The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2921

Chapter 2921: Lull

The airfleet under the command of Ves entered into a slightly awkward state. In a matter of weeks, it had ballooned in size and strength. However, it became increasingly harder to sustain this pattern.

People weren’t stupid. Even after a lot of criminals and anarchists took advantage of the situation and inflicted a lot of death and destruction, it was impossible for them to engage in wanton destruction for so long!

These crazed murderers either killed each other off, got cleaned up by a stronger force like Ves’ airfleet, or simply sobered up and went into hiding.

The outskirts had calmed down. While many ordinary citizens were in dire need of aid, they were no longer under great threat.

One notable development was that millions of refugees who resided in the downtown areas had fled to the periphery. Many of them didn’t dare to take the risk of travelling in biovehicles because any random mech might shoot them down for random reasons.

This has led to an enormous migration of people on foot. They fled from the center of Veoline like a tide of slow-moving ants. Many of them suffered from various indignities along the way, but their situation became a bit better once they started to group up and organize themselves.

The Larkinsons paid careful attention to the refugees passing by the airfleet. Compared to the citizens who lived in the outskirts, the downtown folk were much more desirable.

There was a greater proportion of well-educated professionals among their population. Lawyers, managers and even low-ranking biomech designers could be found among their ranks!

It was easy for the airfleet to persuade these valued human resources to join the Larkinson Clan. After getting caught up in the devastation of the civil war before fleeing through a long stretch of dangerous and lawless streets, their sense of security had sunk to the bottom.

They welcomed any chance of joining a strong and well-armed organization!

Though the Larkinsons had to put the Aspect of Healing to much greater use in order to treat traumatized city folk, Ves was happy with this development. The supply of highly skilled professionals was so great that his Larkinson Clan wouldn’t be short of excellent medical doctors, geneticists, implant surgeons, beast designers and other biotech experts as long as he could bring them all back to his expeditionary fleet!

Normally, it would have been much harder to poach these elite personnel. They were largely lifelong employees of established biotech companies. There was no reason for them to quit their promising careers and abandon a state that was entirely geared towards fostering their development!

However, wars had a way of changing people’s minds. When shells started flying over their heads, the Life Research Association didn’t seem like a good place to them anymore! No amount of support for the biotech sector was worth the risk of death!

"How are we doing in terms of recruitment?" Ves asked as he sat behind his desk.

"We’re doing extremely well compared to before, sir." Commander Rivington answered. "Our numbers have just broken through 20,000 members. The stress of absorbing so many Lifers into our clan is enormous, but upon your orders, we have tried our best to pick up every desirable professional that we can find. In fact, many of the refugees have already heard about us and wish to join. We have to slow down and impose a lot of restrictions in order to cope with the current situation. We are nearing our limits, so we have to be a lot more selective than before."

Recruiting more than 20,000 people in a short amount of time was not as great as it sounded at first. This was because only a third of them were actually desirable. The rest consisted of spouses, children and maybe other extended family. _{freeweɓnovel.cøm}

The Larkinsons had no choice but to accept these excess people, and Ves wasn’t too upset about the situation. His clan prized family, so he couldn’t be hypocritical about it. Besides, the needs of the extra refugees weren’t great. They just needed a small amount of space in a vehicle in order to keep them happy.

"Have you managed to pick up any senior professionals?" Ves asked.

Rivington shook his head. "Journeyman Mech Designers and other people at this level have better ways of escaping the current chaos. They are either working for an established organization or they have relied on their guard forces to flee from the city center. They don’t need to take shelter with us in order to secure their lives."

"A pity."

Ves already expected as much. It didn’t matter. The kind of personnel he had already managed to recruit already plugged the lack of doctors, researchers and other necessary personnel in the Larkinson Clan. In this regard, Ves fully met his original goal for visiting the Life Research Association.

If he was able to leave the planet right away, then he would not feel as if he had wasted his opportunity.

It was just that Ves still felt he was missing out by giving up the opportunity to obtain a vial of high-grade life-prolonging treatment serum.

He constantly reconsidered his difficult decision throughout his day! He felt so bad about backing off that he always had to remind himself that courting death was not a good way to get ahead in life!

He vigorously shook his head. "Maybe I need to spend some time with the Aspect of Rationality."

His mood lightened after he thought about his latest innovation. The organic statues had all demonstrated their value in different ways. The Aspect of Transcendence was a particularly epoch-transforming existence!

Though Ves had reached a bottleneck in his research where he wasn’t able prevent his test subjects from dying or failing to arouse their spiritual potential, at least he was heading in the right direction!

For something as promising as being able to induce spiritual potential in people who originally possessed none, Ves was not in a hurry to achieve quick success.

He knew that something as fantastic as this could not be done with a rudimentary amount of knowledge and experimental results. Ves had to keep performing experiments, keep trying something new and keep gathering more data in order to progress this long and difficult project.

Perhaps he might not even be able to achieve a truly successful result unless he achieved another breakthrough in his understanding of spirituality and spiritual engineering.

Considering the current circumstances, Ves suspended his experiments. There were way too many people in the airfleet now and who knew if one of them were perceptive enough to notice some clues.

Besides, the supply of convicted criminals had dried up. The airfleet had become so notorious in the region that every malcontent had long moved away!

In essence, the forces under the command of Ves essentially replaced the Planetary Guard as peacekeepers!

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