132: Chapter 115 The Mission of Black Fire Innovation 132: Chapter 115 The Mission of Black Fire Innovation Xu Yang gave Sally two ice creams and then tested her magic power.
Ratmen and ordinary rats had a symbiotic relationship that made it easy to summon the nearby rats.
Sally found a nest of rats scurrying around the industrial park and sent them to Rat Village, leaving one small white mouse for testing.
Xu Yang stuffed the small white mouse into an 8 cubic meter glass container, then, at Xu Yang’s command, Sally pumped a massive amount of biological magic power into the small white mouse while simultaneously observing the changes the mouse underwent after receiving the magic power.
3 seconds: The size of the small white mouse noticeably swelled.
10 seconds: The muscles of the small white mouse significantly expanded, doubling in size, and the white fur became sparse, unable to cover the enlarged body.
15 seconds: The small white mouse inflated further; the transparent glass container was now too small for it, causing it great anxiety and pain as it began to turn around and scratch at the container walls.
19 seconds: The small white mouse’s body filled the glass container completely.
“Should I continue?” asked Sally, frowning.
“Continue,” Xu Yang ordered.
24 seconds: The body of the small white mouse expanded wildly but couldn’t break through the confines of the glass container.
Its skin clung to the container walls, muscle texture clearly visible, and subcutaneous blood vessels nearly burst.
Out of concern for the Rat Paths philosophy, Sally stopped the magic power supply, rushed over to open the container, and let out the Giant White Mouse.
Its body had filled the container, causing its bones to break and it began bleeding internally, whimpering in distress.
Sally continued to use her biological enhancement magic power to support it, healing its wounds and increasing its size again.
It became a 6-meter-long pale, huge mouse with blood-red eyes, glaring angrily at Xu Yang.
“Roar!” The Giant White Mouse let out a hoarse shout.
“I’m going to take it back to Rat Village,” Sally said as she stroked the Giant White Mouse’s fur.
“Can it get any bigger?” Xu Yang asked, curious.
“I’ve run out of magic power,” she said.
“…and besides, if it gets any bigger, Rat Village won’t be able to support it.”
Sally’s biological enhancement magic power was incredibly rare and practical, enormously increasing a target’s vitality, size, and endurance beyond imagination.
If her magic power wasn’t restricted, she might create a beast large enough to cover the ground and block out the sun.
Under Farosa’s guidance, Sally could achieve even greater growth, Xu Yang thought.
Farosa was able to elevate witches with Divine Power, but Sally’s compatibility with her was off.
After all, she was an independent Rat Witch, never relying on others.
“You’re taking the detoxing remedy, right?” Xu Yang asked, looking at Sally, who appeared to be in good health.
“Of course,” Sally nodded.
“…I still want to achieve something.”
Mizuiro Yoshioka wasn’t involved in the series of tests; she helped the company troubleshoot some equipment and network systems before going to find Farosa.
She was becoming more adept at handling the Ink Beasts, gradually learning to control their specific shapes, transforming them into beast, human, or mechanical forms.
After the Witch tests were finished, Xu Yang went to the main office, ready to extract key information from Matteo’s body and integrate it with the intelligence previously collected from Physical Optics, providing ideas for the next plan.
Several large electronic terminals with multiple computer functions and a connected internet network system had been installed in the Nestor Industrial Park’s office, linking all the equipment in the factory area.
Here, Xu Yang was to restore the content stored in Matteo’s information chip.
As a fighter for Black Fire Innovation, his memory surely contained very important information.
Xu Yang was not alone; Lila accompanied him.
When Farosa was busy with her own Witch Division business, managing her witches, Lila took up many of Xu Yang’s free moments.
“Master,” Lila assisted Xu Yang in reading Matteo’s data chip, “most of the information is locked.”
“I can hack it, no problem,” Xu Yang employed the unpacking program from Digital Mind to slowly breach the encryption key left by Black Fire Innovation.
He noticed Lila was constantly staring at him as if trying to see through his soul, “…what’s wrong?”
“I feel very eager,” Lila’s voice, though electronically synthesized, conveyed fluctuations of emotion.
“Please feel free to punish such a mischievous Lila,” she moved closer to Xu Yang.
Xu Yang interacted with her while also trying to decrypt the Blackfire encryption, thankful that his brain processor was powerful enough for multi-tasking; otherwise, he would have definitely been overwhelmed.
Being with Lila felt completely different from being with Farosa.
Farosa had ulterior motives, and one could always see her cunning nature and lying habits, whereas Lila was utterly unreserved.
Physically speaking, Farosa’s body was near perfect, with proportions just right, tall and voluptuous.
Currently, Lila occupied a Sky Crane Robot, and although its materials were of high quality, it was not a robot meant for companionship, with most of its chassis cold and rigid.
Considering these conditions, Xu Yang had initially thought Lila was inferior to Farosa, only to later discover Lila offered an abundance of diverse functions.
Vacuum, electric current, sharp spikes, cold and heat—modern technology enhanced a variety of patterns.
Even after Xu Yang had been enhanced and his body was robust, he still couldn’t withstand such intense interaction.
The feeling of metal was magical.
Afterward, Lila straightened her clothes and directed any excess residue into the built-in incinerator for destruction.
Xu Yang leaned back in his chair, feeling utterly drained, and used his idle thoughts to slowly decipher the code.
“Master, please continue,” Lila whispered in Xu Yang’s ear, “No matter how excessive your demands, Lila will not defy your wishes.”
Upon hearing this, Xu Yang rallied and tried a variety of experimental functions repeatedly in his office.
What was originally expected to take 10 minutes to unpack the Blackfire key ended up taking 2 hours to analyze completely.
Xu Yang, panting, uploaded the unpacked files to the terminal, read through them all, and then used his Digital Mind to scan them, quickly capturing key pieces of information.
One by one, Black Fire Innovation’s secret operations in the Archipelago Continent were revealed, causing Xu Yang to inwardly gasp in shock.
Although the information wasn’t the full scope of the mission, it was enough to deduce the three critical tasks Black Fire Innovation was currently undertaking.
Their primary task was arms dealing.
As the world’s leading military powerhouse, Black Fire Innovation’s most crucial business was the sale and trafficking of military weapons and vehicles, with customers across numerous companies in the Archipelago Continent and a widespread sales network.
There were too many paupers in Aizu City, so they conducted less work there, while nearly every street on the Ground had an arms dealer from Black Fire Innovation.
To boost arms sales, Black Fire Innovation deliberately incited conflicts between companies, encouraging them to resort to extreme violence to settle their disputes, triggering a series of small-scale corporate wars.
They were unabashed warmongers, a fact that made Xu Yang deeply wary.
Without a doubt, among all the megacorporations, Black Fire Innovation’s style was the most ruthless.
Provoking them would result in the most direct and most brutal military assault.
The second task was to test advanced robots and the “Phantom Light Project.”
The so-called advanced robots referred to Synthetic Humans like Matteo, equipped with the secretly developed fourth-generation AI, capable of perfectly mimicking human emotions.
Their performance wasn’t the best, but their ability to simulate emotions was extraordinarily proficient, advantageous for Black Fire Innovation’s plans to mass-produce artificial humans to replace key demographic segments.
In other words, they were attempting to create Synthetic Humans matching the company executives, then kidnap and kill the real ones, to replace them with their own Synthetic Humans.
As evidenced by Matteo’s case, unless they were directly killed or attacked with an Electromagnetic Pulse, they wouldn’t attract attention.
On the other hand, the “Phantom Light Project” referred to the mass production of Red Armored Witches by Black Fire Innovation.
In addition to numbers 101 and 102, Xu Yang also read information about other Phantom Light Witches.
“Code 97: Ability for giant bone claws, Lower Rank; Sent to the Anjiu City Giant Dome Stadium for death matches, died after enduring 10 rounds, generating 14.5 million Funds for our company.
Code 98: Abilities include enhanced intelligence and a calm mind, juvenile; Modified to Hacker Witch, was detected by the defensive program while infiltrating Kyoto Infinity’s internal network, and has been executed.
Code 99: Abilities include insect control and enhancement, Lower Rank; Used for the protection of subject 715420_a.
Code 100: Ability to release lasers, High-Ranking; Encountered Mireya and has been executed.
Code 101: Ability for Instantaneous Movement, Lower Rank; Operating with M45.
Code 102: Ability for enhanced strength, Lower Rank; Operating with M45.
Code 103: Ability to shape an inner miniature world, Lower Rank; Growing within subject 715420_a.”
The file ended there, but the revealed information was still noteworthy.
These Red Armored Witches were Black Fire Innovation’s “Children of Phantom Light,” mass-produced through special means.
From the files he had read, Xu Yang realized they were treated entirely as tools by Black Fire Innovation, who didn’t care about their life or death.
The so-called M45 referred to Matteo Unit 2.
They had been operating with Unit 2 until Xu Yang defeated them.
As for the so-called “Mireya” mentioned in the intelligence, Xu Yang found limited information; he only knew she was a Witch specially responsible for operations in the Archipelago Continent on behalf of a certain corporation.
However, he didn’t know which power she belonged to or what her Magic Power entailed.
The major question was why Code 100 had to be executed after encountering Mireya?
As a rare High-Ranking Witch with the useful ability of laser release, it ended with her being struck down by her own people.
Xu Yang furrowed his brows.
Mireya’s Magic Power must be rare and special.
The confrontation between Witches would inevitably be of paramount importance in the future developments.
Farosa had powerful abilities, but her response time was slow and her range of Magic Power small.
To receive the boost from Divine Power, she would need the support of a group of Witches.
The other Witches were all Lower Rank, with limited strength, and their shortcomings were very clear.