Chapter 75 Chapter 75 "It's his blood... that can kill him,...

The night deepens.

A car quietly parked on a deserted street in the commercial district. Both people in the car were dressed in black, but unlike the young man in the passenger seat who was trying to hide something, the young man in the driver's seat was just trying to be cool.

"Have you found the person?"

"Still looking for it, it may not be in Yanshi anymore."

Li Meng's eyes were dark, and there was some restlessness under the mask, but he raised his hand to suppress it: "Keep looking, don't take it lightly."

Although he didn't know whether Ye Mian left the team because she knew something, she was most likely coming for him. It was unlikely that she would just leave and never come back. She must be hiding in the dark and waiting for an opportunity to strike.

"knew."

After getting off the car, Li Meng entered from the entrance of the underground parking lot as usual, but he did not go into the parking lot. Instead, he turned and entered the safety passage.

Ye Mian, who had been waiting for a long time on the underground floor, saw him appear as expected, and followed him closely.

——She dripped dew, and her every move blended into the surroundings.

Watching him walk into a corridor with no way to go, and then push open a secret door with his bare hands, Ye Mian couldn't help but pause, then immediately dodged and walked inside after the door closed naturally.

She had always thought that he had some other secret hidden, but she didn't expect it to be something that came with the commercial district.

Behind the secret door is a storage area, mostly storing clothes, shoes, bags and the like. Further inside are functional areas such as lounges and distribution rooms.

Just as they were about to walk out of the commercial area, the man in black in front of them finally walked into a small room. Another secret door opened, revealing a simple elevator leading downwards.

Nearly thirty meters deep, there is five underground floors that are not open to the public.

With steel bars everywhere and pipes running through it, it's like another world.

No wonder she didn't find any problems with this commercial district after coming here several times. It turned out to be hidden so deep.

As soon as he went down, Ye Mian immediately sensed the dangerous aura unique to mutants. They were neither high nor low, they were all intermediate mutants.

After the deputy captain came down, they suddenly dispersed. Some ran towards the drainage channel, while others drilled into the broken pipes, all heading towards the underground parking lot.

?

It seems that he always regards himself as a human being, so he takes the path that a normal person should take.

Ye Mian ignored the mutants and focused on following the man in front of him who was walking non-stop, wandering around in this dark and damp underground. Suddenly, a warm yellow color appeared in the darkness, followed by dry air and a breeze with a strange fragrance.

When we got closer, we found that someone had built a shelter-like space underground in this commercial district. There were extremely sturdy iron doors, torches on the walls that never went out, and in the room with the open door, we could see large amounts of drinking water, compressed dry food, toiletries, etc.

It can be said that the preparations were complete and I felt very safe, but it was a pity that I was not able to use them.

No, they were requisitioned by mutants.

Ye Mian shook his head, followed all the way to the innermost room, and stood in front of the door.

Li Meng felt something was wrong, but couldn't put his finger on it. He turned around and stared at the road he came from for a moment before he raised his hand and knocked on the door: "Ayan, I'm coming in."

The heavy iron door seemed like a light wooden door to him. It opened with a push, revealing the furnishings in the room and a woman sitting on the head of the bed with her legs crossed.

Hearing the sound, the woman did not move, but just lowered her head and immersed herself in her own world.

Seeing that her skin was just a little pale, probably due to not seeing the sun for a long time, Ye Mian felt relieved and did not waste any more time. He raised his hand and a pistol with a very simple structure, like a toy, appeared in his hand.

Li Meng was aware of the sound of wind and bullets coming at him, but he was hit before he could dodge.

“Uh…”

The sudden groan finally caught the attention of the woman in the room. She looked up blankly, and perhaps because of her nearsightedness, her eyes were a little out of focus.

"Do you have any medicine?" Ye Mian stepped over, took out a porcelain bottle and poured a drop of dew for her. "The bullet only has an anesthetic effect, it shouldn't last long."

The woman came back to her senses, her eyes brightened: "Yes!"

After saying that, she quickly got out of bed, took out a syringe from the drawer of the table full of experimental instruments, and then quickly walked to Li Meng, took off his mask without hesitation, and injected him with a needle in the face.

Ye Mian was slightly startled. On the one hand, he was surprised at the woman's decisiveness, and on the other hand, he was surprised by the strange look on the deputy captain's face.

——There was only a pair of eyes on his face, and it seemed as if something was restless under his pale skin, wanting to rush out.

After the woman gave it the injection, the thing calmed down, but soon there were "pop" sounds one after another, like the sound of abscesses bursting.

Watching the deputy captain who was fine the previous second explode into a ball of dark green slime the next second, Ye Mian was stunned for a moment before he asked in surprise: "Is he dead?"

“…No.” The woman stared at the moving slime on the ground and dropped her arms weakly. “His skill is reorganization, which is equivalent to immortality.”

What?

While I was stunned, the ball of mucus had already slid into the sewer and disappeared without a trace.

Ye Mian frowned, then relaxed: "You are Tong Xinyan, right?"

The woman paused, then turned her head and looked at Ye Mian with some surprise: "You are...?"

"I've read your experimental records." Ye Mian's original target was her, so he didn't say much nonsense. "Would you like to go with me to another place to continue your research?"

Tong Xinyan opened her lips slightly but was unable to utter a word for a moment.

Ye Mian took the opportunity to look at her message.

[Tong Xinyan (Evolver), initial skill: [Pharmaceuticals], she can make a variety of special potions with different effects, provided that all the materials are complete]

She is hesitating whether to leave

As expected of a talent who is devoted to scientific research, not only her skills perfectly match her personality, her emotions are also clear at a glance, and she has no ulterior motives at all.

"If you have any concerns, you can tell me directly, but you still have to hurry up, because those mutants outside may come back at any time."

Hearing this, Tong Xinyan no longer hesitated: "I do!"

"Well, then you tidy it up."

Thinking that he could come back anytime, Ye Mian did not go out of his way to collect the supplies in the nearby rooms. He just put the experimental equipment, medicines and data that Tong Xinyan had sorted out into the system warehouse, and then took Tong Xinyan, who was stunned for a moment and did not ask any more questions, back along the original route.

Walking to the path behind from another exit of the commercial district and getting into the car that had been parked in advance, Ye Mian led his men back to the East District of University Town to rest for a night. After meeting Pei Ming early the next morning, they officially set out to return to the farm.

Tong Xinyan was too confused last night, so Ye Mian didn't talk to her much. They only chatted briefly on the way back.

It was learned that Tong Xinyan and the deputy captain, Li Meng, were originally colleagues and lovers. After the latter mutated prematurely, the two quietly returned to the research institute and began conducting various experiments.

But then a large-scale mutation occurred, and they were surrounded by either evolvers or mutants, who would come to disturb them.

So he managed to find the shelter underground in the commercial district and placed Tong Xinyan there. It was called protection, but in fact it was semi-house arrest.

Tong Xinyan didn't think anything of it at first and devoted herself to her research. Later, she found that Li Meng's behavior gradually exceeded that of humans and he became a real mutant. She almost collapsed.

"It's his blood... It can kill him, but it can also infect the Evolvers."

"At first I didn't know where the rhenium crystal you mentioned came from. I only knew that there were two types of rhenium crystals that looked the same but contained different substances. Later I found out that one of the rhenium crystals was produced by him using the Evolvers..."

"After that, he came to me every day and told me everything. In addition to the useless Evolvers in his own team, he would also go to other places to find some survivors to infect them, and then control them and send them to me."

"I know he's crazy, and he wants to drive me crazy so he can turn me into his kind without any worries."

Ye Mian listened silently without interrupting.

Tong Xinyan then talked about his skills. Although he had become a mutant, perhaps because he had always maintained a clear consciousness, he also awakened skills like the evolvers, and two of them.

Disguise and reorganize.

Not only can he perfectly disguise himself as an Evolver, he can also fake his skills and hide important information.

Because he was worried about losing control, he didn't dare to take off his thick disguise every time he met Tong Xinyan.

As for the degree of danger, when he was being pricked with the needle, Ye Mian took a quick glance and saw an S++, which means it was stronger than some advanced mutants.

Finally, Tong Xinyan talked about the real key, which is also the most important achievement she has made in this period of time.

——Purify water sources.

"It's one of the substances needed to extract the natural rhenium crystal," Tong Xinyan said with a pale face, "but Li Meng said it's hard to find, so he asked me to try another kind of rhenium crystal."

“…He’s lying to you.”

Tong Xinyan was not too surprised: "I know he doesn't want to give me hope."

Ye Mian paused: "You will see hope soon."

Tong Xinyan thought this was a consolation, so she smiled bitterly: "Yeah."

Unexpectedly, Ye Mian’s “soon” really meant what it said.

So much so that from following Ye Mian into the farm, to arranging the room for washing, eating and drinking, to the exclusive medical laboratory in the workshop, Tong Xinyan was always in a daze. A woman in her thirties, she looked like a girl who knew nothing about the world.

After Ye Mian closed the door, he thought for a while and said to Xue Kai, "Let's arrange someone to be her assistant. Learning things is secondary, the main thing is to take good care of her."

Xue Kai also saw Tong Xinyan's performance along the way, and immediately understood: "Okay, I'll go talk to Jingshu."

After settling Tong Xinyan's matter, Ye Mian returned to the third floor of the workshop. After leaving the West District, she would come back every night, and the work assigned to Kate was almost coming to an end.

After making some minor adjustments himself, he let Kate finish the work while she went to eat something and inspect the farm.

Although I was away for less than a week this time, nearly half a month had passed on the farm, so the construction progress was very fast. Houses in the commercial street and residential area popped up like mushrooms after a rain. At a glance, it looked like a medium-sized village.

A large enclosure had also been built and stood alone on the other side.

As soon as Ye Mian came back, he received several reminder boxes in succession, and also unlocked three new blueprints, namely [Hotel], [Restaurant] and [Cellar].

With the existing manpower on the farm, construction can be started quickly and results can be seen in a few days.

In addition, once she finishes making this thing, she won't have to run around in person anymore, but can focus on farm matters and facilitate more trade orders.

Thinking of this, Ye Mian went to meet the guests who visited yesterday with satisfaction.

That’s right, Jiang Zixing hasn’t left yet.

At first, he was thinking of asking the questions, reporting the message and then continuing to the next destination, but because Lu Ning received Ye Mian's reply and tried to keep him, he accidentally agreed.

After knowing that time passed faster on the farm, he became less anxious and even wanted to stay for two more days.

When Ye Mian found him, he was eating his third meal of the day.

Looking through the glass at him wolfing down his food, then looking up at the sign that read "Dream Noodle Shop", Ye Mian stopped and walked in.

As soon as I approached, I saw Jiang Zixing directly picked up the bowl with only some noodle soup left and drank it all in one gulp, sighing with satisfaction: "I really don't want to leave..."

Ye Mian paused slightly, thinking of the information conveyed by Lu Ning, that the second shelter in Hui Province where he was located had as many as 50,000 to 60,000 people. Even if the supplies were sufficient, they could not withstand such consumption. Isn't this an order delivered to the door?

There is also the First Shelter, teams of evolvers from other regions, survivors who may be on the way, and so on.

"Hello," Ye Mian's eyes lit up, as if he saw a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered, "I am the farmer here, Ye Mian."