"How's it going, Senior Zuo? Do you still have any QC520 Star Stones around your place?"
The Fei family owns a huge starstone mine. What Qiao Mei and her group want isn't S-grade starstone, just A-grade, of course.
After telling Qiao Mei this, Zuo Chenxing added, "However, the latest batch of QC520 star stones is still being mined. It is expected to be mined out in four days. You may need to wait a little longer."
"If it takes four days, the culprit who framed them will probably be caught by then," Qiao Mei nodded, having no objections.
"Okay, then I'll trouble you, Senior Zuo. I'll treat you to a meal later to thank you properly, otherwise I really don't know what to do."
Then, Qiao Mei asked one last, more important question.
"Also, I'd like to ask how much your QC520 Star Stone costs? I'd like to prepare the money in advance."
For Zuo Chenxing's family, the star stones were like cabbages in the field. They could be sold to outsiders at a price, but to their relatives and friends, it was a different story.
He waved his hand, indicating that it was free and he would give it to her directly.
"No, I must pay this money. It's not a small amount. I've auctioned this star stone before and know it's not cheap. I really can't take advantage of you, and I don't want to owe you any more favors."
Her relationship with Zuo Chenxing wasn't as good as that with Shang Duojin and Shu Qingqing.
Besides, she would pay even for Shang Duojin and the others, let alone Zuo Chenxing.
Zuo Chenxing insisted, but Qiao Mei was even more insistent. He had no choice but to compromise and say that he would sell it to her at a 30% discount, a friendly price.
If she refuses again, he won't help her.
A 30% discount wasn't much, and Qiao Mei was afraid that Zuo Chenxing would really keep his word, so she had no choice but to agree.
After this matter was settled, Qiao Mei, whose body was not yet fully recovered, felt dizzy again, and her chest felt a little tight and painful when she breathed.
She asked the nurse to help move her bed to where Ao Cang was, and only after she was sure she could see him at any time did she feel at ease and go to bed to rest.
For the next two or three days, Qiao Mei spent her time in this manner.
By the time she and Ao Cang were no longer able to receive IV drips and only needed to take their medication on time each day, and were ready to be discharged from the hospital, the interstellar police's investigation had also yielded results.
The results showed that the person who tampered with the cable car they were riding was a criminal in his forties with a long criminal record who had only been released less than a month ago.
After being interrogated by the police, the criminal confessed to his crime, including who gave him the money and instructed him to do so.
According to the criminal, the person who found him contacted him via a personal terminal.
After the criminal explained what he needed the help with and gave him a deposit of one million interstellar coins, he was tempted and agreed to do the job for the culprit.
But the culprit was very cautious. Not only did he not tell the criminal his name, but he also disguised his voice, making him impossible to trace.
"However, the criminal also confessed that the person who asked him to do the job specifically instructed him that it would be best if no one else was involved, but Cang Ao must fall from the cable car as planned."
"So you can think about it, has Cang Ao offended anyone?"
After the interstellar police officer finished speaking, he looked at the pale-faced boy who looked very pitiful. He couldn't understand why someone his age could have offended such a terrifying person who wanted to take his life.
Xu Wenfeng and Xu Hui listened from the side, and upon hearing this, their eyes both fell on Ao Cang, waiting for his reply.
Qiao Mei had a general idea of what it was about, so she stepped forward and blocked Ao Cang's view: "He must have offended some people, but there are quite a few of them. We can't figure out who it is right now. We'll contact you, Officer, when we have any clues."
At first glance, the police officer couldn't quite understand what was wrong with what she said.
But Xu Wenfeng and his group were different.
After seeing the police officer off and taking Qiao Mei and Ao Cang onto the spaceship back to the Imperial Star, Xu Wenfeng asked her about this matter.
"Xiao Mei, do you already have a guess in your mind?"
Qiao Mei nodded and expressed her suspicions, speculating that this matter was related to Ao Cang's taking the dragon blood to the underground auction house for auction.
"But that's secondary. The most important thing is how the mastermind knew where we would go after arriving on Orchid Star, and how they were able to make all the meticulous arrangements before Cangcang and I boarded the cable car."
"Even if they had the means to find out the flight numbers of me and Cangcang, they could never know so much about where we were going. We only decided after we arrived at our destination, and the decision to go to Shizan Mountain was made the day before we set off, or even the night before. With such a short timeframe, it's impossible for that person to know so much detail."
"unless........."
"Unless, there's an inside agent hiding on our side?" Ao Cang interjected, finishing Qiao Mei's sentence before she could finish.
Qiao Mei nodded and agreed, "Yes, only in this way can they carry out the plan successfully and without error, but it is currently difficult to determine who this inside man is."
The only people who went on this trip to Shizan Mountain with her were herself, Ao Cang, Shang Duojin, Shu Qingqing, and Zuo Chenxing, whom she met by chance.
First, we can rule out her and Ao Cang. Then it's Shu Qingqing and the others.
Zuo Chenxing had previously revealed his true family situation in order to help her, which doesn't seem quite right.
All that's left are Shang Duojin and Shu Qingqing.
But the two of them had a very good relationship with her and had absolutely no motive to frame her.
Seeing that she couldn't remember for the time being, Xu Wenfeng didn't rush her. Instead, he asked her to think about it carefully. Was this really the only possibility she had guessed?
His reminder made Qiao Mei suddenly realize something, and she pulled Ao Cang aside to recall the people they had met after checking into the hotel.
"It's not impossible that it's the hotel front desk. We need to show our interstellar ID when we rent a room. We can't rule out the possibility that the mastermind has spent a lot of money to plant people in all the hotels on Orchid Star!"
Ao Cang also remembered something, nodded and told Qiao Mei, "Now that you mention it, it is true. And I also remember that the hotel we stayed at was clearly fine, but the maintenance staff still came twice. Do you remember that?"
When the maintenance personnel come in, they can be seen, which is equivalent to having an opportunity to confirm their presence.
After he mentioned it, Qiao Mei remembered it too. She opened her personal computer bracelet, retrieved the photos she had taken that she found strange at the time, and sent them to Xu Wenfeng.
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