Chapter 74 Chapter 74 "There are guests at the farm."...
"Captain Wen, please take a seat."
As soon as Wen Yuan sat down, someone brought him a cup of flower and fruit tea that still exuded a hint of coolness.
Although it was only May, perhaps due to soil pollution and plant mutation, the perceived temperature outside the farm was already as high as 38 or 39 degrees. They had opened the windows all the way here but it didn't feel much cooler. Instead, they took in a belly full of hot air and felt hot from the inside out.
Now, just looking at the dried golden chrysanthemums in the cup already gives me a cooling feeling, and the coolness comes over me, and the heat seems to disappear in an instant before I even take a sip.
The yogurt ice cream in the coffee shop last time was actually just a dessert made with yogurt, but this time it was real ice, and the cold water vapor on the transparent cup wall was flowing down and dissipating little by little.
He knew that Ye Mian's farm had electricity, but thinking of the rumors he heard when there was a large-scale power outage, he couldn't help but ask, "Is the refrigerator you use the common one?"
Lu Ning had just returned from outside, so he took a sip of tea first, then took out the file bag and prepared to talk business. When he heard his question, he nodded subconsciously, then shook his head: "Not entirely, Uncle Qi said that he succeeded in getting the power on after changing the accessories and wires."
The Uncle Qi she mentioned was naturally Qi Shu. He was good at repairing machinery and equipment and knew only a little about electrical appliances. After entering the workshop to work, he studied by reading books and also found several employees who used to work in the electronics-related industry to conduct research together.
The refrigerator that Ye Mian brought back from Li City earlier became their first research object, and after some tinkering, they actually "repaired" it.
Wen Yuan had heard of Qi Shu, and also knew what was on the first and second floors of the workshop, such as technology that did not belong to this world, various new technologies to be developed, and materials used that included rhenium crystals and gold rhenium crystals.
Apart from anything else, the doctor who only found time to visit the workshop twice excitedly stated when he returned to the industrial park that he had successfully developed a drug specifically for the treatment of evolvers. In the future, no matter if they were injured or sick, they could be cured faster and without any sequelae.
But unfortunately, no medical technology has been discovered yet to target mutants, whether it is to treat or kill them.
So after hearing the reason why the refrigerator was successfully powered on, I was more expectant than surprised - I hope there will be more good news in the future.
After saying this, Lu Ning watched Wen Yuan drink half a cup of tea first, and then he got to the point and handed over the file bag in his hand: "This is what Ye Mian asked me to pass on to you."
Wen Yuan took it and weighed the file bag: "She's not here?"
"Still in Yanshi."
"Yeah." Wen Yuan didn't ask any more questions. He opened the file bag and looked at the documents inside.
The stack of information was not large, but he read very slowly, taking him more than twenty minutes to finish the last page, with a slightly frown on his face.
When he heard that Ye Mian was still in Yan City, he thought it was the same as the last time in Li City, with some specific exploration information and the distribution and weaknesses of mutants.
I didn't expect it to be an experimental record from nearly three months ago.
At this moment, he thought of a lot of things, including when the radiation pollution just began to spread, when the world's power systems were paralyzed, and some strange things that happened half a month before the mutation.
Something seemed to flash through my mind, but I didn't dare to grasp it for a moment.
After a while, Wen Yuan put away the documents and said solemnly, "Please tell her that I will lead the team to Yan City as soon as possible."
"If you guys want to come along, you can get ready now."
Just as Lu Ning was about to nod in agreement, he was interrupted by hurried footsteps. Looking up, he met the gaze of Hou Rong, who had been transferred to the gate to serve as both administrator and bodyguard after talking to Ye Mian.
Hou Rong ran a little hurriedly, still panting: "Lu, Team Leader Lu, you may need to come out and take a look."
Wen Yuan had two purposes for this trip. One was to bring people here to spend money, and the other was to personally tell Ye Mian the good news and express his gratitude.
But only Lu Ning came to receive them.
So he let the others go to the stores inside to shop and eat, while he talked with Lu Ning in the newly built lounge near the farm entrance, which was used as a meeting room.
After hearing Hou Rong's words, he followed him to the entrance.
Before I even got there, I saw a huge mutant bird as tall as a three or four-story building. It had smooth black-brown feathers all over its body, and sharp claws that could easily crush a person. But surprisingly, there was no ferocity in its eyes, which shone with a sinister green light. Instead, it looked gentle and submissive.
When it saw Hou Rong and his companions approaching, it showed some guard, lowered its head and made a warning roar.
Then, a hand was raised high and patted its drooping wings, as if to calm it down.
Seeing this scene, Lu Ning thought of Dahei. Although it is now very friendly to everyone on the farm, the only person who can make it so obedient is Ye Mian.
Could that person be as special as Ye Mian?
Or is it just a special skill?
Not long after, Lu Ning got the answer - it was the latter.
"Hello, I'm Jiang Zixing from Hui Province's Second Shelter. My skill is [Beast Taming]. Its name is Feifan. It won't hurt anyone unless you attack it, so don't worry."
Hui Province?
That is a neighboring province of a neighboring province, at least a thousand kilometers away from Li City.
Lu Ning's eyes flickered as he looked at the mutant bird beside Jiang Zixing. Did he fly all the way here?
After introducing himself, Jiang Zixing looked at the three people, then looked inside the farm, and then asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Excuse me, who is the person in charge here? I have a few questions to ask you."
Although his original purpose was not this, he was inexplicably attracted here and saw such a scene, and it was difficult to suppress his endless curiosity.
According to Ye Mian's instructions, if she was not there, Xue Kai would manage the internal affairs of the farm, while Lu Ning would be mainly responsible for field affairs.
But she did not rush to answer, but looked at Hou Rong beside her inquiringly.
Hou Rong had already used [Deep Thinking] to evaluate Jiang Zixing's words, and nodded slightly to indicate that there was nothing unusual, which meant that the other party was not lying.
That's fine.
Lu Ning felt relieved: "Then please come in and talk."
"Team Leader Lu, can I sit in?"
Lu Ning was not surprised by Wen Yuan's request. After all, the name of their family reported by the other party was too official. It did not look like a team spontaneously formed by a group of evolvers, but more like a special national organization.
And she just wanted to find an opportunity to send a message to Ye Mian, so she agreed: "Of course, let's go to the lounge just now."
It just so happened that when Lu Ning delivered the message, Ye Mian was sorting things in the shared warehouse. Seeing that there was suddenly a piece of paper in a grid, he took it out directly.
"Um?"
Her sudden voice startled the two of them. Yan Dongni was fine, but Shi Lang looked extremely suspicious and quickly turned his head to look around, thinking he had been discovered.
After not seeing anyone or hearing any noise, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Boss, what's wrong?"
"There are guests at the farm," Ye Mian put away the note and said thoughtfully, "It seems I have to finish things here as soon as possible and go back."
"Uh..." Shi Lang raised his hand weakly, "Before that, let's ask the team leader to bring people to help, right?"
With just the three of them, it would take who knows how long it will take.
Even if he didn't say so, Ye Mian also wanted Lu Ning to come over. After all, the harvest this time was indeed amazing.
As she thought about it, she glanced around. Although this was underground, there was a faint warm yellow light everywhere, and the thing emitting the light was none other than rhenium crystal.
——This is the basement floor of an unfinished building in the suburbs of Yanshi. Because the underground parking lot has not yet been built, this underground space, which is only one person high, is temporarily used as a warehouse, storing stones and cement that have not yet been taken away.
But what Ye Mian didn't expect was that in addition to the original stone being mutated into rhenium crystal, the cement actually took root in the ground and grew more jagged crystal stones.
This makes this place a natural rhenium crystal mine.
Originally, Yan Dongni and Shi Lang had no idea that there was another hidden treasure underneath. It was only thanks to the deputy captain of the West District who led the way that they discovered such a large treasure.
This is also why Shi Lang acts so sneaky and gets scared at the slightest noise.
Thinking that it would take a lot of time to move everything here, Ye Mian immediately took out a pen and paper and wrote a letter to Lu Ning, then circled a mark on the route map when he came to Yan City and stuffed it inside the letter.
"Lu Ning will be here tomorrow. You two should take a rest and get up early in the morning to pick him up."
Yan Dongni just nodded, and Shi Lang asked, "What about you, Boss?"
"I'll go hold that man back."
Ye Mian has joined the West District team for two days, but he has not learned a single word from the team. He also doesn't know the deputy captain's name or where he came from. He has never met Captain Ruan Wenli, and his movements are restricted.
She had no choice but to leave the West District and secretly keep an eye on the suspicious deputy captain. But in addition to quietly driving to the unfinished building, another place he would go to was the commercial district where she and Li Wenwen had been on a mission before.
The secrets here have been discovered, but what unknown secrets are hidden there?
With this question in mind, Ye Mian first went to the East District of University Town and found Pei Ming and Ning Zixiu.
After nightfall, three figures left the university town one after another and entered the urban area of Yanshi.
Soon, the three of them split into two groups and disappeared into the night.
Ye Mian naturally went to the commercial district.
Every night these days, the deputy captain would come alone, seemingly to inspect the results of the day's mission.
And he stayed in there for two or three hours. After he left, Ye Mian entered the underground parking lot that served as the mission point and could smell a strong smell of blood and flesh, as if some wild beast had just eaten.
But he himself was not tainted by these fishy smells.
In other words, the creatures eating here might be another mutant species, and they are under his control.
Raising mutants, plus the rhenium crystal mine under the unfinished building, it is hard not to guess his purpose - to conduct experiments.
This is also the reason why Ye Mian stared at him. She wanted to find the researcher who did the experiment and bring him back to the farm.
After Ye Mian looked around the commercial district, he finally locked his target on the underground floor.
It was only after she went to the basement of the unfinished building that she figured it out. Since such a large underground parking lot was built on the three lower floors, it was impossible for the first underground floor to have only a food court and an imported supermarket. Other unconnected places might not necessarily have no access space.
Instead of waiting for the other party to lead the way, she might as well go down and wait for the opportunity.
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