In a secret conference room in the base city, Sikong Yu blushed and slapped the table.
"Look at me! Look up! Why don't you look at me?"
"Me! Sikong Yu!"
"The poor little boy's biological father is lying outside! My son was almost killed by that damn thing right under the base city wall. Don't you have anything to say?"
The deputy minister surnamed Zheng from the incident committee was the closest, and his head and face were sprayed with saliva, which made his eardrums buzz.
He said with an apologetic smile,
"Mayor Sikong, calm down. You must calm down. This is an accident. It must be an accident. I haven't seen one of those ogres in several years. Hey..."
Sikong Yu squinted, "You mean to say that my son's character is not good enough and he is unlucky enough? Is this the damn explanation you gave me?"
Vice Minister Zheng’s face turned green.
The middle-aged garrison lieutenant general in military uniform coughed.
"Mayor Sikong, we all know how much you love your son. As soon as the incident happened, didn't we immediately send people to rescue him? Our garrison even pulled the bird-wing crossbow."
"What the hell are you doing! Waiting for you to go? Are you going to collect my son's body? What did the people who came back say? The dogs went there earlier than you!"
"Cough cough cough..."
There was a messy coughing sound.
An old researcher from the scientific research institute wearing a white coat suddenly pushed the door open and entered.
"Mayor Sikong, I seem to have discovered something... Come and take a look."
Sikong Yu was stunned for a moment and quickly followed, and everyone in the conference room also followed.
Sikong was being pressed down on the comfortable big bed by two good-looking little nurses with smiles, and his body was connected to various instruments and circuits.
"Hehe, Mr. Sikong, please don't move."
Sikong yelled, "I told you I'm fine, get out of the way, I want to see Thirteen."
"No, the inspection hasn't been completed yet. The leader will scold us. Just lie down and be good."
"I'm not used to lying on other people's beds. I have mysophobia. I feel uncomfortable all over. I have allergies and rashes. Did you know... Huh? Sikong Yu? Help me!"
Sikong Yu rolled his eyes angrily,
"Hold this kid down, don't let him escape!"
The eyes of the two little nurses lit up.
"Yes, Mayor Sikong!"
One of them simply climbed up on the bed and threw himself on Sikong, "Hehe, Mr. Sikong, don't move. Come, let me check your body."
"Hey, hey, stop, what do you want to do, where are you touching..."
The old researcher pointed at the screen of the instrument and took out a dark purple test tube.
"We found this substance on Mr. Sikong's clothes. It is the soft crystal volatile substance of the fifth-level 'controller'."
Sikong Yu asked,
"What is the controller?"
The veteran researcher explained,
"The controller is a variant of the fifth-level zombie. It is a relatively rare type. It is very intelligent and can control almost all zombies lower than its own level. This kind of control is like turning other zombies into its own. Puppet and string puppets are very precise. It is still unclear what the upper limit of the number of living zombies it can control is. Base City once observed a controller leading tens of thousands of living zombies to block the hills and form a siege in the south. The aliens inside The beasts all become food for the controller.”
"The Controller's Living Corpse Soft Crystal is highly volatile and can only be preserved for a long time in the blood and body fluids of living corpses or alien animals. There is still no complete sample of the Controller's Soft Crystal in the base city... We were surprised This volatile substance was found on Mr. Sikong.”
Sikong Yu frowned, "What do you mean..."
The old scientific researcher's face looked very ugly.
"The operator's soft crystal has a strong special fragrance that humans cannot identify, but to some alien beasts...or ogres, it is more obvious than black spots on white paper, and can be seen hundreds of kilometers away. I smell that this smell has a strange attraction to ogres in particular. Although I don’t understand why, ogres, alien species that also evolved from living corpses, have always regarded living corpses as walking. Food, the taste of the operator's soft crystal is as attractive to the ogre as a feast of sea and land, or a banquet between Man and Han."
"So I concluded that someone must have contaminated Mr. Sikong's clothes with the soft crystal volatiles. I don't understand how this person did it. It only takes forty-five minutes for the soft crystal volatiles to be completely dissipated when exposed to the air. ...I have already inquired, Mr. Sikong returned to the base city from the Lin Family Inn, and the journey alone took more than an hour and a half, unless..."
Sikong Yu’s brows were almost all twisted together.
"It's absolutely impossible. The guards around Sikong have been trained since they were babies. They are absolutely loyal to the Sikong family and there is no possibility of having second thoughts."
The old researcher nodded repeatedly, "So my inference has reached a deadlock. Then how did the volatiles on Mr. Sikong appear?"
Sikong Yu thought for a while,
"I'm going to go out first. Where are Shisan and Xiaojiu?"
"Next room."
Sikong Yu turned around and wanted to leave, but Sikong Yu shouted, "Sikong Yu! What do you want to do?"
Sikong Yu smiled at his son,
"Well, dad went to see how Xiaojiu and Thirteen were doing and whether they were injured."
Sikong said unceremoniously,
"I think you want to ask if they harmed me?"
Sikong Yu called out to Chong Tian Qu,
"Is your dad that kind of person? Xiao Jiu and Xiao Jiu were trained by your dad personally. Doesn't your dad know what kind of people they are? If he doesn't even trust the subordinates he trained, how can your dad and I still do it? Be the mayor of this base city?"
Sikong rolled his eyes,
"Where is Gaga? How is Gaga?"
The old researcher blinked,
"quack?"
"That's the oversized duck."
"Oh...it's..."
The old researcher suddenly stopped, "Duck? Quick, bring that duck over! Draw blood... Bah, no need to draw blood, just take me there!"
The old researcher came back soon and said excitedly,
"The problem really lies with that duck. Who feeds and touches that duck on a daily basis? Mayor Sikong, I need to anesthetize that duck. Well, can I wash its stomach by the way?"
Sikong Yu turned around and walked out the door, "Here comes someone..."
Half an hour later, the old researcher took out a red apple from the unconscious Quack's mouth.
"This is it."
As soon as the apples were taken out, the whole room was immediately filled with that sweet and sour fragrance.
"Haha...this is how much fragrance was used."
He cut a gap in the apple, and sure enough, it was not an apple at all, but an artificial material similar to leather, with a dense honeycomb structure inside.
"There is definitely a complete controller soft crystal hidden in it. Mayor Sikong, I want to save it for research. Do you mind?"
Sikong Yu nodded.
Sikong turned to look at Sikong Yu, "Dad?"
Sikong Yu calmly answered the call and then said, "The people who usually take care of Gaga committed suicide six times and fled two times, leaving nothing behind."
Everyone's expressions were not good-looking. This was clearly an organized and premeditated assassination. If it weren't for the veteran researchers sent by the scientific research institute, everyone might still be kept in the dark.
Suddenly, the little nurse taking care of Sikong came in from outside holding a metal-style suitcase.
"Researcher Miao, an academician named Liu asked me to give this to you, saying that it will be very helpful for your research just now."
The veteran researcher was overjoyed,
"Academician Liu is here? Show me..."
"Click."
The secret lock of the suitcase was opened, and Sikong Yu suddenly yelled, "No! Don't open it..."
Mr. Miao turned back in confusion.
"What's wrong?"
Sikong Yu looked at him steadily, "It's okay... I thought... Damn it, protect my son!!"
"Swish, swish."
A strange buzzing sound filled everyone's ears.
Mr. Miao looked into the box in surprise, only to find that his angle of view gradually deviated, and finally he was level with the ground, and he fell heavily.
In his eyes, there seemed to be thousands of worms swarming under the beautiful face of the little nurse standing next to her, and her skin was constantly twisting and squirming. Then countless tiny brown flying insects spurted out from every pore of her body, covering her entire body. cover.
Sikong Yu's face turned purple and he shouted loudly,
"fire!"
Blue flames roared out from his mouth, nose, eyes, and palms, swallowing up the two dead bones that were completely covered with insects.
After the flames dissipated, even the bones of the two corpses were reduced to ashes, but the suitcase was still as bright and clean as new, and a line of black fonts gradually appeared on the surface of the box,
"A small gift is not a sign of respect."
Finally, there is a dashing signature - "Liu Renjun".
...
In the afternoon, Lin Chou sent away the last batch of guests, but no more guests came.
The New Year is approaching, and the hunters have to rush for the last harvest, and they also have to go to the production committee to settle accounts and settle accounts. Everyone is in a hurry.
Most departments of the production committee will be on vacation during the fifteen days of the New Year, and hunters must use these days to quickly deal with the matters at hand.
The garrison's dragon-tiger fight still had no results, and both Sikong and Lin Chou were a little impatient.
The two betting teams, one heading west and the other heading south, will return in two days. Lin Chou is also planning to hold an all-fish banquet at that time, and then he will take a vacation and return to the base city.
Sighing, the New Year's Day is a big day for reunions, but Lin Chou could only smile bitterly in return.
If possible, he would prefer to be busy in the tavern as usual.
After all, he didn't have any relatives to eat New Year's Eve dinner with, watch performances and set off firecrackers.
"Hey, Boss Lin!"
"Eh...Brother Wuyou?"
Brother Wuyong pointed the camera at Lin Chou, "Boss Lin, let's say hello to everyone."
Lin Chou smiled kindly,
"How did you come?"
Qin Wuyong sat on the table, "Boss Lin, I have good news and bad news. Which one are you going to hear first?"
Lin Chou spread his hands, "Can I choose not to listen?"
Qin Wuyong nodded seriously, "Then let me tell you some bad news first."
"As far as I know, Boss Lin, although you have paid your taxes this year, you have not completed the annual tasks of the production committee, right?"
Lin Chou scratched his head, "What do you mean?"
Qin Wuyong smiled and said,
"I'm just saying that you definitely don't know about this. Just like hunters, in addition to paying taxes, they also have to turn in a living corpse of the same level as themselves every year. All awakened people have to go through the process of entrusting a fixed Mission.”
Lin Chou's face was filled with astonishment.
"No one ever told me anything like this happened to me."
Qin Wuyong curled his lips very covertly,
"What do you think if I say this is a single benefit?"
"..."
"Ahem, the matchmakers who had the affair must have approached you. Are you engaged?"
"..."
"No, right? That's it. If you're not engaged or married, you have to pay taxes. You also have to get this fixed mission. Of course... As far as I know, there is no awakened person in the entire base city who has not been engaged for one year after awakening. Precedent, after all - this tax seems to be something that everyone and Mr. Sikong can only afford to pay for three years. My heart trembles just thinking about it, you are the third brave person."
"..."
Qin Wuyong pointed to the monitor of the live broadcast,
"People can't help themselves in the world, and I have to pay a certain price for the convenience provided by the base and city. I recently received a task, which was to take a group of scientific researchers from the scientific research institute and several older academicians to Heishenhai to find Some kind of island, help with research."
"It is said that this island was only discovered in recent years, and no one has ever landed on it. The base city will send people to protect ordinary people who are powerless, but they are all evolutionaries. There is no such thing as living in a place like that. That's not right. Evolved people can completely ignore poisonous insects, snakes, ants and the like, but ordinary people can't. So they needed a wild survival expert, so they found me and offered me something I couldn't refuse. Great reward.”
"As for Boss Lin... I looked at the nominations on the document, and you are listed in red letters, ranked first."
"What does this have to do with me?"
Qin Wuyong said with a bad smile,
"If you agree to the proposal... of the Development Committee, then of course this matter has nothing to do with you. The Development Committee will also give a large bonus to an outstanding awakener like you, but who makes you a precious and precious person?" Where are the rare singles?”
"To be more precise, you have been tricked. It's only been a few days this year. Boss Lin, you have no choice."
"" Lin Chou cursed.
"Well, let me give you some air first. Basically, you have not run away. There is no one in the whole base city who is more...what adjective should I use than you at sea? My Lord Poseidon, human beings." The shadow of the famous tree, where you stop can give those old guys who have never been to the sea an absolute sense of security."
"Don't you think it's unfair? You pay a huge amount of taxes and you have to be sent to protect a bunch of old guys."
"Kind of."
Qin Wuyong said seriously,
"So, my boss Lin, I have a distant cousin who is only sixteen years old this year. She has absolutely nothing to say about her appearance and character. She is beautiful, capable and obedient. She speaks softly and is as gentle as a little bee. Yes. You are someone I have admired for a long time. During the penguin tide, she was watching you from a distance on the city wall. After coming back, she talks to me about you every day. If you agree...hehe, we can settle it today. Immediately notify the commission to give you tax exemption and mission, hehehehe."
The barrage was all red,
"Brother Wuyou, you are so shameless!"
"2333333"
"Where is your moral integrity?"
"Hey, brother Wuyong, look at the ground. There is something that looks like soap and moral integrity. Pick it up quickly."
"This wave is very strong. I personally think Brother Wuyong's sales ability is five stars, which is completely worthy of praise."
