Being underestimated (v1ch63)
Ye Sheng was taken aback by Lan Zhang's question, but she kept her face expressionless.
She quickly turned her head to look at him with a puzzled look, as if to say, "What are you talking about?"
Ah Mu, who was squatting next to her, also tilted his head and gave Lan Zhang the same look.
"Lan Zhang, what are you blabbering about? We owe it to her that we caught this guy. How come I didn't know that Ye Sheng was hiding something from us?"
Lan Zhang, who felt the two pairs of eyes on him, pushed away Ah Mu, who was getting closer, without any emotion.
He had a bad feeling.
After all, even if Ye Sheng handled the night attack calmly, she should have shown some relief or joy when she heard what happened to the gangsters. But instead, she seemed more interested in their identity.
That was the impression he got. It was very strange.
Even though Ye Sheng tried to hide it, Lan Zhang could sense that she was after the gangster's identity information!
That was what drew his attention, but Ye Sheng acted dumb.
And the idiot teammate beside him.
"Never mind, it's late, let's go."
Lan Zhang was not the type to dig deeper.
But he didn't have a good impression of Ye Sheng, and he always thought that this girl was up to no good.
There were always some weird and dangerous incidents around her!
It was better to keep his distance.
Especially Ah Mu, a simple-minded fool who would help count the money after being sold.
When Lan Zhang said he was going home, Ah Mu didn't object. He just waved to Ye Sheng before leaving and said cheerfully, "Ye Sheng, you have to come and have play with us sometime. Our mercenary group is awesome!"
Compared to Lan Zhang, who was cunning and hard to deal with, Ye Sheng liked the carefree Ah Mu more.
She also raised her hand and waved back at Ah Mu, watching the two of them leave.
It was only when they were out of sight that she let out a sigh of relief.
She sat down on the ground and patted her chest quickly, thinking that Lan Zhang was too sharp-eyed, his blue eyes were like a falcon's, and it seemed that no secrets could escape him.
It was terrifying!
But the information source for the mercenaries was cut off here, and they probably wouldn't meet again anytime soon.
After calming down for a while, Ye Sheng got up and dusted off her clothes, holding the thank-you gift box from Ah Mu in her hand. She walked towards her home in the mitigation zone.
On the way, Ye Sheng started to reflect on where she had slipped up.
After thinking it over several times, she finally figured out the reason... She had discovered last night that the iron badge she picked up was the identity token of the Black Spring Freemasonry. She was so panicked that she wanted to find out what was going on as soon as possible.
She wasn't concerned about being attacked by gangsters, she wanted to know more about whether the Black Spring Freemasons were hunting in the wilderness.
So, when she met the mercenaries Ah Mu and Lan Zhang, she didn't react to the outcome of the gangsters' capture. Instead, she was more curious about their identities...
Even though it was a very subtle difference, Lan Zhang noticed it.
Ye Sheng was relieved that her current persona was that of a brave orphan in the mitigation zone, with no access to higher levels. Even if Lan Zhang discovered her thoughts, it wouldn't matter.
She was glad that he underestimated her... She didn't mind being overlooked, as long as he left her alone.
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She hated being stared at by his eagle eyes every day!
But she learned her lesson this time, and she wouldn't make the same mistake again!
On her way home, Ye Sheng's cute face turned sour as she recalled her blunder. But when she saw her shack, she quickly slapped her cheeks to cheer herself up.
She unlocked the door and pushed it open, saying happily, "Gu Luoyu, we did it! We caught the bad guys last night, and Ah Mu and the others gave us gifts~"
She put aside her worries about the Black Spring Freemasonry for the moment, and took out the thank-you gift box from under her arm. Knowing that Xiaodongxi couldn't see it, she opened the box and narrated its contents.
"This box looks nice, but it's a shame that it's made of cardboard. If it was a wooden box, we could keep something in it, but paper won't last long."
Ye Sheng lifted the lid of the box and pulled out the items.
"Five boxes of regular nutrient solution, ten pieces in each box, fifty pieces in total! And two boxes of...compressed biscuits, also ten pieces in each box."
The writing on the wasteland world was the same as what Ye Sheng knew, so she had no trouble reading the labels.
She recognized the compressed biscuits right away.
They tasted much better than the ordinary nutrient solution. At least they felt like real food in her mouth. They were also filling enough to last her a whole day, but they had some side effects.
Like making her go to the bathroom...
But because the compressed biscuits were so tasty, they were very popular.
They will always sold out in mitigation zone swap shop, and they could only sell various kinds of nutrient solution.
And there was no swap shop for edible polluted plants and animals in the mitigation zone.
Even though they bought a lot of edible ingredients every day, they had to deliver them to the safe zone on the same day, where the residents could buy them with points.
They made a huge profit.
Ye Sheng didn't know this before, but she found out yesterday when she went to buy some arrows and chatted with Old Lin... Her plan to buy some edible polluted plants with her points was ruined, and she had to keep eating her only source of food: radioactive potatoes.
So she was very happy to see the compressed biscuits now, and she continued to dig through the box.
She found a kerosene lamp next.
It had a medieval black retro style, and there were also bottles of lamp oil the size of mineral water.
They would last for a long time.
"This must be from Lan Zhang. Ah Mu wouldn't be so thoughtful, but this is exactly what we need. Now we have better lighting at night!"
The thank-you gift box was not big, and that was all there was.
Ye Sheng realized that Lan Zhang's cunning and sharpness had their advantages.
At least he gave them useful things.
"Well, these are all great...Ye Sheng, about that badge..."
"Don't worry, I buried it in a remote place in the wilderness when I went out. Even if someone finds it later, it has nothing to do with us. It's just..."
Ye Sheng thought for a while, then recounted how Lan Zhang had almost exposed her, and tried to reassure herself, "Maybe the gangsters just found the token in the wilderness. They were just lowlife thugs from the mitigation zone, and they wouldn't dare to conspire with the Black Spring Freemasons."
But despite her words, Ye Sheng stayed home for the next three days.
During that time, she wandered around and asked about the Li family. She was relieved to learn that Li San was a bandit who preyed on ordinary people in the wilderness, and rarely came back home.
The Black Spring Freemasonry wouldn't recruit such scum!
It seemed that he had picked up the iron badge by chance.
Still, she was worried, so she extended her stay for another two days.
For those seven days, the spring harvest activities were canceled, and people missed the chance to dig up some potatoes. The people in the mitigation zone were unhappy, and more and more teams headed to the wilderness.
Ye Sheng watched for a few days and saw nothing unusual, so she made up her mind.
It was time to resume her scavenging in the wilderness!