BFET Chapter 32

Compensation?

Compensation?

Hearing Xie Yi’s words, Jiang Li was stunned for a moment.

According to regulations, severely polluted individuals housed in the Negative Three Special Containment Room can be immediately transferred to a regular treatment room as soon as they recover to a mild level.

But…

“If Shen Shu is to be transferred to a regular treatment room, I need to notify Professor Hu first,” Jiang Li said. “It’s just that your situation is a bit sudden. If I rashly notify Professor Hu now, I’m afraid…”

Jiang Li looked at Xie Yi, hesitant to speak.

Xie Yi met her gaze and quickly understood the concerns she hadn’t voiced.

Someone who had been in a state of severe pollution had suddenly recovered to a mild level just by being with him for a few hours. No matter the reason, if this were to spread, he feared he wouldn’t be able to leave the Research Institute for a while.

“How about this.”

Just as Xie Yi hadn’t reacted, Jiang Li suddenly spoke again, “S3108 is vacant here. I can transfer Shen Shu to that containment room first.”

“However, before that, I need to confirm his condition.” Jiang Li glanced at Shen Shu and said to Xie Yi again, “Although from the surface it seems that Shen Shu only has some mild reactions left, the specifics are still subject to the test results. After all, the pollution indicators displayed in the isolation chamber have not decreased.”

After speaking, Jiang Li left a “wait” and hurriedly went into the adjacent lounge.

Shen Shu looked at Jiang Li’s disappearing back with interest, and his gaze slowly fell back on Xie Yi, “Captain, why do you want me to leave?”

“Doesn’t looking at you give me a headache?” Xie Yi turned his head, squinting when his gaze landed on his face. Maybe it was an illusion, but he felt that the marks on Shen Shu’s face seemed to have faded a little.

“Why does the captain keep staring at me, hmm?” Shen Shu moved closer to Xie Yi’s position, “Is there something strange on my face?”

The mottled redTexture seemed to shimmer for a moment. Xie Yi raised his eyelids and met the close-up gaze, “Shen Shu.”

“I don’t care what you’re thinking, or what you want to do.” Xie Yi said irrelevantly, “Don’t tell anyone about what happened tonight.”

Shen Shu stared at him for a moment before opening his mouth, “If I don’t tell, will the captain offer any compensation?”

“Compensation?” Xie Yi chuckled, “The problems on you are even more than on me.”

He raised his hand and tentatively placed it on Shen Shu’s shoulder, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, “Don’t forget what you said before, you’ll tell me everything I want to know.”

After speaking, Xie Yi pushed Shen Shu away, didn’t look at him again, and walked back to the bed behind him and sat down.

Shen Shu’s gaze followed him, and a sense of eagerness briefly appeared in his dark pupils because of his words, but it quickly cooled down.

He thought to himself, forget it, let’s just treat it as a little advance payment. It would be a pity if something so interesting were to disappear.

Jiang Li, who had left in a hurry, quickly returned wearing protective clothing.

After turning on the external sedation mode of the isolation chamber, she opened the door to signal Shen Shu to come out.

Confirming that Shen Shu’s current state had indeed dropped to mild pollution, Jiang Li looked at the other person in the isolation chamber with a complex expression. This incredible situation could only be concealed temporarily for tonight at most. What about tomorrow?

Jiang Li sighed softly, walked to the glass, and knocked on it, “I’ll send him over first.”

Xie Yi nodded at her from afar, then his gaze crossed over her and met Shen Shu’s, giving a silent warning.

The heavy metal door silently opened and closed for a moment, and only Xie Yi in the isolation chamber remained in the S3107 special containment room.

Xie Yi lowered his eyes and looked at his hand, which had become somewhat inhuman due to the mutation, and clenched it lightly.

In his mind, Shen Shu’s and Jiang Li’s words flickered alternately—

“Captain, you did this…”

“Your cells have treated the toxins and pollution invading your body as nutrients, not only devouring them cleanly, but also amplifying and strengthening themselves.”

“Could it really be a new ability brought about by my ability’s evolution?” He said to himself, then closed his eyes and felt his body’s condition.

With a large amount of pollution suddenly invading his body, the tendency for his unstable release state to collapse faintly appeared, but this tendency did not continue to deteriorate. On the contrary, he felt that his body was rapidly adapting to this situation.

At this time, Jiang Li, who had sent Shen Shu to S3108, returned: “Xie Yi, how are you feeling?”

Xie Yi opened his eyes and looked outside the glass, “I’m fine.”

Jiang Li checked the pollution index of the isolation chamber and asked, “What exactly happened between you and Shen Shu tonight? Why did it become like this?”

“I don’t really know.” Xie Yi got up and dragged a chair from the side, sat down in front of the glass, and roughly explained the events before and after the incident, “That time was too coincidental. The moment I released my ability, the pollution in Shen Shu’s body surged from my palm.”

“Absorbing the pollution in a living organism is not feasible from the direction we have been researching.” Jiang Li looked at Xie Yi, her expression solemn, “Over the years, we have not been able to achieve external absorption and separation from the polluted human body, we can only dilute it by using drugs in the human body.”

“Your situation is too special.” Jiang Li shook her head, “If it is really determined to be a new ability evolved from the ability, which can absorb the pollution in the bodies of polluted individuals, then I think you have to stay in our Research Institute.”

Xie Yi met Jiang Li’s gaze.

She didn’t even use a time quantifier, she directly said that he had to stay.

“It’s no use you looking at me like that.” Jiang Li shrugged, “This matter is a bit big, I can only temporarily hide it, the time is only limited to tonight, Professor Hu will definitely come to see Shen Shu tomorrow, and he will know everything as soon as he comes. I’m already concealing information, and I’m going to be punished.”

Knowing that Jiang Li was already helping him a lot, Xie Yi lowered his eyes: “Sorry.”

Jiang Li waved her hand: “We’re good friends, no need to apologize, just let me draw a few tubes of blood after you’re fully recovered.”

“Okay, draw as much as you want, it’s not the first or second time anyway.” Xie Yi said, then changed the subject, “I still need you to do me a favor.”

Jiang Li looked at him upon hearing this, and listened to him say, “I want to see Professor Hu alone tomorrow morning as soon as possible.”

Jiang Li raised her eyebrows: “What do you want to do?”

Xie Yi: “Try to make a deal with Professor Hu.”