Ren Zhong had always wanted to know the mindset of commanders during wartime who ordered their subordinates to complete suicidal support, rear guard, and assault missions.
When he saw Bai Feng set off, he understood.
It was a deeply complex emotional state, filled with too many psychological changes unfit for outsiders.
The more you think about it, the more conflicted you feel inside.
If given a choice, he would even consider going himself.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t one.
After the others got up and discovered Bai Feng was gone, they didn’t ask much.
After Ren Zhong had a secret conversation with Bai Feng yesterday evening, everyone knew Bai Feng must have been entrusted with a secret mission.
They all felt somewhat envious inside but didn’t ask further.
The day passed without incident, with Ren Zhong taking the others out hunting.
He deliberately trained Zheng Tian’s abilities, handing command over to Zheng Tian.
He had only one request: to hunt at least five Level Four Ruined Beasts within the day.
Around the Starfire Town area, besides the abandoned mines, Level Four Ruined Beasts occasionally appeared in other places as well.
These Level Four Ruined Beasts wreaked havoc, yet often lived freely and leisurely.
The professional teams found these solitary ones too troublesome and were too lazy to search for them, only engaging when they happened to encounter them and had two to three Fourth Level professionals present.
Half-professional teams meeting them would be self-destructive, unable to contend.
However, in the previous timeline, after Ren Zhong became a company owner, he intentionally kept an eye on such information, and thus marked them directly for Zheng Tian.
Although Ren Zhong deliberately suppressed his armor’s power to 1000 kilowatts, barely reaching quasi-Fourth Level, they still met the target.
By evening, Ren Zhong finally received a notification from "Dream Inn."
His Dream Inn suffered from apocalyptic-level destruction, completeness -10, Charm Value -500, Art Value +10.
When Ren Zhong entered the game, Sun Miao was using a hammer and chisel, acquired from who knows where, loudly pounding the wall.
The wall had already been chiseled by Sun Miao to spell out "SB."
The line left by Ren Zhong was still there, but "Sun Thief" was changed to "Sun Master," "your father" to "your grandson," and "Wanna meet?" was defaced beyond recognition.
Sun Miao seemed to use too much force, nearly piercing through the wall.
"Sun bro, what are you doing? Demolition?"
Ren Zhong’s voice wafted from behind.
Sun Miao wiped the sweat, "It’s so disgusting. I can’t stand it..."
At this moment, a system notification sounded in Ren Zhong’s consciousness.
"Congratulations to players Master Yixiao and Tao Yuan on achieving a new feat: ’Same-sex Encounter.’
Clearly, having two same-sex players appear in one inn triggered an achievement in the game system.
Ren Zhong and Sun Miao spoke in unison: "Damn it!"
Ren Zhong: "Damn you!"
Sun Miao: "I want to delete my account!"
Shortly after, Sun Miao asked with a frown, "Are you kidding me? Is an Armored Soldier really thinking about going to jail again? Did he lose his mind?"
Ren Zhong shook his head, "I can’t explain to you now. Just tell me if you can get someone into your lab or not?"
Sun Miao shook his head.
Ren Zhong: "Can’t do it?"
He felt a bit disappointed inside, but also a bit relieved.
Forget it, in that case, just notify Bai Feng to return to Starfire Town, there’s still time.
As far as information transmission, that can be discussed later.
Sun Miao continued to shake his head, "It’s not impossible. But you know where I am. This is the headquarters. The new fusion genes at the city-level R&D center outside have already entered clinical stages and are relatively stable. But the fusion genes newly developed here are all in early experimental stages. Outside samples have about a ten percent survival rate, but here at headquarters, the survival rate is one per thousand. Recently, there’s a big project..."
Sun Miao shut his mouth first, then sketched a rough drawing on the ground using abstract art. Newest update provided by NoveI[F]ire.net
It was a small figure with arms and legs, carrying one large and eight small heads around its neck, totaling nine heads.
Yes, nine heads, resembling a sunflower.
As soon as Sun Miao finished, he quickly wiped away the drawing.
"Got it? This project is the reason the company called me back. In short, it requires a lot of samples and will definitely result in many deaths. Expecting me to bring someone here to take care of them is purely pushing them into hell. At most, I can visit him as a fellow town member, but I can’t turn him from a volunteer into an employee. That’s too dangerous and would put a target on my back, dragging you into it as well. So, he must remain a lab rat, he has to be a lab rat."
Ren Zhong nodded, "I understand."
Now, the two of them were speaking in riddles, with most of the subtext understood only through personal inference.