Chapter 1753: The Useless Knowledge in Zhang San's Brain

"Third Brother, these are the Evolution Bitter Lettuce seeds Sixth Brother left behind when he went to Territory Three. Plant a greenhouse of them to feed the chickens and cows."

At dusk, after clearing the stones from the newly built greenhouse area in Territory Three and cleaning out the chicken coop at home, Xia Qing moved the flock back and headed to Territory Seven to deliver seeds to her idol.

Boss Wu went to the northern District One territory to seek medical treatment and brought grass seeds for himself, so he must have brought a gift for Third Brother too. Catering to his tastes, what he brought for himself was grass seeds, so what he brought for Third Brother was probably precious herbs or fine equipment.

Xia Qing couldn't figure out what her idol meant by queuing up in the lord channel to trade for grass seeds, so she simply brought the grass seeds over to him directly.

Zhang San asked lazily, "You had that squirrel of yours screen them?"

The idol said 'squirrel' instead of 'rat,' which meant he was in a decent mood. Xia Qing was relieved. "No, the seeds are too small. Little Feimao can't screen them out."

This one packet of grass seeds on the table contained over three hundred thousand grains. Little Feimao's little nose could only sniff them and end up with a dozen or so stuck to it — there was no way to screen out the cultivable, optimizable seeds among them.

"I only need a few dozen." Zhang San took a pair of tweezers from a drawer, opened the seed packet Xia Qing had brought, picked out a few dozen seeds, and handed the rest back to her. In a good mood, he said, "Red One's side is sending someone over the day after tomorrow to deliver the points. Once the points arrive, Mo Huaxi will take Guo Qingbin and leave. After they're gone, you and Little Four bring Zhang Shi over and settle her in. The detoxification treatment for 31-1 needs to start as soon as possible. Before the Harmful Rain, find time to head to Mountain Sixty-Two and see if there are any Evolution Giant Salamanders of the same kind as 11-9 in that mountain area."

So it was Mo Huaxi and his lot taking Guo Qingbin away — no wonder Third Brother was in such a good mood.

"Got it. I'll go to Mountain Sixty-Two the day after tomorrow, and I'll nail down the moving arrangements for Tenth Sister and Ye Yiyi with Fourth Brother as soon as possible. Third Brother, when I go to help Tenth Sister move, should I bring along the two phones Fourth Brother traded for?" Once the investigation team's experts leave, Xia Qing won't have to undergo inspection when leaving Territory Seven, so she can deliver the confidential phones to Fourth Brother.

Zhang San responded with a pleased hum.

Seeing her idol in such a good mood, Xia Qing didn't rush off to deliver food to Yang Jin. She seized the chance to ask about Guo Qingbin's current situation. "Third Brother, can Guo Qingbin recover?"

Zhang San lazily handed Xia Qing two dragon fruits and answered in terms she could understand. "His brain's core hardware isn't severely damaged. Once he sorts out the useless knowledge in his head, he should recover to a level where he can communicate and think. As for whether his resonant evolution ability can recover, I can't judge."

But even if his ability could recover, there's no need to worry. Guo Qingbin will never get another chance to get close to Zhang San in this lifetime.

A top-tier brain-domain evolver's brain only recovering to a communicative level means he's finished! Xia Qing happily peeled open a dragon fruit and asked, "Third Brother, can we use this period while Guo Qingbin's mind isn't clear to interrogate him — see if he ever used his resonant evolution ability on my grandmaster in violation of the rules? Even if we can't interrogate him, if he reveals my grandmaster's core research data and results while clearing out the knowledge in his brain, that would prove it, right?"

Grandmaster?

It took Zhang San a second to realize Xia Qing was talking about his mentor. "Jiao Duo's team is in charge of Guo Qingbin's treatment. Our people can't get close to him. Whether we can confirm this point or not is no longer important."

The idol was right. Guo Qingbin's brain had already been wrecked by the idol, his assets had been drained by Yang Jin, and his reputation was ruined. So whether he had ever launched an attack against his own grandmaster no longer mattered.

Xia Qing asked curiously, "Third Brother, what knowledge did you use to assault Guo Qingbin's mind?"

Third Brother actually had useless knowledge in his head?

The petty-minded Zhang San was very pleased that Xia Qing asked this question, because this was something he could only tell her. The counterattack method of "burning out" Guo Qingbin's brain with a massive volume of knowledge had been proposed by Xia Qing herself.

"The postal codes of every town in all 18 countries on Blue Star, 28 ancient languages no longer in use, and 120 pre-catastrophe online literature works with no logic and chaotic values — each work over three million characters long."

That knowledge really was useless. Xia Qing's eyes sparkled. "Third Brother, did you prepare this knowledge specifically to deal with Guo Qingbin?"

Zhang San took a sip of Green Lantern tea brewed with filtered spring water from Mountain Fifty, and answered unhurriedly, "Part of the first two categories was prepared for that. All of the last category was. Guo Qingbin could still slowly sort through the first two, but for a social ethicist, the last category is a lethal virus."

Xia Qing took a bite of her dragon fruit, her eyes bright as she asked, "You looked so awful a while back — it wasn't because you were stuffed full of this garbage knowledge, was it?"

Then Xia Qing, dragon fruit with a bite taken out still in hand, was kicked out of her idol's office.

Xia Qing put on her one-way light-transmitting protective mask, picked up three meals from the Territory Seven cafeteria first, and then went to the ward to visit Yang Jin, Wang Liang, and Sun Zhaoxiu.

Yang Jin's hospital bed was empty. Sun Zhaoxiu, covered in tubes, and Wang Liang, with casts on both legs and one arm, were both asleep.

Xia Qing set the food boxes on the table and asked softly the Blue Dragon squad medic Wang Shunhong, who was staying in the ward to look after the patients, "Brother Wang, is there anything I can help with?"

Medic Wang shook his head. "I can handle it. The captain went into the operating room — he should be back soon."

Hearing that Yang Jin had gone into surgery, Xia Qing's heart clenched. "Is it radiation cleanup or detoxification?"

Medic Wang explained, "The medical equipment over on the Ruins Continent isn't advanced enough. Some of the radioactive particles were embedded too deep and weren't fully cleaned out at the time. A second surgery is needed for thorough debridement."

The equipment inside Territory Seven was advanced enough, but there was only one set. Sun Zhaoxiu and Wang Liang were seriously injured, so Zhang San arranged for them to undergo secondary debridement first; Yang Jin's turn in the operating room didn't come until the afternoon.

Xia Qing looked at the tubes on Sun Zhaoxiu and asked softly, "How many wounds does Captain Yang have?"

"Twenty-six wounds in total, big and small. I'm not sure exactly how many need secondary debridement." Wang Shunhong's eyes reddened. After a pause, he couldn't help adding, "After the captain led the team to wipe out the enemies on the Ruins Continent, he took Agent No. 3 and ran twelve kilometers carrying Squad Leader Wang and Squad Leader Sun back to the human gathering point. Although the side effects of Agent No. 3 aren't as pronounced as the Yi Element Stimulant, the captain still needs more rest. Sister Qing, please talk to him."

The Blue Dragon squad's Agent No. 3 is a reduced-potency version of the Yi Element Stimulant. An hour after taking it, combat ability drops significantly, accompanied by full-body pain at roughly half the intensity of the Yi Element Stimulant. Xia Qing had drunk the Yi Element Stimulant herself and knew exactly how miserable it felt.

After Yang Jin was brought back, Xia Qing sat by his bed and quietly looked at the half of his face wrapped in bandages.

This man, after leading his team to wipe out the enemy, had a fractured thigh and twenty-six wounds on his body. He made a desperate gamble and took Agent No. 3, then ran meters carrying his last two teammates back to the human gathering point.

Then, at top speed, he brought his two teammates back to Hui-Three Base. Enduring full-body pain, he propped himself on crutches and walked from Mountain Forty-Nine to Territory Three, asking offhandedly whether he should have spring pancakes for breakfast…

Xia Qing pulled a dragon fruit from her protective suit pocket, set it by the bed, and left Territory Seven.