But some people's problem is that they don't have a mouth.
Xia Chujian thought to herself, her smile fading a bit as she said, "Thank you, Young Master Zong. I'll try my best to get in this time, so you won't have to worry about it. It must be tiring."
"You're busy with work, handling countless affairs every day. My trivial matters really take up your valuable time dealing with national affairs."
Su Buyan was beside her, trying to suppress his laughter so hard that his features were twisted.
Xia Chujian had never been so sarcastic in front of him.
But Zong Ruoan didn't seem to notice Xia Chujian's sarcasm. Instead, he comforted her, "It doesn't matter if you don't get in. You're so skilled. If you don't like studying, you can come to my Councilor's Office to do security."
"With you by my side, I'll feel more at ease."
Xia Chujian was stunned.
Wasn't that a bit much? Was she only good enough to be a Senate Councilor's bodyguard?! She had commanded a warship with thousands of people and killed hundreds of thousands of Shang People and Haidagong!
Don't look down on people! Although Xia Chujian felt uncomfortable, she didn't pay much attention to it.
Because she was used to Zong Ruoan's way of speaking, she jokingly asked, "Really? What's the monthly salary for your future Councilor's Office security personnel? Is it part of the Senate's establishment?"
Zong Ruoan said, "They're private security personnel for my office, hired independently, and have nothing to do with the Senate."
"I can give you a monthly salary of five thousand, which is ten times the average salary in Mulan City."
Xia Chujian thought, she was already making more than five thousand a month, and she didn't even have to work...
Su Buyan glared at her, thinking, why are we talking about salary?
What's going on in this disciple's head? Xia Chujian was just asking out of habit. She didn't want to be Zong Ruoan's bodyguard.
She said with a smile, "Young Master Zong, do you know how much I make per day as a bodyguard for a Noble Lady?"
Zong Ruoan was surprised, "Noble Lady? Which Noble Lady?"
Xia Chujian said, "Quan Caiwei."
Zong Ruoan was even more surprised, "Caiwei? When did you work as a bodyguard for Caiwei?"
Xia Chujian came to her senses, remembering that she had worked as Quan Caiwei's bodyguard at the Fan Family Manor at the end of last year, when she was wearing a human skin mask.
She had seen Zong Ruoan, but Zong Ruoan hadn't recognized her.
Xia Chujian said vaguely, "It was a while ago, when I was in the Dark Night Hunter Association."
Zong Ruoan said "Oh," remembering that Xia Chujian's other identity was a Bounty Hunter.
He asked curiously, "So how much did you make per day as her bodyguard?"
Xia Chujian thought for a moment, "Starting at one hundred thousand, with no upper limit of a million."
Zong Ruoan was genuinely shocked.
Although he wasn't someone who cared about money, and he could afford that much.
But asking him to spend one hundred thousand every day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, to hire Xia Chujian as a daily bodyguard was impossible.
Even if he could afford it, the Zong Family wouldn't let him spend money so recklessly...
So it was conceivable that the Quan Family probably only hired Xia Chujian as a bodyguard for a few days, and wouldn't hire her as a daily bodyguard.
Zong Ruoan said with emotion, "Chujian, your skills seem to be even more impressive than I thought."
Xia Chujian chuckled, "So-so, my friends are just being kind. My Gunmanship is just a little better. You know, I'm not a Gene Evolver."
Zong Ruoan had a good eye, saying, "If you're not a Gene Evolver, and the Quan Family is still willing to pay so much to hire you, you must be worth it."
With that, he patted Xia Chujian's shoulder and said, "Alright, with your abilities, I'm not worried anymore."
"If there are any special circumstances in the future, I'll definitely ask you to be my personal bodyguard."
"I'll give you a daily salary of one hundred thousand too!"
Xia Chujian smiled without saying a word, watching Zong Ruoan get into his small Flying Vehicle and fly out of Huo Yushen's Bat-style Fighter Jet.
Then she and Su Buyan went to their Starry Sky Cruiser.
Su Buyan laughed so hard he could barely stand up straight, saying, "How come I never realized Ruoan was this kind of person!"
Xia Chujian didn't laugh, but just glanced at him, thinking, Master Su, don't laugh at your brother.
In general, Su Buyan was actually more excessive than Zong Ruoan.
It was just that in matters related to Xia Chujian, Su Buyan had much more key information than Zong Ruoan, so he didn't make the same kind of mess as Zong Ruoan.
Xia Chujian changed the subject and said, "Master Su, would you like to see the Longevity Flying Fish? I don't know what it's good for, but someone is very eager for it."
Su Buyan said, "I'll look at the Alligator Dragon skin and the Haidagong skin first. Then I'll go see the Longevity Flying Fish."
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Xia Chujian and Su Buyan boarded her Falcon-class D1 Starry Sky Cruiser.
It was already empty.
Because Kang Shanxing had taken everyone away for "special review".
Xia Chujian led Su Buyan to the cold storage where she kept the Alligator Dragon skin and the Haidagong skin.
They didn't go directly inside, but looked at the three-dimensional display screen at the entrance of the cold storage.
As long as you had permission, you could see the contents of the cold storage through this display screen without having to go inside.
When Su Buyan saw the intact Alligator Dragon skins, as if they had been directly tanned, he marveled and said, "How did you do this?! In just two days, you tanned all the skins?"
"What about their meat?"
Xia Chujian's lips twitched slightly, and she said with disgust, "Alligator Dragons eat everything, I don't want to eat their meat!"
"Besides, these species come from Senze Star, a planet with severe nuclear radiation. Aren't you afraid of being exposed to nuclear radiation if you eat them?"
Su Buyan chuckled and said, "Of course I'm not eating it, but studying the effects of nuclear radiation on its body."
"However, the Alligator Dragon skin is good enough. I can see that the hardness is extraordinary..."
Xia Chujian said, "It's very hard, sniper rifles can't penetrate it at close range."
Su Buyan was surprised: "Sniper rifles can't penetrate it at close range?! Then how did you kill them?"
Xia Chujian thought for a moment and said, "I didn't kill them, I just picked up a bargain."
Su Buyan was even more speechless: "Picked up a bargain? Your luck is truly invincible!"
Xia Chujian smiled and nodded: "Master, you're so kind! My luck is indeed invincible!"
"I saw a Golden-haired Exotic Beast on Senze Star, it looked like a lion, but it was much, much bigger than a lion."
"As soon as it came out, these Alligator Dragons didn't dare to move, and were obediently eaten by it..."
"But it seemed to absorb energy, in short, after being eaten by it, the Alligator Dragon became just a skin."
Su Buyan was very curious: "An Exotic Beast like a lion? Do you remember what it looked like?"
Xia Chujian said, "I remember, but I can't draw."
Su Buyan said, "You can use Mechanical Intelligence to read your memory and then draw."
Xia Chujian remembered the Mechanical Arm that Huo Yushen had used to manipulate Mechanical Intelligence to draw the image of the girl in her mind, and subconsciously refused, "No, I don't want Mechanical Intelligence to read my memory, there's no privacy at all!"
Su Buyan laughed, then said softly, "Then don't let anyone use a Brain-Computer Interface to read your memory."
Xia Chujian pursed her lips and said, "I definitely won't install a Brain-Computer Interface. Can that thing really control our brains?"
Su Buyan said, "What do you think about having a chip implanted in your brain?"
Xia Chujian stopped talking, and she pointed out the Haidagong to Su Buyan.
She said, "These Haidagong actually eat people. You should have seen it in the information Marshal Huo gave you, right?"
Su Buyan said, "I've read it. I didn't expect that there were once immortal creatures in this world. It's unscientific!"
Xia Chujian nodded: "It is unscientific, so they are gone, extinct. The current Haidagong are not immortal."
"Moreover, they have fatal weaknesses and can be killed."
"So if you really want to be immortal, you probably can only hide in the crowd, blend in with everyone, to ensure that no accidents happen."
Su Buyan said, "This also needs to be studied carefully to see if it can be used on the bodies of bio-mimetic robots."
Then he shook his head regretfully and said, "Couldn't we get a live Haidagong? That way, studying their biological characteristics would be more effective."
Xia Chujian said, "Haidagong eat humans, and it's said that some special Haidagong look exactly like humans in their juvenile stage. I'm worried that if we're not careful and they escape, wouldn't that be like letting a rat into a rice jar?"
"So we kill them all before bringing them back."
Su Buyan nodded, "That makes sense! If we don't kill them, I'd worry not only about them escaping on their own, but also about someone using their power to force us to hand over a few live Haidagong."
"You don't know how much some people crave immortality..."
Xia Chujian nodded, happily saying, "I knew you would understand me the most! That's what I thought too!"
"These things are most suitable for you!"
Su Buyan was also happy, saying, "Master didn't dote on you for nothing."
Because there was no one else around, the two directly addressed each other as master and disciple.
Xia Chujian said, "Master, I want to ask you for another favor."
"Go ahead! You've brought Master such a big surprise, Master knew I didn't misjudge you!" Su Buyan said smugly.
Xia Chujian pursed her lips and smiled, "It's like this, I know that Alligator Dragon skin has particularly strong defensive capabilities, and I'd like to ask you to use Alligator Dragon skin as material to make some bulletproof vests for my family."
Su Buyan was still thinking about the uses of Alligator Dragon skin, and upon hearing Xia Chujian's request, he immediately clapped his hands and said, "I know! Adding them to bulletproof equipment will definitely improve performance!"
"The Zong Family's nano-level bulletproof vests are about to be surpassed by me, hahaha!"
Xia Chujian quickly said, "Master, please remember, make them for my family first!"
"My family has quite a few people, you should make at least two, no, three pieces for each person! For easy changing!"
Su Buyan said with a smile, "Ten pieces per person is fine! With so much Alligator Dragon skin, it's enough for large-scale mass production."
Xia Chujian thought of the small Alligator Dragons on Senze Star and planned to go back and take a look after a while to see if she should raise some there for long-term supply.
She told Su Buyan about this idea, and Su Buyan said, "You don't have to worry about that."
"I'm developing the mines there with the Quan Family, and I'll also pay attention to other things."
"Now it seems that there are quite a few treasures on that abandoned star."
Xia Chujian curled her lips, thinking that if there weren't so many treasures, some people in these four countries wouldn't have colluded with the Haidagong and Shang People long ago...
It's just that those people traded with the Shang People and Haidagong at the expense of their own people.
And she directly killed all the Shang People and Haidagong, which was equivalent to occupying that planet.
So she has the right to allocate the mines there, right?
After seeing the Alligator Dragons and Haidagong, Xia Chujian took Su Buyan to see the Longevity Flying Fish.
When Su Buyan saw the huge Longevity Flying Fish corpse, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
He murmured and asked, "Does this thing have any special properties?"
Xia Chujian shook her head, "I don't know, but the people above in the Military specifically asked for them, so they should have many special properties that we don't know..."
So many Marine Corps, men and women, were treated as "goods" and traded to the Shang People and Haidagong.
Xia Chujian's mood fell again when she thought of this.
Su Buyan was purely shocked by the Longevity Flying Fish and didn't notice Xia Chujian's abnormal emotions, and he couldn't speak for a long time.
After a while, he murmured, "I saw some records about the Ancient Exotic Beast Starry Sky Yuan-chu in our Su Clan's ancestral handwritten book."
"Is this Longevity Flying Fish a descendant of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu...?"
Xia Chujian's eyes flickered, thinking that it was close, but not quite.
Moreover, on Senze Star, there are still three real Longevity Flying Fish and descendants of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu...
I just don't know if they can continue to reproduce.
Xia Chujian's thoughts were particularly divergent, and she quickly ran off like a wild horse, not knowing where she was going.
Because these three Longevity Flying Fish were too far beyond Su Buyan's expectations, he didn't say a word when he returned to Huo Yushen's office.
After entering, he said to Huo Yushen, "Marshal Huo, have you seen those three Longevity Flying Fish?"
Huo Yushen said, "Not yet, what's wrong?"
Xia Chujian showed them the video of the Longevity Flying Fish she had taken and said, "Master, what do you want to do?"
Su Buyan took a deep breath and said, "Marshal Huo, I want to cooperate with you to study one privately."
Huo Yushen was noncommittal, "I don't do research, what's the point of cooperating with me?"
His gaze turned to Xia Chujian, and he said casually, "You need to cooperate with someone who has deep research in the field of biological genes to get results."
Xia Chujian instantly understood Huo Yushen's meaning and excitedly said, "Master, can I introduce you to a partner?!"
Su Buyan was curious, "Besides a peerless genius like me, who else can make you so excited?"
Xia Chujian: "..."
She said seriously, "Master, you are indeed a peerless genius in the field of Mecha."
"But in the field of biological genes, the person I'm introducing, it can be said that in the entire Beichen Empire, no one is better than her."
Su Buyan widened his eyes, "Who?! Is it the head of the Biology Department at Beichen University?!"
Xia Chujian: "..."
She smiled sheepishly and said softly, "... It's my Aunt, my Aunt Xia Yuanfang, who used to be a researcher at Li's Pharmaceuticals..."
Su Buyan looked at her suspiciously, "Chujian, do you know what we're dealing with?! It's the descendant of the legendary Starry Sky Yuan-chu—the Longevity Flying Fish!"
"Researching it could lead to many cosmic-level achievements! Your Aunt, with all due respect, what research achievements has she made? Which famous university did she graduate from? Who was her mentor?"
Xia Chujian coughed, "My Aunt should have gone to university, as for which one, you can ask her yourself, I don't know."
"She used to be a researcher at Li's Pharmaceuticals, but she was suddenly fired after getting sick."
"Of course, now I know that my Aunt didn't suddenly get a Genetic Disease back then, but was poisoned."
"Anyway, now my Aunt is her own boss, running a small Reproductive Assistance Studio."
"I can guarantee that my Aunt's research in the field of biological genes is second to none in the Beichen Empire."
Su Buyan thought for a while, then suddenly straightened his face and said seriously, "Chujian, your Aunt isn't doing genetic research prohibited by the Empire, is she?!"
Xia Chujian quickly waved her hand, "Of course not! My Aunt does Reproductive Assistance, researching how to use natural methods to assist Gene Evolution..."
"Especially in the fetal stage before birth..."
Su Buyan's face was full of suspicion just now, but after hearing Xia Chujian's words, his expression suddenly became strange.
After a while, he slowly said, "That's quite interesting. Well then, after I finish this thing on hand, I'll go to your house for a while and learn from your Aunt in person, okay?"
Noticing Huo Yushen's scrutiny, Su Buyan added, "I think your Aunt's technology might be used in bionic robots."
Xia Chujian smiled brightly, "Of course! Welcome, welcome! A warm welcome!"
Su Buyan nodded with a smile and said, "Then it's settled."
He then said to Huo Yushen, "Marshal Huo, please spare me a Longevity Flying Fish and transport it to this address. There's a large cold storage here, enough to hold a Longevity Flying Fish."
Huo Yushen didn't say much and accepted the address.
After Su Buyan left, Huo Yushen looked at Xia Chujian and said with a smile, "You thanked Chief Quan Da, and you thanked Master Su, what about me?"
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