Xu Milu's eyes lit up:

"I really like this girl. Xiao Qi, do you believe me? In ten years, I hope that the top leader of the base will definitely be Na Lan."

The system clearly couldn't understand what excited Xu Milu, nor why she was excited about the outstanding achievements of other women, but it still dutifully reminded her:

[Lilac seems to have been monitoring its host.]

To everyone's surprise, Xu Milu responded quite readily:

"I know."

A stranger who inexplicably appeared in G City without any background, even if Na Lan didn't suspect her of being a spy, she should at least suspect that she was an undercover agent sent by the people from the agricultural science base.

"Even when Xiao Ding was chatting with me, she was testing me, constantly asking if I had any relatives in City A. Moreover, with such a large resource as the mutated banana forest, would Ding Xiang dare to casually reveal the address to anyone outside the dispatch team?"

Despite the open and subtle probing glances, Xu Milu pretended not to know anything and chatted with Xiao Qi in her mind:

"The Ding siblings are all die-hard loyalists to Na Lan. Believe it or not, if I make any move to send a message out today, Ding Xiang's laser gun will be aimed at me?"

[...]

The simple mechanical lifeform remained silent for a long while before managing to extract a clip from the system's saved footage of its host interacting with the Ding siblings:

Human thought is difficult to understand.

"It's okay, at least I confirmed one thing."

Xu Milu said casually, "Lavinia wouldn't hide around Nalan, and don't you find the way the Agricultural Base excessively distinguishes between evolved humans and ordinary people to have a disgustingly familiar feel to it?"

It is said that the one who understands you best is always your enemy, and Xu Milu can confidently say that the one who understands Lavinia best in this world is definitely her.

Ars is inherently cruel and cunning, and despises humanity to the core. He believes that humans, who can only diligently climb the technology tree, are nothing more than renewable resources for him to plunder despair as food.

This sentiment is also reflected in Lavinia's behavior. He despises her human identity, yet he has no choice but to "condescend" to plot to possess Xu Milu's body. Therefore, as proud as Lavinia is, even when being hunted down, he will never violate certain "principles".

Now that we've determined the general direction, finding it will be much easier.

"Lavinia may have been to Hope Base, and if we're lucky, he might be hiding there."

Xu Milu suddenly stopped what she was doing, tilted her head slightly as if listening carefully to something, and Ding Xiang, who had been observing her, strode over:

"Yu Lu, what's wrong?"

Xu Milu straightened up and pointed to a mutated cockroach that crawled out from behind a discarded counter:

"Look, aren't there more and more mutated cockroaches?"

"Boom! Crash—"

"careful!"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a muffled thud came from the ground just two meters in front of the team, and the ground collapsed!