Pan'an furrowed his brows, thought for a long while, and suddenly exclaimed, "I remember now! This guy is from Red Ochre! I remember him, he's quite famous, called Desert Red Hand, a well-known combat maniac in Red Ochre.
Why would he be involved with biotechnology people?"
Qiwei patiently adjusted the data, "Don't worry, just listen and you'll know."
The recording device attached to the micro camera started operating, quickly amplifying the faint sounds it collected.
At this moment, the bar owner consciously opened the door and walked out of the bar, locking the door, leaving space for the people inside to talk.
And that man also sat down at the bar, walked behind it to grab a bottle of whiskey, and without pouring it into a glass, took two gulps straight from the bottle.
"You haven't forgotten we're here to discuss business."
The female biotechnology employee glared at the man with displeasure.
But the man just looked at her with cold mockery, "What? Got a problem? Then go find someone else?"
"I'm telling you, Red Hand, you better understand who you're talking to. If our cooperation gets exposed, do you think you'll come out unscathed?"
The woman's expression grew increasingly hostile, "Meeting you twice a week has already raised many suspicions. They are pressing hard from above, I need results soon."
"I don't even know why you're in such a hurry. Meeting once a week isn't enough? Can I get this done just because you keep pressuring me? Do you even see what crappy task you're making me do!
I told you, I've already placed the drugs, and the samples I give you weekly are all here. What more do you want?"
Red Hand slammed the bottle onto the table, "You want to expose me? Go ahead, let's see which of us dies first? I can still spin around and join the Chaotic Blade Association and leave Night City, but you?
If this gets exposed, you die, I die! So stop the nonsense, hand over the money, I'll give you the samples. When this is over, the promised company immunity and Europe tickets can't be missing a single word!"
The woman stared at him for a long while, then relaxed her tone, "Don't worry, I won't shortchange you on what's promised, but this matter is so important that you need to be more earnest!"
"I've been damn earnest enough. You think it's easy for me to come out twice a week? I also have to cover for you in the town..."
Red Hand didn't finish his sentence, only continued irritably, "We agreed that I toss things in the water and that would be it, but now I have to collect samples for you weekly...
Damn it, do you know my guys are sick because of your crappy work?
Where's the antidote? Where the hell's the antidote?"
"Don't worry, I'm improving it weekly using the town's volunteers, believe me, the drug will be successfully tested soon."
The woman continued to appease, while handing over a chip, "Alright, 10,000 Euros, where's the stuff?"
Red Hand unceremoniously took the chip, then said, "Upstairs, wait here."
He turned and went upstairs.
The woman cursed under her breath, "What an idiot, could have taken it from the start... wasting my time."
After a while, Red Hand returned carrying a sealed box, casually tossed it onto the table, "What you wanted, plant samples, soil samples, and blood samples are all in there. You better hurry, my family is already noticing something's wrong!"
"Relax, in at most two weeks, two more rounds, and this deal is closed."
The woman picked up the box, placed down an injector, "This is the latest experimental drug, theoretically 20% more effective than before. Don't forget to collect your friend's blood sample three hours after use...
I told you not to directly contact the virus, it's very dangerous before dilution."
"Damn, who's to say it's not your fault? We're all in protective suits doing this! You better make sure it works... I've been feeling unwell myself lately."
Red Hand showed rage, while the woman's face slightly changed, just nodded and quickly walked out.
Qiwei switched the camera, seeing the woman just exited the door, took out a disinfectant spray, and sprayed herself several times before dejectedly returning to the Behemoth truck.
The truck's compartment opened, revealing it was transformed into a mobile medical station. The camera angle wasn't sufficient to see more, but after entering, she changed clothes and then stood outside swearing.
Many people in the town also came out of their homes, gathered behind the truck, and started queuing, entering one by one. Those who came out pressed cotton swabs on their arms, they were clearly given an injection.
In just over half an hour, over thirty volunteers had completed their tasks.
Only the truck didn't leave, after half an hour, they called them back again, then the truck closed its doors and rumbled back to the city.
Qiwei confirmed there were no issues, then calling Pan'an to drive, returned to the bar, retrieved the camera they had placed there using the same procedure, got back in the car, and used the team group chat to contact Mercer.
Unlike one-on-one messaging, Mercer had created a temporary chat group for each team using Penguin software, making it easier for everyone to communicate and enabling team voice chat if necessary.
[Qiwei: Mercer, have you seen the video? How do we proceed?]
[Mercer: I've seen it, return for now but before you do, stop by Old Wei's for disinfection and take some antibiotics.]
[Qiwei: ...This is troublesome, do you think biotechnology is deploying a virus?]