Reality: Edge of an Extraterrestrial Ocean

"I'm going to die! How dare the Zerg do this... I'm so angry!"

Mei Shi's beautiful face showed no signs of aging, but perhaps she was so angry that her wide-open eyes gave her the air of an older woman ranting in the street.

Mei Shi stood on the deserted planet with her hair disheveled, hands on her hips, oblivious to the danger, with some clueless space pirates under her feet. They had just happened to run into Mei Shi, who was seething with anger and nowhere to vent it.

A handsome man with a mature demeanor and tall stature pointed lightly at the starship that was emitting smoke not far away.

The instantaneous explosion of the starship caused the space pirates, whom the couple had subdued, to let out their first blood-curdling screams.

This is all their worldly possessions!!

They really did disappear in the blink of an eye!

Mingyi didn't even look at the group. He simply took out a cup of fruit tea from his spatial storage and handed it to them, gently advising, "Have a sip of fruit tea first, with ice and sugar."

"Thank you, honey~"

Mei Shi was just fuming, but the next second she was all smiles. Ming Yi couldn't help but smile and asked, "Are you calm now?"

"Hmm~ But these guys..." After taking a sip of fruit tea, Mei Shi glanced at the space pirates on the ground and the group of people trembling in the cage not far away, and sighed softly, "The nearest legion is the Sixth Legion, right? Notify them to come and rescue them."

Mei Shi and Ming Yi weren't trying to send someone home; saving them was just a side issue. The couple had other business to attend to at the outer sea and didn't have time to take them home.

In the game, an alien ocean.

"I have a feeling that I've been followed lately." The first thing Sun Yunzhong and Dong Lei did after returning was to tell Lu Xiaoyao about this.

"Are you being watched by the person behind Zhen Hu's death?"

Lu Xiaoyao remembered what they had been investigating recently, and this was the first thing that came to mind.

“It doesn’t seem like it.” Sun Yunzhong shook his head. “If that were the case, we would probably have been assassinated long ago. Besides… Dong Lei and I have been very careful, so we shouldn’t have been discovered yet.”

"That's strange." Lu Xiaoyao drank a bowl of hot soup. "I'll ask Hu Yue later. Maybe she has something to say about it."

"Hmm, what about you and Hu Yue these past two days? After capturing three people who revealed information about the Zerg, what happened? Have you investigated the other two?"

"No! Any news about those two..." Lu Xiaoyao rested her chin on her hands, seemingly remembering something, and suddenly asked the two people who were also eating, "Speaking of news about people, have you investigated the butcher stall, Zhen Hu's neighbor?"

"Hey! We're eating!" Dong Lei held her bowl and glared at Lu Xiaoyao. They planned to find Mu Chen after dinner, since he was quite disgusting.

"Ah, ah, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry..."

Realizing what she had asked, Lu Xiaoyao smiled awkwardly, lowered her head, and continued eating without saying a word.

And so, after that disgusting incident, everyone on the bright and cheerful treehouse platform was disgusted by it.

"My God...it really was chopped up and sold?" Mingmei frowned, feeling that she might have eaten too much pastry and her stomach was upset.

"Yes, when Dong Lei and I went there, we pretended that we had a corpse to dispose of, and we even asked them if they would take it."

As soon as Sun Yunzhong finished speaking, Mu Chen glanced at him and immediately added, "Back then, Dong Lei and I disguised ourselves and smeared some animal flesh and blood on our bodies. When asked, we specifically didn't say whether we were human or beastman."

Mu Chen nodded to himself after hearing this: "What did the butcher say?"

"The boss said it's fine as long as you're not a resident of the underground city."

"Not a resident of the underground city?" Lu Gui laughed, and everyone else present laughed as well. He then asked, "How can you prove that?"

Upon hearing this, Dong Lei and Sun Yunzhong gave a forced smile: "Yes, we asked too. What they said was basically the same as what Hu Yue said last time. As long as you can't tell the difference, it's fine."

So, the butcher eventually told them cryptically that he could buy some "minced meat," and that it didn't matter how they minced it or whether the butcher handled it.

However, the latter has to give the boss a "handling fee".

"Did the butcher see the body of Zhen Hu's neighbor?"

After Hu Yue finished asking the question, Sun Yunzhong nodded.

"In the scene where I was talking to the butcher, I saw a person talking to the butcher, and the person lying in the body bag next to him was Zhen Hu's neighbor."

As Sun Yunzhong spoke, he remembered the few meatballs on the butcher's stall when they arrived. He kept talking as he thought about it, and as he did so, his own expression became increasingly unpleasant, and the expressions on other people's faces didn't look any better either.

I just heard they were selling minced meat, and now I hear they're selling meatballs at the meat stall. Who wouldn't make that connection?

"Wow, who is that butcher?" Lu Xiaoyao was the first to notice something unusual this time. "Are those people who were trying to silence people really so confident in the butcher's handling of things? Our previous idea was to cut off the heads and then hand them over to the butcher."

So, oh dear, that butcher shop owner is so... ah, does he have powerful connections? Isn't he afraid of being silenced if he knows too much?

Lu Xiaoyao's words hit the nail on the head, and everyone's attention turned to Sun Yunzhong.

Sun Yunzhong used a boxed lunch. After all, we can't just focus on that little bit, right? This boxed lunch is for investigating relationships between people, not for reconstructing a case, okay?

"Among the people coming and going at this butcher's stall, there are ordinary underground city residents as well as people from the surface. He knows Haike, and it seems that people from Fengli's side have also been in contact with him. Even some of Clian's men have come to buy meat."

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