Translator: _Min_ Editor: Caron_
In Coro Island hospital, Garrett stared at the ceiling in a daze.
He was under thirty years old, but the doctor told him he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. He had seen the diagnosis and also signed on it, but he couldn’t accept the facts.
Celestial Trade had excellent welfare. If he lost his ability to work due to work-related injuries, not only would he receive a large sum of discharge funds, but the rest of his life would be guaranteed by Celestial Trade.
However, no amount of money could make him smile.
He would rather not have the money if he could have his health back…
But he knew it was impossible. With present-day medical conditions, it simply wasn’t enough to cure his injury.
The door opened and an unexpected person appeared at the door.
Garrett nodded.
“Forgive me for not saluting. you. It’s a miracle I can still joke with you.”
Jiang Chen smiled and went to the bed.
“You can still joke; looks like you’re in a good mood.”
Garrett shook his head.
“No, this isn’t a joke. I’m telling the truth.”
“I know.” Jiang Chen nodded and looked at the flowers on the nightstand. “Has your wife been here?”
“Yes,” Garrett replied.
“I’m really sorry about your injury …”
“No, you don’t need to be sorry.” Garrett shook his head. “Thanks to the kinetic skeleton’s protection, I’m still lying here, staring blankly.”
Looking at his legs, Jiang Chen pondered for a moment and suddenly said, “Do you want to seek revenge?”
“Revenge?”
“Well, against those who took your legs.”
Garrett laughed with self-mockery and shook his head, “You’re joking with me again. I can’t even walk out of bed, let alone seek revenge; I have to rely on my nurse to help me eat dinner.”
“What if I say … I have a way to help you stand up?” Jiang Chen said with a smile.
Garrett was astonished.
He wanted to say that was impossible, but he suddenly remembered his commander’s other identity.
President of Future Group!
There was no such thing as “impossible” to Future Group. Whether it was artificial intelligence or virtual reality or graphene, they always created unbelievable miracles in front of people’s own eyes.
If that was Jiang Chen’s promise, perhaps it would come true!
Garrett gulped and prepared to speak.
“But I have to remind you that the operation has a 10% success rate and we’ll have to replace your entire damaged spine with titanium then install a special electronic neuron module. I guarantee that even with tranquilizers, this surgery will be extremely painful. ”
The success rate was 40%, but the pain would be real. After all, it was an operation done on the nerves. Jiang Chen wanted to know Garrett’s limits, so he deliberately exaggerated the failure rate of the surgery.
Garrett took a deep breath.
Jiang Chen originally thought he would be afraid; Jiang Chen didn’t think he still had the energy left in him to joke.
“Will I become Captain America?”
Jiang Chen was stunned by the question then he pleasantly laughed.
“Of course not. Maybe you’ll be stronger than him.”
…
Garrett agreed to surgery, which was also expected by Jiang Chen.
After the conversation, he signed a confidentiality agreement.
For whatever reason, the contents of the surgery couldn’t be divulged, and the ability mustn’t be used for unlawful conduct. The order of the organization had to be obeyed unconditionally and so on. The doctor would implant a slavery chip in his spine at the time of the operation. If he was guilty of betrayal, the slavery chip would blow up his spine’s main control system and change him back into a crippled person.
After the agreement was signed, he would be scheduled to be discharged and transferred to the New Moon Island underground facility, where the surgeon responsible for the enslaved chip implementation would undertake the spinal nerve replacement surgery.
Even though Jiang Chen acquired some medical equipment for the surgery from the apocalypse, the mortality rate of the operation was still high under modern world medical conditions. However, while he was being taken to the hospital, Garrett’s expression was unusually calm.
He would rather die on the operating table than sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Even that meant that from now on, he would wear a “dog chain,” do some dirty work for Jiang Chen and carry out more dangerous tasks than ever before.
Luckily, the operation was very successful.
The surgery not only replaced his spine but also replaced the bones in his limbs.
Now, even without relying on the kinetic skeleton, he could bend a steel plate and pick up a car. He had a 6-inch graphene circuit board, integrated retinal imaging, radio life signal detection devices, UAV control components, and motion signal modems implanted in the posterior cranium.
Intuitively speaking, as long he had a rifle, he could easily take on a team if both sides had no support on the battlefield.
The environment would make no difference.
At the same time Garrett’s operation was completed, Jiang Chen saw Zhu Tianyou, who regained his consciousness in a ward on New Moon Island.
Zhu Tianyou made out the person visiting him and looked surprised.
“Jiang Chen?”
“Do you know me?” Jiang Chen looked at Zhu Tianyou unexpectedly and asked with a smile.
“Who in this world doesn’t know you?” Zhu Tianyou smiled feebly.
“Drug lords also read the newspaper?”
Zhu Tianyou’s expression didn’t change.
“It seems nothing can blind Mr. Jiang’s eyes.”
“The Xiangjiang government asked me about you and I told them you weren’t on the list of survivors,” Jiang said with a smile.
“What do you need me to do?” Zhu Tianyou’s eyes closed and he spoke with straightforwardness.
“Do you know this person?” Jiang Chen took the tablet from the bodyguard and threw it on Zhu Tianyou’s bed.
Zhu Tianyou opened his eyes and glanced at the screen. His face instantly changed and he squeezed out a few words from his clenched teeth.
“I would recognize him even if he turned into ashes.”
“Tell me what you know,” said Jiang Chen.
“He tied me in the bathtub, turned on the tap and drowned me,” Zhu Tianyou said with hatred.
“Reason?”
He hesitated, but with a sigh, he honestly confessed.
“At that time, we were talking about business on the deck and he proposed to buy ten tons of salt from me.”
“Salt?” Jiang frowned.
“Bath Salt, a kind of drug extracted from Arabian tea.” Zhu Tianyou looked at Jiang Chen, paused for a moment then said, “But then I realized he only had 5 million Yen, not even enough for a fraction, so the deal fell apart.”
When he said this, Zhu Tianyou’s face looked like he had just seen a ghost.
“What happened?” Jiang Chen asked quietly.
Zhu Tianyou took a deep breath to force himself to calm down.
“Then… he took off his hat, and the whole person fell on the table. No breathing, no heartbeat, no pulse, dead! Yes, I thought he was dead, but a strange thing happened next!”
“What strange thing?”
“Someone died on board. It was definitely a nuisance for someone to die on board, especially since my identity is rather special. In order to prevent trouble, I asked my two bodyguards to pick him up, pretending he was drunk. Then they dragged him to the end of the boat and dropped him into the sea. As for myself, I returned to the room.”
Zhu Tianyou’s face turned paler.
“In the room, he was sitting in a chair and smiling at me…”
Jiang Chen was deep in thought.
Sure enough, Tanaka was still alive and hadn’t died on the plane. The infection was also his responsibility. The problem laid in that hat – the hat was like a switch. He would die after it was removed.
The problem was that Tanaka seemed to have more than “one life.”
How did he do it?
Jiang Chen furrowed.
