Chapter 2470 - 2462: Factions
The proprietress’s attitude was quite clear, but San San was too lazy to respond, creating a rather unpleasant situation with unsatisfactory results.
However, that’s how things are; during wartime, happiness is not important—what matters most is survival.
Feng Jun was actually monitoring everything all along. In this technologically advanced society, he dared not casually release his Divine Sense, but with a Big Boss by his side who didn’t mind even at the Emergence Stage, obtaining information was unexpectedly easy.
He then discovered that the list provided by the Chen Family indeed contained items he needed, such as the pharmaceutical production line he wanted.
The Chen Family had considerable strength in the pharmaceutical industry, not to mention two factories on Xingzheng Star that possessed several drug production lines.
Feng Jun was particularly concerned with anti-cancer drugs, and the Chen Family had an entire series—in truth, cancer is a toxic tumor accompanying human genes, deeply influenced by emotions. When conditions are right, it proliferates; theoretically, it’s hard to completely prevent.
Next are drugs concerning immune system diseases, including but not limited to AIDS, lupus—while the immune system is quite complex, the local treatment methods lean towards traditional Chinese medicine concepts, emphasizing strengthening and cultivating one’s immunity.
There’s no choice; the immune system can easily have problems with endless variations, making it difficult to respond with precise countermeasures.
Ultimately, it’s better to enhance one’s immune capabilities—this is what the people of this world have realized.
Besides this, there was the treatment for Alzheimer’s, which Feng Jun constantly thought of, and the Chen Family also had medications.
Alzheimer’s is actually just a facade; its scientific name in the Earth Realm is Alzheimer’s disease, not necessarily appearing only in old age—cases of it appearing in the forties or fifties are quite common.
In this world, Alzheimer’s is viewed as abnormal telomere shortening, classified as a genetic disease linked to longevity mechanisms, though not entirely so, and while hard to treat, it can be easily managed.
Importantly, the diabetes treatment that Feng Jun relied on—Chen Family does not possess similar drug manufacturing technology—not even the entire Xingzheng Star has it.
Nevertheless, speaking of the medical aspect, Chen Family’s influence extends beyond Xingzheng Star, especially the improvements made to Insect Race genes, enhancing the Human Race’s ability for limb regeneration. Chen Family’s research results are noteworthy in the Human Federation.
That’s just the medical aspect; apart from that, Chen Family excels in another area: agriculture.
Agriculture is truly a strong suit for the Chen Family, especially in cultivating crops in extreme environments—high-yield ones, at that. Their gene analysis in this sector is remarkably precise, unmatched in the Federation.
If it weren’t for this... the Chen Family wouldn’t have had so many clansmen relocated to Xingzheng Star.
However, the Chen Family is very strict with the agricultural technology; the list they provide only includes "Second-level or lower crop yield increase genetic technology"—nothing at the first level or special level.
Interestingly, the Chen Family’s list is out, but they don’t know where to invest it.
Previously, this was unimaginable: the Chen Clan Association has over seventy thousand people. Despite the main base being in Xiajing, a not too large city, they hold significant power in Zuo Jing and Youjing.
Where would you find situations where contact is unable to be established?
Ninth Brother confidently stated that it’s up to him, but internally felt very lost on how to reach those people.
He verified through official recordings, seeking the appearance time of this person, but found no results, leaving him to silently pray: may the other party truly be as omnipotent as I imagine?
Feng Jun was more omnipotent than he imagined, but he was not in haste to reach the other party—forcing an interaction isn’t beneficial, so while it’s nighttime now, better to wander around the military base.
However, the military base’s defenses exceeded Feng Jun’s expectations. Shortly after approaching, the Big Boss advised him, "You’re about to be detected; quickly relocate... No, this isn’t a good spot, keep moving... Ah, you’re about to be detected again..."
Feng Jun changed locations five or six times, finding that lingering near the military base was truly unsuitable, forcing him to retreat more than three miles away, "Is it really impossible to get closer?"
"Not being detected is already fortunate," the Yin Spirit Bigwig commented leisurely, "You’ve triggered five alerts, and because the Insect Race is encroaching heavily now, the false alarm rates are high. Otherwise, if the other side pursued, you’d be in serious trouble."
Feng Jun wasn’t surprised by this logic; he asked in a deep voice, "Can you find a relatively safe passage?"
"Let’s try slowly," the Big Boss though not very certain about it, remarked, "Some large equipment here might even capture my Divine Sense fluctuations. What you should do now is to circle the military base several times; I’ll calculate."
Feng Jun wandered around for over three hours before the Big Boss stated, "Roughly calculated, you might have two to three opportunities just after midnight to enter, though the internal defenses are very tight. Let’s continue calculating tomorrow night."
Continue tomorrow... Feng Jun’s mouth twitched, "Well, we’re just sitting idle now, might as well keep simulating."
The Big Boss didn’t mind, and actually looked forward to it, "Sure, let’s see what changes occur in the defenses by dawn."
But after another hour, it suddenly said, "About four miles ahead, at the entrance of a plum blossom bunker, there’s a woman who seems interesting... She’s been moving around all night. Why don’t you simulate this one?"
"Someone’s going to discover the hotspot signal again," Feng Jun sighed helplessly, reaching for his mobile phone.
"Then find a place with a more complicated electromagnetic environment," the Big Boss had now gained some understanding of WIFI signals and the like, "I don’t feel like your electromagnetic signal is very strong."
"That’s all I can do," Feng Jun sighed again, and his figure flashed to a spot where several small antennas converged. This was a small node in the city’s defense system, with multiple signals emanating from here and not interfering with one another.
He then activated the "Nearby People" mode and quickly found the woman the Big Boss had mentioned. After checking the related information, he was taken aback, "Are you kidding me, she’s actually a spy from the Xiongman Empire?"
The Xiongman was once a loose federal empire, with an imperial family respected by the major nobles, and each level of nobility had their own appointed stars and fiefs, as well as private armies.
When the Human Federation was established, the Xiongman Empire was in the midst of internal chaos, so it was easily broken up and dismantled by the Federation, which reclaimed most of the fiefdoms and dissolved the private armies, but promised to retain noble titles and private properties.
The remnants of the Xiongman Empire still had significant influence on seven or eight planets, and as for private armies... While they no longer existed openly, there could be armed guards and security companies, right?
As long as they didn’t raise a flag of rebellion, the Federation turned a blind eye. The last time the Federation cracked down on Xiongman resistances was eighty years ago, when a leader of a Xingzheng Star was assassinated, and the Federation had zero tolerance for such events.
In the context of the "Unified Front Against the Insect Race," interactions among human factions were relatively restrained, but mutual infiltration was inevitable.
Feng Jun could confirm this woman’s identity; besides being a member of the Xiongman Restoration Army, she was also the second daughter of the Earl of Green Starmoon of Xiongman, and the eighth in line to inherit the title.
Faced with this situation, he was initially stunned, but then he realized, "Can I leverage such a force?"
The Big Boss, however, casually remarked, "If I were you, I’d go through everyone in the military department; there might be more to find."
"There are over eight thousand people in the military department," Feng Jun sighed depressively, "Oh well, I’ll do my best."
He rarely used his mobile phone on Xingzheng Star before, mainly because the hotspot had once been detected, so he took caution. Now that he realized the military department wasn’t all united, he felt it was necessary to verify, even if it meant a larger workload.
However, over eight thousand people were quite a lot. Feng Jun pondered for a moment, and tried adding a bracket to "Nearby People," "Display by color to indicate different factions."
It was just a spur-of-the-moment idea, but to his surprise, when he clicked into it, it actually worked. The screen was filled with dense green dots, along with spots of red, yellow, blue, and gray.
The eighth in line Earl inheritor named "Saniya" belonged to the light blue faction, which wasn’t a small group—there were at least seventy to eighty people, making Feng Jun click his tongue in awe; the Federation army was indeed accommodating (full of loopholes).
What drew his attention the most was the red faction with only eight dots. In gaming terms, red usually represented hostile forces, but it was unclear what red signified here.
He randomly looked at a red dot and found it was "Karne Star Independent Free Army," along with the "Saddle Constellation Federation Resistance Alliance," "Dumbbell Star System National Self-Determination Committee," and "Doomsday Libra Sect"...
What surprised him even more was that there was actually someone from the "Insect God Cult."
Feng Jun truly did not expect there would be humans worshipping the Insect God. He had never heard of any such cult in the official propaganda—was it unformed, or did they not want to shake public confidence?
Feng Jun understood well that as long as there were enough people, various strange ideas would emerge, and antihuman thoughts and behaviors were not impossible. But to be so antihuman to this extent, it probably couldn’t be explained by Stockholm syndrome.
Fortunately, this individual was just a lowly junior officer, part of the engineer corps.
He didn’t speak for a long time, making the Big Boss wonder, "What’s wrong?"
Feng Jun chuckled bitterly, "There are indeed all kinds of people. Some don’t even want to be human..."
After hearing this, the Big Boss snorted dismissively, "Betraying one’s own race... is that so rare? It’s just that you think too highly of human nature."