Chapter 472: Biological Armor

When Li Mochen, wearing a sterile suit, entered the central laboratory of the first experimental zone, Professor Gu Hong was discussing with four top-tier level-four scientists gathered around a set of monitoring instruments. In front of them was a transparent glass dish containing a black-red fleshy ball.

——If the legendary lich Linde were here, he would recognize this as his biological armor 'Mania'. However, this was actually a different set, with a different name.

"How is it?"

Li Mochen looked at the fleshy ball with great concern: "Is it helpful for your research and development?"

Over the past few months, he had been continuously investing huge sums to acquire various relics of the Moshra people. So far, he had bought five silver seal boxes, but regrettably, three of the biological armors inside had died, leaving only two still alive.

Both of these biological armors had gone mad. Though not as severely as 'Mania', they still craved flesh and blood, instinctively trying to devour everything.

These were clearly not things that living people could use, and Li Mochen currently couldn't find any powerful legendary liches to command. So he had sent both armors here as samples for research.

"It helps a lot."

The speaker was an old man named Washington Rabbi, who held dual doctoral degrees and was a tenured professor at Stony Brook University, State University of New York.

"The Moshra people's biological armor has a complete system: cells with different functions, neural structures, energy pathways, thinking systems, self-restraint systems, etc., all very well-developed. We can't fully comprehend them yet, but with the partial technology we've analyzed so far, combined with some accumulated techniques from the lab, we are confident we can produce a low-level biological armor prototype in a very short time, with strength around level six to seven."

Li Mochen's spirits lifted: "How short is the 'very short time' you mentioned?"

This time, Washington did not answer; instead, like the other three tenured professors, he looked sideways at Gu Hong.

Li Mochen was not surprised. Although the professor he had hired at great expense was only thirty-two years old, his academic standing in chemistry, biomedicine, and biology was already among the top in America. Several of his papers had been published in *Intelligence* magazine. Moreover, he was also a level-19 magic energy mage, expected to become a legend soon.

Thus, despite his youth, after just over a month of working together, the several tenured professors present had already come to regard him as their leader.

In fact, if not for his sensitive identity—so far, no major laboratory had been willing to hire Gu Hong to lead projects—this man would never have ended up at Li Mochen's Rising Sun Biopharmaceuticals.

"If you want to see the finished product, we can complete a set in at most five days for technical verification. But if it's for practical use, it will require long-term adjustment and rigorous testing."

Gu Hong's attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, his tone cautious: "Besides, we need to find ways to reduce costs. If you plan to launch biological armor as a military product, we must price a level-seven armor within twenty thousand gold shields, or we won't be competitive. If you, Boss, can let us recruit more qualified researchers and update some instruments soon, I am confident we can produce the first batch of mass-production trial versions within half a year. By the way, we also need flesh and blood samples of various magical creatures, at all levels, preferably including some high-level mythical creatures."

"Half a year?"

Li Mochen was overjoyed but also sensed he might have to bleed a lot of money. Just the high-level mythical creature flesh and blood samples alone would cost a considerable sum.

"How much will it cost? You can first prepare a budget for me."

"About one to one point five billion gold shields?"

Gu Hong smiled, seeing through Li Mochen's poorly concealed reluctance: "We'll try our best to save costs for you, Boss. Actually, I've also studied finance and have an accounting license."

"No, no! Funding is not an issue; R&D investment cannot be cut."

Thinking of future returns, Li Mochen gritted his teeth and pretended to be generous: "There's no need to save money for me, Professor Gu. But correspondingly, I want to get a batch of mass-produced armor as quickly as possible. The capabilities should be as perfect as possible, but safety is the primary concern. We cannot give our soldiers potentially dangerous biological armor."

Then he continued looking at the biological armor in the glass dish: "And how long would it take to produce armor of this level?"

"That would take some time—eight or ten years might not be enough, and it would require greater investment. However—"

Gu Hong adjusted his glasses: "If we just want to restore these two biological armors to a normal state so that ordinary people can use them, it might only take half a year. I have a very simple method to relieve their instinctual hunger, but it requires funding. About four hundred fifty to five hundred million gold shields, and I need large amounts of flesh and blood from legendary, even demigod creatures."

"Flesh and blood from demigod creatures? No need to spend money; my hunting group can provide that."

Li Mochen thought to himself that he really would have to risk his life to earn money next: "Professor Gu, I hope these two projects can proceed simultaneously without affecting progress. Can that be done? Also, we must conduct preliminary research on replicating this legendary armor. Ten years is too long; it's best to keep the R&D time within five years."

"Of course! With enough financial investment, development time can be greatly shortened."

Gu Hong smiled contentedly: "I'll do it as soon as possible. This is very challenging. I must say, Boss, the job you've given me is one I really like."

...

Three hours later, when Li Mochen, wearing a set of Light Demon IV battle armor and carrying his 'False Dragon Might', arrived in the suburbs near Albany, north of Manhattan, his expression was unusually serious.

Hazel, who had been waiting for him there, looked at him with confusion: "Amo, what's wrong? You look like you've received bad news."

"No bad news, but we might go bankrupt soon."

Li Mochen sighed and flipped down his visor.

Because at that moment, the personnel he had summoned were already arriving one after another.

Victor Maxim rode a motorcycle from afar, and 'Blood-Eyed Angel' Robert Yvonne then tore open a void.

The last to arrive was 'Night Void Lord' Delfinia Ederick, her face cold, her beautiful eyes looking at him with boundless murderous intent.

Li Mochen ignored her: "Everyone knows the target and hunting plan for this time, right? If there are no issues, let's begin."

Seeing no objections, he stomped his foot, forcibly tearing the space barrier between the Bright World and the Dark World. The five gathered here then appeared in a vast mountain range in the Dark World.