Replacement

After three hundred Flesh Puppets were sent into the auction hall and placed beside the next batch of selected survivors, someone suddenly spoke:

"Why aren't you saving me first?"

The one shouting was an elderly man, dressed head to toe in carefully tailored handmade clothing, with an antique mechanical watch on his wrist whose value was difficult to estimate.

A translucent jade pendant hung before his neck, now shattered.

"I have a lot of money! I own hundreds of companies, and tens of thousands of people's jobs depend on them! Why aren't you saving me first? Is it because of that ridiculous priority on reproduction? I can support tens of thousands of children, and I'm still fertile!"

The old man shouted himself hoarse.

From the injection last time, he had learned that when a new method first emerged, it was most effective, but Blood As You Wish would quickly notice it afterward.

He had been the one using blinks to send Morse code to everyone earlier.

The reason he had been able to blink just now, and could speak now, was naturally because he had spent an enormous sum purchasing quite a few protective charms.

The shattered jade pendant was merely one he displayed openly. He also kept four or five other types of protective charms close to his body.

However, it seemed their effects were minimal.

The protective charms should still have been useful; he simply lacked the ability to fully bring out their effects.

At least he could still speak.

Yet the medical robots did not even glance at him.

He still had not been selected as part of the next batch of test subjects.

Elderly men were listed among those to be saved last.

"Teacher, are there really no items that can protect Ordinary People?" Zhao Han