"Besides the ores and veins, what else is inside Leviathan that is worth the miners risking their lives to enter those unexplored areas? I know nothing about this, but I believe that you know no more than I do. Otherwise, there would be no need to hire me and my teammates to handle this matter."

"Mr. Ke Lan, your analysis... is correct." Yui said with a smile, but her smile was very forced. "But this is a win-win situation, isn't it? Moreover, you are also the special consultant of the consortium, you are one of us, and our interests should be consistent..."

"But the content of the commission should be modified," Ke Lan said, "If you want us to go treasure hunting, just tell us directly. The reward you give is not small, and it is completely worthy of the corresponding difficulty and risk level... But why do you hide it from us?"

Ke Lan stared at the other person's beautiful big eyes and said word by word: "You also said that I am 'one of your own'...but why do I feel that you don't seem to treat me as 'one of your own'?"

Before he knew it, Lao Gou had slowed down and put some distance between himself and the other vehicles in the convoy.

"Ms. Yui, don't be nervous. We are not bad people." Ke Lan said with a smile, glancing at the Wolf Spider mecha running parallel to Junius not far away. "We are just a little angry. Why didn't you want to tell us the true content of the commission at the beginning?"

"Actually... this is what Miss Soma meant."

"Ms. Soma...Captain Zofia?"

"Yeah." Yui nodded.

"Why?"

"I'm just a secretary. I don't know about this kind of thing." Yui suddenly sped up her speech, "But I can guarantee that Miss Soma has no ill will towards you. Otherwise, she would not have handed over the temporary control of the base to you."

Ke Lan carefully examined the other person's face, not even missing the tiny involuntary twitches of his facial muscles - analyzing whether a person is lying based on her facial expressions alone is much more difficult than what is shown in movies and TV dramas. Moreover, Ke Lan is not a professional interrogator, and he does not have any electronic monitoring equipment specifically used for "lie detection."

But Ke Lan knew that the more psychological pressure she put on the other person, the more nervous she would become, and the more likely she would reveal her true thoughts...

Ke Lan took out his gun, pulled out the magazine, unloaded the bullets one by one, and pushed them in one by one.

"Ms. Yui, you know... we are all a bunch of vulgar people. I know how those big corporations describe us independent hunters... they call us paupers, bandits, stray dogs, and garbage pickers..."

"Click", the magazine was inserted into the grip of the pistol again.

"Stray dogs, for example, have nothing left except their lives... So when we do things, we don't have to worry as much as the people in the big consortiums."

"Click." Ke Lan pulled the slide of the pistol and the bullet was loaded.

"You...you should know the consequences of breaking up with the Soma Group..." Yui Qiangsaku said calmly.

"Well, I know, so can I assume that you are threatening us, Miss Youyi?" Ke Lan opened the safety of the pistol.

"This is not a threat, Mr. Ke Lan. Please calm down. This will not benefit anyone. You should know that the Soma Group has no ill will towards you or your companions. We are just..."

"If you don't have any bad intentions, then why did you use deception to trick us into taking this commission?" Ke Lan put the muzzle of the gun against Youyi's chin... It must be said that this woman not only has a perfect face shape, but her white and slender neck is also very attractive. It really makes people want to destroy it.

"Can you put down the gun first?"

"Of course." Ke Lan said, "But you have to answer a few questions for me first."

"You can ask me anything."

"If... I mean if... we encounter some powerful indigenous creatures, and the entire material transport convoy is almost wiped out, and only my companions and I escape by chance, how will the Soma Consortium deal with this matter?"

Yui was about to speak, but Ke Lan continued to answer her own questions: "Of course the Soma Group will doubt us, but if we just deal with it more cleanly, they won't do anything to me. I am still the special consultant of the Soma Group and a guest of Zofia... But, Miss Yui, isn't it a pity that such a young and beautiful woman like you died in the desert?"

"Mr. Ke Lan, please believe us... We actually have a reason for doing this... We are not trying to deceive you..."

"Are you afraid?"

"I……"

"You may not have noticed that your fingers have become stiff, and you didn't even notice that the tablet had slipped under the seat. It seems that your loyalty to the Soma Group is not enough. You are not ready to die for the benefit of the Group at any time, right?" Ke Lan bent down, picked up the tablet, put it back into the other's hand, and then suddenly laughed -

"Just kidding, actually we are just playing a little joke on you." Ke Lan and Lao Gou smiled at each other, "We are not dissatisfied with the remuneration for the commission. In fact, we knew from the beginning that the content of the commission could not be that simple... and now, this commission is truly worthy of its value. Well, now let's get back to the topic."

There was a trace of doubt on Youyi's face. Obviously, she no longer believed what Ke Lan said. This guy, who she thought was a normal young man, seemed to have become a completely different person in the past few minutes... Could it be that he was just pretending?

Or...is this his true character?

As Ke Lan's full-time secretary, she had read the financial group's analysis report on Ke Lan many times, but now she felt that the report, which was more than 30 pages long, was just a pile of waste paper...

This guy is clearly a lunatic. He has nothing to do with the descriptions of "rational" and "calm" in the report!

But no matter what, the work must continue. Since the other party now seems to have returned to "normal", then...

"Mr. Ke Lan, in this case..."

Yui just opened her mouth but was interrupted by Ke Lan again.

"If I remember correctly, the number of missing miners is twenty-eight, right?"

"Well?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ke Lan suddenly moved closer, and his face almost bumped into the tip of her delicate nose: "What's the name of the thing found in the mine?"

"How...what is that?" As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Youyi's face changed instantly. When she realized that she had let the cat out of the bag and hurriedly changed her words, it was too late.

"Hey, this trick really works." Lao Gou gave Ke Lan a thumbs up.

"Indeed." Ivan, who was sitting in the back, pushed up the goggles on his nose. "From a psychological point of view, this is a very common but tried-and-tested trick. Everything that came before is just a prelude..."

"..." Looking at the group of people in front of her, Youyi's expression changed rapidly. She bit her lower lip tightly and hesitated for more than a minute before she uttered a term that Ke Lan had never heard of -

"Ultra-pure crystals".