Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

Chapter 633: Poison
"Why don't you go meet him?" Lu Meng said, "After all, we are from the same hometown."

He was standing on the high wall at this moment, leaning his hands on the arrow stack, looking into the distance.

The team in the distance had shrunk to the size of a line of ants on the horizon, crawling and marching slowly - although with his current eyesight, he could still see the armor on everyone's body if he wanted to, but there was no need to do so.

The city wall under Lu Meng's feet no longer looked like the earthen fortress it used to be. It was towering and majestic, and its thickness and road were wide enough for horses to run on - behind him, there were indeed tall and strong beasts of burden passing by.

This Great Wall stretches out and builds, flattening the terrain and mountains below. The brick and stone structure is less affected by the weather and will not become muddy due to rain and snow mixed with green grass and yellow soil. It looks more like a highway built in the air.

There is no war in Shan right now, so the guards on the city walls don't need to be so dense. The Great Wall is connected to the Rotten Town in the swamp. If there are any valuable goods or important documents there, they can just climb up the Great Wall and send them over as fast as they can. Communication is also quite convenient.

As for the Great Wall itself, if there is anything that can remind you of its original style, it is the strange adhesive between the gaps between bricks and stones. They are of a strange red color and are connected to each other along the lines, like a living blood network.

The craft of the Hive Clan.

It can still stand the test.

If only a single section of the Great Wall is pulled out today, it is naturally not as good as a military town like Scone, but from the overall perspective, it runs through Shandi and closes the pass, and it is also a wonder that has never appeared on this grassland.

On the north side of the Land of Flash, there are still projects underway. There are no restrictions on rebuilding on the basis of the Red Fort earth wall. Its scale will be even more magnificent. When this delegation completely leaves the grassland border, they will see how the soldiers under the Red King are. It is a pity that there is no way to know what kind of amazement those technology hunters and other new members will have.

We can only guess a little in our imagination.

Lu Meng stood on the city wall. Although he did not deliberately drive away the guards, he kept a certain distance from them. From a distance, he looked like he was alone.

But as he asked the question, a petite figure suddenly appeared beside him - or maybe she had always been there, but even if most people saw her, they would subconsciously ignore her.

Anti-slavery.

Ms. Gray stayed to provide technical guidance to the film department. She and Lu Meng had already had contact and cooperation in the Shark Village, just like Jager.

Now the latter has left early to assist Hamt, and the remaining Bo is the one that Lu Meng is most familiar with among the anti-slavery fighters in Shan.

At the same time, she has another identity.

A former technology hunter.

Born in a lowland lagoon, her water nature was developed while growing up in her hometown.

It would even be frank to say that when Bo was a tech hunter, she was doing very well and was somewhat of a star rookie in the Lagoon. Even the local organizations were very optimistic about her. However, for some reason, after experiencing certain events, this hunter suddenly announced her withdrawal from the organization.

Logically speaking, the Tech Hunters were a loose organization, and they were relatively free to leave without any interference. However, in response to Bo's decision, the higher-ups actually sent someone to inquire about the reasons and persuade her, which showed how seriously they took her. It was a pity that they returned empty-handed, and it was a pity that she had directly ruined her future of receiving training.

Of course, Lu Meng already knew her true destination, but the world did not know.

Afterwards, Bo did not lose contact with the Tech Hunters and often appeared at the Black Scratches headquarters, taking on some insignificant peripheral work and acting as a "mercenary of mercenaries" - and because of this relationship, even the United City officials did not link a sudden and dangerous assassin with this once popular female hunter, and covered it up perfectly.

As the saying goes, it is hidden in the city.

In this respect, Bo is worthy of being called a master of stealth.

However, even though she openly cooperated with the technology hunters and secretly provided convenience for anti-slavery activists...she never returned to her real hometown, the Depression Lagoon.

However, Lu Meng estimated that if Bo appeared in public, even a scholarly Lake Town hunter like Liu Si might still recognize her. After all, she was a senior role model in the circle, the legendary "other people's children" used for comparison.

For this reason, he even considered asking Bo to accompany him when he first met with the technology hunters. Maybe that would have a miraculous effect... But in the end, Bo himself rejected it. It wasn't necessary, so Lu Meng naturally wouldn't force it.

Now, the technological hunters have left Flash, and Lius is the only hunter left from Lake Town, and Bo didn't even show up until the very end.

That’s why Lu Meng asked this question.

The former huntress was silent for a moment, then shook her head: "This is enough."

"Besides, don't you know better than me? The current depression lagoon is no longer as simple as it was a dozen years ago."

Because they knew each other early, they had many contacts since then. Lu Meng was not arrogant in private, so when communicating with him now, Bo spoke without restraint: "It's like... pus is flowing."

She had also read the autopsy reports of the Lake Town hunters, and excluding people like Wen Jin who were planted in the United City from the beginning, most of them were locals of the Lowland Lagoon.

She noticed another detail.

Two of them had varying degrees of nerve damage, brain stem atrophy, thickening of heart valves and other pathological changes... but they were not caused by biochemical modification.

It's drug addiction.

Symptoms of long-term black extract smoking.

Dr. Zhong's subsequent blood tests directly extracted the corresponding components.

Black extract is a specialty of the swamp, extracted from hemp leaves that have been bred and improved by bone craftsmen using ancient scientific books.

It is often regarded as a magical folk medicine by the local swamp dwellers. One dose can relieve a hundred pains and cure a thousand worries... It was not until Lu Meng unified the swamp, opened up the medical resources of the Double Blade Group and established a medical department that the swamp dwellers' dependence on it was reduced. In addition, with administrative orders, the phenomenon of large-scale refining was stopped.

However, black extract does have a powerful analgesic and anesthetic effect and can be used in many therapeutic surgeries, but it should be used in a standardized manner, just like a certain cough syrup that Lu Meng knows, whose production and dosage need to be strictly controlled.

Before this, the technology hunters who often carried out dangerous missions inevitably had some illnesses, and due to practical needs, the headquarters also included them in the list of normal purchased medicines.

This task naturally fell to the depression lagoon which was relatively closer to the swamp.

However, from the data that Glass had investigated at Black Scratches, and compared it with her own personal experience... there was a huge discrepancy between the amount of black extract that circulated into the Slough Lagoon and the amount that they reported being handed over to Black Scratches for normal use.

Behind this, there is undoubtedly a shady industry chain, in which countless Kai coins flow. "The purchase price given by Black Scratches is quite restrained, and there is almost no premium. They are worried that if they open up the market, it will in turn stimulate the ecology of the swamp and prompt a large number of villagers to invest in related industries..." Bo whispered, "Before I went to Shark Village, I heard a story that there was a noble who practiced bloodletting therapy and was afraid of bleeding from wounds, so he bought leeches at a high price... In order to catch them quickly, the swamp people used themselves as bait and jumped into the mud pond naked... Countless people fainted from blood loss and died of illness afterwards, but every household still went there one after another."

Lu Meng hummed lightly.

He understood the metaphor of the story because, to some extent, as the king of the swamp, he had experienced it himself.

One of the reasons why Lu Meng entered the swamp was that Bayan discovered that the food routes for trade with the Shak Kingdom were cut off one after another, so he entrusted him to investigate.

The truth that was discovered was that under the coordination of the Black Converters, the swamp villagers overturned farmland on a large scale and switched to growing hemp leaves and refining black extract... This involved a series of conspiracies such as the Merchant Guild.

Even the temporary huge profits from leeches can make people risk their lives for them, not to mention the impact of the demand for black extract on the entire swamp industry.

If the Iron Dome had not changed hands and the land had not been completely transformed, this dense forest would probably have eventually become a pure production site for drug raw materials.

The reason why the Black Converters have their eyes on this business must be that it is profitable... In this process, even the merchant guild is just an intermediary, and there are even bigger buyers behind it.

When merchant guilds intervened, the first market they targeted was undoubtedly the United Cities on which they themselves were parasitic - but according to the official laws of the empire, at least on the surface, this was absolutely prohibited.

Huge interests conflict with restrictions.

Someone is bound to take the risk.

Or take an unconventional approach.

For example... if black extract flowed into the United Cities, it was in the name of medicine... endorsing its transportation, and under the banner of absolute neutrality?

When Bo sneaked into Shark Village with Jager, she was not only tasked with fighting against slaveholders, but she also wanted to find out the truth about this industrial chain... Now that all the information has been gathered together, a dark underground network has been formed in the mind of this former hunter.

Her hometown, the depression and lagoon where she was born and raised...it is even very likely to have played a key role.

"These transformed hunters have amazing recovery abilities, and their original physiques were not bad... Even so, they left traces." Bo's tone was complicated, "What if it was ordinary people in Lake Town?"

As a once big city.

The vast majority of people there are not technology hunters.

Even though the depression lagoon plays the role of a transit circulator rather than a final consumer, it is impossible for the people in it to be completely unaffected.

How can you expect to keep your hands clean when panning for gold in the mud?

The harm is profound.

As the Red King and the executor of the plan, Lu Meng needs to be involved in the game herself - but as a native of Lake Town and now an anti-slavery activist, when she knows there is something fishy going on, the disgust that arises in her heart makes it impossible for her to even act and pretend to be compliant.

If a flaw was revealed at that time, it would damage the overall situation, so she directly rejected the proposal of a meeting together, not because she didn't want to help.

Bo glanced at the white-haired young man beside her...but not everyone can act like this guy...she had seen this before.

"As for Liu Si... I've heard of him when I was still in Lake Town. He was still in school then. I heard that he had good grades and was a little genius that was favored by his teachers... Unfortunately, he was a little naive." Bo said, "Perhaps, he is not suitable to be a technology hunter, but an ordinary mechanic."

You may be able to understand books, but you may not be able to see through people's hearts.

Although he will inevitably undergo some degree of change after this battle, in Bo's opinion, the other party's simplicity and ignorance are actually a kind of protection, so there is no need to get involved in these things anymore.

As for why Bo used the term "ordinary" mechanic...

It was because Mr. Gray once mentioned that most mechanics were indeed pure and even fanatical scholars...but as for some of the senior executives and even the original founders...even he could not fully understand them and did not dare to trust them.

When it comes to this, Bo looked at Lu Meng, his eyes unusually serious: "You want to intervene in the project of transferring the Sorrow Mine. This is also Mr. Gray's decision. I am an anti-slavery person and naturally I will not object... But as a former Lake Town Hunter, I have to remind you..."

In addition to being wary of Kaiton City, the seller of Ai Mine Town, there are also buyers who should be careful -

Depression lagoon.

Bo hid her identity and was responsible for examining the background of the remaining technology hunters. During the conversation, those grieving mine hunters revealed their true feelings, and her love and obsession to save their hometown moved her.

But isn't she the same?
Although he left the organization, left his hometown, joined the anti-slavery movement, and never went back...but Bo never forgot.

I care about you all the time.

However, Mr. Gray also knew about this matter, but in comparison, it was not as urgent. The enemies of the anti-slavery factions were already too powerful, and corruption and injustice were everywhere on the continent. Such situations as under the rule of the Red King were extremely rare, and were even enough to surprise him, so he spared no effort to give due support... In other places, if they took on everything, they would be crushed by the heavy burden sooner or later.

Reality has no room for a savior.

This was the first sentence the bee prince said when he saw the machine.

After recognizing the reality, they began to grow and develop...Now Bo also accepts the same concept.

"Be careful……"

However, for a person like her from Huzhen to tell the other party to be careful about his hometown, she found it so difficult and bitter when the words came to her lips that she hesitated for a moment.

"I know." Lu Meng interrupted her with a smile on her lips. This action, which should have been a bit impolite, actually seemed gentle and considerate in the current situation.

How could you not know?
Bo breathed a sigh of relief, but heard the other party continue: "It's just that this time, I'm here to invite you to go south together..."

"Go back and get to the bottom of it."

(End of this chapter)