Chapter 1475: Seeing Xin Yu Cooperates with Azure Dragon

Buy a yellow-light rabbit? That's impossible—I'm a lord who raises a flock of green-light chickens. "This is my payment for roasting the rabbit, no points needed."

Though the stingy Broken-Waist Wolf likes points, it won't trade prey and yi-stones from within the wolf pack's territory to Xia Qing for points. Because in its view, food and yi-stones are more important than points.

It's perfectly normal for an evolved wolf born and raised in the fiercely competitive Evolution Forest to hold such an outlook.

For example, of the bamboo rats the northern wolf pack and the Azure Dragon Squad co-raise on Peak Three of Mountain Forty-Nine, the portion belonging to the wolf pack was eaten by the wolf pack; the same goes for the wild boars raised in the valley of Zone Three, Mountain Forty-Nine.

The two ate and chatted as they went along. By the time they were washing the dishes, Seeing Xin Yu finally brought up something not suitable for the dinner table. "I just received confirmed intelligence: a dual-system female evolver in the middle management of the Chonglian Group is pregnant with Yu Dongming's child. She's already over two months along."

Huh?!

Xia Qing asked, "Does Yu Dongming want an evolver heir, or does he want to use this child's umbilical cord blood to make an evolution-ability inducer?"

Although Seeing Xin Yu's uncle Yu Dongming kept himself in excellent condition—looking as though he'd had skin-grafting surgery, with not a single wrinkle on his face—he was already fifty-eight years old.

A fifty-eight-year-old evolver is still in his youth, but a fifty-eight-year-old ordinary person like Yu Dongming is already in late middle age. His son Yu Wenchuang and daughter Yu Wenfei are both in their twenties, so it's hard not to make Xia Qing suspect the worst about his motives.

Seeing Xin Yu couldn't help getting irritable whenever she brought up Yu Dongming's family. "I reckon it's both. On one hand, Yu Wenchuang is too useless, and Yu Dongming doesn't want to cultivate Yu Wenfei as Chonglian's successor, so he wants another child. On the other hand—do you remember Yu Wenfei's pregnancy?"

Xia Qing nodded. "She had an accidental miscarriage at seven months pregnant."

"After that fetus was sent into the Chonglian Life Sciences Research Lab, it was made into a potion." Seeing Xin Yu held a spotless plate, staring at the faucet letting water flow out slowly, her expression grave. "That drug probably had some effect, but it didn't meet Yu Dongming's expectations, so he switched to a new plan—using an heir with a closer blood relation to make the drug."

"This intel was leaked by Yu Wenfei. She also sent me a research plan—Yu Dongming still wants to use my eggs. They've even found a sperm donor."

Xia Qing turned off the faucet, took the bowl from Seeing Xin Yu's hands and pushed it into the sterilizer cabinet. "Looks like Huicheng's official oversight of the Chonglian Life Sciences Research Lab isn't strict enough. Also, I don't think Yu Wenfei's intel is necessarily true."

Seeing Xin Yu reached up to open the cabinet, took out a sealed transparent glass jar of dried roses, opened the lid, took one out and put it in the teapot, then continued. "That file is definitely real, but it was probably drawn up before Yu Dongming got Yu Wenfei pregnant. She's Yu Dongming's biological daughter—closer blood relation."

Seeing Xin Yu went on. "This pregnant woman is named Zheng Jing. She's a dual-system evolver—Level Three Endurance and Level Four Hearing. She serves as Marketing Director at a home-appliance subsidiary under the Chonglian Group. She's a very shrewd and very ambitious person. She's been on my surveillance list all along. A few years back she had private dealings with Blaze Phoenix and Liao Wendong—she counts as a mole Blaze planted inside Chonglian."

Connected to Blaze again? Reasonable enough.

Xia Qing analyzed calmly. "Zheng Jing got pregnant this September. By then Blaze and Doom's open firefight was already over, and the spring on Blaze Mountain was confirmed destroyed. Blaze Phoenix would definitely be looking for a fallback. Yu Wenfei took the initiative to leak the intel to you—is she hoping you'll step in on this?"

Seeing Xin Yu nodded. "According to her, now they only need the baby's umbilical cord blood for the drug. Yu Wenfei doesn't want Zheng Jing to give birth to this child and take what's hers—"

Xia Qing carried the teapot into the living room, poured two cups of tea, sat on the sofa, patted the seat beside her, and gestured for Seeing Xin Yu to come sit.

Seeing Xin Yu is a person with a very strong inner core and very firm opinions. Xia Qing understood that when she told her these things, she wasn't looking for advice—she simply needed to say it out loud, to vent the emotions bottled up inside.

Seeing Xin Yu sat down beside Xia Qing, leaned back on the sofa, and let out a long sigh. "So annoying…"

Xia Qing responded, "Triggering evolution abilities can extend one's life by several decades. The temptation is enormous for ordinary people. The higher you stand, the more you fear falling; the more you have, the more you fear losing it. Such people's fear of 'death' is far stronger than that of the powerless. Because when they die, they don't just lose a life—they lose a vast empire that needs them to control it. So for them, triggering evolution abilities isn't a 'choice'—it's a 'necessity.'"

Seeing Xin Yu turned her head. "Was that something Third Brother said?"

"No, it was Yang Jin." Xia Qing paused, then went on. "Third Brother also said something related: 'When the miracles of technology serve only the perpetuation of power, what they reveal is not progress, but the abyss of human nature under the most extreme temptation.'"

"A necessity, an abyss…" Seeing Xin Yu, leaning on the sofa, murmured the words back to herself. After a moment of silence she suddenly exploded. "Shit! Why not just toss a few crates of bombs and blow the whole lot of them to hell!"

Xia Qing nodded. "Sure. We find a chance to strike; if we can't find one, we make one."

Seeing Xin Yu laughed, then leaned back against the sofa again.

Xia Qing asked, "How much pollution-free spring water can the Chonglian Group get each month?"

Seeing Xin Yu gave an exact figure. "4,000 liters of pollution-free spring water—15% of Huicheng Base Two's pollution-free spring water. The Chonglian research division can get 500 liters, for breeding research; Chonglian Hospital can get 3,500 liters, for medical treatment. You suspect Chonglian Group is selling spring water to Blaze?"

As expected of Huicheng's largest conglomerate—they actually get an allocation of four thousand liters of pollution-free spring water a month.

Xia Qing nodded. "Blaze Phoenix's body, Blaze's modified humans, high-yi-element spinach cultivation, and multiple research projects all need large amounts of pollution-free spring water. Blaze is currently negotiating cooperation with Lan Wu's Quicksand Squad—trading her blood for pollution-free spring water. If Blaze Phoenix has reached the point of trading blood for spring water, do you think she'd set her sights on Chonglian's pollution-free spring water?"

"Definitely!" Seeing Xin Yu jumped up, spun around a few times, then stopped in front of Xia Qing. "That pollution-free spring water at Quicksand's place is shared with Azure Dragon, right?"

Xia Qing nodded. "Yang Jin wants to use this opportunity to get rid of Blaze Phoenix."

Seeing Xin Yu spun in circles as she muttered on. "Blaze Phoenix escaped from the underground research lab at Huicheng Base One. A lot of people suspect that Blaze Lab can roll out so many special-effect potions so quickly because Blaze Phoenix got hold of part of the underground lab's research data and let her assembled research team keep doing that work… I've long suspected the Chonglian Life Sciences Research Lab is connected to Blaze Lab… If that's really the case…"

Seeing Xin Yu stopped in front of Xia Qing. "I'm going to cooperate with the Azure Dragon Squad and use this chance to get rid of Yu Dongming and Yu Wenchuang!"

Xia Qing smiled and nodded. "Alright. How about we finish this cup of tea first, then make the call?"

Seeing Xin Yu…

Not quite that fast, though.