Chapter 9

One day later

"Cough, cough, cough!"

After a severe bout of coughing, Fang Linyan's face turned ashen, his teeth clenched so hard they made a grinding sound, and his forehead was drenched in cold sweat. His entire body was bent like a shrimp out of water.

After a long while, he finally regained his strength, then wiped his lips with a handkerchief. Seeing the shocking blackish-red on the handkerchief, he coldly threw it away and stepped into an old residential building.

After checking the number, he went to the third floor and stood next to the right-hand apartment. Just as he was about to knock on the door, it opened by itself. A bald man with a blue tattoo on his neck opened the door, his arm in a cast hanging in front of his chest. He said rudely:

"Kid, get lost!"

Then he pushed past Fang Linyan and walked away.

As soon as Fang Linyan entered, he smelled the disinfectant. The floor was dirty, the furniture was in disarray, and there were blood-stained tissues and cigarette butts scattered around, but no one was in sight. He coughed and said:

"Is Doctor Zhou here?"

From the adjacent bathroom came the sound of flushing, followed by a pale, haggard, and emaciated middle-aged man emerging. His beard was unkempt, as if he had just pulled an all-nighter, with deep-set eyes and a dirty white coat that hadn't been washed in who knows how long, with several bloodstains on it.

The man did not answer but said coldly and warily:

"Who sent you?"

Fang Linyan spread his hands and said:

"Old Xia, who plays with cars, said you can get some things that can't be found elsewhere."

Hearing the name "Old Xia," Doctor Zhou relaxed, lit a cigarette, and took a deep puff. He looked Fang Linyan up and down impatiently and said:

"Got money? Take it out and put it on the table!"

Fang Linyan pulled out two thousand yuan from his pocket.

Seeing the money, Doctor Zhou took it, counted it, and then said indifferently:

"Okay, do you want ecstasy or happy water? I also have Wave King No. 1, but that costs extra."

Fang Linyan shook his head and said:

"No, I want EVE and the inhaled Super Nitro Pump. I need twenty EVEs and two bottles of Super Nitro Pump."

Doctor Zhou was taken aback and scolded irritably:

"Are you looking for death? Combining EVE with Super Nitro Pump won't make you feel good; it will only strongly numb your nerves and keep you from sleeping at night! If you do this, you'll have severe kidney failure in two or three years!"

Fang Linyan said coldly:

"Two or three years is too long."

Doctor Zhou was stunned and said:

"What?"

Fang Linyan said:

"I have late-stage lung cancer. I'm not here to get high; I'm here to make the next few days more bearable."

Doctor Zhou was silent for a moment and then said:

"Confirmed?"

Fang Linyan smiled bitterly and said:

"I wish it wasn't."

Doctor Zhou didn't say much more, turned around, and went into the room. He quickly came out with a handbag and said:

"This is Carloni from the Netherlands. When used with Super Nitro Pump, it has a better pain-relieving effect, but you can only take one at a time, and no more than three a day, understand?"

He threw the bag to Fang Linyan, looked at the money on the table, took a hundred yuan, and impatiently pushed the rest back to Fang Linyan:

"Get out, get out, don't waste my time, really."

Fang Linyan was stunned but was already pushed out the door. He was silent for a moment, didn't say thank you, and after taking a few steps, he turned and gave Doctor Zhou a deep look before leaving.

About half an hour later, Fang Linyan returned to his residence with the drugs.

First, he took a Carloni pill, then inhaled the Super Nitro Pump. Carloni is a banned drug in the country, known for directly increasing nerve sensitivity and blocking pain. Notably, it is often used in large-scale SM sessions before the act, and it sells quite well.

Super Nitro Pump is a strong stimulant, mainly composed of caffeine, arginine, taurine, electrolytes, sugar, betaine, citrulline, tyrosine, and branched-chain amino acids.

Using these two together allowed Fang Linyan to suppress the pain of late-stage cancer and squeeze out the last bit of energy from his weakened body. This was definitely not a good thing and could shorten his expected eight-month lifespan to four months, but what choice did Fang Linyan have at this point?

On Fang Linyan's desk, there was already a piece of paper with a few hastily written lines, summarizing the intelligence and clues he had gathered. However, the sudden severe pain from late-stage cancer forced him to interrupt his work and go out to buy the drugs.

The paper contained Fang Linyan's analysis of Fangya.

Indeed, it was clear to anyone with eyes that the key to Fang Linyan's survival lay in the powerful and mysterious Fangya. What Fang Linyan needed to do was kill him and retrieve the retroviral vector injection.

This was the only hope for Fang Linyan at this point!

However, for Fang Linyan, killing someone as strong as Fangya was an almost impossible task. Even killing a chicken might be beyond his capabilities at this point!

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Meanwhile,

The incident at the dock caused intense turmoil in the entire underground world.

The theft of the retroviral vector injection was already enough to cause a significant impact. This substance was at least two generations ahead of the current peak technology, and the organization that created it was already incredibly powerful.

The organization that managed to steal this from a secret research institute in Sweden also had immense influence.

Now, they had lost both the person and the goods, and there were no survivors at the dock. This naturally enraged the entire organization, and they vowed to investigate the matter at all costs and retrieve the goods.

However, based on the intelligence they currently had, they were completely in the dark about the identity of the attackers, completely baffled. According to the professionals who went to the scene, the battle had many suspicious points that completely defied their common sense.

What they didn't expect was that the information they desperately sought was right on a teenager's desk.

After taking the newly bought drugs, Fang Linyan sat back at his desk. His pale cheeks now had two abnormal red patches, and his eyes seemed to shine with a fierce light, the result of burning his life to the fullest. He began to refine the information he had written.

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