Quan Yuxun knew Xia Chujian wouldn't act without seeing some benefit, so he smiled slightly and said, "Before you take the money, at least let us sign an agreement proving that we voluntarily transferred the money to you as a deposit."
"Otherwise, I'll transfer the money to you, then turn around and accuse you of massive fraud, and send you to court in minutes."
Xia Chujian: "..."
Damn it! I was careless!
As expected of a legal expert.
They play this game as easily as eating and drinking.
Even if they didn't accuse her of high-value fraud, they could use it as leverage to blackmail her. Could she not obediently reveal all her secrets?
Quan Yuxun truly deserved his nickname "Lord Knife," famous for his "dagger hidden in a smile!" Xia Chujian grumbled inwardly, then quickly looked at Huo Yushen and said nervously, "Marshal Huo, could you help me draft an agreement?"
Quan Yuxun still smiled warmly, pointing at himself with his slender, clean fingers, and said, "Hey, I'm a professionally trained lawyer here!"
"You should ask me for this kind of thing, why are you asking Marshal Huo?"
Xia Chujian said, "You're an expert in this field. What if you dig a pit for me in the agreement? I'd have nowhere to cry."
Quan Yuxun chuckled, "Oh, that's my fault, I scared you… You should thank me for helping you build your courage."
Xia Chujian's lips twitched, and she said, "Then I have to pay you back?"
Quan Yuxun looked modest and smiled, "You don't have to pay me back, as long as First Lieutenant Xia doesn't kick me out, I'll be grateful."
Xia Chujian said, "I'm not afraid of kicking you out. You should thank me, why thank heaven and earth?"
Quan Yuxun: "..."
With such a sharp tongue, she's a natural lawyer…
Quan Yuxun said, "First Lieutenant Xia, have you really not considered taking the Beichen University law program?"
"If you want, I guarantee you can get in, no matter how many points you score on the National Higher Education Entrance Examination."
Xia Chujian shook her head, "I'm timid and stupid. If I went to the law program, wouldn't I be devoured alive by you people?"
Quan Yuxun said with a smile, "If you're timid and stupid, then no one in this world is brave."
"But then again, I really like the way you lie through your teeth. You're one of us."
Xia Chujian said nonchalantly, "Thank you for the compliment, but when it comes to lying through one's teeth, I really can't compare to Chief Quan Da!"
Quan Yuxun wanted to persuade her further, but Huo Yushen and Su Buyan glanced at him simultaneously.
He had no choice but to touch his nose and stop talking.
While he and Xia Chujian were bickering, Huo Yushen had already downloaded an agreement template directly from their Special Security Bureau system and filled in the names.
He sent it to Su Buyan and Quan Yuxun, and signed one himself.
Quan Yuxun quickly read the agreement, his gaze lingering on a certain part of it for a moment, but he said nothing.
He simply nodded and used his Quantum Optical Brain to sign the electronic signature.
After the three signed agreements were sent to Xia Chujian, Quan Yuxun transferred 50 million Beichen Coins to Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian felt no joy in becoming a multi-millionaire.
Because she had to expose half of her secret in front of these three people.
To be honest, she felt she had asked for too little.
It was just that poverty limited her imagination of the amount of money.
Next time, I'll definitely ask for 100 million from each person…
Xia Chujian grumbled inwardly, then said, "This deposit must be kept with me for at least a year, because what I'm about to say is very important. I hope you can keep it a secret, at least for a year."
"After a year, when everything has settled, I'll return the deposit to you."
Huo Yushen said calmly, "You don't have to return it. There's no deadline for returning the deposit in the agreement."
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
She hadn't even noticed! The agreement didn't seem long, but it was still seven or eight pages.
She only looked at the last page with everyone's signatures, and didn't read what was actually written inside.
Su Buyan didn't care at all, and said with a smile, "Chujian, just keep my money with you, no need to return it."
Quan Yuxun had noticed it earlier, but didn't say anything.
Like Su Buyan, he didn't care about this little bit of money.
Five million Beichen Coins was just his pocket money for five months.
Although he often didn't spend that much.
He was purely giving Xia Chujian a lesson.
This girl's tricks were one after another, dazzling, but also full of loopholes.
If he wasn't there to help watch and plug them, he really didn't know how big of a mess she would make.
Xia Chujian looked at Huo Yushen, then at Quan Yuxun, and said awkwardly, "I've made you all laugh. I was using the heart of a poor person to estimate the deposit amounts of you rich people."
"Actually, you all understand what I'm trying to say, right?"
Su Buyan said, "Understood, understood! It's okay, actually five million isn't a small amount for me either."
"It takes a long time to save up, I spent too much money last year buying Special Metal materials, and all my pocket money was used up. This is what I've saved up in the last six months."
Xia Chujian glared at Su Buyan, wanting to hit him.
Quan Yuxun smiled gently and elegantly, playing with a small red agate ornament on Huo Yushen's desk.
Huo Yushen didn't offer any sarcasm at this time, but said lightly, "You have no obligation to share your secrets with us."
"But since you are willing to share, it is very legitimate for you to ask for some guarantees."
"You're not asking for much, this price is already very fair."
"I think neither Master Su, nor Chief Quan Da, will let down our First Lieutenant Xia's trust and high expectations, right?"
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
These words were simply giving her timely help! She was extremely moved, nodded towards Huo Yushen, and said, "Marshal Huo, I just love the atmosphere in our bureau, where superiors protect their subordinates regardless of right or wrong. Being your subordinate makes me feel so safe!"
A hint of a smile flashed in Huo Yushen's eyes.
Su Buyan drawled, "Chujian, I'm the one who protects you regardless of right or wrong!"
Xia Chujian said with a smile, "Of course Master Su protects me more than Marshal Huo, so I admire Master Su even more!"
Su Buyan winked triumphantly at Huo Yushen.
Quan Yuxun didn't say anything, just gently put down the red agate ornament he was playing with, leaned back slowly in his chair, and displayed the demeanor of 'Lord Knife' with a smile.
Xia Chujian lost her previous embarrassment, and said seriously, "I know you should have investigated me, but did you find out what exactly happened to my Aunt's Genetic Disease?"
Su Buyan and Quan Yuxun looked at each other.
The information they had investigated was similar.
Su Buyan let Quan Yuxun speak.
Quan Yuxun tentatively said, "We actually didn't find out much, just that your Aunt contracted a serious Genetic Disease three years ago, and has been lying unconscious in bed for three years."
"Then at the end of last year, she suddenly woke up, her illness was cured, and she was discharged from the hospital."
Xia Chujian nodded and looked at Huo Yushen again.
Huo Yushen said, "My understanding is the same as theirs."
Xia Chujian said word by word, "Since you all say so, I believe you."
"What I want to say is that my Aunt didn't get any Genetic Disease." "She was poisoned, by the poison of Wind-Dried Blood Kirin, and then I used fresh Blood Kirin to detoxify her."
No matter how calm Huo Yushen was, his pupils couldn't help but shrink slightly.
The strange expression on Su Buyan's face was completely undisguised.
Quan Yuxun's warm and gentle smile instantly froze.
If Xia Chujian had said these words to ordinary people in Mulan City, no one would have been surprised.
Because they wouldn't understand what the three words "Blood Kirin" represented.
But Huo Yushen, Su Buyan, and Quan Yuxun happened to know some background information about the Blood Kirin plant.
Therefore, each of their faces wore an expression of disbelief, yet they had no choice but to believe it.
Huo Yushen and Quan Yuxun were both people with very strict control over their expressions, but this time, their expressions also slightly faltered.
Xia Chujian wasn't looking at them, but staring blankly at the red agate ornament on Huo Yushen's desk.
The more she looked at it, the more familiar the red agate ornament seemed, but her attention was still on the three people in the office.
In fact, she could sense the changes in their emotions without even looking.
She thought, as expected, her money was going to be less…
To shock these three people so much, she should at least ask for a deposit of one hundred million from each of them!
Poverty was such a bad thing, it limited her speed of getting rich!
Xia Chujian curled the corners of her lips, raised her eyes, and said, "It seems you are also familiar with this 'Blood Kirin' thing."
Su Buyan came back to his senses and said excitedly, "Blood Kirin only grows in the Exotic Beast Forest of Mulan City on Guiyuan Star! It is said that the annual yield is less than ten plants!"
"In previous years, the Royal Family's exploration team could occasionally dig up one or two plants, but in the last ten years, they haven't dug up a single one!"
"Where did you get fresh Blood Kirin?!"
Wind-dried Blood Kirin wasn't strange. Although rare, the Royal Family, wealthy families, and research institutions had reserves from earlier years.
For example, the medicine warehouses of the four top Nobles families all had wind-dried Blood Kirin.
But fresh Blood Kirin hadn't appeared in more than a decade.
Xia Chujian glanced at Su Buyan strangely and said, "Is it really that hard to find? No wonder the Dark Night Hunter Association offered such a high reward for the mission…"
"If it's really that rare, then we're still at a loss…"
Quan Yuxun finally couldn't help but ask, "Are you talking about the mission you took from the Dark Night Hunter Association you used to be with? Did you really complete it?"
Xia Chujian corrected him, "Not the Dark Night Hunter Association I used to be with, I'm still with them now!"
"Of course I completed it, the Dark Night Hunter Association should have records, right?"
Quan Yuxun thought that he would have to check their mission list with the Dark Night Hunter Association.
His eyes narrowed unkindly: "...Aren't you already an employee of the Special Security Bureau? Didn't Marshal Huo say that employees of your Special Security Bureau can't work for a second employer?"
He remembered that Huo Yushen used this reason to prevent him from hiring Xia Chujian as a bodyguard.
Although he later made an exception, Quan Yuxun felt that he owed Huo Yushen a favor…
Now it seemed that Huo Yushen was really an Old Six!
A heartless bastard!
Xia Chujian chuckled awkwardly and said, "They can't, but Marshal Huo made a special exception, a special exception… haha, let's not talk about this, it's not relevant to our topic."
"The point is, at the end of last year, our Team took this mission to find Blood Kirin in the Exotic Beast Forest, and we really found a few fresh Blood Kirin."
"A few?!" Huo Yushen, Su Buyan, and Quan Yuxun asked in unison again.
This time, Huo Yushen and Quan Yuxun also stood up, and together with Su Buyan, looked down at her.
Xia Chujian looked up at them, rubbing her neck awkwardly: "Everyone, don't get excited, sit down, sit down, listen to me, it's only three plants."
"I only handed in one plant to the Association, and secretly kept two plants for myself… in a Ziploc bag."
"Then, when I went to the hospital to see my Aunt, I saw someone on the Star Network saying that fresh Blood Kirin was a good thing, and might be effective for Genetic Diseases, so I secretly gave one plant to my Aunt to eat."
"My Aunt actually woke up quickly…"
"And after my Aunt woke up, she told me that she didn't have a Genetic Disease, she was poisoned, poisoned by wind-dried Blood Kirin."
"As for why my Aunt knew she was poisoned by this poison, I didn't ask, and my Aunt didn't say."
"I hope you all don't disturb my Aunt, just pretend you don't know about it."
Xia Chujian emphasized this point.
The three of them nodded in agreement, then sat down.
Huo Yushen thought to himself, so this was how Xia Yuanfang woke up. No wonder he had investigated for so long but couldn't figure out how Xia Yuanfang had recovered.
But how come he didn't know that fresh Blood Kirin could treat Genetic Disease? He had to check this out on the Star Network…
Quan Yuxun was also thinking that Xia Chujian was also a damn Old Six!
She actually used the Dark Night Hunter Association's subsidies to go to the Exotic Beast Forest and secretly intercept resources…
He had to keep a close eye on her if he ever did a mission with her in the future.
Well, he decided that there would be no problem if he did missions with her in the future.
He believed that no matter what Xia Chujian did, she couldn't escape his insight.
Only Su Buyan sincerely praised, "Chujian is amazing! Well done! Did you take that mission also for your Aunt's illness?"
He really hit the nail on the head! Xia Chujian didn't shy away from her "using public resources for private gain" and nodded emphatically, "Master Su is right! I thought that Blood Kirin might cure my Aunt's Genetic Disease, so I took the risk of going to the Exotic Beast Forest on the Association's mission to try it out!"
She naturally changed the subject, "It was this try that made me realize that fresh Blood Kirin can indeed counteract the poison of Wind-Dried Blood Kirin!"
"That's why when I saw those poisoned comrades on the Airship, I saw that their symptoms were very similar to Genetic Disease."
"Although I'm not a doctor, my Aunt has been sick for three years, and I've taken care of her for three years."
"I couldn't be more familiar with those symptoms."
"When I realized this, I decided to risk using my last fresh Blood Kirin to try it out, and guess what?!—It actually worked!"
"They were all detoxified!"
Quan Yuxun stared at her at this moment, revealing his famous "Quan Yuxun's Smile," and said, "Your Aunt used a whole fresh Blood Kirin to detoxify."
"But those two thousand people were also detoxified with only one fresh Blood Kirin? First Lieutenant Xia, are you not very sensitive to numbers?"
"Based on your Aunt's case, you should have used two thousand fresh Blood Kirin.—So do you think we'll believe your detoxification method?"
Only a maximum of ten Blood Kirin are produced in a year. Two thousand would take at least two hundred years to collect! Xia Chujian also said impolitely, "Chief Quan Da, your math grades must not have been very good when you were in school. Otherwise, how could you make such a simple and crude analogy?"
Quan Yuxun wasn't angry that Xia Chujian was mocking his math grades and said with a smile, "I'd like to hear the details."
Xia Chujian said, "First, when I was detoxifying my Aunt, I was treating a dead horse as if it were still alive, so of course, I thought about feeding it to her directly."
"But actually, that much wasn't needed, and besides, my Aunt's poisoning process should be very different from those two thousand people."
"Second, those two thousand people were poisoned through the ventilation system. The ventilation system in my Airship originally had a certain filtering function, and it was spread through the air, so the toxins were dispersed, and everyone absorbed a little, so the toxicity wasn't that great."
"Third, I was thinking of relieving their symptoms first. If it worked, I would quickly return to Guiyuan Star and go to the Exotic Beast Forest to find more fresh Blood Kirin to detoxify them."
"If that didn't work, then they would die anyway, so there was no need to do anything extra."
"As a result, my luck was really great!"
"I stewed the only remaining fresh Blood Kirin in a large pot of hot water until it was completely dissolved in the water, and then I gave each of them a cup of detoxification water."
"After drinking it, they ran to the bathroom one by one, having a great time."
"After running to the bathroom, they found that their poison was really all gone!"
Xia Chujian paused here and quickly glanced at the faces of the three people.
Huo Yushen's expression was still cold, but there seemed to be a hint of warmth in his eyes.
Su Buyan was listening to the story, excited, joyful, and encouraged, wishing he could give her a high-five to celebrate.
Quan Yuxun's smile was as before, but his thoughts seemed to be a little divergent, his eyes were unfocused, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Xia Chujian then said the last sentence lightly, "...And after detoxification, they also had some side effects.—They all achieved Gene Evolution."
After she finished speaking, she quickly picked up the bottled water on Huo Yushen's desk, opened it, and drank it down.
She blocked her mouth to avoid saying another word she shouldn't say.
Sure enough, a full three minutes passed in the office before the three of them came back to their senses.
They shouted in unison again, "...All achieved Gene Evolution?!"
Xia Chujian blinked.
Su Buyan grabbed her arm, his voice trembling with tension: "Chujian! You can't fool us!"
"Those two thousand people, they really weren't Gene Evolvers before?!"
"Everyone achieved Gene Evolution after detoxification?!"
Xia Chujian was still drinking water when Su Buyan grabbed her, almost choking her.
She quickly put down the bottled water and lowered her voice, saying, "Master Su, I made it very clear just now, they really weren't Gene Evolvers before."
"If they were Gene Evolvers, we wouldn't have lost so many people in this battle, and we wouldn't have been so frustrated!"
"Moreover, they are all soldiers. In the major Interstellar Fleets, their biological data is retested every six months. What's the point of me lying about this? — It will be exposed as soon as we get back!"
Hehe, another super-sized chapter! Includes Moon Tickets for August 2400+.
Although it's said that frequently updating super-sized chapters makes them less valuable, when emotions run high, I can't stop writing haha~~~ There will be a new update at 12:05 tonight.
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