level Ruined Beasts in one go.
Hanyu got out of the vehicle to disassemble the crystal chip, and Ren Zhong rolled down the window and waved, "Wen Lei, come over here."
Wen Lei, excited, bounded over with heavy steps, like a human tank.
Compared to earlier days, Wen Lei’s armored state made him appear even more robust.
Indeed, he had become even more muscular, and the internal functional modules of his comprehensively upgraded Second Level heavy exoskeleton had increased, and the armor became thicker.
Wen Lei approached, took off his helmet, and wiped the sweat off his face.
"Ren Bro, what do you need me for? You could have just told me over the communication system."
Ren Zhong forced a smile, "Get in the car. We’ll talk inside."
Once Wen Lei was in the car, Ren Zhong made a pre-arranged gesture.
Wen Lei understood and turned off the wrist watch.
Ren Zhong slowly took out a half-burned photo from the storage box in his armor, "Last night, I went to investigate Yang Bingzhong’s underground alien ore mine and made some discoveries. This belongs to you."
Wen Lei took the photo in confusion and looked down at it.
Moments later, his face turned ashen.
"This... Why is this happening? Didn’t you say she was living well in the city?"
Wen Lei slowly raised his head, looking at Ren Zhong with a deathly pale face, shivering as he asked.
Ren Zhong shook his head, "She deceived me. She must have died in the underground mine field not long ago."
Ren Zhong then slowly explained his analysis process to Wen Lei.
Wen Lei remained silent for a long time.
This iron-willed man did not cry aloud, but tears uncontrollably welled up in his eyes.
Tears rolled down his cheeks and dropped onto the chin guard of his helmet.
Ren Zhong knew what this feeling was like.
All along, what supported Wen Lei, this warrior of mediocre talent, to struggle forward was the promise and yearning for his childhood friend Ai Jiasan who had already become a citizen.
Wen Lei was inherently straightforward, but he could endure the initial disdain from Zheng Tian.