Chapter 1068: 1068
Chapter 1068: Bugs were going to evolve
The meeting room was quiet .
They had only gone through half of the scheduled agenda, but the Finnish officials had already left early . Sergei, who stood up, didn’t know if he should sit or not . He eyed the assistant behind him and the latter immediately walked up to help him clean up the things on the table .
When the documents were sorted and chairs began to move, the Russian officials also began to pack up .
Even half of the expectations weren’t reached, yet the meeting was over .
Jiang Chen, who stood in front of the satellite map, put down the marker and walked toward the door . When he came, he only brought himself, so there was nothing to pack up . When he left, he called Ayesha and asked her to help arrange a dinner at the front desk .
He just wanted to have a hot dinner now . The last time he properly ate something was already twenty-four hours ago .
Last night, he was on the helicopter . After he arrived in Murmansk, the first thing he did was call Hilton to book a room . After he returned to the hotel, he didn’t even take off his clothes before he slept until the afternoon . Then Russian Security Director Barth called him to remind him about the meeting .
It was already 7 o’clock in the evening . Before the meeting, he only drank a fruit-flavored nutrient supply, and his stomach had begun to protest .
Just as he left the government building, Barth waved at him . Barth walked to him hastily, patted him on the shoulder, and grinned .
“Do you want to have a meal together? There’s a very good restaurant nearby—I’ll treat you . ”
“I’ve already booked dinner at the Hilton Hotel, so let me treat you . ” Jiang Chen gave Ayesha a call and asked her to speak to the front desk to change the location to the private room at the restaurant and add another serving .
“Well, then . ” Since Jiang Chen was already making arrangements, Barth didn’t reject the offer . He took out a car key from his pocket . “My car?”
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“Please . ” Jiang Chen smiled .
Unlike Defense Minister Sergei, Barth didn’t have a driver and traveled by himself, perhaps because of a need for work . Jiang Chen didn’t know the brand of his car; it must’ve been a local brand .
Right after the car started, Barth’s expression was bitter .
“Man, you’ve caused us a big problem . ”
Jiang Chen glanced at him, dissatisfied .
“Why are you like the Finns, tossing everything onto my shoulders when something goes wrong? If your Alpha Special Forces killed Carmen, then there wouldn’t be all this trouble! I heard there were 500 meters between them, and you could’ve shot him . But instead, you thought about blowing up the ammunition depot?”
Barth frowned .
“What can one person do?”
Jiang Chen sneered, leaned against the seat and closed his eyes . “You can give him a chance to evolve in the next ten years . Maybe he can turn Russia into that dead zone . ”
“What now?” Bart asked .
“Wait . ”
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“Wait?”
“Once NATO encounters the same problem, they will naturally think of us . ” Jiang Chen laughed .
“Do you think NATO can’t solve this problem? It’s just a few bugs . ” Bart argued .
In his view, NATO didn’t need to deal with this, as even the Russian border guards could easily crush the little bugs .
Jiang Chen laughed after he heard such a naive point of view .
“Just a few bugs?”
Holding the steering wheel, Barth was silent for a while .
Right as Jiang Chen was about to fall asleep, he said, “Allow me to be honest—why are you so sure? Don’t misinterpret me; I don’t mean anything else… I’m just curious as you seem to understand this situation? It was the case when the T-virus happened, and now it’s the same case for the X2 bacteria . ”
His intuition behind years of intelligence work told Barth that these seemingly irrelevant events were connected .
Jiang Chen’s left eye opened slightly and examined Barth in surprise .
Just as he was just about to make an excuse, he suddenly thought of the Golden Apple that flowed from the factory controlled by Rothschild . It was also those Golden Apples that made him change his mind .
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Perhaps now was the time?
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Chen suddenly smiled and said,” “Yes, I do have knowledge . I also know how Carmen got these things . Want to know how?”
“If it’s convenient . ” Although the expression on his face was nonchalant, Jiang Chen could clearly feel that Barth’s tone was very concerned .
“Let’s talk when we eat . ”
Jiang Chen didn’t answer and closed his eyes again to meditate .
It was still a half-hour drive from the Hilton Hotel . Before he disclosed the secret, he had to think about how he should structure the conversation .
Frankberg was in the middle of a revolution . It was definitely impossible to send troops to support their allies . The aircraft carrier was too far apart, and it didn’t seem realistic to move a fleet from the Mediterranean to the Baltic Sea, and it would stimulate the fragile nerves of the Russians .
It was the United Kingdom, who had already left the EU, who stepped up to help .
However, the British apparently underestimated the danger of the “nest” . The country only sent a mechanized brigade that deployed in northern Finland through heavy transport aircrafts .
They might’ve kept Jiang Chen’s suggestion in mind . The Finnish government sent engineers to chop trees along the “infected area” and dug out a 50-meter-wide zone . Immediately after, the British Army fired 20 white phosphorus munitions at the “nest . ” They were planning to physically sterilize the area before entering the infected area .
However, the results were unexpected . The white phosphorus munition did burst into a splendid spark, but soon after, the flames seemed to be “frozen” and were extinguished in midair . The spores that had been burnt dropped to the ground, but the empty holes were soon filled by more spores from under the ground .
Realizing that something was wrong, they extracted a part of the spore from the infected area and found that a single cell would quickly consume itself in a high-temperature environment, secreting a special high-temperature resistant liquid . The fire would be wrapped by the liquid and extinguished .
A cell with a fire extinguisher!
This incredible discovery shocked the biologists into disbelief . They were invited to test the spores in infected areas . Even with their decades of experience, they didn’t understand what happened .
It didn’t surprise Jiang Chen at all .
Bugs were going to evolve .
If they were capable of interstellar navigation, how hard would putting out a fire be?
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