Xu Huo didn't care whether Bai Jing answered. He continued, "Don't you think what happened at the Winter Wind Laboratory is very similar to what happened twenty years ago? Zone 023 doesn't possess the core technology for human experimentation. Where were the people they captured and the corpses they took away sent in the end? Zone 023 is so poor—could they really afford such a high bounty? Or are they, like the Outer District Players, just trying to earn it?"
"Someone among you must have noticed, right? The new District Government has been around for so many years. It couldn't possibly have stayed out of things like a neutral party... Someone among you must have been to the core area of the new District Government, right?"
"Did you find any evidence of human experimentation?"
"Is that what you want to know?" Bai Jing looked at him in surprise.
"That was my goal from the start. I never hid it." Xu Huo pushed aside the empty bowl in front of him. "Haven't I been asking you about it the whole way here? You could stand to be a little more sincere."
Bai Jing was at a loss for words. After a moment, he said, "I'll pass what you said along to my friends. As for the human experimentation you mentioned, at least ten cities in Zone 023 have established experimental areas... Even though they're outsiders, they can adapt quite well."
His last remark was steeped in sarcasm, but he still didn't reveal anything.
Xu Huo could understand. He had another option: Dr. Dorr of Gemini City. Although the stand-ins had all set out from First City, Dr. Dorr himself wasn't necessarily in Gemini City.
But the fact that Gemini City was willing to pay such a high price to rescue their