"Thank you, Chief, for sending my team members back." Ye Shijie immediately gave him a military salute.
Zong Ruoan's secretary, also holding the rank of Major, was fully deserving of the title "Chief."
He calmly nodded, with his hands behind his back, and said, "This Ms. Xia has been subjected to many unfair treatments by the Mulan City Punishment Department. Our Special Security Bureau has already obtained all the evidence. We hope that after you return, you will not leave Mulan City for the time being, and wait for news from our Special Security Bureau."
Ye Shijie quickly stood at attention: "Yes, Chief!"
Once Zong Ruoan's secretary left, Ye Shijie immediately said, "Back to the Flying Vehicle, we need to leave quickly and return to the Association's headquarters."
After the five of them boarded the Flying Vehicle, Xia Chujian collapsed into the seat, and said weakly, "Is there any medicine for external injuries?"
"You're really injured?! Did those Lowly People hit you?" Ping Qiong became anxious, while fetching their medical kit, muttering to herself.
Xia Chujian didn't speak, and followed Ping Qiong to the small armory on the Flying Vehicle.
It was a separate room where she could clean her wounds.
Xia Chujian first took off the Exotic Beast Fur Coat, then the black uniform coat underneath, revealing her upper body only wearing a tube top.
Ping Qiong's gaze was immediately drawn to her left shoulder and left arm.
There were countless scars on them, the blood congealed there, turning dark red.
Her entire arm had turned blackish-red.
The rest of her body was unscathed, as white as if it could glow.
This made the condition of her left shoulder and left arm seem even more tragic.
Tears welled up in Ping Qiong's eyes: "Little Chujian, did those beasts torture you?"
Xia Chujian recalled the situation at the time, and said in a low voice, "I almost didn't get to see you again."
Ping Qiong wiped away her tears with the back of her hand, took out a semi-wet gauze specifically for cleaning wounds from the medical kit, and gently wiped her clean.
Then, she used a spray for treating external injuries, spraying it on the small wounds on her left arm and left shoulder.
This kind of scar spray from the Association was very effective.
Soon, the wounds began to heal almost at a visible speed.
Moreover, Xia Chujian's wounds were indeed external injuries.
All of them combined were not as damaging to her as the two slaps from that Humanoid.
Her head still hurt, her face was still swollen, and she was exhausted, really holding on by a thread.
After Ping Qiong cleaned Xia Chujian's wounds and sprayed on the scar spray, she put on the work jacket that was kept on the Flying Vehicle for changes.
Then, she put on the Exotic Beast Fur Coat from the Association over the work jacket.
As for the black uniform coat and her "Ivory Gray" coat, she packed them in her luggage bag.
Ping Qiong took out medicine to reduce swelling, and carefully applied it to her face.
After everything was done, Ping Qiong silently looked at her, hesitating several times.
Xia Chujian understood what she was thinking, and said in a low voice, "Cai Jie, if it weren't for those people from the Special Security Bureau just now, I would have been... ruined in the hands of those people."
"Are you really okay?"
"Really okay. Why would I lie to you?" Xia Chujian shook her head helplessly, "Even if you don't believe me, you have to believe those big shots from the Special Security Bureau."
Ping Qiong hugged her tightly, crying her heart out, even more sad than Xia Chujian herself.
Although Xia Chujian felt uncomfortable, she had fought those people with real knives and guns, vented her anger, and avenged herself, so she didn't feel particularly sad.
After Ping Qiong cried for a while, Xia Chujian said, "Cai Jie, you know I never suffer losses. Those Lowly People wanted to take advantage of me, but I shot them one by one and knocked them all down."
"Ah? Where did you get the gun?" Ping Qiong was stunned, not even bothering to wipe away her tears.
Xia Chujian paused, and said casually, "Don't worry about the details, anyway, I got a gun and killed those Humanoids Lowly People. But later, when powerful Gene Evolvers came, I couldn't handle it. It was the Chiefs from the Special Security Bureau who came forward that I escaped."
Ping Qiong remembered the Special Security Bureau Major just now, and nodded quickly, saying mysteriously, "I saw that person's arm badge and shoulder badge, it seems to be from the Special Security Bureau headquarters... truly a very powerful big shot!"
Xia Chujian originally wanted to ask what was going on with that Colonel Zong, but she was too tired.
Coming out of the small armory, she sat directly in the back row, tilted her head, and fell asleep.
It was already past ten o'clock at night, time for bed.
Ping Qiong returned to the front seat and quietly told everyone about Xia Chujian's injuries, as well as the brief account Xia Chujian had given her of the fight with the Humanoid Lowly People.
Ye Shijie, Li Fu, and Song Mingqian were silent, but they all understood that Xia Chujian had been tormented the most because she was the only ordinary person in their team.
That Fan Chengcai didn't dare to go too far with them, the Gene Evolvers.
The Flying Vehicle quickly took off and headed towards Mulan City.
Ping Qiong said faintly, "Why can't Little Chujian be a Gene Evolver? Is there no way?"
Song Mingqian drove the Flying Vehicle, Ye Shijie sat in the co-pilot's seat, and Li Fu and Ping Qiong sat in the middle, but no one answered.
After a while, Song Mingqian said softly, "Our Beichen Empire's Gene Evolution follows a completely natural evolution, rejecting any genetic research or artificially stimulated evolution."
"Unless Little Chujian can achieve Gene Evolution on her own one day, there's really no possibility."
Li Fu echoed quietly, "...and she's already seventeen years old."
Ye Shijie said calmly, "The last time point for natural Gene Evolution is eighteen years old."
"If you can't achieve Gene Evolution before the age of eighteen, there's no possibility in this lifetime."
These common sense facts were known to everyone in the Beichen Empire, including Ping Qiong.
But today, she had an additional question: "...Why? Why is eighteen the last time point? Is there any scientific basis for that?"
Song Mingqian knew a little and patiently explained to her, "Because the genes of normal humans in our Beichen Empire completely stabilize at the age of eighteen."
"In other words, the reason why normal humans in the Beichen Empire can achieve natural Gene Evolution is because our genes are actually unstable before the age of eighteen."
"Only unstable things can mutate, and that's natural Gene Evolution."
Ping Qiong, Ye Shijie, Song Mingqian, and Li Fu had long passed the age of eighteen.
They had all achieved Gene Evolution before the age of eighteen, becoming Gene Evolvers.
Although the Mental Strength developed afterward varied in level, they had at least crossed that threshold.
Ping Qiong sighed, "I understand. Those instruments that test whether genes can evolve are actually testing the stability of the genes, right?"
Okay, I misunderstood. My Administrator Crystal is the boss, I'll change the update time back. Tomorrow's first update will still be at 0:05 a.m., and the second update will be at 1:00 p.m.
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