"Exactly!" The crew cut woman clapped her hands, excitement in her voice. "I'm sure we're on the right track!"
The bald big man thought it over seriously, then nodded. "That's possible."
"It's hard to know what District 019 was like a hundred years ago, but it definitely wasn't as developed as it is now. If something happened at a mining company, they'd certainly have ways to cover it up."
"But..."
"But it just doesn't add up," Xu Huo said. "If that was Master Suolan's goal, she wouldn't have needed to wait until a hundred years later, right before she died, to do this."
"Whether she wanted to investigate her father's death or a possible conspiracy behind it, with her influence, she could have done it while she was alive."
"Maybe the mining company had powerful backers, and there was no way she could succeed on her own. Even if she went public, she wouldn't have been able to get evidence, so she could only use this method. Even if she didn't succeed in the end, making trouble for Tiantianle would still be something," the crew cut woman said at once. "And it's hard to say whether the Players who came to Dingding Flower Town to kill people were sent by Tiantianle."
Xu Huo fell silent for a moment. Although he didn't think the painting was in Tiantianle's hands, he agreed with her general direction. "I plan to look around near the mining area first. What about you?"
The bald big man had already been there. After a brief hesitation, he said, "I'll go to Tiantianle."
The crew cut woman had been thinking the same thing.
"Good luck," Xu Huo said, without adding anything else. He took out an item and left Dingding Flower Town, heading straight for the city where