If Reina had been willing to protect Liu Kai Xuan at all costs, she would not have let him get out of the car to meet Hai Shan.
Reina's agreement to Hai Shan's request was, in fact, a sign of weakness.
In this situation, Liu Kai Xuan could only rely on his own strength to overcome the difficulties.
In fact, the introduction of Thunder Security Company was also accurate.
The members of the security company were all retired soldiers from the Imperial Army.
However, the combat effectiveness of these retired Imperial Army soldiers was actually nothing special.
The Imperial Army possessed the most advanced weaponry and the largest number of personnel.
Without a doubt, the Imperial Army was the most powerful military force in the Thunder Empire.
And precisely because they were the most powerful, almost no one in the empire dared to provoke them.
This led to the Imperial Army rarely participating in actual combat.
In most cases, Imperial Army soldiers participated in military exercises.
Conversely, those active bandit armed groups were engaged in lives of constant danger.
These people struggled on the brink of death every moment.
Although their weapons and equipment were not advanced, their actual combat experience was extremely rich.
When Reina and the others joined the Imperial Army, they had advanced weapons and equipment, so they naturally weren't afraid of these bandit armed groups.
But now, they only had light weapons like assault rifles, and no heavy weapons.
In this situation, the advantage in weaponry shifted to the enemy.
Reina and the others naturally lost the courage to fight.
According to Reina's prediction, Liu Kai Xuan's two loyal subordinates were likely doomed.
They had taken Hai Shan hostage, but had not managed to leave with the main convoy.
The outcome would ultimately be one of two: either they killed Hai Shan, and were then dismembered by Hai Shan's brothers, or they released Hai Shan and were then killed by a furious Hai Shan!
Unfortunately, in the end, Rom and Rem proved with their actions that Reina's worries were unnecessary.
That evening, the group camped in a small town.
When daylight came the next day, Reina was astonished to find that Liu Kai Xuan's two bodyguards had returned to Liu Kai Xuan's side.
Moreover, both of them were unharmed, not having suffered the slightest injury.
It was a joke; Reina and Rem were both robots.
Robots had bodies of steel and iron, how could they die so easily?
Yesterday morning, Rem and Rom had controlled Hai Shan, forcing him to clear the road for the convoy to pass.
After Liu Kai Xuan's convoy had driven away, Rem directly slit Lei's throat with a knife.
After killing Hai Shan, Hai Shan's brothers immediately opened fire in retaliation.
Subsequently, Rom and Rem launched a counterattack, killing more than 20 armed bandits.
Then, the armed bandits realized that the two girls in front of them were monsters that were impervious to weapons and blades.
With their strength, they couldn't harm these two girls in the slightest.
Finally, their morale completely collapsed, and they began to scatter and flee on the spot.
After pursuing some of the bandits, Rom and Rem tracked them using their GPS to their stronghold and rejoined Liu Kai Xuan.
Hai Shan's bandit group had suffered extremely heavy losses and was essentially completely wiped out.
If Hai Shan had known Liu Kai Xuan was so troublesome, he wouldn't have dared to provoke this "Living Yama" even if he had been given ten times the courage.
He had been living comfortably as a mountain king, and suddenly disaster struck, it was truly unpredictable.
Encountering Hai Shan could only be considered an accident.
The journey for the next few days went relatively smoothly.
Although they encountered a few bandit groups blocking the road, these people mostly chose to let them pass after seeing the identity of Thunder Security Company.
After all, bandit groups most often engaged in bullying the weak and preying on the vulnerable.
Thunder Security Company had the backing of the Imperial Royal Family, a power they couldn't afford to provoke.
In fact, the form of existence of bandit forces in the Thunder Empire was somewhat similar to the bandits of the old era on the Eastern Continent.
Most bandit groups were composed of members from the lower strata of impoverished commoners.
Robbing on the road was merely a means of livelihood for them.
As long as poverty still existed, no matter how powerful the Imperial Army was, they could not completely eradicate these people.
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After several days of travel, the group finally arrived at the royal city of the Kaia Kingdom, Kaia City.
The situation in Kaia City was absolutely not better than that of Huolan City.
Arriving at this place felt like entering a super-sized slum.
Everywhere were tattered tents, and the people living here were poorly clothed and emaciated.
And in this extremely poor city, there was an extremely luxurious royal palace.
The palace was magnificent and incomparably luxurious, appearing like a celestial palace at first glance.
It is worth mentioning that, before Liu Kai Xuan and his group arrived, someone in the Kaia Kingdom had already contacted them.
The person responsible for the contact was a white man with a full beard.
This white man, upon seeing Ouyang Xue, immediately stepped forward and gave Ouyang Xue a warm embrace.
The white man's name was Simon, and he was a business partner found by Ouyang Xue's foreign friends.
After Ouyang Xue and Simon had a brief chat, Simon handed a document to Ouyang Xue.
Ouyang Xue then translated the contents of the document and handed it to Liu Kai Xuan.
Simon's proposal was to cooperate with Liu Kai Xuan to develop this oil well!
He would provide the technology, and Liu Kai Xuan would provide the capital!
In the future, the profits generated from the oil field would be split between them, 70/30.
Simon would take seventy percent, and Liu Kai Xuan would take thirty percent.
"Isn't this a joke?"
Liu Kai Xuan said with annoyance, "We are responsible for the capital investment, which is a huge expense!"
"And we only get thirty percent when there are profits?"
Ouyang Xue explained, "Boss, you might not be fully aware of the actual situation!"
"Petroleum extraction in the Kaia Kingdom has some difficulties!"
"The technical threshold is relatively high, otherwise it wouldn't be our turn to extract it!"
"Simon's company possesses advanced extraction technology, so there will be no difficulty in cooperating with them for oil extraction!"
"Even if we only get thirty percent of the final income, it will still be an enormous amount of money!"
"The combined oil and natural gas resources in the oil field area are enough for us to exploit for more than 30 years!"
Liu Kai Xuan did not seem to have fully absorbed Ouyang Xue's explanation.
He still insisted on his own opinion, "Ouyang Xue, go tell Simon!"
"I can accept his cooperation plan, but the profit sharing principle needs to be adjusted. I'll take seventy percent and they'll get thirty percent."