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 was so outstanding?! She suddenly felt like 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. Keeping the aliens alive was Xie Xu's request, but why did he want the aliens alive? This was one of the questions.

The second way, if she failed to complete Xie Xu's request, failed to catch the snake king, or caught it dead, then Xie Xu would definitely deal with her. This time, Xie Xu gave her a chance to prove herself. If she could complete the task, it meant that she was still useful and worth using. If she messed up, it also meant that she, a subordinate whose inner core had been replaced, could be completely abandoned, and she would not have to go back to the federal center to 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 waves.

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.

(End of this chapter)