Encircling Blockade

Unexpectedly, she'd now torn a chunk of flesh from him.

"I won't do anything for you anymore, and you don't come looking for me either. From now on, we keep to our own paths," Tu Ran said.

Xie Xu nodded. "Fine."

"Then goodbye."

There was nothing left to stay for. Tu Ran turned and walked away without hesitation.

But Xie Xu suddenly called after her back, "Who are you now, really?"

Her sudden return of memories was something Xie Xu hadn't anticipated—and it was the reason for the current situation.

But he couldn't figure out why Tu Ran had suddenly regained her memories.

No, rather, how had she, a soul from another world, obtained the real Tu Ran's memories?

"I'm Tu Ran, of course," Tu Ran said, glancing back with a smile curling at her lips. "I've been Tu Ran since the day I was born."

She wasn't lying. She really had always been called Tu Ran.

In her original world, her name had been Tu Ran.

...

Since Tu Ran had found and killed the Snake King within two days, the fourth team's mission was already half complete.

For the remaining few days, all members of the fourth team focused on clearing out the hook snake minions scattered across Regaken State.

During that time, Tu Ran went to the Medical Department to visit Kenny Egan's wife. Her body was in no serious danger, and with the huge inheritance Kenny Egan had left, she could live out her remaining years in comfort.

In her memory, the mechanical snake she'd once saved had slipped away silently after recovering.

From start to finish, she never knew that Tubin was that mechanical snake from back then. To repay her kindness, he'd stayed by her side for over a decade, and in the end, he'd used his life to buy her safety.

Tu Ran had no intention of telling her this. Losing her husband was already enough to keep her mired in grief; if she told her the truth on top of that, Tu Ran worried she truly wouldn't be able to bear it.

Knowing she was safe, Tu Ran stopped going to the Medical Department.

Ding Naiqing was badly injured and had to rest for three days at the Regaken State Medical Department branch before he could continue with the mission.

At that moment, heavy dark clouds gathered in the sky, and rain pattered down in a fine drizzle, soaking the ground. The daylight was dim, fog swirled, and visibility was less than ten meters.

Beneath the tightly packed, towering high-rises of Regaken State's city center, Tu Ran, carrying a machine gun, wove through the narrow alleys, working with Yao Bei to sandwich an alien between them.

This alien was a Pioneer, a member of their fourth team—someone who had once been on Yao Bei's squad.

No one knew when he'd been possessed.

This morning, when everyone was carrying out the mission together, he was in charge of long-range sniping.

He was famous for his extremely high accuracy at distance, but this morning he'd aimed at three people and hit none of them, which raised Yao Bei's suspicions.

Tu Ran pretended to bump his shoulder by accident and saw his memories split into two parts.

One part was his memories as a human; the other was the alien's memories within his body.

He was undoubtedly an alien.

But there was no proof.

She couldn't just say she'd seen his past.

So she fabricated a nonexistent piece of evidence, accused him of being an alien, and threatened to shoot him.

The man couldn't keep up the act any longer and ran fast.

An alien's speed truly was beyond human reach.

Plus, with the dense buildings here, hiding someone was very easy.

In the blink of an eye, they lost sight of him.

So Yao Bei assigned tasks to everyone: she and Tu Ran would search below, while Ding Naiqing went upstairs to report the alien's position in real time.