Chapter 194

So that's how it is!

No wonder He Jingfeng dared to live in this place openly and even renovated it with great fanfare, transforming the original swimming pool manor into a Chinese-style garden courtyard...

Lin Yu's face showed understanding, then he asked with a smile: "Let's not talk about this; have you decided on the location of the portal?"

"Of course!"

He Jingfeng's expression became serious; he immediately put down his wine glass, took out the phone in his pocket, and made a call.

A moment later, he hung up the phone, smiled, and raised his hand: "The car is ready, big brother, please!"

"... What kind of act is this?"

Lin Yu looked at him with interest.

He Jingfeng sighed and said: "Big brother, have you forgotten? I'm just the manager pushed out by the brothers; you are the largest shareholder holding the most shares!"

"The big boss behind the scenes has finally appeared; how can I not show his face in front of the subordinates, letting them know that there is indeed a more mysterious big force behind the company?"

Company, huh?

It seems the Nether Pavilion's journey to the surface is going quite smoothly!

Lin Yu looked at He Jingfeng thoughtfully, then smiled: "Alright then, lead the way!"

"Alright!"

He Jingfeng showed a smile and immediately led Lin Yu out of the mansion diligently.

Soon, the two came to the motorcade that had been prepared long ago; in the center was a black stretched Lincoln, surrounded by a total of eight bulletproof black sedans in front and behind.

More than twenty men and women in suits stood beside the motorcade, respectfully waiting for Lin Yu and the other.

"... Such a big show?"

Lin Yu looked at He Jingfeng in surprise.

He Jingfeng chuckled: "Can't compare to big brother's dojo!"

Lin Yu looked at him speechlessly, then shifted his gaze to the bodyguards in suits around him.

Soon, he saw three or four familiar faces among this group of strange-person bodyguards; they were the Tang Sect disciples who had been sent by their elders to the Nether Pavilion for training!

And among these Tang Sect disciples, the one who interested Lin Yu the most was undoubtedly the curly-haired girl with a detached temperament.

"... Is that Tao Tao?"

Lin Yu asked with interest.

He Jingfeng glanced at her and nodded: "Mm, that's her."

Lin Yu asked curiously: "The Tang Sect is actually willing to let her out?"

He Jingfeng whispered with a smile: "Originally they were reluctant, but who told our company to have the world's only benefits!"

Any Tang Sect disciple sent to the Nether Pavilion, as long as they performed meritorious service, would be granted a Spirit Seed; after returning, everyone's strength greatly increased, easily defeating the good seedlings that the Tang Sect was reluctant to let out.

At this, the elders of the Tang Sect's upper echelon exploded.

In order not to waste the talent of those good seedlings, they could only pinch their noses and swallow the sugar-coated bullet, sending all those geniuses hidden in the inner and outer sects over.

Lin Yu smiled: "It seems the Tang Sect can't escape the 'true fragrance' law either!"

"Of course!"

He Jingfeng answered while smiling, waving his hand to drive away the suit-wearing lackey waiting by the car door, and then personally opened the car door of the stretched Lincoln for Lin Yu.

"Big brother, please."

"..."

Lin Yu nodded slightly and sat into the spacious car.

He Jingfeng followed closely behind and closed the car door.

With the closing of the car door, many suit-wearing subordinates began to move, sitting into the bulletproof sedans in twos and threes, escorting this stretched Lincoln out of Beverly Hills.

On the way, Lin Yu asked about the current status of the Nether Pavilion.

He Jingfeng's expression became serious, and he began to report the current development situation to Lin Yu.

Since obtaining technology far beyond the era, the Nether Pavilion began to transform step by step.

To this day, the Nether Pavilion's business focus has completely shifted to the technology field.

The public industries that originally belonged to the upper echelon of the Spear of God were all integrated by He Jingfeng, founding a large multinational technology company named Bai Yu Group.

As for the Nether Pavilion's assassin business, it was also retained by He Jingfeng.

It's just that compared to before, the tasks in terms of assassination have greatly decreased; it exists more as a strange-person force in contact with the inner world, as well as the intelligence agency and security force of the Bai Yu Group.

Of course, this is only generally speaking, excluding some relatively special regions.

For example, a certain island country where Yakuza is legal, the African continent where wars occur frequently, and the Southeast Asian region where warlords are numerous, one can see the figures of Nether Pavilion assassins.

In these places, the Nether Pavilion's assassination business is still as frequent as usual.

Generally speaking, disciples sent by the Tang Sect like to run to the island country to hone their skills.

Only children like Tao Tao who don't like killing choose protection-type tasks.

As for whether the decrease in assassination tasks will lead to a surplus of manpower... the answer is of course not!

And in fact, the opposite is true; the three new research bases of the Bai Yu Group all need a large amount of security force.

Those assassins who were freed from the assassination business couldn't even meet the needs of the largest research base.

In order to better protect the company's technology and property, He Jingfeng had to expand his manpower, relying on Number Two's connections and channels to incorporate five top mercenary groups, signing lifetime employment contracts with them.

Since then, these people have been equivalent to selling themselves to the Bai Yu Group.

It is no exaggeration to say 'living as the company's people, dying as the company's ghosts'!

Such a huge price is exchanged for an outrageously high treatment.

There is no need to talk about salary and benefits; it is definitely far beyond the industry's top treatment, and food, clothing, housing, transportation, and medical insurance are all paid for by the company.

But even so, it is still not enough to make these mercenaries offer everything they have.

What really moved them was actually the hidden benefits outside the terms—

For example, the 【Super Soldier Serum】 injected after joining the company, the priority trial rights after the success of low-confidentiality experimental projects, and the year-end bonus 【Anti-Aging Serum】 that can be obtained every three years, etc...

That's right, these technologies produced by the Treasure Pavilion are also being researched by the Bai Yu Group simultaneously.

Although Linghua has awakened high-level consciousness, her thinking structure is different from humans; she is better at information integration and replication, while her creativity is slightly weaker than humans.

She can make small-scale innovations on known technology, but the flashes of inspiration from those human geniuses can directly push the development process of the entire civilization, achieving qualitative technological breakthroughs.

Based on this reason, Lin Yu still attaches great importance to the development of the Bai Yu Group.

He Jingfeng has also recruited many top talents because of this; the treatment is even far beyond those mercenaries who serve as security forces, which can be said to be the most precious property of the Bai Yu Group.

"... The place we are going to this time is the West Coast base of the Bai Yu Group."

"That is our largest research base at present, possessing the highest confidentiality level and security force, responsible for researching serums and mechanical technology from various worlds."

With He Jingfeng's detailed report, the motorcade drove out of Los Angeles in a mighty manner.

Not long after, the motorcade drove into a building complex with a very large area in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

According to He Jingfeng, this was originally an old industrial park, but later, due to the soaring labor costs, major capital shifted factories to countries with cheap labor, causing this place to be abandoned for many years.

After He Jingfeng bought it, under the banner of making old American industry great again, he transferred his manufacturing enterprises over.

On the surface, they produce expensive agricultural machinery such as seeders and harvesters, but secretly, they hollowed out the underground, relying on earth-type magic and strange people with related abilities to build an extremely huge underground base.

Arriving at the luxuriously decorated office, He Jingfeng turned the deer antlers used for decoration on the wall, revealing the alloy elevator door behind the wall.

At this time, many bodyguards in suits, including Tao Tao, stayed outside the door; only a three-person security team that had injected serum and signed a 'selling oneself' contract followed them into the office.

Lin Yu glanced at the professional bodyguards beside him who were looking straight ahead, then looked at He Jingfeng with interest.

He saw him take out a phone without internet function from his pocket, open a certain software, and according to the numbers displayed on it, enter a ten-digit dynamic password on the elevator door before successfully opening it.

"Chhh—"

Accompanied by a soft sound, the alloy door slowly opened.

He Jingfeng turned to the side and smiled: "Big brother, you first!"

Lin Yu nodded with a smile and stepped into the elevator first.

He Jingfeng and the three security personnel followed closely behind.

With the slow descent of the elevator, Lin Yu spread out his spiritual power, looking at the West Coast base below with great interest.

In his perception, the structure of the entire West Coast base is similar to the Hive base in "Resident Evil", but the scale is slightly smaller, with a total of only five floors.

From the scene fed back by spiritual power, every floor of the base presents a pentagonal shape.

The center of the floor is a smaller pentagon, where elevators and safety passages connecting each floor are set up.

Radiating outward from the five sides of this small pentagon, five trapezoidal areas are divided.

Among them, each area possesses a laboratory with a very high safety level, as well as various functional areas such as rest areas and entertainment areas, provided for the research teams in this area to use.

So far, only the laboratories on the first three floors are open to researchers.

The bottom two floors have not yet been officially put into use, and the elevators and stairs are still in a closed state.

Calculated by five research teams per floor, three floors mean a full fifteen research teams!

This number even surprised Lin Yu; it is hard to imagine where He Jingfeng dug up so many talents.

Not long after, the elevator arrived at the B1 level of the underground base.

With the slow opening of the door, a bald, middle-aged white man came into Lin Yu's view.

Unlike the kind of confident elite he imagined, this researcher wearing a white coat seemed very bad at socializing, and appeared quite reserved when seeing He Jingfeng and Lin Yu.

Fortunately, He Jingfeng had long known his personality, so he immediately introduced with a smile: "Big brother, let me introduce you; this is the chief researcher of the West Coast base, Dr. Kai Turner!"

"He is a super genius spanning multiple fields such as chemistry, physics, and computer science, possessing multiple doctoral degrees in physics, engineering, and computer science from MIT!"

No wonder he can have the hairstyle of a strong person!

Lin Yu looked with awe, reached out his hand and said: "Very happy to meet you, Dr. Turner!"

(End of chapter)