Chapter 117: The Silver-haired Child
“What about the transaction time?”
“The afternoon after tomorrow.”
Haywood frowned, “That’s impossible. You have no idea how much it costs us to transport those potions to the Acid Rain Area.”
“No no no.” Su Huan held up an index finger and shook it, “You have to believe in the company’s strength.”
“The afternoon of the day after tomorrow at six o’clock. If it’s one second late, I’ll invite you to watch a grand bonfire party.”
Su Huan concluded with a smile that didn’t reach his eyes threat.
As Haywood left, he was thinking that this transaction was truly terrible. The other party knew his cards even better than he did.
How could they negotiate like this?
When he left the Logistics Center, he even felt a sigh of relief inside.
Once he got in the car, the follower behind him suddenly said, “This person knows so much information about the company, could it be that…”
The emotion on Haywood’s face disappeared, leaving only deep contemplation, “He should just be simply reminding us. As for who’s behind it… forget it, better report it up and let the company worry about it.”
“Urge the Headquarters side to get the potions delivered as soon as possible.”
……
Su Huan had his legs crossed, balancing on the back legs of the chair, his toes tapping the desk one by one.
The thin steel pipe chair legs made an unpleasant bending sound.
The Gene Potions exchanged for the remaining value at the Logistics Center were not part of Su Huan’s original plan.
He only knew that Deep Blue Data had an area manager here. This was information he had accidentally learned in his previous life. He didn’t know what the other party was doing here.
But that didn’t stop him from using this information to add a sum to his profits.
Everything was so perfect.
Heavy footsteps came from behind. The small cigarette at the corner of He Jie’s mouth had turned into a thick black cigar, who knows which delivery box it came from.
Thanks to his terrifying puffing volume, standing behind Su Huan, he looked like a smoking brown bear.
Arms crossed, he grunted, “The fire is ready. When do we burn down the warehouse?”
Su Huan’s toe tapped the desk, spinning the entire chair around to face the other way, and said with a squinting smile, “Don’t mind it. Negotiation sometimes requires a little technique.”
He Jie’s eyes were raised high at the corners, looking down at Su Huan obliquely.
The cigar at the corner of his mouth twitched, “I suggest you think soon about how to get my wife and child out of the Steel Council, or I might defect.”
Su Huan rubbed his smooth chin, “By the way, do you know Zhang Tie?”
He Jie narrowed his eyes, “What do you want with this person?”
“Just curious. Can you beat him?”
“Hah, if that little brat dares to say one more word in front of me, I could yank out his balls!”
“What about Qu Hang?”
This was the major he had followed in his previous life.
“A rat pup who only knows how to snipe from the dark. I could tie both their balls together and make a pretty bow tie!”
Su Huan asked with interest, “In your training camp, what rank could you get?”
“If it weren’t for my low professional knowledge score, I could at least make the top three.”
He Jie said proudly.
But thinking of how this smiling young man had hammered his team from start to finish, pressing their heads down, that bit of confidence that had just surfaced vanished into smoke.
His team even had a sniper ranked just behind Qu Hang, who ended up headshot by Su Huan from several kilometers away.
The top-ranked Energizer out of three hundred people was inexplicably killed outside the carriage by a youth in a wheelchair.
It took him a long time to figure out the reason.
Su Huan, Xiao Ba, Yu Yue, Liang Kuan…
Plus Wan Xing extracting General Energy Crystals on the side, and the inscrutable Yu Jing.
He Jie felt that on this monster train, he could only handle Old San and a few others.
“So you’re just simple-minded, huh?”
“Bullshit!”
“Tonight there’s fresh sashimi—arctic scallops, sweet shrimp, salmon, all of it. Plus iron plate grilled shrimp, seared filet mignon. Consider it compensation for slandering you.”
“Isn’t it because there’s tons of frozen food that can’t be finished?”
“Don’t dwell on these too essential things, or there won’t be any happy moments.”
……
Steel Council, Laboratory.
Personnel in protective suits shuttled between the various rooms. Perhaps because their faces were covered by masks, everyone looked very cold.
Zhang Min stood against the wall in a simple white underwear set with no patterns at all.
Although no one was looking at her, she felt countless cold gazes scraping over her like steel knives.
Merely becoming an Evolver gave no advantage in this world.
To climb higher and live better, she had to evolve, to gain strength.
A young man came up to her with a booklet, “Test subject volunteer No. 46, Zhang Min, right?”
“Mm.”
“Has your weight fluctuation exceeded 5% recently?”
“No.”
“Any medical history?”
“No.”
The man asked like it was routine procedure, and very meticulously, even down to details like whether she’d had relations with a man recently.
Clearly everything was already in his booklet, but he still had to ask her again.
But she’d been through more embarrassing things; this was nothing.
After answering all the questions, she followed the man barefoot. One by one, transparent rooms appeared before her eyes. Through the large glass, the white interiors of the rooms were fully visible.
Inside the rooms were test subjects just like her, in white underwear, either anxious or exhausted, pacing around the rooms.
Even if they passed outside, no one noticed, so the glass was probably one-way.
Men, women, old, young—all present.
Suddenly, a man went berserk and charged at the glass, ferociously smashing it with his head.
The man leading the way stopped and notified others via the telephone on the wall.
“Experiment No. 0243, Test Subject No. 12 showing sudden symptoms. Relevant person in charge, please assemble immediately.”
After speaking, he waved his hand. Guards holding special firearms stepped forward, opened the room door, and fired two shots at the test subject.
High-strength anesthetic instantly put the raging man to sleep.
The effect was immediate.
Soon, relevant personnel arrived.
“Let’s go.”
The two continued forward, and the man had no intention of explaining to her.
At the end of this row of rooms, Zhang Min’s footsteps suddenly paused. Although this room looked no different from the others, there was a girl in a suspender dress sitting on the bed.
Her fair skin looked even more creamy under the cold lights, like a freshly fired piece of porcelain.
A head of light silver long hair was pinned up on top of her head, with only a few strands falling over her forehead.
The girl hugged her knees sitting there, her silver eyelids casting a faint shadow.
Just like the beauty from the legendary sleeping thorny lands.
Even as a woman herself, Zhang Min instinctively held her breath the moment she saw her.
The man walking ahead also stopped.
So far, no one passing by here could remain unmoved.
No one would urge them on.
As if afraid of disturbing that child.
