Chapter 492: Tricking and Killing
Upon hearing the news, the Yancheng Security Team rushed over with guns and surrounded Xia Xiaoman.
The leader of the security team pointed his gun at Xia Xiaoman and said, "Put your gun down!"
Maodan realized the danger, stood up, walked to Xia Xiaoman, and growled threateningly at the security team.
Xia Xiaoman put away his gun expressionlessly, "I am Xia Xiaoman, the trader sent by Fucheng to trade with your Yancheng..."
"No matter who you are, you can't just kill people here!" The captain of the security team interrupted Xia Xiaoman and said, "Drop the pistol on the ground, raise your hands, and let your pet get out of the way!"
Xia Xiaoman sighed helplessly, "They want to arrest me, I don't resist, do I have to stand there and cooperate with them?"
The accomplice of the stall owner next to him shouted, "Who wants to arrest you? It's obviously you who is causing trouble. You ate the food but didn't want to pay, so you forced the boss to return the money to you. If he doesn't return the money, you will kill the boss!"
Xia Xiaoman pointed at the stall owner's hand and said, "Is it me who is causing trouble, or are you trying to arrest me? If you open your eyes and take a look, you will know."
The security captain looked in the direction of Xia Xiaoman's finger and found a syringe next to the stall owner's palm, and the liquid in the syringe had not yet been injected.
Things became a little complicated. The security captain thought for two seconds, put away his gun and said, "We will investigate the stall owner's matter, but you killed someone with a gun in public. Even if you are from the floating city, you have to come with us."
"Wait!" Zhong Xue, who came hurriedly, pulled the security captain aside and said something to him. The security captain did not hold on to Xia Xiaoman anymore, but instead arrested several stall owners and their accomplices.
Zhong Xue ignored them and walked up to Xia Xiaoman and asked, "Miss Xia, are you okay?"
Xia Xiaoman shook her head. "It's okay. Why are you here?"
Zhong Xue thought Xia Xiaoman suspected her of following her, and hurriedly explained: "Miss Xia, don't get me wrong. Someone posted a photo of you strolling around the night market with a wolf on the official website square. They were worried that you were unsafe in the night market alone, so they notified me to come find you."
As soon as she found the person, she saw Xia Xiaoman being surrounded by the security team. Seeing that the security captain was about to take Xia Xiaoman away, she immediately stepped forward to rescue him.
Xia Xiaoman is not an ordinary trader, she has a space on her body. If something happens, Fucheng will never let them go, and the capital may also hold them accountable, so Zhong Xue stopped the security captain.
Xia Xiaoman knew that Zhong Xue was not following her. If someone was following her, Maodan would find out first.
"What did you just say to the security team? Why did they agree to let me go?"
"Nothing, just tell the security team about those people's background." Zhong Xue explained: "Those people were originally planted by the Zhou family in Yancheng. They opened this stall, ostensibly to sell food, but actually used the stall to pick some good-looking outsiders."
Yancheng is different from other cities because there are many mines, and many outsiders come to Yancheng to buy mines. As time goes by, Yancheng's control over outsiders is not so strict. Outsiders only need to register at the entrance of the underground city to enter.
The Zhou family found that many outsiders were pouring into the underground city, so they arranged for some people to set up stalls at the night market to look for prey. The owner of the stall selling fried rice was the one they arranged.
Nowadays, people in cities all over the country have no worries about food, but it is still not easy to eat rice. So when outsiders hear that someone is selling fried rice, those who have some spare money are willing to order one to try.
"They use tung rice to make fried rice to attract customers. If they encounter some customers who are not easy to deal with or have average looks, they will blackmail them and then let them go."
Zhong Xue continued, "If they meet someone who looks good but has no background, when the customer complains that the fried rice is not tasty, they will lure them to a corner, knock them unconscious and take them away under the pretext of negotiating compensation."
"These people who were taken away were all controlled by drugs and placed in a massage parlor called Liulian to entertain distinguished guests. Most of these distinguished guests were people who held some positions in Yancheng."
"Almost everyone who has been to this massage parlor has been controlled by the Zhou family with drugs. They want to use this method to erode our Yancheng officials bit by bit."
The stall owner had no intention of taking Xia Xiaoman away, not because Xia Xiaoman's appearance was not up to standard, but because she was accompanied by a wolf, which attracted too much attention and everyone around her was staring at her.
The stall owner just wanted to extort money from Xia Xiaoman, but Xia Xiaoman was so difficult to deal with and insisted on him returning the money. So he decided to arrest Xia Xiaoman as well. Unfortunately, before the needle in his hand could touch Xia Xiaoman, he died under Xia Xiaoman's gun.
Zhong Xue said, "The higher-ups have already sent people to keep an eye on them, and have even placed undercover agents in massage parlors, planning to collect evidence and find the Zhou family members hiding in Yancheng, and then catch them all in one fell swoop."
Xia Xiaoman asked, "Did my impulsive shooting disrupt your plan?"
Zhong Xue smiled and said, "No, the higher-ups have already collected most of the information and are ready to take action, but they just haven't found the right opportunity. Your shot just created the opportunity for them."
The people below were taken away by the security team. Those people from the Zhou family were not sure whether they were exposed or it was an accident, so they gathered together to discuss countermeasures. The authorities could take this opportunity to catch them all in one fell swoop.
Xia Xiaoman stared at Zhong Xue for a while, and seeing that she didn't look fake, he felt a little relieved, as long as it didn't affect Yancheng's plan.
"By the way, I just heard you say that the stall owner used Tong rice to make fried rice. What kind of rice is Tong rice?"
"Tung rice is a kind of aquatic plant with pods that grows near mines. The seeds inside the pods are tung rice."
Zhong Xue explained: "Tong rice looks the same as pearl rice. After being cooked, it will emit a faint sweet smell, but it actually tastes bitter and astringent and is simply inedible. However, this thing is not poisonous, it is just cold in nature, so you can't eat too much. Eating too much can easily cause diarrhea and cold body."
"We usually make tung rice into chicken feed and feed livestock. But some people cook tung rice and make it into fried rice or porridge to trick outsiders into buying it."
Xia Xiaoman recalled the taste of Tong rice, "Tong rice seems to have the same taste as ordinary rice, except that the taste is a little worse. If we can find a way to remove the bitter taste, maybe it can replace rice and become the staple food of the survivors."
Zhong Xue smiled and said, "When we discovered Kiri Mi, we sent people to find a way to change the taste of Kiri Mi, but we are still working out the method."
"But even if we really remove the bitter taste of Paulownia rice, it cannot be used as a staple food. It is a cold food, and eating too much is not good for the body. But Paulownia rice has a high starch content and can be used as a reserve food..."
Before he could finish his words, a huge explosion sounded, and the entire underground city shook...
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