Chapter 83 You are a treasure of the world
Tang Xinying was able to suppress her innate thirst for knowledge as a researcher.
This is difficult; she really can't help but want to cut open Qi An's brain to find the source of her powerful mental strength.
Furthermore, her strong vitality and self-healing ability are contrary to her genetic language!
Qi An is not actually a powerhouse.
Those who survived the apocalypse were all enhanced individuals, but Qi An wasn't. So what was she?
Anyway, it's one person, someone she's known for the past three years, someone she's treated like a junior, even like her own daughter!
"Xiao Qi, let me tell you a secret too," Tang Xinying said.
Qi An was slightly taken aback.
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The day the squad was assassinated was April 8th.
The entire Central Plains Base land defense force was in an uproar, with everyone discussing the logistics minister's assassination mission team.
People were either marveling at Liu Hui's ruthlessness or praising Team 2's toughness.
The insect oil refinery at Xinyuan Ranch was also unearthed.
Actually, it wasn't a digging operation. The underground oil refinery had been operating all along. It was just that after the first assassination attempt failed, Xu Wentao, out of caution, had the refinery temporarily shut down.
The ranch people have a very sophisticated process for temporarily shutting down refineries and quickly covering them up.
Therefore, Xu Wentao was completely baffled by Zhao Bowen's behavior of heading straight to the refinery as soon as he entered the ranch, as if the ranch had been equipped with surveillance cameras.
He remained defiant even when he was taken to prison, his protruding lips also indicating his defiance, and he didn't say a word.
However, Zhao Bowen told them that Liu Hui had been taken into custody by the military affairs department and showed them a photo of Liu Hui when she was arrested.
After confirming the news was true, the two of them were immediately deflated.
The next evening, Xu Wentao handed over all the details of the ranch, hoping to be sentenced as a "test subject".
The guy with the protruding mouth was really tough; he committed suicide in prison through a mutation.
The voiceprint information comparison results are also out. With both witnesses and physical evidence, because she was part of an assassination squad and was illegally refining and selling oil, she will be punished for both crimes, and her sentence will be very severe.
Team 1's Zhou Yang and Liu Wei made a decision during the cowardice incident. Both of their actions constituted betrayal and they were treated as experimental subjects. The remaining team members would either be "one-time experimental subjects" or expelled from the army.
There were too many traces of collusion between Wu Zirui and Liu Hui, and Lu Yunbai even knew that the two were in an alliance of interests.
Lu Yunbai adopted a balancing policy towards his subordinates and was counting on Liu Hui to fight for the army's logistical autonomy, so he always turned a blind eye to her actions.
But this time the pressure from public opinion was too great, so he had no choice but to strip Wu Zirui of his official rank and prepare to send him to the Northwest battlefield as a regular soldier.
However, Lu Yunbai was unaware that Liu Hui's logistics department would smuggle a batch of corpses of fallen insects to the ranch after each collection to save money for raising a private army. If he had known earlier, he would have given Liu Hui a good scolding.
This commander-in-chief has really suffered a great loss and lost face this time. He feels annoyed just thinking about those troublemakers in the Wind Riding Team 2!
He somewhat regretted awarding the squad a second-class merit.
With the oil refinery shut down, there will inevitably be a large-scale search targeting businesses and households using unpurified insect oil, keeping Zhao Bowen and his several teams extremely busy.
The bodies of Xiang Shiyang and Wang Ming, who were discovered on the morning of the 8th, were temporarily placed in the morgue. It wasn't until the evening of the 9th, when Xu Wentao confessed, that Zhao Bowen had time to deal with the matter of the two men.
By the morning of April 10, Yu Shuang was completely out of danger.
As long as there is rest time, everyone's self-healing and strengthening abilities will take effect. In just two days, Yu Shuang no longer needs a ventilator and can sit, lie down, and talk without any problems.
"The sun is shining so brightly outside, I want Lao Zhao and Xiao Qi to come with me for a walk!" Yu Shuang said. Since becoming an injured person, she has become quite willful, refusing to listen to anyone's advice and insisting on going out.
Su Qingran had no choice but to push over a wheelchair, tuck a blanket around her, and give Zhao Bohan a long list of instructions before letting the three of them leave.
We went to the small open-air garden on the second floor of the military hospital. It was quiet, with only the cheerful chirping of birds.
"Did you give the task of transporting the virus strain to someone else?" Yu Shuang asked.
“It was given to Team 3; they just left today,” Zhao Bohan said.
"Sure, the mission is quite challenging, but it will be a good opportunity to gain experience. I hope they have a safe journey and return home safely!" Yu Shuang clenched her fist, then smiled, her eyes squinting in the sunlight.
"I didn't expect that we would take care of Wu Zirui and his gang before we even started fighting. You guys are really awesome!"
Actually, the person who really helped in this matter was Qi An. It was thanks to Qi An that their entire team was able to survive.
The topic then turned to Qi An. Zhao Bohan said first, "The Public Security Department has received a reply from the Central Plains Base No. 7. Those two were also involved in the illegal sale of insect oil, and both are guilty of capital offenses."
Zhao Bowen will close the case as soon as possible and won't drag you into it.
The person who calls him "brother" doesn't call him "brother," he calls him "Zhao Bowen."
However, that's not the point. The point is that Zhao Bohan made a promise to Qi An on the way back, and he was keeping his promise.
Qi An nodded and said, "Thank you."
After a moment of silence, Yu Shuang said in a low voice:
"Xiao Qi, actually Lao Zhao guessed it."
Qi An was not surprised; she had been waiting for this conversation.
Her extraordinary purification abilities, her sensitivity to the fallen insects, and the origins and fates of Xiang Shiyang and Xiang Shiyang—all these things combined make it strange that the vice-captain, with his intelligence, couldn't figure it out.
It seemed pointless to hide it anymore, so Qi An said, "I used to be an experimental subject."
She said it directly, which still shocked Yu Shuang and Zhao Bohan, who had only vague guesses.
Yu Shuang asked after a long pause, "Was it like this since you were little? Like having absolutely no freedom?"
"Starting from age 7, for 5 years, I could only occasionally get some fresh air on the ground," Qi An said calmly.
Yu Shuang clenched her hands, and Zhao Bohan's face paled.
"So who exactly are you..." Zhao Bohan murmured, but hesitated and didn't finish his question.
Yu Shuang glared at him, but at the same time reminded herself, "That's not important! The only important thing is that she is Xiao Qi!"
Qi An lowered his eyes for a long time, "I don't know why I'm acting strangely, but I can tell you what aspects of my abnormality are."
However, these anomalies appear to be dynamic.
For example, when I was in the lab, I didn't react much to pollution, but later I did, and it even mutated.
I didn't know I could sense the location of the Fallen Insects back then; I only discovered it when I went on my first mission with you guys.
The vice-captain also suspects that your and Tang Long's increased mental enhancement values are all because of me.
Tang Long's enhancement value was probably too low, so he underwent too many deep purifications from me. The vice captain, on the other hand, might have had too much potential, and a single purification triggered an upgrade.
If this guess is correct, then this is a characteristic I just discovered.
Yu Shuang and Zhao Bohan were even more shocked upon hearing this!
Each and every one of these anomalies is absolutely incredible!
If this is a dynamic development, what other characteristics will Qi An discover in the future? How strong will it become?
Seeing their shock, Qi An tried to suppress his regret for their earlier honesty and smiled:
"Now that the vice-captain knows the secret, he's not upset anymore, is he?"
But Zhao Bohan was not unharmed; his handsome face turned pale, and he even found it difficult to look Qi An in the eye.
Qi An carries such a huge secret, and he is being pressured to investigate and uncover it.
She was about to leave, but she came back for them!
Now that she's being honest, she's showing them her soft belly and handing them her most vulnerable spot!
The sunlight seemed too bright, and Yu Shuang's vision became blurry.
"Xiao Qi, it seems we don't deserve to have a teammate like you."
"If...you still want to leave, I will help you."
"If you want to stay, but some deranged scientist wants to harm you and drag you back to the lab, then let him step over my dead body!"
She said this firmly and calmly, and Zhao Bohan immediately nodded: "Me too."
Qi An paused for a moment, then asked the previous question: "Why did the captain say 'you don't deserve to have a teammate like me'?"
Am I not qualified to have a 'little monster'?
Yu Shuang immediately turned her head, "Who called you 'little monster'?"
Qi An remained silent. Yu Shuang turned her wheelchair and approached her, angrily saying, "I just don't understand, are those people stupid or evil?"
Xiao Qi, you are truly a treasure of humanity!
Whoever it is, being liked and trusted by you is their good fortune!
Yu Shuang genuinely felt that their team was just too lucky, like they'd stepped in dog poop on their way out.
So she was filled with guilt and remorse, and waves of anger surged up within her.
Which idiot called Qi An a "little monster"? He's not lucky enough to have this good fortune; he's definitely going to die young!
Qi An was stunned for a while, then suddenly laughed.
Her smile was extremely relaxed and bright, like sunshine after rain, or like a starry river swirling on a clear night, possessing a breathtaking beauty!
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