Chapter 435: Chapter 373: Xiao Siyuan Encounters an Old Acquaintance
Foreigners offer us half a million to cause division, and Li Zheng felt he could emulate this approach and do the same to some small country.
But he wanted to do something even more extreme.
What you’re targeting is the human mind, a division in spirit.
What I want to target is to divide your forces!
"Misaka brother, if I give you enough support from behind the scenes, can you form an organization that can rival the High Celestial Plain and Creation?"
Misaka Tsuchiemon had not rested yet and replied, "Are you suggesting I betray my country?"
"It’s not that serious, just trying to hold back those two organizations, slow down their development." Li Zheng explained somewhat sheepishly.
"Oh... then I won’t do it!" Misaka Tsuchiemon decisively refused.
Li Zheng: "???"
This left Li Zheng puzzled.
So from your perspective, is this task just too easy, and you’d prefer to do some country betrayal for fun?
"How about this?" Misaka Tsuchiemon proposed: "If you are willing to give me full support and also get Kunlun to cooperate, I’ll help dissolve both the High Celestial Plain and Creation, how about that?"
Li Zheng: "?????"
"Is it hard to understand?" Misaka Tsuchiemon said, "I’ve been displeased with the High Celestial Plain for a while now, just couldn’t find the opportunity to go at them, and now you’ve approached me, isn’t this the chance?"
"Wait..." Li Zheng was confused: "What’s your motive? Did the High Celestial Plain kill your family?"
Although it was Li Zheng who proactively approached Misaka Tsuchiemon, Misaka’s eagerness now made Li Zheng a bit apprehensive.
Could this kid be trying to trick me, and con me out of my resources?
"No, it’s just that I can’t stand those idle loafers staying in high positions," Misaka Tsuchiemon replied. "If you’re willing to cooperate, when we return to Earth one day, I’ll even turn that small island into a province of Dragon Country, do you believe that?"
How can anyone believe that, damn it?
It’s too fantastical, isn’t it?!
Even though achieving this was my ultimate goal in approaching you, your cooperative attitude is making me question everything in life!
Have you gone crazy, or have I, Li Zheng, gone crazy?
"Are you... serious?" Li Zheng still couldn’t quite trust him.
"What’s there to be serious about? If you’re not assured, we can sign an agreement, and I’ll crush those two organizations in the Matrix for you first!"
Li Zheng: "..."
Damn it!
How come it feels like you’re serious about this?
Slap!
Li Zheng slapped his own cheek.
Hmm, it hurts quite a bit, so it’s not a dream or an illusion.
Even harder to believe now!
Didn’t even have to go through coercion or bribes, and you just sold out your country?
Does every country have these turncoats?
It’s too ridiculous, isn’t it?
Li Zheng felt uncertain and, after thinking it over, he still wasn’t at ease: "I’ll contact Lieutenant Liu Qi, you can talk with him later."
Lieutenant Liu Qi has more people under him, handling this kind of matter should be more appropriate.
Opening Liu Qi’s private messages, Li Zheng explained the context to him, and Liu Qi replied, "Leave it to me, I’ll go talk to him."
"By the way, I’ve already found three people who need to use the medical beds, when will you be free so I can send them over to you?"
Using medical beds?
That urgent?
Li Zheng communicated with Xiao Siyuan, using today’s cross-channel teleportation, and returned to channel 879.
"We can do it now, have them lock onto my location and come over." Li Zheng sent Liu Qi a private message.
"Roger that!"
Liu Qi replied with a simple two words.
Li Zheng waited with Xiao Siyuan and Lin Fengjiao at the entrance of the residence to receive the Kunlun Warriors who were teleporting over.
Soon, a few ripples appeared not far from the three of them, as if someone had thrown some stones into a calm lake.
"They’re here." Li Zheng perked up and glanced at Xiao Siyuan, who wore a Sun Wukong mask on his face, concealing his identity.
After thinking, Li Zheng said, "Take down the residence too, others can lock your identity through it."
"Okay."
Xiao Siyuan spoke muffledly through the mask.
He nimbly packed up the residence, and the Kunlun people arrived just in time.
Li Zheng took a look and found that there were not just three people coming, but nine.
However, among them, three Players were missing some limbs, while six others were responsible for carrying them.
The three had varying degrees of injury, the most severe being one whose lower body was severed at the femur, with arms missing too.
[Zhao Limin, arms missing, lower body missing. Injury occurred ten days ago, has fully healed.]
[Wei Hai, legs missing. Injury occurred nine days ago, has fully healed.]
[Gou Feng, right eye missing, left arm missing, right forearm missing, left leg missing, one kidney completely damaged, half of the liver missing. Injury occurred six days ago, all external injuries healed except internal organ damage.]
One of the people in charge of carrying the injured seemed to be a team leader or had some position, and upon seeing Li Zheng and his group, hesitated momentarily with vigilance.
Getting closer, he asked, "Excuse me, are you Mr. Li Zheng?"
"That’s me." Li Zheng nodded slightly.
"Great! No deviation occurred!" The man showed an excited smile, his neat teeth so white they seemed to glow.
"Lieutenant Liu sent us to find you, saying you have a way to heal our three comrades."
"Heal?" Li Zheng shook his head, "Unless the severed limbs are still there and retain activity, we can’t heal their injuries."
"At most, we can fit them with mechanical limbs to restore movement capability."
"Exactly! It’s about installing mechanical limbs! You see, I was so excited I couldn’t speak clearly." The man patted his head and took out several USB drives, "Before we came, the lieutenant even asked us to bring the modification blueprints and materials!"
"That’s good." Li Zheng thought, Liu Qi had prepared quite thoroughly, as these separate modification blueprints were often stronger than the basic body modifications and could provide additional special abilities.
"Lay them down, please, leave the rest to us." Xiao Siyuan spoke and stepped forward.
Li Zheng followed, hearing a slight catch in Old Xiao’s voice.
"All together now!"
With this military command, six of them stood at attention, their bodies straight as a ramrod.
"Lay down the injured!"
The six of them bent over in unison, gently laying the stretchers they were carrying onto the ground.
At this moment, Li Zheng noticed that among the six, two of their arms were also mechanical limbs, very similar to the model Yan Guang had modified.
Xiao Siyuan walked up to the injured man named Gou Feng and silently looked at him: "I recognize you, you’re the border guard from Outpost No. 36, Gou Feng, everyone calls you Mad Dog."
Gou Feng had his eyes closed initially, but upon hearing this, he suddenly opened his only remaining eye and felt that the person standing in front of him, whether in stature or voice, seemed familiar.
"You are..."
"It’s me." Xiao Siyuan took off his mask and revealed his true face.
"Doctor Xiao!" Gou Feng called out Old Xiao’s name in excitement.
"Hey~" Xiao Siyuan couldn’t hold back his tears anymore, crouching down to grasp Gou Feng’s empty shoulder, "Kid, how come you’re injured like this in just under a month?"
"Oh, it’s no big deal." Gou Feng chuckled as he lifted his half-severed right arm to lean against Xiao Siyuan’s arm, "Haven’t heard you call me ’kid’ for a long time, kinda missed it."
"Weren’t you the one who hated being called ’kid’ the most?"
"Yeah," Gou Feng laughed, "But it’s because you, Doctor Xiao, are special; you can call me whatever you want."