nycdaug Chapter 414 Gongsun Jin's Conspiracy
Chapter 414 Gongsun Jin's Conspiracy
Was the dream caused by a fright? He rubbed his head, a gentle smile on his face, and got up to go out.
Gerd must die!
Sure enough, things happened as Meng Ke had expected. The Alliance released Gerd in order to rescue the hostages. The next second after Gerd boarded the pirate ship, he ordered the detention of the remaining half of the hostages and declared that if anyone wanted to rescue the remaining hostages, he would have to use Meng Ke in exchange.
How could the alliance possibly exchange dreams for something? Not to mention that dreams are the treasure of the alliance, even if dreams are ordinary people, there is no such thing as exchanging the life of an innocent citizen for the lives of a group of people.
I don't know who came up with this idea, but there were a group of children and a child on each of the two train tracks. Most people chose to save the group of children, even though the train was originally going to kill them.
There is no such thing in the interstellar age. Whether it is a track worker or a train driver, if someone decides the life and death of another person based on his personal will, he will be sentenced to death in court.
Because according to the original direction of the train, the death of the children was an unavoidable accident, but if the track worker or the train driver suddenly changed direction, it would be intentional homicide, and both the interstellar judge and the mastermind would sentence them to death.
Saving a group of children cannot be a reason to intentionally kill one person.
Ouyang Kong is a man of insight. He is worried that Meng Ke will be soft-hearted and blame herself, so when he gets home from get off work and hugs her, he says a lot of sweet words to her. It is thanks to Ouyang Kong's guidance that Meng Ke becomes more insightful.
Yes! She was right to stand up for the women killed by Jerde, and the Alliance was right to sentence Jerde to Black Prison Star according to the law. The ones who were wrong were Jerde and those rampant pirates.
Thinking of this, a fierce look flashed in Meng Ke's eyes.
She video-called Lu Changli and asked, "When you sent Jerde back as a hostage in exchange, the hostage exchange hadn't been completed yet. Didn't the Alliance have any backup plan?"
Lu Changli's eyes were sharp: "How could there not be one? The pirates have a master who broke it."
Meng Ke leaned closer, his face mysterious: "What if I said that when I went to see Jerde, I also had a backup plan?"
Lu Changli narrowed his eyes: "Really?"
Dreams can be told out loud, which means you are sure that the other person cannot break them.
"Of course!"
Dreams can be trusted and sworn to.
"What back-up plan?"
Lu Changli did not hold out much hope. Those cooperating with the Gerd family were the famous interstellar Red Blood Pirates, which not only had high-tech talents, but also masters who were good at potions. Otherwise, it would be impossible to break the double guarantee placed on Gerd by the alliance.
Meng Ke curled her lips and smiled: "You will know soon."
Lu Changli curled his lips: "It's already this late, and you're still keeping me in suspense."
Meng Ke supported her arm with one hand: "I'm not trying to keep you in suspense, we have to wait and see the result. If my backhand is also broken, then no matter how much I say, it will be useless."
Facts proved that Meng Ke's method was effective. Lu Changli called her that afternoon, his eyes gleaming, "Tell me quickly! What's your backup plan? The pirates have compromised. If you hand over the antidote, we'll release the remaining hostages."
Meng Ke breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as it's useful."
Lu Changli raised his chin and urged: "Alright, we're all family, hurry up and speak!"
He was in a meeting, and Meng Ke's video was projected on the big screen, and all the participants could see it, including Lei Hu.
Meng Ke didn't know that. She winked playfully, her smile adding a hint of cunning: "Guess what medicine I gave him?"
Lu Changli's eyes flashed. In fact, when Meng Ke said that he had a backup plan, he had someone check Meng Ke's movements.
Not to mention, he originally thought that Meng Ke's special identity would be difficult to investigate, but he didn't expect that people with such special identities would be watched by various forces and would be investigated faster than ordinary people.
"Could it be that you bought the medicine from Lu Qingxue?"
Meng Ke's eyes lit up and she gave him a thumbs up: "Smart!"
But she quickly reacted: "How did you know?"
Lu Changli coughed to hide his embarrassment: "That's not important. What's important is that the pirates need the antidote. Did Lu Qingxue give you the antidote?"
"Here, this."
Meng Ke took out a thumb-long transparent bottle from the folding compartment of the optical computer. The pink liquid inside seemed to have life. Although Meng Ke's hand did not move, the liquid inside was flowing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Okay! I'll send someone to get it."
Just as Meng Ke handed the bottle to the soldier who was going forward to get the medicine, she received a video call from Lu Qingxue.
"The poison that Jerde was poisoned with wasn't the one I gave you, was it?"
Meng Ke raised an eyebrow and pretended to be stupid: "No way? I thought he was poisoned by me, right? What should I do? Is your antidote poisonous? Will it kill people?"
Lu Qingxue stared at Meng Ke's acting, and he didn't believe a single word Meng Ke said.
"Have you ever considered how much trouble this will cause me by using me as a raft?"
Meng Ke spread his hands and said, "You Zerg have a lot of poisons. It wouldn't be a big deal if you could give one or two to the Alliance Research Institute for research, right?"
"Did Gerd get poisoned by the insect poison I sold you?"
"That's pointless. He's with the pirates. I don't have his test results, so how would I know what poison he was infected with?"
Lu Qingxue narrowed her eyes and smiled faintly: "Unfortunately, I happen to have his latest physical examination report here. Do you think the Alliance Research Institute would be interested in taking a look?"
He didn't believe that Meng Ke could still be so stubborn. Since he couldn't keep the poison, it would be a big loss if he didn't get some benefits from Meng Ke.
"Tell me, if the people from the Alliance Research Institute discover that this data doesn't match my poison experiment data, will they bother you again?"
Meng Ke sneered, "Do you look down on my status as a dual-element master, or do you think my four husbands are just decorations? The data doesn't match, haha! Isn't everyone's first reaction to ask how you got this medical report? Don't forget, the Zerg are already a subordinate race of our human race. Can you afford the consequences of colluding with the pirates?"
Lu Qingxue looked at Meng Ke quietly for a while before she suddenly chuckled, her eyes gentler than ever before: "I really still like you the most!"
Meng Ke curled her lips: "No! I don't like bugs! I want to step on them when I see them."
Lu Qingxue wasn't angry at all, and smiled warmly: "Okay, I'll let you step on them from now on."
Meng Ke shuddered and quickly hung up the phone, fearing that something dirty might get on her.
What Meng Ke didn't expect was that Gongsun Jin would get the report and call her via video.
"Can I ask what the poison in Jerde is? If so, I'd like to buy a copy."
"I don't know, no, I won't sell it!"
Meng Ke was too lazy to bother with this person. If Gongsun Jin came to ask on behalf of the alliance, she would have found an excuse to buy it under her personal name. Haha! No need to find a reason, just send him away.
Gongsun Jin looked at Meng Ke with deep eyes. He really wanted to pursue this woman, but unfortunately this woman did not give him any chance. In addition, Ouyang Kong and others blocked him, making it difficult for him to even get close to this woman.
"Are you free today? Let's have dinner together."
"Do not have time!"
Meng Ke refused firmly, completely ignoring the disappointment of the beauty opposite him.
"I'm usually too busy, so it's common for me to spend ten days or half a month on research. Today, I finally managed to find some time, and I want to have dinner with you and talk about upgrading my spiritual body. Is that okay?"
Meng Ke's casual attitude immediately changed: "Spirit body upgrade?"
"Yeah! I heard you successfully differentiated your spirit body. Congratulations!"
Meng Ke touched his chin and asked with a hint of doubt: "Do you think I need your help to improve the strength of my spiritual body?"
"Our Gongsun family is not inferior to the Holy Beast Nation in the development of the human body. Even in the field of strengthening the spiritual body, it is not an exaggeration to say that we have reached the top of the human race."
Meng Ke didn't believe it: "Just blow it!"
Gongsun Jin didn't explain much, only saying, "You can ask Ouyang Kong."
Meng Ke curled her lips: "Just ask me if you want me to!"
After hanging up the video call, Meng Ke immediately called Ouyang Kong, and Ouyang Kong told him that what Gongsun Jin said was true.
Meng Ke had always believed that the Gongsun family squeezed into the top four families because they almost monopolized the high-end medicine market. After listening to Ouyang Kong, she realized that Gongsun Jin was able to squeeze the Gu family out because of the ultimate development of the spiritual body.
"The Gongsun family keeps their spiritual enhancement technology very strictly controlled. If they're willing to share some information with you, that's a good thing. You can listen. However, before implementing it, it's best to have it verified in our laboratory first. I'm afraid they might be playing dirty tricks."
"Yeah! I'll listen to you."
When Meng Ke video-called Gongsun Jin again, Gongsun Jin was not surprised at all. He would definitely not leak the core information, which was the foundation of the Gongsun family. However, he could still reveal some minor details. His father and grandfather also agreed, but these minor details had to be revealed slowly. He had to take this opportunity to have more contact with Meng Ke, and wait for Meng Ke to agree to remarry and become the daughter-in-law of the Gongsun family. It was not that he could not reveal more, but the core technology was out of the question. This was the bottom line that his grandfather and father had repeatedly reminded him of.
Meng Ke gritted her teeth after hanging up the video call: "This bastard, he still wants to ask me out for dinner, I'll eat him to death!"
"What are you talking about going out to eat?"
Luo Tian walked closer and naturally nestled into Meng Ke's arms. Meng Ke hugged him and continued to complain: "It was that guy Gongsun Jin who asked me out for dinner, but I didn't agree."
Luo Tian sat up straight as soon as he heard it, and nervously grabbed Meng Ke's hand: "Wife, my eldest brother said that the people in the Gongsun family are all crazy and won't let me play with them. You don't want to play with Gongsun Jin either. The people in their family are all crazy. They don't even let their own people go, let alone outsiders."
As if he thought of something terrible, Luo Tian's palms were sweating nervously.
Meng Ke quickly hugged him in her arms: "Okay! Ignore him! Ignore him!"
She had just made an appointment with Gongsun Jin to have dinner at her house tonight, but now it seemed that she should entertain him in the villa next door.