As Xiao Xian and Xuerou left the Wanhe Hotel, Xuerou cheerfully said, "It seems Commissioner John is quite a reasonable person, agreeing to let our European patents proceed."
"Reasonable? It’s more like allowing us to operate under his watchful eye, ready to catch us in the act," Xiao Xian didn’t think he was reasonable. If that were the case, he wouldn’t have blatantly tested both her and Xuerou just now. That man is cunning, different from anyone she had dealt with before.
The people Xiao Xian had encountered before were clear-cut—black was black, like the Xu family, Huang Tengchong, Aisha, or the forr people of the Qian family—they were blatantly bad.
As for the good ones, like relatives, friends, villagers, classmates—they were straightforward people.
But John gave her a hard-to-pin impression. Was he a Cultivator or a Superpower User? Are there Cultivators and Superpower Users in Europe too? Listening to John’s tone, it seed there was a family or even an organization backing him up, just like the incident just now. He seed to compromise, but did he really? What about the power behind him?
The remaining affairs of the pharmaceutical factory were left to Mrs. Zeng and John. Xiao Xian was sowhat worried that John would try sothing on Mrs. Zeng.
"Are you worried about my mom?" Xuerou saw through Xiao Xian’s concerns. As a novice Superpower User, Xuerou couldn’t sense the spiritual power fluctuations between the two, but she could feel the tense environnt, "Don’t worry, my mom is savvy, and she probably thinks the incident just now was a scam. People from the business world like her don’t trust others easily."
That evening, once ho, Mrs. Zeng laughingly shared the day’s events with Grandma Zeng, "Nowadays, even experts like to bluff people. This afternoon, they kept talking about the benefits of developing new dicines; I don’t believe such miraculous dicine exists. It turns out foreigners are even trickier than our own people in deceiving."
Hearing her words, both Xiao Xian and Xuerou were relieved.
Later that night, Xuerou learned from Xiao Xian what really happened at the tea house.
"From what you’re saying, the Cultivators we’ve encountered include the i sisters (i Xiang missing), the Xu family, and Monk Tianya. Superpower Users include Aisha, with suspects like Dr. Zhou and Commissioner John who might be either," Xuerou was better at analyzing; she first listed out the nas.
"The crucial issue is, these people are all stronger than you, each backed by families or even large organizations. Your current situation is not very secure. The Xu family and Aisha want the Spiritual Rhinoceros Scissors, and we don’t know what Commissioner John and Dr. Zhou are plotting. But fortunately, you have the help of ijia Village and Tianya Senior," The previous Xuerou would not have taken such an optimistic view.
"Ah, it’s a sha i Nian is a hands-off manager, and Monk Tianya is untraceable," but Xiao Xian’s thinking was still clear. There must be a reason i Nian asked her to learn from Mao Dazhu. Tomorrow morning, she would visit Mao Dazhu again to see what he could teach her about horticulture.
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Inside the lobby of the Wanhe Hotel, Huang Tengchong asked the receptionist which guests had visited the upper floors today.
The hotel receptionist politely refused his inquiry.
"What’s going on with your hotel? I spend nearly a million here annually, sotis up to five to six hundred thousand, and you can’t provide with so information?" Huang Tengchong was angry, "If not, can you tell where Mr. John is tonight? I just went upstairs looking for him, he’s not there." Huang Tengchong had sent Hairy Crabs a few days ago and had tried to et John several tis since.
But John didn’t give him the chance, either out on trips or busy with other guests, directly refusing his requests. As for the Hairy Crabs that died, it was still unclear what John had done with them.
Failing once, Huang Tengchong devised another plan, sending soone to watch John; however, those he sent lost track while driving, and those watching at the hotel were escorted out by security. If not for being busy with company matters, Huang Tengchong would have co to watch him personally.
"Oh, Mr. John did ntion that, he said he went to Xinjiang, asking you not to co looking for him repeatedly," the receptionist also felt sowhat bewildered.
Last night, Mr. John personally called to reserve a table at the tea house. Though it’s unclear who exactly the guests were, after eting them, he ca with a bag, instructing to hand it directly to Mr. Huang, emphasizing it must be delivered personally.
Huang Tengchong took the bag and opened it, a familiar scent of river delicacy wafted up. Upon a closer look, wasn’t it the dead Hairy Crabs he brought for Mr. John a few days ago?
Huang Tengchong hurriedly called Lady Serlin, recounting the incident and the curious case of dead crabs turning live again.
"Oh, that’s quite sothing. Figure out why John went to Xinjiang and keep close watch on the owner of the Spiritual Rhinoceros Scissors," after a few rushed words with Huang Tengchong, Lady Serlin imdiately called Aisha. "The Feng Bird has been completely tad, take the new one to Cuba right now."
"Mother, why take the Feng Bird to Cuba? It’s no longer the sa Feng Bird, unable to boost biological yields anymore," Aisha thought Serlin wanted her to take the Feng Bird back to China for Huang’s Breeding to use.
"A few plantations in Cuba have stopped supplying tobacco. Those fools, thinking they have military support, believe they can develop the tobacco industry themselves. Take the Feng Bird and try it out," Serlin revealed a vicious smile.
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Everyone feels Xiao Xian is too weak; yes, it’s my fault, I’ll strive to make her stronger.
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