The tavern owner Green had just met and the Calamity Rank Destroyer King Kong with him possessed Calamity Rank Power Cores that were no weaker than Solar Cores.
But the Power Cores of most Destroyer King Kongs fell far short of Solar Cores.
Equipping them with Solar Cores would greatly boost their strength in the shortest possible time.
The drawback would be substantial: it would severely limit their potential. But then again, after all these years, how many Destroyer King Kongs had advanced to Calamity Rank?
For ninety percent of Destroyer King Kongs, Green's Solar Cores were a powerful temptation.
Xiweina Ye could bring Green considerable benefits in return.
At the very least, she could provide Destroyer King Kong blueprints and living specimens, which would greatly help Green improve his robot army.
With that in mind, Green held a "warm and friendly" discussion with Xiweina Ye.
After Green produced a sample Solar Core, he finally gained more of Xiweina Ye's trust and was taken deeper underground.
That was where Xiweina Ye was actually hiding. The figure he had seen earlier had indeed been a projection meant to throw people off.
The sight of the real Xiweina Ye startled Green.
She still lay on a metal bed, her mechanical body covered in wounds. Both legs and one arm were missing, and a semicircular wound had been blasted into her left side.
Swarms of nanobugs were cleaning and repairing the wound, but an injury this severe would not heal quickly.
Green understood. No wonder Xiweina Ye had been so cautious earlier. Her condition was worse than he had expected.
Yet even with her right before him, Green did not believe this was Xiweina Ye's true body.
She was no projection, but Green was almost certain that if he struck now, he could