"Wait!" Xu Tianran had not been blinded by rage. As the ruler of a nation, he was now meticulous and deeply calculating.
He quickly caught the crucial detail.
"Are you certain that the Star Luo Empire launched eight Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells at us?" Xu Tianran suppressed his fury and asked the messenger in a grave voice.
"Yes. This was personally confirmed by Commander Chen Deng of the Dreadclaw Soul Engineer Corps!" the messenger immediately replied.
Upon hearing this, Xu Tianran's heart gave a violent tremor, and his scalp went numb.
"No, that's not right!"
"Perhaps a Soul Engineer might take a desperate risk for money and sell a single Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell to the Star Luo Empire. If that truly happened, I would not find it surprising. But there is no way the number could be so large!"
Throughout the Sun Moon Empire, items like Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells were under extremely strict control. Even rare metals had restricted exports, let alone weapons of mass destruction at this level.
A Soul Engineer might secretly produce one and quietly sell it off. Such matters were generally difficult to investigate, and it was normal enough if they went undiscovered. But selling eight at once? That could never be concealed.
The rare metals mined by the Sun Moon Empire each year were limited, and high-ranking Soul Engineers were not like low-level ones—their consumption of rare metals was far from insignificant.
Mingde Hall kept records of how much rare metal every registered high-ranking Soul Engineer used each month. Xu Tianran could find them with a casual search.
If someone had freed up enough rare metals to make eight Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells at once, Jing Hongchen would have noticed long ago. Before they could