Ch 121: TGCIR

Shen Cheng felt like she had grasped a bit of cub’s thought process.

For someone who wanted to sell himself at a high price, someone whose favorability barely rose and was almost stagnant, how could his friendship level be raised to 80 in just five days?

Adding insult to injury is never as effective as providing timely help.

To make someone’s friendship level skyrocket, you first need to seize their predicament, understand their needs, and ensure their wholehearted approval.

Li Weilan had already shown his strength from the beginning, but the fact that the other party’s favorability only rose by 10 points afterward indicated one thing: she was far from desperate. A tiger that hasn’t reached its desperate state wouldn’t reveal its cards.

For whatever reason, Chen Jie chose to conceal her strength.

Li Weilan’s unexpected departure seemed to catch Chen Jie off guard.

She watched Li Weilan leave, her gaze fluctuating, her expression conflicted.

But regardless, in the end, she silently watched Li Weilan leave.

In the next three days, Chen Jie’s surroundings remained calm.

If it weren’t for seeing cub calm and even leisurely going out for a stroll, Shen Cheng would almost suspect that she had opened the task in the wrong way.

But she had absolute trust in him. Since Li Weilan chose to stand by and watch, she didn’t question his judgment at all.

Until the last day of the task deadline, when Shen Cheng logged in, she saw that the entire house was surrounded by ability users.

Chen Jie sat dejectedly in a chair, her face no longer displaying the previous calmness. The hall was splattered with red, clearly after a fierce battle.

A dark gun barrel was pointed at Chen Jie’s head.

“Do you accept this task or not?” The person speaking to her in front of Chen Jie turned out to be a familiar face to Shen Cheng. It was Fu Yanzhou.

But at this moment, Fu Yanzhou completely lacked the timidity and social anxiety he had at the Noah Base. On the contrary, his eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses gleamed with the same cold light as his senior brother’s.

Chen Jie remained silent, gritting her teeth without saying a word.

She didn’t expect the people from the Institute to resort to such extreme measures. Everyone on her side was knocked down directly, and they didn’t even talk about the price with her. They didn’t even give her a chance to negotiate. They came directly to force her to accept the task in exchange for her comrades.

And she was immediately threatened with death just for hesitating for a moment.

There was an invisible mental thread around her neck, the work of Fu Yanzhou, completely controlling her actions. As long as she made a move, the invisible chain would tighten.

“Whether you accept the compulsory task or not,” Fu Yanzhou repeated coldly.

Chen Jie’s throat made a choking sound.

The tightened rope left a red mark on her neck. Chen Jie’s eyes became increasingly bulging. She was sure that if she didn’t give in now, the person in front of her would really kill her.

The pressure on her back was as heavy as a thousand catties, the work of another gravity-type ability user from the Institute. She couldn’t move at all, let alone resist.

A cold light flashed in Chen Jie’s eyes. At this moment, she finally abandoned the idea of trying to please both sides, comparing the prices on both sides, and finally making a decision. She just waved her hand and said, “I accept.”

As soon as the noose around her throat loosened, Chen Jie fell to the ground with a thud, her face flushing as she gasped for breath.

Fu Yanzhou glanced at her, nodded, and said, “Do what you think is best for yourself.”

As Fu Yanzhou walked out of the hall, he suddenly saw Li Weilan, who was crouching quietly under the hall along with other baits.

When he came in, he was focused on breaking in and didn’t notice the other people around. Less attention was paid to baits like Li Weilan. Now, seeing Li Weilan, Fu Yanzhou’s confident stride turned awkward, and his previously arrogant and devilish demeanor turned into a sand sculpture in a second. He looked completely awkward, and even the eyes behind the lenses widened instantly.

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Fu Yanzhou was so shocked that he almost stumbled over a small stone at his feet. The lackey behind him probably noticed his stumble and hurried forward to help him, but Fu Yanzhou’s mental power shook him off directly, without even touching his hand. Fu Yanzhou’s voice even carried a subtle surprise, “What are you doing?”

“Brother Fu.”

Seeing the speechless expression on the man’s face, Fu Yanzhou realized that he might have overreacted. He cleared his throat and hummed, putting on his cold demeanor again, but he was still shocked inside. How could Li Weilan appear here? He saw everything just now. What would they think of him? Although he hadn’t thought of returning to Noah, he still felt somewhat annoyed. “Stop talking nonsense and go.” He lifted his chin arrogantly and walked away.

“Lanlan, what’s going on with Brother Fu?” Shen Cheng saw this scene clearly. Even if she couldn’t understand their expressions, Fu Yanzhou’s stumbling movement was obvious.

Fu Yanzhou had been in the base for more than a year. What kind of person was he? Was this personality just a facade? The people in the base, including Shen Cheng, were well aware of it. So Fu Yanzhou’s fierceness just now couldn’t completely deceive them. Even his fleeting panic seemed more like the real him.

However, considering Fu Yanzhou’s survival status, Shen Cheng always felt that he seemed to hold a decent position in the Institute, and his living conditions were not bad. After all, he could be sent out to display power and prestige.

From the moment Li Weilan saw Fu Yanzhou, he had been observing his every move. Perhaps Fu Yanzhou thought he had learned well from his senior brother. But in the eyes of those who truly knew him, his disguise was just a thin layer, easily torn apart to reveal the soft core inside.

Fu Yanzhou was far less fierce than his senior brother. His fierceness was just a hard shell on the outside. Even when threatening Chen Jie just now, he didn’t directly resort to killing, which was a good example.

“I’m a bit worried.” Since Fu Yanzhou’s softness couldn’t deceive them, could it deceive his senior brother?

What was Xia Jinshi planning?

Li Weilan had a vague sense of foreboding.

When Li Weilan returned to the hall, Chen Jie had been coughing for quite some time.

When she finally caught her breath and looked at Li Weilan, there was a hint of sternness in her eyes. At this moment, she finally lost her usual smile and directly asked Li Weilan, “What do you want?”

Li Weilan shrugged. “Captain Chen, do you think you have anything in your hands that I need?”

Chen Jie hesitated.

Suddenly, a hint of uncertainty rose in her mind. The most valuable thing in her hands was, of course, intelligence. But today, the people from the Institute almost killed her on her own turf, yet this person didn’t do anything.

Did he really have ulterior motives?

Could it be that the information she received and the deductions she made were wrong?

“I have evidence from the Institute.”

“Don’t worry,” Li Weilan smiled and directly took out the blue spider-shaped remote control he had taken from the tree earlier, with the tree’s code written clearly on it.

He placed the remote control in front of Chen Jie. “Evidence of the Institute’s human research, photos, we have them all. Do you think they are useful?”

Chen Jie was stunned.

She carefully looked at the code on the spider’s body, and after a moment, her hands began to tremble uncontrollably, her face turning pale.

There was a hint of confusion in her eyes. “Then what do you want from me?” As soon as she finished speaking, her gaze gradually became firm. “You can’t want nothing. If not, why did you save me? Why did you help me fight monsters? Isn’t Tang Lu always focused on saving his girlfriend? I know where his girlfriend is being held, what experiments have been done to her, and how miserable she is now. I can help you rescue her.”

Before she finished speaking, Li Weilan burst into laughter.

Facing Chen Jie’s bewildered gaze, Li Weilan chuckled and said, “You thought I was Tang Lu’s person, but you’re mistaken, you’re mistaken.” Li Weilan shook his head. “I have a grudge with Bai Su. The more miserable Bai Su is, the more enjoyable it is for me.”

“But she’s a healing-type ability user, isn’t this ability important?” Chen Jie exclaimed, “If you’re not Tang Lu’s person, then whose are you? It’s impossible…”

She froze. “Tang Lu clearly described that we should pay attention to people who match your appearance, otherwise…” Otherwise, he wouldn’t have mistaken him for being with Tang Lu’s group.

Li Weilan smiled and glanced at the red mark on Chen Jie’s neck.

He tossed him a tube of medicine, and Chen Jie followed Li Weilan’s gesture to apply a bit to her neck. The wound immediately healed completely.

“This medicine…” Chen Jie was stunned. She had really misunderstood. With such a healing effect, it was not cost-effective to save someone like Bai Su, who consumed large amounts of crystal cores and resources with each treatment and needed to be coddled like a little princess.

He hadn’t lied. He really wasn’t trying to save Bai Su.

Chen Jie’s biggest chip suddenly turned to zero. She drooped her head listlessly, but after a moment, she came to his senses and said hoarsely, “You must want something from me. I refuse to believe I have nothing, and yet you’re here wasting time with me.”

“You do have something I need,” Li Weilan heard Shen Cheng’s surprised voice in his ear that Chen Jie’s friendliness suddenly increased a lot. He smiled slightly, “Captain Chen, go contact those teams you know. It’s time to make your experiences public.”

“What?” Chen Jie’s face turned pale.

She had never thought of openly opposing the Institute. Even if she was really slapped in the face by the Institute today and couldn’t step down in front of everyone, she still wanted to take the evidence in her hands and join one side, then sit back and watch the show.

She indeed didn’t have high hopes for the Institute. In her opinion, the people from the Institute were basically bookworms. They might be good at inventions, creations, and productivity, but when it came to power struggles and propaganda battles, they were basically playing childish tricks.

So Chen Jie had never thought of permanently siding with the Institute.

But now Li Weilan’s meaning was to make her openly declare her stance, to directly stand in the forefront and fight against the Institute. The more Chen Jie thought about it, the more suspicious she became. Frowning skeptically, she said, “I…”

Before she could make excuses, Li Weilan made his offer directly. “You have a total of eight trusted subordinates, right? Each person will get a set of full-body armor, three tubes of life-saving medicine per person, plus enough food to feed your entire team for a year.”

Before Li Weilan finished speaking, Chen Jie’s eyes lit up. She couldn’t wait to say, “Deal, but the down payment…”

“Thirty upfront,” Li Weilan agreed without hesitation, “It’ll be delivered to your team’s warehouse tonight.”

Chen Jie’s friendliness skyrocketed to 80 at that moment. Shen Cheng watched Li Weilan, this old fox who was like a magician, cunningly manipulate the situation step by step, and couldn’t help but gape at the table. If she had the ability to manipulate people’s hearts, she could probably make a career even in modern times.

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