After hearing Han Wanghuo's words, Shang Jianyao actually had an expression of "agreement":
"After discovering that the person was an Awakened in the 'Destiny' domain, I was quite worried about your heart."
An Awakened in the "Destiny" domain... Han Wanghuo had served as the sheriff and town guard captain of Redstone Town. He had dealt with the Vigilant Church and faced the Fishmen emissary, so he was not lacking in understanding of similar matters. However, Zeng Duo was different. She only knew about the Ruling Gods and the Awakened. She had encountered certain cults, but she was not clear about the division of domains and more details.
At this moment, hearing Shang Jianyao's description, she felt like they were not in the same world.
Jiang Baimian, not bothering to "condemn" Shang Jianyao's honesty, comforted Han Wanghuo:
"This needs to be confirmed through detailed examinations. Personal feelings cannot replace instruments, and there are often large errors."
"Then where can I get an examination?" Han Wanghuo retorted.
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that his tone was a bit harsh, and he subconsciously said:
"Sorry, my mood isn't too good."
"I understand." Shang Jianyao looked like he empathized with him.
Jiang Baimian also said it was okay.
She tried to ask herself in her heart:
When you have a terminal illness and don't have much time left, and you finally find a way to treat it, seeing the light, just as you are about to strive for it, a group of people claiming to be your friends suddenly come and disrupt all your arrangements, making everything uncertain, would you be angry?
Jiang Baimian's answer to this was:
Even if the other party had no malicious intent and the destruction was purely due to accident, she would be very angry.
In that situation, reason is often ineffective.
She temporarily avoided the topic of where to get a physical examination and asked carefully:
"So, you've actually found a suitable heart and are waiting to complete a mission to raise enough money to exchange for it?"
"That's about it." Han Wanghuo deliberately didn't look at Zeng Duo.
"What mission is it?" Shang Jianyao asked with considerable curiosity.
At this moment, Zeng Duo got out of bed and began to move her body:
"Actually, that mission is to save my hometown, and the reward is my heart."
She could see that this group of people had good intentions towards Han Wanghuo, and felt it was necessary to explain the problem clearly. Otherwise, with the current situation, not to mention organizing enough manpower to rescue Chuchun Town, it was questionable whether she and Han Wanghuo could even leave the city.
Ah... Long Yuehong didn't expect Shang Jianyao's previous guess to be correct.
Han Wanghuo really brought the organ provider with him!
He, isn't he disgusted? Long Yuehong thought for a while and believed that if there wasn't really no other way, normal people wouldn't do this.
Perhaps feeling that Zeng Duo and herself were somewhat similar, Bai Chen took the initiative to ask:
"You're choosing to sacrifice yourself for your hometown?"
"It's not exactly a sacrifice." Zeng Duo smiled, "Consider it making use of waste."
She further explained:
"I also have a terminal illness, and these organs will be useless then."
"What illness?" Jiang Baimian asked.
Zeng Duo didn't need to recall, and directly said:
"A blood disease caused by aberration. I'm not too sure what it is specifically. The clinic doctor said a bunch of terms I didn't understand."
That's not necessarily a terminal illness... It's very necessary to do a detailed examination... Jiang Baimian didn't say these two sentences.
This would make her seem like she was undermining Han Wanghuo and blocking his path to self-salvation.
Before giving a practical new plan, she decided to remain silent on this matter.
Although she had some sympathy for Zeng Duo, there was no prior relationship between them, and that pity would not affect her behavioral choices.
"I see..." Shang Jianyao nodded slightly, striking the pose of Jiang Baimian in the past, "What happened to your hometown? Why do you want to save it?"
Zeng Duo briefly recounted the story of Chuchun Town becoming an experimental zone for "Initial City."
As Long Yuehong and the others listened, their expressions became a bit strange:
Isn't doing biochemical experiments and genetic research the standard configuration of their own company?
This is also one of the reasons why "Pangu Biology" has a bad reputation.
And now, "Initial City" has also started doing similar things, and it's still a forced transaction, an involuntary act.
Is this the wrong script?
Thinking about it carefully, Jiang Baimian felt that this was completely understandable. Any major force has a natural desire to improve its own weaknesses, and will definitely not let go of any opportunity that arises!
But "Initial City's" style is too crude, right? According to this lady, the number of people with physical aberrations in "Chuchun Town" is countless, and their lives are usually miserable. You could put up a banner of charitable clinics or directly state that you are doing experiments on genetic screening, but would also develop treatment methods, and you could gather a group of completely cooperative volunteers. There's no need to make it so rigid and high-pressure... Are your people really worthless? Jiang Baimian couldn't help but slander a few sentences in her heart.
In her opinion, "Initial City's" approach is far less efficient than "Pangu Biology's." It's just relying on its large population and the ability to station troops everywhere to maintain it.
"From you, uh, what's your name?" Jiang Baimian just remembered that she hadn't asked the lady's name.
Zeng Duo simply stated her name.
Jiang Baimian continued:
"From your description, the experimental security level in your town should not be low, and the security forces must be very strong."
Speaking of this, she looked at Han Wanghuo and said:
"Old Han, the manpower you organized seems to be hopeless."
After today's incident, those ruin hunters wouldn't dare to cooperate with Han Wanghuo, and it would be considered high moral character not to sell him out.
"The ordered munitions haven't been obtained yet." Han Wanghuo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
His only consolation was that the collaborators he had found didn't know the specific mission, so it wouldn't affect the situation in Chuchun Town.
Hearing Han Wanghuo's sigh, Shang Jianyao smiled.
Before he could speak, Jiang Baimian had already said:
"We are responsible for this, so let's do this, we'll be your helpers, doing voluntary labor, uh, not exactly voluntary labor, we need a copy of the data or samples from the Chuchun Town laboratory."
The reason she added the latter sentence was not because of the professional habits of being from the big villain "Pangu Biology," but because she was worried that Han Wanghuo, that awkward fellow, would be unwilling to take advantage and wouldn't agree.
Thinking that he couldn't find any other helpers in a short period of time, Han Wanghuo was silent for a few seconds and said:
"Okay."
Jiang Baimian revealed a smile:
"You don't have to worry about weapons. We have a lot, and we'll even throw in a big killer."
As she spoke, Shang Jianyao turned his body, clearing the way.
Zeng Duo and Han Wanghuo then saw Genaeva charging at the wall.
Robot... Han Wanghuo and Zeng Duo were both shocked and happy.
On the graylands, a robot with complete modules is indeed a big killer!
After the surprise subsided slightly, Han Wanghuo couldn't help but ask again:
"Why are you being hunted by the 'Order Hand'?"
This team seems to stir up a bunch of trouble wherever they go.
Back in Redstone Town, they punched arms dealers and kicked the Charred People's army, without a moment of free time.
Jiang Baimian thought for a while:
"I don't know how to explain it to you. How about this, you can directly look at the bounty missions posted by the 'Order Hand.'
"Old Ge, project them out for them."
Genaeva immediately changed his "identity" and projected the previously recorded information onto the wall.
Han Wanghuo and Zeng Duo had only seen such high-tech methods in a few places like the Hunter's Guild.
They steadied their minds and read the corresponding content.
"Participated in the Colosseum assassination case, planned a major conspiracy against 'Initial City'..." After only reading the first part of the description, Han Wanghuo and Zeng Duo felt their eyelids twitching.
Who exactly are they helping?
Although Han Wanghuo could see that Xue Shiyue's team should be from a large force, he never thought that they would directly confront "Initial City."
Jiang Baimian immediately coughed:
"Slander, this is all their slander, we just stole some information."
"Yes, they are too narrow-minded." Shang Jianyao echoed.
Han Wanghuo nodded, recalling and said:
"I remember the Colosseum assassination case before, the 'Order Hand' didn't make such a big fuss at the time..."
As he spoke, he couldn't continue.
According to this logic, what Xue Shiyue's team did was much more serious than the Colosseum assassination of nobles, otherwise they wouldn't have received this kind of "treatment!"
While his body tensed up, Zeng Duo had already seen the bounty amount.
"Ten thousand Ore for one person?" The ruin hunter from the aberrant town exclaimed in shock.
The area she operates in is mainly within the sphere of influence of "Initial City," and the tasks she usually takes can often be converted into Ore. Over the years, she has never seen such a generous reward involving only a few people!
Although the amount of the bounty does not necessarily represent the danger of the target, the number of ten thousand Ore still made Zeng Duo feel that everyone here was quite terrifying, similar to the characters in the graylands stories used to scare children and tell them not to cry.
For a normal ruin hunter like her, ten thousand Ore is more than enough to buy her life.
What is their background? Zeng Duo closed her mouth tightly, her eyes sweeping across the faces of Long Yuehong, Bai Chen, and others.
"That's roughly the situation." Jiang Baimian vaguely ended the topic.
Then, she frowned slightly and said:
"Now, even if Zeng Duo's mission is completed, we can't find a place to do the organ transplant."
This is not a small surgery. It requires a lot of medical equipment to cooperate, otherwise the mortality rate is extremely high.
Han Wanghuo was silent for a while and said:
"The doctors in the black clinics on Antan Street only want money, not life."
"Well, we'll see then." Jiang Baimian couldn't find another way for the moment.
Although she could force the issue and let the real "doctor" Genaeva download the relevant information and try to complete such an operation, the "Old Task Force" did not have the corresponding medical equipment to cooperate.
Jiang Baimian then breathed a sigh of relief:
"These are all subsequent troubles. The most important problem now is:
"How do we leave Initial City?"