Chapter 491 Burning Flame (please vote for this big chapter)
When the early morning sunlight shone through the clear glass windows, Nok opened his eyes in confusion, "Is this heaven?"
"This is hell."
A can of espresso was handed to him.
Nok turned his head and saw his forehead shining in the sun. He was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise, "Director?"
He looked around and found that he was in the working hall of the FBI, surrounded by colleagues who were slowly waking up.
Nurses in medical uniforms were walking among the crowd, checking the bodies of those who had woken up.
He raised his head and glanced at the sky outside the window.
The weather is very good today, the sun is a bit dazzling.
"Did we survive?"
Nok was a little unbelievable.
"yes."
Thorin sat down next to him, took out a can of espresso and opened it, looking at the sunshine outside the window, "We survived."
As he spoke, he pointed to the dormant cleaning robot next to him, "You should thank it. It dragged you out of my office, otherwise I would consider contacting your family members now."
"Ah?" Nok was confused. He looked at the cleaning robot and said in confusion, "Now that the cleaning robot still has this function, how does it determine that the fog intensity in your office is higher than that in other places?"
"Of course it can't judge," Thorin smiled and glanced at the silly boy beside him, "but people can."
Nok was startled, and then realized that the director was reminding him, "Pate!"
The other party forged traces of the hacker at that time, and most likely left behind some means to control the cleaning robot to save him.
He took out his bracelet and wanted to make a call to the friend who he had only met once but had a profound impact on him, but found that he did not have the contact information of the other party at all.
So he could only open his mailbox and sent an email to the private mailbox, asking about the other party's current situation and whether he had been affected by last night.
Thorin was drinking coffee next to him, quietly waiting for him to finish sending the email.
At this time, Nok suddenly realized another meaning of the director.
If he was rescued by a robot controlled by Pate, does that mean that Pate was still awake last night when everyone was unconscious?
Then think about what Pate has been investigating privately.
Is there some connection between Pat and the fog last night?
It may even be the party opposing the originator of the fog.
Was he the one who solved the fog?
He looked at Thorin and asked in a low voice, "Director, what was the fog last night? How did it disappear?"
"I don't know," Thorin glanced at Nok and said slowly, "After hearing your alarm, the FBI headquarters immediately sent support. By the time they arrived, the fog had disappeared."
"When will support from headquarters arrive?"
Nok asked cautiously.
"At around three o'clock in the morning, they encountered a trap set up for alien animals on the road, and their progress was hindered."
Thorin replied.
"Three o'clock in the morning," Nok calculated the time. It was almost 00:50 when he was unconscious. "It seems that the fog disappeared very early, otherwise we would all be dead by the time they arrive.
"
He suddenly became slack and leaned aside without saying a word.
He could actually understand the fact that the headquarters' support was being hindered. Since the other party had activated such a city-wide vision, they must have made preparations for reinforcements.
But he still felt a little uncomfortable. If the alarm he desperately pressed only attracted a group of corpse collectors, then his desperate efforts at that time seemed to be of no use.
"After you press the emergency evacuation button, the four city gates of Limen City are directly locked, closing the passage for alien beasts to enter the city, and avoiding the chaos and death that may be caused by alien beasts entering the city.
"At the same time, the FBI and city government's intelligent unmanned emergency rescue vehicles took to the streets to collect those who had passed out on the streets, and to provide basic treatment to those suffering from chronic or sudden illnesses, who would otherwise not have these treatments.
, they didn’t survive last night.”
Thorin glanced at Nok and said slowly, "You saved many people."
"ah?"
When Nok heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head in embarrassment and smiled shyly, "I only did what I should do,"
He thought for a while and continued, "And since Pate controlled the robot here, if I hadn't done it at that time, he would have controlled the robot to press that button..."
At this time, Thorin suddenly asked softly, "Did he reply to you?"
Nok was stunned, picked up his bracelet and took a look at it, "Yes..."
Then he paused and clicked on the email, "It's an automatic reply, and the content is...a cloud disk link."
He reached out and clicked on the link.
Pieces of information about the Fountain of Youth and the Mars Project appeared.
"so···"
Thorin sat next to him, glanced at the directory, fell into a certain silence, and then continued, "Senator Genos died last night. Support from the headquarters discovered the sacrifice method of the Goddess of Life in the middle of the Star Pharmaceuticals Building.
Array."
He stood up slowly and stretched out his hand to Nok, "Let's go."
"Um?"
Nok raised his head and looked at the director in the sun.
"Go and complete the truth," Thorin said calmly, "This is our responsibility."
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Kaya City
Roger held a document in his hand and fell into brief thought.
This is the physiological data recorded by the instrument before Wei An woke up.
Ding--
A phone call broke his thoughts.
He raised his bracelet and saw Ike's profile picture. He frowned slightly and answered the call, "Brother, I'm doing an experiment."
Ike knew that his junior brother did not like to be disturbed when he was thinking, so he quickly said, "Roger, Oracle."
······Half an hour later······
Roger had completely put down the information in his hand and frowned even more tightly, "Why did the goddess give such an oracle?"
"I'm afraid the identity of the 'brother' you recruited is not simple. He may have made some kind of deal with the goddess."
Ike hesitated for a moment and said tentatively.
“Can mortals make deals with gods?”
Roger thought.
In fact, in a sense, sacrifice is also a kind of transaction. You sacrifice items or lives that the gods like in exchange for the gods' blessings or knowledge.
But it was more of a prayer than a transaction.
Because the initiative is never in the hands of the sacrificer, the gods will decide whether to accept the sacrifice according to their own preferences.
The pollution of the gods is everywhere. At the moment of many sacrifices, the sacrificer will become the puppet of the gods. It is extremely difficult to obtain some blessings and gifts.
Not to mention what else to ask the gods to do besides offering sacrifices.
"No one has ever tried it."
Ike on the other side said softly.
The pollution of the Goddess of Life is very strong, and most of the priests of the Goddess of Life will directly turn into fools who only praise life at the very beginning of the sacrifice.
No one has ever been able to communicate with the goddess of life. Most priests only accept the information from the goddess of life unilaterally.
"That 'friend' of yours may have some secrets that we don't know about."
Ike added.
"Um."
Roger thought of 'K'.
Mortals and gods cannot make deals, but what about between great beings and great beings?
However, they can only think about it here, and it is impossible to go to the goddess of life to ask what happened.
The behavior of asking gods is a form of blasphemy for believers. What's more important is that doing so can easily lead to being sucked into someone by the goddess of life.
"Has the church taken action?"
Roger put down his thoughts and looked at Ike on the phone.
"Yes," Ike nodded, "the church has issued a convening order, but if we gather like this, we will definitely be attacked by the federal government. It depends on whether your 'friend' has arranged other back-ups."
"According to their behavior, there should be some."
Roger groaned.
His eyes looked towards a hidden room in the corner of the laboratory.
There, another life support module is placed.
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September 19
What happened to Limen City and the strange phenomena that covered the entire city attracted the attention of the entire Federation.
Although Limen City is small, it is a city directly under the federal central government and is very close to Irons City, the federal capital.
At the same time, multiple large-scale crises covering the entire city have occurred in the federation, which has also triggered panic among the people throughout the federation, and the public's distrust of the current presidential cabinet has intensified.
The FBI headquarters announced that it would investigate the case thoroughly.
Nolanka Group announced that it would abandon the exercise in Fortress City No. 146 and expressed that it was very concerned about the disaster in Rimen City and would send a disaster relief team to Rimen City.
Qunxing Pharmaceutical made no comment on the matter.
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September 20
A small newspaper in Chenxi City published a piece of news about Qunxing Pharmaceutical using the name of the research institute to conduct experiments on human organs.
This newspaper claimed to have obtained a batch of internal reporting materials and would continue to release these materials within half a month.
This news caused a huge stir and was quickly reposted on a large scale on social media.
Qunxing Pharmaceutical issued a statement stating that all actions taken by the group are reasonable and legal. Research institutes located in more than a dozen cities across the federation are conducting reasonable biological experiments, and all experiments are conducted in compliance with local and federal laws.
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At the same time, Qunxing Pharmaceutical stated that it would report and prosecute the newspaper for leaking their trade secrets.
Some family members of the "volunteers" immediately stood up and expressed their intention to initiate a class action lawsuit against Qunxing Pharmaceutical on behalf of all victims.
That day, the stock price of Qunxing Pharmaceutical opened sharply, then rose slightly, and closed slightly lower.
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September 30
"Director, Qunxing Pharmaceutical's stock price has gone up."
Nok put the tablet in his hand on the table with some anger and confusion, "It hasn't dropped much in the past half month since the data was released, so why did it rise so much all of a sudden?"
As the information continues to be released, although the popularity is still maintained, people's attention has begun to be attracted by other things.
"Don't worry," Solin brought up the hot teapot and filled Nok with a cup of milk tea, "What do you think is 'good' for the market?"
“Does the company make money?”
Nok said subconsciously.
Then he was stunned and thought for a moment, "Qunxing Pharmaceutical has studied the laws of major cities very clearly. Although some actions of those research institutes are in the gray area of the law, it can be alleviated through Qunxing Pharmaceutical's mediation and delay.
Even to avoid punishment, and no politician is willing to directly oppose such a large consortium."
His tone gradually lowered, "And they have developed the technology of human cloning organ transplantation. It is a breakthrough technology with great growth expectations. The market does not care whether Qunxing Pharmaceutical has done anything evil or not. It only cares.
Can they continue to make money?"
He raised his head and looked at Thorin, "But Director, we still have so much information in hand, and the incident in Limen City..."
"Don't worry, don't worry, your friend hasn't played all the cards yet. Isn't there no problem at all for the small newspaper in Chenxi City now?"
Thorin smiled and slowly poured milk tea into his cup, "It's not time for us to appear yet."
For an unknown small newspaper to be able to continue to open such a big lid without being damaged, this in itself means some problems.
"Pate..."
Nok raised his head and looked at the Qunxing Pharmaceutical Building with a big hole in the middle in the distance.
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October 5
The latest revelation of Qunxing Pharmaceutical’s human experiments has once again detonated the entire federal network.
The materials this time contain a large amount of information on the illegal activities of Qunxing Pharmaceutical.
Documents and information including illegal use of large doses of narcotics, illegal use of addictive drugs that are not licensed by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, etc.
More importantly, the news also published a large number of photos of human experiment sites, and published data on a large number of "volunteers" who died during the experiments.
The news specifically mentioned that Qunxing Pharmaceutical concealed the mortality rate of the experiment from the "volunteers" and only used some vague terms to mislead the "volunteers" into thinking that this was an insignificant but well-paid experiment.
In fact, the generous remuneration is "life money" for these volunteers.
At the same time, the newspaper also published data from another "Mars Project".
Qunxing Pharmaceutical attempts to achieve partial immortality through organ transplantation, and the first to enjoy immortality are the wealthy customers of Qunxing Pharmaceutical.
Detailed data proves that Qunxing Pharmaceutical sells organ cloning services to wealthy people for more than one million federal coins per cloned organ, and the final amount given to the "volunteers" who cultivated the organs at the institute will not exceed 5,000 federal coins.
They 'buy lives' from the poor at a low price and sell them to the rich at a high price.
At the end of the news, the newspaper also hinted that Qunxing Pharmaceutical's method of achieving organ cloning was related to some kind of evil god, and Qunxing Pharmaceutical was related to the fog that shrouded the entire market.
This newspaper put almost all the explosive points on the last day. After half a month of continuous hype, these cruel news spread quickly to every corner of the federation like exploding fireworks.
Qunxing Pharmaceutical immediately held a press conference to refute the newspaper's fabrication of "fake news" for the sake of views and sales.
Qunxing Pharmaceutical's stock price fell sharply that day.
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October 8
Demonstrations against Qunxing Pharmaceutical were held in major cities across the Federation, protesting against its despicable practices of human experimentation and the rising medical prices in recent years.
This is not only a resistance against Qunxing Pharmaceutical, but also a resistance against the medical consortium.
The Chenxi Municipal Government has remained silent on this incident.
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October 9
Chenxi Mayor Christos held a press conference.
There's a bit of a glitch, so it'll be a little late. I'll try to post tomorrow's update before noon. The last chapter of this copy will be tomorrow.
