Monster droppings carried a far stronger stench than ordinary animal manure.
No matter how thoroughly they underwent Harmless Treatment, the smell always remained.
Therefore, they had to be placed downwind.
Meng Chao was an industry insider and was very familiar with the layout of such biochemical industrial parks.
Before long, he found the convergence point of dozens of sewage pipes: a silvery, gleaming enclosed Fermentation Pool that resembled a Reaction Kettle.
Dawn had only just broken.
Many monsters were still asleep.
It was not yet the peak time for mass excretion.
The public treatment center was maintaining only the bare minimum of operations.
There were only a few staff members, bleary-eyed and sluggish.
This place specifically served small and medium-sized enterprises that kept fewer than five or six hundred monsters.
It was not some heavily guarded military stronghold.
Meng Chao easily slipped past the staff's line of sight.
From an empty office, he stole the consumables issue slips from the past month, along with the relevant data sheets.
The Red Radiance Jade Mine in the Raging Wave Mountain region had once undergone a massive explosion.
Even now, Ling Magnetic Interference remained extremely intense.
Many instruments and devices were easily affected, resulting in missing data and system crashes.
Thus, most data still had to be recorded by hand in physical ledgers.
Meng Chao read through the two running accounts labeled "Horizon Biotechnology Co., Ltd." from beginning to end, then closed his eyes and calculated mentally for a while.
When he opened his eyes again, suspicion flickered in their depths.
"Strange."
He murmured, "The data here doesn't quite conform to common sense."
"How so?"
Ai Lei asked, "Did you find anything unusual, Senior?"
"It's precisely because there's nothing unusual that it seems especially strange."
Meng Chao first tapped the issue slip on