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Money, still lacking money.
Illumi sighed in his heart. Everything required a huge amount of money. It seemed he had to go back to taking jobs again.
Ten billion Jenny, seemingly a lot, but as soon as the money was spent on various expensive research equipment, it would quickly melt away like ice in boiling water.
Fortunately, he still had his assassin identity, and his money-making speed was not slow.
However, he couldn't always rely on killing people to earn money.
"Boss..."
Ging Freecss's voice interrupted Illumi's contemplation. The other four also looked at him.
Illumi regained his focus, stood up, and said.
"The three doctors have just arrived at our company and must be very tired. Please rest well today."
"Tomorrow, Ging will take you to understand the information on the documents."
"Additionally, regarding research equipment, list out what you need, and we will arrange for someone to purchase it."
After speaking, Illumi waved his hand. The three doctors exchanged glances and nodded.
Having arranged for the three doctors, Illumi stepped out of the conference room and into the office. He looked at Machi, who was sitting on the sofa in a daze, and said.
"Machi, you'll stay here for this period. I will find you the best tutors."
"Also, your legal identity and nationality are being processed. You'll receive them in three days."
"What is your purpose, and what is my talent?"
Machi looked at him, her face cold. She didn't have much goodwill towards this person who had inexplicably kidnapped her.
She didn't even know her own talent; how could this person she had never met know?
Illumi smiled faintly at her, did not answer, waved his hand, and left the office directly.
Leaving the company headquarters building, Illumi went to the parking lot, got into a black SUV, refused Pride's companionship, and left the company headquarters alone.
Departing from the company headquarters, the SUV drove along the rugged road towards Sugland City. The uneven ground occasionally bounced him up.
"It seems a road needs to be built."
Braving the vast white snow, Illumi drove all the way to Sugland City Airport, bought a ticket at the counter, and boarded an airship bound for the United States of Edime.
After that, he would fly from Gro City in the United States of Edime to the Republic of Batokia.
Nine months had passed since he left home to carry out his assassination mission last year.
In these nine months, he hadn't returned home once, not even made a single phone call. Silva hadn't contacted him either, as if he had been left to fend for himself.
He hadn't even been contacted during the New Year last year. This time, he wondered if his extremely controlling mother, Kikyo, would go crazy.
"Your Danxia Red, sir."
Inside the bar on the airship, a bartender poured a mixed drink into a glass and placed it before Illumi.
"Mm."
Illumi softly "mm'd," picked up the glass, and went to sit at the bar by the window. He gazed at the scenery outside, letting his mind wander.
He was in a daze.
Sometimes, dazing off was the best way for people to rest.
During a journey, sitting in a car and staring blankly at the scenery outside the window was a wonderful experience.
Looking at the mountains, rivers, white clouds, and the sea passing by outside the window.
At this time, you seemed to be able to get closer to them, to have a subtle communication with them.
"Buzz..."
As Illumi sensed nature, transparent aura continuously emanated from his body, spreading outwards from him.
"The range of En has reached ten meters."
Illumi sensed this range. Within ten meters around him, no one's movements could escape his perception.
"However, the use of En seems to be more than just this."
Illumi suddenly felt that his En was somewhat different from ordinary En. He closed his eyes and tried hard to imagine.
"Hm?"
Suddenly, Illumi's tightly closed eyes trembled. He "saw" it in his mind: the emotional aura swirling around people.
Not seeing with his eyes, but with imagination.
Illumi not only perceived every movement within a ten-meter radius but also the emotions of the people within that range of his En. His emotional sensing ability was no longer limited to his eyes.
The coming and going movements of people, the intertwining trajectories of various emotions, he could even perceive the traces people left on the ground.
Moreover, he noticed that everyone's emotions differed more or less.
He could even lock onto the emotional aura of a person and track them.
Illumi opened his eyes and turned to look at everything inside the bar.
At this moment, a slender, black-haired beauty in a dark blue suit passed by him.
"This is it."
Illumi stared at the long trail of emotional aura floating in front of him. Following the trail of the aura, he easily found the black-haired beauty from earlier.
She was currently sitting at a round table in a corner, chatting and laughing with a companion.
Seemingly sensing an unknown gaze, she frowned and turned her head. Seeing a handsome young man, she smiled and nodded lightly at him.
Illumi also nodded and smiled. The other party no longer paid attention to him and continued to chat and laugh with her companion.
Illumi concentrated. He tried to advance his En and emotional sensing further, wondering if he could perceive others' thoughts, like the Chimera Ant King Meruem.
"Who is that man?"
After a long time, although Illumi did not succeed, his hearing was excellent.
Even in this bar playing music, he could hear the conversation at the round table seven meters away from him.
"He's been staring at you. He's interested in you, and he's very handsome."
Two people sat at the round table. Besides the black-haired beauty, there was also a flaxen-haired woman. She glanced at Illumi and chuckled at her companion.
"He'll come over."
However, the black-haired beauty raised her chin and said triumphantly.
"Are you sure?"
The flaxen-haired beauty rested her right hand on her chin and asked curiously.
"I smiled at him ten minutes ago, and then I haven't looked at him since."
The black-haired beauty shrugged confidently, took a small sip of her cocktail, and smiled assuredly.
"Beep..."
Suddenly, Illumi's phone vibrated in his pocket. He took it out and saw it was a call from Isacape.
"What is it?"
"Boss, the woman you're looking at right now, her identity isn't simple."
Isacape's gloomy voice came through the phone. Illumi looked at the two beautiful women chatting and laughing in the corner, but said nothing.
"I observed their appearances through the airship's surveillance and seem to have seen them somewhere before."
"To confirm my thoughts, I transmitted their photos for a search, and indeed, they're not simple."
"First, the black-haired woman, named Helen Stuart."
"She is a biomedical doctor from the National Medical University of the United States of Edime, currently serving as a research supervisor at a branch of Inmenna Biotech Company."
"And as I continued to investigate her information, I found that Inmenna Biotech Company's recent actions seem a bit strange."
Illumi frowned, turned around, facing away from the two beauties in the corner, and asked, with his phone pressed to his cheek.
"What did you find?"
"Heh heh..."
Isacape chuckled darkly.
"According to my investigation, Inmenna Biotech Company seems to have obtained a new type of microorganism that has never appeared in the world before."
"Now, Inmenna Biotech Company seems to have made a breakthrough in its research on this new microorganism. They seem to have discovered the possibility of developing new antibiotics from this microorganism."
"This project has been named Illumina-a."
"And just a month ago, the Presidential Council of Scientific Advisors of the United States of Edime already recommended that the government take measures to accelerate research on new antibiotics."
"They also recommended that the FDA expedite approval for this type of drug, establishing a special green fast track."
"Heh heh, boss, this is an opportunity."
Isacape's gloomy laughter rang out again, his meaning clear. Illumi hung up the phone, turned his head to look at the black-haired beauty in the corner, and a faint smile played on his lips.
"It seems going home will have to wait."
Illumi sat at the bar by the window, drinking and waiting.
Thirty minutes later, the two beauties seemed to have had enough to drink and chat, and stood up to leave the bar.
Before leaving, they glanced at Illumi with a smile in their eyes.
Antibiotics, the most famous representative being the renowned penicillin, have saved tens of thousands of lives since their discovery.
However, due to humanity's widespread misuse of antibiotics, some bacteria have become increasingly resistant, rendering many antibiotics useless.
This situation has worsened since the 1980s, the period five years before Illumi's birth.
Many biomedical companies' development of new antibiotics has lagged far behind the rate at which bacteria develop resistance, leading to research costs outstripping returns.
This status quo continues to this day, but this is just the beginning.
Currently, numerous pharmaceutical giants worldwide are heavily investing in antibiotic research and development, leading to fierce competition.
This has also led to bacteria continuously strengthening their resistance. In recent years, many super-resistant bacteria have rapidly increased, causing many previously controlled diseases to spin out of control.
Illumi suspected that with the emergence of this new type of microorganism, a major disaster would also occur in the human world.
This phenomenon has garnered attention from various countries, which is why the United States of Edime implemented such policies.
In fact, it wasn't just the United States of Edime; other major countries also implemented similar policies, such as Paggurose.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have been pleased to hear that Ging Freecss was establishing a biotechnology company. Even if they resolved the Spitzer incident, they wouldn't have strongly supported it.
United States of Edime, Gro City.
The airship slowly landed at the airport. Illumi walked out of the cabin feeling relaxed and quietly followed Helen Stuart and her companion, who were dragging their luggage ahead.
After leaving the airport, Helen Stuart was immediately approached by two men in black suits who provided her protection. She had no choice but to separate from her companion and enter a waiting black car.
Illumi watched the black car drive away, casually hailed a taxi, and followed it.
The taxi followed the black car all the way to the outskirts, where they soon saw an industrial park in the distance—the headquarters of Inmenna Biotech Company.
"You can stop here."
Illumi instructed the driver, took out a stack of Jenny and handed it to him. Amidst the driver's grateful gaze, he pushed open the car door and got out.
Illumi placed a micro-earpiece behind his ear, and Isacape's voice immediately sounded in it.
"That's Inmenna's factory area."
Illumi stood on the path outside, gazing at the industrial park ahead, and slowly walked towards the wall on the right side of the industrial park.
"Going in now?"
Isacape asked. It was broad daylight, and he preferred to act at night when there were fewer people; it would be more convenient.
"You just need to hack into Inmenna's surveillance system and report any unusual activity to me immediately."
As Illumi spoke, he leaped high, easily clearing the three-meter high wall and the barbed wire on top.
"Pfft."
His feet landed softly on the lush grass, making a faint sound.
"Good landscaping."
Illumi casually stepped on the lawn beneath his feet, looked around, and a white light shimmered around him, transforming him into the likeness of a security guard.
"Well then, let me see your traces."
Activating his emotional sensing ability, a faint trail of smoky aura appeared in Illumi's eyes. It was Helen Stuart's emotional aura, which he had already locked onto.
"Boss, have you been to Inmenna's headquarters before?"
In a dark room, surveillance monitors covered the walls. Isacape watched Illumi, who was freely moving through Inmenna's headquarters in the surveillance feed, and asked a question.
"Don't ask too many questions. Just do your job."
Illumi said softly, then raised his head, chest out, walking forward with confidence, following the emotional aura's trail, deeper into Inmenna Company Headquarters.
"Hey, Tony."
At that moment, a passing security guard greeted him and said.
"It's not your patrol time yet. Why don't you rest more?"
Illumi gave a faint smile and chuckled.
"It's alright. I'm in a good mood today, just taking a stroll."
"Suit yourself."
The other party shrugged, walked past Illumi, carrying his patrol stick, and leisurely left.
Illumi's lips curved. If it weren't for Envy's ability, he wouldn't have been able to swagger into a multinational corporation's headquarters factory area like this.
"Hm?"
After walking for another five minutes, Illumi arrived at a distinctly different area.
Illumi stood still, looking into the distance. Twenty guards patrolled back and forth in that area, divided into four teams of five guards each.
And at a large gate behind them, two more teams of guards were present.
"From here on, this is an area where ordinary personnel are not allowed to enter."
Isacape reminded Illumi through the earpiece.
This Inmenna industrial park had a larger architectural area than Umbrella Corporation's, with a developed area exceeding seventy acres and over twenty buildings.
"Ahead is Inmenna Company's production area."
On Isacape's computer, the map of Inmenna Company's industrial park clearly marked which were office buildings and which were production areas.
Illumi stood still, waiting.
Ten minutes later, a person in a pure white uniform passed by him. The person glanced at him, and seeing that he was a company security guard, paid him no mind.
"Thump!"
Illumi delivered a chop to the back of his neck, knocking him unconscious. He then transformed into his likeness and walked towards the area ahead.
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