Once Rogue's contact sold them the VR Training Equipment, they could train in various forms of combat, including indoor fighting.
Before that, however, Su Xiao wanted them to undergo cyberware modifications at Old Wei's clinic to improve their combat capabilities.
Of course, Su Xiao wasn't asking every last one of them to install a Sandevistan.
It wasn't a question of money. That thing couldn't be installed indiscriminately.
The more powerful the cyberware, the worse its side effects.
Many cases of cyberpsychosis came from chasing power above all else, until people finally went mad.
Power mattered, but stability and health mattered more.
Su Xiao wasn't some cold-blooded lunatic who treated his subordinates as tools.
That was why the modifications he wanted Old Wei to perform involved replacing all the miscellaneous junk already installed in their bodies with genuine products suited to them.
Nomads were generally poor and used whatever they could get their hands on. As a result, most of their cyberware was unbranded, uncertified junk of unknown origin.
Using too much cyberware like that was also harmful to the body.
So he wanted Old Wei to replace their cyberware with genuine products, then gradually upgrade each person according to their individual circumstances.
Of course, those upgrades would eventually hit a ceiling. They weren't V the Almighty, after all; they couldn't just install any cyberware they wanted.
In truth, Old Wei would have done all this even if Su Xiao hadn't brought it up.
Unless someone wanted to mass-produce cyberpsychos, they wouldn't blindly push everyone to maximum power.
Still, outfitting thirty people with genuine cyberware would cost a substantial sum.
Fortunately, Su Xiao's circumstances had changed. He could afford that much now.
He told Old Wei to go ahead and do what needed doing, without worrying about the money.
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