OBS Chapter 251 - 249: Civil Affairs Bureau
Chapter 251 - 249: Civil Affairs Bureau
Chapter 251: Chapter 249: Civil Affairs BureauHu Ding had already been waiting downstairs for a long time. Seeing Su Mo arrive, he didn’t say anything and stepped on the gas pedal, heading straight for the Inner Ring.
The so-called laboratory was located in a villa in the Inner Ring where no one lived but was surrounded by soldiers.
After the three of them got out of the car and had their Identity Cards verified, they were granted entry.
Curious, Su Mo walked through the main gate into what looked like a typical living room, fully furnished. She watched as Hu Ding took out an Identity Card and swiped it against the wall by the door. Below the European-style sofa in the living room, a rumbling sound of an elevator ascending was heard.
The furniture on the floor parted to both sides along with the moving floorboards, splitting into two halves, as a steel platform rising in the shape of a disk appeared.
Leaning on it, Su Mo stepped onto the platform, and the elevator began to descend slowly.
The furniture on the ground returned to its original place.
It took about thirty seconds to reach the bottom, and Su Mo estimated that the laboratory was not very deep.
What met her eyes were re
Jiang Hai didn’t have much of a reaction to seeing Su Mo. He was more focused on a string of experimental data on the table in front of him.
"Look at this," Jiang Hai said with a hint of pride, his entire demeanour beaming.
Following his gaze, Su Mo looked towards the computer screen, where the various bodily indices of the woman in the room were displayed, all surpassing the limits of an average person.
This meant that the medicine had indeed worked.
But Su Mo felt not a trace of joy, rather, she was anxious.
She clutched Lu Chen’s hand tighter, her palm breaking out in a fine sweat.
Sensing her nervousness, Lu Chen whispered, "Let’s go back."
Su Mo shook her head and addressed Jiang Hai, "Commander Jiang, what stage has your experiment reached?"
"She will soon be able to come out and move around,"
a researcher said.
Jiang Hai gave him a look and then turned to Lu Chen, "Chenchen, let me show you our latest achievement."
Two people in protective suits, holding weapons, opened the door of the glass room.
Su Mo frowned, "What are they going to do?"
No sooner had she spoken than the armed person shot the woman in the chest; Su Mo’s heart lurched. Under Jiang Hai’s excited gaze, the woman, who had been shot in the chest, lay on the ground, with blood blossoming from her wound, only to sit up again within a minute.
Through her eyes, Su Mo zoomed in on the scene at the woman’s chest to see a bullet automatically detaching itself, and the exploded flesh wound rapidly healing.
Both she and Lu Chen’s faces darkened at the same time.
"This is our medicine; cells can rapidly divide and recombine, repair wounds, and expel foreign objects. Chenchen, your trip wasn’t in vain; we’ve succeeded!" Jiang Hai turned around, his face glowing with excitement, "Come back, I’ll give you the highest honor."
His temptation did not shake Lu Chen in the slightest; the man’s phoenix eyes remained cold as he turned his head and said indifferently, "Congratulations, I have other matters to attend to, so I’ll be leaving now."
"Lu Chen! You stop right there!" Jiang Hai pushed through the crowd of researchers to confront him, his face twitching slightly before softening his stance, "I agree to your relationship with this woman; I won’t interfere. Come back, I need your help."
"Commander Jiang, how about you abandon the experiment, then Lu Chen will come back, how about that?" Su Mo interjected.
"Impossible," Jiang Hai said with a firm shake of the head, his tone one of disappointment, "We have already taken a huge step forward for humanity. Now is not the time for that kind of talk!"
"Then there’s nothing to discuss," Su Mo’s face dropped, leaving an ominous tone hanging in the air, "Just make sure you don’t end up regretting it."
She took Lu Chen’s hand, and the two of them turned and left.
Jiang Hai’s face turned red as he sighed heavily and then gave orders to the people behind him, "Go down below, tell Doctor Xiao to hurry up with the medicine production; we need to have it ready for use within this month."
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After leaving the laboratory and returning to the surface, Su Mo said gravely, "Lu Chen, what do we do if something happens to the base?"
"Leave," the man’s features were cold as he answered decisively.
Su Mo’s lips moved, but she said nothing in the end. Just based on her probing question earlier, Jiang Hai’s face had turned so sour; let alone stopping him, besides, she didn’t have sufficient reason to convince them.
For now, they could only take it one step at a time.
Instead of hurrying back to the apartment, Lu Chen took her to the training grounds.
By this time, the sky had darkened, and Su Mo asked curiously, "Why have you brought me here?"
Lu Chen did not speak but led her toward a small building on the training ground, where a shining new sign hung that made her eyes widen in shock.
"The Civil Affairs Bureau?!" Su Mo was flabbergasted, noticing a sign that had evidently just been put up, still brand new.
"You..." She turned back to look at Lu Chen, her heart starting to quake.
Inside the building, Hu Ding was sitting in the lobby in a military uniform, a table in front of him with two red booklets on it, next to a white dog with a tie madly wagging its tail.
Su Mo remembered, Lu Chen had once said he wanted to marry her, which she had taken as a joke at the time. After all, who would bother with that during the apocalypse? But to her surprise, he had actually brought her to a Civil Affairs Bureau.