Why did you provoke me?

Xiao Wen immediately saluted and said, "Understood." Yu Meng glanced at him, not knowing what he understood, but she was too lazy to ask.

Xiao Wen hesitated for a moment, then said, "The resources we acquired this time are all in the warehouse. Would you like to go take a look?"

Yu Meng nodded, not refusing. These were all items from the alien battlefield, and she had never seen a single one of them before.

Xiao Wen smiled. As long as Yu Meng was willing to talk to them, they were confident they could keep her here. What did mask revealers like most? Nothing more than rare and unusual materials. And that was exactly what they had in abundance.

With Granny Hua gone, everyone in their lineage has lost her protection. Like today's situation, if Yu Meng hadn't come, they would have had to hire another bone-drawing artist, which would have come at a great cost.

Xiao Wen hesitated for a long time before finally asking, "Can we come to see you again when we're resting?"

Yu Meng nodded. "I promised Granny Hua that I would take care of her subordinates. But if any of you are unwilling, I will not force you."

Xiao Wen was delighted. "May I tell all of Granny Hua's subordinates this news?"

"Okay," Yu Meng agreed.

"I thank you on their behalf, Commander." Xiao Wen stood there, stood at attention, and saluted in one smooth motion.

Xiao Wen opened the door, and two more soldiers followed. The two men outside didn't leave; seeing the door open, they both looked up at Yu Meng.

"Commander!" The person leading Yu Menglai hurriedly stepped forward.

"Secretary Wu, I need to take the commander to the warehouse."

Secretary Wu glanced at Yu Meng, and seeing that she didn't say anything, he followed behind the group.

The warehouse was very large and stretched out in a long row.

Xiao Wen opened the door with her fingerprint. The inside was neat and dry, and there was no bloody smell as she had imagined.

Yu Meng didn't stand on ceremony. "Bring me every single sample so I can take a look."

Several people walked over to the various boxes around them. Even Secretary Wu went over and picked one up.

Yu Meng took the box, opened it, and examined it carefully. Xiao Wen stood aside, ready to introduce it to her, but Yu Meng only glanced at it before handing it back.

The boxes were taken over and returned one by one, and Yu Meng didn't say anything.

"Sir, this is the last sample." Secretary Wu handed what he was holding to Yu Meng.

Yu Meng took it and glanced at it. Just as she was about to hand it to Secretary Wu, she suddenly took it back, opened it, and looked at it carefully again.

This seems a little different, Yu Meng pointed lightly with her finger. Just as she had guessed, this was another alien that could have its skin peeled off.

Yu Meng kept the box and said to Xiao Wen, "Don't touch this alien for now. Let me study it first."

Xiao Wen was secretly delighted. Anything that Yu Meng had taken a liking to must be extraordinary, just like what he had seen in the repair room earlier.

"Secretary Wu, should they arrange another routine physical examination? I need their data," Yu Meng instructed.

"I'll take care of this right away," Secretary Wu agreed without hesitation.

Xiao Wen wanted to say something, but ultimately didn't. Since it was beneficial to them anyway, why should he turn away such an advantage?

Yu Meng went back. Secretary Wu also went to attend to her own business.

Xiao Wen looked at the person standing in front of him and asked, "Fu Ke, where is Granny Hua buried? We want to go and pay our respects."

"You just got back, you should rest properly. You can go tomorrow," Fu Ke said somewhat disapprovingly.

"Fu Ke, if the leader has any requests, you must do your best to fulfill them. She's very capable; she might be able to lead us to even greater heights." Xiao Wen patted Fu Ke on the shoulder.

"This seems to be the first time you've met. Isn't it too early to draw that conclusion?"

"Let's go, take them to the rest room, we're going to pay our respects to Granny Flower." Xiao Wen didn't continue the topic.

Yu Meng returned to her residence and opened the small box in her hand. It contained a small mushroom-shaped object with a red cap and small white dots on it. It just didn't have a bottom leg.

Without hesitation, Yu Meng peeled off the dough. When she held it up to the sun, she felt a sense of disorientation. She seemed to see herself sitting in a wheelchair, watching her older brother and sister smile.

Yu Meng abruptly lowered her hand, her eyes leaving the noodle dish. It took her a while to calm down. This noodle dish actually had a hallucinogenic effect.

Yu Meng looked at the white thing in the box. It had a fragrance that gradually filled the entire room. She quickly closed the box.

Unsure whether the fragrance was harmful, Yu Meng hurriedly left her room and used the communication bell to summon Secretary Wu.

"Secretary Wu, please bring a sealed bottle to my room to collect some air."

"Okay, I'll be right there." As soon as Secretary Wu finished speaking, Yu Meng noticed something unusual. The three withered, branch-like aliens in her hand seemed to be trying to break free of their lines.

Yu Meng thought about releasing an alien. The alien quickly stuck to a small box on the table and then remained motionless.

Yu Meng blinked; she seemed to have discovered something extraordinary.

Secretary Wu arrived quickly. Yu Meng used lines to wrap the box and the alien object together, and then stuffed it into a sealed bottle.

"Send this to Qingyuan. Ask her to give me the data; it's urgent." Yu Meng's heart was pounding uncontrollably. If this succeeded, Yu Meng felt as if she had discovered something extraordinary.

No, Yu Meng felt her heart was about to jump out of her chest. She tried to take deep breaths, and then more breaths, trying to comfort herself that this was just a guess, and it couldn't be such a coincidence.

In front of Granny Hua's tombstone, a small group of people stood in neat rows and then bowed in unison.

Xiao Wen carefully wiped the tombstone, her eyes a little red. "Grandma, we came back too late and didn't get to see you one last time."

Fu Ke and Xiao Wen talked about everything that happened to Yu Meng. "She is the heir designated by her mother-in-law. Everything her mother-in-law left to her, including you all."

But actually, Yu Meng wasn't there voluntarily; it seems her mother-in-law tricked her into coming. This matter was somewhat related to that charlatan, Mr. Hu. Later, during the last time her mother-in-law woke up, no one knew what they said in the room. Yu Meng actually agreed.

During this time, everyone quietly went about their own business, and no one dared to approach Yu Meng. They were afraid that she might quit or make some other decision.

Because her mother-in-law gave her final order before she died: if Yu Meng wanted to leave, no one was allowed to stop her for any reason.

Xiao Wen frowned. "If everything was given to Yu Meng, what about Sister Xiao Mei?"

Fu Ke shook his head. "When my mother-in-law passed away, Sister Xiaomei wasn't there. I don't know what she would do if she knew all this."

Fu Ke hesitated for a moment before asking Xiao Wen, "If Sister Xiaomei comes back, who will you go with?"