Chapter 49: Planetary Axis
"Pass." said the security guard of Qingmu Community.
Chi Qin handed over a card.
The card was half-hidden in Chi Qin's hand, and the security guard couldn't see it clearly, so he had to move towards Chi Qin, complaining: "Why are there so many people on your bus..."
The next second, the security guard fell to the ground unconscious.
Chi Qin supported the security guard, and three team members quickly followed behind her and walked quickly towards the security room.
There were several muffled sounds coming from the security room.
"The people inside have been controlled." A team member came out to report. Another team member came over and quickly dragged the security guard to the security room.
Two team members were left behind to change into security uniforms, take over the security room and monitor signals, and the rest quickly returned to the team.
"Boss, it's done." Chi Qin said to Gu Nian.
Only then did Gu Nian realize what Chi Qin meant by "professionalism".
The group quickly walked into the Qingmu community. The surveillance cameras along the way turned away or simply turned off the signal.
Feeling in the dark, an apartment building appeared in front of us. Because the entire Qingmu community was built in an underground warehouse, each building had only three floors. Qian Qing lived on the first floor.
The curtains on the first floor were tightly drawn. Gu Nian led the team quietly towards the door, while the other group of people tacitly stopped under the window, blocking the escape route.
However, as soon as he reached the door, Gu Nian stopped and said, "There are people inside, more than one."
Chi Qin was immediately surprised. The boss's five senses were too sensitive, right? At the same distance, she heard nothing. You know, although she had left the position of the action team leader, Chi Qin was confident that she could still be among the top masters in Jiangcheng.
Despite the unexpected situation, Gu Nian still planned to act according to the original plan. A member stepped forward and quickly used an instrument to unlock the combination lock. He lowered his voice and said, "The door lock has been hacked once."
Gu Nian secretly wondered, who else would come uninvited to visit Qian Qing?
The door opened with a click, and a group of people quickly entered, taking in the scene in the living room.
In the living room, a gloomy-looking middle-aged man in a suit was tied to a chair with a towel stuffed in his mouth. The man in the suit was Qian Qing, his body covered in blood. Next to him stood three men in black. The middle man had a sharp blade in his hand that reflected a cold light, and was about to stab Qian Qing in the heart.
Almost immediately, Gu Nian raised his hand and threw out the dagger, deflecting the sharp blade that was about to hit the man.
"Let's do it!" Gu Nian shouted in a low voice. Our side had an absolute advantage, so no matter what, we had to take them down together.
Gu Nian quickly closed the distance and bent down to avoid the attack of the man in black. She took the opportunity to draw out another dagger and blocked the sharp blade in the man's hand.
The man in black in the middle is an expert with a knife. He swings the knife in his hand quickly, and the afterimage seems to be blinding.
After a fight, one of the three men in black died and two were injured. The two survivors turned out to be assassins. Seeing that the situation was not good, they took poison and committed suicide. Gu Nian and his group were not aware of it and did not have time to stop them. In the end, only Qian Qing was left, dying.
Although Gu Nian and his group were outnumbered and subdued the men very quickly, there was still some noise. A neighbor upstairs was yelling, "What's that noise? Are we going to sleep?"
"Let's go!" Gu Nian said.
The group quickly evacuated. The two team members who stayed in the security room had received the news in advance, and drove the bus to meet up with everyone, and the bus quickly drove out of Yangcheng.
"Boss, this guy has injured his internal organs, he won't live long." A team member said. He knew a little bit about medicine and had just bandaged Qian Qing's wound in the car.
Gu Nian felt that life was a farce. He finally managed to catch the murderer who wanted to murder him, but it turned out that the murderer was also being hunted by others and was about to die.
What is this? He who kills will be killed?
Gu Nian just felt it was both ridiculous and ridiculous.
At this moment, the bus had already arrived outside Yangcheng. Gu Nian parked his SUV in a secluded place in the suburbs, and the bus parked nearby.
This place is close to the wilderness area outside Yangcheng City. There are almost no people here, and the official control has also been greatly reduced. It is a place where people can be killed when the moon is dark and the wind is strong.
Gu Nian got out of the car with Jiuwei and Qian Qing in her hand. She quickly jumped up and down, found a secluded place, and threw Qian Qing on the ground.
"Tell me, why do you want to kill me?" Gu Nian asked.
Qian Qing had already recognized her as Gu Nian. He had seen Gu Nian's photo, and now that he had met her in person, he realized that his mission failure was not unjust. Who would have thought that this woman who seemed to have no background actually had such a strong team? She herself was like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, and she was obviously a strong person.
"It's not me who wants to kill you, it's Lu Maoyan who wants to kill you! The laboratory you went to was built with the support of President Lu. The laboratory is destroyed and the spring water has disappeared. President Lu wants to take back the spring water and asked me to check. Is the spring water in your hands?" Qian Qing betrayed Lu Maoyan decisively because he was unwilling to die. Qian Qing could feel the vitality in his body slipping away, and he also knew that it was Lu Maoyan who sent the killer to kill him. Qian Qing hoped to divert the trouble to someone else, at least to let Gu Nian know that Lu Maoyan wanted to kill her. If this woman named Gu Nian had the ability to kill Lu Maoyan, then his life would not be in vain.
Although she was facing a dying person, Gu Nian was still very cautious. "Spring water, why is spring water so important?" She consciously wanted to guide Qian Qing to say more.
"You don't know anything at all. You know nothing." Qian Qing laughed miserably, blood gushing out of his mouth: "Lu Maoyan must take back the spring water. All of you who are the first to enter the laboratory will die. You will die at the hands of Lu Maoyan just like me..."
Qian Qing's neck twisted and he died completely.
Gu Nian tiredly called Chi Qin to clean up the scene.
Fire started, and it was the professionals brought by Chi Qin who were destroying the body.
Seeing Qian Qing, who wanted to kill her, die, Gu Nian did not feel relieved. She now understood that Qian Qing, who wanted to kill her, was just following orders, and the real mastermind was the boss of Yongji Future Technology Company, the man named Lu Maoyan. If Qian Qing was right, the man named Lu Maoyan was determined to get the spring water, and once the matter was investigated, they would start from the first group of people who entered the laboratory.
Gu Nian will still be his number one suspect.
Lu Maoyan, it seems that they will have to confront each other sooner or later. Gu Nian just felt that the peaceful life was getting farther and farther away from her.
The mission to assassinate Qian Qing became a mystery.
The three assassins sent out died at the scene. From the traces left at the scene, it seems that a group of people confronted and killed the three assassins. Qian Qing disappeared mysteriously.
The secretary grabbed the report in his hand fiercely. He had sent a large number of people to investigate, but in the territory of Yangcheng, he could not find any trace of this group of people. It seemed that this group of people appeared and disappeared out of thin air.
Who are these people? Why do they want to save Qian Qing?
Because of the death of the three killers at the scene, the secretary fell into a fixed mindset and subconsciously thought that this group of people came to rescue Qian Qing, but he did not expect that this group of people might also want to kill Qian Qing.
The secretary couldn't sit still when he thought about the existence of such a force in Yangcheng that was against Yongji Future Technology Company. He didn't dare to delay and planned to report to Lu Maoyan.
However, Lu Maoyan, who usually showed up at the company on time to handle official business, was absent today, and his whereabouts remained a mystery, and no one knew.
Lu Maoyan is in a secret base deep underground in Yongji.
Next to the prayer room that Lu Maoyan secretly built for the god Bethida, Ymir was in a gorgeous room. Luxurious hand-woven carpets covered the floor, famous paintings hung on the walls, crystal chandeliers cast light, the long table was filled with sumptuous food, and even the black sofa was made of a whole piece of whale skin.
Ymir rested in such a room, while a beautiful maid carefully peeled grapes and fed them to him.
"Well, although this is an ignorant and backward planet, the food here is really good..." Ymir muttered, licking his tongue, "The foie gras we had last night tasted pretty good. Send it up tonight as well. Oh, and send some of that red wine as well."
Ymir gave the order as a matter of course. He was a great high-dimensional creature, the pride of the Bethida clan, and now he had condescended to come to such a backward planet. The slaves who believed in him must provide him with the most perfect food and clothing, which would slightly alleviate his displeasure.
Lu Maoyan, who was standing by, felt his heart bleed. He had never thought that after this alien creature named Imir had accessed the knowledge of the Blue Water Planet, he actually knew how to enjoy himself! The luxury goods he wanted were extremely expensive before the natural disaster, and after the disaster, they were an expense that made Lu Maoyan feel distressed.
But he didn't dare to turn his back on her. On the first day he arrived here, Ymir had already shown his incredible strength.
He personally gave Lu Maoyan the power. Lu Maoyan, who was originally just an ordinary person, has now become a powerful evolver, which is also the ability that Lu Maoyan has always dreamed of.
This also made Lu Maoyan's heart surge. Nothing is more reliable than strength in this era. Lu Maoyan decided to endure it and respectfully serve this arrogant alien creature. At least he could get some benefits for himself.
"Sir Ymir, the spiritual power pool has been built." Lu Maoyan said respectfully.
Ymir stood up gracefully. "Not bad." Appropriate praise for slaves should make them work better. This is also the training Ymir received since childhood. He raised his chin proudly and said, "Lead the way ahead."
Lu Maoyan led Ymir out. Soon, they entered a room. In the middle of the room was a square pool that was one person wide. There were strange patterns carved on the pool wall, which looked like the same style as the statue of Bethida, with chaotic and uneasy lines mixed with a strange beauty.
Four translucent pipes were connected to the pool, and spiritual liquid slowly flowed out of the pipes. It was the liquid formed after the spiritual crystals in the mutant beast melted. In the center of the pool was a strange object.
The innermost part of the object was a fist-sized cocoon of light, the outer side was wrapped in a layer of red mesh veins that looked like blood vessels, and the outermost layer was a layer of solid white branches that looked like a protective layer.
Imir walked to the edge of the pool, stretched out his hand on the strange object, and carefully checked the state of the strange object. He scolded Lu Maoyan dissatisfiedly: "Where is the spiritual spring water? Why didn't you add it? The growth of the planet's axis has been slowed down!"
Lu Maoyan said quickly: "Sir Imir, the spiritual spring water has been lost, and we are speeding up the search."
It is indeed a lowly creature. Not only did they fail to destroy the city on this planet with mutant beasts, but they also lost the important spring water! Although he already knew the news, Imir was still very unhappy. He waved his hand, and Lu Maoyan immediately flew into the air and fell heavily to the ground.
"You, find it quickly! The most important thing now is to make the axis of the planet start to grow." Imir ordered coldly. He squatted down, his blue pupils were like cold crystals, making Lu Maoyan feel cold all over.
Ymir waved his hand: "Get out."
Lu Maoyan struggled to get up and limped away.
Ymir was the only one left in the room.
He looked at the axis of the planet in the middle. When this axis of the planet took root and grew on the Blue Water Planet, it could absorb the vitality of the Blue Water Planet. This was also the purpose of his coming to this backward planet. It was really strange that such a backward and primitive planet had a strong vitality that even the noble mother planet of the Beshida clan had never had.
Of course, this blue water planet whose power is absorbed by the axis of the planet will suffer frequent natural disasters, and all creatures on the blue water planet will be killed or injured. But Ymir has never considered this. He is a plunderer, so how could he consider the weak creatures that are being plundered?
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The temperature began to rise strangely again.
The temperature in Jiangcheng has remained stable at 50 degrees for a long time, but in just a few days, it has risen to 60 degrees.
This temperature makes everyone in Jiangcheng feel uneasy.
Gu Nian felt the same way. In her memory, such natural disasters would continue, and she was afraid that a new round of famine and death would come again.
All Gu Nian could do was to increase the output of animal food. Under such high temperatures, the only food sources were mutant animals and mutant plants.
The current scale of Aurora has expanded far beyond Gu Nian's initial expectations. A full twenty production lines specially built for mutant animal food are in full production, supplying a steady supply of mutant animal food to the entire Jiangcheng.
Gu Nian originally wanted to develop in a low profile, but under the call of the entire Jiangcheng, Jiguang really couldn't keep a low profile. Since the supply of mutant animal food, Jiangcheng has vigorously developed the breeding industry. After the government and Gu Nian negotiated, the government gave Jiguang tax concessions, and Jiguang reduced the price of animal food to ensure that the animal food could be supplied to the Jiangcheng market at a low price.
Countless large-scale breeding farms began to emerge, and almost every household in Jiangcheng raised a few mutant golden pheasants.
It can be said that Aurora has single-handedly changed the food supply pattern in Jiangcheng.
In the face of natural disasters, nothing is more valuable than food. As long as we can breed mutant beasts, we can at least expand the meat supply.
Under the encouragement of Aurora, biological research talents have become the most sought-after talents in the market. Countless researchers are immersed in the study of mutant animal food in the laboratory. There are indeed some imitations of Aurora animal food on the market. Although the quality is far inferior to Aurora animal food, at least it can make mutant animals actively eat it and barely survive.
Gu Nian was happy to see this happen. The market for mutant animal food was simply too vast, and Aurora alone was enough to take care of it. If there was only Aurora animal food on the market, it would inevitably attract attention. If some companies that could also produce mutant animal food appeared, it would help distract attention and make Aurora less noticeable.
Moreover, Aurora animal food is still the market leader. People only buy animal food from other companies when they can’t buy Aurora animal food. After all, everyone knows that the animal food from other companies is just imitating the ingredients of Aurora, and the actual feeding effect is far inferior to Aurora animal food.
Ever since the temperature rose to sixty degrees, Gu Nian ordered to increase the Aurora production at full speed.
Today, Aurora is making a fortune and can be called a walking money printing machine. This is inseparable from Tan Cang's efforts. Now he is highly valued by Gu Nian.
Seeing her colleague being favored by the boss, Chi Qin also started to think. She knew exactly how much money the boss had spent on her leading the team, and there was no way to save on these costs. Weapons, training rooms, spiritual crystals required for evolvers... her team was a big spender!
Every time Tan Cang came to report to his boss, he always talked about how much money he had earned, but whenever he went to talk to his boss, he always asked for money... And ever since that mission to Yangcheng, his security team had almost only dealt with those thieves who came to steal the formula.
The effort and reward are not proportional, and Chi Qin also understands that this is not a long-term solution.
She took the initiative to find Gu Nian.
"You mean, you want to lead a team to the wilderness to collect materials?" Gu Nian asked.
"That's right. It's enough to leave half of the people in the factory to do security, and the other half can go out to the wilderness to hunt for mutant materials. The two teams can rotate. This can not only increase income, but also train the team." Chi Qin said. "No matter how good the team is, it will be useless if they always stay in the house."
Gu Nian didn't care about the expenses of her team. After all, in the face of natural disasters, maintaining a military team was also a guarantee for her to live a better life. But Chi Qin's words reminded her that this team of evolved people really needed to be tempered in order to maintain their combat effectiveness.
"Go ahead." Gu Nian said. "But if you want to collect materials, first collect the materials needed for the company's mutant animal food."
Now Gu Nian and Wan's Trading Company have a very deep cooperation. Wan's continuous supply of raw materials ensures the supply of Aurora. However, Gu Nian does not want to put his lifeline in the hands of others, although his relationship with Wan is still good. If his own evolutionary team can be responsible for a part of the raw material supply, even if it is not much, it can play an important role at a critical moment.
Since Chi Qin is leading a team to the wilderness to collect materials, why not collect the things they need at home first.
"Don't worry." Chi Qin said. "I guarantee that the mission will be completed."
If it was high-level mutant materials, Chi Qin would not dare to make such a boast, but the mutant animal food used were all low-level mutant materials, so it would definitely be easy to get.
Gu Nian simply typed on the computer for a while, typed out a list of materials and handed it to Chi Qin: "You should also collect the things on it."
It's time to develop high-level and mid-level mutant animal food on a large scale, Gu Nian thought.
Now the entire underground warehouse has been rented by Aurora. Initially, the other areas of this underground warehouse were originally factories run by the government, producing daily necessities after natural disasters. However, as Aurora expanded, Gu Nian simply asked Tan Cang to start negotiations with the government and rented the entire underground warehouse. Part of the area was used as a training base for Aurora's security team, and the remaining space was reserved for future expansion.
The huge underground warehouse has been gradually filled with new and old employees of Aurora.
Xiong Liangpeng has become a key engineer at Jiguang. The original technical staff of Jiguang were all engaged in biological research and they only knew how to operate the assembly line. Since Xiong Liangpeng came, with the support of Tan Cang, he single-handedly presided over the automation of Jiguang's production line.
Compared with the original animal feed production line, the current Aurora production line is much more automated.
Take one of the raw materials, the star thread fruit, for example. This fruit is a mutant berry that grows on small plants. Originally, it was picked and selected by employees manually, and it took a lot of effort just to collect the star thread fruits. Now, on the new automatic production line, clusters of star thread grass are directly stuffed into the machine, and then the rollers and robot arms cooperate with each other to directly pick out the star thread fruits one by one. This automated process alone saves workers a lot of time.
For Aurora, which needs to produce a large amount of animal feed, the most urgent need is such a fully automatic production line.
It has to be said that Xiong Liangpeng has accumulated rich experience in handling mutant beasts and mutant plant semi-finished products at Baixing, which also made him adept at designing the automatic production line for Aurora animal food.
Xiong Liangpeng now feels that his life is extremely comfortable. He has free food and accommodation in Aurora every day, and can save most of the credit points issued every month. He has no worries about life. This is the most comfortable time he has had since the natural disaster.
Cheng Wenle is still working at Baixing. Since the temperature has risen, life has become increasingly difficult.
The temperature was bearable before, but now even with the air conditioner on, it is still around 50 degrees. How can people survive in such high temperatures? Almost every day, people in the factory are carried away due to heat stroke and dehydration.
Even so, Baixing's boss did not relax the intensity of work, and even intensified it. Now in Baixing's work group, the working hours of each employee are exposed every day. The news has been released among Baixing's employees: the company will adopt a last-in-first-out system, and at the end of each month, all employees who work the bottom 20% of the time will be fired.
Cheng Wenle's heart sank when he heard the news. His working hours were the lowest in the group. As a technician, Cheng Wenle's physical strength was not very good. He could only come to work every night, from 8 pm to 8 am the next day. These 20 hours of work every day were his maximum working hours. The rest of the time, as long as he stayed in the factory, he would sweat profusely and soon developed symptoms of heat stroke.
However, the credit points from Baixing are an indispensable source of income for Cheng Wenle. Without these credit points, his family cannot afford to rent a basement or buy electricity, and can only live in a high-rise building, which is a dead end in today's weather, not to mention the credit points needed for the family's meals.
At eight o'clock that night, the temperature outside had reached sixty degrees. But Cheng Wenle had no choice but to go out.
Mrs. Cheng bit her lip and said, "How about going to work at 8 p.m. today? It will be cooler at 8 p.m.."
Cheng Wenle forced a smile and said, "It's okay. I can go early. I have nothing to do at home."
Mrs. Cheng knew that she could no longer persuade him, and she could not say anything to persuade him. She could only watch Cheng Wenle leave with a heavy heart.
Cheng Wenle took a deep breath, opened the door and walked out. The temperature was 60 degrees, and even though it was already dark, the heat had not dissipated at all. As long as people walked outside, they could feel the rapid loss of moisture, and the high temperature made their skin feel scorched.
Cheng Wenle tried his best to move forward. After a lot of effort, he finally reached the Baixing factory.
After entering the factory, Cheng Wenle felt a little relaxed. He could finally work two more hours today.
The air conditioning in Baixing was turned on very low, but it was still cooler than outside.
"Mr. Cheng? Why are you here so early today?" a colleague asked with concern. "Why are your lips so pale? Are you okay?"
Cheng Wenle waved his hands repeatedly: "It's okay, I'll go to the workshop first."
Walking into the workshop, Cheng Wenle began today's mixing work. In a plastic bucket as tall as a person, Cheng Wenle needed to put several buckets of materials into it and mix them. However, the work was already strenuous in the past, and now it was even heavier than a thousand pounds. Cheng Wenle soon became exhausted. He still hoped for luck and wanted to hold on, but he fainted unexpectedly.
Finally, a kind colleague sent Cheng Wenle home to rest.
"Let's find a doctor." Cheng's wife said. There was only a little water at home, so she poured it all into the basin and wrung out the water with a towel to wipe Cheng Wenle's forehead.
Cheng Wenle smiled bitterly and said, "I don't have any credit points anymore. I just need to take a day off."
Mrs. Cheng turned around, covering her mouth with her hands and crying, with her back to Cheng Wenle, not wanting Cheng Wenle to hear her crying.
Looking at his wife's trembling shoulders, what else did Cheng Wenle not understand? He also felt pain. Is this damn world going to allow people to survive? If he stayed in Baixing, he would either be eliminated or die of heat or exhaustion.
Cheng Wenle suddenly remembered what Xiong Liangpeng said.
Hesitantly, he sent a message to Xiong Liangpeng: "How is it going over in Aurora?"
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