Chapter 7: Damned by a Failure (2/2)

He twisted open a bottle and took out a pill in the shape of a capsule from within. White specks of fine powder scattered with a slight twist.

A scanner that hung at the waist of Officer Xue flickered with a red light. He turned and stared fixed at Luo Nan with a bad expression.

Luo Nan’s eyes slightly jumped from the corner. His many years of experience with experiments made him particularly sensitive to certain drugs, it also woke him to the troubling state he was presently in:

It was the failure Xie Junping’s entertainment!

Another ridiculous thought leapt forth immediately: Maybe he could get a channel of resources from Xie Junping in the future?

Xie Junping sneezed, his nostrils glowing red.

He knew that most people would blame a virus as the cause. To catch a cold, to be stressed, it was all brought onto himself.

He had barely settled the situation here in Mangzhong for the time being. The misfortune in Xia City nearly caused him to piss his pants in fright: There was a “Pot of Destiny” still in the car. How could he have overlooked it?

The one who told Xie Junping this piece of news was precisely Miss Zhang Yingying of the Hidden Indigo’s business office.

The two sides no longer needed to be surreptitious at the present; it was fine to engage directly in virtual communication. With the powers of AR technology, the two people seemed to be sitting across each other for discussion in a reception room.

Xie Junping had always criticized Zhang Yingying silently for being a “Phone Operator”. She just handled answering the phone and related work in Hidden Indigo’s office. But Xie Junping had to admit that this sharp-tongued phone operator was indeed an extremely eye catching beauty.

Zhao Yingying appeared to be only 18~19 years old at first glance. Her medium-short hair was free and loose. Her facial features gave a bright impression with a hint of a boyish flavor, but her figure was not the least bit that of a boys.

It was already autumn. She wore a camisole, revealing snowy white shoulders and neck. Two slender straps crisscrossed above her bulging and steamy bossom. It was sufficient to attract the gaze of every male.

From the waist down was a short denim skirt. Multiple layers of decorative belt loops made it look completely cool.

At this moment, her long snowy white legs were raised high on the boss's table. Roman flat sandals rocked left and right, to and fro in a very casual manner. The denim skirt slid all the way up to the base of her legs, but there wasn’t a way to take advantage of this due to the issue with the angle.

Xie Junping did not have any thoughts of taking advantage of her at the moment. He was pacing back and forth in the room, restless and fretful.

Everyone knew that low addictive psychotropic drugs were spread unchecked in popularity in the modern world. It was simply inconceivable for this entertainment to not appear in the private parties of rich folk. But public political opinion didn’t care about this. As long as you stupidly expose possession of the drug, you’re certain to have a hammer come down and kill you. You won’t get the chance to defend yourself.

In a certain sense, this was even more severe than him sneaking off to party. In addition, there was the issue with the fatal fuse composed of his group of good for nothing friends. Every linking thread was connected together. The consequences wouldn’t be a simple as 1+1.

“Lian Yu, you slut. Li Xuecheng, I’ve committed you to memory. Liu Tao you bastard, you surely…..”

Xie Junping was like a cornered beast. He wailed in this virtual iron prison. Obviously he urgently wanted to know what were the circumstances in Xia City…… Had he been implicated already?

“What do you have hungry lawyers for? Let them handle things!”

Zhang Yingying had a get-some-distance-from-me-you-trouble-maker expression of resentment. She showed signs of slacking off.

Xie Junping’s heart became clear as a mirror. This shameless girl clearly treated him as a sucker. The problem was that his mind had panicked. He could only bring a obsequious smile on his face:

“In these unusual times I still ask of you experts to be more at ease. It’s only natural that my remuneration will be sufficient.”

Zhang Yingying spread her fingers: “Then how do you want it done? Should I go bust people from a military transport ship?”

“Military transport ship? Why would it be military?”

Xie Junping’s voice changed in tone.

Zhang Yingying extended three fingers: “The Government. The Military. Quantum Corporation. These three bases of research and development are working together in production, at least in name. Now they’ve inexplicably set off a nuclear warhead……”

“Nuclear warhead!?” Xie Junping’s face went completely black.

“Don’t misunderstand; it was just an example. In any case it’s really about the same. Anyway no one would accept this outcome. But what exactly is going on then? A natural disaster? A terrorist attack?”

Zhang Yingying’s feet rocked back and forth quite freely: “Right now all sides must provide an explanation, most notably the government and the military. These two do nothing but delegate work to others. Before they would consume kickbacks from Quantum Corporation, enjoying the benefits even though they shouldn’t. Now that something has happened, I’ve discovered that no one has any clue about the state of their laboratory. Was it an accident? Or were they getting rid of something? How would one who’s not deeply involved be able to report the situation to the people up top?”

Xie Junping still was unable to understand: “But it can’t be so bad that they’ll be tossed onto military ships right?”

“That’s because you don’t understand the severity of the situation.”

This one sentence from Zhang Yingying tore Xie Junping’s soul in half. She then extended five fingers: “This is how much that piece of information costs.”

Xie Junping’s face changed colors: “You’re ripping me off!”

Zhang Yingying laughed with a ha!: “This number was adjusted to a degree due to our long collaborative relationship. Otherwise if you were to leave us, I will……”

Her delicate white palm flipped over and over in a very genuine manner.”

“I…...concede!”

Xie Junping’s face was ash, but he still swallowed his tone. If he was going to spend money, might as well spend it to the end. It would be the stupidest way to die if he were to leave things unfinished.

Zhang Yingying blew him a kiss: “Relax. It’s worth this much. Any information involving ‘Burners’ is simply worth this much!”

“Burners?”

“Yep. I got this from a reliable channel of information. The high-end laboratory was specialized in handling the research of the mechanism behind ‘Burning’. Their focus was towards nerve anatomy……”

“Live experimentation? With the human body?” Xie Junping could not be blamed for having his mind run wild. He had heard the information pertinent to Luo Nan before; the impression from then ran far deeply. Naturally he would now have associative thoughts.

Zhang Yingying also didn’t make a conclusion: “The project was launched as an experiment performed on the Mutants on the books. As for what else they researched, who knows?”

She paused slightly before speaking again: “Anyway, this is all of little importance. What’s important is that the laboratory must have been engaging in their first large experiment. Their power system was forcefully shut down by someone, causing their experiment to go out of control, and leading to a major accident. There is a disastrous number of casualties. And, the culprit took the opportunity to steal away some important experimental prototype……”

Xie Junping blurted out: “Deep Blue Walkers?”

Zhang Yingying gave him a blank eye: “Ridiculous! Rumor has it that the prototype is a newly developed product from Quantum Corporation, the structure of a chemical drug. Martial law for search and seizure has been imposed in the surrounding area right now. If this isn’t effective, the whole city of Xia will become a chaotic mess.

“Oh, hold on…… What does this have to do with those who’ve been lifted onto the transport ships?”

Zhang Yingying responded effortlessly: “Right now the culprit is at large. Who would dare cause trouble? Who wouldn’t be peaceful? In addition that group of good-for-nothings are poking around over there and are a hindrance. Who would have the time to screen them one by one. It would be better to use the name of the military to collect them all up, then process them when there’s time. This way the government can save themselves a lot of trouble.”

“So it was like this all along…...F*CK!” Xie Junping suddenly realized that he was destined to be a sucker!

Zhang Yingying had moved in a large circle. In the end she was saying that Luo Nan and the others had run into the government and were caught in the crossfire by the crazy surge of implications by the military. Things absolutely weren’t as dire as he had imagined!

The five pieces of information were used in this way to form this conclusion?

Xie Junping was on the verge of standing up and slamming his hands on the table. Finally he remembered that this was a virtual reception room, but his expression was ugly to the extreme.

Zhang Yingying understood his thoughts clearly. She immediately shook her head sighing: “You’re quite the hopeless type. If it was your father it would already be too late to give thanks. The key point is the drugs. The drugs! Do you still need me to explain this clearly for you?”