Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 348 Search Plan
Ke Lan leaned forward, moved closer, and gently bit Zofia's lower lip... Zofia's lip gloss had a unique fragrance of roses, and this smell immediately filled Ke Lan's entire nasal cavity... Faintly, he seemed to be able to taste a hint of not-so-obvious sweetness.
Although Ke Lan's movements were awkward, they were full of aggressiveness. His arms tightly clasped Zofia's shoulders and pressed tightly against her body, as if he wanted to rub her into his chest.
Zofia did not dodge but responded proactively. She leaned against the wall of the corridor, stood on tiptoe, and stretched her legs straight.
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After more than a minute, their lips finally parted. Sofia was breathing rapidly, her face flushed. No one knew whether it was due to lack of oxygen, excitement, or... both.
"There are surveillance cameras in the corridor." She said softly to Ke Lan.
"Okay." Ke Lan let her go, " That's enough."
"Huh?" Sofia looked at Ke Lan in surprise. Not only her, but even Hound and others who were hiding in the corner of the corridor and using small mirrors to peek at the situation in the corridor were all confused - the accelerator was clearly stepped on to the bottom, why did he brake suddenly?
"Hey, I think... Is there really something wrong with Ke Lan's body?" The Hound said to Ivan with some concern, "This won't work. Doctor, how about you check him out one day?"
"He had a full-body checkup last time." Ivan muttered softly, "He is in good health and has no hidden illness..."
"That's really weird... He can actually hold back on this?" The corner of the hound's mouth twitched slightly. "Could he like men?"
"That's not a big deal. They've already kissed each other, which is much better than before." Layton interrupted, "And they kissed for more than a minute."
"It's true that the emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is. The young lady has already taken the initiative, but this guy just won't get his way. He's so damn disappointing. Let's go, let's go play some poker... If I keep watching this, I'll be so angry at this guy that I'll have a myocardial infarction sooner or later."
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With such a vicious murder incident, it was almost impossible for the final to continue. Fortunately, the Ye Group's crisis public relations ability was pretty good. On the one hand, it held three press conferences in a row, took the initiative to admit its mistakes, and promised to make substantial compensation to all spectators and participating teams, and to hold a make-up match three months later. On the other hand, it hired internet trolls to expose the scandal of the Adams family, quietly directing the focus of public opinion to Mann and the Adams family behind Mann, thereby diverting people's emotional outlets... As for how the Adams family would respond, that was not something the Ye Group needed to worry about.
As for Chi Hanfeng, with the mediation of General Maginot, he was sentenced to "murder in righteous indignation", and because he surrendered himself, his sentence was finally set at eight years. Fortunately, Chi Hanfeng was a civilian rather than a soldier at that time. Otherwise, if he was tried by a military court, his sentence would have been at least fifteen years.
The prison where Chi Hanfeng was imprisoned was the Third Prison in the West Fourth District, which was under the control of the Security Bureau. It was considered to be the prison with the best conditions among the prisons on the Ark. Moreover, it was not under the jurisdiction of the military, and the Adams family could not reach into the Third Prison.
Valentina was arranged to the medical research institute under the Mitsui Group. Although Sakurai Na had already joined the God Hunters, she also said that she alone could not cure Valentina's old injuries. A large number of medical equipment must be used to assist, coupled with expensive new drugs, in order to make her recover.
Ke Lan and others returned to the Ark the day after the suspension - although there was no mission to explore the ruins, they still had another thing to do: go to the "Southern Sixteenth District" to look for Marshall who had been missing for many years.
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After repeated discussions, the final team lineup was decided to be Ke Lan, Asano Akira, Ivan and tool man Layton.
Ivan also wanted to try to find out the news about the doctor who disappeared in the sick village four years ago. At the same time, he was also very interested in the radiation patients living in the sick village. After all, apart from the sick village, it was difficult to find a second place where so many living samples were gathered. Moreover, it was said that "corpse ghosts" had appeared in the sick village, which made Ivan even more excited.
As for Layton, he is still carrying the title of "tool man" this time, and he himself said that he has become accustomed . Anyway, he is idle in the hunting group headquarters. After seeing too many various mechas during this period, he has entered a period of burnout. Following Ke Lan and the others to the space station to find people is also a change of taste.
After hearing the news, Sakurai Nana also wanted to come along, but was rejected by Ke Lan without hesitation. She threatened, "If you come along, I will tell Asano Akira that you have a crush on him," and directly blocked the girl who wanted to continue to pester him. Until this time, Sakurai Nana had no idea that Ke Lan had already "betrayed" her.
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"Well, you never know until you check, and once you check it's true... It's not that scary, but this place always gives me a very weird feeling." The Hound leaned his hands on the long table in the conference room, frowning as he stared at the information displayed on the projection screen.
"The entire space station is divided into three floors, with a total area that is even larger than a zone on the Ark." Ivan clutched his precious wine flask and leaned on the sofa. "Although the mining companies once sent people to repair and expand the entire space station, that was nearly 30 years ago... After that, apart from sending radiation sickness patients and daily necessities, they never sent a single staff member to the space station again."
"There are six areas in total, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Apart from Area A, where the control center of the space station is located, only Areas B and C are inhabited. The other three areas have been in disrepair for a long time, and even the most basic lighting and life support systems cannot operate normally... No one knows what is in those three areas."
"Weightlessness and darkness are okay, but lack of oxygen, lack of water, low temperature...it is absolutely impossible for normal creatures to survive in the other three areas..." Ivan said slowly.
"Those who can survive are definitely not normal creatures," Ke Lan added.
"What we are most worried about now is... what if the person we are looking for is not in Area B or Area C? To be honest, these places make me feel very uncomfortable..." Layton said, pointing to the red-marked areas D, E, and F on the space station design drawing - the information on this design drawing was retained before the space station was expanded. As for what the space looks like now, almost no one on the Ark knows.
It was like an isolated island abandoned by the world, and no one knew what the island looked like except those poor people who were sent to the island to wait for death.
The expansion project back then did not leave much reliable information - in order to save costs, the so-called expansion was actually the simplest and crudest demolition of partitions and the addition of external cabins. No drawings or documents related to the expansion project were uploaded to the database, and the construction teams involved in the project at that time were basically outsourced. It would be more difficult to find these people now than to find Marshall in the sick village...
"That's like looking for a needle in a haystack..." the Hound sighed.
