Enforcer Manual
Chapter 389: Colleague_1

Chapter 389: Chapter 389: Colleague_1

During Fengling’s health examination, Dr. Bai Zhu was not idle either.

In just a few minutes, she accessed the detailed files of Gray Farmar—a pharmaceutical representative of Cloud Biological Pharmaceutical, one of the key members of the company’s management. It seemed he came to District Seventeen specifically for Fengling’s matter this time.

His movements were secretive, without any official notifications. If they had not hacked into the subsidiary’s security system today, they wouldn’t even have known such a bigwig had arrived in District Seventeen.

However, Medea obviously had a much deeper understanding of Gray than what these cold data revealed.

Gray Farmar once had a special identity.

Medea’s immediate superior.

"Gray was the last person from the company to contact me, persuading me to make a sacrifice for the company, to take the fall for the lab accident alone, to forsake the individual good for the company’s greater benefit,"

She glanced at the familiar photograph, of a man who had hardly changed from years ago.

It made sense, after all. To extend their lifespans, the core management invests a large sum of money each year in anti-aging projects, with Gray being a direct beneficiary. He appeared to be just over forty in the photo, when in fact he was already seventy.

When she was still at the company, she had seen an internal report that the core management’s expected lifespan was 170 years. It was a pity she hadn’t endured long enough to see these benefits extend to them before the accident happened.

It would be more appropriate to say that Gray was not so much consulting with her as he was issuing her an ultimatum.

After hanging up the phone, all her personal accounts were canceled, the company activated the virus program in her prosthetic body, and even sent a group of enhanced "guards" to hunt her down.

"I see, you two are enemies,"

Bai Zhu said with an air of understanding.

"I don’t really hold a grudge against him, though. That’s just the way the company operates; someone has to be held accountable for the accident. If I didn’t take the blame, he would have been the unlucky one."

Because it involved the sensitive issue of human experimentation, and with competing companies covertly fueling a wave of public opinion, someone had to take responsibility. Moreover, the scapegoat had to appear as if they had conducted human experiments in secret, without the company’s knowledge.

After weighing various factors, she, who diligently maintained all of Cloud Biological Pharmaceutical’s external projects, became the most suitable scapegoat. She was supposed to be grateful and happy to make the ultimate sacrifice for the company, "Just a pity that by then, I no longer believed in the company’s supremacy."

Bai Zhu did not respond immediately; she was looking at Medea’s body, stripped of human characteristics, thinking that even if she stood in front of Gray now, he would no longer recognize her.

After a while, she finally said, "I thought you might go and assassinate him."

"That would be meaningless and a waste of resources."

For Medea, there were more important things to deal with than Gray Farmar, "With access to his account, I can hack into the Cloud Biological Pharmaceutical’s internal network, where I should be able to find Fengling’s health examination results."

In fact, Medea always felt puzzled about the Polick Spiritual Energy Syndrome. The plan was initially put forward by Song Lan, but she could not understand why he knew about Fengling’s past.

Song Lan had never left District Seventeen, nor had he ever met Fengling.

Could it be that he has the ability to peer into people’s minds, understanding them even better than they understand themselves?

"I’ve already got it,"

Bai Zhu transferred the backup data stored on her Deep Web chip into the computer in her office, which contained all of Fengling’s health examination results from Cloud Biological Pharmaceutical.

The two of them focused on the records before October, and the results were surprising.

After carefully comparing each item in the report, Medea came to one conclusion—Fengling was very healthy during her childhood, even much healthier than other children of her age. She underwent health examinations almost every two or three months, indicating that she never suffered from any serious illnesses and had never experienced Polick Spiritual Energy Syndrome.

"Look at this."

Medea fixed the data at the ten-year milestone.

For Fengling, her tenth year must have been the most special.

That year, she received the saber given to her by her family, who taught her in the manner of training the next family head. It was also during the same period that the biopharmaceutical company’s interest in her increased significantly. Medical check-ups went from once every two or three months to once a week, and the number of examinations more than doubled.

"Is this data fabricated?"

Dr. Bai Zhu remembered the meeting when Fengling first arrived in District Seventeen, where Lu Xiang had arranged a welcoming feast for her.

Fengling explicitly mentioned at the welcoming feast that she had been weak and sickly as a child, required high-quality food, and often lay ill in bed due to foodborne issues.

"This is internal corporate data, only accessible to core management," Medea murmured, "In fact, Fengling’s remarkable resistance to drug side effects only appeared after she turned ten."

What exactly happened in Fengling’s family during her tenth year?

"Bai Zhu, help me find Grey’s current contact information. He should know who has suffered from Polick Spiritual Energy Syndrome."

...

Meanwhile, at a branch of Cloud Biological Pharmaceutical.

Grey sat in front of the computer in his office, looking grave, as he had just received an unexpected message.

The company had investigated Fengling’s phone browsing history and found out that she had frequently visited a small website called "Void Investigation Bureau," and their IT department was unable to trace the source of the IP.

Even stranger was that Fengling had gone alone to a prosthetic hospital in the western suburbs the night before. Hospital staff witnessed her hopping up and down the security corridors, and online, a user named "Big Radish Head" had recently recounted his accidental excursion into the Void.

It all seemed like something a handful of bored individuals made up for attention, but there was a name in there that he knew all too well.

Pollution Master Medea.

Medea was supposed to be long dead.

The company activated the cybernetic virus program in her prosthetic, froze all her accounts, and there’s no way she could possibly have survived "outside" with her crippled body.

Even though the guards who pursued her failed to find a body, it was assumed that she fell into the hands of a foreign crime group. After being disassembled, her prosthetics would fetch a good price on the black market.

Even the sudden cutoff of the tracking signal was consistent with the methods of those trafficking in prosthetics.

No, it couldn’t be Medea. The company had long marked her name with "deceased." That matter should have been conclusively closed!

How could she suddenly come back to life and get involved with the Void?

Leaning back in his swivel chair, Grey, although rationally convinced it was a case of mistaken identity or an idle person coincidentally using the name, found Medea’s face involuntarily flashing across his mind every time he closed his eyes, like a persistent ghost.

If...

He meant if it was Medea, was her private contact with Fengling for the purpose of revenging herself against the company for everything they did to her in the past?

"Buzz, buzz—"

The sudden ringing of his cell phone on the desk startled him, knowing the contact information was scarce, only from the senior management of Cloud Biological Pharmaceutical.

Yet the message on the screen was from a stranger, with the sender’s identity a string of garbled characters.

"Long time no see, Grey, how have you been?

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