Chapter 3421 — The Song Family's Trouble
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"Off you go!" Feng Tianlong nodded. "You're a deputy bureau chief now, so you can manage your own leave time. But if an urgent assignment comes up, you'll need to report back at once!"
"Please rest assured, Director Feng. I know what matters and what doesn't." Qiu Lingshan nodded hastily in agreement...
Qiu Lingshan happily made ready to go home, never suspecting that a conspiracy had already begun to take shape, aimed at the Song family...
Overseas, the "Center." This was the headquarters of the Fire Wolf Gang and the Red Conch, situated on a mysterious island.
The one who controlled the Center was none other than Miss Lan, the very person cooperating with the Ancestor Xuanchen! And the current person in charge of the Center was a man called Dr. Benjamin II.
"I hear Song Lingwei has gone back to Huaxia?" Dr. Benjamin II's tone was steeped in hatred when he spoke that name.
"Yes, I hear she has left the mercenary organization and the Overseas Cultivators' Association. The one who went back with her was Song Xianghua, the honorary grand elder of the Overseas Cultivators' Association!" The speaker was Qiu Shanlong, the Center's commander of armed forces.
"Back then, if she hadn't interfered, our people would already have obtained the inheritance of that ancient spirit beast, and my latest genetically modified strain would have been successfully developed! Once it succeeded, it would have become a powerful asset to Instructor Li and Madam Lan! I failed their trust..." Dr. Benjamin II said bitterly.
That inheritance from the ancient spirit beast had been obtained by Song Lingwei by chance, and it had made her—an external-school expert at the great consummation of the late Heaven Rank—a rarity even in the cultivation world.
If Dr. Benjamin II's people had obtained it, he could have worked from his genetic modifications to research and produce a similar biochemical agent. Injected into a recipient, it could mass-produce countless experts!
That would be far stronger than the current batch of bio-humans, because in strength, defense, and endurance, Song Lingwei far surpassed them all. One could say Qiu Lingshan was a perfected expert created through modification; once this technology was mastered, Dr. Benjamin II's biochemical agent would advance by leaps and bounds.
"You can't be blamed for this, Doctor. Man proposes, heaven disposes—who could have known she would happen to take its place? Besides, if she hadn't always had the protection of the Overseas Cultivators' Association and the mercenary organization, we would have moved against her long ago. Now the timing is perfect—she's back in Huaxia. What do you say we..." Qiu Shanlong drew a finger across his throat.
"Mm, when the time comes, you must bring the corpse back to me. I want to study her blood and genes!" Dr. Benjamin II gave a cold laugh and nodded. "Go make the arrangements. But be careful—those are two experts at the great consummation of the late Heaven Rank, top-tier experts. You must eliminate them with absolute superiority. Send four experts."
"Four at the great consummation of the late Heaven Rank?" Qiu Shanlong pondered for a moment, then said, "Mobilizing so many experts will require Miss Lan's approval. It wasn't easy for Instructor Li to cultivate these people; we can't deploy them casually! Besides, these people are our secret force—nobody in the cultivation world knows that our Center has so many formidable cultivators."
"Fine, I'll speak to Miss Lan about this matter." Dr. Benjamin II nodded and agreed.
These past few days, the Ancestor Xuanchen had been thoroughly vexed. The second-grade medicinal cauldron he and Kang Jingming had made was meant to be sold to Wei Zhao's company at a high price, yet they had waited and waited, and still no one from Wei Zhao's side had come to negotiate the purchase!