Chapter 298: Two Objectives

With that, Adam invaded Chen Yanyan's psychic world, immediately following which he began to search through Chen Yanyan's memories.

There weren't many memories in Chen Yanyan's mind. The average person accumulated an enormous number of memories over the course of their lifetime, but looking back, there weren't many moments that were particularly clear in one's mind.

The other memories were either fuzzy or overly repetitive and mundane. Hence, searching through one's memories in one's psychic world wasn't as tedious a task as one might think.

After exploring a few psychic modules, Adam had developed a rough idea of Chen Yanyan's history.

He was born in the Chen Family, which was quite a large family in the Chinese community, boasting several hundred members, all of whom could be traced back to the same ancestors.

Even as a child, Chen Yanyan had already heard of Chen Yiran, a big shot in their family.

He had seen Chen Yiran during certain family gatherings, and back, he was an old man, but by the time Chen Yanyan grew up into adulthood, the old man had passed away.

It was said that his grandson who shared the same name had taken over as the head of the family.

At the time, Chen Yanyan had thought this to be rather strange. Generally speaking, only the surname was passed down from generation to generation, and it was extremely rare to have full names inherited. It was considered to be disrespectful to one's seniors to share the same name as them.

As a result, this had left a deep impression on him, thereby imprinting itself into his mind as a very clear memory.

It was only years later that he came to find out the reason for this.

Chen Yanyan wasn't a direct relative of Chen Yiran's, but he quickly caught the attention of the prominent members of the Chen Family thanks to his intelligence and quiet nature.

In some Chinese circles, it was considered to be a virtue to be quiet and withdrawn.

After undergoing a series of examinations, Chen Yanyan was arranged to work at the Compassion Company, a family business.

During his first three or four years there, he didn't come into contact with any of the company's secrets. However, as he continued to climb up the ranks, he developed a sense of belonging to the company, while also enjoying higher salaries and status.

After one promotion, he was even invited to a dinner party at Chen Yiran's home.

That was a big day in Chen Yanyan's life, and it was a very clear memory in his mind. He had put on his best suit and ensured that his hair was absolutely immaculate before he walked out the door. On the way there, he had checked his reflection no fewer than 20 times.

Finally, he arrived at the mansion on top of the hill.

In a metropolis like Sandrise City, where everyone was living in pigeonhole-like smart apartments, land where natural scenery was preserved was truly worth its weight in gold, and owning a mansion in such a prime location was a reflection of enormous wealth.

This was the first time that Chen Yanyan had been granted the honor of visiting this place, and his palms were sweating profusely.

Thankfully, everyone inside was very friendly to him. Not only was the butler very polite, even Chen Yiran was very warm and inviting to him.

This provided him with a massive ego boost, and he was also given the opportunity of a lifetime by Chen Yiran on that day, an opportunity to become the head of a certain department.

It was an offer that he found impossible to turn down. Not only would his new job significantly elevate his quality of life, he would be able to enjoy limitless wealth and resources in the Metaverse even after he passed away.

However, nothing came for free in this world.

He was sufficiently intelligent to know that he would have to sacrifice something in exchange for this opportunity. However, when he was told by Chen Yiran what was expected of him, he was very relieved.

As it turned out, he didn't have to give up his life, nor did he have to even dedicate too much time and energy to his new role. The only thing that he had to sacrifice was his morality, but in his eyes, that was completely worthless anyway.

Hence, Chen Yanyan had accepted the job without any hesitation.

His new job was very simple. All he had to do was contact all of the non-profit organizations in and around Sandrise City to provide free physical examinations to children.

Of course, in reality, the service was far from free.

There was a huge number of orphans in Sandrise City, and he had to find the adapters among them, then take these children away under the guise that they were suffering from some type of serious condition.

He would then provide these children to the people above him, and as for where these children went, he didn't know, he didn't care, and he didn't want to know.

For an errand boy like him, the less he knew, the better.

However, even though he didn't want to know what was happening behind the scenes, he still inevitably learned what was happening over time.

In the next few years, he learned about the existence of blank slates, and he learned the secret to immortality for the wealthy and powerful.

He also came to realize that the current Chen Yiran was most likely the same Chen Yiran as before, and that the so-called passing down of the torch from grandfather to grandson had only been a lie to placate the outside world.

In reality, Chen Yiran had most likely injected his consciousness into a blank slate to be reborn.

This had been a massive bombshell for Chen Yanyan, and even though he had never been one to value morality and ethics, he still couldn't help but be fearful of what he had gotten himself into, and he lived in fear every single day.

He knew that this was an extremely risky line of work, and that exposure would almost be sure to spell death for him. Regardless of whether it was the legal system or the network of powerful figures above him, either one of those could've easily crushed him like an ant on a whim.

He had considered running away after saving up enough money, and he had also considered the possibility that he would be caught someday, but never did he think that the entire organization would be completely uprooted.

Upon receiving the news, he immediately ran away.

He knew that those above him wouldn't protect him. Instead, they would kill him in order to silence him before the special psychic police officers arrived.

Through some contacts, he managed to escape to this place.

So this gang deals in human trafficking as well. No wonder he came here.

Adam was lurking in the darkness while watching Chen Yanyan's interaction with his gang contact.

He had already hatched a plan to flee overseas quite some time ago, which was why he had these gang contacts.

However, what he failed to anticipate was that the gangs here would immediately go back on their word as soon as he arrived.

He had only just gotten to Area 8 when he was captured by someone for several hundred thousand dollars.

This was quite a huge sum of money, and even for a gang leader like Big D Bro, it was quite a risk to be making such a large investment.

Of course, Adam didn't care about any of this. He only had two objectives for coming here, the first of which was to find out the exact details of the child adapter trafficking chain in the Compassion Company.

Chen Yanyan didn't know much about this, but Adam had made mental notes of all of the names and faces of the people that Chen Yanyan had dealt with as part of his job.

He was confident that he would be able to unearth even more secrets if he were to continue his investigation using his leads.

As for his second objective, that was going to involve some risk.