╭( ) For the sake of sincerity, the antidote had to be as fresh as possible!
"..."
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A few minutes later, Annie found her target at the Rice Is Steel restaurant in Dragonbone Village: Xu Tong, a member of White Moon魁's Dragonbone Village field team. He wore a Peking-opera-style mask, and his activated source potential had awakened his appendix, allowing it to produce bacteria that broke down crimson spores. His feces could even be refined into an antidote for crimson disease!
Since White Moon魁, Boss Bai, had already reached a preliminary agreement with the Lighthouse envoys on certain terms, their first contact had gone fairly smoothly. So, at the envoys' request, Boss Bai planned to provide them with enough antidote for one person.
Boss Bai didn't care why the other party was so desperate to get the antidote for crimson disease, or who they wanted to save with it. She hadn't asked.
And Annie didn't care either!
All Annie had to do was get the antidote for the crimson spores as quickly as possible and deliver it to the Lighthouse envoys, showing them Dragonbone Village's goodwill.
"..."
At that moment, Xu Tong was sitting at a window-side table on the second floor of Rice Is Steel, one of the few places to eat in Dragonbone Village. A few simple, rough-looking dishes sat in front of him as he ate slowly, his back to the entrance.
"Ah-ha!"
Now that she'd finally found her target, Annie didn't hesitate. She dashed up to the second floor in a flurry.
Then, without asking for his permission, she plopped down in front of him. She didn't care that his ugly face was exposed as he ate with his mask open. Resting both hands on the table, she gazed at him with sparkling eyes and