400: Chapter 198: Immortal Teammate Carries Me to High Score 400: Chapter 198: Immortal Teammate Carries Me to High Score “Ginseng fruit…
Is it the kind that Zhu Bajie ate?”
“The Ginseng Fruit that grows on the trees in the backyard of Wuzhuang Temple looks just like human infants.”
“But this Ginseng Fruit of yours…
Based on your previous description, I’m afraid to even imagine what it could be.”
After leaving the new headquarters of the New Church of Eternal Life and walking down the dark, empty streets, Xia Yubing remained silent the entire time, with Li Mumu tiptoeing behind her, unsure of how to start a conversation on this topic.
Should I try to persuade her?
Actually, Xia Yubing’s personality isn’t bad at all; she’s sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, or you could say tsundere.
Li Mumu simply couldn’t imagine her sucking human blood or eating clay pot rice for the sake of cultivation.
We demons and evil spirits have our own principles too.
But even if I wanted to persuade her, I wouldn’t know how.
There’s a saying, “Don’t preach to others unless you’ve walked in their shoes.”
Xia Yubing is very secretive about her past, rarely talking about it.
Li Mumu also didn’t know if she had suffered any persecution when she was alive.
After all, an ordinary person couldn’t become a specter after death without a strong lingering attachment.
I dare not speak, nor dare I ask.
“Don’t you have anything you want to ask me?”
Xia Yubing suddenly stopped, turned around, and stared at Li Mumu.
“Umm…
I’m not particularly curious, I just wonder…
Are we really going to work for that foreigner?”
Li Mumu tentatively suggested, “If you ask me, adding some incense offerings is one thing, but God’s Blood is so bizarre.
It could be hiding any number of traps.
Do we really need to risk our lives against the authorities for something like that?
The Special Service Bureau isn’t completely tied up; they haven’t all died.
What are we going to do if they come after us later on?”
Xia Yubing responded in surprise, “Don’t you want it?
I saw you drooling over it just now.”
“Being tempted isn’t the same as having to eat it.
I still have some self-control,” declared Li Mumu righteously.
The culinary delights of the future world are a hundred times more varied than they are now; what woman hasn’t faced this kind of temptation?
There’s a difference between wanting to eat and being able to eat.
Without any self-control, stuffing your mouth with any tempting food would be absurd – does one really want to become a tiger tank?
The stereotype is that demons and evil spirits lack brains and don’t think.
My brain is plentiful!
(Literally speaking)
“Actually, I don’t really want to work for him, but there are some things we must figure out.”
Seeing that Li Mumu was able to keep a clear head and wasn’t tempted into losing her sense over God’s Blood, Xia Yubing nodded with satisfaction and whispered her plan.
“That foreigner was all alone before, and if it wasn’t for the two of us backing him up, he wouldn’t even be able to put on the show he’s putting on now.
At that time, I felt pretty confident about him, but this guy isn’t as simple as he appears.
His connections are broader than I expected, and he can even get tasks like these through intermediaries.”
“Those fifty milliliters of God’s Blood are genuinely top-notch stuff, and you know it as well as I do.
Both you and I can resist such temptation, but what about others?
If we refuse to cooperate, he has the ability to bypass us and recruit other powerful hitters with that vial of God’s Blood.
At that point, he may not be willing to cooperate with us sincerely anymore.”
“And then there’s the employer for this task, who seems a little too generous.
I believe the rewards they are offering for this task must be more than just those fifty milliliters of God’s Blood.
Everyone knows not to put all their eggs in one basket; this person doesn’t know us at all and has no reason to trust our capabilities.
For sure, they’ve also posted similar tasks to other secret organizations.”
“Even the Longevity Sect, which has been wiped out and left as an empty shell, got fifty milliliters as a retainer.
I suspect the employer must have at least five hundred milliliters in stock for this task, not to mention the additional rewards.
Who has such deep pockets to dare to arm-wrestle with the Special Service Bureau in Tianmen City?”
“I think we need to take advantage of this opportunity to work for him to suss out the employer’s background, or at least have a simple understanding of him or his organization to avoid many unnecessary troubles in the future.”
Li Mumu nodded vigorously, deeply agreeing with Xia Yubing’s explanation.
It’s indeed necessary to learn more about such a lavish spender.
Otherwise, if you know nothing, you won’t even have the value of being a pawn, and you could be swept away without understanding why if they decide to AOE blast you one day.
“What’s most important is that I find the task released by the employer very strange, with no requirement for completion.
It feels as though just showing up is enough, without putting one’s life on the line.”
Xia Yubing frowned and said, “I think the employer might not have much hope for us, at most expecting us to serve as a rallying cry to distract the attention of the police.
The actual responsibility for recovering the test subjects might lie with someone else—isn’t that a more reasonable assumption?”
Makes sense!
Li Mumu nodded furiously, thinking to herself, oh heavens, oh earth, what kind of divine teammate is this?
High IQ, strong abilities, good looks, what more could you ask for, a bicycle?
Sister Bingbing, team up with me for a duo and score big!
What?
Wendy?
Who?
I don’t know that kid, let her wash her underwear by herself.
The doll charm on her wrist seemed to pick up on someone’s malice and slowly lifted its head, its two button eyes staring blankly at Li Mumu.
As a specter herself, Xia Yubing also had the ability to travel between the worlds of the living and the dead.
It didn’t take long for the two to arrive at the location marked on the map.
Before they even got close, they could see crowds of evacuated civilians and numerous regular army soldiers on the street.
Li Mumu’s expression changed, and she abruptly pulled Xia Yubing back.
“Something’s off!”
She noticed that the soldiers wore thick masks and carried the kind of tanks used for spraying pesticides, dousing the area with a milky liquid, the scent of limewater detectable from a distance.
An epidemic?!
What’s going on?
The Holy Grail Church’s lost experimental subjects…
Weren’t you guys breeding lolis for artificial insemination to extract their hematopoietic stem cells?
This doesn’t look right!
Don’t fool me because I’m uneducated, this clearly seems like a virus leakage situation!
As Li Mumu stood there in shock and confusion, the sound of a vehicle’s engine roared from behind.
An army truck broke through the crowd and stopped in front of the cordon.
A dozen doctors dressed in white coats and fully protected disembarked.
They carried stretchers and first aid kits as they hurried inside.
This is bad…
what I feared has come to pass.
Li Mumu’s heart sank.