Chapter 85 Fungal Remains Frenzy 46 Sister's Letter.
One of the most difficult questions in history has emerged: How do you prove that you are you?
Nanmen Jue also felt a headache coming on. Meeting the mayor's scrutinizing gaze, she gave a gentle smile. "With Factory Director Hao Hong's testimony, isn't that enough?"
“Hao Hong is a fool. Not only did he lose the letter from his place, but his nephew also got away with it,” Jiang Li said. “You killed that bastard nephew, which is good, but the Furnace Base probably won’t be very grateful to you.”
Nanmen Jue remained silent for a moment. She hadn't expected Jiang Li to speak in such a way. It was one thing to be unafraid to use foul language, but to lay these things out in public showed just how out of place she was in officialdom.
"What are you thinking about?" Jiang Li asked, frowning, after a long silence.
"Thank you, Mayor Jiang," Nanmen Jue said sincerely.
Jiang Li looked at her for a moment, his gaze softening slightly, but he was still blunt. "The Furnace Base has fallen, and Hao Hong is on his way here, but don't expect him to speak up for you. If you can't prove your identity, staying here forever won't help."
She was immediately bombarded with suspicions. Under normal circumstances, Nanmen Jue would have already retorted with her sharp tongue. She was always the one making others feel uncomfortable; when had she ever let others make her feel bad?
But Nanmen Jue knew that this person had a past connection with her sister. The reason she cared so much about Nanmen Jue's identity was because she cared about her sister and that she couldn't just hand over what Nanmen Yu had left behind. Besides, this straightforward personality wasn't annoying. Therefore, Nanmen Jue was just helpless and not angry.
Under Jiang Li's sharp gaze, she rummaged in her pocket and pulled out a cookie, the very one Ying Yao had given her earlier.
"Do you recognize this?" Nanmen Jue handed it over. "I don't have a household registration book to show you right now. If you really don't believe me, there's nothing I can do."
Jiang Li glanced at the biscuit; her cold, hard expression clearly indicated that she didn't recognize it. Seeing the helplessness on Nanmen Jue's beautiful face, she said coldly, "Do you dare to take a blood test?"
Nanmen Jue was taken aback. A blood test?
"She... left you a blood sample?" she asked incredulously.
Even if they didn't get along, Nanmen Jue was still Nanmen Yu's only family. She knew how much her sister cared about blood and had emphasized to her more than once that she should never give away her blood easily. Perhaps all doctors have this kind of understanding. Although Nanmen Jue impatiently said at the time that no one wanted her blood, and that the blood lost in the fight didn't count.
But Nanmen Yu... actually gave the blood to Jiang Li?
Nanmen Jue felt she needed to re-examine her sister's relationship with this person.
“I asked her to give me a piece of evidence that could confirm your identity with 100% certainty, without the slightest mishap,” Jiang Li said. “She gave me her blood.”
Nanmen Jue's lips twitched, as if she could already see how stubbornly the person in front of her was demanding that Nanmen Yu provide evidence. Several of Nanmen Yu's suggestions were rejected by her, so she had no choice but to hand over her own blood...
Nanmen Jue burst out laughing, and Jiang Li's thick, hard eyebrows furrowed again, his eyes sharp.
"Sorry, Mayor Jiang." Nanmen Jue smiled and extended his hand. "Go ahead and take as many as you want."
...
Nanmen Jue's decisive actions had already convinced Jiang Li of the truth to about 80%, so while waiting for the analysis results, she didn't let Nanmen Jue stand there awkwardly, and the two sat facing each other across the desk.
Since the original Shiqing City was chosen as the base center, Jiang Li naturally continued to use the previous municipal government building. Her own office was at the top of the building, with huge glass windows overlooking most of the base.
Given the current status of the quarantine facility, it really feels like being a local tyrant.
Jiang Li was looking down at the documents, while Nanmen Jue was looking out the window. Neither of them spoke for a moment, but the tense atmosphere they had when they first entered the room had also disappeared.
Nanmen Jue could sense that the silent mayor still harbored some doubts about her and was wary of her. She was a woman who only believed in evidence, and she wouldn't believe it even if she did, until the evidence was presented in a concrete way.
Nanmen Jue wouldn't make things difficult for someone like that; if she wanted evidence, she would give her the evidence.
Both of them were waiting for the other to speak, but during this time, Jiang Li did not say a word, nor did she restrict Nanmen Jue from doing anything. Nanmen Jue also did not move. Jiang Li looked up at her, a fleeting look of surprise on her face.
Nanmen Jue seemed to snap out of his daze, tilting his head in confusion: "What's wrong?"
"You've been sitting like this for two hours?" Jiang Li asked.
"In this apocalyptic world, wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to just relax and daydream without having to worry about what to eat next or how to survive tomorrow?" Nanmen Jue said with a smile.
"I didn't realize you were the type to think like that." Jiang Li capped his pen.
Nanmen Jue said, "Then what do you think I would do?"
"You look like one of those playboy young masters who can't stand being alone. It wouldn't be surprising if you just sat here and yelled for me to have some fun."
Nanmen Jue looked terrified: "Our Nanmen family has been law-abiding citizens for generations, don't slander me!"
Her exaggerated, comical expression amused herself, and Jiang Li's cold expression softened somewhat.
“Your personality is much more lively than Nanmen Yu’s.” Nanmen Jue’s identity has been basically confirmed, and his personality is “honest.” Jiang Li is no longer so aggressive and cold. She looks at Nanmen Jue with a dazed look on her face, “...and they don’t look very alike either.”
“My sister and I are twelve years apart in age, it would be strange if we looked alike,” Nanmen Jue said.
She intended to ask Jiang Li what had happened between him and her sister, but before she could find a reason to ask, Jiang Li took the initiative to start the conversation.
“Your sister is the best doctor in the neurosurgery department of the First Hospital of Shiqing City. On the day the apocalypse broke out, if she hadn’t decisively sealed off the hospital, it would have become the first area to fall.” Jiang Li’s voice was a little deep. “Because of her, many medical staff at the First Hospital survived. These people later joined the research institute and are contributing to the research of mycelium.”
Upon hearing this, Nanmen Jue's first reaction was that her sister's identity in this world was also that of a doctor, and even more so, a neurosurgeon, whose specialties were highly overlapping. Then she realized that her sister had entered this world on the very day the apocalypse had just begun.
She paused for a moment, then remembered a question she had never had time to answer in the previous world, and asked, "Why did she leave this place?"
How will the native inhabitants understand the reincarnators' departure from this world after completing their missions?
“Yes, the quarantine facility has been the best-preserved and most comprehensively powerful survivor base since the beginning of the apocalypse. Why did Nanmen Yu insist on leaving? I asked her that question too,” Jiang Li said expressionlessly. “Back then, she heard that there was a plague at the Furnace Base and insisted on going to help. I told her that the quarantine facility needed her too, but she said she wouldn’t stay there, and then she left and never came back. I also want to ask you, since you are her brother, you should know where she is now? Why hasn’t she come back?”
Nanmen Jue was slightly lost in thought. This wasn't something she was pretending to do. It was always a bit strange to hear about her sister from other people. She imagined the woman who resolutely left the quarantine center with her bag on her back, and a smile appeared on her face.
"We haven't been in touch for a long time, and I don't know where she is now." There was a bitter taste in his voice.
Jiang Li understood. She paused for a moment and said in a low voice, "She is my friend."
Another friend. I never expected that my older sister, who is as cold as ice in real life and doesn't care about anything except work and Nanmen Jue, would make friends everywhere in this world.
There are friends of reincarnated beings, and there are friends of indigenous people.
...
When the test results arrived, Nanmen Jue had already started eating. Jiang Li didn't leave either; he simply had the food delivered to his office so he could eat with Nanmen Jue.
Since entering the reincarnation space, Nanmen Jue couldn't remember the last time she had eaten a normal meal. The simple stir-fried dishes and rice almost brought tears to her eyes.
The report confirmed that the two were indeed related.
With the final evidence in hand, Jiang Li took out a bunch of keys with one hand, opened the drawer under his desk, took out a letter, placed it on the table, and pushed it in front of Nanmen Jue.
Nanmen Jue was a little stunned. It was just casually placed here, and then just casually given to her?
She was quick; she immediately pulled the letter to her and opened it.
Her heart belatedly clenched, a clenching that reached its peak upon seeing her sister's familiar handwriting, making her want to shrink back, but she resisted. As she looked down, the clenching gradually disappeared.
Nanmen Yu didn't engage in any of the usual sisterly greetings; she simply called out to Xiao Jue and then got straight to business.
The important task here is to list and analyze all the various forces in this world, and also includes a map marking some of the more dangerous areas when she entered, and even the location of the Mother Nest. If Nanmen Jue hadn't encountered the crow, this letter would have been of great help to her.
Sister...
Nanmen Jue read to the end in a daze. At the end of the letter, Nanmen Yu finally said something unrelated to the main topic.
"I left the same letter at both the quarantine facility and the Furnace base. No matter which one you arrive at first, you don't need to go to the other. Hao Hong and Jiang Li are my friends. They will give you the letter after they confirm your identity."
The people who came in this time are concentrated in these two places, which will likely become the fixed spawn points in the future. Your mission objective after entering will probably also be one of these two. However, there is another faction that I'm very concerned about, and they may also become a mission objective in the future; they call themselves the New Alliance.
Nanmen Jue's heart skipped a beat. It turned out that the new alliance had not yet shown its strength at that time and was not qualified to be a mission target.
She hasn't met any new allies yet, so she's paying extra attention to what comes next.
"This is an organization that worships the Spore Mother and wants her to conquer the world and coexist with it. They have developed rapidly in just two months and have caused us a lot of trouble. Remember: the people in the New Alliance are a bunch of fanatical Spore Mother worshippers. They will do many insane things. Do not cooperate with them."
Nanmen Yu and Nanmen Jue have very different personalities. She doesn't use any strong words, but simply says what she thinks is right, appearing calm and confident.
It was her handwriting, her tone, that brought the letter to an abrupt end.
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