The next day at noon.
The white sedan really did stop again at the intersection in front of the logistics company.
Ruan Yu rolled down the window, a lady’s cigarette dangling from her lips as she looked outside.
Chen Ke stood by the roadside, hands in his pockets.
The car door popped open automatically, and Ruan Yu, seated on the inside, patted the seat beside her.
Chen Ke got in, and the scent of milk flooded the car interior; surprisingly, Ruan Yu smoked without opening the windows.
"You changed your mind," she said with a smile.
Chen Ke coughed for a while, the car door closed automatically, the engine started, and Ruan Yu cracked the window a bit, bringing in a breath of fresh air.
"Your company’s doing foreign trade here, you must need so sort of local guide, right?" said Chen Ke.
"We don’t need a guide, just soone smart, experienced, and skilled," said Ruan Yu.
"What kind of skilled person?" asked Chen Ke.
"Are you looking to switch jobs? It sounds like you’re coming here to apply," Ruan Yu flicked ash from her cigarette, took a harsh drag that went through her lungs, and exhaled deeply, filling the car again with the scent of second-hand smoke, though it was cream-flavored.
"I have a... friend who’s quite all right. He just needs so ti to recuperate and is currently looking for work," said Chen Ke.
"He might be of use to us, Mr. Chen Ke. To be frank, I don’t think you are in the foreign trade business," said Ruan Yu.
"What makes you say that?" asked Chen Ke.
"I didn’t see you at the foreign trade office this morning. Those doing business in Chicken Snake Country would visit daily to check on goods pricing and logistics turnover," Ruan Yu said with a smile.
Chen Ke also smiled and said, "But you still waited here for , and even let in your car."
"Because I can see that our potential collaboration extends far beyond foreign trade business. I guess, you have so special expertise," said Ruan Yu with a smile.
"How can you tell?" asked Chen Ke.
"I have many friends in foreign trade, and with people constantly moving about on the streets, it’s inevitable to notice you walking around..." Ruan Yu hinted.
"You’ve been following ?" Chen Ke said with a smile.
"It just happened to be noticed by acquaintances of mine. They ntioned it when we chatted this morning. You’re here looking for soone, wandering around with weapons. Are you perhaps from the Yin Country, seeking Heavenly Falling Objects with the Superpower Special Departnt?"
"If I tell you the truth, I’d have to silence you," said Chen Ke.
"Hmm, hmm-hmm~ I know the rules," Ruan Yu tossed the butt of her cigarette out the window and took out a spray, applying it a few tis to her mouth.
Then she continued, "If you’re here for sothing that fell from the sky, then I can tell you, it’s not just your Yin Country that’s interested. Churi Country has also sent soone. The recent big drop has attracted too much unwanted attention."
"How do you, a foreign trader, know so much about this?" asked Chen Ke.
"Heavenly Falling Objects are invaluable, even if they fall in a small place like Chicken Snake Country. The local governnt can’t keep them, and many big nations nearby will send people to snatch them. Chicken Snake Country doesn’t want to offend anyone and naturally doesn’t care, so they turn a blind eye to the superpower special forces and spies sent here, allowing them to kill each other in secret," said Ruan Yu.
Chen Ke nodded. The docunt had detailed how the Heavenly Falling Objects affected the world, explaining that they didn’t land like teorites but descended from another dinsion, causing energy explosions and subsequently contaminating entire regions.
These areas could bring unknown diseases and warping effects, depending on what kind of powers those objects possessed.
Pharmaceutical companies, under the guidance of governnts, would send teams based on the condition of the Heavenly Falling Objects, assessing whether to transport them back or to establish containnt facilities and laboratories on site for developnt.
In a country like Chicken Snake Country, which is embroiled in internal conflict, dicine People resources are abundant. Perhaps, for this reason, pharmaceutical companies might choose to develop Black dicine there.
But the prerequisite is that the country backing the pharmaceutical company gains control over the Heavenly Falling Object.
Generally, the fight for these objects wouldn’t escalate into large wars, or even spark local conflicts, but rather involved deploying superpower special forces to engage in clandestine battles.
Chen Ke said, "What does this have to do with you? Don’t tell you’re with a pharmaceutical company?"
Ruan Yu gave a wry laugh and said, "That would be a fool’s errand, serving as a clandestine agent for a country. If sothing went wrong, the pharmaceutical company would be dismantled and reorganized; the main responsible persons would face the death penalty, and the team would end up in prison."
"That severe? Pharmaceutical companies are just in the business of research," said Chen Ke.
"The cost of research is human life. The progress achieved cos at the cost of thousands of lives. No one wants to take responsibility, but soone has to pay the price," Ruan Yu said with a smile.
"So, what’s your trouble?" asked Chen Ke.
"I have a shipnt being transported overland. It encountered so trouble on the northern forest highway," said Ruan Yu.
"Trouble..." Chen Ke shook his head.
"That very day, a Heavenly Falling Object happened to crash down. It landed smack in the middle of that forest," said Ruan Yu.
Chen Ke smiled. The very sa item 091 ntioned in the docunt had crashed right there.
Coincidence or fate?
In his past adventures, coincidences were ever-present. When he t the mail carriers, he also helped them resolve so bizarre issues.
He described these situations as a "strange constitution"; after all, he himself was an oddity, alive without a heartbeat or body temperature.
"This is too much of a coincidence," said Chen Ke.
"Isn’t it? Just like our eting," said Ruan Yu.
"That shipnt’s probably long gone," said Chen Ke.
"I want to see for myself. After all, it was a project I managed, worth more than 2 million Langke. I’ve paid the local governnt army to help, but they take the money without lifting a finger, and no one else seems capable," said Ruan Yu.
"That place might have so strange phenona, and who knows, there might be superpower special forces," said Chen Ke.
"This is a trade. You can set your terms," Ruan Yu said with a smile.
Chen Ke had nothing to lose; he intended to go there and destroy 091 anyway, and now he had a chance to ask Ruan Yu for a favor in return, so he was coming out ahead.
Chen Ke began to smile.
Ruan Yu sized up Chen Ke and said, "I guess you would like to have a more intimate conversation with ~ I don’t mind such matters, after all, it’s only human nature~ After the job is done, I can satisfy you."
Chen Ke waved his hand and said, "No, I’m already married."
Ruan Yu was taken aback, then began to laugh, "Ah, a traditional man."
"You just need to give that friend of mine a job," said Chen Ke.
Ruan Yu took out another cigarette, putting it to her lips, and said, "This is a very dangerous job, and that’s all you ask for? That friend must be very important to you. Is there anything else?"
"There’s one more thing... after I get out of the car, light up your cigarette then."
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