As the carriage drove toward the Gentlemen's Hall, the four people sitting in the carriage were silent.
Manager Aggie kindly reminded:
“Since you have completed your mission to a high degree and successfully touched upon the secret information behind it, we will have a closed conversation in the upper conference room of the Gentlemen’s Hall to bring this mission to a perfect end.
take it easy,
I can reveal a little bit to you... The higher-ups value your performance in the mission very much, and the final reward you will receive will far exceed the expected amount.
The experience of this mission will also be recorded in your files.
So don't appear too nervous, just answer whatever they ask.
Don't worry, tell us all the information you have found out in as much detail as possible."
"Um."
Yi Chen nodded.
The reason why he was silent throughout the entire car ride was that he was sorting out the fragmented memories he had obtained from Mr. Li's brain with the help of "Central Taste" a month ago and combining them with his own investigation, and preparing his speech in advance.
It is basically ready now.
"Director Aggie, what happened to the body I brought back?"
The corpse that Yi Chen was talking about was the sick gentleman - Mr. Li. After returning to the city, he was handed over to the supervisor for disposal.
"Congratulations!
Since the diseased core was not seriously damaged and the body maintained a high degree of integrity, after being calcined in the incinerator, Mr. Li's body has been transformed into a high-quality "pathological crystal", which will be distributed together with the mission reward.
You can make the team allocation then."
"good."
When the carriage arrived,
The supervisor also asked everyone to wear masks to improve concealment.
Gentlemen's Hall - Upper Floor
This place is generally responsible for receiving powerful gentlemen like Professor Chamberson and discussing some extremely difficult exploration tasks. It is divided into six larger meeting rooms.
Everyone was taken to a special room with a red stripe, indicating a fully enclosed meeting.
Four people were already seated at the long oval table in the room.
Including two gentleman hall managers like Edge, Professor Chamberson who is related to this mission, and the doctor.
“This is!”
Yi Chen immediately recognized that the doctor sitting in the C seat at the conference table was the one he had met by chance on the street arch bridge when he first arrived in Zion City.
Wearing a bird-beak mask symbolizing doctors in the old days and a white coat symbolizing modern medicine,
The two had a brief conversation at the time.
Because of the doctor's presence, the atmosphere in the entire conference room was suppressed by him.
Yi Chen estimated that
This is what Director Edge calls the attention from "above". This doctor's status and ability are definitely higher than Dr. McCovey of the Dusk Clinic.
Manager Aggie also introduced the doctor's background.
"This is Andrea Vesalius, the vice president of the Hippocrates Hospital and one of the heads of the Secret Medicine Review Department. Since the mission involves the distribution of secret medicine rewards, the Secret Medicine Review Department personnel are required to participate.
When Mr. Vesalius learned of this, he decided to attend the meeting in person.”
The same eerie and even sticky words emanated from under the bird-beak mask:
“I heard that a new gentleman, while handling the aftermath of the “Fake Moon Incident”, head-on killed a sick gentleman hiding in the same space.
And it is still touching the open source patients to ensure that all survived, and came to see it out of personal interest.
You can just follow the normal process of the meeting. If you have any comments, I will raise them directly. "
"good."
As the issuer, associate and helper of the task, Manager Aggie is naturally responsible for this meeting.
First, a document was sent to the examiners, including the personal information, ratings, and secret medicine recovery mission forms of the four team members, as well as the "Fake Moon Incident" report that the team had browsed when accepting the mission.
"This is all the intelligence they knew before the mission. The information provided by the Gentlemen's Hall was kept to the surface as much as possible."
Dr. Vesalius nodded, expressing his satisfaction with this task arrangement.
"If there are no problems, let them explain the detailed process of task execution."
Supervisor Aggie quickly brought the meeting to the next stage, and the examiners present all turned their eyes to the four young men.
Generally speaking, the team leader will explain the task process.
But Edmund glanced at Yi Chen and gave him all the rights. Yi Chen also nodded in acceptance, looking straight ahead, with no color in his eyes.
The entire process is explained in refined and concise words within fifteen minutes, including the judgments and decisions at each key node and the basis for making the decisions.
At this moment, behind the metal eye frames of Dr. Vesalius, a rare look of appreciation appeared and comments were given.
“Yes, your handling of every detail of the mission was almost perfect.
Being able to kill a seriously ill patient with gentlemanly qualities at the rookie stage does not require any evaluation from me.
However, I have a question.
Based on the bargaining chip of Yuepi, you clearly completed the transaction with Mr. Li and confirmed the effectiveness of the antidote.
And we can roughly infer that Mr. Li is a cautious and timid person, and does not want to cause trouble, so he intends to let you go.
Why choose to take the risk and fight to the death? "
Captain Edmund took the initiative to answer:
“The gentleman ideals I learned since childhood make it impossible for me to turn a blind eye to such a degenerate person… If I cannot eliminate him, but choose to escape subjectively, I will not be qualified to bear the name of a gentleman.
Such escape will also be engraved in my heart and hinder my future growth."
"Um… "
Dr. Vesalius nodded, but he seemed to want a different answer.
His eyes slowly turned to Yi Chen, "What about you? As the main communicator with the patient, why did you choose to fight to the death?"
Yi Chen said somewhat awkwardly: "My ideas may not be as orthodox as Edmund's, and I haven't thought about it that much."
"It doesn't matter, just say what you really think."
"In fact, I didn't care about whether I was a gentleman or not.
Judging from the situation at that time, Mr. Li did intend to let us go, but the probability of this being intentional is not 100%, it should be around 50-60%.
It is possible that after we leave the underground ward and return to the ground, Mr. Li will continue to trap us in the same space until he completes the absorption of the moon skin and gains greater power and freedom, and then kill us or transform us into diseased slaves.
As long as it's not 100%, I dare not take the risk. Once we leave Mr. Li's ward and fight with him again, we will surely die.
In addition, I also want to kill this guy. By killing strong people, I can hone my skills, strengthen my body, and improve my thinking. If I'm lucky, I can even get the complete body of a seriously ill person.
Moreover, killing Mr. Li can greatly increase the reward of the mission.
After all, I still owe Edmund a lot of money, and I will try to pay it off in one go."
Doctor Vesalius narrowed his eyes slightly and gave his evaluation: "Objective analysis and instinctive killing, with a certain tendency of profit... I have another question, did you enjoy the final killing process that pushed you to your limit and death?"
"Yes, I personally do prefer this feeling."
"very good!"
Dr. Vesalius stopped talking and raised his hand to signal that the meeting should continue.
Manager Edge paused for a moment and looked at the four members of the team.
"As you have experienced during your mission,
The post-processing task of recovering secret medicine was specially customized by the organization to further identify new gentlemen with sufficient strength and high overall level.
The mission is to recover the "secret medicine left behind".
Of course, it was impossible for the recovery team sent by the organization to make such a low-level mistake. They knew from the beginning that the bottle of secret medicine was missing.
The mission requires you to go to the clinic and use the secret medicine left behind as a clue to investigate the truth behind the scenes.
This will help us determine whether you have the important potential for "investigation".
Then, based on how deeply you touch the essence of the truth, we can determine how much potential you have and whether it is worth the organization's cultivation.
therefore,
We need one more piece of information to assess the true depths you have reached in this event.
Please elaborate on your findings regarding the Twilight Clinic."
"Let me do it."
Yi Chen had already sorted out the truth in his mind and embellished it with literary elements.
When the exposition begins,
The emblem on the back of the head also began to move.
An extremely dark and ungentlemanly truth is about to be officially revealed.