After Wei Ying and the others left, Ming Yu took a serious look around the rather large suite and nodded in satisfaction.
Putting other things aside for now, in terms of treatment and standards, the Guangzhou branch held Ming Yu in high regard. After all, he was now considered a minor high-level figure in the Far East Branch. Coupled with the connections he had made in the Valkyrie forces over the past six months, even without counting his complex relationship with Theresa and Himeko, he could still make his voice heard in the Far East Branch.
Finding two cans of carbonated drinks in the refrigerator, Ming Yu opened one and handed it to Higokumaru while asking, "How do you feel? About this branch."
Higokumaru took the drink and took a small sip, feeling the unique sensation of carbon dioxide blooming on her tongue. She pondered what she had just seen and said slowly, "Too few people, too poor equipment, too weak in strength."
Hearing the girl's merciless evaluation, Ming Yu couldn't help but let out a light laugh.
Indeed, compared to the standards of a normal branch, the configuration of the Guangzhou branch was ridiculously weak. Not only did it lack a large number of affiliated troops, but even its weapons and equipment seemed to be incomplete.
No, considering the entire branch only had a few hundred people, this equipment was already sufficient.
"Because, for Schicksal's Shenzhou branch, they are not the main force in fighting the Honkai."
Sitting down opposite Higokumaru, Ming Yu explained this unusual phenomenon.
In terms of military strength, Shenzhou did not lack the ability to deal with general Honkai incidents. Even if an Emperor-class Honkai Beast appeared, Shenzhou also had the means to deal with it.
Whether it was mecha units or missile units, although there were many restrictions for people who lacked Honkai resistance to deal with the Honkai, they were by no means powerless against it.
Moreover, due to the traces left by a certain Celestial, there were still a large number of martial arts traditions and a considerable number of Xuanyuan Swords in Shenzhou, making Shenzhou appear quite at ease when facing the current level of Honkai.
Based on the information Ming Yu had looked up these few days, he could roughly lock down the owners of five Xuanyuan Swords, and this was without him paying special attention.
If he really went looking for them carefully, Ming Yu wouldn't be surprised even if he found eighty or a hundred of them. After all, it was a Divine Key with a production quantity in the four digits. Even after removing the damaged ones, there were still quite a few left.
Although the individual strength of the Key of Domination was questionable, it was still of the Divine Key grade, not something that would shatter at the slightest touch.
It was precisely because of the large number of Keys of Domination in Shenzhou that he wasn't too concerned about the Xuanyuan Sword in Jiu You.
If he really wanted a Xuanyuan Sword, couldn't he just go to Shenzhou and secretly swipe one himself?
Fu Hua was the substitute martial arts teacher at St. Freya, and Ming Yu had attended quite a few martial arts classes.
Well then, as a student of Celestial Phoenix, it wouldn't be too much for him to inherit a few Xuanyuan Swords... right?
With Shenzhou possessing these forces, it would be unnecessary and inappropriate for Schicksal to deploy too much strength to its branch stationed in Shenzhou.
For any country, if it was a problem they could solve themselves but they had to seek help from others completely, it would be a matter of losing face.
Even an ordinary person knows to cherish their own face, let alone a great nation.
The relationship between Schicksal and Shenzhou was less of a simple protection and more of a support and cooperation.
In terms of resources and technology, Schicksal had invested a lot in Shenzhou, but Shenzhou was not completely a subordinate of Schicksal, only providing a certain degree of convenience in Schicksal's actions.
Perhaps in the eyes of many people within Schicksal, the Overseer's actions were detrimental to his brilliant reputation. Even if his mission was to save the world, Schicksal was not a charity organization after all.
But who could say for sure about those hidden gains and losses?
Hearing Ming Yu's explanation, Higokumaru nodded in approval, but then asked with worry, "With a branch of this level, can they complete Big Bro Yu's mission?"
To put it bluntly, even without unleashing the power of the Divine Key and without using the latest battlesuit, Ming Yu alone could still completely overwhelm this branch.
And finding Jiu You would undoubtedly be a task of enormous scale.
Seeing the worry on the girl's face, Ming Yu laughed heartily and said loudly, "In the matter of finding Jiu You, the strength of the branch is indeed indispensable, but their role is not here. And, when necessary, I will use Jizo Mitama."
"Mm."
As the former Herrscher of Corruption, even if those memories were a bit hazy, Higokumaru could still remember that special power, so she quickly understood Ming Yu's meaning.
In this situation, the Key of Corruption was indeed a simple and effective method.
And in the face of the Herrscher of Corruption's power, the help that a small branch could provide was indeed pitifully small.
So, what exactly was the role of the Guangzhou branch?
Staring at Ming Yu in confusion for a while, Higokumaru waited for Ming Yu's next explanation.
But Ming Yu just smiled mysteriously and said no more, obviously not wanting to explain at this moment.
Sighing, Higokumaru did not directly voice her doubts. She believed that if Ming Yu really wanted to explain, she would definitely be the first to know.
Moving aside the clutter on the table, Ming Yu turned on the terminal storing the data prepared by Wei Ying, and at the same time, activated the holographic projection map of Guangzhou. He asked Higokumaru, "You still remember all that information about Jiu You, right?"
Looking at the red dots on the map that were like stars in the sky, which were the locations of Honkai incidents recorded in Guangzhou, and then at the tens of thousands of records on the virtual screen, Higokumaru couldn't help but feel her scalp tingle. But facing Ming Yu's expectant gaze, she still nodded gently and said softly, "Mm, the sealed Judgment-class Honkai Beast Chiyou, the undersea cavern Jiu You."
Although she also found Ming Yu's claims a bit hard to believe, thinking of Ming Yu's seriousness when he said these words, Higokumaru still chose to believe him.
There was no special reason, only because these were Ming Yu's words, only because she was the only person Ming Yu could completely trust.
If even she didn't believe Ming Yu, who else could be expected to believe him?
No matter how absurd Ming Yu's words were, the only thing she could do was to believe.
"That's good." Seeing the girl's reaction, Ming Yu also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. At least, Higokumaru didn't think he was being fanciful and was still willing to believe him.
"First, let's remove the Honkai incidents that occurred on land."
As he spoke, Ming Yu entered the restriction conditions on the map's control interface, and eighty percent of the red dots on the map disappeared instantly.
Next, Ming Yu restricted the range and intensity, and the number of red dots on the map, which was originally in the thousands, was reduced to just over a hundred.
"Finally, we just need to analyze these incidents and find those caused by Chiyou among them."
Pointing to the tens of thousands of records on the terminal, Ming Yu said seriously.
As a Judgment-class Honkai Beast, even if it was sealed in Jiu You and couldn't move, Chiyou's kin would not stop their activities. Just the Honkai Energy that Chiyou radiated was enough to produce a large number of Honkai Beasts over the long years, and they obviously wouldn't stay obediently in Jiu You and live a quiet life.
Could you expect something like a Honkai Beast to become a shut-in?
Since they had been active, they would inevitably have left traces.
And what Ming Yu and Higokumaru had to do was to find the footprints left by these Honkai Beasts from the numerous records.
If it were only Ming Yu alone, this would undoubtedly be an incredibly difficult task, even if this data had already undergone the first step of screening by the branch.
But fortunately, he was not alone, and Higokumaru was clearly much better at this kind of intelligence processing than he was.