The sky dawned.
The blizzard, which had been raging for two full days and nights, also stopped.
After the sun came out, the landscape was a vast expanse of white.
The accumulated snow, under the sunlight, emitted a faint yet brilliant iridescent glow.
Born near the equator and enduring the searing heat of Dongtu's frigid January, Jiao Yin had never before experienced living in an environment below minus thirty degrees Celsius.
However, no matter how beautiful the snowscape was, Jiao Yin's thoughts were not on it.
She once again smelled the aroma of fresh medicinal herbs, heard Li Qianfan's cough, and Zhai Yue's low curses.
Naturally, she was being cursed for being unappreciative, like a dog in a sedan chair.
When Zhai Yue went out to dump the medicinal dregs, she saw Jiao Yin strolling in the courtyard and casually threw the dregs at her feet.
Jiao Yin, however, lowered her head and dared not move an inch.
She finally understood what it meant to say that it was easier to face the King of Hell than a petty official. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
Li Qianfan wouldn't do anything to her.
But his personal maid dared to deal with her at any time!
Fortunately, Li Xing Tang, who was carrying some tonics, happened to walk in hurriedly.
Seeing Zhai Yue harassing Jiao Yin, he felt a pang of pity and said, "Madam Bai, you should go for a walk outside for a while. Don't worry, Qianfan will get better."
Jiao Yin was immediately relieved!
She looked at Li Xing Tang with a grateful gaze, bowed to thank him, and then quickly left, sticking close to the fence.
Behind her, Zhai Yue's low curses were clearly audible: "Uncle Xing Tang, why don't you just kick out this ungrateful bitch?"
"Alright, alright. Qianfan's condition is the most important thing right now. If kicking out Madam Bai can help Qianfan get better, you don't even need to tell me, I'll do it myself."
Li Xing Tang "kindly advised," persuading Zhai Yue to return to the room.
More than ten minutes later.
Jiao Yin walked out of the small town alone and came to the wilderness.
She looked out.
An endless expanse of white!
She let out a long sigh of turbid air—
The suppressed anger in her belly also found great relief.
She looked back.
Two elite guards from Li Family Village, maintaining a subtle distance, were about a hundred meters behind her.
It was evident.
Although Li Xing Tang had his grievances with her, she was ultimately Li Qianfan's woman, and her safety had to be ensured when she was alone in a foreign land.
At such a distance, they certainly couldn't hear Jiao Yin making a phone call.
Jiao Yin also didn't worry about the people from Li Family Village seeing her make the call.
It was normal to confide in someone about her hardships after suffering so much, wasn't it?
She dialed the Chief Executive's number.
Every time she dialed this number, the communication frequency automatically activated anti-eavesdropping mode.
"CEO Jiao, what exactly is the situation on your end?"
The Chief Executive asked, "Why are you all stranded in the town of Las?"
Jiao Yin was not at all surprised that the Chief Executive knew that their group was stranded in the town of Las.
Li Qianfan also knew that they were being followed all the way, right?
Jiao Yin said, "Li Qianfan is sick."
"What?"
The Chief Executive was taken aback. "He got sick? Are you sure? Isn't this some kind of scheme he's trying to pull?"
"He has a high fever of forty degrees Celsius and is completely delirious."
Jiao Yin said, "Although I don't know much about medicine, I trust the thermometer and my own eyes."
She spent a few minutes briefly explaining why Li Qianfan had fallen ill.
She even voluntarily admitted that her cheeks were still sore.
Every time she burped, she could smell Li Qianfan's scent.
She spoke these words without any embarrassment.
It was as if she was discussing work—
"That little hooligan is absolutely perverted!"
The Chief Executive cursed and analyzed, "It seems he doesn't fully trust you yet. Or, as he said, the third generation of Longxu isn't something just any woman can possess. Especially with your persona of being older and having had many men."
Jiao Yin said faintly, "He won't escape my grasp."
"That's good. You've suffered some grievances, but as long as there are signs of pregnancy, all your sacrifices will be rewarded a thousandfold."
After comforting Jiao Yin for a few sentences, the Chief Executive changed the subject. "CEO Jiao, your mission has changed."
Jiao Yin immediately frowned.
The Chief Executive said slowly, "You must make Li Qianfan charge into the outer defense perimeter and be captured alive by the Rhodes family."
The original plan—
Jiao Yin was merely supposed to coax Li Qianfan to visit the outer areas of the Blackwater Forest.
As for how badly the Rhodes family wanted to capture Li Qianfan, the Dark Web, which was cooperating with them, didn't care!
But now, the Chief Executive was telling Jiao Yin that she had to make Li Qianfan break through the outer defenses and be captured alive by the Rhodes family.
This implicitly increased the difficulty of Jiao Yin's task dramatically!
Jiao Yin, however, did not rush to ask questions.
She knew that the Chief Executive would surely provide her with the most reasonable explanation.
Or, she would have to be given sufficient benefits before she would consider increasing the difficulty of the mission.
"The vampires have mutated."
The Chief Executive said slowly.
"What?"
Jiao Yin was stunned. "Vampires mutated?"
"Yes."
When the Chief Executive spoke again, there was a hint of schadenfreude in his voice.
"Ironically, the first patient to mutate was the head of International Ruixue appointed by the Rhodes family (Palad). Regardless of how he was infected with vampirism, the super-luminary agent, which was supposed to be effective with a single dose, could no longer suppress the worsening of his condition."
Viral mutations were a natural occurrence.
After all, the same virus infecting patients with different genes could cause the strain to mutate into a more potent variant.
A drop of red ink, dripped onto white cloth, would appear different from when dripped onto black cloth.
"Their super-luminary agent, developed in advance, also has no therapeutic effect?"
After hearing this, Jiao Yin also instinctively felt a sense of schadenfreude. "Isn't this like lifting a rock only to drop it on their own feet?"
"Who knows?"
The Chief Executive smiled. "After all, they won't tell us how they operate."
Jiao Yin understood. "For International Ruixue to urgently develop a special medicine to combat this new type of virus, they would need the cooperation of Li Qianfan, the host of Original 209, to provide them with the closest possible assistance."
"Yes."
The Chief Executive said, "The Rhodes family suspects that before Li Qianfan came to the West, he dared to publicly announce that he would bypass International Ruixue's technological barriers and develop their country's special medicine within a week. It's possible that research institutes in Dongtu used his bone marrow, liver cells, and other samples for research. Therefore, the Rhodes family must also obtain Li Qianfan's bone marrow and other core cells."
If.
If the Rhodes family wanted Li Qianfan's hair or blood, Jiao Yin could probably obtain them with sufficient caution.
But now.
What the Rhodes family needed was Li Qianfan's bone marrow, and even a liver biopsy would require a professional operating room.
No matter how skilled Jiao Yin was, she couldn't extract Li Qianfan's bone marrow with her bare hands.
"Just before you called, Mr. Earl from the Rhodes family personally called me."
The Chief Executive said, "He promised us many benefits. CEO Jiao, as long as you can bring Li Qianfan into the defense perimeter, you can take two-thirds of these benefits for yourself. Consider it carefully and reply to me."
Can you kill the Fifth Executive and give me her territory?!
Jiao Yin really wanted to ask this question.
But she also knew that she absolutely could not.
She hoped that the Chief Executive would proactively tell her about the Fifth Executive infringing upon her interests.
But Jiao Yin was disappointed—
"Heh, on one hand, they ask me to contribute with all my might. On the other hand, they are afraid that once the pregnancy plan is successful, I will retaliate, so they are preemptively carving up my interests. This move of yours is quite clever!"
Jiao Yin was placating the Chief Executive with her words, but inwardly she sneered.
The sun climbed higher and higher.
Gradually, it began to set.
Dusk arrived.
This place is England!
Inside Rhodes Castle—
Jessica rubbed her fuzzy head and slowly sat up from the bed.
This time of day was clearly not for resting.
But last night, Palad's sudden "mutation" had completely disrupted the Rhodes family's plans for wealth.
Including Jessica and all the core members of the family, there was no time to rest.
They had been in meetings all night.
The meeting had not ended until three in the afternoon.
Jessica could no longer endure it and had to return to her room to rest.
After all, she was currently in the most severe stage of pregnancy symptoms, experiencing excessive sleepiness.
Prolonged sleeplessness was something she could not bear.
But even in her exhaustion, as soon as she lay down and fell asleep, she immediately had sweet dreams.
In her dreams, her body swayed seductively as she actively launched wave after wave of attacks on Li Qianfan.
She had these wonderful dreams whenever she slept!
At first, she was very scared.
She was even more afraid that her movements in the dream would harm the little life within her.
For this reason.
She secretly sought out Dr. Price for an explanation.
Dr. Price told her, "Madam, this is the most special characteristic of Original 209. It is constantly in a state of intense craving for the opposite sex. But you don't need to worry that you will harm the child when you 'make love' with its original host (Li Qianfan) again. Because the mysterious, powerful, and even more formidable 209 values the host's offspring more than any creature known to us humans."
Only then did Jessica feel at ease.
She could indulge in wild fantasies in her dreams.
But the feeling of looking at a cake but not being able to eat it was truly unpleasant!
"If tonight, your father could love me properly for one night, how wonderful that would be?"
Jessica lowered her head and whispered, gently stroking her abdomen with her left hand.
The phone vibrated—
She casually picked it up and put it to her ear: "Hello?"
A man's voice came through: "Respected Madam, I am Fan Yang."