Chapter 1 No One Noticed

No one paid attention to the Liu family's trio. Everyone was focused on the gun in Li Chenzhou's hand. In fact, from the moment Li Chenzhou's first shot hit the Devourer, everyone had already believed his words.

However, they wanted to see what the other two functions of this gun were, so no one spoke. Hu Tao even urged Li Chenzhou to quickly demonstrate the other two settings!

Li Chenzhou didn't pay attention to the metal plate in the distance. It was about three hundred meters away, which was beyond the range of a handgun.

However, Li Chenzhou, who was already familiar with the gun, simply raised his hand slightly, held the gun with one hand, and pointed it at the metal plate. At the same time, his thumb gently flicked the switch to "Destruction," the setting where the target would explode upon being hit.

"咻!"

It was still a soft sound, an energy beam indistinguishable from the stun setting, that shot towards the metal plate and hit the center...

"轟!"

Even from this distance, the explosion was deafening, and the metal plate was instantly engulfed in a cloud of dust.

"What's the power?"

Before the smoke cleared, Hu Tao asked into the communicator. Although the area where the metal plate was located was shrouded in dust and nothing could be seen, the metal plate itself was connected to testing instruments that would accurately report the type and power of the attack it received!

"Report! Non-physical attack, pure energy beam, range index 72, impact index 103, power comparable to the X-22 tracking missile!"

The person on the other end of the communicator immediately reported the numbers on the instrument!

"What?"

Hearing this, Hu Tao gasped. Two other giants also changed their expressions.

The X-22 tracking missile was a type of ammunition used by a machine gun in their military's arsenal. It was considered conventional equipment and not very rare. Its power was decent compared to similar weapons, but not particularly impressive.

The problem was that the machine gun that used the X-22 tracking missile was a vehicle-mounted autocannon with a caliber of 26mm. Of course, such a large warhead had immense power, but Li Chenzhou was holding a handgun!

If they all had this kind of equipment, it would be equivalent to each of them carrying a vehicle-mounted autocannon. If that were the case, would the cage fighters still be so terrifying? They could be shot down at any time!!!

Finally, the smoke cleared, and everyone saw that the metal plate was still standing, but there was a large pit in front of it. The previous dust came from there!

"This... haha! I knew our test version was sturdy, see? As expected!"

Hu Tao couldn't help but laugh, trying to save face, since this training ground belonged to the military.

"咻!"

Li Chenzhou smiled slightly, raised his hand again, switched to the penetration setting, and fired another shot...

"General... the very center of the test version has been pierced! Because the test version is directly damaged, we can't provide detailed data!"

Because the distance was too far, everyone wasn't sure about the result of that shot. However, the person monitoring the testing instrument reported the result directly without waiting for Hu Tao to ask.

"..."

Hu Tao's mouth twitched. They were supposed to have the best relationship, so why did he just slap him in the face so hard?

"General Hu, this is the third setting—Penetration! All the energy is concentrated into one point. The range isn't large, but the penetrating power is extremely strong!!!"

Li Chenzhou looked at Hu Tao and smiled.

"Ahem! This gun is indeed powerful!"

Although the gun belonged to Li Chenzhou, Hu Tao, as a soldier, wouldn't deliberately belittle it. Moreover, he was looking at the gun with his eyes shining.

They naturally had their own weapons research institute, which also belonged to the military!

This institute specialized in weapons research, and the profits were naturally enormous. The four major families had wanted to get involved, but the military had firmly refused.

It was a joke. All the weapons and equipment were prepared for the soldiers. On the battlefield, these weapons and equipment were often equivalent to a life. How could they hand this institute over to those guys who only knew how to scheme?

Hu Tao was willing to bet that if this institute were really handed over to the four major families, at least one-third to one-half of the military's budget would flow into their pockets.

For the four major families, most of the soldiers were civilians. They didn't care if these people died.

Every time they heard that someone in the military had died in battle, the people from the four major families would be unhappy, not because of the dead soldiers, but because the families had to pay them a pension! Their money was flowing out again.

Therefore, if this institute fell into their hands, countless soldiers would die on the battlefield due to their greed and become food for the Devourers!

The officers behind Hu Tao, as well as the soldiers on the testing instrument side, were all looking at the handgun in Li Chenzhou's hand.

No one knew better than them how good this gun was. It could even be said without exaggeration that someone with this gun would have several more lives than others!

What they were thinking now was whether they could borrow this gun from Li Chenzhou and give it to the equipment research people to study. What if they could replicate it?

"Haha! Little Li, this is indeed a good gun! It seems that the elite Devourer who went to your world must have had a high status!"

After a long while, everyone came back to their senses. Hu Tao quickly chuckled, staring at the gun with undisguised eyes.

Seeing Hu Tao's expression, Li Chenzhou immediately understood what he was thinking. So he looked at Hu Tao and asked:

"General Hu, are you planning to study the Devourers' gun and replicate it?"

"Yes!"

Hu Tao nodded vigorously and said:

"You should know how much this gun would help us if it could be developed, and how many soldiers would survive because of this weapon?"

"I'm afraid you'll be disappointed, General Hu!"

Li Chenzhou shook his head gently and said:

"It's not that I'm stingy, but we've also studied this gun ourselves, but we can't replicate it because the most important thing about this gun is the energy beam!

Do you think that the gun's ammunition—the energy beam—is provided by mutant crystal cores? No, in fact, we still haven't figured out where the gun's energy source is!

We don't dare to disassemble this gun because it looks like a whole. So, I guess this kind of gun is specially made by the Devourers!"

"Hmm!"

Hearing Li Chenzhou's words, Hu Tao couldn't help but be stunned, then shook his head and smiled bitterly. How could he have forgotten that the weapons manufactured by the Devourers were all made of life metal?

That was a metal exclusive to the Devourers, made from the secretions of the Queen Nest, and was itself a living individual...