Chapter 126: Sauce
"We already know about the latest video released by the Grotesque Studio through Colonel Sacco of the Security Department...... So in response to the epidemic that appeared in Thousand Sails City, we invited Mr. Newcastle, who is currently the deputy director of the epidemic prevention center, and then he will give us an in-depth analysis of the cause of the epidemic and the progress of the treatment action. β
Around a half-moon-shaped table, the official host of Thousand Sails City looked at Newcastle with a smile as he was finishing his clothes and preparing to enter the live broadcast screen.
Although modern technology, holographic projection or simple network connection can complete this press conference, live broadcast is still widely considered in the press industry to be a manifestation of sincerity to the public.
Newcastle or the Thousand Sails City government was obviously prepared for this, whether it was the host's question or Newcastle's answer, it was smooth and tight, which once made Zhu Jue, who was standing nearby waiting for the play, think that this was rehearsed in advance.
Deliberately approaching the location of the news platform, Zhu Jue was not very interested in most of the content during the live broadcast of the news, on the one hand, it was all clichΓ© official rhetoric, and on the other hand, they said that Zhu Jue not only knew, but also knew more details than them.
What he really wanted to know was the unintentional messages from some of the government officials around him.
"At present, based on the successful removal of the polluted area in the No. 37 community of the underlying community, we have extracted substances from a special existence that are conducive to the development of vaccines and special drugs, and after clinical trials by the epidemic prevention institute, it has been preliminarily confirmed that it has a certain effect......
Just as Zhu Jue was hiding in the crowd and paying attention to the conversation of the surrounding crowd, Newcastle's words in the live broadcast room made him involuntarily divert his attention.
Zhu Jue knew that the so-called "special existence" in Newcastle's mouth should be the Gadamon sub-body stripped from the bone tree in the polluted area, but the infected person with double mental and physical mutations can really be cured by treating ordinary infectious diseases?
In the past, Zhu Jue definitely didn't think so, but with his personal experience not long ago that the potion made by the ancients after transforming the Gadamon sub-body did have magical effects, he was a little unsure now.
What if the epidemic prevention center really relies on the Gadamon sub-body to make a breakthrough in this regard?
With the modern level of technology, it seems that it is not completely impossible......
If these infected people can be restored, does it mean that it is possible for other psychiatric mutants to recover their collapsed mental and physical bodies through similar agents?
I want to hear about this again, but who knows that Newcastle just mentioned it and then stopped going into detail, probably because it is still in the preliminary experimental stage for the time being, so I dare not say too much detail, so as not to contradict myself at the time.
Compared to the report of Colonel Sacco of the Security Department, Newcastle's conversation was not much, and in about 20 minutes, the honorees, including Zhu Jue, received a notice that they were ready to take the stage.
The whole process is arranged, so I won't go into too much detail here, it's just to go up and show your face and say a few words about your experience in the bottom community.
According to the government's advance notice, this news conference will end completely.
Who Cheng thought that he took out his mobile phone and prepared to let Suzi come over to "pick up", and someone next to him informed them that they had to go to a charity dinner funded by the government of Thousand Sails City.
I asked Newcastle on my mobile phone to find out that this was a charity dinner temporarily sponsored by the Wu family, and it was said that they wanted to take this opportunity to donate a donation to the underprivileged community to rebuild and improve the situation of the community.
Originally, this was not in the plan of the Thousand Sails City government, and even Newcastle had just learned the news, and the words of the reply to Zhu Jue were also full of doubts.
The top consortium in Thousand Sails City cares about the underlying community?
In the eyes of many people, this is a funny statement that can make them laugh at any time.
However, who made Wu's Aircraft Group one of the five major consortia in Thousand Sails City?
There are really not many people who can refuse the invitation they sent, not to mention that this is still a dinner party with a public welfare nature, which is a good thing, so even if they don't receive the invitation in advance, other consortia at the same level still sell face and send high-level officials to participate.
Not to mention Zhu Jue and the others, they may not have much to do when they go there, but people must be there.
The charity dinner was held at a luxury hotel in the No. 1 community of Qianfan City, and Zhu Jue and others were specially picked up by a sightseeing airboat sent by Wu's Group.
Take this opportunity.
Zhu Jue is the first time to come to the community closest to the real "Sky City".
No matter how brightly lit and beautiful the night view of the No. 1 community is, from the moment the sightseeing airboat enters the No. 1 community, everyone's eyes are inevitably attracted by the scene above and completely immersed in it in just a few seconds.
Even if everyone knows that everything in front of them is just an illusion created by the most advanced projection technology of this era.
From their point of view, what they can see is that the magnificent hull of the keel of nearly 10,000 meters looms in the sea of clouds at night that seems to reflect the infinite brilliance of the No. 1 community, coupled with hundreds of huge wooden oars on both sides of the ship, floating and swaying in unison, which is a shape that no ship can match, like a Kunpeng spreading its wings.
Even if it is nearly 100 meters away, it still makes people worry about whether there will be clouds and waves pouring down from the sky, overturning the entire sightseeing airboat, and even the stars and the bright moon wheel in the distance have become the foil of the "Sky City" at this moment!
According to the drivers in the front row, they are very lucky, usually the "Sky City" will turn on the protection mode to save energy, and today is just in time for it to "turn on the special effects" a few times a month.
The sightseeing airboat was full of cheers for a while, only Zhu Jue leaned against the window, looking at the ship with a calm expression, but what came to mind was the dilapidated ruins and ragged crowds of people in the settlements that he had seen in the low-level community a few days ago.
No one doesn't like the grand scenery that belongs to this era in front of them, and it is a pity for Zhu Jue that behind this grand view is immeasurable exploitation and depravity.
Of course, Zhu Jue actually understands in his heart that this is a social change brought about by the changes of the times, and wanting to change is by no means something that can be completed overnight.
So when the sightseeing airboat carried them to the top floor of the hotel, Zhu Jue's mood became a little "sticky" because of what he saw and thought just now, and he thought that the mashed potatoes were mixed with honey mustard, which looked good, but it really made people not taste it.
Fortunately, Zhu Jue has never been a sentimental poet, and when he followed the android waiter into the banquet, his mood had returned to normal.
As I thought before, these honorees seemed to be treated with a lot of courtesy on the outside, but when they really arrived in this vanity fair full of celebrities, no one actually cared about them at all, and even the android waiters didn't know who instructed them, so they set aside a dining area for them, so that they were like animals in a zoo, receiving inexplicable observations from all directions.
To be honest, it's a bad feeling.
If he hadn't used the identity of Hannibal Lecter now, with Zhu Jue's temperament, I am afraid that he would have asked those who were staring at him: What are you looking at!
Fortunately, it didn't take long for someone from the Wu Group, who was the organizer of the charity dinner, to stand up and preside over the entire dinner, bringing everyone's eyes over.
Zhu Jue listened to it for a while because he had nothing to do, and unexpectedly he was poured a lot of beautiful scenes, thought about it, and simply found a corner in their area and began to pick the part he wanted to eat on the table full of various exquisite foods.
When the opening was over and the banquet entered free time, Zhu Jue tasted the food alone in the corner, and made up his mind to find an opportunity to slip away.
This kind of upper-class banquet doesn't fit him!
"Sir, do you need sauce?"
Zhu Jue was eating, and in the crowd next to him, a female android leaned up with a plate covered with a silver metal cover and asked.
"Huh?"
As soon as the meat chops that had just been brought to his mouth stopped, Zhu Jue didn't remember that he had told the waiter to ask for sauce.
"You sent it wrong, I didn't order the sauce. β
"But some people say it's the sauce you need. β
As he spoke, the android lifted the silver cover on the plate and took out the dishes in it, not directly on the table, but hanging in the air, as if waiting for Zhu Jue to pick it up himself.
"Who told you to send it?"
Looking at the contents of the dishes, a familiar smell lingered between his noses, Zhu Jue frowned and asked.
Minced garlic with soy sauce, which is his favorite sauce pairing.
"I'm sorry, sir. β
The android didn't answer Zhu Jue's question, and kept the action of handing out the dishes, not moving.
Reaching out to take the dishes, the moment he touched the bottom of the bowl, Zhu Jue noticed that there was something underneath, and quietly put the dishes on the table, and wiped the bottom of the bowl with his index finger in advance.
After a pause, he leaned back and glanced down.
A folded strip of tissue, vaguely visible with handwriting inside, spread it out with one hand.
'Attacker, Community 28, third house to the right of the Gravity Tavern. β
That's all the note says.
Who was the attacker?
Is this address their residence?
Why tell yourself this address?
You must know that this drinking party is a temporary decision of the Wu Group, and even Newcastle has not received any news, who will know in advance and arrange for the android to give this note to him?
What's more, he's now Hannibal Lecter, an unremarkable clinic doctor.
If it weren't for the soy sauce dishes mixed with minced garlic, Zhu Jue would almost certainly have sent the wrong person to the other party.
But the little habit in front of him, which only a few people who knew him well, made Zhu Jue vaguely feel that this note was passed on to him.
To be exact, it is passed on to oneself as Zhu Jue!
Chaotic thoughts flashed in his mind one after another, and Zhu Jue still wanted to confirm who had sent it, but when he looked up again, the android who was still standing beside him just now had already blended into the crowd and disappeared.