GLOBAL GAME: TEN BILLION SPIRIT ENERGY COINS FROM THE START

Chapter 795: 792, “Lin Long” Research Institute Origin_1

“Tens of thousands? Are you certain there are tens of thousands? What on earth are they trying to do?!” Manina’s face turned ashen.

“Your Majesty, there are indeed tens of thousands. Based on reliable intelligence, the number is approximately 11,200,” Xi Weng on the other side confirmed with a solemn face.

“This…” Manina felt like his head might explode, his mind a complete blank, utterly at a loss at what to do.

11,200 dragons!

What on earth were they plotting?

In Dragon Island, there lived a total of just over 20,000 dragons. Taking into account those who were old, weak, or children, and those that stayed behind as defending force, it could be said that they had moved out in full force!

The full-scale march of the Dragon Race led by the Dragon Emperor and five Dragon Kings meant a destructive power that could annihilate the world!

Now, the defensive force in Sun City was significantly sparse. The ancestors and Pu Langte are in the wild mainland, a part of the legendary figures of Sanctuary level were sent to guard Blue Star, whilst the others marched ahead to the wild mainland without hesitation after the “Final Secret Realm” opened up.

Needless to say, this was absolutely the moment when the defensive capabilities of Sun City were most vulnerable.

The massive attack from the Dragon Race could potentially spell disaster for Sun City!

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However, in the face of this crisis, Manina, with his imperial resolve, managed to maintain his composure, at least for the moment.

Manina had been educated since a young age that in the face of crisis, one must remain calm. Only with a calm mind could one quickly find a way around the danger.

He closed his eyes and took several deep breaths. His jumbled emotions momentarily subdued.

After a moment, he opened his eyes and looked at Xi Weng, “Xi Weng, do you know the specific reason why the Dragon Race is heading to Sun City?”

Xi Weng, having prepared his answer in advance, replied without hesitation, “Your Majesty, although I can’t be 100% certain, I believe I can guess why they’re coming to Dragon Island based on various clues.

As you know, our intelligence department has planted 14 informants in Dragon Island… No, they should be called informer dragons.

Just now, 13 out of these 14 informer dragons declared that they would permanently sever their connection with us. Even if we expose them to the Dragon Race, they won’t be working for us anymore.”

“Hmm, what about the remaining one?”

“The message from the remaining one was similar to the other 13, but at the end, it said, ‘We will not forget the blood debt of the Red Dragon King. I will see to it that you pay for your crimes in blood!’

From this sentence, we can deduce with 99% surety that something has gone wrong in the ‘Lin Long’ Research Institute. The information related to the corpse of the Red Dragon King under research has been leaked and is now known to the Dragon Race.”

As Xi Weng spoke, his voice dropped to a whisper, barely louder than a mosquito’s hum toward the end.

The core research being carried out within the “Lin Long” Research Institute is a closely guarded secret of the Empire, and its inexplicable leakage meant that he, as the head of intelligence, cannot escape responsibility and could very well lose his position.

Inside “Sun One”, Manina’s arm was trembling slightly. This trembling gradually spread throughout his body.

Just when they least expected or wanted it, something had gone wrong with the “Lin Long” Research Institute!

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The story of the “Lin Long” Research Institute could be traced back 300 years.

The “Lin Long” existed even 300 years ago. However, back then, they were not a research institute, but a mercenary group engaged in underground transactions in the black market.

The mercenary group originated from the city of Lin Long, taking their name from their home city.

They had unique information channels, and the leader of the mercenary group had inherited the bloodline of the dragon, allowing him to sense the presence of dragons from a great distance.

Because of this special ability, the mercenary group often ventured into the wild mainland in search of the corpses of dragons that had died unexpectedly, which they would then bring back to the Empire of Raging Sun to sell.

A dragon’s body was nothing short of a treasure trove!

Whether it was dragon scales, dragon meat, dragon blood, dragon teeth, dragon liver, or dragon horns, each part could be sold for an astronomical price. This trade filled the coffers of the mercenary group, and their size rapidly expanded.

In just over a decade, the “Lin Long” mercenary group expanded from a small group of over 30 people to a huge organization of nearly 10,000, with their business booming.

However, it was this very success that drew unwanted attention, and about 280 years ago, the mercenary group was destroyed by the police system of the Raging Sun Empire.

At the time, the Empire’s Chief of Police found more than a dozen dragon corpses in the mercenary group’s headquarters and was shocked.

Not risking negligence, he quickly sealed off news of the incident and reported the situation to Emperor Manina.

Manina was equally shocked by the happenings.

Such large-scale trafficking of dragon parts would inevitably incur the wrath of the dragons. The best course of action would be to hand over the culprits to the Dragon Race for judgement, distance the Empire from the incident, and offer the Dragon Race hefty compensation as quickly as possible.

However, Manina opted not to follow this course of action.

Instead, he eyed the leader of “Lin Long”, who harbored a thin dragon bloodline, and decided to recruit him for his own use. Furthermore, he saw potential for “Lin Long” as an organization.

Thus, under the influence of the Royal Family, the “Lin Long” mercenary group’s criminal actions were not exposed. They were absorbed by the royal family, becoming part of its secret operations, and renaming themselves the “Lin Long” Dragon Research Institute 250 years ago.

Backed by the royal family, “Lin Long” operated with fewer restrictions, acting more unscrupulously than ever, and its scale of operations expanded accordingly.

200 years ago, they bought a small hill in the suburbs. They hollowed out the belly of the hill, moving all “secret research” about the Dragon Race into the hill, thus shaping what would eventually become the “Lin Long Research Institute.”

As for the size, it also expanded from the original 10,000 mercenaries to 80,000 affiliated researchers, becoming the most important part of His Majesty the Emperor’s black industry chain.

However, there were still many restrictions on the expansion of “Lin Long”.

The biggest restraint was that the corpses of dragons that had died accidentally were running out.

Over the past 300 years, the Dragon Race had become increasingly gentle and homebound, vastly resembling wild boars settling into domestication.

Having lost most of their aggressive and combative nature, most dragons preferred to stay in Dragon Island to rest, rather than venture to the mainland for training and self-improvement.

This led “Lin Long” into an awkward situation—they could no longer find the corpses of dragons that died accidentally.

With fewer dragon corpses available, the head of “Lin Long” gradually developed an idea—why not proactively hunt down dragons?

With their capabilities, they could definitely create some bait on the southern continent to lure the dragons, then hunt them down.

Wouldn’t this be faster than waiting for dragons to die accidentally? And it would also remove the need for middlemen.

The head of “Lin Long” shared his idea with Manina, and received immediate approval.

Not only did Manina agree with his idea, but he also assigned him a group of professors from the National Spiritual Energy Research Institute to assist him in specialized research.

Soon, a large number of special “secret realms” appeared on the wild mainland. Some dragons who entered could retrieve treasures, while others would get trapped inside, hunted down by the mechanisms within the realm.

The number of dragons hunted by the “Lin Long” Research Institute grew, to the point where they even captured the Red Dragon King recently!

This brought in substantial underground income for the Raging Sun Royal Family.

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