"Put down the knife and listen to ," Wei Tianyang pinned her against the wall, her feet off the ground. Seeing that the woman was about to suffocate, he released his hands, grabbed her shoulders, and pushed her into a chair beside the table.
"Giovanni, can you hear ?" Wei Tianyang said.
Giovanni’s window appeared in the HUD glasses.
"I’m going to ask her a few questions. You, Xue Bi, and President Fogen should listen too," he added.
"We’re all watching, but if there’s any potential harm in his information..." Giovanni said.
"No, don’t turn off the translation feature. I’m capable of judging," Wei Tianyang said.
"It’s too risky," Xue Bi said.
"I have it under control," Wei Tianyang said.
He looked back at the woman, whose tears stread down her face like a frightened bird, cowering in her chair.
"Look at my phone and read out these syllables," Wei Tianyang took out his phone, showing the woman a string of syllables.
"La, li... lu, le, lo..." the woman trembled.
"Good, you’ve passed," Wei Tianyang nodded.
Then he switched to a photo of a heart speaker and showed it to the woman.
"Have you seen this person? I’m looking for her," Wei Tianyang continued.
The woman shook her head.
"Alright, I believe you. My na is Weiske. Can you tell your na?" Wei Tianyang said, considering his real na too difficult for the West Soil People, he simply used a Western pseudonym.
"My na is... Giovanna," the woman said.
"Good, Giovanna. Very good, I’m soone sent by your President. You don’t have to be afraid of . I just want to ask you a few questions that you can answer. Answer truthfully and don’t hide anything, okay?" Wei Tianyang said.
Giovanna nodded her head.
"The first question, why are you so afraid of ? Did you mistake for a bandit stealing supplies?" Wei Tianyang asked.
"No... I knew you were a soldier... I knew right from the start," Giovanna said.
"Good. Then why are you afraid?" Wei Tianyang asked.
"You’ve been here before... and did so not-so-good things," Giovanna whispered.
At that mont, Giovanni interjected, "Be cautious of her words, Wei. Everyone we sent in has disappeared."
"Can you tell what those who ca before did? Where did they go?" Wei Tianyang continued to ask.
"I... I heard they killed many people in Xiding... and then left," Giovanna said.
"Why did they kill? Who initiated the conflict?" Wei Tianyang asked again.
"They wanted to take people away, and those people didn’t want to go... then the conflict happened," Giovanna said.
"If they were a rescue army, why wouldn’t people want to go with them to a safe place?" Wei Tianyang asked.
"They... weren’t an army... they were dicine..." Giovanna was interrupted as the translation cut off again.
At that mont, Xue Bi said, "Wei Tianyang, she is trying to create a rift between you and us."
"Turn on the translation feature," Wei Tianyang said.
The woman was still talking, but Wei Tianyang couldn’t see any subtitles. He made a stopping gesture, asking her to pause.
"Wei Tianyang, do not repeat the sa mistakes, we have already lost thousands of people here. You know exactly what we are doing, we have not cut off the city’s water, electricity, or internet, have dropped supplies from the air, and have instructed the citizens through the internet to stay at ho and follow the arrangents. We’re doing this to save them!" President Fogen interjected at this point.
Wei Tianyang hesitated, what Fogen said was true, the internet was available, the electricity had not been cut, and the air-dropped supplies had indeed been seen...
However, what this woman said also greatly concerned him.
"There is one more thing you haven’t made clear to . Fogen, the pharmaceutical companies... What is going on with the pharmaceutical companies here? And what about the contamination from the research on the Heavenly Falling Objects?" Wei Tianyang asked.
"We cannot tell you everything, and you wouldn’t share all your secrets with us either, would you? You were the last person to see zero-nine-one, where is that thing? Would you care to explain?" Fogen retorted.
Wei Tianyang was silent for a few seconds, looking towards Giovanna, who still seed a bit scared but had a look of pleading in her eyes.
"Then I will take a look myself..." said Wei Tianyang.
After all, nothing involving pharmaceutical companies was ever simple...
"The pharmaceutical companies have already secured the Heavenly Falling Objects, you don’t need to go there anymore," President Fogen said.
At that mont, his phone vibrated. Wei Tianyang picked up his phone and saw a ssage from Spencer sent through an encrypted channel.
"Reply when you can talk."
He hadn’t connected his phone to the AR glasses he was wearing since they were provided by Libitelli, and if anyone called, the Libitelli governnt could also eavesdrop through the glasses.
"I will make my own judgnt," Wei Tianyang said.
He left Giovanna’s room, walked out of the apartnt building, and saw a man walking limpingly while holding his head and carrying a black plastic bag. When the man saw Wei Tianyang, he froze.
"Are you Giovanna’s husband?" he asked.
The man nodded.
"Don’t keep her waiting," Wei Tianyang said casually, then walked past the man.
He walked for a long ti, reached a deserted small square, looked around, and then removed his earphones and glasses, using his phone to call Spencer.
"Wei. The thing you asked to look into was a bit tricky, but I’ve found so leads," Spencer said, cutting to the chase.
"Which pharmaceutical company in Lusimin City?" Wei Tianyang asked.
"There are two companies serving Libitelli, one is Red Pharmaceutical, which you are familiar with, and the other is Hasegawa Pharmaceutical from East Continent, backed by Churi Country," Spencer said.
"Churi Country? I’m not familiar with them," Wei Tianyang said.
"This pharmaceutical company is very secretive; they don’t communicate much outwardly, although they are also a mber of the pharmaceutical alliance. However, many people say privately that their way of treating the dicine People is very... harsh," Spencer said.
"As far as I know, no pharmaceutical company treats dicine People well," Wei Tianyang said.
"Hasegawa Pharmaceutical has many research outcos that are unrelated to the Black dicine," Spencer said.
"Unrelated to Black dicine? What do you an?" Wei Tianyang asked.
"They are using the Heavenly Falling Objects to develop other things... I don’t even know what they are researching, but I know that most projects fail, and you can imagine what happens to those dicine People..." Spencer said.
"Do they have any connection with ’Human Dawn’?" Wei Tianyang asked.
"They are excluded by ’Human Dawn,’ it seems both have different goals, and their research directions also conflict," Spencer said.
"Okay, a strange pharmaceutical company, then what? Did you find any valuable information about the Heavenly Falling Objects in Lusimin City?" Wei Tianyang asked.
"That’s exactly the problem, Wei," Spencer teased.
"Just tell straight," Wei Tianyang said.
"Through my channels and thods, I’ve investigated all the Heavenly Falling Objects projects handled by pharmaceutical companies in the past five years, including those that fell and were transported to Libitelli territory, but I found no information corresponding to Libitelli," Spencer said.
"Yet I did indeed find that Libitelli and Hasegawa Pharmaceutical signed a cooperation contract three years ago, but the thing they are researching has nothing to do with Heavenly Falling Objects."
"In other words... Lusimin doesn’t have Heavenly Falling Objects."
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