"Drop that 1.0, once we do have a second year anniversary then we might be consider PandaVerse 2.0." Kong Rong commented which Ke Loong wholeheartedly agreed to.
"Hmm, alright. It does sound premature to add a number to it and that will make people think that otherwise." Jin nodded his head while thoughts were already gushing through his mind.
"Don't you think that PandaVerse is a better name for that Virtual Reality instance you created?" Ke Loong said and Kong Rong suddenly perked up, asking about the progress of the Virtual Reality instance.
"Why? I did not expect you to be a fan of this kind of stuff." Ke Loong remarked but Kong Rong shook his head and his index finger shaking towards him.
"If what Jin did was as what he had explained to me previously, I might want to employ it as training for my agents." Kong Rong replied.
"You sure it's just training?" Jin smirked as if he knew the military application of using the Virtual Reality Instance.
"Fine. You got me there. If Jin can make a miniaturised encrypted version of the headset, I might be able to use it for secret communications. Obviously, there would be some drawbacks such as paralysing the agent to send the information. But if my agent is in a secure location and what Jin had said about the security and responsiveness of the headset was true, it would still be a fairly reliable gadget to be used in the field."
"Welp, goes to show that whatever you create, the military and internal affairs still have a way to militarise it for their own sake. Do you still wish to continue with that portal project? I had managed to salvage all of them and none of the parts were missing or tampered. Most of them believed the previous operation that used those portal gates was a coordinated usage of portal magic." Ke Loong said as he too had dabbled in military contracts to keep Jin's portal gadgets as a secret for now.
"The System had indeed retrieved back all of the portal machines and they are currently in storage. All of them had been analysed and there was no misuse or tampering done." The System stated and Ke Loong shook his head.
"That is exactly what I said."
"The System believed its authority was superior to Senior Panda Executive Ke Loong. Thus, the repetition of the sentence carried its weight." The System replied and Jin merely told Ke Loong to shake it off and not let the matter linger.
"Anyways, yes. While the mass production of the Virtual Reality Headset has already started, we are still making some adjustments to ensure that the gadget can work in a heavy traffic setting. If you want, I can get those headsets and let your agents give it a try. After all, you brought your entire department here." Jin said with a sour tune in his words.
"Not everyone, Ryuli isn't here and it seems she was complaining on the phone about it as well." Kong Rong chuckled as if they always had such bad timing with each other.
"How so?" Jin questioned and Kong Rong only stated that there was some overseas matter in North Korea which she had to attend to.
"North Korea?" Jin and Ke Loong had their mouths wide open as they heard that the place was in eternal lockdown with no information nor people coming in or out of the area. The lockdown was mainly due to a bad mix of nuclear power and magic causing a major cataclysm that caused the entire North Korea to be some wasted Badlands. But to the observers' surprise, the country itself had somehow managed to create a next generation high tech barrier which was capable of housing that cataclysm within their own country. The only drawback was that nobody could go in nor out to the area…but that was the official report, the lies which the media had to feed the masses.
China, Russia and South Korea all had secret route access to North Korea which none of their western allies or counterparts had known. After all, creating such a barrier with no in or out would be self destructing for the country too. China itself sent aid on a regular basis to their underground city in exchange for experimenting in the cataclysmic wasteland.
"Experiments?" Jin asked and Kong Rong explained that there were monsters within North Korea's vicinity which were extremely dangerous. The radiation from the nuclear cataclysm changed their forms and build, allowing them to survive in that wasteland. Due to the drastic changes in their DNA, it allowed them to take in the constant wild magic that had been generated from the cataclysm. And that also meant a good experimental ground for the military to conduct exercises that were illegal in the eyes of the public.
"Being one of Dragon Clan's best agents, Ryuli was selected ….a better word would be handpicked to be part of the experiment. After all, the Banned Emperor incident not only shook you guys but forced the government to look at alternative weapons against demons."
"Shouldn't JODE take care of this instead? I mean, they are THE Demon Exorcists." Ke Loong said and Jin also nodded in agreement.
"You already saw how the demons tore apart not only the guards, but the Royal Zodiac Horse Military Platoon into shreds. If our government does not find any other ways to defeat such threats, the other countries will get it done first and we might not have an edge should our adversaries decide to employ the very same terror method against us."
"Sounds way too complicated. You make it feel as if the Banned Emperor had been backed by military organisations from other countries." Jin said but it caused Kong Rong to stare hard and long at Jin before he decided to open his mouth.
"The world is not as simple as you think, my dear Panda Lord. Trust me, when I said you had protection. I did not mean just physical protection but external influences too. Politics is a game that everyone loses except for the one who can prepare and counter anybody in all sorts of scenarios." Kong Rong said and in confidence, the Dragon Clan Internal Affairs Agent shared a tidbit which would normally get his head chopped off if found out.
However, this was who he had pledged to and served for.. The Panda Lord deserves to know some rotten truth of the world he was living in.
