Chapter 32 – A Wealthy Family
Tu Ran looked back. It was Ding Naiqing, the college student.
“Shall we team up?” Ding Naiqing smiled with crescent-shaped eyes.
No way.
Tu Ran shook her head.
She wanted to team up with an expert.
Ding Naiqing looked like an innocent and harmless pup, with little combat ability.
A puppy that hadn’t grown all its teeth yet, teaming up with a clueless novice like herself, would be like sending puppies to fight aliens, a mission doomed to fail.
Ding Naiqing blinked innocently, puzzled, “If you don’t team up with me, who will you team up with?”
“Of course, I’ll team up with—”
Tu Ran saw that a man was already standing next to Yao Bei, and they were conversing, seemingly having agreed to team up.
Tu Ran: “…”
Her expert had been snatched away.
It was over; she had no one competent to rely on.
Looking around, she saw that everyone else had already formed teams.
Except for Ding Naiqing, she had no choice.
Tu Ran looked at Ding Naiqing, who was still holding her arm.
“Let go,” Tu Ran said expressionlessly.
“Alright.” Ding Naiqing let go of Tu Ran’s arm, smiling with two small tiger teeth showing.
Tu Ran felt suffocated by his harmless appearance.
She could already imagine the two of them being chased by aliens.
“Sister Tu Ran, they are ready to set off. Let’s hurry up too,” Ding Naiqing said.
Tu Ran took a deep breath, calming herself. Well, it had come to this; she could only hope that the alien species in the area they were going to investigate had already left.
“Alright, but where are we going?”
Ding Naiqing looked at the map projected by his communicator and scratched his head, “They’ve already chosen, and there’s only one place left.”
These people moved so fast; they didn’t even leave a moment to catch their breath.
Accepting her fate, Tu Ran opened the map. The only place left was a county called Fengli County.
The victim was a farmer.
With ten guards, Tu Ran and Ding Naiqing boarded a helicopter bound for Fengli County.
During the flight, Tu Ran learned that the farmer had been found dead in the stables by a worker the previous evening, with his body buried under a pile of hay.
If it hadn’t been for the worker’s daily duty of feeding the horses, the body might not have been discovered so soon.
The helicopter landed half an hour after takeoff.
The vast grassland offered numerous landing spots.
The farmer’s wife was heartbroken over his death and reportedly fell ill, so she did not appear.
It was the groom who had first discovered the body who met Tu Ran and her team.
He was an African American who spoke fluent English.
Thanks to the translation device in her helmet, Tu Ran easily understood what he said.
As the groom led them to the crime scene, he explained what had happened: “Yesterday was Mrs. Ola’s birthday. Mr. Egan went to town early in the morning. He had ordered a whole yellowfin tuna and a tropical fruit basket from the Natural Source website a month ago as a birthday gift for Mrs. Ola.”
Tu Ran was taken aback at the mention of a whole yellowfin tuna and a tropical fruit basket. In this world, ordinary people could only afford the tasteless synthetic foods available in the market or drink various fruit-flavored nutrient solutions. Many people never got to eat real fruit in their entire lives.
The fried chicken Xi Chunzhi had given her yesterday was something she had earned through significant contributions to the Federation.
This farmer! Could actually afford! An entire tuna and a tropical fruit basket!
The wife is suspicious. Either she got possessed or infected, so she didn’t feel well and won’t meet them.
By the way, I wonder why the government don’t set up a space to isolate the pioneers who just got back? Haven’t they learnt the hard way that simply setting up questions ain’t enough to fully screen out all the aliens.