Chapter 54 – Say Her Last Words?
Her voice had not been lowered, making it hard for Xie Xu, who was walking ahead, not to hear it.
Dead?!
The pressure around them instantly dropped to its lowest point.
Li Wenchuan sympathetically patted Tu Ran’s shoulder and whispered, “You better be careful.”
Tu Ran detected a tone of schadenfreude in his voice.
She avoided his hand and quickly walked a few steps ahead, putting some distance between them.
In her mind, she wondered why, after making physical contact with Li Wenchuan, she hadn’t been able to read his memory.
Maybe… she needed to initiate the contact?
The group returned to the room, and Xie Xu went straight towards the Hook Snake.
Tu Ran stopped Li Wenchuan, who was also trying to join in the excitement.
She pointed at Ding Naiqing, “He’s injured, go and help him.”
After reading the original owner’s memories, she knew that Li Wenchuan always carried medicine with him and was very skilled at healing wounds.
Li Wenchuan looked down and saw Ding Naiqing lying crookedly on the ground, exclaiming, “Ah, isn’t this our little cute brother Naiqing? How did he get so badly hurt, was someone using him as a shield?”
Tu Ran: “…?”
If you have something to say, just say it directly!
Taking a deep breath, she decided not to argue with him for now.
After confirming that the Hook Snake was indeed dead, Xie Xu ordered the two pioneers to pack up the alien’s corpse and take it back to the Research Institute.
Tu Ran noticed that Xie Xu didn’t spend much time examining the wound on the back of the Hook Snake’s neck, which confirmed a suspicion in her mind.
Xie Xu didn’t know about the inner core in the alien species.
He chose to capture the Snake King alive for a different purpose.
This was good news for her.
The two pioneers worked quickly. In less than three minutes, they had wrapped the corpse in a piece of cloth they had torn off and each carried an end, swiftly leaving.
Li Wenchuan injected Ding Naiqing with a dose of painkiller and recovery medicine, temporarily stabilizing his condition. He then called the guards outside to carry him away.
Given Ding Naiqing’s current state, it was better for him to go to the medical department for treatment.
The unconscious Mrs. Egan was also carried away on a stretcher.
In an instant, only Tu Ran, Xie Xu, and Li Wenchuan were left in the room.
“Do you have anything to say?” Xie Xu asked coldly.
Tu Ran sneered inwardly. What’s this? Did he want her to say her last words?
Dream on!
“I don’t understand what you mean, Researcher Xie. I believe I have completed the commander’s task very well.”
The commander was the highest-ranking officer of the pioneer team.
He was also the major general who had sat next to Xie Xu at the previous meeting.
At that time, Tu Ran had thought he looked familiar, as if she had seen him somewhere before.
She hadn’t been mistaken.
That man was Xie Xu’s brother.
“The commander’s task was to control the aliens as much as possible. He didn’t require us to capture it alive. Besides, I killed it out of sheer necessity due to the urgent situation.”
Xie Xu frowned slightly, staring at her. “Do you think you can get away with playing dumb?”
“I don’t understand what you mean, Researcher Xie.”
Tu Ran blinked innocently. “I wasn’t playing dumb. I believe I completed this mission perfectly. We were the fastest of all the teams and preserved the alien’s body intact for your Research Institute. If that’s not satisfactory, what is?”
Li Wenchuan immediately perked up, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, watching the show.
This was great. It was the first time he had seen anyone dare to go head-to-head with Xie Xu.
He felt that today had been worth it.
