The Ring, Part 1

"You..." Cruz felt as if he had swallowed a fly, a nameless nausea rising in him, yet the other woman's words left him speechless.

"What? You think I'm wrong?" Zi Li asked in a low voice.

"If he really only had some secret means and risked his life to save us, yet we instead... I couldn't do something like that." Cruz shook his head.

"Heh. I'm actually still wondering whether us being surrounded was itself a scheme. That contaminated beast had crushed the three of us so badly we could barely breathe, yet the moment he arrived, it vanished without a trace. Could there really be such a coincidence in this world?" Zi Li said coldly.

"..." Cruz's suspicions immediately rose after hearing that.

"What are you planning to do?" he asked gravely.

"Report it and investigate thoroughly. Gather the monitoring and positioning system data from his colony. If Wei He's colony never shut down from beginning to end, then I'll believe he has no problem.

Because if a colony does not shut down and is not interfered with, it can remain in a constant transmission state. Technical methods can also be used to retrieve its secure vault and inspect the records."

The secure vault was similar to a black box, a specialized storage device that recorded every moment of a colony's condition.

An inexplicable light flickered in Zi Li's eyes. If they truly could dig up suspicious points on Wei He... then she would certainly gain no small benefit this time.

With such a massive upheaval on Planet 228, the higher-ups would never let any suspicious point slip by. Even if her suspicions were wrong, at most her reputation would suffer.

But if Wei He truly had a major problem, then... she would gain unimaginable political benefits!

With casualties