Chapter 52 Gains (1/2)
[Rescue!] completed. You have earned 8000 experience points.
+100 Reputation (Stardragon SDI)
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”Bro Xiao, you're the best!” Li Yao's eyes glowed with admiration.
”Heh, you only just realized?” replied Han Xiao with a hint of smugness.
Zhang Wei, realizing that he had misjudged Han Xiao, apologized, ”Sorry for doubting your ability before. Today, we only made it out alive thanks to your guidance and your equipment. Welcome to the team.”
A late welcome was better than none.
Han Xiao chuckled.
”No need to apologize over such trivial matters - I'm a gracious man.”
Zhang Wei felt a shiver down his spine. Han Xiao's words sounded odd to him.
”Oh right,” continued Han Xiao, ”who made your armored suit?”
”Oh, this is just a prototype of the [Combatant Powered Armor]. It was among the spoils of war during the battle with Theseus a few years back. Presently, it's the only functional one we have. They tried to reverse engineer it, but as progress was too slow and maintenance proved troublesome as well, it was handed to me.”
The [Combatant Armored Suit]'s crafting prerequisite was the advanced weaponry talent [Large-scale Remodeling], which was also required to craft many other power suits, machine frames, and other larger combat machinery. If Theseus had only just created the prototype, then Stardragon would definitely be much further behind.
Han Xiao saw his chance.
”You can leave the maintenance to me.”
”Sure!” rejoiced Zhang Wei. He now trusted Han Xiao's ability.
”Is this special bullet a new invention of yours?” interrupted Li Ya Lin excitedly.
Han Xiao proceeded to fully explain the use of the High-explosive Gunpowder.
Regular incendiary ammunition required a flammable target to work effectively, but the High-explosive Gunpowder contained a special chemical that could activate upon simply coming into contact with the air and 'light up' anything that it came into contact with. It's temperature and power were comparable to a Molotov, but what made it scary was that this power could be harnessed within bullets! Everyone could see how this was a game-changer.
”Are you selling this?” asked Ma Qing Yang animatedly.
”Of course - 50 a bullet.”
Now that they had proved effective, it was a good time to release them.
”I want 200!” replied Ma Qing Yang immediately. ”20 handgun bullets, 150 submachine gun bullets, and 30 sniper rifle bullets.”
”Okay,” answered Han Xiao. ”You can collect them in a day.”
”You can start to collect orders,” he instructed Li Ya Lin privately. ”Like before, I'll give you a 20% discount.”
Li Ya Lin's lips curled into a grin.
...
News of how the mission unfolded spread like wildfire in Division 13. Naturally, the incendiary bullets became the talk of the town.
”Han Xiao's new product?”
”I heard that that's what saved their lives!”
The Retractable Knife incident had already garnered Han Xiao a lot of attention. Upon Ma Qing Yang's order of the bullets becoming public knowledge, many agents came forward to inquire about them. As a way of repaying Han Xiao's team for rescuing them, Ma Qing Yang held a live demonstration in the practice field.
Everyone was stunned by the power of the incendiary bullets, and the first thing they did after the demonstration was look for Li Ya Lin to place orders. Everything was going according to Han Xiao's plan.