Chapter 95
A moment later, she suddenly opened her eyes. Her aura surged, as if she had activated the bloodline of the Child of Earth and Stone.
Grip the hammer handle tightly with both hands, then swing it up and bring it down with great force.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
With just three blows, the display case and the wall were smashed open.
Texas quickly slipped into the Secret Passage, intending to catch the Doctor had just escaped.
Worried that she might be in danger, Shi Lei instantly donned the Jade Shield. He then slipped inside the wall and followed her.
The passageway inside was dark, but the route was straight. It was estimated to be less than a meter wide, allowing at most two people to walk side by side.
After walking about a hundred meters, Shi Lei saw Texas stop in front of a narrow door. It was an extremely hard alloy door, difficult to damage from the outside.
"Let me do it!"
Shi Lei could sense that Mudrock really wanted to perform today, so he let her have her way.
After a brief moment of closed-eye prayer, Mudrock swung his sledgehammer and smashed the door again.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
This time, only a dent was caused on the surface of the alloy door; it did not reach the point of being smashed through.
Shi Lei retreated to the back of the group, took out his phone and sent a message to Lin Yuxia, asking her to bring people over.
The Doctor left nervously after only a few words; who knows what shockingly large breasts he might be hiding inside.
Seeing that his subordinates had struck the wall several times without success, he summoned a rock hammer, struck it, and instructed:
"Listen, it's hollow inside. You don't necessarily have to break down the door to get into the secret room; you can break down the wall too."
Reminded, Mudrock immediately changed the direction of his hammer blows. After smashing down one wall with two blows, he then smashed through the wall to the right of the door, successfully gaining insight into the interior of the secret room.
So this is how it was solved?
That's amazing!
Shi Lei followed the two women into the secret room and found that it was filled with a lot of medicines and experimental equipment.
High-tech equipment was operating not far away, producing capsules and canned reagent-like substances. Hmm, this feels like a small pharmaceutical workshop?
The Doctor who had escaped earlier returned and turned pale with fright when he saw the four people enter. He shouted loudly:
"Help! Someone has broken in!"
Da da da...
Accompanied by the chaotic sound of footsteps on the stairs, a group of Feline...
Upon entering the room, he brandished the sharp blade in his hand.
With Texas and Mudrock on the scene, there was no need for Shi Lei to intervene. He crossed his arms and reminded them:
"Capture them alive so it's easier to interrogate them for intelligence."
"My lord, watch me!"
Seeing that Mudrock had taken the lead, Texas was not to be outdone. Sheathing her Bronze Sword, she used the scabbard to strike her enemy fiercely.
Shi Lei was standing there watching the show when he suddenly felt a blinding halo approaching from the side. Exusiai tugged at his clothes, her voice pitiful:
"Zhongli, give me a shield quickly, I want to play too."
She's been incredibly bored these past few days, running around Texas. She's finally got a chance to really shine, how could she possibly miss it?
Before entering the Secret Passage, Shi Lei had already placed Jade Shield on everyone. However, because he hadn't adjusted the color of the shields, it looked as if they weren't there at all.
Upon noticing the brown shield appearing on her body, Exusiai reassured and joined the battle, shouting forward:
"Stop fighting! Stop fighting! Leave one for me!"
Shi Lei watched the battle for a moment, then casually opened the pile of cardboard boxes. He opened five or six boxes, which basically contained only two types of medicine.
One type is a white pill, described on the packaging as a painkiller. The other type is a green test tube, labeled as Vitality Potion.
Um?
I've never heard of taking medicine to increase energy. Could it be that kind of medicine?
The battle ended shortly afterward.
These Feline are as vulnerable as chicks compared to Texas and Mudrock.
Exusiai had barely joined the battle when the entire enemy force surrendered. This left her with a resentful expression, looking as if her fighting spirit hadn't been satisfied.
"Spare me, beautiful lady, spare me!"
The Doctor who had fled earlier was now crouching in a corner, trembling like a leaf. He never expected to encounter someone with such terrifying strength in the Lower City.
It cost a lot of money to buy this door from Columbia because we were afraid the pharmaceutical factory would be exposed. But then they broke through the wall and got in, so the door looks really stupid.
Texas grabbed his collar and demanded:
"I asked you if anyone had bought painkillers recently, why did you run away? Tell me, were you in cahoots with a Silver-haired Lupo? Where is she hiding?"
"Ah???"
The Doctor looked bewildered, a complicated expression on his face, as he glanced at Lupo and swallowed hard.
"Aren't you investigating counterfeit drugs?"
Dele.
While investigating the Silver-haired Lupo, they stumbled upon a pharmaceutical workshop. Was this an unexpected bonus?
More than ten minutes later, Lin Yuxia led her group to the clinic. Seeing a large hole in the wall, the entourage were secretly alarmed, assuming it was Zhongli's handiwork.
They walked through the narrow passageway and entered the room through the broken wall.
"Mister Zhongli."
Lin Yuxia approached Shi Lei, her attitude extremely polite. While looking around, she asked:
"Has the Silver-haired Lupo been caught?"
The latter shook his head in denial:
"No, we originally came here to gather information, but we ended up in a fake medicine workshop by mistake."
Fake medicine?
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuxia looked at the opened cardboard box and suddenly her pupils widened. She picked up a bottle of Vitality Potion and examined it closely, her expression becoming unusually serious.
Shi Lei noticed something was wrong and asked:
"What's wrong?"
Lin Yuxia unscrewed the bottle cap, sniffed it, and explained:
"To be honest, Mister Zhongli, this Vitality Potion is my family's exclusive formula. We are the only ones selling it in the entire Yan. Drinking it can refresh your mind."
Wow, that's impressive.
Shi Lei had only known that the Lin family were the underground emperors of the Slums, but he never expected that they would actually produce this in secret. Since it was a monopoly, it must be incredibly profitable, like SK-II, and should be one of the Lin family's important sources of income.
He had previously wondered where Lin Gerei's income came from, since almost everyone he managed was poor.
Now, the truth has finally come out.
The Vitality Potion has a wide target audience, including students and office workers. Shi Lei had never heard of it before; perhaps it was intentional on the part of the Lin family.
There are many infected people in the Slums, and customers who know that the products were made in the Lower City are very likely to not buy them.
Texas was unable to extract any information about Lappland from the interrogation, so she handed the case over to Lin Yuxia.
"Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely. Tell me, where did you get the formula for the Vitality Potion?"
Knowing he was seriously injured today, the Doctor honestly confessed:
"I have a pharmacist from the Lin family, and we've been classmates for six years. At the beginning of last year, he went home to visit his family for the Chinese New Year. After getting drunk, he told me the formula and proportions. I secretly wrote it down and then cooperated with the gangs here."
"How come there are so many painkillers?"
"They didn't dare sell Vitality Potion locally, fearing the Rat King would find out. Later, they complained about the long transaction cycle and asked me to find a way to generate revenue. Since some of the ingredients in Vitality Potion are similar to painkillers, I had them purchase more raw materials and set up a production line to make them."
In the Lower City, there are many impoverished infected people. They can't afford the inhibitors that cost tens of thousands of dollars per injection, so they take painkillers to tough it out when they can't bear it anymore.
This drug not only has a market, but a very large one.
After confirming that the other party had no connection with Silver-haired Lupo, Lin Yuxia called someone to come and take over the scene.
She later called Lin Gerei to ask how to deal with the workshop, the medicine, and the gang behind it.
The search for Lappland continues.
March 5
Sun, 3:00 pm
Many high-ranking Cat Gang gathered around an oval wooden table for a video conference with the gang leader via a large screen:
"Has anyone developed Vitality Potion this time?"
"Sorry, guild leader, we failed..."
"Damn it, damn it, a bunch of good-for-nothings!"
The senior executives of the pharmaceutical department lowered their heads and, after a moment, recounted the current difficulties they were facing:
"Boss, we have too few pharmacists. Most of our researchers aren't in this field, so they can't analyze the special ingredients in the Vitality Potion."
"Too few? Then go recruit them! Do you need to teach me that?"
"The pharmacists with this skill level are all working at Lungmen Hospital and the Lungmen Guard Department. With our current capabilities, we cannot produce a substitute for Vitality Potion."
Upon hearing the gang leader send another cryptic telegram, a high-ranking official from the real estate department suddenly raised his hand and said:
"Boss, we've had quite a bit of dealing with the Koi-Style Detective Agency lately. They have a genius young man there who's incredibly skilled at concocting potions. But getting him to work for the Cat Gang won't be that easy."
"Ha, a prodigy? Try throwing money at him first and see if he's willing to come. If he really has the ability, kidnap him to make medicine. As long as he can make a substitute for the Vitality Potion and break the Rat King's market monopoly, that's fine. I'll allocate some more manpower to you later to make this happen as soon as possible."
The senior executives of the real estate department stood tall and replied:
"Receive!"
150 Lone Wolf's Confessions (3K)
March 5th, 3:30 pm
Lin Gerei received a call from his daughter and led a large group of people to District 24, almost all of them.
Vitality Potion are his proprietary formula, the Lin family's most important source of income. The appearance of pirated versions within their own territory is a particularly egregious offense.
Destroying someone's livelihood is tantamount to taking their life.
The Rat King will certainly not let the Doctor and the gang behind him who provided him with financial assistance off lightly.
He brought so many people not to intimidate criminals or prevent others from imitating him, but to seal off the scene and prevent the counterfeit drug issue from leaking out.
As long as customers don't trace the source, it won't affect the sales of this product in Lungmen or even Yan.
If the public associates the Vitality Potion with the image of the Lower City, we are likely to lose a lot of orders in the future, so we have to proceed with caution.
The Rat King knew that Shi Lei and the other two, along with Mudrock, were present, but he had no intention of involving them in the aftermath. He could handle such a small matter himself; there was no need to entrust it to others.
As the holder of the exclusive Vitality Potion, Lin Gerei could tell the difference between the pirated and genuine products just by looking at the equipment and raw materials at the workshop.
Fortunately, they lacked the most crucial ingredient, so the Vitality Potion they produced was only a semi-finished product. In terms of efficacy, it was less than 30% of the genuine product. It could boost alertness in the short term, with effects similar to coffee.
This stuff isn't poisonous; it won't kill you.