Chapter 40: The Devil's Deal

Outwardly, Alestai Tepeni was about fifty years old, and his face was already wrinkled, but for a man who had spent his early years wandering the wasteland, he was fairly well maintained. The owner of the Tepenny Mansion, dressed in a fuchsia coat, sits idly on a sofa on the rooftop, with a bottle of red wine in front of him.

"Young man, have we met somewhere?" Tepeni looked at the young man in front of him curiously, "I always think you seem to be a little familiar...... It's always hard for me to forget someone with a temperament like you. ”

Su Jing's eyes swept over the sniper rifle in Tepenny's hand, and said lightly, "Probably an illusion of memory, Mr. Tepenny, do you know the truth?" In fact, my own brain is also quite untrustworthy. It can betray you at any time, as if it were creating illusions for you, against your free will, and faking your memories...... In fact, the brain is not reliable at all. ”

"Haha......ha Belch...... Scientist? It's rare for people to talk like that, but I've seen a few people doing research in my early years, and in Rivet City, they speak in the same tone as you do, always teaching people. ”

"Yes, I'm from the Northern Science and Technology Union. It was an organization founded by a scientist and an intellectual after the war, and I was an investigator and occasionally did some business and sold you such ...... Upper-class people. ”

Tepenny held the glass and looked at him for him to continue.

Su Jing rolled up his sleeves and asked, "That's the case." How old are you, Mr. Tepeni? How many years do you have the confidence to live? ”

".................." Tepeni didn't speak.

"We have a combination of science and technology, and we have biotechnology that can prolong people's life."

Tepeni's fingers twisted the handle of the goblet, and his eyes twinkled and whispered, "Prove it to me." ”

Su Jing smiled, then stretched out his right hand and held it in front of Tepeni. At first, Tepeni didn't see anything, and then he suddenly noticed that Su Jing's nails were getting longer and growing at a breakneck rate.

"This ...... It's just fingernails...... A little magic trick ......"

Su Jing licked her nails, and then used her nails to cut her bare wrists. The skin is sliced open, revealing a thin layer of white fat inside, followed by bright red muscle fibers. Not a single drop of blood was shed, as if his hand was a prosthetic, but it wasn't fake, and Tepeni could even see the throbbing veins and the bright red blood flowing inside. The texture of the muscles is delicate and beautiful, as if they were some kind of perfect biological specimen. Tepenny's eyes widened, and then Su Jing wiped his fingers and the wound closed. At first, there was still a little thin red scar, but when Su Jing licked it with her tongue, the scar disappeared, and only a trace of red lines remained.

They grew together, and the wounds that were up to two centimeters deep were closed out of thin air, and Tepeni touched them in disbelief, and even tried to tear them, and they really grew together firmly, as if they had been glued together with all-purpose glue. Su Jing also moved a few times, showing that the functionality of the arm was as good as ever.

"A minor injury of this magnitude heals quickly, but if it's a more serious injury, it takes more time and adequate nutrition to recover. However, the most valuable value of this biotechnology is not to strengthen the body's self-healing function, but to perfectly eliminate the redundant ends of human cell division, and make people's aging stop. You will always be in the same state as you are, even rejuvenated, and you will always be your human being. ”

Areste Tepeni was silent, and then he asked, "What do you want?" ”

"I don't want a penny from you. Knowledge can only be traded with knowledge. Su Jing smiled, "I want the address of the headquarters of Eagle Claw Company, as well as the specific location of Lost Heaven." And all the shelter locations you have at your disposal. ”

Although Su Jing couldn't read minds, he could see that Tepeni's body had relaxed, which proved that he didn't care about the value of these two pieces of information. Su Jingzhi said that his trading conditions may be a little inexplicable, and he also considered whether to let Tepeni spit out more materials, but he finally decided to maintain his sense of mystery - the kind of mystery that is powerful, unpredictable, and makes Tepeni unable to touch his bottom line. He must always maintain a posture above Tepeni in order for the old man to treat himself as an equal and consider his own demands carefully.

He doesn't think Tepeni is stupid enough to let people kill him like that, and the more exaggerated he behaves, the more cautious Tepeni will be. Someone who can gain a foothold in the wasteland is not so stupid, and Tepeni is definitely not stupid.

"I know that this information doesn't matter much to you, so Mr. Tepenny, it's not a loss-making deal. This is an opportunity to make money and not lose money. Su Jing took out two needles from the medical bag on his waist, and what was rippling in them was bright red liquid.

"There are two reagents here, one can allow you to do a safety test, just find an animal, or a person, you can test the effect, if you are satisfied, you can use the second agent for yourself. Intravenous injection, effective within half an hour. ”

Tepenny thought for a moment, then took a piece of paper and wrote a few lines on the ground. Su Jing pulled his sleeves back on, watched the brush in his hand move, and said softly:

"Attention, Mr. Tepeni. This is a product of the combination of technology, and if I find a problem with the address you gave, then I have the right and the ability to take back the things in this transaction. At that time, I thought our relationship might not have been as happy as it is now. ”

Tepenny laughed dryly, then added two more lines, and then handed the note to Su Jing.

"It's a pleasure to work with, Mr. Tepenny." Su Jing shook hands with him.

After Su Jing left, he heard the sound of the elevator, Tepeni let out a sigh, and then stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers. Gustavo, the captain of the security guard, pushed the door in and asked:

"Sir, is there anything wrong with this man?"

"Questions? Of course there is something wrong with this man! Tepeni scrutinized the syringe on the table, the liquid flowing as if it were alive, seductive as a curse. He swallowed a mouthful, feeling a little dry, and then took his glass and drank it down.

"Do you want me to kill him? Mr. Tepeni. Gustavo took out his walkie-talkie, "As long as the order is given now, the people below can surround him here, even if he has three heads and six arms, he can't get out of here......"

"No...... No need. Don't take too many risks, we are in business, not robbers. Tepenny stroked his sniper rifle, his eyes twinkling with a hint of fear, "I remember where I saw him...... I remembered it when he performed that trick for me...... He was shot by me and fell to the ground......"

"Then these two things can't be used either?" Gustavo walked over and tried to reach out and pick up the syringe, but was held down by Tepeni, and the security captain reacted and said with some embarrassment: "No offense, Mr. Tepenny." ”

"It's okay, Gustavo, it's okay." Tepenny picked up the syringe and stroked the needle sleeve on it, "A guy who can't even die with a sniper shot in the head...... Instead, I began to believe in the authenticity of this thing. A scientific and technological alliance in the North? Have I heard the name of this force somewhere? ”

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Su Jing was in a good mood now, and he used the microorganisms where the FEV virus was lodged to mix his own blood and tricked him into the address he wanted. Frankly, it would have been easier and quicker for him to use violence to get answers, but he didn't think it was fun.

He could have slaughtered the entire Tepeni Mansion, hammered all the mercenaries into meat sauce, then grabbed Tepenny by the collar and told him to spit out all the information, then let go of his hand and let this racist and murderous slut free fall from the twelve floors and fall into a mess. It might be more enjoyable and more interesting, but he doesn't like it, he likes more dramatic developments.

So he gave the FEV virus to Tepeni. This is the type of virus he has modified. The initial stage of the injection of this virus will not make people's skin green, but it will give people a stronger self-healing ability, like a constant treatment needle effect, stimulating the body's own vitality to accelerate hemostasis, healing, and even temporarily - rejuvenation. In addition, it is also able to slightly increase muscle strength and bone hardness in the human body, just like the original FEV virus. If Tepeni had injected himself with that injection, he would have been happy...... In those first few days.

The FEV virus then begins to invade the subject's body cells, slowly absorbing the ubiquitous radiant energy above the wasteland. It's hidden in every cloud, every gust of wind, even every glass of water he drinks and every steak he eats, so that in a maximum of three weeks, he will find that his muscles are becoming more and more deformed, and the color of his skin is beginning to change...... At the end of the day, he will become one of the most despised subspecies, a mutated mutant, and a part of the largest population of pests in the wasteland.

Su Jing was looking forward to that scene, and when he had done what he was supposed to do, he would come back to watch the end of the play.

And his next target is one of the most dangerous places in the wilderness: Lost Paradise. It was the headquarters of the slave traders of the Wasteland, a place where the most vicious scum and the most shameless sluts in the world were gathered. If you use moral standards to make a topography map of the ruined capital...... It must be the entrance to the eighteenth level of hell.

Unconsciously, even Su Jing himself didn't realize that since he intervened in this world, he had put himself in the position of a transcendent, calmly looking down on everyone in the wasteland, and trying to manipulate and change their fate.

This may blind him, perhaps...... will open new paths for him.