"To put it another way, do you want to live?"
Xu Milu crossed her arms and spoke in a steady tone. The person she was talking to was a girl on a narrow electronic screen. Her face was ashen and her eyes were dazed. She seemed not to have yet to recover from her grief.
Behind the electronic screen was a human brain floating in a green nutrient solution, with many nerve wires haphazardly connected to it.
"I will pay for the bionic limb replacement surgery and the purchase of the bionic body, but in return, I need you to do something for me."
This is a matter of life and death; you could die. So it's up to you: do you plan to stay in the sanatorium's basement and slowly rot, or do you want to be hired by me?
Xu Milu did not urge the other party to answer, but simply waited quietly.
"Zzzzzzzzz—"
The medical chainsaw blade spun rapidly, and the doctor standing to the side seemed impatient:
"Let's make it clear first: the bionic limb costs 250,000 contribution points, and the brain lobe transplant surgery costs 50,000 contribution points. Regardless of any transactions between you, I'm only responsible for collecting the money."
By the way, there are many people in the sanatorium who are desperate to escape this damned electronic screen. For a small fee, they'll be as loyal as the most devoted dogs, forever devoted to you.
As he spoke, he scrutinized the girl on the screen with a critical eye:
"Generally speaking, the more similar the bionic limb is to the original body, the higher the degree of matching. If you choose such a skinny bean sprout to work for you, don't you feel like you're losing money?"
I have a lot of good supplies, mostly from dispatch team members who died in accidents while on missions, and a few who used to be underground thugs but couldn't afford to replace their bionic limbs. Fox ears, mermaid tails, snake waists, elf ears, all these styles are available.
"So, how about considering it? Five thousand, no, five hundred crystal cores will do. As long as you have the money, I guarantee I can make the most perfect bionic body, male or female, absolutely breathtaking!!"
As he spoke, he winked at Xu Milu and gave her a knowing smile.
Oh, I almost forgot that she's currently using the pseudonym "Yu Lu," so people see her as a man.
Xu Milu tossed him a bag of crystal cores in an annoyed tone:
"What was our agreement before? Less talk, more action. Just focus on making the bionic limbs according to my requirements, and don't do anything else."
The doctor weighed the object in his hand and wisely kept quiet.
"I want to live."
The girl on the electronic screen eagerly moved closer to it, almost pressing her entire face against the screen:
"I'll do anything! Please, please take me away! I don't want to go to the low-income area, I want to leave! I want to live! I want to live!!"
The girl racked her brains and desperately tried to sell herself:
"I was a member of the detachment before. Although I am not a Newtype, I graduated from the Department of Combat and Survival. I am very skilled, with a shooting test score of 89 and a wilderness survival ability score of 74!"
By the way, I've also participated in several shared tasks released by the research institute. Whatever you want to know, whatever you want me to do, I'm willing to do it!!
She never wanted to go back to the dark, low-income area.
— To save power, the electronic screens in the low-protection zone are only powered on at fixed times, and the nutrient solution is of the lowest quality, which can only keep their brains basically active.
So most of the time her consciousness is blurred, she is in a daze and doesn't know whether she is awake or asleep. In order to stimulate her brain, the caregiver will turn on the device every once in a while, and she will be forced to wake up from her deep sleep.
She would drift into a deep sleep, wake up, drift into a deep sleep again, and wake up again. This repeated stimulation made it almost impossible for her to distinguish between day and night, or even the concept of time.
It was very quiet there, without any noise, and you couldn't even hear the machines running.
In just three short days, she almost lost herself in the darkness.
"I'm willing!! You have no idea how dark it is there, like being buried alive in the ground, surrounded by countless crazed ghosts!"
Even if you told me to die right now, I'd rather die a normal, living death than silently and endlessly go mad underground!
The girl was already in tears.
Xu Milu looked intently at the girl, and only after realizing the girl was sincere did she turn to face the doctor:
"I'll perform the surgery on her and pay for it. I want to see the results in three days."
The dentist rubbed his hands together, his eyes gleaming: "As long as the money's there, everything's fine! Six hundred thousand contribution points in total! Hehehe, in less than three days, I guarantee you'll see by the day after tomorrow that this money was well spent!"
...
...
Hopefully things won't be peaceful at the base recently.
Even the lowest-ranking corpse collectors keenly noticed this:
The number of unidentified corpses in the alleys of the outer city has increased again. Regardless of day or night, there are always patrol teams with weapons on patrol, and the frequency of the dispatch teams going on missions is also increasing.
"boom!!!"
At a street corner in the outer city, a violent explosion suddenly occurred. The fragments of the mutated plant that were destroyed by the explosion fell to the ground and immediately turned into a seed ball that looked like a particle bullet, screaming as it pounced on passersby.
"Damn it!! What were those people at the research institute thinking?! They actually brought mutated lemon trees into the inner city! Who came up with the idea of expecting a bunch of bookworms with no combat experience to protect mutated plants?!"
The patrol captain complained loudly as the large spray gun on his back emitted thick flames, gradually clearing away the mutated plants from the street.
"Clean it all up. The seeds of this mutated plant are very difficult to remove. Once they take root in the ground, new plants will sprout again in thirty days!"
"Come on, Captain. When have those arrogant guys at the research institute ever treated us like human beings?"
My dear reader, there's more to this chapter! Please click the next page to continue reading—even more exciting content awaits!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
