Chapter 671 - 415: A Frustrating Complication

Chapter 671: Chapter 415: A Frustrating Complication

He quickly finished the glass of water. Chen Xiaoyan asked, "Do you want more?"

"Haaaah..." After drinking the water, Wang Hao let out a long breath, feeling much better. Hearing Chen Xiaoyan’s question, he started to shake his head, but the sharp pain from his wounds made him stop immediately. "No, thank you."

"What happened? Why are you so badly injured? Who did this to you?" Chen Xiaoyan placed the glass on the bedside table and voiced the questions that had been weighing on her mind.

Zhu Daqi stood quietly to the side, his face full of curiosity.

Wang Hao had no problem telling Chen Xiaoyan what had happened, but he didn’t think the onlooking Zhu Daqi needed to know.

Waiting for an answer, Chen Xiaoyan saw Wang Hao glance at Zhu Daqi, then back at her. She immediately took the hint and turned to Zhu Daqi.

"Zhu Daqi, Wang Hao is awake now. I can handle things here by myself. Go back to your surveillance. If you see that man named Lin Li, report to me immediately."

"Huh?" Zhu Daqi was dying of curiosity about how Wang Hao had ended up in this state.

He had been hoping to hear what had happened, but now Chen Xiaoyan was telling him to leave. He was quite frustrated.

Although he didn’t want to leave, Chen Xiaoyan had given the order, so he couldn’t force himself to stay. He simply nodded, then reluctantly left the small house and drove back to resume his surveillance.

When the sounds outside the house faded, Wang Hao and Chen Xiaoyan knew that Zhu Daqi had left. At that point, Wang Hao began to recount his ordeal in the wilderness.

"After entering the wilderness, I headed for the location indicated by the tracker. The journey was smooth. When I arrived, I searched the area and found a pristine white human skeleton."

Chen Xiaoyan had been listening quietly, but when she heard Wang Hao mention a pristine white human skeleton, her expression froze. A sense of foreboding washed over her, and she couldn’t help but interrupt.

"A pristine white human skeleton?!!!"

"Yes."

"It’s normal to find human skeletons in the wilderness. After all, Exotic Beast Hunters are always hunting out there, and casualties are bound to happen from time to time."

"..." Wang Hao fell silent for a few seconds before saying something that left Chen Xiaoyan completely stunned. "In the pocket of the clothes on that skeleton, I found Liu Menglong’s phone."

"How... How could this have happened?" Hearing the terrible news, Chen Xiaoyan’s eyes widened in shock. When she came to her senses, she muttered in disbelief, unable to accept this outcome.

Chen Xiaoyan and Liu Menglong were partners, sent by the Heilin Society to Rongcheng on a deep-cover mission. Their interests were aligned; as the saying goes, they would rise and fall together.

Now that Liu Menglong was dead, Chen Xiaoyan’s interests had taken a heavy blow. More than grieving his death, she was actually more pained by the loss she herself would suffer.

"But he wasn’t an Exotic Beast Hunter! He had no reason to go into the wilderness!" Chen Xiaoyan said.

"Exactly! He was on a mission and wasn’t an Exotic Beast Hunter. He had absolutely no reason to go into the wilderness. Something must have made him go out there, which ultimately led to his death."

An image of his friend’s skeleton flashed through Wang Hao’s mind, and his expression darkened as he spoke.

"What happened next? After you found his skeleton, what else happened?" Chen Xiaoyan asked.

"Then a Mutant Beast appeared. A Tier Two Peak Mutant Beast," Wang Hao said, his expression grim.

To think he’d run into a Tier Two Peak Mutant Beast without even going deep into the wilderness. He was just that unlucky.

"A Tier Two Peak Mutant Beast? So you’re saying your injuries are from that beast?"

"Yes. If I hadn’t used the Space Transmission Spiritual Artifact the organization gave me to escape, I would have died at its hands."

"But the tracker’s location wasn’t deep in the wilderness! How could a Mutant Beast of that level appear there?"

"That’s what I find so confusing. Logically, a Mutant Beast of that level shouldn’t have been in that area. It’s still relatively close to the safe zone."

What Wang Hao and Chen Xiaoyan didn’t know was that the Red-horned Purple-scaled Lizard Beast came from another world. Otherwise, their confusion would have been resolved.

Because the Red-horned Purple-scaled Lizard Beast was from another world, it was a newcomer, completely unfamiliar with this new place and its rules.

It didn’t know that in this world, the stronger a Mutant Beast was, the more likely it would be eliminated by powerful humans if it got too close to their cities.

This explained its unusual behavior of occupying a swamp not far from a human city and making it its lair.

The previous Mutant Beast that occupied the swamp had only wanted to take a mud bath; it never intended to live there.

But as it happened, when the Red-horned Purple-scaled Lizard Beast passed by the swamp, it decided the place was quite nice and suitable for a lair. It promptly drove off the other beast and took over its bathing spot.

After hearing the full story, Chen Xiaoyan wore a complicated expression.

She had been hoping that Liu Menglong was just missing and that his life wasn’t in danger.

But now there was conclusive evidence that Liu Menglong had been killed. When the scheduled time to contact her superior arrived, there would be no hiding what happened to him.

"..." Wang Hao saw the change in Chen Xiaoyan’s expression. As a member of the same organization, it only took him a moment’s thought to guess what she was worried about.

"You and Liu Menglong were partners, undercover here. Now that something has happened to him, when you contact your superior in a few days, he’ll definitely find out. Punishment will be unavoidable."

"Sigh. If I get punished, I get punished. Compared to me being reprimanded by my superior, Liu Menglong lost his life!" Chen Xiaoyan said with a look of resignation, expressing her regret and sorrow over Liu Menglong’s death.

Wang Hao thought for a moment, then said to her, "In my opinion, you don’t bear much responsibility for Liu Menglong’s death. I’ll put in a good word for you later. We should be able to get the punishment waived."

Chen Xiaoyan had already resigned herself to her fate, so she was surprised to hear there might be a way out. Her eyes instantly lit up, but she didn’t dare show her joy in front of Wang Hao. Instead, she said to him in a calm tone,

"Whether the punishment can be waived or not doesn’t really matter to me.

You just focus on recovering. Once you’re healed, we’ll investigate what made Liu Menglong suddenly go to the wilderness. If someone was behind it, we’ll get revenge for him."

Hearing her words, Wang Hao was deeply moved. He resolved to ask his friends to put in a good word for her, determined to help get the punishment waived.

"My injuries are so severe... without going to a hospital for treatment, it’ll take at least half a month to recover."

"That’s a long time," Chen Xiaoyan said.

"It is. To speed up my recovery, I need you to help me contact a friend of mine in the medical department," Wang Hao said.

"You want your friend from the medical department to come here and treat you?" Chen Xiaoyan asked.

"It’s impossible for him to come here and treat me in person," Wang Hao said.

Chen Xiaoyan nodded. She also knew that personnel from the organization’s medical department were extremely valuable.

To leave the organization’s base, they needed a signed approval from the head of the medical department.

And since Wang Hao’s injuries were sustained while handling personal matters, he clearly wouldn’t be granted permission to have medical personnel come and treat him personally.

"My injuries don’t require a medic to treat me in person. I’m asking you to contact my friend because I want him to do me a favor and send me some of the special medicine he has on hand," Wang Hao said.

Chen Xiaoyan knew that the "special medicine" Wang Hao mentioned was a newly developed drug from the organization that could rapidly heal injuries.

The materials for this drug were said to be extremely scarce, making each dose incredibly expensive. Ordinary members weren’t even qualified to use it.

It wasn’t that Wang Hao couldn’t successfully apply for it now.

It’s just that it would require a mountain of paperwork. By going through his friend in the medical department, he could skip the tedious procedures and get the medicine quickly.

"Okay, I’ll contact your friend in the medical department for you right away," Chen Xiaoyan said after understanding the situation.

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