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    Gu Jinsheng had felt something was off with Ji An before. He had speculated many possibilities, but never expected this to be the result.

    “No Zombie Crystal Core?” Gu Jinsheng asked, “Then is your mental-type ability still alright?”

    Ji An gave a wry smile, “Very well. You should know, it caused such a huge stir just now, many people had their brains invaded by it. And just now during the ability level check, its level was indeed detected, Tier 4 early stage, one level higher than before it was crippled.”

    Gu Jinsheng’s eyes were deep, he said, “Water?”

    One word, and both understood.

    Ji An nodded, “Very likely.”

    As the two spoke, Ji An’s gaze unintentionally fell on Gu Jinsheng’s arm. He asked with some surprise, “Why is the tooth mark still on your arm? Didn’t you find a healing-type Power User to help you heal?”

    Gu Jinsheng inexplicably felt a flutter of panic and quickly replied, “I did, but I don’t know why the effect wasn’t very good. Maybe it’s because my level is too much higher than that healing-type Power User. I thought it wasn’t a big injury, so I didn’t look for other Power Users for treatment. I didn’t expect this tooth mark to heal so slowly.”

    “It’s still because the gap in your levels is too large,” Ji An took out a small bag of treatment liquid from his spatial item and tore it open on the spot, applying it to Gu Jinsheng’s tooth mark. The tooth mark wasn’t big and didn’t require much. He gave the remaining almost full bag of treatment liquid to Gu Jinsheng. “Keep the rest of these. This is the treatment liquid used to heal Zhou Qin’s leg injury, it’s very effective.”

    “Okay,” Gu Jinsheng accepted it directly. Ji An then took out the newly upgraded Spirit Spring Water from his spatial item and handed it to Gu Jinsheng. “From now on, when you drink water, drink this. As for the water given by Yuan Mingan and the others, you can use it for showering or something.”

    To thank Ji An for rescuing her daughter and reuniting their mother and daughter, Yuan Mingan took charge of all the daily water supply for Ji An and Gu Jinsheng. Although Ji An repeatedly declined, Yuan Mingan insisted.

    “Okay,” Gu Jinsheng already knew that Spirit Spring Water was a good thing. After accepting it, he poured a cup and drank it on the spot. After just one taste, Gu Jinsheng was stunned.

    This time, the Spirit Spring Water was completely different from the previous Spirit Spring Water. After drinking this Spirit Spring Water, Gu Jinsheng felt a lightness from the inside out, as if his soul had been cleansed. Even his brain, which had been in severe pain since losing his ability, felt a hint of coolness for the first time in a long while.

    Gu Jinsheng couldn’t help but glance at Ji An. Ji An didn’t explain, just smiled at Gu Jinsheng, so Gu Jinsheng didn’t ask, and drank the entire cup of water directly.

    Ji An asked, “Jinsheng, I have an idea. I want to replace all the water used in the nutrient solution sold at our base with this kind of water.”

    Ji An’s words already implied that there was something special about the water. If it were someone else, they might have asked directly, but Gu Jinsheng didn’t. He looked deeply at Ji An, “It’s too dangerous, and the water will get less and less with use.”

    Ji An knew what Gu Jinsheng meant by danger. He said, “I’ve thought about it carefully. Anyway, the water for nutrient solution has to be purchased from water-type Power Users. Why not let the base directly hand over this project to me? Our laboratory will be responsible for collecting the water in the future, so I can have people mix my water into it. My water only needs to be mixed with water-type Power User’s water at a 1:100 ratio, and even for ordinary people, 1:1000 is enough. This way, no one will find it abnormal.

    As for the amount of my water, you don’t need to worry. Even if everyone on the globe drank it together, there would be enough.”

    Ji An wasn’t exaggerating. In the past, Ji An was genuinely worried that the Spirit Spring Water would one day run out. But ever since he learned the method of upgrading the Spirit Spring Water, Ji An knew that his previous worries were completely unnecessary.

    As long as he could get more and more unmutated aquatic creatures that hadn’t been infected by the zombie virus, the Spirit Spring could continuously upgrade. One day, it might even evolve into an ocean.

    The ring space simulated an environment similar to Earth’s living environment, so the Spirit Spring Water’s upgrade would likely follow the water system on Earth, which is at least seventy-one percent ocean.

    If Ji An’s guess was correct, then the Spirit Spring Water in his ring space would be enough for several generations of people around the globe to consume endlessly.

    Gu Jinsheng was still a little worried and said, “It’s still dangerous.”

    “I’ll be careful,” Ji An always felt that the ring space was not that simple. It was very magical, even more magical than what he currently saw.

    Such a treasure should have greater use. In fact, Ji An vaguely felt that the ring space was an item to save the world. This thought sent chills down Ji An’s spine, and Ji An dared not think deeper.

    For now, he would take it one step at a time. As long as he could protect his secret from being leaked, letting the Spirit Spring Water help more people would not be a disgrace to the Spirit Spring Water’s power.

    Seeing that Ji An had made up his mind, Gu Jinsheng said, “I will arrange a dedicated water warehouse to store all the water from the water-type Power Users. Then you can have your people add your water under the pretext of inspecting the water quality.”

    “Okay, you arrange it. Your people are more trustworthy than mine,” Ji An said. “My laboratory currently only has Wu Youyang who can be used.”

    “After this event, your laboratory might be overflowing.”

    Ji An didn’t care, he wasn’t concerned about that.

    Ji An and Gu Jinsheng chatted for a few more minutes before returning to their rooms to rest. His head was a little swollen and painful. This was likely caused by simultaneously invading too many brains and absorbing too much information earlier.

    This pain wasn’t the splitting headache from before and didn’t require sleeping pills. He drank some water and fell asleep.

    It had to be said, the Spirit Spring Water was truly magical. If it were ordinary water, Ji An might have become dependent after taking such high doses of sleeping pills for so long, but with Spirit Spring Water, there was no such concern at all.

    That night, the Jing Shi Base’s station logo appeared on the Public Channel on time.

    Although the Public Channel had always been there before, it was rare for any base to start a live broadcast in seven years. For the past six months, the Jing Shi Base had been holding live broadcasts every now and then for some unknown reason, and each time it wasn’t just messing around, there was real content, and very important content at that.

    Cong Xun from the North Base, ever since he went to the Jing Shi Base and witnessed the spatial storage items and nutrient solution, had a strange trust and admiration for the Jing Shi Base.

    As long as it was news released by the Jing Shi Base, even if it was as outlandish as the Jing Shi Base saying they would immigrate to the moon starting tomorrow, Cong Xun would believe it and notify everyone in the base to be ready for a moon landing at any time.

    So now, as soon as the Jing Shi Base started broadcasting, even a few minutes earlier than the scheduled time, Cong Xun led the base high-ranking officials to wait in front of the television.

    “Jing Shi Base has again deciphered the technology from M Nation and R Nation that allows the coexistence of zombie virus antigens and antibodies in Power User crystal cores, and now they’re even making it public. I have to say, Jing Shi Base is truly generous, their technology is also excellent, they act when needed, truly showing the demeanor of a big brother, considering the overall situation, focusing on humanity as a whole, not personal gain,” Cong Xun said with admiration.

    A high-ranking official from the North Base chimed in, “Indeed, let’s just say, if we put ourselves in their shoes, if we had cracked this technology first, and were asked to make it public without any benefit to our base, I really couldn’t do it.”

    Han Zhiwei from the South Base was also watching in front of the television with his high-ranking officials at this time, his eyes full of complexity. “Jing Shi Base really cracked the coexistence technology?”

    Just a few days ago, the researchers at the South Base had also cracked the coexistence technology, but their base had absolutely no intention of making it public. They even thought they were the only base that had solved the coexistence problem and celebrated grandly for it.

    Unexpectedly, before the alcohol from that day had completely metabolized from their bodies, the Jing Shi Base suddenly announced they would release the coexistence technology.

    “Jing Shi Base is not a base that makes baseless claims. Since they dare to make it public on the Public Channel, then they must have truly cracked the coexistence problem.”

    A researcher from the South Base said with an ugly expression, “Counting it this way, the Jing Shi Base actually cracked the coexistence problem before us.

    It’s absolutely impossible for them to crack it yesterday and then announce it today on a whim.

    It must have gone through many clinical trials, and one promotional meeting after another. Calculated this way, the time when Jing Shi Base cracked it must be at least several months earlier than our base.”

    A high-ranking official blurted out, “In the past, our South Base’s basic infrastructure development and everything always led the Jing Shi Base. We don’t know since when, but Jing Shi Base has actually moved ahead of us, and left us so far behind.”

    “It seems to be since the spatial storage items and nutrient solution started.”

    Someone worried, “For a moment, I don’t know whether I should hope that Jing Shi Base stops doing research, so they don’t swallow us up in the end, or whether I should hope Jing Shi Base continues to develop new research for the benefit of all humanity.”

    “That’s not something we can decide, it all depends on fate.”

    Luo City Base, Owen chuckled, “We thought we had finally surpassed Jing Shi Base this time, that we were the first to crack the coexistence problem, but we didn’t expect Jing Shi Base to have cracked it already.”

    Jiang Fuzhong said, “Didn’t they say last time that the mental-type big shot from Jing Shi Base, the former boyfriend of the Commander-in-chief of the Third Base, had his mental-type ability crippled during the battle against human traffickers in order to protect a group of orphans? How did they still manage to crack it?”

    Owen laughed, “Jing Shi Base doesn’t just have one research talent like Ji An. Don’t you remember, there’s also Han Yaokun. He was a prominent figure in the research field before the Apocalypse. He was someone Gu Jinsheng went to great lengths to recruit.”

    Jiang Fuzhong laughed awkwardly, “I forgot about him. It’s just that Ji An’s brilliance is too dazzling, completely overshadowing him.”

    Speaking of Ji An, Jiang Fuzhong looked regretful, “Heaven is jealous of talents. Without his mental-type ability, Ji An is considered useless.”

    “Not necessarily,” Du Ruanlan, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. “It’s still unclear whose cracked technology is being made public. Heaven being jealous of talents is true, but this talent may not be willing to just fade away obediently like this.

    I’m afraid this is another live broadcast meant to ‘cast a brick to attract jade’.”

    “Huh?” Jiang Fuzhong looked foolishly at his boss.

    Du Ruanlan narrowed his eyes, his expression shedding its usual nonchalance, becoming unusually serious. He stared intently at the television screen. “Don’t you think this person on television looks familiar?”

    Owen and Jiang Fuzhong looked at the television and saw a Power User who had already appeared on the Public Channel, even though the scheduled broadcast time hadn’t arrived.

    This Power User was wearing a suit jacket on his upper body, but only a pair of large shorts on his lower body, revealing straight legs. The man’s legs had large, bulging muscles, clearly built from regular combat training.

    The muscles were full of power, possessing a wild beauty.

    Jiang Fuzhong felt a wave of speechlessness at this point. He said, “It’s probably cold in Jing Shi Base this season. Wearing long sleeves and long pants is just right now. Wearing such large shorts probably requires heating.

    What is this person doing this for? Just to show off his physique? I’m not saying anything, but who doesn’t have such a physique among people who fight in the Apocalypse?”

    Owen pointed at the person and said, “Maybe he’s not showing off muscles, but simply complete, healthy, flesh-and-blood legs. And look closely, who is he?”

    Jiang Fuzhong was confused and turned his questioning gaze towards the television screen. Just then, the person on the television screen also spoke. He seemed like someone doing a live broadcast for the first time, unsure of the process, and asked the staff next to him, “Are you guys ready? Are we broadcasting?”

    “We are broadcasting,” a staff member replied.

    Jiang Fuzhong felt the voice asking the question was very familiar, but couldn’t quite remember who it was. Fortunately, the number of people Jiang Fuzhong knew from Jing Shi Base was limited, so he could compare them one by one in his mind.

    But he didn’t need to do that, because the next second, a big face was shoved in front of the screen, instantly filling the entire screen with Zhou Qin’s big face. This startled Jiang Fuzhong, who was concentrating on comparing, and he couldn’t help but curse.

    Then he heard Zhou Qin say on the screen, “Oh, really, I can see my own face. It’s been a long time since I did a live broadcast, I’m not familiar with the work anymore. By the way, was the way I was walking around with my big legs exposed just now filmed? No, don’t show it, bases across the country are watching, that would be too embarrassing.”

    The staff member secretly rolled their eyes, saying it as if it were true, but he was doing it on purpose. Zhou Qin was the base’s image ambassador to the outside world. Generally, he was the one representing the Jing Shi Base on the live broadcast channel for speeches and such. How could he forget after only a few months without a live broadcast? He didn’t forget even when he didn’t broadcast for a year before.

    “It was filmed,” despite complaining inwardly, the staff member answered honestly.

    Zhou Qin cried out in agony, “Ah, my lifelong reputation, Zhou Qin’s reputation, is ruined just like that! And I even specifically changed into a suit jacket earlier. I was thinking as long as my upper body was shown during the broadcast it would be fine. My tall, mighty, handsome, and steady image, how did my lower body get recorded as well? It’s too embarrassing!”

    Jiang Fuzhong couldn’t help but retort, “It’s already cold in Jing Shi Base this season, who wears big shorts if they’re not doing it on purpose?”

    “Right, he is doing it on purpose,” Owen looked at Jiang Fuzhong with a serious expression. “Who is he?”

    “Zhou Qin, the Deputy Commander of the Jing Shi Base. Wasn’t he always the one representing the Jing Shi Base for external affairs? Who doesn’t know him? He’s a ‘smiling tiger’, and it wasn’t long ago that his leg was broken, which is why he hasn’t been showing off. Wait… leg broken?” Jiang Fuzhong finally realized something was wrong. He said with a horrified expression, “That’s not right. Zhou Qin’s leg was broken before, completely severed. It was broken by an R Nation spy. The execution of that spy was even broadcast live at the time. It’s only been a few months, how is he already healed?”

    Jiang Fuzhong wasn’t the only one who recognized Zhou Qin and had this question. High-ranking officials from various bases did as well.

    Cong Xun said, “I heard before that the Jing Shi Base used Zhou Qin’s injury as leverage, threatening M Nation with nutrient solution to get a group of healing-type Power Users over there. I heard there was even a max-level healing-type Power User among them. Could it be that he was healed by a max-level healing-type Power User?

    A max-level healing-type Power User is indeed as powerful as the rumors say!”

    Han Zhiwei from the South Base also thought of these things, but he thought further, “There might be something else going on here. It’s very likely not the healing-type Power Users sent by M Nation who treated him. Leaving aside whether a max-level healing-type Power User has such ability, even if they do, would M Nation be so kind as to specifically send people to help with treatment? Absolutely impossible. If they didn’t tamper with things and cripple Zhou Qin’s ability, that would be good enough, there’s no way they would help!”

    After confirming Zhou Qin’s identity, Du Ruanlan’s expression relaxed instead. He leaned back on the sofa, resuming his usual lazy and casual demeanor. “Perhaps this is what Jing Shi Base truly wants to talk about. Just like last time, the auction was held under the guise of spatial storage items, but after attracting everyone there, the main event was the world-shocking nutrient solution!”

    “So the coexistence problem is the ‘brick’ meant to attract the ‘jade’, and the real ‘jade’ is the medical technique for repairing severed limbs,” Han Zhiwei also speculated.

    Many bases guessed this. They were waiting for Zhou Qin to reveal the big news. However, Zhou Qin instead sat down on a stool seriously and began to lecture about the coexistence technology in a formal manner.

    It was just… it was obvious that Zhou Qin hadn’t done his homework beforehand. He probably hadn’t even read the script carefully. He stumbled over many technical terms while reading, and even made several mistakes, which had to be corrected on the spot by the staff nearby.

    Zhou Qin said brazenly, “Well, everyone knows I broke a leg before, so I haven’t been paying much attention to work. I didn’t read this script beforehand either. It’s all obscure technical terms, I don’t understand them either.

    But you can rest assured, this core technology I have will be faxed to everyone afterwards. You can read it with complete confidence. This was personally written by a god-level expert from our research institute, absolutely no mistakes. If you find a mistake, rest assured, it’s definitely not the script that’s wrong, it must be you yourself who is wrong. You can go back and find your own mistakes.”

    This statement was full of loopholes from beginning to end, making it hard to know where to start complaining.

    Cong Xun said, “Did Zhou Qin’s leg come back in exchange for his brain? Maybe the price of regrowing his leg was a lower IQ.”

    Zhou Qin ignored what other bases were thinking and finished reading the script stumble by stumble, then tossed the script aside with a sigh of relief. That was a breakthrough in core technology for the coexistence problem, something that countless bases had spent vast amounts of manpower and resources trying to achieve, and Zhou Qin just tossed it aside casually, as if it were garbage.

    Zhou Qin said, “Finally done. I understand nothing about this scientific research. Fortunately, we have a great god in our base.

    Alright, let’s not talk about these irrelevant things. The live broadcast was supposed to end here, but since we’re already live, I’ll take this opportunity to talk about some unimportant matters.”

    The bases that had already guessed what earth-shattering news Zhou Qin was about to announce felt speechless. Owen gave a thumbs-up to Zhou Qin on the screen and said, “This act of showing off, I give it full marks!”

    Zhou Qin had someone move in a treatment pod and pointed to it, saying, “You haven’t seen this before, right? Let me introduce it to everyone. It’s called a treatment pod.

    Currently, the healing level supports only up to Tier 4 early stage abilities and below. The range of treatment can heal anything.

    My leg was healed by it.”

    This sentence caused an uproar among all the bases outside the television. Many high-ranking officials were so shocked they stood up without realizing it.

    “Zhou Qin’s leg was actually healed by IT! Not by a max-level healing-type Power User!” Cong Xun was shocked.

    Han Zhiwei’s eyes were complex, “Treatment pod? What kind of earth-shattering technology is this?”

    Zhou Qin deliberately stroked his chin, assuming a thoughtful pose, “Of course, this treatment range is too low. Our great god also thinks it’s not enough and is working hard to improve it. Everyone can look forward to it.”

    “How is it that Zhou Qin has become so good at showing off since his leg healed!” Jiang Fuzhong really wanted to crawl into the television and punch Zhou Qin’s smug face. “For Power Users Tier 4 early stage and below, it can heal any illness, and he’s complaining that the treatment range isn’t wide enough? Does he want to go to heaven?”

    Owen said, “I’d like to know if it can really treat anything.”

    Zhou Qin said on the television, “Now let’s welcome the first patient. This is a Power User who has been blind in both eyes for ten years due to a base mission. Unfortunately, he’s more miserable than me. Now, let’s welcome him to the stage!”

    A Power User slowly walked onto the stage, leaning on a cane and led by a guide dog.

    The Power User walked to the middle of the stage, guided by the staff, and took off his sunglasses, revealing two black holes.

    The camera also specifically zoomed in for a close-up of the eye sockets, which should have been eyes but were just two cavities.

    Those who weren’t prepared were almost startled into screaming by this scene.

    The Power User was visibly emotional. As soon as he came up, he tried to grab Zhou Qin’s clothes. Fortunately, the staff member next to him quickly supported him, otherwise, the Power User would have fallen.

    “Deputy Commander Zhou, your leg is really healed. Can my eyes also be healed? Can they? You must help me. These eyes of mine were dug out to protect the base’s secret!”

    Zhou Qin walked up, embraced the Power User, and gently patted his shoulder, whispering a name in his ear, “I remember your name. Not saying it out loud is to protect you. Don’t worry, Jing Shi Base remembers your sacrifice, Commander-in-chief Gu remembers your sacrifice, and I also remember your sacrifice.

    We remember everyone’s sacrifice, and we will never let the blood of you heroes be shed in vain.

    Look, now that the base has a way to treat, you were the first one we thought of. We all remember you, and Jing Shi Base remembers you!”

    When Zhou Qin accurately called out his name, the Power User’s emotions stabilized. Now, being moved by Zhou Qin’s emotional words, if he still had eyeballs, he would surely have cried. “I have no regrets, no regrets for everything I’ve done for the base. But these eyes of mine… Because of these eyes, the person I love took our child and left me. I don’t blame him, I only blame myself for becoming useless!

    Because of these eyes, for ten years, my ability hasn’t leveled up, it has even regressed.”

    Zhou Qin said, “Don’t worry, in just ten minutes, maybe even less than ten minutes, you won’t be blind anymore. By then, you will see the light again, see this world again.”

    The Power User said, “I never dared to imagine seeing again. If I can truly see again, I am willing to continue throwing my head and spilling my blood for the Jing Shi Base, crushing my bones and body without hesitation!”

    “Good, we old comrades are waiting for you to rejoin the team!” Zhou Qin said.

    The Power User nodded.

    Then the Power User was lifted into the treatment pod, and a doctor took out a pair of eyeballs from a sterile box.

    The camera quickly showed a glimpse, but everyone clearly saw a computer next to the sterile box. On the computer was a 3D animated figure, standing upright, with its eyes open, the eyeballs blinking flexibly in the eye sockets.

    To the upper right of the figure, the eyes were separately clipped out, with many dense numerical values marked on them.

    The doctor casually placed the eyeballs into the treatment pod, without even bothering to position them properly.

    The people outside the television were speechless. Han Zhiwei complained, “This doctor is too unprofessional. Just like Zhou Qin.

    I seriously doubt how Jing Shi Base, with such unprofessional attitude, manages to produce one world-shocking scientific research project after another.”

    “Perhaps there’s just that one reliable great god, and the entire Jing Shi Base relies on him to sustain itself, which is why they have to rush out world-shocking technologies one after another, otherwise they might not be able to keep up with the speed at which Jing Shi Base is declining!”

    The doctor closed the lid of the treatment pod. The injured Power User seemed not to have expected this doctor to be so irresponsible. He forcefully pounded on the transparent lid of the treatment pod, shouting something continuously.

    The doctor seemed to completely misunderstand that his irresponsibility caused the patient’s emotional distress, and even said to his assistant, “He’s probably been blind for decades and is finally going to see, so he’s overly emotional.”

    The assistant was silent for a moment, then nodded with difficulty, and then the two of them just watched the patient inside, anxious and shouting. Yet, no one present, including Zhou Qin, cared.

    Outside the television, Jiang Fuzhong said, “With such a perfunctory attitude, I really doubt if this experiment can succeed. Will it fail?”

    Owen’s attitude became even more serious, “No, Jing Shi Base is not a reckless base. The fact that they dare to act so absurdly precisely demonstrates the power of the treatment pod.”

    Then everyone saw the Power User in the treatment pod suddenly quiet down, as if someone had said something to successfully calm him down. He even opened his mouth to reply, though it couldn’t be heard through the treatment pod.

    Cong Xun said, “This person wasn’t driven crazy by the doctor’s unreliability, was he!”

    Of course not. The Power User said something else and then closed his eyes. It was clear that he fainted after that.

    The moment the Power User fainted, his eyelids were propped open by an invisible energy, revealing the black holes of his eye sockets.

    Perhaps because there hadn’t been eyeballs supporting them for a long time, the area around the eye sockets was somewhat atrophied and sunken. That mysterious force even cut a few times, and fresh blood immediately flowed down from the black eye sockets.

    This scene was eerie and terrifying, but also exciting.

    And the eyeballs, casually left in the treatment pod, were also lifted by an invisible force and placed into the Power User’s empty eye sockets.

    Everyone present at the Jing Shi Base watched this scene quietly, with smiles on their faces, as if it were a trivial matter like eating or drinking.

    Recalling their earlier thought that the Jing Shi Base was being irresponsible, people from various bases instantly felt that Jing Shi Base had managed to show off again.

    Once the treatment pod started healing, there was nothing particularly special. It was like a healing-type Power User, and even faster than low-level healing-type Power Users.

    It was just like Zhou Qin said, less than ten minutes, precisely only five minutes, and the Power User’s eyes were healed.

    When the treatment finished, the treatment pod didn’t open immediately, and Zhou Qin and the others didn’t go forward to help. They acted as if nothing had happened, chatting casually about where to eat after the show.

    It was only when a staff member reminded him that Zhou Qin seemed to react. He chuckled and said, “The treatment is over. It’s okay, no need to worry about him. The treatment pod can determine the health status of the patient inside. If he feels healthy, it will wake him up on its own.”

    As soon as Zhou Qin finished speaking, the treatment pod opened, and the Power User crawled out.

    The Power User who came out this time was extremely emotional. His eyes were intact, the black eyeballs rolling flexibly in his eye sockets, as if they had never been gouged out.

    “Deputy Commander Zhou, I can see, I can see you, I can see the light,” the Power User looked at everything before him with cherish and greed.

    Suddenly, his gaze fell on the guide dog beside his leg, and tears streamed down his face. He squatted down and hugged the guide dog, crying, “I can finally see you, my old friend. Thank you for these ten years of companionship. You turned out to be so handsome.”

    The guide dog stuck out its big tongue, panting and licking him.

    The Power User laughed heartily, “Old friend, I need to give you a good bath. Before, when I was blind, what kind of baths did I give you? Your fur is all matted.”

    Zhou Qin smiled and said, “When you go back this time, you can give him a good bath. If you want to, you can bathe him all day.”

    The Power User laughed heartily, more and more tears streaming down his face as he laughed.

    Zhou Qin turned to the camera and said, “So tired, talked so much nonsense. That’s all. See you later. If you’re interested in the treatment pod, contact me. I’m too sleepy, I’m going back to sleep.”

    Zhou Qin cut off the live broadcast.

    “Shit!”

    “Holy shit!”

    Different bases, same curses. At this moment, Zhou Qin’s name was accompanied by various vulgarities, yet no one pitied him.

    All the bases were waiting for an explanation, but Zhou Qin cut off the signal without saying a word.

    He didn’t say a single word he should have said, but a lot of unnecessary nonsense.

    The Jing Shi Base’s phone lines were instantly flooded, the fax lines also exploded, and various ways to contact them were unprecedentedly busy.

    Meanwhile, Zhou Qin was sound asleep in bed, snoring.

    T Base, Dewitt, who watched the live broadcast, immediately asserted, “Fake, all of it is fake.

    It must have been healed by our country’s max-level healing-type Power User. These despicable Xia Nation people used some low-level editing techniques to claim all of this for themselves.

    This is plagiarism, this is theft. Xia Nation people stole and plundered the glory of our country!”

    The R Nation people immediately flattered, “Xia Nation people are just that despicable and shameless, hypocritical and pretentious. Don’t worry, the glory belonging to M Nation will definitely not be so easily stolen by someone!”

    Far across the ocean, Charles, who watched the video, smashed the television screen in rage. He roared furiously, “Traitors! Traitors! Philemon and others betrayed the great M Nation and actually told the secret of cloning to the Xia Nation people!

    Those Xia Nation people must have stolen our technology, then cloned clone bodies, and then harvested the eyes from the clone bodies to treat the main body.

    This is our country’s technology, it must have been leaked by Philemon and the others!”

    “Mr. Charles, you mustn’t get agitated, your eyes!”

    Charles looked at his assistant, and two lines of bloody tears streamed from his eyes.

    Charles felt something warm flowing down, wiped it with his hand, and when he looked at it under his eyes, he could only see a blurry patch of blood red.

    Charles knew these eyes were useless again. He said coldly, “Are the eyes of my Clone Body Number Ten mature? Arrange the eye transplant surgery for me immediately now.”

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