"Yes, yes, yes. I'm at the shopping mall in the New District. There's an anomaly here—it was interfering with communications throughout the area. I took it out, so the signal blockage has been lifted. It's that simple," Sun Hang said into his phone. "I've got other things to deal with right now, so I probably won't be heading back anytime soon. I'll leave Yang Lian to you, her big sister. All right, that's it, I'm hanging up first... Oh, wait. I forgot to mention it—send a squad to the entrance of the shopping mall to pick someone up."
"You're asking who? Just a scavenger." With that, Sun Hang hung up on Yang Qi.
The scavenger girl stared at Sun Hang in terror. While he had been making that call, he had glanced at her several times. Though she was deaf, she wasn't stupid; she could tell at a glance that he had been discussing something related to her.
Sun Hang walked over and placed a hand on her shoulder. The next second, his voice rang directly in her mind. "Someone will pick you up at the entrance to the shopping mall later. Just go with them when they arrive."
With a thud, the pale-faced scavenger girl dropped to her knees. Trembling, she said, "P-please... please don't hand me over to the Investigation Bureau... Don't..."
"Uh... you may have misunderstood. The people coming to pick you up aren't from the Investigation Bureau. They're from the Anomaly Research Institute."
It would have been better if Sun Hang had said nothing. The moment he mentioned the Institute, images of "being dissected" and "live experiments" flashed through the scavenger girl's mind, and she began shaking even harder.
"What I mean is, since you gave me useful intelligence, I can let the matter of you