Chapter 3415 — The Plan Begins
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They arrived at the work area, and a pungent stench assailed their nostrils. Inside, something was being refined amid billowing heat. One whiff told Wei Zhao exactly what it was: crystal meth.
So this poison-refining zone was not producing heroin, but chemical drugs.
Entering the work area, Wei Zhao imitated the others and set to work, while the close-cropped man and the dull-witted underling had by then slipped off somewhere unknown.
But those two were Meng Gaohai's underlings, so naturally no one questioned them. Meng Gaohai's authority was long established; even the patrols of the poison-refining base turned a blind eye to him — after all, they sometimes relied on him to manage the prisoners.
After working a while in the work area, Wei Zhao copied the others' motions, and thanks to Meng Gaohai's patronage he had been assigned a simple step: all he had to do was pick something up and set it down again.
Though Wei Zhao was a Heaven-rank expert, there were simply too many biochemical men here for him to sense them one by one.
After a time, the close-cropped man and the dull-witted underling returned, their faces covered in bruises, limping as they walked. Catching sight of Meng Gaohai, they at once poured out their grievance: "Chief! When we went to the latrine, we passed the biochemical men's work zone, and a crazed biochemical man beat us up!"
"What? Beaten up by a crazed biochemical man? Tell me, what exactly happened? Has the world turned upside down? Daring to strike my, Meng Gaohai's, underlings!" Meng Gaohai exploded on the spot, his eyes blazing.
Meng Gaohai was notorious for his domineering ways, and he had connections among the poison-refining base's management, so when he flew into a rage, no one thought anything amiss.
When these people had first arrived, many of them had been put in their place by Meng Gaohai as well.
Just then, a supervisor from the poison-refining base came over. Seeing Meng Gaohai, he hurried to soothe him: "Old Meng, that's enough. Why pick a fight with a mindless biochemical man? When those creatures go mad, there is no reasoning with them. If you let this anger you too, it is simply not worth it!"
"Any other time I would let it go, but beating my, Meng Gaohai's, underlings to this state — if I turn a blind eye, what will the others think? Especially this new underling I just took on — only yesterday I pounded my chest and swore that no one here would dare bully him, and then in the blink of an eye my other two underlings get beaten like this. If I do not stand up for them, what is this new underling 9527 to think?" Meng Gaohai pointed at Wei Zhao as he spoke, greatly agitated.
"This..." The supervisor was only an early Earth-rank expert; the two Heaven-rank experts were merely guards and seldom came to this work area, so maintaining order still required Meng Gaohai's assistance. Seeing that he was genuinely displeased, the supervisor knew he must go along with him, and said: "Old Meng, then tell me — what do you propose?" (To be continued..) RT