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But Lao Wei didn't dare to just let it go. What if that old lynx was using such a complicated procurement project to cover up his true purpose? That would be troublesome. So, he had to at least review each of the thousands of pages of documents every day.

"So many?" Xiao Chen frowned, picked up a piece of paper scattered on the ground. It was a densely packed description of parts for a type of mechanical equipment that Rhodes Island was purchasing.

"Okay, I'm leaving now." Without even looking up, Xiao Chen decisively threw the papers on the ground, turned around and left without any hesitation. If she didn't leave, Lao Wei would really keep her here to watch this dizzying thing.

Besides, she has her own intelligence channels and doesn't need to "follow the rules" like Lao Wei.

"Really—" Old Wei exhaled a smoke ring, deliberately letting Xiao Chen see it, so he could take advantage of her less "rule-abiding" nature to subtly probe her.

However, when he turned around and saw the mountain of documents in front of him, he immediately started to feel a headache. It was not convenient to ask others to handle these things, so he could only look at them slowly by himself.

Truckloads of containers were crammed into Rhodes Island's warehouse, almost entirely filled with things Old Xia wanted to buy: materials, machinery, parts, refining equipment, and even large quantities of processed iron ingots and various metal ores. Nobody knew what a medical company on Rhodes Island would need all this stuff for.

Their official explanation was that they needed so many goods to build a new small mobile hospital platform. However, apart from the sellers, no one believed this explanation.

Colombia has the most advanced mobile platform construction and materials technology, while Victoria has the strongest industrial capabilities.

Relatively speaking, Rembit is the most cost-effective. Even Lungmen's own city platform is ordered from Victoria. You would run all the way from Rembit to Lungmen to buy materials. Isn't that a joke?

To put it bluntly, it's because in Tulongmen, as long as you have a plausible reason, you can buy all sorts of materials.

Instead of having to submit applications, deal with oversight agencies, or have construction monitored or sign harsh additional political agreements if there is sensitive equipment involved, this is not the case.

Those who come to Longmen to buy these things are simply trying to avoid the trouble. And trying to avoid the trouble means that there must be something wrong with what they are doing. However, most people in Longmen don't care about these things. Compared to the relatively conservative people of Da Yan, people in Longmen completely believe in the business creed that anything can be sold as long as the money is right.

This "anything can be sold" category also includes "people".

"Let me go, let me go!" Carter, with her long purple hair, struggled desperately, but to no avail. The sturdy handcuffs held her firmly to the radiator.

"Hidden Rope, codename Hidden Rope, real name unknown, charge: theft. Someone recommended your expertise to us through special channels..."

"Hehe...it's just a small business, bosses, please let me go!"

Young Katz flashed an ingratiating smile; her smile and age were her best disguise and weapons, which usually allowed her to escape a lot of pain and trouble.

For orphans living in slums, cursing and hatred are the biggest obstacles to survival.

On the contrary, it is people like her who can readily display the expressions and postures that others desire that live long and well in the slums.

Aren't you curious about how you were brought here?

"The big shots here have connections and influence far beyond what a nobody like me could possibly fathom..."

He kept emphasizing that he was just a nobody, that he was only touching a bag at most, and that it was no big deal!

"Yes, the Rat King sent you here. I heard you're good with grappling hooks and traps, and very good at stealing things. We happen to be short of a qualified... intelligence agent."

"No, no, no, those are just petty tricks. Nine out of ten people in the slums are better than me..."

Usually, this kind of thing is definitely not a low-risk situation. An Suo is not that stupid; a guy that stupid wouldn't live long.

And she was right; she hadn't yet grown into the notorious thief she would become, she was just a street thief.

"Don't overthink it. Your life isn't worth that much. The fact that the Rat King's people recommended you to us means you definitely have some kind of potential..."

"Rhodes Island Field Operations Department Junior Staff, Position: Liaison Officer, Five social insurances but no housing fund, Salary 1500 LMD or equivalent in-kind per month, on call 7 days a week, assigned to a 5-person dormitory on the ship, any questions?"

"No, boss, whatever you say goes!"

"See, Ace? This is how people are recruited," Kroos retorted. A kid from the slums, a regular position at a big company is more than enough to attract him; there's no need to waste time with all that nonsense.

"Can you read? Go to the personnel department, complete your file and resume, and then I'll give you a day to pack your bags and board the ship."

"No problem, boss!"

"Let me see, the people we recruited this time... code name: Carving Knife, from Colombia, the requirement is... full salary... Is the Rat King's network really reliable? What kind of people are these?"

A destitute mercenary (Carver) who only asks for his full salary, an engineer (Stranger) who has more than twenty wanted posters on his body and can't make a living in Sargon at all, and an unknown Durin girl who was picked up and calls herself "General" (Myrtle).

Of course, the most outrageous thing was the "talent" brought back by the operators from Columbia: a Filin a little over a year old, which they claimed was a spoil of war from their raid on the Loken Water Tank Laboratory.

"I have a feeling that once we submit this talent list, Boss Xia will definitely give us a thorough dressing-down." The infected member of the Reunion Movement looked utterly hopeless. What kind of weird characters are these?

"Nonsense, you need a lot of diverse candidates in a short time. If the money wasn't good enough, the headhunting firms would probably use some random stuff to fob you off, or even sell the same resume to three different companies. You might receive nine identical resumes from ten different sources," Kroos complained.

Headhunting is a long-term, gradual process. If you're looking to get people quickly, you don't care what kind of people they are; as long as the requirements are similar, you just send them here.

In comparison, W, who went to Kazdel to gather his old followers, is much more reliable. Look at what he brought back.

A whole group of professional mercenaries, including sorcerers and heavily armed men, led by a captain who looked like a reliable warrior. He was tall, strong, and imposing, completely covered in thick armor and protective clothing.

He is usually taciturn, yet steadfast and reliable—the kind of talent the Reunion Movement needs. In particular, he is very skilled in land management and earthwork, and he had a very congenial conversation with the old farmers in the team about tilling the soil.

These are the essential personnel for the Reunion Movement to integrate the forces of infected and non-infected on the Ursus snowfield and to engage in production. The other Rhodes Island operators are too strange and don't seem suitable for such simple work.

Only that stranger was somewhat decent; at least his professional skills were excellent, as he had committed several major murders in Sargon.

Although he had more than a dozen wanted posters on his persona, thankfully his disguise didn't get exposed; at least he couldn't continue living in the local area.

"Wanted criminals, thieves, mysterious Dulin, mercenaries..." Chen Huijie couldn't understand what Rhodes Island was up to. What kind of weirdos were they recruiting? And the content of their public recruitment seemed quite normal.

They need to train specialists, engineers, especially those with experience in power and energy networks, a whole team, doctors, and nurses with nursing experience—all of which seem to be roughly what healthcare companies need.

Cultivation experts are likely skilled in cultivating medicinal herbs, and engineers go without saying—a ship as large as Rhodes Island would probably be unable to function without a reliable engineering department. As for doctors and nurses, that's to be expected.

It's even normal to recruit security guards, logistics delivery personnel, and liaisons. After all, in Terra, which often needs to relocate to cities, without these personnel, the produced medicines may not be able to reach the market in time.

But why, in such a serious recruitment, would they recruit a doctor who was fired for stealing from the blood bank, a slum thief caught picking pockets by the Rat King's men and simply stuffed into the list to take the fall, an engineer with seventeen or eighteen wanted posters whose disguise was about to be lost, and a mercenary from Colombia who was so poor that he packed his bags and came to apply as soon as he heard about the recruitment announcement...

Especially the last one, Xiao Chen really didn't expect that in the southwestern region of Colombia where mercenaries are rampant, there would still be mercenaries who are so poor that they are on the verge of bankruptcy.

"Because I am a knife-wielder with principles..." the carving master said. Her principle is not to buy or sell people. As a result, the biggest source of income for the Colombian mercenaries is gone. She does not harm innocent people and will compensate for the damage to public facilities and private property. A mercenary with such fastidiousness will naturally not earn a penny.

However, Master Ke is skilled with dual swords and is a qualified field operative in terms of combat ability. He also has extensive experience traveling around the country and is very interested in escorting goods or providing security for Amiya Logistics, a subsidiary of the Reunion Movement.

According to her, this is a family tradition – as a swordsman, bodyguarding and escorting are basic duties.

However, as mentioned before, she doesn't engage in human trafficking or harm innocent people, which means that she may have no choice but to take on legitimate work now.

Just as Kroos was examining this group of monsters, Xiao Chen finally couldn't help but bring the Royal Guard to the scene. If the Royal Guard didn't react at all to such a dangerous group of people, everyone would think they were all good-for-nothings.

"Hey, Inspector Chen, what brings you here?"

"examine……"

"But didn't the Royal Guard Bureau conduct an inspection when we docked?"

"Do you still need to ask me this question?" Xiao Chen looked at the Rhodes Island swindler in front of him with a smug expression.

"Alright, alright, feel free to look around." What could Kroos say? She wasn't Dr. Kal'tsit who could stand up to the Royal Guard. Her connections were limited to the retail industry in Lungmen.

"What is he doing?" As soon as they entered the docking area, they saw a monster that was almost two meters tall carrying a large hammer walking by. Thick combat suits and armor covered her completely.

"A farmer..." a muffled voice came from behind the mask, "I need to go to the cultivation room to turn the soil..."

Why do farmers carry hammers?

"You've worked in the fields before?"

"No……"

"Then what did you ask?" For some reason, Hoshiguma felt that what the other person said made a lot of sense. However, Xiao Chen's face turned completely red, but he couldn't say a word.

She had never worked in the fields before, so naturally she didn't know what tools were needed and couldn't provide any evidence that the big guy opposite her didn't need to bring a hammer when he went down to the ground.

"Let me see, how did you get out of bed?"

"Okay." The big man walked directly to the cultivation greenhouse, slammed his sledgehammer on the ground, and the soil seemed to come alive, twisting and turning, and soon neat rows of soil appeared.

"Okay," reality is what it is. He really can turn the ground upside down with a hammer. Maybe that hammer is his staff, and he's just using Originium Arts to turn the ground.

"Hehehe—" The silver-haired female doctor chuckled as she held a blood bag. "What's she doing?"

"Ahem, I'm the ship's doctor. Is something bothering you?" The other person immediately stuffed the blood bag into the small refrigerator and put on a serious face.

"What you took before was..."

"Blood transfusion bag..."

"you……"

"It's perfectly reasonable for me, a member of the Blood Demon Clan, to carry a blood transfusion bag during my rest time, right?"

"She's the one who got fired for stealing from the blood bank..."

"Why are you slandering someone's innocence?" Fawarin said with a serious expression. "I would never steal from the blood bank. I always keep patients and food very separate. Besides, I established and manage the blood banks of Rhodes Island."

"That……"

“That’s another one, the one sweeping the floor right behind you.” Fawarin was an old acquaintance of Kal’tsit, a vampire doctor, a veteran of Rhodes Island, who joined Rhodes Island, or rather Babel Tower, a long time ago, and was one of the two cornerstones of Rhodes Island’s medical system.

"While my fellow clansmen may enjoy causing trouble, I am different. Also, unless you are patients, please do not interfere with my normal work here."

"You really didn't steal the blood bank?"

"I never steal from the blood bank..." Of course, there's no need to mention that the doctor who stole from the blood bank was helping her steal it. As a long-term partner, after being caught and fired, the other party could only come to Fawarin to find a job on Rhodes Island.

"Those people..."

"Amiya Logistics..."

"Little Deer Bee Industry..."

"Security Department of Xia's Agricultural Products Group..."

"Uh……"

"Of the companies mentioned above, except for Amiya Logistics, which was registered in Ursus, the others were just registered in Lungmen. They all belong to a force called the Reunion Movement."

However, they operate under the name of subsidiaries of Xia's Agricultural Products Group, making it difficult to say whether the Integration Movement is their behind-the-scenes force or whether they cultivated this force.

"What is the origin of that Reunion Movement?" "It is said to be a mutual aid organization for the infected, but that's about all we know. They are limited to activities in northern Ursus. The blockade of Ursus forces them to pool all their resources to survive. This information comes from those infected who managed to escape, but whether it's true or not is hard to say."

After exchanging a few words with her subordinates, Xiao Chen did not delve further into the issue, because Lao Wei would absolutely not allow it, and she could not go to Ursus to investigate their true situation.

Moreover, as things stand, all three departments or companies are operating normally. They sold a lot of flour and other agricultural products, and purchased a large quantity of seeds and agricultural machinery, especially tractors. The Rhode Island hangar is almost full.

Little Deer Bee Industry didn't buy anything; they only sold about 120 million LMD worth of honey, including 20 million LMD worth of one-time transaction tax for Lao Wei. Since it was a newly established company and a transaction, there were no tax-free or tax-avoidance channels available.

The Lungmen coins obtained from the sales were all used to purchase various seeds and agricultural tools. It was clearly a legitimate agricultural company. Well, at least Xiao Chen couldn't see anything wrong with them.

Of course, if Rhodes Island is planning to do something big in the north of Ursus, then a reliable agricultural company is a must-have supporter. Although she doesn't know much about Ursus, she does have basic geographical knowledge.

After searching around and finding nothing, Xiao Chen could tell without even looking that they were just giving him the runaround, so he had no choice but to go home. A few days later, Lao Wei personally sent an apology email.

Of course, everyone knows that not a single word Old Dragon says can be trusted. Without his hints and permission, Xiao Chen would never have suddenly come to Rhodes Island to cause trouble.