Inside the hospital on Coro Island, Garrett was staring at the ceiling in a daze.
He was less than thirty years old this year, but the doctor told him that he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. He had read the diagnosis and signed it, but he could not accept this fact no matter what.
Celestial Trade's employee benefits were very high. If he lost his ability to work due to a work-related injury, not only would he receive a high pension, but the rest of his life would also be guaranteed by Celestial Trade.
However, no matter how much money he had, he couldn't smile.
He would rather not have the money in exchange for his health …
But he also knew very well that this was impossible. With the current medical conditions, it was not enough to cure his injury.
The door of the ward opened, and a very unexpected person appeared in the doorway.
Garrett tilted his head.
"Please forgive me for not saluting. It's a miracle that I can still joke with you now. "
Jiang Chen smiled and walked to the side of the bed.
"You can still joke? It seems that your mentality is good."
Garrett shook his head.
"No, this is not a joke. I'm telling the truth."
"I know." Jiang Chen nodded and looked at the flowers on the bedside table. "Your wife has already been here?"
"Yes," Garrett replied.
"I'm really sorry about your injury …"
"No, you don't have to be sorry." Garrett shook his head. "Thanks to the protection of the kinetic skeleton, I can still lie here in a daze."
Looking at his legs, Jiang Chen pondered for a moment and suddenly said.
"Do you want revenge?"
"Revenge?"
"Mhmm, to the person who took your legs."
Garrett laughed at himself and shook his head. "You must be joking. I can't even get out of bed and walk now. Forget about revenge, I'll have to rely on the nurse to help me eat. "
"What if I say … I have a way to help you stand up?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.
Garrett was stunned.
He just wanted to say that it was impossible, but he suddenly remembered the other identity of the commander.
The president of Future Group!
For the name Future Group, nothing was impossible. Whether it was artificial intelligence, virtual reality, or graphene, it had been questioned countless times by media experts, but it always created miracles that people couldn't believe their eyes.
If it was Jiang Chen's promise, it might really work!
Garrett swallowed and was about to speak.
"But I have to remind you that the success rate of the surgery is only 10%. We will replace your entire damaged spine with titanium alloy, and then install special electronic neurons in it. I guarantee that even with anesthesia, this surgery will still be very painful. "
The success rate was actually 40%, but it was still very painful. After all, it was an operation on the nerves. Jiang Chen wanted to know his resolve, so he purposely exaggerated the surgery's failure rate.
Garrett took a deep breath.
Jiang Chen thought he would be scared, but he still had the energy to joke around.
"Will I become Captain America?"
The question made Jiang Chen pause for a second before he burst out laughing.
"Of course not. Maybe you're stronger than him."
…
Garrett agreed to the surgery, which was within Jiang Chen's expectations.
After the conversation, he signed the confidentiality agreement provided by Jiang Chen.
Regardless of the reason, they were not allowed to reveal the details of the surgery, not allowed to use their abilities for illegal acts, and had to unconditionally obey the commands of the organization. The doctors will implant a slavery chip in his spine during the surgery. If betrayal is confirmed, the slavery chip will blow up the main control system of the spine and turn him back into a useless person.
After the agreement was signed, he would be discharged from the hospital and transferred to the underground facility of New Moon Island. The doctor responsible for the slavery chip implantation surgery would perform the spinal nerve replacement surgery there.
Even if Jiang Chen obtained some of the surgical equipment from the apocalypse, the mortality rate of the surgery was still very high with the medical standards of the modern world. However, on the way to the hospital, Garrett's expression was unusually calm.
He would rather die on the operating table than spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
Even if it meant that from now on, he would wear a "dog leash" and do some dirty work for Jiang Chen, and perform more dangerous tasks than before.
Fortunately, the surgery was very successful.
The surgery not only replaced his spine, but also replaced the bones of his limbs.
Now, even without the kinetic skeleton, he could punch through a steel plate and lift a car. The six-inch graphene circuit board implanted in the back of the skull was integrated with retinal imaging, radio life signal detection devices, drone control components, motion signal modems, and other black technology chips.
Intuitively speaking, as long as he had a rifle, without considering battlefield support, he could easily take on a squad of UA Marines.
Whether it was street combat or field combat.
Just as Garrett completed the surgery, Jiang Chen saw Zhu Tianyou, who had already regained consciousness, in the ward of New Moon Island.
When Zhu Tianyou saw the person who came to visit, he looked over in surprise.
"Jiang Chen?"
"Do you know me?" Jiang Chen looked at Zhu Tianyou in surprise and asked with a smile.
"Who in this world doesn't know you?" Zhu Tianyou said with a weak smile.
"Drug lords also read the newspaper?" Jiang Chen mocked.
Zhu Tianyou's expression didn't change at all as he laughed.
"It seems that nothing can be hidden from Mr. Jiang's eyes."
"The Xiangjiang government asked me about your name, and I told them that you are not on the list of survivors." Jiang Chen smiled.
"What do you need me to do?" Zhu Tianyou closed his eyes and said straightforwardly.
"Do you know this person?" Jiang Chen took the tablet from the bodyguard next to him and threw it on Zhu Tianyou's body.
Zhu Tianyou opened his eyes and glanced at the tablet. His expression instantly changed, and he squeezed out a few words from his tightly clenched teeth.
"Even if he was burned to ashes, I would still know him."
"Tell me what you know," Jiang Chen said.
"He tied me in the bathtub, turned on the faucet, and planned to drown me," Zhu Tianyou said with hatred.
"Reason?"
Zhu Tianyou hesitated, but he still sighed and told the truth.
"We were talking business on the deck, and he offered to buy ten tons of salt from me."
"Salt?" Jiang Chen frowned slightly.
"Bath salts, a drug extracted from khat." Zhu Tianyou looked at Jiang Chen, paused for a moment, and then said, "But then I found out that he could only take out 5 million yen, which was not even a fraction, so the deal fell through."
Zhu Tianyou's expression looked like he saw a ghost.
"Then?" Jiang Chen asked in an undertone.
Zhu Tianyou took a deep breath and calmed himself down.
"Then … he took off his hat, and then his whole body fell on the table. There was no breathing, no heartbeat, no pulse. He died just like that! Yes, I thought he was dead, but then something strange happened! "
"What strange thing?"
"Someone died on the ship. It was definitely troublesome, especially because of my special identity. In order to avoid trouble, I asked my two bodyguards to hold him, pretend that he was drunk, drag him to the stern, and throw him into the sea. And I myself returned to the room first. "
Zhu Tianyou's face became paler.
"In the room, I saw him sitting on the chair, and he was still smiling at me …"
Jiang Chen fell into deep thought.
Sure enough, as he expected, Tanaka was indeed alive, and he did not die on the plane so easily. And the virus leak was also his doing. The problem lay in the hat. The hat was like some kind of switch. Once it was taken off, he would die.
And the problem was that Tanaka seemed to have more than "one life."
But how did he do it?
Jiang Chen frowned slightly.
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