When the magic flower blooms

It's really cool to bet on the right treasure.

After learning that the seller of the zombie fungus was Chimera, everyone was relieved.

"Rounding up, this line will be considered as a continuation." Naga suggested optimistically, "How about we celebrate at noon?"

Ming Ruoxing is still cautious: "Don't laugh too early, meeting in the afternoon is the highlight...but it's okay to eat something good."

Yu Benxin also suggested: "There is a steakhouse on this ship, which provides good-quality steaks and seafood, and can also deliver food directly to the guest room. Why don't we discuss this afternoon's plan while eating."

This sounded like a good proposal, and Yu Benxin quickly found the menu of the steak house on the desk in the suite, and placed an order by phone.

About half an hour later, the waiter rang the doorbell and walked in pushing a silver dining cart.Since it is room service, all dishes including desserts are served at the same time, including a full set of cutlery, and two bottles of red wine in an ice bucket.

After dismissing the waiters and closing the door, everyone immediately began to divide the spoils.Anyway, there are no outsiders present, so there is no need to pay attention to the many red tapes of western food.

"Here, your Dover fish."

Naga put a plate in front of Ming Ruoxing first.The lightly cooked fish fillets lie on the rich soup, one side is golden and the other side is white and tender, served with aloe vera and pine nuts, it looks very delicious.

However, just as Ming Ruoxing moved his index finger, Yu Benxin who was standing by the dining car suddenly shouted to stop.

"Wait a minute! Don't eat!"

With one hand he held the cloche from the dining car, and with the other he picked up a post-it note from the dinner plate.

"The note said that we should not touch any cooked food on board, including domestic water."

"Someone poisoned?!"

Naga was horrified, and immediately pushed away the plate of fish in front of Ming Ruoxing.

"Not sure," Yu Benxin shook his head, "The specific reason was not mentioned on the note."

Ming Ruoxing took the note and looked at it carefully.

"Chinese characters, very proficient in traditional characters...the possibility of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan or overseas Chinese is relatively high. It is not ruled out that he is an arty person. The use of notes and pencils in the suite is more likely to be passengers than crew members."

"Whoever this person is, it looks like they know who we are."

Naga mentioned the key point, "Exposed? Could it be the police headquarters or an international organization?"

Ming Ruoxing shook his head: "No, they can contact us in a more direct way."

Yu Benxin seemed less nervous: "Since this person secretly reminded us, it proves that he should not be hostile towards us."

"Not necessarily."

Naga put forward another possibility, "There is also another possibility, there is no toxicity in the food at all. This person issued a warning to many people at the same time, the purpose is to cause mutual suspicion and conflict, and reap the benefits of the fisherman."

The more the situation was analyzed, the more complicated it became. Everyone surrounded the dining car and fell into thinking. The first person to speak again was Ming Ruoxing.

He looked at Benxin: "Where did you find the note just now?"

Yu Benxin replied: "On the dining car, under the plate."

Ming Ruoxing glanced at the plate of steak that was still steaming, and then turned to Naga: "Did you feel the heat when you held the sticky note just now?"

"I really didn't pay attention to this." Naga was taken aback, "You mean..."

"You suspect that I wrote the note, and I just pretended to find it on the dining car." Yu Benxin said the second half of the sentence for him, "But if I really put it there temporarily, then there is no doubt about the authenticity of this warning After all, I will not make fun of my own safety."

After saying this, Yu Benxin directly met Ming Ruoxing's eyes, calm as if he had nothing to hide.

"Humph."

At the end of the staring, Ming Ruoxing chuckled, and turned his gaze to other people.

"There are packaged food and bottled water in the meeting room. Check them all to make sure they have not been tampered with before eating. Naga, you contact the rear and tell them the situation here, so that the emergency team is on standby at any time."

-

A good seafood celebration banquet was spoiled by a small note.

The food was all dumped into garbage bags and thrown directly from the balcony into the sea.Everyone relied on instant noodles to fill their stomachs.

Not long after, it was time to meet with Camera.

According to the arrangement of the third party, the place where the two parties met was a luxurious meeting room on the second floor of the cruise ship.

When Yu Benxin waited for the group to arrive, there were already bodyguards from Camera outside the gorgeous gate.

Immediately afterwards, they suddenly learned of a temporary requirement: only two people are allowed to enter the meeting room, and others can wait in the rest area outside the meeting room.

Judging from the superficial division of responsibilities, Yu Benxin and Naga seem to be the natural choices.However, Ming Ruoxing obviously disagreed.

He pulled Naga aside and said in a low voice, "It's not clear what's going on inside the door. I'm better than you when it comes to negotiation. You can adapt to the situation outside."

At the beginning, Naga obviously did not agree with this allocation, but he changed his mind in a blink of an eye.

Because the door of the conference room opened, two people walked out from inside.

One was a bodyguard in a suit and leather shoes, carrying a metal box in his hand.

The other was a mysterious man wearing a silver-gray double-breasted Tang shirt and a mask.

There was no greeting, let alone pleasantries, the man just passed them by silently.

But Naga still shuddered suddenly.

He caught something peculiar in that man.Like a unique pheromone, or even other more mysterious feelings.

But Ming Ruoxing beside him didn't seem to notice anything.

Is it an illusion?Or does it really mean something?

"...Then, I'll leave it to you here."

Patting Ming Ruoxing on the shoulder, Naga knew what he should do next.

-

Leaving a few bodyguards on standby in the lounge at the entrance, Ming Ruoxing followed Yu Benxin into the meeting room.

This is a deep red room, with floor-to-ceiling gold velvet curtains, carpets and even wooden tables and chairs, all of which are in different shades of red, looking solemn and depressing.

The two contacts from Camera were waiting for their arrival in this deep red.

Those were two men who looked very mediocre in appearance.One of them was dark-skinned and of Southeast Asian appearance.The other has black hair and blue eyes, and looks a bit Eastern European. It is the commentator on the stage in the morning.

On the long table in front of them, there was a laptop computer and a special metal box.Looking at the shape of the box, it was very similar to the metal box that the bodyguard of the masked man was carrying just now.

Yu Benxin and Ming Ruoxing sat opposite to them.Just when Yu was thinking about which language he should use to speak, the Eastern European man across from him spoke in fluent Chinese.

"Mr. Yu, I'm sorry, for the sake of transaction security, we have to limit the number of participants."

"You know me." Yu Benxin asked back, "but I don't remember meeting you before."

The other party smiled slightly, and then introduced himself: "Mr. Yu can call me George, this is my partner Nick. Unlike Mr. Yu, we are all nobody, and of course Mr. Yu will not know us."

Having said that, he turned his gaze to Ming Ruoxing again, "Who is this?"

"He is my driver and bodyguard." Yu Benxin replied, "Since I can only take one person with me, of course it should be the one I trust the most."

George nodded and smiled again, whispering something to Nick.Nick opened the laptop in front of him and quickly entered a series of instructions.With the reflection of the lens on his face, Ming Ruoxing vaguely saw part of the screen on the computer screen—it turned out to be the subhuman file information query interface of the police internal system.

Obviously, these two old foxes are verifying Ming Ruoxing's identity.

However, this level of drama has long been expected by the operational analysts of the Asian Security Bureau.

The prefabricated results jumped out quickly.Nick and George whispered a few words, and the latter nodded slightly.

Yu Benxin said with a half smile but not a smile: "I have heard that Chimera has great powers. When I saw it today, I really have a lot of skills."

George also laughed: "It's a good thing to have a wrist. It can make our cooperation smoother and save a lot of unnecessary trouble."

"you are right."

Yu Benxin's words changed slightly: "If I had known this, maybe Lou Min's request for that matter would not be so troublesome."

"Mr. Lou is a very good partner." George sighed, "Have you settled this matter?"

"Of course." Yu Benxin nodded, "Although it took some time, manpower and material resources, I believe everything is worth the money. I also hope to cooperate with you in the future to win-win."

The topic turned a corner, and finally returned to the topic.George opened the metal box on the table, turned it in one direction, and turned the contents towards Benxin's side.

About half of the box is a portable refrigeration system, and the buffer material on the other half contains five ordinary-looking test tubes, with a colorless and transparent liquid inside.

George said this was the "zombie strain" shown at the auction.In addition to the physical objects, there is another part of data in electronic form, which will be transmitted to the e-mail box designated by Yu Benxin later.

Yu Benxin stretched out his hand to pick up the box, but he hesitated obviously halfway.

"Is it safe for living people to touch this reagent with bare hands? The most basic storage, transportation and storage time limit should at least be informed to the buyer along with the reagent."

"Please rest assured."

George responded without thinking: "This reagent does not have any harsh storage conditions except that it needs to be stored in this refrigerator. Of course, normal people can also directly touch the reagent. It is completely safe to drink it directly into the stomach. no problem."

"Can you take it?" Yu Benxin grasped the point.

George nodded: "Just like ordinary food, this reagent will stay in the human body for a few hours and then excreted without leaving any side effects."

"But at the auction just now, your people said that this medicine can be miraculously effective through injection and oral administration. Will the dead swallow the medicine obediently?"

"Of course not. However, if the person who has taken the medicine dies before the medicine is completely metabolized, the effect will be exactly the same as receiving the injection after death."

It turned out to be the case.

Ming Ruoxing and Yu Benxin looked at each other, and both vaguely understood what was going on.

"The oral dosage is the same as the injection?"

"There will be a slight difference, but not too much. By the way, each test tube contains the weight of three adults."

"That's quite generous."

Yu Benxin finally reached out and took the metal box back.While checking the status of the reagents, he seemed to casually throw out a new question: "Aren't you afraid that Jujingtang bought it back for imitation research?"

Although it was only a few tenths of a second, Ming Ruoxing still did not miss the fleeting tension on George's face.

"No, unfortunately, the situation you think will never happen."

The man still looked very calm: "Maybe I can tell you something more. This reagent is actually a mixture of several medicines. Fungi are certainly an important component, but if there is no unique formula of Chimera, it is also It is absolutely impossible to successfully reproduce it."

"I see."

Yu Benxin half-jokingly said: "Then when can we consider the issue of patent assignment?"

George did not directly respond to this question: "Mr. Yu, let's try it for a while before we talk."

-

After Yu Benxin received the goods, he immediately confirmed with the auctioneer using the internal phone.After just a few minutes, the funds used to purchase the potion were injected into Chimera's account.

The transaction was completed, and seeing that the other party had no intention of continuing the conversation, Yu Benxin and Ming Ruoxing got up to say goodbye and left the meeting room.

In the rest area, several bodyguards were still waiting in place, but the Naga was gone.

Ming Ruoxing asked immediately, only to learn that shortly after they entered the meeting room, Naga got up and left, and his whereabouts are unknown now.