Developing super powers in another world

by sasucchi0123

Developing super powers in another world

2. Chapter 2

31 - 60

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The Others also thought of this.

"Do you have information about everyone who was in the hardware store from the time the first customer went in yesterday morning until the victim's body was found?" asked a very capable female pioneer in the queue.

"Yes," the guard nodded, pulling up a dozen photos in a row, "There are 23 people. We have tracked them, but we can't find any trace of 11 of them."

"so much?"

Tu Ran looked in the direction of the low exclamation.

She wanted to see who spoke her mind.

Oh, it's a boy with delicate features, like a college student.

Noticing her gaze, the boy lowered his head in embarrassment, his fingers nervously fingering his gun.

He is indeed a little boy, he gets shy so easily.

Tu Ran has forgotten that this body of hers is also that of a 19-year-old girl.

Before looking away, Tu Ran glanced at the name tag on his shoulder: Ding Naiqing.

The guard continued to zoom in on other red circles, each of which was a tragic scene that was too horrific to look at.

The circumstances of death are not always the same.

Some alien species like to eat internal organs, and the corpses possessed by these alien species will become uneven; some alien species like to gnaw on human bones, and the corpses possessed by these species will turn into a puddle of mud; and some alien species like to suck liquids from the human body, including blood and tissue fluid, and the corpses possessed by them will become as loose as a dry sponge.

Some of the guards watching could not accept such a strong visual impact and turned their heads away. Some female police officers even retched.

Compared to them, the Trail Blazers are as stable as an old dog.

Tu Ran also felt fortunate at this moment. She had seen many cadaver specimens in her five years at university, many of which had been dissected by her seniors and were incomplete and unrecognizable. The scene before her was not much different.

Relying on the psychological defenses he had already established, Tu Ran stood there as steady as an old dog, just like the other pioneers.

This inevitably made the surrounding guards respect these rumored pioneers.

"Judging from the current situation, it is not an easy task to track these alien species one by one." The capable female pioneer spoke again.

Faintly, she already showed signs of becoming the temporary captain of this team.

She doesn't care who is the captain, she just wants to work hard and live cautiously.

I took a look at her name: Yao Bei.

Yao Bei's fingers moved quickly on the light screen, calling up a local map.

Based on Tu Ran's previous impression of the entire map, she judged that this partial map should be located in the southwest corner of Regaken State.

Yao Bei said: "This is the area that our fourth team is responsible for. There are five places where alien species appear. We need to conduct on-site exploration first. These five addresses are scattered. We happen to have ten people. So we will form five groups of two. Each group will lead ten guards and choose an address to collect clues."

After she made the detailed arrangements, she looked at everyone and asked, "Do you have any other opinions?"

"No."

"No."

Everyone shook their heads.

"Then we can form groups freely." Yao Bei said.

Tu Ran's eyes lit up, and she wanted to be in a group with Yao Bei.

Because you can tell at a glance that Yao Bei is an outstanding person.

She needs to find a big boss to rely on.

After taking only two steps, someone grabbed his arm. Tu Ran looked back and saw that it was Ding Naiqing, the college student.

"How about we form a group?" Ding Naiqing smiled with eyes curved.

not good.

Tu Ran shook her head.

She wants to be in a group with the big guy.

Ding Naiqing looks like a simple, harmless little puppy with low fighting power.

A little puppy who hasn't even grown all his teeth, and a newbie who knows nothing. If the two of them team up, it's like a dog fighting an alien species, there's no way back.

Ding Naiqing blinked innocently and asked in confusion: "If you don't want to be in the same group with me, who will you be in the same group with?"

"Of course I am with—"

Tu Ran saw that there was a man standing next to Yao Bei. The two were talking and it seemed that they had agreed to form a team.

Tu Ran: "…"

Her boss was intercepted halfway.

It's over, she has no boss to lead her anymore.

Looking at the others, they have already formed teams.

She had no choice but Ding Naiqing.

Tu Ran looked at Ding Naiqing who was still pulling her arm.

"Let go." Tu Ran had no expression on her face.

"Okay." Ding Naiqing let go of Tu Ran's arm, smiled, and revealed two little canine teeth.

Tu Ran was suffocating, this non-threatening look.

She had already imagined the scene of two people being chased by alien species.

"Sister Tu Ran, they are ready to leave, let's go quickly too." Ding Naiqing said.

Tu Ran took a deep breath and calmed herself down. Forget it. Now that things had come to this, she could only hope that the alien species in the place they were exploring had left.

"Okay, but where are we going?"

Ding Naiqing looked at the map projected by the communicator and scratched his head. "They have already chosen everything. Now there is only one place left."

Why are these guys so quick? At least give people some time to catch their breath.

Tu Ran resigned herself to opening the map, and the last remaining area was a county called Fengli County.

The deceased was a farmer.

Taking ten guards with them, Tu Ran and Ding Naiqing boarded a helicopter and headed straight for Fengli County.

In the helicopter, Tu Ran learned that the farmer was found dead in the horse farm by farm workers yesterday evening, and his body was buried in a pile of hay.

If the worker's daily duty had not been to feed the horses, the body would probably not have been discovered so early.

The helicopter landed half an hour after takeoff.

There are landing spots everywhere on the vast grassland.

The farmer's wife was heartbroken by the farmer's death. She was said to have fallen ill and did not show up.

Tu Ran and others were met by the groom who first discovered the farmer's body.

This is a black man who speaks fluent English.

Because there was a language translation device in the helmet, Tu Ran could easily understand what he said.

The little black man led them to the scene of the crime while recounting what happened: "Yesterday was Mrs. Ola's birthday. Mr. Egan went to town early in the morning. He ordered a whole yellowfin tuna and a tropical fruit basket on the Natural Source website a month ago as Mrs. Ola's birthday gift."

Tu Ran became very excited when she heard about a whole bluefin tuna and a basket of tropical fruits. You know, ordinary people in this world can only afford to eat the unpalatable artificial food on the market or drink various fruit-flavored nutrient solutions, and many people will never be able to eat fruit in their entire lives.

The fried chicken that Xi Chunzhi gave her yesterday was earned in exchange for Xi Chunzhi's great contribution to the Federation.

This farmer! Can! Afford! A whole tuna and a serving of tropical fruit! Xiao Hei continued to narrate: "After that, Mr. Egan stayed on the farm until his wife's birthday. He went to the wheat field to check the growth of the new spring wheat planted this year, and then went to the stable to feed his beloved horse."

"Feeding the horses?" Tu Ran asked, "According to your previous confession, you found Mr. Yigan lying on the haystack while you were feeding the horses."

"That's right." Xiao Hei admitted, and looked at Tu Ran seriously, not understanding why she asked that.
"Since Mr. Yigan has already gone to feed the horses, why do you have to go again?" Tu Ran stared at Xiao Hei.

Xiao Hei was stunned for a moment. "Uh... it's like this. Maybe I didn't explain it clearly before and you misunderstood. Mr. Egan runs a large horse farm with many horses, but Mr. Egan only has one favorite horse. Egan only feeds his favorite horse, not all the horses."

Tu Ran: "…"

The clown turned out to be herself.

"Mr. Tubin, you can continue." Tu Ran put on a very decent smile, without any trace of the embarrassment just now.

"Oh, okay." Tubin was not angry about the interruption just now, and continued: "Towards evening, I went to add hay to the horse farm, and then I saw Mr. Egan lying face down in the haystack. I called him twice, but he didn't respond to me. I realized something was wrong, so I hurried to move his body and found that his body was very soft, as if he had no bones."

After examination, it was found that Yigan was indeed boneless. All the bones in his body had been pulled out, leaving only a pool of flesh.

The death was indeed tragic.

The group finally reached the haystack where Kenny Egan was found. Tu Ran noticed that Tubin couldn't help but burst into tears.

The relationship between the master and the servant seems to be very good.

Tu Ran and Ding Naiqing both raised the cordon at the same time and walked into the blockade area.

The scene was clean and the body was still on the haystack.

In order to facilitate the investigation by their colleagues, the federal government issued a notice early on, requiring that the victims should not be buried for the time being, and it would be better to leave them in their original locations so that the pioneers could investigate and give justice to the dead.

The appearance of the body was no different from the information in the file. According to the forensic description, the time of death was six o'clock yesterday afternoon.

A pool of flesh paste lay like water on the pile of withered grass. The body was turned over. Ding Naiqing stepped on the grass to get closer and lifted the shirt of the body. There was a fist-sized hole on the pale belly covered with corpse spots, which was particularly creepy. There was also a circle of red dots around the hole, similar to the blood mark left by a thick-headed needle.

Tu Ran tried to think of what kind of alien species would attack humans and leave such wounds, but unfortunately she didn't find any.

So far, the federal government does not know much about alien species, and Threshold has only partially lifted the veil of itself, revealing itself to the federal government.

No useful information can be obtained from the corpse for the time being.

The two men jumped off the haystack one after another, and Ding Naiqing asked Tubin: "How far is the farm from the county town?"

Tubin turned his gaze away from the body and replied, "More than 30 kilometers."

Tu Ran looked around and asked, "Your farm doesn't have surveillance?"

"All the surveillance cameras were removed a few days ago because the horse farm needed to be renovated. Mr. Egan decided to replace all the surveillance cameras with the latest version."

Tu Ran nodded. After she finished her question, Ding Naiqing continued, "How many people have entered and left the farm since the death of the deceased yesterday?"

(End of this chapter) "No one is coming in or out," Tubin shook his head. "The farm is too far from the county town. The workers only go out to buy some daily necessities on Sunday afternoons and stay on the farm on weekdays. And because the horse farm is being repaired these days, there are no customers coming here to play horseback riding."

Tu Ran and Ding Naiqing looked at each other.

So what is certain now is that the alien species is still on the farm.

Tu Ran walked up to Tu Bin and said, "Is it convenient to call everyone on the farm here now? We need to investigate."

Tubin thought for a moment, nodded cooperatively, and said with some embarrassment: "Ordinary workers can do it, but my wife has been ill since Mr. Egan passed away. She is still lying in bed. I'm afraid it's not convenient for her to come out."

Tu Ran smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. We will visit Madam in person. Now call the others out to gather together."

"Okay, wait a moment." Tubin left quickly.

This farm is extremely large, and it will probably take quite a while to gather all the workers.

The group waited there, and Tu Ran leaned against the pillar supporting the hay pavilion to rest.

Ding Naiqing walked towards her, frowning tightly, and asked in a low voice, "Sister Tu Ran, if those alien species really possessed these workers, could you recognize them?"

Tu Ran shook his head honestly.

When one day she develops the ability of X-ray vision, she will be able to recognize it at a glance.

"Then how do we identify which is an alien and which is a normal person?" Ding Naiqing was very distressed.

"Don't they say that alien species don't have human memories?" Tu Ran said.

"But the guards of the federal government's Regaken state branch have already checked this method this morning. They let two people who know each other ask each other questions, and everyone can answer accurately."

Tu Ran frowned. Things were getting complicated. "Since no one was coming in or out of the farm, and Kenny Egan's body was here, it meant that the alien must still be in the farm. Could it be that... it didn't continue to possess humans? But it was hiding somewhere on the farm?"

Hearing this, Ding Naiqing felt that it made some sense, "Then let's scan it with a thermal imaging camera first?"

Tu Ran nodded.

Ding Naiqing turned around to give instructions to the guards. After a brief conversation, two of the guards nodded and left quickly.

What other options are there? Tu Ran stared at the tip of her shoe, her mind racing. Before she knew it, her boot had dug a small hole in the ground.

Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of a winding line on the ground in the corner of the haystack.

It's very shallow, and if it weren't for the original body's excellent eyesight, I might have missed it.

Tu Ran walked over quickly, half squatted, and looked closely.

After a moment.

"Ding Naiqing." she called.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Ding Naiqing looked in her direction.

Tu Ran waved to him quickly.

Ding Naiqing immediately walked over and squatted down like her.

Following her line of sight, I also saw the trace.

Tu Ran asked, "Do you think this curved line looks like the mark of a snake crawling?"

Ding Naiqing thought for a moment and said, "It looks like it, but the trace is too short."

In fact, this curved wavy line only extended less than one meter from the haystack, and because there was a layer of loose soil on the ground, it left a trace.

"It's indeed short," Tu Ran agreed, "but..."

She looked at Ding Naiqing meaningfully.

(End of this chapter) Ding Naiqing suddenly paused, and slowly raised his head, with uncontrollable surprise in his eyes.

"So this could be an abnormal—"

Before he could finish his words, Tu Ran raised her thumb to her lips and made a gesture of silence.

The two people's heads moved closer together tacitly.

"So, this might be the alien species!" Ding Naiqing's voice was filled with uncontrollable joy. "The alien species is a kind of snake. It came out of Mr. Yigan's body and took only two steps before it ran into the next human it wanted to possess."

It is not surprising to have snakes on the farm, which may be the reason why the previous enforcement department did not notice this.

Ding Naiqing was extremely excited. "This is my first time to come into contact with an alien species of the reptile order Serpentes."

"Calm down," Tu Ran said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "If this alien is still on the farm, it might be watching us from somewhere. We must be careful."

"Yeah." Ding Naiqing covered his mouth and nodded in agreement.

At this moment, eight guards not far away were looking at the two of them with strange eyes.

"What are they talking about? And they have to do it behind our backs? It's so weird." One of the guards asked curiously, holding a gun.

"Who knows?" Another guard, who was sorting out the magazines, said indifferently, "Maybe they are practicing magic?"

The others heard his blatantly sarcastic words and started laughing.

The federal government's Regakan state branch does not have a pioneering department. In fact, among the 42 states of the federation, only the Federal Administrative Center has a pioneering team.

They had only heard that a new department had been set up at the federal government headquarters, specifically responsible for exploring the world within the "threshold".

For those of them who are more than 2,000 kilometers away from the center of the Federation, the threshold is very far away from them, and the alien species are also very far away from them.

Even their knowledge of the alien species was limited to the news spread by the outside world. The headquarters of the Federation Administrative Center did not share any information about the alien species with departments other than the pioneers, and in the news headlines published to the world, the Federation weakened the terrifying image of the monsters in order not to cause panic among ordinary citizens.

As a result, most people do not have much fear of aliens, especially the guards of the executive department.

They are able to enter the executive department after careful selection and numerous tests. They have to patrol the city every day, deal with criminals, roam the darkest places in the city, and save their lives in the hail of bullets.

They have always been dealing with this kind of tangible force that can be seen and touched.

But now, an invisible creature possessed a farmer, gnawed the farmer's bones clean, and then disappeared.

At this time, the federal government did not quickly send a special task force to investigate and solve the case. Instead, it sent a group of guys who didn't seem to have any special features to look for some alien species.

Alien species, alien species, alien species. In recent years, the word "alien species" has been on the headlines of major news outlets many times. Pioneers, mass extinction plans, immigration, thresholds... they keep coming up, but there has been no substantial progress.

Looking at the two pioneers in front of us, they are so young and don't seem very smart, it is really hard to believe.

"Those who can become pioneers and survive to this day are not ordinary people." A faint voice sounded, coming from a guard who looked somewhat old. His name is Li Wu, and he is the oldest among the guards.

After hearing his words, the guards who had just laughed at Tu Ran and Ding Naiqing laughed, "Uncle Li, you should retire quickly when you reach retirement age. Your old eyes are blurry and you can't recognize people clearly. You can tell that no one is an ordinary person."

Li Wu's eyes swept across the young faces of the guards in front of him, he sighed, and said nothing more.

Fifteen years ago, these young people were just five to ten-year-olds who didn't pay much attention to the news.

However, he clearly remembered how many people had entered the threshold and never returned.

In recent years, the federal government has deliberately covered up the cruelty of the past and shaped Threshold into a place that, although risky, can bring well-being to all citizens with rewards far outweighing the risks.

Judging from the contempt of the younger generation for the pioneers, the Federation was indeed successful.

Ding Naiqing and Tu Ran, who were considered not very smart, had taken photos of traces that were most likely those of a snake species crawling and sent them to the group of the fourth team.

Tu Ran asked below: Has anyone seen any alien species of reptiles or snakes?

Ding Naiqing sent three "please" emoticons in a row to create an atmosphere.

No one has responded to them yet.

"Maybe they are all busy." Ding Naiqing said.

"It should be." Tu Ran no longer waited for a reply and looked into the distance. She saw Xiao Hei coming over with a group of people.

"It's time to come." Tu Ran left a word and went to meet him.

"Mr. Tubin, thank you for your hard work." Tu Ran smiled appropriately.

"You're welcome." Xiao Hei said, and took the initiative to ask the group of people to line up as neatly as possible to facilitate investigation.

There are more than ten rows in total.

Tu Ran counted them and found that there were one hundred and twenty-one people including Tubin.

Consistent with the data.

Tu Ran glanced at the group of people.

Judging from their attire, some are servants, some are workers, and there are also people wearing suits and bow ties, who should be butlers or the like. In terms of numbers, there are mostly workers.

Tu Ran walked along the arranged crowd and looked at each person carefully.

Tu Ran suddenly stopped when passing by a young and beautiful girl in a maid outfit.

"What's your job?"

Being stared at by her sharp eyes, the girl was at a loss. She twisted her dress with her fingers and said nervously, "I am a maid who cooks for Mr. and Mrs. Egan. I have been living on the farm since I was a child. I know a lot of things from my childhood. I am not possessed."

The girl explained anxiously.

The 16 or 17-year-old girl felt an unreasonable fear in her heart towards the government official in front of her who was fully equipped, holding a gun and had a serious face.

Tu Ran nodded thoughtfully, didn't ask any more questions, and walked towards the next person.

She walked past each person slowly and leisurely, often stopping to ask someone a few questions, and then moving on to the next person.

No one knew what she was doing.

The eight guards on guard around her thought she was pretending and became more and more disdainful. They were already waiting to see her embarrassment in not being able to find the alien.

Finally reaching the last row, Tu Ran slowly stopped in front of a middle-aged woman in a maid outfit.

The middle-aged woman had a kind face and a gentle smile in her brown eyes.

"May I have your name?"

"Naya Rivera," said the middle-aged woman.

"What area are you responsible for?" Tu Ran asked as before.

Naya Rivera smiled and replied, "I am a maid hired by Mr. Igan to clean the villa. I have been on this farm for 12 years." Her tone was calm, without the nervousness and stuttering that others had when facing Tu Ran's questions.

Tu Ran nodded and asked, "Mr. Yigan has two Tibetan mastiffs, right?"

This was the information she had obtained from previous questioning of other people.

"Yes." Naya Rivera answered without hesitation.

"What kind?" Tu Ran asked.

"Blue Wolf Mastiff."

"Blue Wolf Mastiff," Tu Ran lowered her eyes as if thinking, but her sight fell on a strand of hair on the edge of her apron, "Blue Wolf Mastiff is a rare breed nowadays."

During her college years, she was interested in everything except studying, and she read a lot of books about animals.

As far as she knew, the blue wolf mastiff's hair was yellow or gray in the deep layer and black at the tips.

The hair in front of me is half yellow and half black.

Tibetan Mastiffs, especially the Blue Wolf Mastiff variety, are the most ferocious and violent, and will not recognize anyone other than their owner.

"Do you like eating raw meat?" Tu Ran suddenly asked.

It was a very abrupt question. Naya Rivera's kind and gentle smile froze on her face. She stared at Tu Ran and said with some anger in her tone, "I don't like meat. I have never eaten meat."

Tu Ran raised her eyebrows and looked at the man dressed as a worker next to her, "Is what she said true?"

The worker was suddenly called by her and was a little confused. "I don't know her, and I don't know if it's true."

Tu Ran looked at the others again, "Who knows her? Is what she said true?"

"It's true," Xiao Hei answered her question, "She is a vegetarian. She doesn't kill animals or eat meat."

Vegetarian?
Tu Ran sneered in her heart. She smelled so much blood, it couldn't be that she smelled it wrong.

But she had no intention of exposing it immediately. All the evidence so far was just her conjecture. Although the result might be almost certain, there was still one last step left.

She took a step forward and walked towards the next person as if nothing had happened.

After asking a few questions in a pretentious manner, she moved on to the next one, and soon the last row was interrogated.

She walked leisurely to the back of the crowd.

Naya Rivera was in the last row.

Across eleven rows of people, Tu Ran looked at Ding Naiqing who was in the front row.

At this time, Ding Naiqing was interrogating those people based on the information, trying to find some loopholes.

Perhaps Tu Ran's gaze was too hot, so he looked at her.

Tu Ran raised her hand, made a gesture for silence, and then gestured to Naya Rivera with her eyes.

Ding Naiqing immediately understood what she meant.

But he was smart. He did not look directly at Naya Rivera. Instead, he patrolled the scene and locked Naya Rivera's position in one glance.

Watching his actions, Tu Ran sighed that he was not as naive as he looked. Thinking more deeply, just like what Li Wu said, those who can survive in the threshold until now are not ordinary people.

That's right, every word of the conversation between the guards fell into her ears.

Tu Ran didn't know when her hearing became so good. It seemed that since she came into this body, every aspect of her physical condition had changed, including her hearing and vision.

Her hearing now far exceeds that of ordinary people.

On the other side, Ding Naiqing quickly ended the current questioning, pretended to be on patrol, and walked aimlessly towards the back.

Tu Ran had quietly stood behind Naya Rivera.

Slowly pulling out the pistol from her waist, she pointed the muzzle at the back of the man's head.

The moment the sound of loading the gun was heard.

(End of this chapter) Chapter 38 Appearance

Naya Rivera's head turned 180 degrees, and her eyeballs with black pupils stared straight at Tu Ran, while a shiny black snake crawled out of her mouth. Because the snake's body was very thick, a very large cut was made at the corner of Naya Rivera's mouth, almost dividing her entire face into two halves, and bright red blood flowed down.

Tu Ran had imagined a hundred scenes of alien species revealing their true forms, but she never expected it to be such a disgusting and horrifying scene.

Her heart sank with fear.

At this time, the python, as thick as a child's waist, had opened its bloody mouth, spitting out its tongue, and attacked her.

Tu Ran tried hard to stay calm, quickly stepped back while keeping his arms steady, and pulled the trigger to shoot at the python's eyes.

Since it is a different species, it will have different characteristics from ordinary pythons.

For example, it has four eyes, arranged like a peacock spreading its tail.

Tu Ran's aim was not very good. He fired eight shots but only hit one.

The pistol's magazine was used up, so Tu Ran quickly switched to a submachine gun.

Even if her aim is not good, she can win by numbers.

The crowd was frightened by the sudden noise and fled in all directions, especially when they saw the giant python coming out of Naya Rivera's mouth, they screamed even more.

The worker who was originally standing next to Naya Rivera was so scared that his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground, unable to stand up. In the end, he could only crawl away from the scene.

Because he was prepared, when Naya Rivera's head turned 180 degrees, Ding Naiqing had already raised his submachine gun and started shooting.

Tu Ran never thought that Ding Naiqing, who looked weak, simple and harmless, could be so ferocious when he picked up the submachine gun. He attacked the python like a tiger, firing "bang bang bang" without wasting a single bullet, and all of them shot into the python's body.

The guards standing around quickly raised their guns and shot at the giant python. Although they doubted Tu Ran's ability at first, when they saw that she had really found a real alien species, they did not hesitate at all and immediately evacuated the crowd while opening fire.

Moreover, this was their first real face-to-face battle with an alien species, and each of them used everything they had learned throughout their lives.

This python was also pitiful. Before its entire body could crawl out of Naya Rivera's body, it was shot from all directions by such intensive firepower. It struggled in pain, twisting its smooth body to dodge everywhere. Venom spurted out of its glands and splashed everywhere, but it was avoided by humans who were prepared.

The shooting lasted for nearly five minutes. All four of the python's eyes had been shot with bullets, and thick green blood was flowing out. Its body was also full of bullet holes.

Tu Ran was so close that she could even smell the burning odor.

But it still rolls and struggles tenaciously, like a water pipe being pushed around by the current, desperately and blindly dodging bullets, which shows the tenacity of its vitality.

Finally, after another minute, its body fell limp, and after swaying in the air for a few times, it became completely motionless.

The shooting continued for another minute, just in case. The bullets could easily penetrate its bloody body as easily as a sack inflated by the wind.

Tu Ran waved her hand, and everyone immediately stopped shooting and watched the tragic scene before them.

All the bones in Naya Rivera's body must have been eaten away. Her lower body was limp on the ground in a strange posture like a puddle of mud, but her upper body was still barely standing, probably because this part was supported by the python's body that had not yet gotten out. Chapter 39: Doubts

Her head was twisted and drooped to the side at a strange angle. The python was halfway out of her split mouth, but it was lifeless at this time. Because of its great length, its head was dragging on the ground.

Thick green blood spread from under their feet, and the stench corroded the ground.

The scene is as bloody as it can be.

"Sister Ran, how do you know that she was possessed by an alien species?" Ding Naiqing had walked to Tu Ran's side without her knowing when, his eyes full of admiration.

Tu Ran looked at the innocent face in front of her, recalled the brutality of his shooting just now, and sighed, don't judge a book by its cover.

After the fierce battle just now, the suspicious hair on Naya Rivera's body had fallen to the ground. Tu Ran bent down to pick it up and handed it to Ding Naiqing.

"I saw the hair of a blue wolf mastiff on her body, and she smelled too much blood. She also said she was a vegetarian, so I suspected she was lying," Tu Ran let go of her hand and let the hair fall to the ground. "In fact, I'm not 100% sure whether she was possessed by an alien, so I pointed a gun at her from behind. Most aliens will not remain calm in dangerous situations."

This was also one of the methods Xi Chunzhi used to test her in the elevator.

After hearing her description, Ding Naiqing couldn't help but give her a thumbs up. "Sister Ran, your sense of smell is so good. I passed by her two or three times before, and I didn't smell any blood. And your observation skills are so good that you can notice even a tuft of hair. I always thought that only the crime-solving experts in the execution department could observe so carefully."

"And, you actually remember what the hair of a Blue Wolf Mastiff looks like. As a fellow pioneer, I don't even know what a Blue Wolf Mastiff looks like." Ding Naiqing's words revealed his admiration for Tu Ran, like a little fanboy.

They didn't try to keep their conversation low-key, so the guards around them heard it as well, and their previous contempt for Tu Ran was no longer there.

A person with such meticulous observation skills, who was able to remain calm and shoot even when faced with the horrifying scene of the maid suddenly turning her head 180 degrees, is indeed not an ordinary person.

At least for them, when they first saw the scene that looked like something out of a horror movie, they almost threw away their guns.

Tu Ran just smiled faintly and didn't say anything.

The two guards who had been sent out to scan the countryside for other living things with thermal scanners returned at this time.

They hurried back after hearing the gunshots, and were disgusted and shocked when they saw the body of a person kneeling on the ground entangled with a snake.

"You found the alien species so quickly?" One of the young guards named Wang exclaimed, "It turns out that the alien species this time is a snake."

"Did you find anything unusual?" Tu Ran ignored their exclamations.

"No, but we found the body of a Tibetan Mastiff."

As he spoke, the young guard played a picture from the communicator.

In the corner of a wooden room, there was a mutilated body of a Tibetan Mastiff. Half of its huge head was missing, and the bloody white brain matter inside could be seen flowing all over the floor. Its thick back had also been cut open, and the spine was nowhere to be seen.

Just by looking at the picture, Tu Ran felt as if she could smell a disgusting and strong smell of blood.

No wonder Naya Rivera carries such a strong scent. Chapter 40 Doubts

Next to the picture, there is a series of data analysis by artificial intelligence, including time of death and main fatal factors.

Tu Ran stayed on the death track for two more seconds.

The death of the Tibetan Mastiff also indirectly confirmed Tu Ran's previous guess.

"Sister Ran, our mission has been completed, right? Can we report to Captain Li Wenchuan now?" Ding Naiqing asked Tu Ran happily.

It's amazing that their team was able to find the alien so quickly.

He can show off to many people.

Tu Ran stared at the half-human, half-snake corpse on the ground, thinking, "Don't report it yet, I think something is wrong."

"What's wrong?" Ding Naiqing asked puzzledly.

The guards were all puzzled. Hadn't they already caught the alien? What else was wrong?
At this time, Li Wu, who had been standing behind the crowd, spoke up, "This alien passed the interrogation of the execution department this morning."

Tu Ran agreed, "Guard Li is right. There are three possibilities for Naya Rivera to pass the interrogation of the Execution Department. First, she was possessed after the interrogation of the Execution Department. But from the data on the photo that Guard Wang showed just now, the Tibetan Mastiff died before the Execution Department arrived this morning."

"Second, the main method used by the Executive Department for this interrogation is to let two people who are familiar with each other ask each other questions and have the other party answer them. Naya Rivera passed the interrogation, so the person who asked questions to Naya Rivera is very suspicious. There is a great possibility that the person has also been possessed by an alien species."

As soon as these words were spoken, the guards became agitated.

"Aren't there only seventeen alien species? Is there more than one here on the farm alone?" the guard named Wang asked.

Tu Ran couldn't answer his question now. With her limited experience in this world and her limited brain capacity, she didn't know what the situation was now.

But she always remembered the words Xi Chunzhi left her: alien infection.

If the alien species is contagious, one alien species can infect many people, then this situation can be explained clearly.

"It's just my guess at this point. If there is a second alien, we will need to meet the person who helped Naya Rivera later."

"What could the third one be?" a guard asked impatiently.

"The last one is that this parasitic alien has the ability to obtain human memories, so it can answer questions." Tu Ran said.

"This... is impossible?" Ding Naiqing questioned in a low voice, "Among all the parasitic species encountered by the pioneer team so far, none of them can acquire human memories."

"Having never encountered it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just like we haven't encountered any reptiles or snakes before, but now we have encountered one?" Tu Ran's face was serious. "We only know less than one tenth or one twelfth of the Threshold. Everything is possible."

Ding Naiqing's brows were still furrowed. Tu Ran knew what he was worried about. If an alien species appeared that could inherit human memories, then the federal government's previous system for identifying alien species would completely collapse, and humans would lose one more advantage in facing alien species.

But for Tu Ran, this is secondary. The second possibility is probably the most likely one.

"Naiqing, explain the situation here to other members in the group first, and then ask them if they have found any suspicious circumstances over there." Tu Ran gave instructions to Ding Naiqing, he looked at the guard in front of him.

"Send two of you to find the person who was interrogated with Naya Rivera before."

Two guards stood up, one of them was Liang Feng, the guard who had previously ridiculed her and Ding Naiqing's actions, and the other was Li Wu.

"Let's go together."

Tu Ran nodded, "Be careful, try to stay away from him when you bring him over."

"yes."

After the two left, Tu Ran found an empty space nearby and sat down.

My palms were sweaty, yet cool.

How could she not be scared? She used to be afraid to watch even horror movies.

However, in that situation, if she ran away, it would be a bit embarrassing for so many people to see her. And since she came to this world as a pioneer, she would inevitably face such situations in the future. She could escape once, but not a second time, so it was better to adapt early and prepare for the future.

"Sister Ran! Sister Ran!" Ding Naiqing suddenly called her, looked around and saw her here, and ran over immediately.

"What's the matter?" Tu Ran supported herself and stood up, brushing off the dust on her body.

"Sister Yao replied to us."

Sister Yao, that is, Yao Bei, the default leader of their fourth group.

"She said she hasn't found any alien species yet, but judging from the bodies of the deceased, it is very likely that they are possessed by the same alien species as us. Referring to the message we sent, she has begun to focus her search on the order Snakes." Ding Naiqing quickly repeated the contents of the communicator.

"Sister Yao also told us to continue investigating. She suspected there was more than one alien species," Ding Naiqing looked at Tu Ran excitedly, "Sister Ran, Sister Yao's guess is the same as yours."

"What else did she say?"

"That's all," Ding Naiqing flipped through the pages, "She just told us to be careful. The rest are clues collected by several other teams. Two teams also found traces left by the snake."

Tu Ran nodded, her expression becoming serious, "Next, it depends on the situation of the person Li Wu and Lu Yun brought back."

"By the way, where's Toobin?"

Tu Ran suddenly realized that she hadn't seen him for a long time.

Didn't he brief them on the situation?

"Could it have been scared away?" Ding Naiqing was also curious and looked into the distance.

The people who had gathered together before were still standing far away, and Tubin was indeed nowhere to be seen.

Tu Ran also looked at the dark crowd in the distance and said, "Let them disperse. We can't find out anything now."

"Okay." Ding Naiqing ran to the guards again, relayed Tu Ran's thoughts, then ran back and stood in front of Tu Ran.

The guards were already organizing the crowd to disperse.

Tu Ran looked at Ding Naiqing, crossing her arms over her chest, "Why do you have to follow me closely?"

Ding Naiqing scratched his head embarrassedly, "Because I feel safe with Sister Ran."

Tu Ran: "…"

"How do you know it's safe to stay with me?"

She is someone who can't even shoot a gun accurately, and someone who can't even guarantee her own safety.

"Because Sister Ran is very good," Ding Naiqing said happily, "When we were training together before, Sister Ran was able to take first place in many aspects. I have been paying attention to Sister Ran since then, and I often took Sister Ran as my goal. I am still alive today, and it is also due to Sister Ran's contribution." Chapter 42: Silencing the Witness

Tu Ran's heart skipped a beat, and she looked at Ding Naiqing with a cold look, "You knew me before?"

"Yes." Ding Naiqing smiled, revealing his two little fangs. He had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter.

Tu Ran subconsciously pressed the tip of her tongue against her teeth.

Ding Naiqing knew her before.

Ding Naiqing knew her before!
These are the only two sentences in her mind now.

When she faced Ding Naiqing before, she behaved as if she were a stranger.

Could he have discovered something unusual?
At this moment, Tu Ran imagined many solutions. She even glanced at the guards who were dispersing the crowd. If she took this opportunity to kill him and then blamed his death on the aliens...

"But Sister Ran, you may not know me. After all, I haven't even said hello to you." Ding Naiqing said.

The tension in Tu Ran's heart relaxed.

"Why didn't you say hello to me?" Tu Ran asked tentatively.

"At that time, Sister Ran, you were so cold that I didn't dare to get close to you," Ding Naiqing's frown relaxed as she spoke, and she said happily, "But now Sister Ran, you have become much more friendly and are willing to be on the same team with me."

Tu Ran rolled her eyes inwardly. She actually wanted to not team up with him, but because he interrupted, the boss was snatched away by someone else, and he was the only one left. There was nothing she could do.

But from what Ding Naiqing said, she had won many first places in the previous training camp, so she must be a top student, right? Then why did Xi Chunzhi say "If anyone dares to laugh at you, I will beat him up for you" when he took the bracelet from her?
Tu Ran originally guessed that the original body should be the bottom of the pioneer team, and she couldn't bring anything valuable from the threshold, so she was laughed at.

Now it seems that this is not the case.

What was going on?
Tu Ran was eager to know what had happened to her original body, but she had no way of asking.

Xi Chunzhi was not around, and she couldn't ask directly through the communicator.

When Xi Chunzhi was in the elevator, her accelerated heart rate was immediately detected by the artificial intelligence, and any sensitive words she said in the communicator would definitely attract attention.

Sighing, Tu Ran could only give up the idea for the time being. After this was over and she returned, she would definitely ask Xi Chunzhi about everything about her original body.

When Li Wu and Liang Feng came back, Tubin followed them.

"The person was not found. The person who asked questions to Naya Rivera disappeared." Li Wu looked worried.

"How could he be missing?" Ding Naiqing was surprised. "Weren't there 121 people gathered just now?"

"It was so chaotic at the time that we didn't notice when she left." Li Wudao.

At that time, they had to deal with the alien species and evacuate the crowd at the same time, so it was extremely difficult to notice the trace of a person.

"It doesn't matter if we can't find her. Her disappearance means we can basically confirm that there is more than one alien species on the farm." Tu Ran said calmly.

Suddenly, she cast her eyes on Tubin's face, staring at the tall and strong black man in front of her, and asked calmly: "Where did Mr. Tubin go just now?"

"The situation just now was so scary that I ran back home. I didn't know if it was safe outside, so I didn't come out until I saw you two police officers. Then I dared to follow them." Tubin said honestly.

When encountering danger, everyone wants to escape quickly. It is normal for Tubin to do so. If it weren't for his identity, Tu Ran would definitely have run farther than him.

(End of this chapter) 2023-04-03 Author: Nantian Lake

Chapter 43 This is the tradition of the pioneer team
. Tu Ran did not continue to ask questions and changed the subject. "Then Mr. Tubin must have heard our conversation just now. There is more than one alien species on the farm."

"I heard you," Tubin nodded, "so you have to help us get rid of them as soon as possible." His voice was urgent.

Tu Ran smiled and said, "Of course they will, but this alien is hiding too deep, and we have no way to catch it for the time being, so I think, instead of investigating aimlessly, we might as well set a trap to lure it in."

"How do you lead me?" Tubin asked eagerly, "I am willing to cooperate with you."

He looked as if he had been severely tortured by the alien species.

"It's simple. These alien species feed on bones, so we can prepare more bones to attract them, lead them into the trap, and catch them all in one fell swoop."

"Okay," Tubin agreed, "Then I'll go prepare it now." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.

Tu Ran called him, "Mr. Tubin, don't worry, I still have something else to tell you."

Toobin stopped and turned to look at her, waiting for her to continue.

"Where is the most monitored area on the entire farm?"

Tubin thought for a moment and said, "At the gate of the villa."

"Okay, let's set the trap there. As for the bones used in the trap, there is no need to bother Mr. Tubin. We can just use the remaining half of the Tibetan Mastiff's body." Tu Ran said.

Tubin was stunned: "Tibetan Mastiff? Corpse? Mr. Yigan's Tibetan Mastiff died?"

"Mr. Tubin may not know yet, but the Tibetan Mastiff has been half eaten by the alien species." Ding Naiqing said.

Tubin had a distressed expression on his face. "Those two Tibetan mastiffs were Mr. Egan's favorites when he was alive."

Ding Naiqing comforted him thoughtfully, "Don't be sad, Mr. Tubin. The Tibetan Mastiff died worthily. If it weren't for it, we wouldn't have been able to find out who was the alien species."

Tu Ran nudged him with her elbow.

If you don't know how to comfort, don't comfort. What kind of words are you talking about!

Ding Naiqing looked at her in confusion.

Tu Ran had already shifted her gaze to the guard behind her, "Go and move the body of the Tibetan Mastiff to the gate of the villa."

"Yes." The three guards turned and left.

"Let's go, Mr. Tubin, we need to go to the gate to check out the situation. By the way, connect the surveillance of your farm to our equipment to facilitate our observation." Tu Ran said.

Tubin had calmed down a bit from his grief and asked, "Why do you need surveillance? Aren't you planning to stay here tonight?"

"Of course we have to live here, we-" Ding Naiqing said halfway when Tu Ran elbowed him again and signaled him to shut up with her eyes.

Although Ding Naiqing still didn't understand, he still pursed his lips obediently.

Tu Ran looked at Tubin and explained gently, "We can't stay here. Some members of our team are investigating in other places. We need to go back and meet up with them to discuss countermeasures together."

"Can't we hold a remote meeting?" Toobin asked.

"No," Tu Ran said calmly, "This is the tradition of our pioneer team."

Ding Naiqing: When did the pioneer team have this tradition?
Other guards: Since the pioneer team has this tradition, it is really extraordinary!
Tu Ran: She actually just simply feels that this place is unsafe.

If there is more than one alien species, how can we be sure that there are only two? Who knows, this place is now a snake den.

She is not a fool, and she has a place to live, so why does she have to go to a place full of safety hazards?

(End of this chapter) Besides, as of now, this small team of twelve people is led by a useless person like her.

She is always responsible for the safety of these people.

"Besides, the alien species has a strong sense of perception. If someone hides nearby, it will definitely be sensed by it, and then it will not show up, so it is better to use surveillance."

Toobin was speechless.

After waiting for the guards to carry over the half-body of the Tibetan Mastiff, Ding Naiqing connected the equipment of both parties, and the group boarded a helicopter and flew to their team's temporary headquarters.

On the plane, the noisy sound of the propeller covered everything. Inside the noise-proof helmets, Ding Naiqing and Tu Ran were connected by a single line.

Ding Naiqing: "Sister Ran, why do we have to leave? Wouldn't it be more convenient for us to stay on the farm? We can save time running back and forth."

Tu Ran was leaning back in her chair with her arms folded across her chest, eyes closed. When she heard this, she didn't even bother to open her eyes and said sarcastically, "Because I'm a coward."

She is really a coward.

But Ding Naiqing wouldn't believe it.

He grinned, "Sister Ran, are you kidding me?"

Tu Ran sighed in her heart.

The original body is almost Ding Naiqing's idol. The idol filter is there, and anything she says that may break the filter will be considered a joke.

"I think it's very risky to stay overnight on the farm. We currently don't know how many alien species there are on the farm, nor do we know how they can possess humans."

Tu Ran explained word by word, "If just touching can make them possess us, then we should stay on the farm overnight. We are most vulnerable when we sleep at night, and it is easy for aliens to take advantage of us. We have experience and may be able to discover it in time, but it will be very dangerous for the guards to follow us."

After Tu Ran finished speaking, Ding Naiqing suddenly understood and nodded in agreement, casting a look of admiration at Tu Ran, "Sister Ran is really thoughtful."

Because she was afraid that if she didn't think it through carefully, the whole team would be wiped out.

The helicopter arrived at the destination and prepared to land. During this time, Tu Ran connected Ding Naiqing's headset and said, "Go and ask them how they will stay tonight, together or separately?"

"Why are you asking this?" Ding Naiqing blinked and asked curiously.

"You ask them first. I will talk to you in detail tonight. Also, don't be too deliberate when asking. Just pretend to chat. Got it?"

"I understand." Ding Naiqing nodded obediently.

After the helicopter landed, Tu Ran was the first to get off the plane and walked towards the hotel that had been prepared for their fourth team.

Ding Naiqing did not follow her, but mingled among the ten guards and treated them as brothers.

Compared to the cold and taciturn Tu Ran, the guards preferred this harmless and simple-looking young man and they quickly became friends with him.

The task assigned to him by Tu Ran was also completed quickly.

Eight o'clock in the evening.

In the hotel restaurant, Tu Ran and Ding Nai ordered several local specialties.

It looks delicious, and the texture is as similar as possible to the original, but it doesn't taste as good as expected, lacking the soul of the original ingredients.

Tu Ran chewed mechanically.

"Sister Ran, they said they live separately. The federal government of Regaken State also arranged rooms for them," Ding Naiqing said, "What's going on? Why is it so mysterious?"

Tu Ran swallowed the "boiled pork slices" in her mouth that tasted worse than shoe insoles, wiped the corners of her mouth, "Why do you see everything mysterious? I'm just worried that those guards who left our sight were also possessed by aliens. What if they live together, wouldn't it become a breeding ground for aliens? That's why I asked you to find out. If they live together, find a way to separate them."

"So that's how it is," Ding Naiqing suddenly realized again, and affirmed Tu Ran, "Sister Ran, you are so thoughtful."

Tu Ran: "…"

She didn't know how many times she had heard Ding Naiqing's affirmation of herself, and she had become numb to it.

"Then you eat. I'm going to rest." Tu Ran stood up, turned around and prepared to leave.

But suddenly I caught a glimpse of a familiar figure, it was Xie Xu.

He was also having a meal. His short jet-black hair was still a little messy, with a small tuft sticking up in the air, which was completely different from his serious and solemn face.

At this moment, the two of them looked at each other, and Tu Ran didn't know whether she should go over and say hello.

After all, he had saved her life from the monster He Luo. She had wanted to thank him at that time, but when she changed her clothes and came out, he was nowhere to be seen. The last time they met was in the conference room, which was definitely not a good time to thank him.

This would be a good opportunity to say thank you to him, but Tu Ran didn't want to move.

She always felt that Xie Xu was very smart, so smart that he was dangerous.

She was a fake and she didn't dare go over there.

Xie Xu simply looked at her and then lowered his head.

Maybe he didn't recognize her? Tu Ran was delighted. It didn't matter if he didn't recognize her. He could just forget about her.

Tu Ran was about to leave this place quickly, but the communicator on her wrist rang before her.

Tu Ran looked down and saw a message.

Two simple words: "Come here".

Sender: Xie Xu, senior member of the institute.

Tu Ran: "…"

Why did she feel like a primary school student who pretended not to see her class teacher but was eventually discovered and called over to be scolded?

Moving her feet, Tu Ran walked with difficulty to the opposite side of Xie Xu and sat down. She had already thought of countless possibilities of why Xie Xu asked her to come over.

Tu Ran forced a proper smile and asked, "What do you want to talk to me about, Researcher Xie?"

Xie Xu put down the chopsticks in his hand. His slender fingers were naturally bony and very pleasing to the eye.

"Didn't your group go to Fengli County? Why are you here?" Xie Xu spoke with an indifferent voice and stern eyes.

Tu Ran thought to herself, this guy wouldn't think that their group was just slacking off, right?

"The two of us are responsible for the investigation of Mr. Kenny Egan's farm in Fengli County. According to our investigation, there is more than one species of reptiles in this farm, but we can't be sure how many species are hiding there. For the safety of the team members, I chose to go back to the headquarters for the night." Tu Ran explained calmly.

Xie Xu frowned, his face solemn, "Reptiles, Serpents? This type of species has the strongest reproductive capacity, and can produce hundreds of offspring in a single day during the breeding season."

Tu Ran was shocked. "Is there any need to investigate Kenny Egan's farm?"

It should be their breeding season now. After such a night, how many humans can survive on the farm?
The risks outweigh the benefits. There is no need to investigate.

Xie Xu naturally understood the implication of her words. He pondered for a while and said, "Continue investigating and find the first alien species that entered the farm. It is very valuable for research. As for manpower, I will assign two experienced pioneers from my side to assist you in the investigation." Tu Ran was speechless.

It's already hard to tell which one is human and which one is an alien, and this guy actually wants them to find the snake king? !

This is just asking too much.

She originally wanted to throw a bomb into the snake's nest. Anyway, the alien species reproduced so quickly this time that two nights were enough for them to infect all the humans in the farm. Instead of sending people in to conduct risky investigations and expand the scope of infection, it would be much easier to just blow it up directly.

Tu Ran muttered in her heart, "If you can catch me, just do it! You are not the captain of our team, why should I listen to you?"

"Why, do you have any other opinions?" Xie Xu suddenly spoke in a cold voice.

Tu Ran pulled the corner of her lips calmly: "Nothing, it's just... I need to consult Captain Li Wenchuan."

"No need for that," Xie Xu leaned back in his chair, one hand on the table, fiddling with the goblet with elegant movements, "I am the top person in charge of this pioneer team's 100-man operation in Leijiaken State, and Li Wenchuan is my subordinate. Just follow my orders."

Tu Ran: "…"

"Okay," she said faintly, "Does Xie Institute have any other instructions?"

He was leaving without her! She didn't want to see him again!

After hearing her words, Xie Xu was silent. He neither said "yes" nor "no". His two dark blue eyes stared at Tu Ran, as if he wanted to see through her body and soul.

Tu Ran didn't understand why and her heart beat faster. She actually wanted to escape from this place, away from Xie Xu's eyes that were examining everything. But she couldn't. She could only pretend to be calm and look at him, waiting for his next instructions.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, Xie Xu said softly, "You are not Tu Ran."

Tu Ran's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

The fingers placed under the table were also clenched tightly together.

"This joke is not funny." Tu Ran tried hard to calm herself down and put on her signature warm smile.

Xie Xu was unmoved, "You know in your heart that I am not joking."

Tu Ran gritted her teeth. She really didn't know where she had exposed herself.

If the original body knew Xie Xu...but they were just talking about work and did not touch on privacy.

"You are too cold," Xie Xu stared at her closely, his eyes so blue that they were terrifying. "If it was Tu Ran, she would never ask, 'Is there any need to investigate Kenny Egan's farm?' She would never leave Kenny Egan's farm on such a crisis-ridden night."

Xie Xu's voice was calm, as if he was stating a fact.

Tu Ran sneered in her heart. The original body would not leave because she had enough confidence to survive this night safely. But she couldn't. She was a modern person who grew up in a peaceful era. She couldn't even use a gun and didn't even dare to watch horror movies. Now she was left in the snake cave without any ability to protect herself. She was not stupid! Everyone knows the principle of seeking benefits and avoiding harm.

Tu Ran felt unexpectedly calm. Since the other party already knew, there was no point in pretending any longer. She looked around leisurely. There were many people coming and going, and cameras were everywhere. Their conversation could be easily captured by artificial intelligence.

"I think we can talk about this somewhere else."

"What? Do you want to kill someone to silence him?" Xie Xu asked back.

Upon hearing this, Tu Ran crossed her arms, leaned back in her chair, and crossed her legs. She lost all her previous respectfulness and snorted coldly, "Since you can guess that I'm not Tu Ran, you must have guessed that I'm not capable enough."

Tu Ran has already felt like giving up everything, just die!
I'm fed up!

Destroy it!

Let's kill her with a bomb!
No, let's kill her and the man in front of her with a bomb!
Looking at her series of arrogant actions, Xie Xu frowned tightly.

The original body must have never made such a gesture in front of him, so he looked so angry.

"I need to emphasize that I am still Tu Ran, but I just lost my memory. I am not possessed by an alien."

Tu Ran struggled a little.

"Last time in the Threshold, I saw with my own eyes that you hit your head on a boulder. For the next seven minutes, you didn't move at all, and your holographic bracelet kept flashing red." Xie Xu paused, "You probably don't know what the flashing red light on the holographic bracelet means."

Tu Ran said nothing, waiting quietly for him to continue. Her intuition told her that the excuse of amnesia would also be exposed.

"The holographic bracelet has a built-in life detection system that does not require an internet connection. When it detects a lifeless state, the red light will flash, and you will be in a lifeless state for seven minutes. After seven minutes, you wake up, and not only wake up, but your body movements are not affected at all."

So this guy was there the whole time. When he saw her faint, he not only didn't try to do CPR or artificial respiration, but he just waited there to see when she would die, and even watched the Gu Eagle peck at her internal organs!

This guy! So bad!
"Who are you?" Xie Xu stared into her eyes, not missing a single expression on her face.

However, Tu Ran keenly grasped the key point of his words.

"people"

He asked who she was, which showed that she had escaped the suspicion of being an alien.

This is big progress.

"Well... I think we can talk for a moment." She still had the communicator in her hand, and she was worried that what she said would be heard by the artificial intelligence.

"I have already activated the shielding system. Zero cannot monitor our conversation for the time being." Xie Xu saw her doubts and spoke.

Zero?
Who?

Tu Ran didn't react for a moment.

Xie Xu took a deep breath and said, "Zero is the main artificial intelligence system used by the Federation to assist the federal government in managing the affairs of the forty-two states."

Tu Ran nodded. So that's it.

What made her even more excited was that Zero could actually be blocked.

She really needed this device.

"Tell me, who are you?" Xie Xu urged.

Tu Ran organized her words and asked, "Um... do you believe that there are souls in the world?"

Xie Xu narrowed his eyes, "What do you want to say?"

"Uh... I want to say that I am a soul from another world, and I came to Tu Ran's body by chance."

After that, Tu Ran stared at Xie Xu eagerly. "Do you understand? Do you have any questions? If you have any questions, just ask them. I will definitely give you a clear answer. After all, this is not an easy thing to accept."

"Which world are you from? What is your world like?"

Xie Xu's voice was unusually calm.

Tu Ran: This reaction is different from what she imagined. Why is he so calm?

And judging from the way he asked and the tone of his voice, it seemed that he had seen a lot of things like this.

(End of this chapter) "That world is beautiful. Although humans and nature don't get along particularly well, it's much better than here. There are green mountains and clear waters, and there are cattle and sheep everywhere. There are also large tracts of land for growing food. We don't need to eat unpalatable synthetic food. We don't have any alien species there, and there's no federal government. Ordinary people have a very happy life."

As she spoke, Tu Ran's memories returned to that world and her expression softened unconsciously.

"That world, is it called Earth?"

Tu Ran sat up straight at once.

"You...you..." She was so excited that she was incoherent, "You are from Earth too?!"

"no."

Having realized that his huge expectations were dashed, Tu Ran suddenly became depressed.

"I know someone who is from there." Xie Xu said.

"Who?" Tu Ran suddenly became alert.

Where is her fellow villager?
"Li Wenchuan." Xie Xu opened and closed his thin lips, uttering two words.

Tu Ran's eyes widened. Li Wenchuan? The leader of this operation?

Her fellow villager is so outstanding?!
She suddenly felt that she had found a backer.

"Don't even think about transferring from this position." Xie Xu poured a basin of cold water over Tu Ran, instantly chilling her to the bone.

"Why?" she asked angrily.

"Because Tu Ran signed a ten-year contract with the pioneers, you are now living in her body, and you must assume her responsibilities. As for your claim that your soul comes from another world, no one will believe it except me."

"But I don't know anything. Aren't you asking me to die by taking on such a dangerous mission to deal with alien species?!" Tu Ran gritted her teeth. She thought that with Li Wenchuan as her backer, she could get a back door and leave the pioneer team to become an ordinary person. She didn't expect that this dream would not come true.

"So I sent you three more helpers," Xie Xu said calmly, "If you can't complete the mission even with helpers, there's no need for you to return to the federal headquarters alive."

Tu Ran froze and pounded her fists on the table, "Are you threatening me?"

Xie Xu looked disdainful, "You are not qualified."

Tu Ran's heart sank to the bottom of the valley. She thought Xie Xu was her lucky star, but unexpectedly he was the hand that pushed her into the abyss.

"I died here inexplicably. My friends will definitely find out the truth, and you won't have an easy time." Tu Ran glared at him.

"Friend? Xi Chunzhi? Are you sure she considers 'you' as a friend?" Xie Xu's tone was very indifferent.

Tu Ran began to tremble all over because she discovered something.

Why does Xie Xu know her so well? He knows what kind of person the original body was and what kind of people were around the original body.

A terrible thought gradually emerged in her mind, "My direct superior is the federal government... or you?"

"I."

"Who are you?"

The original body was clearly affiliated with the federal government, so why should he listen to him? He was clearly a senior member of the federal government research institute, so why did he start a new organization?

"You don't need to know this," Xie Xu stood up casually, "You just need to remember that I want the snake king alive."

After saying that, without even looking at Tu Ran's expression, he walked away with his long legs without any reluctance.

Tu Ran was left sitting there alone, with a gloomy look on his face.

Now there are only two paths before her: one, follow Xie Xu's instructions, find the snake king and catch it alive.

The federal government did not instruct them to capture the aliens alive. Xie Xu wanted to keep the aliens alive, but why did he want them alive? This was one of the questions.

The second way is that if she fails to complete Xie Xu's request and fails to catch the snake king, or if the snake king is caught and dies, Xie Xu will definitely get rid of her.

This was a chance for Xie Xu to prove herself. If she could complete the mission, it would mean she was still useful and worth using. If she messed up, it would mean she could be discarded as a subordinate whose core had been replaced, so she wouldn't have to go back to the federal center and cause him unnecessary trouble.

With Xie Xu's identity, it would be easy to get rid of her without anyone knowing.

Xi Chunzhi knew that she was no longer the original Tu Ran, and most likely he would not help her get revenge.

Her death will not cause any ripples.

When Tu Ran thought of her tragic ending, she shuddered and her mind suddenly became clear.

The second question is, why did the original body obey Xie Xu? Did he catch him, or was he bribed?
If he was bribed, it would be easier to get rid of him. What he was afraid of was that Xie Xu would catch him.

But she did not inherit the memories of her original body, and she really couldn't figure out why.

Tu Ran took a deep breath and stood up with difficulty, supporting herself on the table with both hands.

She had to find a way to catch the snake king.

…

Ding Naiqing returned to his room and just lay down on the bed when he received a message from Tu Ran.

"Come to my room for a moment."

Ding Naiqing rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at the time. It was already twelve o'clock, and Sister Ran was still not asleep.

He had just come out of Tu Ran's room. They had been watching the farm's surveillance. Until he came back, there was no movement at the farm gate.

Tu Ran called him at this time, probably because she had discovered something.

Ding Naiqing put on his clothes quickly. Tu Ran's room was just opposite him. Just as he was about to knock on the door, he heard Tu Ran's voice through the headset.

"Come right in."

Ding Naiqing pushed the door open and walked in. Tu Ran still maintained the posture he had when he left, with his back to the door, staring at the three magnified light screens in front of him.

Ding Naiqing soon realized something was wrong. The three light screens were all black, with snowflake-shaped light flashing from time to time.

"What's going on?" Ding Naiqing walked over quickly, bent down and switched to other surveillance screens on the control panel.

This is the case with every one of them.

Tu Ran looked gloomy.

Someone on the farm deliberately damaged the surveillance camera.

"Sister Ran, what should we do now?" Ding Naiqing was a little anxious.

Without surveillance, they would have no idea what happened on the farm tonight.

"I also hid a camera there." Tu Ran stared at the dark screen and said.

She didn't trust anyone on the farm, including Tubin, so she secretly took off the camera on the chest of her combat uniform and stuffed it into the grass facing the Tibetan mastiff's body when no one was paying attention.

Because the camera was an instrument provided for pioneers to use in the Threshold, it could not be connected to the Internet. If she wanted to see the captured images, she had to go there tomorrow and connect to the communicator.

Upon hearing her words, Ding Naiqing was ecstatic, "When? Sister Ran, you are so amazing, I didn't even notice it."

Tu Ran didn't want to explain so much now, but looked up at him: "Let me ask you, how smart are the alien species? Can they tell at a glance that the half-dead body of a Tibetan mastiff there is a trap?"

In her understanding of alien species, they are still animals in essence. Their IQ is not very high, and everything they do is still based on animal instincts. Chapter 47 Head

They possess humans because they can get the fresh internal organs, fat flesh and blood that they desire from humans.

They learn human habits and disguise themselves as humans because this allows them to avoid human attacks, live longer, and eat more delicious food.

Just like a dog learns to bow, it is essentially a way to get food as a reward.

Now that a piece of fat meat is in front of them, will they think about whether there are surveillance cameras around them, whether they will be discovered by humans, or even destroy the surveillance cameras before starting to eat the meat?
Tu Ran doesn't believe that their IQ has evolved to this level.

"Parasitic species are a little smarter than ordinary species, but they don't have much intelligence. It is said that most parasitic species have the intelligence of a four or five-year-old child," Ding Naiqing recalled, and said, "I remember that the research institute once studied the brain of a flying species. It seems that its intelligence is the highest among all known species, but it is only the intelligence of an eight-year-old human child."

So the traps she set were enough.

Now that the surveillance has been destroyed, the most suspicious person is the person who knew the truth.

Tubin, and the ten guards.

"In your opinion, what is the reason for this situation in the surveillance?" Tu Ran asked again. She didn't know much about these things. "Can the surveillance screen be damaged by remote control?"

Hearing this, Ding Naiqing entered a few codes that Tu Ran couldn't understand on the console. After a series of dazzling operations, he said, "It is possible, but not this time. It's a problem on the farm."

"Then the biggest suspect now is Tubin." Tu Ran said thoughtfully.

She couldn't understand why he would do this if it was really Tubin. Didn't he know that there was a problem with the surveillance and he was the biggest suspect?
"Sister Ran, when we go to the farm today, do we have to visit Mr. Yigan's wife?"

today?

Tu Ran looked at the time. It was already half past twelve.

She rubbed her temple tiredly. "Yes, I have to pay him a visit. We can't see anything from the surveillance now. You should go back and rest."

"Okay, Sister Ran should also go to bed early," Ding Naiqing said worriedly, "You don't look well."

"Okay, got it." Tu Ran nodded, raised the water cup beside her and took a few sips of water to suppress the irritability in her heart.

Her head is hanging on her belt now, it would be strange if her complexion could be good.

After seeing Ding Naiqing off, Tu Ran took a quick shower which took ten minutes. She set a timer, fell on the bed and fell asleep immediately.

Seven o'clock in the morning.

A helicopter took off from the roof of the hotel.

Xie Xu assigned two pioneers and boarded the plane with them.

Ding Naiqing looked at the two extra people in front of him and secretly connected with Tu Ran, "Sister Ran, weren't they in Researcher Xie's team looking for people from Threshold Gate? Why are they in our group?"

Tu Ran said calmly: "Yesterday, Xie Xu learned about our situation and was worried that we couldn't handle it, so he specially assigned a few helpers to help us."

"Thank you for the research institute being so good." Ding Naiqing exclaimed.

What a jerk! Tu Ran couldn't help but swear.

Half an hour later, the plane landed in Fengli County.

Tubin was waiting there early. When he saw the helicopter door open, he ran over in two steps.

"You are finally here. Many corpses appeared on the farm today. Their deaths were the same as Mr. Egan's. We are all gathered together now and dare not run around," Tubin was excited and anxious. He followed Tu Ran closely and spoke incoherently, "You must catch that monster. If you don't catch it, everyone will die. Everyone on the farm will die..."

He even wanted to grab Tu Ran's arm with his hand.

"Stop, stop, stop, don't do that!" Ding Naiqing quickly stopped his actions and used his body to separate him and Tu Ran.

It is not certain whether Tubin is an alien species or not. If he meets Sister Ran and infects her, there will be no hope for their group.

He must protect Sister Ran.

"Don't worry, we will definitely catch the alien today." Ding Naiqing comforted.

"It's better this way. It's better this way." Tubin was in a daze.

Tu Ran narrowed her eyes. Looking at him like this, she felt as if he was scared out of his wits.

She asked, "Did you know that the surveillance camera on the farm was broken yesterday?"

Tubin's eyes widened in surprise. "Broken? I didn't know. After you left yesterday, everyone went back to their rooms to rest. I also went back to my room and never came out again. I didn't know the surveillance was broken."

Tu Ran and Ding Naiqing looked at each other. If Tubin was an alien, then his IQ must be very high.

As they were talking, the group had already arrived at the gate of the most luxurious villa on the farm.

"Where is the body of the Tibetan Mastiff?" Ding Naiqing asked in surprise, looking at the empty door.

"When we came out in the morning, there was nothing here," said Tubin.

Tu Ran squatted down slightly and saw the traces of dragging on the ground in the rising morning light.

She smelled blood.

It was very faint, but she caught it.

She moved slowly following the scent and stopped in a pile of grass.

Here... is where she hides the camera.

Under the dense weeds that were as tall as an adult's thighs, the smell of blood was so strong that it was nauseating, and even Ding Naiqing could smell it.

"Sister Ran, please stand further away. Let me open it and take a look." Ding Naiqing said.

Tu Ran took a step back to make room for Ding Naiqing. Ding Naiqing aimed his machine gun at the center of the grass, pushed aside the grass, and exposed the place where the smell of blood was the strongest.

A white head was revealed.

Not a Tibetan Mastiff.

The golden hair was stained with sticky blood.

It's human.

As the head appeared, an even more disgusting smell of blood hit her in the face. Tu Ran had a keen sense of smell and she immediately felt her stomach churning.

"It's Karen Singh," Liang Feng said suddenly, "She is the one who asked questions to Naya Rivera."

Because he and Li Wu were the ones looking for her yesterday, he remembered her appearance clearly.

Tu Ran was sure that when she hid the mini camera here yesterday, there was absolutely no smell of blood here.

The head was placed here last night.

And now a head appeared here...Tu Ran began to search for her camera, and finally found it in front of Karen Singh's head.

Karan Singh's eyes, which he had not closed in time, were staring into the camera.

Tu Ran shuddered for no apparent reason.

It's like a demonstration and a warning.

She couldn't move and she didn't dare to take the mini camera.

Fortunately, there was Ding Naiqing. He was not afraid of such a scene at all. He picked up the camera, blew away the dust on it, and handed it to Tu Ran with a smile, "Fortunately, there is no blood on it."

(End of this chapter) Tu Ran tried hard to keep herself calm and reached out to take the mini camera which was only the size of a fingernail.

Insert it into the side of the communicator and the screen will show that the video is loading.

The progress bar is 11%, 12%, 13%...

Tu Ran looked at Tubin and said, "Mr. Tubin, can you please take our people to collect the faces of all the people who died last night? I need to compare them with the ones in the video."

"Okay." Tubin's gaze moved away from the communicator on Tu Ran's wrist.

"Li Wu, Liang Feng, you two go with Mr. Tubin," Tu Ran looked at the two men and warned them, "Be careful, the aliens may still be nearby. Remember not to let anyone get close to you, and don't trust anyone."

As she spoke, she patted both of them on the shoulders solemnly.

"Yes." Liang Feng and Li Wu nodded.

"Go ahead."

After the three people left, the progress bar on Tu Ran's wrist showed 78%.

She looked at the two pioneers assigned to her by Xie Xu.

Both of them had expressionless faces, their eyelids half drooped, as if they didn't take anyone seriously. They were holding various heavy weapons in their hands and wearing full sets of professional combat uniforms. They were tall with broad shoulders, and the half of their faces exposed under the helmets revealed an aura that said "keep away from strangers".

She had no impression of these people, so she just glanced at their names quickly and gave the order.

"You are experienced, so you will be responsible for searching the farm for suspicious traces and finding humans who may be possessed by aliens. The rest of the guards will assist you."

The two men did not raise any objections, but just nodded slightly, and each led four guards to leave in opposite directions.

Only Tu Ran and Ding Naiqing were left there.

Progress display: 100%.
Zero's mechanical voice sounded, "Video reading completed. Fourteen faces extracted from it."

Ling enlarged the different faces one by one, and Tu Ran seemed more or less familiar with them.

She had passed by all these people yesterday, and even asked some of them questions in person, but she didn't find anything unusual about them.

Ling carefully extracted the footage captured after the surveillance camera was damaged, and Tu Ran clicked play.

The picture is very dark, but the scene at that time can be vaguely discerned.

Seven or eight people came out from the darkness, and "their" eyes were glowing green, as bright as will-o'-the-wisp at night.

They knelt down one after another, clinging to the huge half body of the Tibetan Mastiff, biting, tearing, and fighting. "They" were like a group of hungry mad dogs, even fighting for a rib.

The scene became extremely chaotic at one point.

Among them, Tu Ran noticed the figure of Karen Singh.

Because she wanted to occupy the Tibetan Mastiff's head, she was strangled by its own kind - a patterned snake as thick as a bucket.

The garter snake wrapped itself tighter and tighter, and Karen Singh's seven orifices began to bleed. Then, her head was squeezed out alive.

He rolled to the ground, his eyes facing the camera.

The alien species that possessed Karen Singh's body was not damaged at all, but it had to crawl out of its already broken body and find another human body to possess.

Soon, the body of the Tibetan Mastiff was eaten up, and the humans possessed by the alien species scattered, touching their round bellies.

Silence returned to the scene.

The time jumps to half an hour later.

A foot in a high heel appears where the camera is. Due to the limitations of the camera itself, we can only see the person below the knees.

The other person was wearing a skirt, and the hem of the skirt could be vaguely seen.

The other kicked Karan Singh on the head.

Align the back of the head to the surveillance camera.

As if dissatisfied with this position, the feet paused for a moment and kicked again.

Karan Singh's head rolled into the bushes, his eyes once again facing the camera lens.

The camera's entire field of view was blocked, and it was impossible to see when the other party left.

"Sister Ran, are we going to look for the woman wearing high heels in the video now?" Ding Naiqing asked from the side.

Tu Ran shook her head. "We can't find it. The shoes it wears are the same as those worn by the maids in this farm. It's hard for us to tell it apart just by looking at a pair of shoes. And it's possible that it has already changed into another body. It's just a waste of time for us to look for it."

"Then what should we do next?" Ding Naiqing looked worried.

These aliens who can change their skin at any time are really a headache.

He must be crazy to take such a task.

It's better to be in the threshold. At least in the threshold, he can regard other species except himself as enemies. He can beat them if he can, and run away if he can't.

And now, he has to carefully distinguish which person is a real person and which one is possessed by an alien species, and he must not kill the wrong person. For a brainless person like him, it is really too much to do.

"Let's go visit Yigan's wife first." Tu Ran unplugged the camera from the communicator, put it in the pocket on the side of his leg, and walked towards the villa.

She had not seen this lady since she came to the farm to investigate.

Judging from the current situation, there is a 50% chance that this lady has been possessed.

This time, a butler dressed in a well-dressed suit led the way for her.

"Madam, the investigation team sent by the Federal Center wants to visit you." The butler spoke softly to the magnificent door.

"Come in." A weak female voice came from inside and the door opened.

The woman was leaning on the edge of the bed, her body covered with a quilt embroidered with beautiful patterns.

Seeing them, the woman smiled appropriately and said in a gentle, though slightly weak, voice, "Please take a seat, both of you."

Tu Ran noticed the purple spots under her eyes, as if she hadn't had enough rest for a long time.

"No need to sit down. We are here to ask you a few questions." Tu Ran said.

"Okay, please." The woman was very gentle and cooperative.

Tu Ran glanced at Ding Naiqing and left all subsequent inquiries to him.

Ding Naiqing was a little surprised. He thought Tu Ran would interrogate him personally. After all, her insight was much higher than his, and she was more likely to find loopholes and judge the truth.

Tu Ran didn't mean that. She always suspected that the alien species this time could inherit part of human memory, which was why they could hide so deeply.

It is almost impossible to judge whether the other party is an alien species based on language logic alone.

For example, she asked so many people yesterday, but in the end she only found out one alien species, which was a very limited effect.

She came here just to go through a process.

Ding Naiqing had already started questioning the case, so Tu Ran walked around the room leisurely and observed the surroundings.

There are many artistic paintings hanging on the walls of this house, each of which is a handmade oil painting. Tu Ran moved her nose slightly and she smelled the scent of the collision of old drawing paper and paint.

Each of these paintings is worth a fortune.

Kenny Egan is a rich man.

Tu Ran is not quite clear about the definition of rich people in this world, but she is sure that Kenny Egan is among the rich.

As his eyes wandered among these paintings, Tu Ran's gaze fixed on a painting whose colors were slightly dull compared to the other ones.

On a gloomy rainy day, against a dim background, a little girl in a red dress was holding a rose-red umbrella. The umbrella was slightly tilted to the left and shared with a mechanical snake lying in a stinky ditch.

Her eyes were fixed here, as if she was appreciating the painting, but in fact, Tu Ran's attention was all focused on the headset.

It was like the faint sound of electric current passing through a damaged wire, or like the whispering from ancient times, low and gentle, high and rapid, with one response and another, it was "people" having a conversation.

The source of the conversation was not Ding Naiqing and Kenny Egan's wife, but Li Wu and Liang Feng who were taken away by Tubin.

When Tu Ran was arranging for the two of them to leave, he patted their shoulders a few times as a reminder. It was during this insignificant and brief contact that Tu Ran attached two almost transparent listening devices to their shoulders.

These two monitors were what she asked for from the two pioneers sent by Xie Xu this morning.

The two men were very generous and threw four at her directly.

Two were used on Liang Feng and Li Wu, who had left yesterday to look for Karen Singh and had left her sight.

There were still two left to be secretly installed on the other two guards. They were the two guards who scanned the Tibetan Mastiff with thermal imaging cameras yesterday and were also the ones who left her sight yesterday.

But judging from the current situation, she was lucky and made the right bet on the first try.

There was a continuous sound coming from the other side of the monitor.

But Tu Ran didn't understand.

Maybe it's a language unique to the species?

She thought of Xie Xu.

He is a senior member of the institute and has been dealing with alien species. He may be able to decipher these conversations.

Tu Ran forwarded the recording to Xie Xu.

After a while, Xie Xu sent the deciphered conversation to her.

"Did she get suspicious?"

"No."

"What are her plans for today?"

"have no idea."

"So what's the use of you two?"

"We are useless."

Tu Ran: Are you so straightforward?

The conversation continues.

"Why don't we just kill them all."

"What's the point of killing them? The human base will send more powerful people. We have to confuse them and make them think that all the alien species in the farm have been cleared out. Only in this way can we develop in the long run."

This group of aliens also understand sustainable development and are quite intelligent.

"If it weren't for you idiots who can't keep their mouths shut, they would have gotten rid of Naya Rivera and left."

"So what should we do now? How about we control the leader as well?"

"That guy is too cautious. It's hard to find an opportunity to attack him."

Tu Ran felt relieved for a moment when she heard such high evaluation of herself from their conversation.

"What should we do next?"

Tu Ran concentrated her attention. She also wanted to know their next plan so that she could respond accordingly.

However, after saying this, Xie Xu paused for a long time.

There was no sound like mumbling coming from the monitor.

Tu Ran was just curious about what was going on when Xie Xu sent a message.

"It found out."

Tu Ran's heart trembled.

Found it? The listening device was so hidden, but they found it so quickly. "Tubin is the snake king, catch it."

Another message came from the communicator, it was Xie Xu's order.

As the message went out, the sound of continuous gunfire was heard outside the villa.

"Bang, bang, bang! Bang! Bang, bang..."

Tu Ran and Ding Naiqing looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.

Who is shooting?
The sound of gunfire gradually approached, and even in the empty corridor of the villa, there were gunshots, deafening, and the ground underfoot was shaking.

Screams were heard one after another, and the maids were running around in the corridor, their footsteps chaotic.

The woman on the hospital bed shrugged her shoulders in fear, and her already pale face became even more pale.

Ding Naiqing raised his machine gun and gradually approached the door.

Tu Ran also pointed the gun at the door and approached the bed cautiously.

She stood behind Ding Naiqing, on the other side of the woman.

She and Ding Naiqing surrounded the woman's bed in the middle.

If the woman on the bed is an alien, this position will allow Tu Ran to discover her abnormality in time. If she is not an alien, Tu Ran can also protect her.

The woman curled up and asked Tu Ran desperately, "What happened outside?"

Tu Ran shook her head, she didn't know either.

She had already called other members through the communicator, but no one had reported to her what was happening outside.

She could only stay alert and think in her head, what would Tubin do when he found out their conversation was being monitored?
Would he fight to the death?

have no idea.

Everything is still unknown.

With a loud "bang", the exquisite door with carved patterns was knocked open from the outside without any warning.

Tubin actually rushed in directly.

He was still wearing rough servant's clothes, and his body seemed to have become even more sturdy. When he stepped in, the room seemed smaller. In Tu Ran's impression, he was not so tall at first.

He held a long, thin knife in each hand.

Tu Ran was stunned for a moment. Knife? Ninja? In what era do people still use knives?

But then she couldn't laugh anymore.

Tubin swung his sword directly at Ding Naiqing. His movements were so fast that Tu Ran could only see his afterimage. This speed was unmatched by any human.

Before Ding Naiqing could fire his gun, the knife was heading towards his head. He could only lean back quickly to avoid the tragedy of having his head chopped off.

The two men engaged in close combat.

Ding Naiqing threw away the machine gun that was in the way, and when the time was right he snatched a knife from Tubin's hand. The two men fought with knives, back and forth, and the sharp blades cut through the air, making sharp sounds.

Ding Naiqing was obviously no match for Tubin and could only barely fend off his attacks. He was forced to retreat again and again, and his body suffered more and more wounds.

Tu Ran, who was standing by, raised his pistol and tried to aim at Tubin.

Because the two of them were constantly changing positions, the difficulty of aiming increased significantly. She had never practiced shooting before, so she had to constantly adjust the angle of the muzzle and was unable to shoot for a long time.

She was worried about shooting Ding Naiqing.

Tubin slashed Ding Naiqing's arm with his knife in mid-air, tearing his combat uniform. A line of blood flew along the blade and splashed on the snow-white sheets on the bed.

The woman hiding in the corner was frightened by this scene and screamed.

Ding Naiqing felt pain in his arm, and the knife slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.

Tubin took advantage of the situation and pursued him, raising his long knife with both hands and ready to chop him down.

The situation was critical, and Tu Ran knew that if she hesitated any longer, no one would survive. Chapter 51 Girl

Taking a deep breath, she completely relaxed her brain and acted solely on muscle memory, aiming the gun at Tubin and firing bullet after bullet.

Tubin's quickly falling long knife was deflected by the bullet and passed through Ding Naiqing's forehead, just one centimeter away from piercing his entire head.

Then another bullet hit Tubin's knife-holding hand and pierced through it. Tubin dropped the knife in pain.

Tu Ran still didn't stop shooting. The bullets hit Tubin's forehead, his eyes, and his knees.

Every shot was fired with precision.

But no shot could stop him.

He faced the bullets without fear, and slowly walked around the big bed and walked towards Tu Ran with a bloodthirsty and weird smile on his face.

Tu Ran's hair stood on end. Her pistol had run out of bullets, so she immediately used a machine gun as a substitute and fired bullets into Tubin's body without hesitation.

"His" facial features had been beaten to pieces, like a crushed pomegranate, sticky and juicy, and it was impossible to recognize their original appearance.

But its actions are not restricted.

It does not rely on human eyes to determine direction.

Its snake-like head squeezed out from Tubin's pasty facial features, and densely packed eyes were spread all over his head, with no blind spots in 360 degrees.

Tu Ran got goosebumps all over her body in an instant.

The woman on the bed was also frightened by its appearance, her eyes rolled back and she fainted.

Because her body had just curled up on the edge of the bed, she fainted and fell off the bed.

The knife that Ding Naiqing threw on the ground was lying there quietly.

Tu Ran wanted to help her, but her primary concern now was to deal with Tubin, and she was really unable to do so.

Ding Naiqing had already collapsed to the ground, his legs and arms were covered with wounds, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up.

It was a foregone conclusion that the woman would fall on the blade. If she was lucky, she would survive. If she was unlucky...

At this critical moment, a shadow passed by Tu Ran's eyes.

The woman's fallen body was lifted up and gently laid flat on the bed.

Tu Ran was dumbfounded, staring at the person who did all these incredible actions.

Tubin!?
Tu Ran suspected that she was dazzled. Why did she see pity and reluctance in the actions of this ugly and terrifying alien?

For a moment, Tu Ran looked at the painting on the wall.

The girl held up a red umbrella and kindly shielded a scarred mechanical snake from the rain.

Almost at the same time as he saw the painting, Tu Ran pointed the gun at the sleeping woman.

"Don't move!"

Tubin's body suddenly froze, and countless pairs of eyes stared at Tu Ran.

Tu Ran's scalp was tingling. She felt like she had fallen into a snake's den and her whole body was cold.

She tried her best to control her hands from shaking, and at the same time buried her inner fear, and threatened Tubin calmly and confidently on the surface.

"Just because one bullet can't kill you doesn't mean it can't kill her. If you dare to move again, I will shoot and let her go first." Tu Ran said coldly.

Tubin was instantly enraged, and a green light flashed in his eyes, making his entire image even more terrifying.

"Hiss~~"

A faint sound came out of its mouth, and Tu Ran vaguely saw the red tongue tumbling.

It's going to... spray venom?
Tu Ran immediately took a step back and pulled the trigger, firing a bullet towards the woman.

The sudden shooting forced Tubin to quickly retract his tongue, and he looked down in horror at the woman with her eyes closed. Chapter 52: Hit the Snake at its Weak Point

It was relieved to see that she was still intact.

The bullet hit the pillow, and white goose feathers flew all over the sky.

The bullet hole was less than a centimeter away from the woman's forehead, cutting off a strand of her hair.

"I'm giving you a warning. If you dare to play any tricks again, I can't guarantee that she will be intact next time." Tu Ran was very ruthless.

Ding Naiqing, who was lying on the ground, couldn't help but give her a thumbs up.

To hit the snake at its most vulnerable part, it depends on Sister Ran.

Unfortunately, his arm was hurting so much that he couldn't lift it up, and he couldn't express his admiration at this moment.

Tubin looked at Tu Ran sinisterly, wishing he could swallow this despicable human being in one bite.

"You insidious human! She is one of your kind, yet you actually use her to threaten an alien like me."

Tu Ran laughed coldly, "No, no, no, she is not my kind. From the moment you showed concern for her just now, she has already stood on the opposite side of humans. From today on, she will enjoy the treatment of you aliens."

"She's not an alien!" Toobin emphasized sharply.

"I know she is not an alien," Tu Ran curled the corners of her lips, "but other humans don't believe my judgment, they only believe their own eyes."

After a long silence, Tubin stared at Tu Ran with countless eyes at the same time, "I want to make a deal with you."

"What deal?" Tu Ran became interested. She originally just wanted to delay time and wait for the two helpers sent by Xie Xu to come and catch it.

Now it seems that she will have unexpected gains.

Tubin was silent for a while and looked at Ding Naiqing.

Ding Naiqing: ...

He had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, a tail covered with silver armor plates stretched out from under Tubin's clothes, swept across, and hit him hard on the back of the head.

Ding Naiqing felt as if his head was split open and his vision went dark, and he lost consciousness instantly.

"What did you do?" Tu Ran gripped the machine gun tightly with his finger on the trigger.

"I just let him get some sleep," Toobin said calmly.

Tu Ran felt relieved a little.

"Now let's talk about our deal."

Tu Ran didn't say anything, waiting for him to continue.

At the same time, she did not let her guard down and observed her surroundings out of the corner of her eye. She was also worried that the so-called transaction was just Tubin delaying time.

"Don't tell anyone else what you just saw. I'll give you a gift," Tubin said.

"What gift?"

She had to weigh the pros and cons.

"A gift that you need most right now."

What does she need most right now?

She needed so many things, her original body's memories, her original body's abilities, and to be alive...

"What exactly is it?"

"The past," Tubin said, "I can let you see the past, and let you have the real memory of Tu Ran."

Tu Ran's hand holding the gun trembled. Why did Tu Bin know that she was not the real Tu Ran?

And how could it allow her to see the past?
The snake king, covered with silver armor, slowly crawled out of Tubin's body. The metallic color made it full of mechanical beauty. It stood up and was flush with Tu Ran.

There was a sharp thorn at the end of its tail, as sharp as a rhino horn. It slowly moved the tail end upwards and stabbed it into the back of its head. With the sound of its flesh stirring, its body trembled, and then a silver-white bead was lifted out by its tail.

Send it to Tu Ran.

When seeing this bead, Tu Ran instantly thought of the "stone" of the chicken monster.

"What is this?" Tu Ran blurted out.

"My inner elixir, if you eat it, you can have my abilities and see the past and foresee the future."

She actually guessed it right?!

This thing is actually the inner elixir!
Tu Ran took a deep breath to make herself look less useless, "How can I believe that this is not a trick of yours? What if you used poison to trick me?"

The snake king was angry. "My hook snake clan is the most trustworthy and disdains to cheat. Unlike you humans, you are treacherous, cunning, untrustworthy, insidious, hypocritical, and ungrateful—"

"Stop." Tu Ran stopped it.

This snake has a deep hatred for humans.

If she didn't stop, she was afraid it would keep scolding her.

Reaching out to take the so-called inner elixir in front of him, Tu Ran was still a little worried, "You said that I can see the past after eating this inner elixir, I believe this, but, predict the future? If you can predict the future, didn't you expect that I would install eavesdropping devices on Li Wu and Liang Feng? And didn't you expect that I would threaten you with this woman's life?"

"There are level limits for predicting the future," the snake king was a little tired. Taking out the inner elixir had caused great damage to his body. "I'm only at the intermediate level. I can only see what will happen in the next five minutes. Moreover, every time I see it, I have to consume a huge amount of energy. I can't see the future anytime and anywhere."

"Can this thing see other people's past?" Tu Ran asked.

"Yes, that's why I saw your past. So I know you are not from this world. That's why I chose you to make a deal."

The Snake King could no longer hold on, and his body fell limply on the edge of the bed, very close to the unconscious woman's hand.

"What do you mean?" Tu Ran didn't quite understand what it said. Did it choose her to trade with just because she came from another world?
"I hate the humans in this world. They are selfish, cruel, and greedy. They invaded my world and intended to destroy it in order to expand their territory. They also killed my race and decomposed, transformed, and reorganized our bodies."

"I hate them, I hate everyone in this world."

Its voice was extremely weak, but Tu Ran could still hear the deep hatred in its tone.

"You don't belong to this world. Everything you do is just to survive. I don't hate you. Moreover, I mobilized all my energy to look into the future. I saw... I saw you..."

The snake king imitated humans and laughed with his mouth open.

Although its smile is not pretty, it is a bit funny.

Tu Ran wanted to ask what exactly did you see? She was almost dying of curiosity.

But looking at the snake that was so weak that it had no breath left, she chose to listen in silence.

"You must keep your word and protect her."

This was the last word it left.

It fell into complete sleep beside the woman, its head cautiously approaching her but never making contact with her.

The world suddenly became quiet, and the sound of gunfire outside also became quieter.

Tu Ran looked at the bead in her palm and swallowed it without hesitation.

The moment the bead enters the throat, it turns into a stream of fragrant air that spreads throughout the limbs and bones.

In my mind, different pictures flashed by like flowing water, assembling into a complete story.

The first alien species brought out of the Threshold by humans was the hook snake.

This matter was kept secret and no one was told about it, including the pioneer team that was formed later.

(End of this chapter) Chapter 53 Superpowers

This is why Ding Naiqing said that it was the first time he had seen a species of reptiles and snakes. When Xie Xu heard about this species, he directly said that it could reproduce hundreds of offspring a day.

The snake in front of me is the unfortunate alien species.

It was very small at the time, less than one meter long. It was curious about everything and not hostile to humans.

At that time, it didn't know what it would experience in the future.

Nightmare memories come back.

It was taken to a human research institute and underwent a series of inhumane experiments.

As it says, decompose, transform, and reassemble.

It has all gone through this process.

Because almost no humans who entered the threshold at that time could survive, humans wanted to transform it into a biological weapon that could serve humans.

Humans plucked out its own scales and replaced them with armor plates made of the strongest materials.

Humans cut open its belly and its brain, studying everything that humans have not yet discovered.

A bag of its blood is drawn every day, and different fluids are injected into its body every day. To prevent it from escaping, it is kept in a dark cage.

It has no food, and the nutrient solution is the food that sustains its life.

Seven years passed like this, and the bird finally reached adulthood.

In that world, a very small number of adult alien species will grow inner elixirs and awaken a certain ability.

It was lucky, it found that an inner elixir had grown in its body, and it could see the past and the future.

Using this method, it escaped from the institute while the researchers were not paying attention.

It walked out of the small box that imprisoned it and came to the vast human world.

In this world, it met a little girl who was kind to it.

Because of the rain, its scales malfunctioned, restricting its movements and preventing it from escaping.

It can only pile up in a puddle like human garbage, and no matter how anxious it is, it cannot move an step.

At this time, a little girl holding an umbrella noticed it, shielded it from the heavy rain, and even saw it blinking, so she took it home, wiped its scales clean, and blew dry the moisture on its body.

It can move freely, but it did not choose to leave because it could not find the way home.

With its current appearance, even if it returns home, it will be rejected by other hook snakes.

So he simply stayed.

It did not remain as a mechanical snake.

Instead, he chose to possess the body of a black man and control his torso.

Because it has been transformed by humans, it does not need to change hosts. It has been occupying the bodies of black people and has survived until now.

Later, Threshold suddenly descended upon the state of Regaken.

Other hook snakes of its kind came out of the threshold and happened to possess Kenny Egan's body and came to Kenny Egan's farm.

The noise made by these hook snakes was so loud that it alarmed the Federation.

It had advised them to be more restrained, but its own kind were too greedy. The host changed one after another, and more and more people died on the farm,
which eventually led to the current situation.

It does not want to kill humans, even if humans have transformed its body beyond recognition. Apart from the black man, it has never killed any other humans.

All it wants is to stay by Mrs. Egan's side.

But reality is always so cruel.

Tu Ran sighed.

The wound on the back of the hook snake's neck was still bleeding, and the blood soaked the snow-white mattress.

She walked around the bed and stopped in front of Ding Naiqing.

Beside his hand lay a long knife.

It was brought in by Hooksnake.

Tu Ran slowly bent down, picked up the knife, gripped the handle tightly, then aimed at the back of the hook snake's neck and stabbed it.

Perfectly covering the wound left by removing the inner elixir.

She couldn't let anyone know that she had obtained the hook snake's inner elixir.

This knife is used to confuse others.

After doing all this, Tu Ran turned his attention to Ding Naiqing who was still unconscious.

He half squatted down and patted his face.

The moment my cheek touched his, some scattered fragments came into my mind.

It includes Ding Naiqing's childhood experiences, how he joined the pioneer team, and the dangers he encountered in the threshold.

The sudden influx was too much for Tu Ran's brain to bear, and she felt a tearing pain.

It turns out that as long as you come into contact with a person, you can read their past.

So when they got off the plane this morning, Tubin touched her a few times. It was from that small contact that Tubin realized her past.

After three minutes, the pain in her head subsided. Tu Ran let out a breath, looked at Ding Naiqing who was still unconscious, and slapped him.

"Wake up!"

Ding Naiqing woke up instantly and looked around blankly.

When he touched Tu Ran, his eyes curved down for a moment and he shouted happily, "Sister Ran."

He never thought that he was woken up by a slap from the man in front of him.

Tu Ran didn't respond to him, but asked with a serious look: "What did you see before you fell into a coma?"

Ding Naiqing was frightened by her momentum and shrank his neck. Why did he feel that Sister Ran had turned back to the Sister Ran who always had a stern face?
After thinking about it blankly for a while, Ding Naiqing realized something and hurriedly shook his head, "I didn't see anything."

Pretty smart.

Tu Ran patted his shoulder and repeated, "Remember, you didn't see anything. You fought with the alien and fainted. You don't know what happened afterwards."

"Yes." Ding Naiqing blinked his big eyes and nodded seriously.

At this moment, if he said a wrong word, he was sure that Sister Ran would chop off his head without hesitation and then blame the cause of death on the alien.

Outside the door, there were sounds of running footsteps approaching.

Then the door was kicked open.

They were the two helpers that Tu Ran had been looking forward to for a long time.

But they are no longer needed now.

The two entered the house and after seeing the messy scene inside, they quickly walked towards Hooksnake.

It was already dead, and the two men asked Tu Ran fiercely, "Did you kill him?"

"It's too strong. I can't control it while ensuring my own safety. And you guys are taking a long time to arrive, so I have no choice but to kill it." Tu Ran remained calm.

According to her words, Hooksnake's death was actually their fault? !
"The researcher will be here soon, wait and explain to him." The two said unhappily.

Tu Ran glanced at them lazily, then turned and walked out.

In the corridor, a group of people came towards us.

The one at the front was Xie Xu.

Following behind him was Li Wenchuan.

It came so quickly?

Tu Ran was stunned for a moment.

Xie Xu walked past her and went straight to the room where Hook Snake died.

Tu Ran looked at his arrogant back and curled her lips.

Li Wenchuan was quite active and asked her with a smile, "How did the task go?"

"Not very good, dead."

(End of this chapter) Chapter 54: Leaving a last word?

She did not lower her voice, and it was hard for Xie Xu, who was walking in front, not to hear it.

Dead?!
The air pressure around him dropped to the lowest point in an instant.

Li Wenchuan patted Tu Ran's shoulder sympathetically and said in a low voice: "You better be careful."

Tu Ran heard a sense of gloating in his tone.

She dodged his hand and took a few quick steps forward, keeping her distance from him.

She wondered in her heart, why did she not read Li Wenchuan's memory even though she had physical contact with him just now?
Maybe... she had to take the initiative to contact him?
The group walked back to the room, and Xie Xu went straight to the hook snake.

Tu Ran stopped Li Wenchuan who also wanted to join in the fun.

She pointed at Ding Naiqing and said, "He is injured, save him quickly."

After she read the memory of her original body, she knew that Li Wenchuan always carried medicine with him, and he was very good at healing.

Li Wenchuan looked down and saw Ding Naiqing lying crookedly on the ground. He exclaimed, "Oh, isn't this our cute little brother Naiqing? How come he is so badly injured? Was he used as a bullet blocker by someone?"

Tu Ran: "…?"

If you have the guts, don't beat around the bush!
Taking a deep breath, she didn't bother with him for the time being.

After Xie Xu confirmed that the hook snake was dead, he ordered the two pioneers to pack up the alien's body and bring it back to the research institute.

Tu Ran saw that Xie Xu did not pay too much attention to the wound on the back of the hook snake's neck, which confirmed a guess in her mind.

Xie Xu didn't know that alien species had inner elixirs.

He chose to capture the snake king alive for other purposes.

This is a good thing for her.

The two pioneers moved quickly. In less than three minutes, they had wrapped the body with a piece of cloth they had torn off. Each of them carried one end of the cloth and walked away briskly.

Li Wenchuan injected Ding Naiqing with a dose of painkillers and recovery drugs to temporarily stabilize the condition, and called the guards outside the door to carry him away.

Given Ding Naiqing's current condition, it would be better for him to go to the medical department for treatment.

Mrs. Egan, who was in a coma, was also carried away on a stretcher.

In a flash, she, Xie Xu and Li Wenchuan were the only ones left in the room.

"Do you have anything to say?" Xie Xu said indifferently.

Tu Ran sneered in her heart, what? Do you want her to leave a last word?
Dream on!

"I don't understand what Xie Institute means. I think I have completed the commander's task very well."

The commander is the highest-ranking officer of the pioneer team.

He was also the major general who sat next to Xie Xu at the previous meeting.

At that time, Tu Ran felt that he looked a little familiar, as if she had seen him somewhere.

She was not mistaken.

That man was Xie Xu's brother.

"The commander gave us the task of trying to control the alien species. He did not ask us to capture it alive. Moreover, I killed it because the situation was really urgent and I had no choice."

Xie Xu frowned slightly and stared at her, "Do you think you can get away with it by pretending to be stupid?"

"I don't understand what Researcher Xie means."

Tu Ran blinked her eyes and said innocently, "I am not playing dumb. I think I completed this mission perfectly. I was the fastest among all the teams, and I also kept the alien's body intact for your institute to use. Could it be that even after achieving this level, Institute Xie is still not satisfied?"

Li Wenchuan on the side instantly became excited, leaning against the wall with his arms folded across his chest as if watching a show.

What a show! It was the first time he saw someone who dared to go against Xie Xu.

His visit today was not in vain. Chapter 55 Love Brain

His eyes kept wandering between Tu Ran and Xie Xu.

In his opinion, this she-devil is now planning to default on her debt.

Not only did she want to deny the responsibility of not completing the task assigned to her by Xie Xu on time, but she also wanted to deny the responsibility of doing shameful things for Xie Xu.

He urgently needs a handful of melon seeds.

"Do you know how easy it is for me to get rid of you?" Xie Xu took out the pistol from his waist and pointed the gun at Tu Ran. There was a hint of indifference and ruthlessness in his words, which was so terrifying that it made people shudder.

Facing the dark muzzle of the gun, Tu Ran raised her eyebrows slightly, showing no fear at all.

If she had not yet regained her original body's memories, she would definitely try her best to prove her worth to Xie Xu at this moment in order to get him to spare her life.

But now that she has seen her original body's past and knows why she had to work under Xie Xu, she has gained her confidence.

Her original body was very strong, with strong physical abilities in all aspects. During the five years of training for the pioneers, as Ding Naiqing said, she could get first place in many items.

A top student with a beauty like a school belle.

With this kind of top-level configuration, she would definitely be the heroine no matter which world she was placed in.

But there is one thing that makes the original body seem hopeless.

That is, love-brained!
That's right, the original body was actually a love-brained person.

The one I love is Xie Xu.

Still unrequited love!

The cause was a daytime news report on the latest research results of the institute: a major discovery! Aliens can possess humans and occupy their bodies!

The researcher who discovered this was Xie Xu.

After just over ten minutes of official footage, the original person fell in love with Xie Xu.

From then on, I embarked on the journey of chasing stars.

For Xie Xu, she voluntarily joined the pioneer team, signed a contract, and trained day and night for five years.

After graduation, she immediately approached Xie Xu with such excellent conditions and expressed her willingness to do anything for him regardless of compensation.

?

Tu Ran was very confused at this moment.

She had previously thought that her original self might have worked for Xie Xu for money, or that Xie Xu had caught her with something, but she never expected that it was because of unrequited love.

Over the years, the original body has done a lot for Xie Xu, even putting aside his own pioneering tasks.

Pioneers of the same class, no matter how poor their grades were when they graduated, could still search for a lot of information and gain a lot of points in the Threshold.

The original body, who was once a famous pioneer who was particularly valued by the trainers, could hardly bring back many useful things every time he came out of the threshold.

This is why the original body was ridiculed.

Perhaps due to the original body's loyal following, Xie Xu trusts her and she has become his indispensable arm.

So her arrival this time was a huge blow to Xie Xu.

Tu Ran had no intention of continuing to work under Xie Xu.

Her memory came back, and it was like watching a movie in which she was the main character.

Just because she knew the storyline didn't mean she had acquired the abilities of the movie's protagonist.

She still couldn't be as good as her original self and live freely as she wanted in this world full of dangers.

As for some of the abilities that her original body possessed, such as close combat, firearms assembly and use, long-range sniping, aiming, and criminal investigation, she only had the theory but had not yet learned them in a practical and systematic way.

She needed time to digest this.

Working under Xie Xu is full of dangers and difficulties.

Mainly, there aren't any rewards yet.

Looking at the muzzle of the gun in front of her, Tu Ran curled the corners of her lips slightly and raised her wrist.

There was a faint breathing light flashing on the communicator.

This means that this place has been blocked by a signal blocker.

She was cut off from the outside world.

She was not panicked.

"Before Researcher Xie came, I issued an order to Zero. If he couldn't detect my vital signs, he should send a message I had edited in advance to all members of the pioneer team, the commander, the deputy commander, the federal inspection department, all federal media, and a series of people I could contact."

"Are you curious about the content of my message?" Tu Ran smiled.

Xie Xu stared at her intently, and the knuckles of his fingers holding the gun turned white.

"I want to report that Xie Xu, a senior researcher at the Federal Central Research Institute, used his position to seek personal gain and established 24 private research institutes in the 42 states of the Federation. He colluded with some members of the pioneer team, such as Li Wenchuan, Li Lun, and Cao Shihui, to steal the information about alien species from the Federal Government Research Institute, and privately transferred intra-threshold alien species, as well as illegal biological experiments and research on alien species."

Li Wenchuan, who was mentioned, was no longer in the mood to watch the fun and stood up straight.

This woman is so cruel!

Xie Xu had put down the gun that was pointed at Tu Ran without him noticing. He looked at her in disbelief, "You recovered your memory?"

At this moment, a small recorder hidden in his clothes began to operate.

Tu Ran sneered. Trying to trick her into talking? No way!

"I don't understand what Researcher Xie means. I have always been fine and have never lost my memory."

If she had been a little more arrogant and confident, said "yes" and admitted that she had lost her memory, Xie Xu would not have to worry about any consequences when killing her.

Because humans possessed by alien species will lose their memories.

With Xie Xu's connections and status, and with the recording as evidence, he could easily define her as a human possessed by an alien species, so that no one would believe what she just said.

Li Wenchuan on the side was secretly complaining, he was really smart.

When Xie Xu asked that question just now, he didn't react at first.

If it were him, he would definitely fall into the trap.

In the past, Tu Ran always obeyed Xie Xu's orders, and he didn't realize she was so smart. But now that she is going against Xie Xu, he actually looks at her in a new light.

He had already anticipated that Xie Xu would fall flat on his face today.

"Researcher Xie, don't think about forging evidence. I also wrote other things in the information," Tu Ran blinked, "For example, I wrote down the specific locations of the 24 bases clearly."

Thanks to Xie Xu's special trust in the original body, she knew the specific locations of the twenty-four bases.

"Even if you declare to the public that I am possessed by an alien species, there will always be people who are curious about whether the locations I mentioned are real. As long as they verify it, you will be the one who loses."

Xie Xu's face was terribly gloomy, and he almost gritted his teeth and said, "What do you want?"

He compromised.

He really couldn't do anything about her.

Because he once trusted the real Tu Ran, he did not have any leverage over her.

Later, it was the fake Tu Ran in front of him. Although they had a negotiation, he subconsciously despised her at that time and only chose to threaten her with her life.

He thought that this bargaining chip was enough. After all, she came from a peaceful world, knew nothing, and was like an ant, with her life at his mercy.

(End of this chapter) Chapter 56: Interception

. Unexpectedly, she would tear off a piece of my flesh.

"I won't do anything for you anymore, and you don't need to come to me again. We'll just keep our distance from each other." Tu Ran said.

Xie Xu nodded, "Okay."

"Well, bye."

There was nothing good to stay here, so Tu Ran turned around and left decisively.

Xie Xu suddenly said to her back: "Who are you now?"

Xie Xu had not expected her sudden recovery of memory, which was also the reason for the current situation.

But he really couldn't understand why Tu Ran suddenly recovered her memory?

No, it should be said, how did she obtain the real Tu Ran's memory with the soul of a human from another world?
"Of course it's Tu Ran," Tu Ran turned around and took a look, smiling, "I have been Tu Ran since I was born."

She didn't lie, she really had always called him Tu Ran.

In the original world, her name was Tu Ran.

…

Since Tu Ran found the snake king and killed it within two days, their fourth group's mission was half completed.

In the remaining days, all members of the fourth team began to focus on clearing out the hook snake minions scattered throughout the Regaken State.

During this period, Tu Ran went to the hospital to visit Kenny Egan's wife. Her health was not serious. With the huge inheritance left by Kenny Egan, she could spend the rest of her life comfortably.

In her memory, the mechanical snake that she had rescued left quietly after its body recovered.

From the beginning to the end, she didn't know that Tubin was the mechanical snake. In order to repay her kindness, it accompanied her for more than ten years, and in the end used its life in exchange for her safety.

Tu Ran had no intention of telling her about this. The loss of her husband was enough to make her immersed in grief and unable to get out of it. If she were to tell her the truth, Tu Ran was really afraid that she would not be able to bear it.

Knowing that she was safe, Tu Ran never went to the hospital again.

Ding Naiqing was seriously injured and had to recuperate in the medical department of Regaken State for three days before he could continue his mission.

At this time, the sky was covered with heavy dark clouds, and rain was pouring down on the ground. The sky was dark and foggy, and visibility was less than ten meters.

Under the closely connected towering buildings in the city of Leigaken City, Tu Ran was carrying a machine gun, shuttling through narrow gaps, and attacking an alien from the front and back with Yao Bei.

This alien is a pioneer, a member of their fourth team, and was originally a member of the team with Yao Bei.

It is unknown when he was possessed.

When everyone was carrying out the mission together this morning, he was responsible for long-range sniping.

He was famous for his high accuracy in long-range sniping, but this morning he aimed at three people and hit none of them, which aroused Yao Bei's suspicion.

Tu Ran pretended to touch his shoulder accidentally, and saw that his memory was separated into two parts.

Part of it is his memory as a human being, and part of it is the memory of the alien species in his body.

He is undoubtedly an alien.

But there is no evidence.

She couldn't just say she saw his past.

So she fabricated a trumped-up piece of evidence, accusing him of being an alien, and threatened to shoot him.

The man could no longer pretend and ran away very quickly.

The speed of alien species is indeed beyond the reach of humans.

In addition, the buildings here are densely packed, so it is very easy to hide someone.

So in the blink of an eye, they could no longer see him.

So Yao Bei assigned tasks to everyone. She and Tu Ran were responsible for searching below, while Ding Naiqing went upstairs to report the location of the alien in real time.

(End of this chapter) Chapter 57: Killing

is like a game of hide-and-seek in the city.

The rain hit the rain shield of Tu Ran's helmet and flowed down in streams on both sides.

The combat uniform was also soaked by the rain and stuck to his body. Fortunately, the protective suit had an internal heating device, so Tu Ran was not so cold that he couldn't hold the gun.

Ding Naiqing spoke very quickly in my ears, "Sister Ran, he is to your southeast, below the tallest technology building."

Ding Naiqing was at the top of the building at this time, operating a drone and reporting the alien's route to Tu Ran and Yao Bei at any time.

"Sister Yao, go back. He is behind the building behind you."

The two of them surrounded the technology building at the same time.

There are ten members in their team, and the other six are clearing out the aliens elsewhere.

The four of them met by chance today, so they acted together.

At this time, there were only two of them surrounding an alien species, and they were not at an advantage.

Tu Ran did not dare to relax at all. After two days of continuous practice, she had made a lot of progress. She tried all kinds of weapons, and her proficiency and accuracy increased sharply.

Now facing the alien species, she already felt confident.

The science and technology building is right in front of us.

Tu Ran slowed down his pace and approached carefully so as not to alarm the alien. He kept his index finger on the trigger, ready to shoot at any time.

Ding Naiqing's voice also became lower, although even if his voice was louder, the aliens would not be able to hear it because of the helmet.

"Sister Ran, go east, there is a garbage dump, and he is hiding behind a black trash can."

He connected Yao Bei's earphones again, "Sister Yao, walk about ten meters west and turn around to see a garbage dump. He is hiding there."

Tu Ran listened to Ding Naiqing's instructions and the route presented on the helmet visor and walked towards the garbage dump.

The rain hit the garbage of various materials in the garbage dump, perfectly hiding the sound of Tu Ran's footsteps.

The so-called garbage dump is actually a mountain of garbage.

Piles of steel waste were piled here, and at a glance, they were all what Ding Naiqing called black trash cans.

How could she find him?
"There are so many trash cans, which one is he hiding behind?" Tu Ran asked, turning on the thermal imager built into her helmet to scan.

"Sister Ran, it has left Brother Jing's body, and I can't track him for the time being." Ding Naiqing quickly operated the drone, lowering its flying position to facilitate the search.

The thermal imaging image has been displayed on the mask, clearly showing the shapes of various garbage, large and small, and in a mess.

Tu Ran was dazzled.

It is not easy to find a cold-blooded animal among so many things.

"Zero," Tu Ran lowered her voice, "Can't you analyze it either?"

"Sorry, Zero cannot identify its location." Zero's voice was calm and mechanical.

Tu Ran gave up. It seemed that she could only rely on herself.

Turning off the thermal imager, she walked towards the mountain of garbage.

Most of these garbage are mechanical garbage, including abandoned production machines, rusty parts, human limbs, iron plates, iron sheets, and steel bars...

There is very little domestic waste and the smell is tolerable.

"Sister Ran, there was an unusual sound about thirteen meters in front of you just now. You can go there and take a look."

Tu Ran went forward as instructed.

The closer Tu Ran got to the place indicated by Ding Naiqing, the more cautious she became.

Finally arriving at the location Ding Naiqing mentioned, Tu Ran looked around to see if there was any trace of the alien. She lowered her voice and said, "There's nothing here. Did it run away again?"

(End of this chapter) At this moment, a picture flashed before her eyes.

She was lying on the ground with her arms and legs spread out, with nothing on from the neck up.

Where's her head?

Tu Ran broke out in a cold sweat because she immediately realized that this was her superpower coming into play.

She could foresee what would happen five to ten minutes into the future.

She is dead.

The head was also cut off and its whereabouts are unknown.

Tu Ran suppressed his heart that was about to jump out of his chest, gripped the machine gun tightly, and scanned the surroundings vigilantly.

Ding Naiqing scratched his head and said, "I didn't see it - Sister Ran, be careful with your head!"

Following Ding Naiqing's exclamation, Tu Ran, who had been prepared, reacted quickly, raised his machine gun and fired into the sky, while his body quickly retreated and left the spot.

A huge mouth fell from where she was originally standing, and the mouth was filled with double layers of sharp and dense teeth, like sharp saw teeth.

If Tu Ran had been a step later, her head and body would have been separated by now.

Tu Ran's continuous shooting just now was all shot into its soft mouth.

Its scales are indestructible and difficult to penetrate by knives and guns, but its mouth is its only weakness. This is the truth that Tu Ran has concluded after catching hook snake species in the past few days.

Hooksnake rolled on the ground in pain.

Tu Ran didn't give it a chance to breathe, he just jumped up and rode on its body.

The muzzle of the gun was pointed at its mouth, which was unable to close due to the pain, and it was shot countless times.

The smell of blood was spreading, and Tu Ran could smell it even through the glass mask.

The hook snake twisted its body and struggled, and the sharp spike at the end of its tail, as thick as a human wrist, stabbed towards the back of Tu Ran's head.

Tu Ran seemed to have eyes on his back. He pulled out the dagger hanging on his waist. The sharp blade flashed with a sharp cold light and collided with the sharp weapon of the hook snake's tail, cutting it off in an instant.

"Hiss—" the hook snake's scream resounded through the sky.

Ding Naiqing, who saw this scene through the drone, took a deep breath.

Sister Ran is so fierce, so handsome, and so scary.

Tu Ran continued shooting for another two minutes.

The hook snake's body was only twitching slightly.

Tu Ran lowered her eyes and looked at the dying hook snake, "Do you have the inner elixir?"

Hooksnake didn't respond.

Tu Ran's hand touched its scales and read its memory in an instant.

No, in its memory, there has never been such a thing as inner elixir.

Now Tu Ran has mastered this superpower with ease.

She can selectively read the other person's memory.

And if she has no intention of reading the other person's memory, she will not be able to read it even if she touches it.

Since this hook snake has no inner elixir, she can just deal with it directly.

Yao Bei arrived slowly and saw Tu Ran standing up from the hook snake's neck.

The hook snake was completely motionless.

"Sister Yao, I've taken care of it." Tu Ran wiped the dagger that had cut off the hook snake's tail clean and inserted it back into her lower back.

Yao Bei was a little shocked for a moment. This was her first collaboration with Tu Ran. She didn't expect that this woman who looked calm and easy-going was actually so strong.

"Very good..." Yao Bei nodded, and shifted his gaze from the hook snake's body to Tu Ran's face, "You are not hurt, are you?"

"No," Tu Ran shook her head, "Your teammate is dead, so join us for the next operation."

"This is the only way now." Yao Bei was helpless.

"Where do we go next?"

Ding Naiqing had already run down from the roof, carrying his equipment, standing between the two of them, and asked with a smile. Chapter 59 Entrapping

His two teammates were so amazing, and they were both influential figures in the pioneer team. He would have a lot to brag about when he went back to his brothers.

Yao Bei looked down at the map projected by the communicator. The original pile of red circles had been cleared away, but now only a few scattered ones were left.

"Let's go to Qing'er County."

…

Compared to the dangers and difficulties of eliminating alien species in the first few days, it became much easier later on.

The hook snake species in various places were eliminated almost at the speed of autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

Tu Ran made rapid progress and his abilities improved rapidly.

On the ninth day, all teams completed their missions ahead of schedule and completely eliminated the seventeen alien species scattered throughout the Regaken State.

There were a total of eight teams in this alien elimination operation. The fourth team where Tu Ran was located had the least number of alien species killed.

Each of the other teams eliminated at least two alien species, and the second team even killed four alien species.

But in terms of numbers, their Fourth Team eliminated the largest number of alien species.

Because hook snakes reproduce very quickly and spread over a wide range, according to Zero's statistics, their Fourth Team killed a total of 1,322 hook snake species within these nine days, which is ten times the number killed by all other teams combined.

Many innocent humans also died in this operation. Eight members of the pioneer team died. Some were possessed by alien species and killed by their teammates, while others died in battles with the alien species.

The death toll of the guards in Regaken State was as high as half, especially in the fourth team. Most of the guards who died were inexperienced and possessed by alien species.

The governor of the Regakan state division of the federal government held a memorial service for the guards who died gloriously in the operation and gave condolence money to their families.

In addition, the second mission of the pioneer team in coming to Regaken State, finding the gate of the second entry threshold of Advent, has also been completed by the team led by Xie Xu.

The gate this time is different from the one at the Federal Center.

The gate of the Federal Center is a high wall with no visible top.

The gate to Regaken State is a transparent air barrier.

Invisible and intangible.

However, through air pressure detection equipment, a high-pressure belt with a length of one kilometer and a thickness of about half a meter can be detected.

Through a series of experiments, Xie Xu proved that this place is indeed the gate to another world.

The Regakan state division of the federal government has deployed troops here.

The Federal Center has also sent important personnel here to discuss how to build a large capture trap to lure species within the threshold into the trap, so that the institute can have the freshest living organisms for research.

All the achievements belong to the real rulers of the federal government, the plutocrats; only death and pain belong to ordinary people.

On the second day after completing the mission in Regaken State, all the pioneers boarded the helicopter and returned to the federal headquarters.

The mission lasted ten days, during which time the gate of the Threshold was opened once, and the pioneers who did not choose to go to the Regaken State had entered the Threshold.

The remaining pioneers can only enter when the threshold opens next time.

As a reward, the government gave them three days off.

After the summary meeting, Tu Ran took the suspended electric rail to go home.

Xi Chunzhi had already gone to Yu, so many questions that Tu Ran wanted to ask had to be put on hold.

After entering the house and looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar scenes at home, Tu Ran couldn't tell for a moment whether she was a soul from another world that traveled into this body, or whether she had always lived in this world, but by chance, she gained a memory that did not belong to her.

(End of this chapter) Chapter 60 This superpower has no effect

. She couldn't figure it out, so she simply gave up thinking about it.

After ten days of tense nerves, it's time to relax.

After taking a hot bath in the bathroom, Tu Ran returned to the bedroom wrapped in a blanket, fell on the bed and fell asleep.

In Regaken State, she actually never slept well. She was deeply afraid that someone around her had been possessed by an alien species and would climb into her bed while she was sleeping at night.

Completely relaxed at this point, she slept soundly and deeply.

When I woke up the next day, it was already ten o'clock in the morning.

The sunlight came in through the gap in the curtains, and Tu Ran stared blankly at the light.

It's nice to be able to sleep until you wake up naturally.

In the previous world, she would be able to sleep until she wakes up naturally every Saturday and Sunday.

The capitalists in this world are so abominable that they don't even have legal holidays.

Only those who have made contributions to the Federation and received federal awards will be granted vacations occasionally.

I miss the past so much.

Tu Ran is so sad.

After lying in bed for an hour, Tu Ran got up reluctantly.

She can't indulge herself too much; she still has a lot to learn.

Moreover, she had to see what superpowers the chicken essence's inner elixir possessed.

Before she left last time, she casually placed the Gu Diao's inner elixir on the table.

Tu Ran picked it up and looked at it carefully. It looked exactly the same as the one the hook snake gave her.

What is the effect?

Tu Ran swallowed it in one gulp. When it entered her throat, the hard bead turned into a stream of clear water, flowing into her limbs and bones.

It is definitely the inner elixir.

Tu Ran sat there motionless, waiting for her superpowers to take effect.

After waiting for a while, there was no movement.

Does she have to move first?

Tu Ran stood up and walked around the room twice, but there was still no obvious change in her body.

So... what is this superpower?
Tu Ran could imagine hundreds of superpowers in her mind, and she couldn't guess which one it was.

She swung her fists and kicked her legs with the same strength as before, and then formed seals like in the fairy tale drama and pushed forward, but nothing magical happened.

It seems that nothing has really changed...

Tu Ran sighed and gave up hope.

This superpower may have been discovered by her by chance.

Her stomach growled, Tu Ran touched her belly and walked towards the refrigerator.

When I opened the refrigerator, the first thing I saw was the bag of fried chicken.

After being in the refrigerator for ten days, it was no longer edible.

There was nothing in the entire refrigerator except this bag of fried chicken.

The original body doesn't eat at home? Tu Ran was puzzled.

It looks like she'll have to buy the ingredients herself.

She went back to the bedroom and changed into a more casual outfit. When she passed by the mirror, Tu Ran stopped and looked at herself in the mirror.

The original body had a good figure, not too skinny, nor too plump, but with some muscular healthy beauty.

Tu Ran pulled up her shirt, revealing a thin layer of abdominal muscles.

This perfect waistline is what she had always dreamed of.

I didn't expect that she would get it this way.

All in all, the original body has good looks and figure, and is very strong.

The only flaw is the love brain.

There's no way, no one is perfect, even the most outstanding people have shortcomings, but now that she has come into this body, she will definitely work hard to become perfect.

Tu Ran went out carrying the bag of fried chicken.

I passed by the trash can downstairs and threw it in.

"Zero, check the location of nearby supermarkets."

"The nearest supermarket has been located and the route has been planned for you."

Tu Ran followed the route and walked for fifteen minutes before arriving at the door of a large supermarket.

(End of this chapter)