Chapter 171: Disappointment

To be honest, upon hearing this mission, Li Boyong's first reaction was to resist this criminal act of kidnapping a girl in her prime.

The second reaction was whether he could take the opportunity to execute the mission to protect this girl who was about to suffer a tragic fate.

The third reaction, being targeted by Amalgam, the organization would not let go so simply without thoroughly investigating whether the girl was a Whispered. And he was just an executive unit, not a research facility in charge of investigation, so the probability of success in concealing the truth was very low.

Although he was indeed interested in obtaining the assistance of a Whispered, the risk of shielding this girl he didn't know was too high.

"Hey hey, Mr. Ag, aren't you going too far? I have no interest in this kind of street hooligan stuff!"

Li Boyong put on an appearance of suppressing anger and rejected Leonard's mission, "For this kind of mission, just find some losers to do it."

If it was a Whispered, he had another safer and less noticeable target.

That was Nami who appeared in the plot of Full Metal Panic's third season. If he wanted to subdue her, the difficulty would be much smaller than shielding Mira from Amalgam.

So, since the target was set on Nami, Li Boyong decided to temporarily not participate in matters related to the Whispered, so that he could lower his suspicion to the lowest.

If he couldn't save that girl, why go there specifically to find trouble? Watching a girl in her prime suffer inhuman treatment was not his interest.

"Sorry, it was my rudeness," Leonard seemed a bit surprised by Li Boyong's reaction and apologized without sincerity, "After all, a girl in her prime of the same age as the young lady in your house, it's no wonder you are so resistant."

Such an apology could already be considered a provocation.

"Forget it, since you are not interested, then I won't force it."

Seeing Li Boyong not showing the expected reaction to his provocation, Leonard waved his hand somewhat disappointedly, "After the machine is maintained, you can go home yourself."

"Understood." Li Boyong handed the data in his hand back to Leonard and went to the lounge himself.

Sorry, girl.

The mission to save you will be left to your future secret crush.

As for Leonard's dissatisfaction, he wasn't very worried.

Perhaps he would be given small shoes to wear, but it wouldn't be too serious.

Leonard was only one of the executive officers after all, and couldn't cover the sky with one hand in the organization.

And he himself was now an executive, although he was recommended into the organization by Leonard, he was not Leonard's direct unit.

Theoretically, Leonard had no direct command over him, and could only hire Li Boyong to work like he hired the Xia sisters.

Since it was hiring, if he felt the work was not good, he could naturally push it away.

This kind of thing was not rare in the organization.

Looking at Li Boyong's departing back, Leonard narrowed his eyes with some disgust.

Forget it, this kind of bumpkin full of nationalism, where would he know what a Whispered is, and where would he understand the importance of a Whispered to the world.

On the side, the Xia sisters quietly loosened their clenched hands.

For some reason, hearing Li Boyong reject Leonard so firmly just now, the sisters both became slightly nervous.

Now that everything was safe, the sisters breathed a sigh of relief.

And Wilhelm secretly observed the sisters' reaction and showed an interested smile.

Jiulong's pair of foster daughters didn't seem to be just emotionless tools as rumored.

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Five days later, Li Boyong returned to the Ankra region with the Phantom.

On the border line, he met the subordinates originally arranged to meet him.

"Boss, next time there is a mission to make extra money, you can take us with you."

The subordinates belonging to Amalgam's Ankra branch complained after greeting Li Boyong.

These guys were all selected by Li Boyong from Amalgam's mercenary troops, and their temperaments were more to his liking, and their loyalty was also high.

After all, those he could look upon were basically those outcasts in Amalgam who had a bottom line and were often excluded, so their loyalty to Li Boyong, this executive officer, had always been good.

"Next time. This mission really exhausted me."

Li Boyong parked the machine on the transport truck and climbed into the relatively comfortable truck cab.

"By the way, Boss, the machine you brought back this time looks a bit different."

The subordinate driving next to him asked.

"It's okay. After all, it's a third-generation AS. The performance is still there, it's just a bit ugly."

Li Boyong replied casually.

"Third-generation AS?" The subordinate was quite surprised, "Can the organization even get this kind of thing?"

Then he complained: "But you are really picky. This is a third-generation AS. The organization handing this machine to you is a great trust in you, but you are still disgusted. For weapons, performance is the most important thing."

It seemed that anyone who stayed with Li Boyong for a long time would be infected with a bit of the bad habit of complaining.

"Who told you this kind of crooked reasoning?" Li Boyong retorted, seeming to have returned to this land, he was in a good mood and willing to pull a few more words, "Looking handsome is a lifelong thing. Poor performance can be enhanced through modification."

Subordinate: "............"

Alright, you are the Boss, whatever you say is right.

Returning smoothly to the hinterland of the Ankra region, Li Boyong parked the Phantom in the Independent Army's hangar and told the hangar control not to let any idlers approach the machine, and then made a phone call to ask Shihe to come over immediately.

"What's wrong?" Shihe arrived at the hangar, saw Li Boyong, and asked: "What happened? Why are you calling me over in such a hurry?"

"Show you something good," Li Boyong pointed to the Phantom behind him and said to Shihe: "You definitely can't guess what is used to drive this thing."

"What thing?" Shihe was confused by Li Boyong's mysterious appearance, "It can't be nuclear-powered, right?"

She just said it casually, but who knew Li Boyong actually snapped his fingers, "Bingo, you guessed it right."

What?

Shihe was dumbfounded. According to the technological level of this world, the appearance of something like AS was enough to be illogical.

But now Li Boyong pointed to an AS and told her that there was a nuclear-powered AS.

This...

You know, the AS widely equipped now is generally driven by turbo internal pressure power.

As a result, it suddenly evolved from turbo internal pressure to nuclear power. Your technology tree is not a stump or a network, but a checkers game, right?

"It's true. You can check the machine later and you'll know," Li Boyong walked to Shihe and asked seriously: "If there is nuclear power, can that thing be made?"

That thing?

A moment later, Shihe reacted. Li Boyong was referring to beam weapons.

"There are still many difficulties to overcome in terms of technology. After all, a mature weapon requires the support of mature military industrial technology in all aspects," Shihe thought while answering: "Although the possibility is not zero, even if I have theoretical knowledge, wanting to produce initial results requires a large investment from an economic power for several years before it is possible to have results."

Hearing Shihe's answer, Li Boyong's heart cooled by half.

But thinking about it, it was right. This world originally only had the technological level of the 20th century. It was the black technology possessed by the Whispered that allowed humanoid mobile weapons like AS to appear on the battlefield.

It could be said that many technologies skipped the prerequisite steps and directly produced results.

This kind of unsound technology tree indeed had many obstacles in research. ===== CHAPTER 172 =====