Chapter 450: Big Brother Wolf
The Blood Flower’s bewitching presence had always been present in the abnormal beasts’ offense against humans, be it in the White Spirit case, Gao Ye’s case, the destruction of the underwater tunnel construction site, or the ambush on Noble Descent Hotel.
Based on ng Chao’s mories of his previous life, the Blood Flower played a crucial role during the second half of the Monster War as well. It was one of the major contributors to the monsters’ faster evolution.
Since the Blood Flower was a unique organism between a plant and a fungus, it had the ability to stimulate the activity in the cells of carbon-based life forms. The specialists wanted to research its structure as well and its secrets to weaken its infectious and pervasive properties, along with ways to make the Blood Flower useful to humans.
But based on what ng Chao knew, even the zombie research center and the famous biochemical labs in Dragon City were never able to gain much of a breakthrough when it ca to the research regarding Blood Flowers.
The abnormal beasts, however, were ahead of them in terms of their research toward Blood Flowers. Half a year ago, they had already managed to turn them into a biochemical weapon and used it in the war to create large numbers of undead.
The Deification Capsule contained components of the Blood Flower... so was it related to the abnormal beasts?
The outdoor lab could not answer the question, since it only had basic equipnt to examine living beings.
Fortunately, at that mont, the army stationed nearby arrived at the base.
Communications were soon restored. The wireless network was also connected to the headquarters of Soaring Dragon Construction, which was located in Dragon City.
ng Chao used the communication network in the base to contact Ye Xiaoxing, leader of Group 9 of the abnormal beast research departnt. He told him about his experience over the past few months in the wild and what he learned that day. He shared everything about the Deification Capsule and his observations: the strengthening and subsequent tragic fates of the humans after they took the dicine.
“Has the abnormal beast research departnt ever heard of the Deification Capsule?” ng Chao asked.
“Based on what I know, no. But the research departnt is not in charge of investigating gene dicine that has not been approved, anyway,” Ye Xiaoxing told ng Chao. “Besides, the illegal workshops that produce the Three Missing Criteria Drugs usually don’t have nas for their drugs.
“When they talk to others in the black market or the deep market, they make up all sorts of strange nas. Today, they’ll call it the Deification Capsule, tomorrow, they’ll call it the Soul Burning Pill. The day after tomorrow, they’ll call it the Divine dium Pill. The na itself won’t be able to make you think that it’s problematic.
“Speaking of which, you said that a normal person will gain supernatural powers after he takes the pill? But it also has a high chance of mortality? You usually don’t hear of such domineering drugs.
“I’ll report your discoveries to the drug monitoring departnt. Later, the people over there will contact the manager of Soaring Dragon Construction’s base and they’ll take over the case.”
“Is that so?” ng Chao frowned a little and asked, “Captain Ye, are you saying that the drug monitoring departnt will be in charge of this investigation?”
“Is there sothing wrong with it? Investigating forbidden drugs has always been the job for the drug monitoring departnt!” Ye Xiaoxing stopped talking for a mont. Perhaps he rembered ng Chao’s crazy instincts during the Noble Descent Hotel case, and he raised his voice a little. “What’s wrong? Did you discover sothing? Do your instincts tell you that the Deification Pill is related to the abnormal beasts?”
“Well... no,” ng Chao said. “I just think that there’s a high chance of that since, for one, there is Blood Flower components in the Deification Capsule and the abnormal beasts are the ones with the most in-depth research regarding Blood Flowers inside and outside Dragon City. Second, ever since the ambush on Noble Descent Hotel, the abnormal beasts have not done anything for a few months.
“Now, the humans’ developing lands and forward operating bases are sprouting like mushrooms after a shower. The Red Dragon Army and the exploration teams from the four great research centers have already reached the highest peaks of quite a number of mountains in Monster Mountain Range. They created a lot of maps for military use, which ans they can find the abnormal beasts’ nest at any mont.
“It’s impossible for the abnormal beasts to stay quiet. They’re definitely plotting a new sche in the dark. In any case, I don’t have any other clues in my hands now and am free, so I might as well join the investigation.”
“That’s true. You’re not an official investigator of the departnt, so you’re the perfect person to do so of the things that the departnt cannot do publicly,” Ye Xiaoxing said readily. “In any case, I’m just going to repeat what I said. The departnt trusts you fully. If you find any clues, you can ask for manpower and resources as you wish. Of course, it’ll be for the best if you can provide concrete proof.”
“Got it. Thanks, Captain.”
ng Chao would, of course, not act rashly.
Besides, right now, aside from the Deification Capsule, he did not have any other clues.
While he was wondering whether he should wait for the staff mbers from the drug monitoring departnt to co over and try to get more news, Manager Jiang told him that the only girl who did not take the Deification Capsule had woken up and seed quite stable.
She gave them another piece of information. She was a couple with the young man with a mohawk in the surveillance footage.
The mohawk young man had all the potential of his life drained. His cause of death was severe dehydration and the carbonization of his organs.
But when he was alive, he treated ng Chao as his greatest idol.
When the girl woke up, she asked who saved her. Manager Jiang told her that it was ng Chao, so the girl shared the knowledge about her boyfriend.
“That girl is pretty pitiful. The pathfinders in the developing land were her neighbors, classmates, and her childhood sweetheart. She might not have taken the Deification Capsule, but she watched her best friends and lover go mad through the monitor before they died of exhaustion. The ntal tornt is too great,” Manager Jiang told ng Chao.
“She said that so Broken Star Club mbers had co to the squatter area where they lived to carry out public welfare activities. The club mbers even taught the children there how to cultivate. Her boyfriend also admired you the most while he was still alive. I think that if you were to talk to her a little, it would cheer her up a bit and make it easier to deal with her grief.”
“Taught children how to cultivate?” ng Chao thought about it. “Are they the citizens of the temporary settlent in the east of the city?”
ng Chao had only ever taught children in one area, which was where Ms. Xiao Fanghua had organized a martial arts refresher course for the children whose hos and school had been destroyed by the monsters so they could only live in temporary tents and shacks.
Since Ms. Xiao Fanghua had given birth to twins and had to nurse them, before ng Chao went out to train in the wild, he would often go to that place as a replacent teacher. While there, he had beco friends with quite a number of children.
Since the pathfinders were disaster victims who lost their hos, they had problems that forced them to run into the depths of the fog to develop the land.
ng Chao naturally agreed to Manager Jiang’s request.
He t the haggard girl in the dical room.
The girl’s eyes were blank. Her lips were pale, and even her breathing was a little weak. It was as if she had lost the desire to live.
But when she t ng Chao, light shone in her eyes, as if she rembered her boyfriend, who idolized ng Chao.
However, it was precisely because she rembered her dead boyfriend that she beca even sadder. Her eyes imdiately filled up with ice-cold tears.
ng Chao was scared of such situations the most. He quickly said sothing along the lines of “Your boyfriend ate the Deification Capsule because he wanted to fight to the end and make sure that you have a chance to survive. Since so many of you died just so that a handful of you could survive, you should cherish your life even more. You have to live well.”
The girl sucked in a few deep breaths and cald down a little. In a quivering voice, she thanked ng Chao for saving her life.
“It was an easy task. All the people in the wild will help each other and fight side by side if they see soone having run into monsters,” ng Chao said. “Besides, even when I’m not around, you relied on your own strength to get rid of all the monsters. Where did you get that Deification Capsule? It’s really amazing!”
The girl was not stupid.
She could tell the power and danger of the Deification Capsule was far beyond that of normal gene dicine. To a certain extent, it could even be considered as the culprit who killed her boyfriend.
Hence, she did not intend to hide it. She said, “Little Hua got it from Big Brother Wolf.”
“Big Brother Wolf?”
ng Chao knew that Little Hua was the girl’s boyfriend, the mohawk man who told everyone how to use the Deification Capsule in the surveillance footage.
Who was Big Brother Wolf?
“Big Brother Wolf was Little Hua’s friend. I’m not too familiar with him myself, and I don’t know his real na either,” the girl said. “Little Hua wasn’t close to Big Brother Wolf in the beginning. I know practically all of his friends, and they’re all his neighbors as well as classmates from elentary school and middle school.
“I think Big Brother Wolf is older than us by two or three years. Before, he stayed in another residential area, so we didn’t interact much with each other.
“But a year ago, when our residential area was destroyed by monsters, the residents from more than ten residential areas had to squeeze into a temporary settlent. Once there are a lot of people in an area, you get a lot of conflicts as well. Our mood was also bad.
“Little Hua often argued with other people, and he was once beaten up so badly that his head started bleeding. I think he got to know Big Brother Wolf through fighting against him. For so reason, they ended up as friends who ate and drank together.”
“So, you’re saying that this Big Brother Wolf is also staying in the temporary settlent in the east of the city?”
ng Chao pondered this for a mont and asked, “Do you know who he is and why he has sothing as dangerous as the Deification Capsule?”
“No.” The girl shook her head. “Big Brother Wolf should have lived nearby. But there are tens of thousands of other people in that area. I don’t know where his house was specifically.
“He seed like soone who is really capable. He also had a lot of friends and he knew a lot of powerful people. He was welcod everywhere.
“Last year, he even joined a pathfinder team and stayed in the wild for a few months. Even though they did not manage to defend their developing land, he did not die. He ca back covered in wounds and his spirits beca even higher.
“A large part of the reason behind why Little Hua joined the pathfinders is because of Big Brother Wolf’s influence.
“As for the Deification Capsule, I only know that Little Hua got it from Big Brother Wolf. I don’t know anything else. I’ve been together with Little Hua for ten years, and he always told everything. But when it ca to the Deification Capsule, he kept his mouth tightly shut. He refused to say anything about it.
“We only knew that this super gene dicine was a new product created by so major organization. I heard that it was tested on three batches of animals and two batches of volunteers. It’s absolutely safe, so it’s just that it hasn’t been approved by the drug monitoring departnt and can’t be brought to the market for the ti being.
“When Big Brother Wolf heard that Little Hua wanted to join the pathfinders, he went through a lot of his connections to get those capsules to protect us. I think that Big Brother Wolf said all that to trick Little Hua, and Little Hua really believed him like an idiot. I didn’t expect...”
The girl started weeping silently.
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