thenovelthief Chapter 962 - 278: The President’s Request
Chapter 962 - 278: The President’s Request
Thousand Faces spoke of friendly exchange, which made Chen Ming momentarily lose his composure and retort, "Does friendly exchange mean pinning the murder of civilians on me?"
Hearing this, Thousand Faces shrugged and said, "We didn’t actively shift the blame. In fact, we’re just doing what we’ve always done—causing damage to a Space Station of the Empire."
"It just so happened that you chose to sabotage us first and coincidentally collided with our target. Aren’t we still helping you? Helping you kill all of Zuo Jing on the Space Station that you hadn’t killed yet."
"As for how the Empire will view you later, isn’t the current situation ultimately caused by your own actions?"
"If you hadn’t attacked us, there wouldn’t be so many issues now."
To someone oblivious to the full picture, Thousand Faces’ words indeed seem reasonable at first glance.
Zuo Jing is a villain, harming the Empire, and indeed helped Chen Ming kill all the Zuo Jing he wanted dead.
It’s also true that this situation only arose because Chen Ming chose this Space Station.
It’s all true.
But sometimes, half-truths can lead to even greater misunderstandings than lies.
Of course, to Chen Ming, who knew this guy in front of him had planted seeds of inducing manic disorder in An Wuping and attacked his mental weaknesses,
what this bastard just said was all nonsense.
Moreover, Chen Ming never believed Zuo Jing would have any goodwill, or would truly engage in friendly exchanges.
Because the source of his ill feelings toward Zuo Jing comes entirely from personally witnessing those shocking deeds by Zuo Jing.
However, in this current moment, Chen Ming still pretended to ponder seriously and said, "I’ve never heard of mania being curable, only manageable."
Thousand Faces shook his index finger at Chen Ming, "No, no, no, actually there is a drug that can act directly on your brain, neutralizing the substances that trigger mania during its onset."
"As long as it is taken long-term, these substances can be completely eliminated, protecting your brain."
"There’s also a quicker method, directly surgically extracting those substances. What do you think?"
Thousand Faces’ words, in normal circumstances, are indeed enticing. However, Chen Ming continued to consider An Wuping’s probable reaction and said, "What the Empire can’t achieve, how can you manage?"
"The Empire doesn’t have as many test subjects as we do."
"..."
After a long silence, Chen Ming finally spoke, "Where’s the medicine?"
Thousand Faces smiled slightly, pulling out a small vial of prepared medicine from his pocket, with no label on the bottle.
Since they were prepared to offer the oath for An Wuping, they naturally would have what they should provide after handing in the oath.
"Just oral consumption will do. The medicine will take effect in about an hour. If you can accelerate blood flow to enhance absorption, it will be quicker."
Chen Ming took the vial and shoved the whole bottle into his mouth, swallowing it directly.
The stomach tissue immediately extracted and stored the medicine from the glass bottle, allowing the Insect Queen to analyze the ingredients.
Meanwhile, over by the Fourteenth Legion’s decoy, Chen Ming immediately used the Fourteenth Legion’s permissions to query medications related to these ingredients,
the results came out quickly.
As expected.
This medicine was not developed by Zuo Jing, but by the Empire.
And the organization responsible for developing this medicine is Fan Chao Research Institute.
It’s not a patent of Zuo Jing, nor a research result from unethical human experiments.
But a suppression drug developed by Fan Chao Research Institute over recent years on various animals infected with mania.
Zuo Jing secretly obtained this medicine.
Whether they stole the finished product or stole the recipes to replicate the medicine is unknown.
Finally presenting it before him to deceive him.
Just hours ago, when Chen Ming called the Anti-Cult Bureau of Audan Star Realm, the deputy director mentioned they could help with treatment.
Although Chen Ming hung up directly earlier without listening to the full offer, the treatment clearly referred to curing mania.
It’s precisely because of the deputy director’s words that Chen Ming now tried to immediately let the decoy consult data.
Ultimately, it revealed some information.
Inside the Empire, Zuo Jing has infiltrated many areas.
Although it might not necessarily be Fan Chao Research Institute itself, but maybe the personnel conducting drug trials or other related collaborators have been infiltrated, yet it indeed poses a problem.
That kind of brainwashing spiritual energy, difficult to detect by the Psychic when applied to ordinary people, is truly problematic.
Of course, Chen Ming doesn’t need to consider internal issues regarding Zuo Jing; he only needs to concern himself with the present.
The Glass Bead Spirit Ability User before him indeed gave him a medicine to cure mania.
According to occasional publicly released reports from Fan Chao Research Institute, this drug does show efficacy, having achieved results on animals, followed by starting small-scale clinical trials through necessary approvals.
But large-scale application has yet to commence.
Furthermore, after examining through the Insect Queen, the composition of the medicine he just took indeed posed no problem; Zuo Jing hadn’t performed any foul play, identical to the formula published within a permission-required archive over there.