187: Chapter 187: The Scientific Principle Behind Mutton Soup as a Cure 187: Chapter 187: The Scientific Principle Behind Mutton Soup as a Cure “Code numbers aren’t arranged like that.”
Yan Yu’an, holding a bowl of soy milk, painstakingly explained to Han Bin, “I told you it’s a temporary code number, it just depends on which squad enters first, and they get placed at the forefront.”
“And what did you call me just now?
Some kind of ‘flirty dragon’?”
“The wandering lothario, the ‘Nine-patterned Dragon’ — that’s what they say on Jianghu.”
“Who says that?”
Han Bin hesitated, scratching the back of his head and pondering for a long while before waving his hand and saying, “I don’t remember exactly, but I heard the senior brothers say something about Binhai Wharf having a Dragon and two Tigers, something with gold, silver, copper, iron…”
“No way!”
Yan Yu’an earnestly corrected him, “People in Jianghu love to boast about others, to gild their own faces.
They say I know so-and-so who is exceptionally powerful or something…
Look at ‘Water Margin Tale’, even the ‘Timely Rain’ Song Jiang, isn’t he just a tax collector from Yuncheng County?”
“Ah…
That makes sense!”
Han Bin slapped the table loudly and said, “I believe you!
But that bit about the ‘wandering lothario,’ that’s not true either?”
“It’s not!”
“Alright, if it’s not, then it’s not.
Don’t get worked up, us meeting here is fate, let’s have a toast!”
Han Bin, carefree as ever, lifted his soy milk, wanting to clink cups with Yan Yu’an, who quickly moved his soy milk away.
After being rejected twice in a row, Han Bin didn’t contemplate reconsidering his approach at all; he picked up his soy milk and guzzled it down in two gulps, then grabbed a meat bun and stuffed it into his mouth.
While he was busy eating and not talking, Yan Yu’an glanced at the mutton soup in Wang Yunxiao’s hands and asked without letting on, “Captain Wang, how were your losses yesterday, did anyone make the ultimate sacrifice?”
Wang Yunxiao shook his head and said, “Fortunately, everyone survived, but a few are seriously injured.
I don’t know if they can recover.”
“What happened to your hands?”
“I wasn’t wearing armor, and I got scratched by a werewolf’s claws.”
“You remember pretty clearly.”
Yan Yu’an’s remark came out of nowhere and seemed a bit nonsensical, but Wang Yunxiao understood the implicit meaning in his words, lifted his mutton soup and laughed, “The first time I really fought for my life with someone else, I wouldn’t just sleep and then forget everything after eating some mutton, right?”
“What do you mean?”
Han Bin swallowed the bun in his throat and frowned at the two men, “What secret codes are you guys throwing around?”
Yan Yu’an looked at Han Bin with disdain, as though looking at a chimpanzee.
“Didn’t you go without sleep or medicine from last night until now?”
“Yeah!”
Han Bin nodded vigorously, “What about it?
Is there something special about this mutton soup?”
Yan Yu’an turned his head to check if there was anyone paying attention to them and then spoke in a lower voice, “I was busy for half of the night, and I only dozed off a bit when the sky was about to lighten.
When I woke up, something felt off.
Then I checked on my people and found that they no longer remembered the specifics of last night’s battle.”
Han Bin blinked and stood up, ready to leave, but Yan Yu’an quickly pulled him back.
“What’s the rush, listen to me!”
“I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Special Service Bureau has an unwritten rule.
Every time you return from a mission, you have to drink mutton soup.”
Wang Yunxiao didn’t say anything, and Han Bin, looking at the mutton soup in his hands, didn’t speak either.
This doesn’t seem to be any secret.
Wang Yunxiao remembered very clearly that on the night they returned to the real world from the outer dimension with his brothers, Nurse Liu suddenly became very generous and contributed two cans of braised mutton, enough for everyone to enjoy a large pot of noodle soup.
There must be something to this.
But to say it contained some important significance, Wang Yunxiao didn’t quite believe it.
What, by eating some mutton, you can elevate me to some philosophical level?
Yan Yu’an pointed to the mutton soup and whispered, “I heard…
of course, the source isn’t very reliable, so don’t take it seriously.
They say the Special Service Bureau adds Mind-Confusing Powder to the mutton soup.
After drinking it, your mind gets muddled and you start forgetting things.
I just checked a few people in our team and found that anyone who had taken the medicine couldn’t remember the specific details of last night’s battle.
And the more seriously wounded they were, the more confused their minds were.”
“Really?”
Shocked by what he heard, Han Bin quickly got up, went to the window to get a bowl of mutton soup, and after tasting it carefully, he nodded and said, “There is medicine added, a hint of medicinal herbs.
It’s probably meant to calm the nerves, you know.
Normal people can get easily frightened by those strange things.”
Yan Yu’an ominously added, “Lead and cinnabar were also used by ancient people to calm nerves.”
After that comment, Wang Yunxiao and Han Bin lost their appetite.
But Yan Yu’an wasn’t finished, “Have you noticed that the people from the Special Service Bureau are always so silent, so sluggish, especially those in gray military uniforms?
They’re like mannequins in battle.”
I haven’t noticed, I didn’t even see them at all.
Putting down his bun and frowning, Wang Yunxiao asked, “Captain Yan, what exactly are you trying to say?”
Just as Yan Yu’an was about to speak, the sound of a truck engine came from outside.
The three of them holding their bowls crowded at the entrance of the cafeteria and looked out.
They saw a large military truck driving into the yard, and many people jumped out of the back.
Judging by their attire, they should all be ordinary…
“These people…”
Just as Yan Yu’an was about to speak, he suddenly gasped, stepped back half a step to lean against the wall, clutching his head and grimacing in pain.
“Something’s wrong, something’s wrong, my mind’s foggy, too.
I remember these people are…”
“Dead people.”
Wang Yunxiao kindly answered his question.
“Passengers from the Cosmos, I helped collect their bodies.”
Their attire was all too familiar, people coming back from overseas, always carrying those leather travel cases, wearing suits and ties, and for the ladies, Western dresses and shawls…
“Collected bodies?”
Yan Yu’an looked at Wang Yunxiao with a mix of shock and disbelief, “That can’t be right.
I remember hearing from a customs senior that an infectious disease had broken out on the Cosmos.
It was quarantined at Edo Port for an entire month and only arrived here last night.
I personally saw the ship enter the port.”
“What do you mean?”
With a forehead full of confusion, Han Bin was completely out of the loop.
Sitting back down, Wang Yunxiao said to Yan Yu’an, “On May 1st, the Nantong District police station received a report of a scene filled with numerous bodies, this group of people.
They still had their Cosmos tickets on them.
The reason I recognize them is that I saw the body of the girl who just got off the truck, and it left a deep impression on me.”
“Hold on, my memory doesn’t match up.”
Clutching his head in pain, Yan Yu’an said, “I know about the incident you’re talking about, the Cosmos…
but now I have two Cosmos-es in my head, no, two sets of memories.”
Wang Yunxiao kindly suggested, “Why not, go get a bowl of mutton soup at the window?”