He connected Tu Ran's headset and said, "Promise him that through him, you can easily get in touch with those people in the upper echelons of the Federation."

Tu Ran wanted to ask, aren't you also a son of the Xie family? Is it so hopeless to follow you that you can't even meet the upper echelons of the Federation? Unfortunately, Stephano was right in front of her, so she couldn't ask.

Clearing his throat, Tu Ran said with embarrassment: "I can indeed identify other people's abilities, and the conditions you offer are very generous, but I am a pioneer and have signed a contract, so I can no longer work for you."

Stefano brushed his sleeves and said, "I'll take care of this matter. All you have to do is agree to it."

"Okay, I agree." Tu Ran said.

It just so happened that she didn't want to be so busy in the pioneer team every day. She wanted to change the environment, change her mood, and take a look at the special abilities of those people in the upper echelons of the federation. If there was one she liked... she would not let him go.

Tu Ran's agreement was within Stephano's expectations.

In his opinion, he gave very generously.

He even came in person to negotiate, showing his sincerity.

A little pioneer with no background would definitely be moved to tears and follow him to the death.

…

After watching Stefano's private aircraft leave, the smile on Tu Ran's face faded and she contacted Xie Xu.

"Is Stephano really stupid or just pretending to be stupid? His thoughts were all exposed to Zhao Yan before, but he still doesn't know about it. He even tried to persuade me to do what Zhao Yan did before. Why doesn't he just find someone to dig out our inner elixir?"

Xie Xu paused and answered her question seriously, "Compared with the heads of other families, Stefano is indeed not very smart, but he is not stupid either."

"He is quite arrogant. He has no brothers or sisters. He is the first heir of the Wells family and has been trained as the head of the Wells family since birth. With the influence of the family, he can accomplish anything. He also has a natural business acumen and can lead the Wells family to a new level."

"People around him only obeyed him without refutation. He did not need to calculate people's hearts to achieve his goals, so he lacked control over people's hearts."

"He thought that since he gave you so many benefits, you would work for him sincerely. This was the case with everyone he met in the past." Xie Xu added, "Except Zhao Yan."

After a while, he added, "Now there's you."

"Your presence has taught him a bloody lesson."

"As for why he didn't take the inner elixir himself, in fact, not all high-ranking officials in the Federation are willing to try it. A small number of people are still waiting and watching. They collect inner elixirs but don't take them themselves because the principles of the inner elixir have not been studied yet, and whether there are any side effects is unknown. The higher the status of a person, the less willing they are to take unnecessary life risks."

"Stefano Wells gathers people with supernatural powers around him, which is like putting the inner elixir in front of him. Once the principle of the inner elixir is studied clearly and he is 100% sure that there is no harm, he will deal with you without hesitation. In other words, you are just a container for him to temporarily store the inner elixir."

Tu Ran was silent for a moment, "Where is the current progress of the inner elixir research?"

"No progress. It's just an ordinary stone. Even the composition is no different from ordinary stones. Stephano will not touch you for the time being."

"You asked me to follow Stephano just to let me see the world?" Tu Ran had already walked into the executive department building.

"Well, I also want to know how many inner elixirs other families have found." Xie Xu's voice was calm and unperturbed.

Tu Ran cut off contact with him and walked into the meeting room.

There is one less person.

"Senior, Diao Hongzhi came again just now. When he saw that you were not here, he said he wanted to complain about you." Le Qin said indignantly when she saw Tu Ran.

Tu Ran pulled up a chair and sat down, then asked, "When did our pioneer team have a complaint mechanism?"

Le Qin: "Uh..." It seems not. "Don't pay attention to him. The frequency of genetic monsters appearing has obviously decreased recently. We can't stay here for much longer. Counting the days, the threshold gate will soon open." Tu Ran leaned back in the chair and chatted with them.

When they heard the word “threshold”, the eyes of the second-generation pioneers present lit up.

They exist for the threshold.

They have not yet entered the threshold, and at this moment, the threshold's attraction to them is fatal.

"Senior, please tell us about what's going on inside the Threshold," Le Qin pulled a chair closer to Tu Ran, her eyes shining, "The Threshold Gate is about to open, and we want to know more in advance."

Tu Ran looked at the time. It was only twelve o'clock. She had nothing to do, so she decided to chat to kill time.

So for the whole afternoon, the entire conference room was filled with questions and answers.

In addition to Tu Ran, other first-generation pioneers also joined in to answer questions for the second-generation pioneers.

The atmosphere in the meeting room was very harmonious.

No task messages came the whole afternoon. After dinner, when we returned to the meeting room, everyone was more or less sleepy and leaned back in their chairs to take a nap.

Tu Ran didn't sleep. After asking Ling about Diao Hongzhi's current location, Tu Ran quietly left the meeting room and went straight to Diao Hongzhi's home.

It was only nine o'clock and the guy went home from get off work.

Because Ling was on her side, Tu Ran didn't even have to avoid surveillance and walked almost openly to the outer wall of Diao Hongzhi's villa.

She easily climbed over the two-meter-high wall.

Tu Ran had watched a lot of surveillance footage from Diao Hongzhi's home in the past few days and was familiar with the route to his home, so she approached his bedroom with ease.

“Yes, yes, yes… I overstepped my bounds… I’m sorry… I’m sorry… um… There won’t be a next time… There definitely won’t be a next time…”

As I approached the door, I heard Diao Hongzhi's timid voice from inside. He was contacting someone.

Tu Ran stood at the door, waiting for the call to end.

"Crackle"

The sound of something breaking came from inside.

Then Diao Hongzhi cursed angrily, "He's just a pioneer, and you're reporting him! A bunch of %￥#@..."

Tu Ran raised her eyebrows slightly. It turned out that he wanted to report her, but it seemed that the report failed.

She opened the door and walked in with a smile on her face.

Diao Hongzhi was startled when he suddenly saw someone pushing the door. When he saw it was Tu Ran, his fear was replaced by anger. He pointed at Tu Ran and said, "Okay, Tu Ran, you dare to break into the Security Minister's house! I won't report you for deserting your post, but I want to see if breaking into the Security Minister's house can put you in jail!"

As he said this, he went to pick up the communicator that had fallen to the ground.

The moment he touched the communicator, Tu Ran's foot landed on the back of his hand and pressed down hard.

The sound of broken finger bones was particularly crisp.

Diao Hongzhi clenched his teeth, unable to speak in pain, and pounded Tu Ran's calf hard.

(End of this chapter)