Chapter 28: Adapting to changing circumstances

Laughter emanated from the silent box and the headphones one after another.

The laughter from Sikong Tan in the headphones was short and quickly suppressed, but in the box in front of him, the middle-aged man named Jiang Youhao laughed very wildly.

He placed his hands on the table, looking up and down at the handsome young waiter who seemed to have wandered in by mistake, and asked with great interest:

"You don't look very experienced in your job. Are you a new waiter?"

At this point, Lin Guantang could only bite the bullet and continue:

"Yes, sir."

Seeing that he was a little restrained, Jiang Youhao simply stood up from his seat and wanted to go over to comfort the handsome waiter. However, before he took a step, the handsome boy looked at him with wide eyes and took a step back very quickly, like an overly sensitive frightened deer. If he moved even a little, the deer would run away.

Jiang Youhao didn't want to scare people away before they even had a few words to talk - how on earth did such a timid person get the job? With the standard of Chaoxi Mansion, they shouldn't have such an unqualified waiter...

Jiang Youhao forced himself to clear his mind and think about the strange thing, but this question only stayed in his mind for a moment, and was swept away when he met the panicked pupils of the beautiful boy.

He quickly found a reason for the handsome boy - perhaps the staff of Chaoxi Mansion were also kind-hearted people. Seeing that such a poor handsome boy had nowhere to go, they took him in out of kindness. Besides, every job starts from unfamiliarity to proficiency, and being a waiter is no exception.

Jiang Youhao quickly convinced himself and decided to be a kind guest.

Not only did he forgive the new waiter's lack of experience, he also tolerantly understood his timidity. He stood there, coughed pretentiously, and asked with the utmost gentleness:

"What did you want to say?"

Here we come!

This is a crucial question, the answer is both simple and difficult - it is simple because you can just find an excuse for a slip of the tongue to get away with it, and it is difficult because Lin Guantang has to come up with a reasonable answer -

An answer that would allow him to rationalize and prove his identity.

Lin Guantang lowered his eyes, and the countless complicated information in his mind passed by, and finally stopped at one reason - although he was not sure whether he could convince the person in front of him, Lin Guantang really couldn't find any other reason.

So it can only be done this way.

Lin Guantang suddenly raised his eyes, took a deep breath, forced a decent smile, and said solemnly:

"What I'm saying is, do you need a pocket-sized embedded joint terminal?"

Facing the other party's instantly wary gaze, Lin Guantang maintained a calm expression and slowly completed the rest of the sentence:

"Actually, I have another identity, that of a salesman for pocket-sized embedded joint terminals. I'd like to recommend our company's newly launched embedded joint terminals to you, my guest. I hope you can take a look at them."

That makes sense, right?

He disguised himself as a waiter, entering the room and then revealing his other identity as the trading partner of the embedded joint terminal. Being a salesperson is also a common identity cover-up, which perfectly matched the trading partner's mysterious temperament, which was as secretive as peeling an onion.

Can I really get away with it...ah, never mind, I have to believe in myself first, then I can hide it from the other person!

Lin Guantang met Jiang Zihao's gaze with stern eyes. Being stared at so intently, it was difficult for people to have any doubts about him.

But Jiang Youhao still had some doubts - and his way of questioning was to release his own pheromones.

***

The person who is collaborating with Jiang Youhao on the in-body terminal embedding today is a member of an organization called Eden - the same organization that performed the gland transplant surgery on him.

The huge organization code-named "Eden" is quite famous in the gray area of ​​the empire, and is even nicknamed the Dark Empire. It has many complicated businesses - especially those related to the transformation of ABO human characteristics. It has a reputation that is no less than that of the imperial medical authority. Correspondingly, if you want to find Eden to do sexual transformation, you have to pay a considerable fee.

However, since Eden decided to invest in the Babylon Project, it has given a second option to those who are unable to pay sufficient compensation but want to change their sexual characteristics, which is to implant a pocket-sized joint terminal and become one of the Babylon experimenters.

But that is actually a matter of great benefit to the experimenters - according to the description of the people in the Garden of Eden, the "Babylon" plan will eventually make the brains of all people in the empire shared, and from then on there will be no more barriers to thinking and language in the world. The people of the empire will unite as one to build a tower that reaches the sky, and eventually reach God's Garden of Eden and enjoy eternal bliss.

The first group of experimenters who join the plan, just like the first group of holy angels created by God, will occupy an extremely advantageous position in the "shared brain".

However, the plan itself was strongly opposed by the Central Military Academy, who believed that the plan was unethical. In addition, some politicians, led by Huo, were short-sighted and extremely stingy. They were unwilling to share the glory with the poor and opposed the implementation of the Babylon Plan.

Fortunately, with the Garden of Eden's full and unreserved support, the Babylon Plan can still operate, but it is still being carried out secretly. When it is completely successful, it will be revealed to the world and those people from the Huo family will be severely trampled underfoot.

Jiang Youhao believed what Eden said and really longed for that day to come, so he agreed to join the plan almost without hesitation. After a series of evaluations, Eden notified him to come to Chaoxi Mansion for the transaction.

As for the transaction object and how the transaction will be conducted, it is all unknown, just like when Jiang Youhao underwent the secondary sexual characteristics transformation surgery. All we have to do is wait for the Eden staff to come and notify us.

But I didn’t expect... the person who came was actually a handsome young man. It turned out to be a good way to hide one’s true identity and deceive others.

However, perhaps I need to test it again to confirm my guess, so as not to make a mistake in the transaction partner.

Jiang Youhao thought so and slowly released pheromones. The only thing he knew about Eden was that nearly 90% of its members were betas, almost all beta geniuses were gathered together. These geniuses created a path to the other side of AO for other betas, but strangely still adhered to their own essence as betas.

So let's try this method -

Jiang Youhao stared intently at the handsome boy in front of him, not sure whether he expected him to react...

But no matter which one it is, it's a good thing for him.

If the beautiful boy doesn't respond, then you can confirm that this is your trading partner and start the transaction;

If there is any reaction, it means that this is a girl who came in by mistake and is indeed working part-time to earn money for her studies. She is a waitress on the surface but actually a salesperson.

In that case... I can only say sorry.

After all, if a reaction occurs, there is a high probability that the estrus period will be induced early. If such an accident really happens... this beautiful boy will have to be taken away by myself to solve the estrus period.

But there was nothing wrong with being taken away by me. I had a little money, which was enough to pay a higher salary than a waiter, not to mention the reward for being tricked into working as a salesman for a shell company.

Jiang Youhao was aware of this. Ever since the "shared brain" ideas such as the Babylon Project were announced, although they encountered a certain degree of resistance, many companies in the empire were still fooled into joining in and were eager to try it out.

There are even some fraudulent companies that use related banners to commit fraud, and young people like the handsome boy in front of you, who are about the same age as this young man and have little experience in the world, are fooled into becoming accomplices to promote their fraudulent products.

If you think about it this way, a young and innocent boy who is naive and mistakenly enters a fraudulent company needs a righteous person like me to rescue him.

Unfortunately, the test results were disappointing—the beautiful boy showed no reaction to his pheromones.

Even after Jiang Youhao's pheromones reached their safe limit, the handsome young man remained indifferent, still immersed in the feeling of failure in his sales pitch. Not to mention being induced into estrus, not even a trace of omega pheromones was induced to release.

Such a handsome boy is actually just a beta.

Jiang Zihao tutted his words, trying to hide his disappointment. Knowing that the people at Eden Garden didn't like wasting time, he adjusted his mindset and played along, pretending to be someone interested in the joint terminal project and asking:

"Well, since you're selling some pocket-sized embedded terminal, let me try out your product."

"I'm sorry—eh?"

Can this be cheated?

Lin Guantang looked at the man in front of him in shock. For a moment, he had a doubt - could it be that human body modifications such as gland transplants would also affect IQ?

Otherwise, he found it hard to imagine that a normal person would believe this explanation - but then again, since he accepted it, no matter how he accepted it, since he accepted it, he should move on to the next step.

As the saying goes, delay leads to complications. Lin Guantang quickly took out the props he was going to use from under the white cloth on the dining car, walked to Jiang Zihao, and motioned him to raise his wrist.

Then Lin Guantang's slender and soft fingers stroked his right wrist - if he was not wearing gloves, it would have felt soft and warm.

Jiang Zihao looked down at the beautiful boy's white-gloved fingers holding his wrist, and inexplicably felt an indescribable sense of loss and regret.

I saw that in his other hand he was holding something that looked like a syringe—wait, a syringe?!

Jiang Zihao moved his arm, and the beautiful boy stopped moving and looked up at him. The distance was so close that his beauty was simply breathtaking.

Facing the young man's doubtful gaze, Jiang Zihao managed to regain some sanity and said haltingly:

"Do you want to use a needle?"

Lin Guantang: ...

Lin Guantang nodded cautiously with a firm look, trying to deceive himself first and then deceive the man in front of him to believe what he said.

Fortunately, Jiang Youhao had never actually seen the relevant object, so under Lin Guantang's firm attitude, he finally subconsciously believed it.

But it's a bit unexpected... The legendary most advanced technology product is actually presented in this way. It can't be that the data flow is materialized and injected into one's body... It really transcends the common people's cognition.

As expected, top technology has a way of opening it that ordinary people cannot understand... But when the time comes, imagining that I am actually going to participate in the most cutting-edge scientific and technological experiments in the empire, while I am excited, I inevitably have the idea of ​​retreating.

He said in confusion:

"Do you really want to pierce it?"

"Sir, you've already promised me to give it a try, but now you can't do that?"

Lin Guantang looked at him pitifully, his icy blue eyes staring at someone so intently that it was difficult for him to say no.

Jiang Zihao said in a tangled tone:

"Well, I've already agreed, so it's not impossible, but..."

"Really?! Thank you so much!"

Lin Guantang interrupted him before he could say "but", and his eyes lit up and he immediately showed an overly happy smile.

Under the light, those ice-blue eyes sparkled like stars, and his naturally smiling face shone even brighter than a diamond. Jiang Zihao couldn't help but laugh along, thinking that the handsome boy's happiness was because of him, and thus he felt a light sense of satisfaction and vanity.

How can you not be satisfied, how can you not be vain, how can you not rejoice with God.

——Is Eden actually a film and television company? How come all the members’ acting skills are so good?

Jiang Zihao recalled the last time he contacted the other party when he wanted to undergo sex change surgery. Suddenly, a child's parent came to him to ask for directions and asked him to lead the way. He didn't notice anything wrong until the other party revealed his identity.

In the dizziness that seemed to come from being drunk, he didn't say anything to embarrass the beautiful boy. He stretched out his arm as requested, and felt a slight pain in his arm, as if he had been bitten by a mosquito.

But compared to the pleasure that spread from my heart when the beautiful boy touched my arm, this pain was nothing.

Seeing the handsome boy putting the equipment away, Jiang Zihao began to wonder aimlessly whether it was time for him to explain the precautions in a pleasant voice next.

As he expected, the beautiful boy opened his rosy lips and said in a clear and cheerful tone—

"Thank you, sir. Goodbye, sir!"

Having achieved his goal, Lin Guantang did not hesitate to stay. He waved goodbye to him and quickly turned around and left. Before leaving, he did not forget to pull the dining cart out.

Jiang Zihao watched the handsome boy leave the box with a smile on his face, and even raised his hand to wave at him. When he withdrew his hand, he subconsciously rubbed the pierced part of his arm, then his whole body paused, shuddered, and he came to his senses completely, realizing that something was wrong.

That beautiful boy just now—the more I think about his actions, the more I feel like he wasn't injecting something into my body, but rather drawing my blood out...

Jiang Zihao stood there stiffly. After a moment, he quickly ran to the place with the most light and raised his arms to shine towards the light.

He looked at the small spot of blood on his arm and tried hard to recall everything that had just happened. He wanted to deny his guess, but the more he thought about it, the more wrong he felt, and the more certain he was that the other party had indeed drawn his blood.

Who is it,... why did they draw his blood...

Is this also part of Babylon's plan, or...

Or maybe someone knew the content of today's transaction, so they deliberately sent someone to trade with me first, and I was fooled!

Jiang Zihao didn't dare to think about it any further - he didn't know what changes had happened to his blood, but... but, Eden had specifically emphasized at the time that no one should be able to obtain blood or pheromones while pheromones were being emitted.

So, was that person just now someone sent by the Garden of Eden... I should have known not to test him just now, it was such a waste of time!

He stood there, feeling his blood run cold and dizziness coming over him again. However, he did not feel happy and satisfied as before, but had a premonition that a disaster might be about to happen.

Damn it—so vicious, she actually used the beauty trap to seduce him. And what kind of drug did that person give him just now that made him lose his mind and be completely led by the nose!

While the other party hasn’t left yet, we should quickly catch him and question him carefully!

If they are really from the Garden of Eden, then we should ask them in detail. Didn’t we agree to come here to embed something today? Why did they suddenly change their mind and want to draw blood, and do it in such a mysterious way... Even if it is their usual style, it is too scary.

If...if this is someone sent by another organization, then teach him a lesson and completely transform him into an omega...With all kinds of messy thoughts in his mind, Jiang Zihao ran out to catch people without stopping.

On the other side, after going out the door, Lin Guantang just glanced around and saw Senior Sikong standing in a corner waving at him.

Lin Guantang breathed a sigh of relief and hurried over. Before he could say anything, Sikong Tan pushed the food cart in his hand into the empty room next to him, and then took him away.

"Senior—"

"Walk."

Sikong Tan made a "hush" sound, signaling Lin Guantang not to speak for the time being, and walked out with him quickly, and then whispered in a very fast voice:

"After completing the mission, do not linger where you are. If you have anything to say, wait until you are in a safe place, otherwise—"

Along with Sikong Tan's voice, there was a loud sound of a door opening - rather than the sound of a door opening, it might be more appropriate to say that it was the sound of a door being smashed.

Lin Guantang hurriedly looked back and saw Jiang Zihao standing at the door with a ferocious and angry face, looking around. It was not difficult to imagine that if he was really caught by him, his end would not be good.

When he looked over here, Lin Guantang was pulled by Sikong Tan's arm and turned a corner, hiding under the decorative flowers and plants, and continued to turn and move forward.

Then, Sikong Tan's voice continued to come:

"Otherwise, like this, if you don't escape in time, you'll likely be caught by the target party who reacts and receive all sorts of brutal punishments. Go this way."

Lin Guantang really wanted to ask, are they really doing a serious mission...why are they so secretive?

But obviously now was not the time to ask this question. He had to follow Sikong Tan and run outside. However, Jiang Zihao came out exactly one minute before or after him. No matter how hard he dodged, he was still seen. Then he heard Jiang Zihao shouting and chasing after them.

The atmosphere was so tense that Lin Guantang's heart beat faster involuntarily. He also recalled various videos he had seen before of people running away after being caught... It shouldn't be that serious. He didn't have much confidence in his current physical strength, and he didn't have the mentality to jump off a tall building and still be intact.

But - no matter what, he still had to run as fast as he could. This man's face was too scary, and he didn't want to be caught at all.

Just when Lin Guantang was running away with Sikong Tan with the attitude of "giving it a go", he heard Jiang Zihao's shouting suddenly stop, and then no sound came.

Whether it was the voices shouting and questioning the mansion and wanting to capture him, or the sound of footsteps chasing after him, they all stopped in an instant, as if they were forcibly interrupted by someone -

Lin Guantang suddenly stopped and looked back as if he had a premonition.

All I could see behind me were a few elegantly decorated corridors, some half-human-high flowers and plants that complemented each other, and a half-figured figure behind the corridors and the plants.

But the person had his back to him and his face could not be seen. Only his long, curly silver hair was scattered behind his black windbreaker. Perhaps because it was too long, some of the hair inevitably hung down in curls, and a few strands of hair were flying up and down unrestrained in the air.

He had a broad back and was tall—as could be seen from the fact that the people around him were shorter than him. This gave rise to a literal sense of superiority and oppression, which made Lin Guantang, who was several streets away, couldn't help but breathe lightly.

Not to mention the people who face him.