Roger, realizing that Lin Xinghai was indeed unclear about these matters, began to explain in detail. He covered the various uses of perceptual abilities and meticulously discussed each aspect.
Lin Xinghai’s gaze seemed somewhat unfocused, but in fact, he had a basic grasp of the matters that Roger was talking about.
Therefore, he asked the question he most wanted to know, “So once the growth stabilizes, how much will my perceptual abilities increase?”
“Generally speaking, it will be twice as much as when you overcome the genetic limiter!” Roger thought for a while and said.
Lin Xinghai’s face first registered surprise, then delight. If his perceptive abilities could double, then he would be able to sense things within 200 meters.
By then, if he went to a place like an urban area with limited vision, his perception would serve excellently as a zombie detector.
As a matter of fact, a small zombie detector could only reach a range of 300 meters.
Roger, unaware of what Lin Xinghai was thinking, spoke to himself, “Although you’ve only broken through the first genetic limiter, even if your perceptual abilities double, you can only sense up to two or three meters around you. But, don’t be discouraged, as long as…”
“I’m not discouraged.” Lin Xinghai interrupted Roger’s chatter and asked casually, “By the way, Rog, what is your current range of perception?”
“Hey, I’m not afraid to tell you that my perceptual range has reached 58 meters. Generally, people who break through the second genetic limiter have a perceptual range of about 50 to 53 meters.” Roger said with a hint of pride.
Roger also wanted to talk about his glorious deeds, but the convoy had already entered the tunnel of the cave and was about to reach the shelter, so he gave up.
After greeting the soldiers stationed here, Roger led the convoy to the elevator lobby.
However, Roger did not give the order to enter the shelter. Instead, he had the team stand by. Then, using his wrist computer, he connected to the shelter’s intranet and sent out several messages.
Then, there was a quiet wait.
This piqued Lin Xinghai’s curiosity and also struck most of the mercenaries as odd. Only the higher-ups of the mercenary group, like Roger and those of captain level, remained calm as if they had expected this scene all along.
“Rog, what’s going on?” Lin Xinghai, who didn’t like to keep his curiosity pent up, asked immediately.
After thinking for a moment, Roger said, “There are indeed some things you should know. Let’s walk over to the side and talk!”
The two of them came to the corner of the lobby, and Roger answered, “Actually, the management of the shelter is not as harmonious as you think.”
Upon hearing this, Lin Xinghai really wanted to retort: I never considered the issues of management and discord because I simply don’t have the means to understand them.
Of course, he still wanted to hear gossip, so he could only keep his complaints to himself and pretend to listen attentively.
“This matter started 30 years ago. The Earth Federation was established in order to kick off the space age.”
“Under such circumstances, cooperation between countries is close, and even many strict regulations have been relaxed. Under such circumstances, some large multinational conglomerates from Western countries have entered Nephriya.”
“Due to different national conditions, those foreign multinational conglomerates are involved in key industries like energy, aerospace, finance, healthcare, and military manufacturing. Can you imagine the impact they would make upon entering Nephriya?”
Lin Xinghai couldn’t help but nod in agreement. He was not familiar with this era, but in the era before he time-traveled, he knew that in Western capitalist countries’ elections, each candidate usually had support from various conglomerates to some extent.
This revealed the fearsomeness of those Western conglomerates.
Seeing Lin Xinghai expressing his understanding, Roger continued, “Although due to different national conditions, it is impossible for these multinational conglomerates to be as unbridled as Western countries after entering Nephriya. However, the capitalist market has still suffered a significant impact.”
“Even if the Earth Federation is disintegrated due to the catastrophe, the influence of these conglomerates cannot be underestimated.”
Hearing this, Lin Xinghai understood, “So you mean to say, the issues with the shelter’s management stem from these multinational conglomerates?”
“Yes!” Roger nodded, but then he changed the subject and immediately asked, “Do you know what is most scarce in our Star Shield Shelter?”
“Energy?” Lin Xinghai guessed.
“That’s right, it’s energy. 50% of the energy that maintains the operation of Star Shield Shelter is provided by the state, 20% is self-produced, but the remaining 30% is assisted by the Morgan Conglomerate.”
“30% of the energy needs—that’s a huge gap. The Morgan Conglomerate has been inserting their people into the shelter’s management system because they have a grip on this vulnerability.”
“Although the people they’ve planted are only in mid to low-level positions, if this continues, sooner or later they will manage to make the upper echelons merely figureheads.”
“Such a situation is, of course, intolerable to the shelter’s higher-ups. They can’t just sit back and do nothing. Starting three months ago, the top brass has been deliberately leaking information, massively gathering energy crystals.”
“It’s likely that the shelter’s higher-ups are planning to take action, but the Morgan Conglomerate isn’t easy to push around, and they’re actively trying to hinder this progress.”
“Now that we’ve brought back 1.5348 tons of energy crystals, if we don’t make any preparations and directly take them into the shelter, and the people from the Morgan Conglomerate find out, they might do something desperate.”
“Now, do you understand what’s going on!?” Roger said with a smile.
“Understood, our mercenary group will become a thorn in the side of the Morgan Conglomerate.” Lin Xinghai nodded.
Roger’s smile stiffened for a moment, “Don’t speak such ominous words! This time, the Sky Fracture Mercenary Group has made a strong impression in front of the shelter’s top brass. We will definitely rise to prominence smoothly in the future.”
“That will only happen after the Morgan Conglomerate is cleared out of the Star Shield Shelter.” Lin Xinghai retorted.
“I’m telling you, kid, keep your distance from Wu Yan and don’t pick up his bad habits. He often talks back to people just because he’s all brawn and no brains. I certainly don’t hope to see you turn out the same.” Roger said earnestly, patting Lin Xinghai’s shoulder.
Lin Xinghai gave him a sidelong glance and said nothing.
At this time, Fang Tianhe’s wrist computer vibrated. He quickly clicked on the message he had just received, and a smile appeared on his face after checking it.
“Brothers, let’s go!”