Chapter 233 Rick's Genetic Engineering

◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎

Upon hearing Rum's questioning, Curaço, who had never met Bourbon, carefully recalled what she had just reported and found nothing wrong with it: "That's all the content I saw on the screen."

“Okay… go on, talk about Gil…” Rum said through gritted teeth. He wasn’t interested in what Gil was all about. Gil wasn’t one of his men. Even if he was an undercover agent, he was just causing trouble for Gin.

The key is Bourbon. This information is clearly wrong. If we report it, the organization won't do anything to Bourbon. Instead, they'll suspect that the Japanese Public Security Bureau is deliberately using false information to induce the organization to kill its own people...

Inside the hypnosis room, Curaçao, unaware that Rum was already gritting his teeth in anger, heard the new instruction and immediately continued her narration methodically: "Kier, the American Monk Genetic Engineering Company..."

The US-based Monk Genetics company? What kind of nonsense is this? Aren't the organization's spies usually agents sent by various countries' governments? How come even an agricultural seed company has infiltrated the organization?

Just as Rum was stunned by this information, he then heard Curaçao's report that Gil's age was 38. He was completely dumbfounded. Gil had only been in the organization for a few years?

The organization has her annual physical examination reports. When she first joined the organization, she was only a sub-adult. The physical examination reports also show that she has grown two centimeters in height, which confirms that her real age is consistent with her age. How could she be 38 years old?

So this is yet another piece of false intelligence fabricated by the Japanese Public Security Bureau to induce their own people to kill each other. He now suspects that Riesling and the others whom Gin previously killed weren't actually undercover agents. -_-||

He figured "that person" would have similar speculations after finding out, right? Hmph! Looks like he'll have to find another opportunity to deal with Bourbon later. As he thought this, he edited Curaçao's report into an email and sent it to "that person's" inbox…

Little did he know that just as his gaze shifted from the hypnosis room, Curaçao, lying on the bed in the hypnosis room, suddenly raised her hand to cover her head, her body instinctively curling up, revealing an expression of great pain.

She tried to struggle, yet it was as if she was trying to endure the excruciating pain and control her hands and feet to make some seemingly inexplicable movements. It wasn't until several dozen seconds later that she stopped this very strange behavior, but by then she was covered in cold sweat.

Curaçao stared blankly at the surrounding lights. What were those images just now? Was it an illusion? But the feeling of being pierced through was so real, the feeling of wanting to stop the Ferris wheel from collapsing even if it meant death.

The belief that I shouldn't let the organization cause the deaths of so many innocent tourists is like my heartfelt realization. So the real feeling is not like an illusion at all. It feels more like... more like if the aquarium hadn't exploded.

Could it be that the Japanese Public Security Bureau didn't transfer me while I was waiting to board the Ferris wheel, and that I was subsequently rescued by the organization? Or perhaps it was just a hallucination arising from my subconscious, a different destiny?

Curaçao thought uncertainly.

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Meanwhile, Bourbon, having recovered from the strange vision created by the remnants of history, received a message from the organization's boss that his undercover suspicion had been cleared. He then joined Gin in investigating the emails that the Japanese Public Security Bureau had fabricated for him and Kir.

{Understood!} Looking at the email, which was exactly what he expected, Bourbon smiled mysteriously and replied to the email. In his heart, he thought that it seemed he could use the organization's power to find clues about some of the monsters and demons hidden in the Japanese Public Security Bureau and the United States.

It turns out that even before Shuichi Akai decided to cooperate with him, he had already predicted that if he showed himself in front of Bourbon, Kir, who had personally 'killed Shuichi Akai,' would reveal that he was a traitor to the organization.

While guarding Kir at Beika Hospital, Shuichi Akai learned through their intelligence exchange that she actually knew nothing about the organization and had only accepted her father's request.

While acting as a temporary CIA agent to facilitate the handover between her father and the replacement liaison, she inadvertently infiltrated the organization. She is neither a seasoned CIA agent nor an undercover agent from another force, and is currently out of contact with the CIA.

So when she met with Bourbon and they agreed on the cooperation, she also told Bourbon about Gil's background, telling him to be careful in his actions, that he could use Gil's power, but not to involve her in exposing her identity.

Bourbon's work in the organization and public security over the years has all been focused on intelligence. He obtained information about Kir from Shuichi Akai, and after being sent to the United States by the organization to investigate Tsutomu Akai, he naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity to dig deeper into Kir's related intelligence.

He also sensed a conspiracy in the matter of Kiel's father. Given the CIA's modus operandi, it was possible that they could have spent 20 to 30 years planning to give Kiel's father the opportunity to infiltrate the organization.

Why did the need to replace the liaison officer arise so soon after Kir's father infiltrated the organization? In Shuichi Akai's description of the information provided by Kir, there was no mention of Kir's father sacrificing himself to replace the previous liaison officer.

This indicates that his contact was replaced while still alive, influenced by some reason, and that it is taboo to send relatives to investigate the same case and criminal target, similar to the undercover investigation style of the Japanese Public Security Bureau.

Under normal circumstances, unless absolutely necessary, people would never send close relatives, such as fathers and daughters or mothers and daughters, to infiltrate the same criminal organization or force for undercover work. This is because family ties can easily lead to emotional misunderstandings or the target taking them hostage.

Meanwhile, on Kiel's father's CIA side, a bizarre situation arose where the liaison officer was replaced without being killed, and the handover of information for the replacement liaison officer involved sending the other party's own daughter. This somewhat familiar tactic made Bourbon subconsciously think of Hiro.

I always felt that Kiel's father had touched a nerve with someone, and was targeted by certain people who were always watching the organization, or rather the CIA itself, or the monsters and demons hidden within it. Both Kiel's father and the new liaison were sacrifices to achieve their goals...

With this conjecture in mind, Bourbon naturally took the opportunity to investigate some relevant intelligence information about Kiel's father when he was in the United States. Unfortunately, after several decades, the investigation was not easy.

He only found out through some of Kiel's parents' login information when they were in the United States that they had worked together at the largest agricultural genetic engineering company in the United States. This information was not unusual in itself.

However, when he investigated the information about Guanghui Pharmaceutical and the Symbiotic Cult, and focused on studying the earlier contents of that researcher's diary, he found that he had recorded twice that the research base where he worked lacked research materials.

Furthermore, due to the United States' poor logistics and transportation issues, which prevented timely delivery, the research base urgently transferred some research materials from the research institution under that agricultural company as a temporary measure.

Why would materials from a seed bioengineering research facility share materials with research bases for projects such as human gene drug research? This is just a coincidence, a superfluous guess born from Bourbon's lack of expertise in the research field.

It's quite a coincidence that both of Kiel's parents worked for that seed company. Kiel's father, a second-generation Japanese American, wasn't particularly well-educated in the US. How did he manage to get in touch with the CIA...?

Unfortunately, Bourbon didn't have time to investigate all the doubts before he received orders to return home, leaving him without the answers. After returning home, he discovered that the police seemed to be setting a trap for him.

He simply provided information about the scumbag boss who had wronged Hiro, and information about the somewhat suspicious Lake Company, hoping to use the organization's power to probe their weaknesses and hopefully not disappoint them...

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"Phew! I'm finally back safe and sound again." Feng Xingshou looked at the familiar wind and snow outside the car window. His legs and feet were weak, and even his fingers were trembling. He slumped in the chair for a while before he recovered.

Matsuda wiped a cold sweat from his brow: "According to the rules previously announced by the game, the large-scale dungeon won't be held until the end of the month. That means the driving skills competition after this dungeon might continue for another ten days or so. Tsk! It's already so dangerous that my heart is about to stop at this point. What level will it be in ten days?"

"It's truly unimaginable!" Morofushi Kagemitsu said, then added with relief, "Fortunately, Hagiwara did a good job today, earning a lot of points, and used those points to exchange for the blueprints for the other missing upgrade parts for this vehicle."

I estimate we can fully upgrade this vehicle to Tier 3 today. I wonder what a Tier 3 vehicle will look like; perhaps a Tier 3 vehicle will be safer on those dangerous road conditions!

"Heh... If we include the sightseeing cars and bumper cars we collected, and oh right, that crane, it should be able to be upgraded to a level 3 5-star vehicle. We can look forward to seeing what it looks like when it's fully upgraded!" Hagiwara chuckled, then looked at Kazesei-no-Kami.

Feng Xing Shou was calming her wildly beating heart! Hearing them say that, her attention immediately shifted from the dangerous car situation to the vehicle upgrade and star-level enhancement. The strong anticipation injected a lot of energy into her body, which was already weak from the wild beating.

She couldn't wait to stand up, and while taking out the basic materials and blueprints needed for the upgrade from her backpack, she excitedly said to the others, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's give it a try!"

"Don't be in such a hurry, put on your down jacket first, it's very cold outside!" Seeing that Kazesei was about to open the car door and get out to upgrade the vehicle after taking out the materials, Hagiwara quickly grabbed a spare down jacket and put it on Kazesei.