BC Chapter 179

So, a few days later, those people specifically gathered by He Linglong and Jiang Juncheng made their appearances at the luxurious banquet in the Fuhua Hotel.

As guests arrived one after another, the security team at the entrance carefully checked the number of people on the task list and then tightly closed the heavy doors of the banquet hall on the east side of the Fuhua Hotel’s first floor.

He Linglong and Jiang Juncheng both appeared in white coats, completely concealing their usual clothes. Looking around, every guest present, whether a famous doctor, researcher, or a senior whistleblower or person in charge within the field of biological research, was dressed in exquisite formal attire, appearing solemn and proper. Even Yin Suna, Yan Shaohang, and their group, along with Chen Li and others, who were invited for unknown reasons, were dressed in meticulously tailored formal wear under Jiang Juncheng’s careful arrangement.

Everyone appeared to be attending a high-society gathering, but from He Linglong and Jiang Juncheng’s attire, it was clear that this banquet concealed unknown secrets. Their choice to appear in this way was obviously to avoid attracting attention.

“Distinguished guests, welcome to the Jinfeng Group’s banquet.” Jiang Juncheng smiled as she walked to the front of the stage, her voice clearly reaching every corner of the banquet hall through the microphone. Although wearing a white coat, she couldn’t hide the sharpness and composure in her eyes. Yes, she was the Vice President of Jinfeng Group that everyone talked about. Before deciding to get involved in these affairs, she was once a pure girl obsessed with mechanical modification and research. Therefore, what she had said to Chen Li, Leng Dongchi, and others before was not entirely false. However, in addition to that, she had another important identity – the only daughter of Jiang’s Group, a leading domestic group, Jiang Juncheng. Of course, she had not revealed this to them.

Jiang’s Group’s business spans many fields, with technology and biochemistry being particularly famous. Jiang Juncheng used to find dealing with company affairs too tedious, so her family arranged for an agent to handle things, allowing her to simply hold the title and control the overall situation from behind the scenes.

“Some of you may be confused about today’s banquet, or even not very familiar with me.” Jiang Juncheng looked around, her eyes lightly sweeping over everyone’s faces, as if she could see into everyone’s thoughts. She slowly opened her mouth, “Then, please allow me to briefly introduce myself first, and then reveal why we gathered here in this way, and why Ms. He Linglong and I are appearing in white coats on such an occasion.”

“…No, is this right?” Jiang Yuan manually closed her mouth, which had opened into an O shape in surprise, and rubbed her eyes. Looking at Jiang Juncheng on the stage, who was poised and elegant – this person was the “Little Jiang” she had mentioned? Oh my, it should be “Lord Jiang”!

“Yes, Sister Yuan, you’re not mistaken. We accidentally saved a super-rich family’s young lady. Ta-da, it’s the Little Jiang you mentioned, Jiang, Jun, Cheng.” Liu Qingyu also took a long time to react, quickly taking a sip of champagne to calm her shock. Hearing Jiang Yuan’s question, seemingly to ease her own shocked emotions, she abandoned her usual taciturn nature and jokingly teased Jiang Yuan.

Chen Li and Leng Dongchi, on the other hand, exchanged glances, nodded, clinked their champagne glasses, and drank them down.

Although equally shocked, they quickly accepted the fact – no wonder she mentioned in the letter that she would take care of the four of them’s future lives and work in such a casual tone.

It turned out that her confidence in taking care of everything came from her family.

In the following time, from Jiang Juncheng’s words, everyone learned that Jiang Juncheng’s family background was complex and profound. Her father was not only the leader of Jiang’s Group but also a business leader with a strong sense of national responsibility. After the incident in Qingshui City, he quickly launched an investigation into Longtai Group, which was inextricably linked to the whole situation, and of course, also tried to use his connections to send his people into Qingshui City to rescue his daughter and the survivors there. Unfortunately, the city’s lockdown was a strict order from above, and the troops guarding the city were not a joke. The situation was so severe at the time that if one city wasn’t abandoned decisively, the penetration of the virus into the other two cities wouldn’t have been cut off and cleared so quickly. So the Jiang family’s people were like having their hands tied, and they could only be limited to observing the situation outside the city no matter how capable they were.

As for Jiang Juncheng’s safety, Jiang’s father was naturally very worried, but knowing his daughter well, Jiang’s father also knew that things weren’t that bad. With the facilities and supplies at Jiang Juncheng’s residence, even if she just hid at home and cut off all contact with the outside world, Jiang Juncheng wouldn’t be trapped to death in just a month or two. However, they didn’t expect Jiang Juncheng to come out of that impregnable fortress to help others.

Before, when Jiang Juncheng enthusiastically proposed to transform Jiang’s family’s various residences in batches, everyone in the family, including Jiang’s father, couldn’t quite understand her idea. However, not understanding didn’t mean not supporting, because of his love and unconditional trust in Jiang Juncheng, he gladly agreed to his daughter’s idea, investing a lot of time and money to carefully promote the transformation of each residence.

The other members of the Jiang family originally thought that this was just a “farce” that Jiang Juncheng had come up with on a whim, or perhaps her overly active imagination was acting up again. But since the whole family loved her, they were happy to accompany her in this “fooling around.” However, to everyone’s surprise, this seemingly unreliable transformation became the Jiang family’s shelter when the turmoil came.

Now it seemed that Jiang Juncheng’s previous proposal clearly showed a kind of prophetic wisdom, and it wasn’t the spur-of-the-moment move that everyone had speculated before. Her move, under the verification of reality, became evidence that she had foresight far beyond everyone else, and it also allowed the Jiang family to be safe and sound in the sudden turmoil.

Therefore, after experiencing the previous series of events, the family’s view of Jiang Juncheng had a new understanding. Since Jiang Juncheng re-established contact with the Jiang family, her father had been deeply convinced of her words. The fundamental reason for this was that they discovered that Jiang Juncheng was a child with foresight and thoughtful actions. Every decision she made, every choice, revealed her deep insight and careful planning for the future, which made the family admire her and trust her judgment and decision-making even more.

After Jiang Juncheng told Jiang’s father what she had seen and heard and her well-considered speculation, she received the expected resonance from her father and even obtained conclusive evidence that could corroborate her speculation. In several nearby cities, such as Shengyang, Puning, and Qingshui, her Jiang family’s power had long penetrated into most of the important industries in the surrounding cities like a fine net, silently. And the information that had been painstakingly sought back through various industries almost all pointed to a shocking fact – that behind the Longtai Group, there was actually a foreign force secretly manipulating it. In other words, the once prominent Longtai Group was actually just a carefully manipulated pawn by a hidden force, a puppet that was being manipulated. All of this was shrouded in a layer of indefinable and elusive mystery.

So in the following conversation between the father and daughter, Jiang Juncheng told Jiang’s father her predictions and plans without reservation, and Jiang’s father, after understanding all of Jiang Juncheng’s plans, agreed to her series of requests and even completely delegated power of the Jinfeng Company, handing over all the assets, affairs, affiliated properties, facilities, and personnel to Jiang Juncheng for management and allocation.

And then, there was today’s banquet.

On the stage, He Linglong took the initiative to step aside in order not to distract everyone’s attention, so everyone’s eyes were focused on Jiang Juncheng, who had a serious expression.

After hearing all of Jiang Juncheng’s speculations and the confirmed facts, many people were still a little incredulous.

Because everyone had always thought that those inexplicably appearing zombies were just a disaster caused by someone’s mistake in a study, and that the reason why it later developed into a sudden outbreak of chaos in the city was just because everyone was unlucky, and the virus brought out by that unlucky guy just happened to be a zombie virus that could make people “come back to life.”

But now, according to Jiang Juncheng’s meaning, it turned out that all of this was a cruel conspiracy plan of that so-called foreign force?

There was no such thing as accident and suddenness, everything was a reasonable conspiracy.

As of now, this disaster, which had killed an unknown number of people, was actually a carefully planned “experiment” by an unknown foreign force. And this experiment was actually using the entire Qingshui City, a city with nearly a million people, as a huge experimental field.

Jiang Juncheng further speculated on this basis that this force may have artificially triggered this biochemical crisis in some way. They chose Qingshui City, a city that was not particularly prosperous and relatively less densely populated, as their experimental object. The purpose of this was probably to observe the impact of biochemical warfare on the entire country and the speed of the country’s response to such crises.

She continued, “This ‘experiment’ can be described as inhumane. Millions of innocent citizens were dragged into it, and their lives and lives were completely changed. And all of this is only to satisfy those people’s unspeakable ambitions and the inhuman so-called research. The people of our country have passively suffered terrible collective abuse and killing when they were weak, so they hate even more these kinds of existences that cannot be called humans and their bestial acts. Now it can be determined that the implementers of this conspiracy obviously have an in-depth understanding of biochemical technology and have mastered considerable resources and technical means. They carefully chose the time and place for the experiment, and may even have transformed the city’s infrastructure to better control the progress of the experiment. Although at present, everyone present and those unaware civilians outside have temporarily escaped the siege of zombies, this conspiracy is far from over. The other party’s forces may still have follow-up plans, and may even be secretly manipulating more ‘experiments’. Therefore, we must maintain a high degree of vigilance and be ready to respond to new crises that may arise at any time.”

Finally, Jiang Juncheng took a deep breath, trying to calm the emotions surging in her heart, and then slowly opened her mouth in a calm tone: “Today, the reason why I sincerely invited you all to come here is to reveal a fact to you and earnestly request your help. Our top priority is to thoroughly understand the operating mechanism of this virus before the next crisis arrives. We must prepare early and take effective response measures. Our goal is very clear, that is, to use this virus to benefit and avoid harm, and extract the mutant serum that is beneficial to human transformation.”

Jiang Juncheng’s words successfully aroused the anger in everyone present. They couldn’t imagine that anyone would be so disregardful of life, using the entire city as an experimental object. However, in addition to anger, they also realized the seriousness of the problem. If Jiang Juncheng’s words and later speculation were true, then what they were facing was a huge and complex conspiracy and a crisis that could endanger the entire country.

Once they decided to join Jiang’s family’s plan, they had to complete the research as soon as possible in order to effectively respond to and prevent the other party’s forces from taking further action as much as possible. Only in this way could they protect more innocent lives and prevent those people from being dragged into this undeserved disaster.

Now everyone present understood why Jinfeng Group offered such generous treatment conditions when they extended an olive branch to them at the beginning.

At this time, as Jiang Juncheng’s statement ended, the scene fell into a brief silence. Everyone was digesting the key points in Jiang Juncheng’s words, and also thinking about how to act next. They knew that if they agreed, it would mean opposing a group of “maggots” and “villains” who were very good at hiding in the dark and making waves. Although most people were only participating in research, they couldn’t get Jiang’s family’s guarantee of “absolute safety.” But if they quit now, Jiang’s family’s plan might die in the womb. Then, they might die in the next unknown “crisis” without knowing why. After all, the other party was very good at using a large number of lives for experiments, and who present could guarantee that the one who died would definitely not be themselves or their family members?