Chapter 60: Thief

It is also very likely there are Mutated Animals; after all, after Mutation, the intelligence of animals has generally increased significantly, so they would naturally be the first to occupy such places to survive.

Fearing these animals might disturb the Oil Tankers, she specifically brought along several intact Containers so she could stack the oil drums inside them. As for the Oil Tankers, setting aside the vehicles themselves, there shouldn't be many animals capable of opening the tanks.

Entering along the way, it was somewhat damp inside; after Liu Mu and Niu Boyi killed a few Mutated bats and snakes, they didn't encounter any other animals.

To claim the territory, Niu Boyi peed several times along the way with a splash, and the poorly circulated air was filled with the stench of urine.

"The smell is strong enough," Liu Mu directed Niu Boyi to urinate around the area where the oil was placed, so that other animals would not dare to approach easily.

Several High-Intensity Flashlights were turned on; the tunnel was not as smooth as one open to traffic, as it had only been roughly cleared and the interior had not yet been renovated. Liu Mu rearranged some stones on the ground to create a few relatively flat spots, then neatly stacked the oil drums into the Containers from her space, before taking the Containers out of the space and placing them down.

It only took two Containers in total; seeing the familiar boxes, Niu Boyi couldn't help but come over and lift a leg to pee right next to them, for which Liu Mu thoroughly despised him.

Fortunately, he didn't pee randomly in the doghouse at home, otherwise Liu Mu would have slapped him.

Placing the Containers at both ends, Liu Mu still kept the Oil Tankers neatly in two rows in the middle, though she only brought out eight of them.

She thought the oil from the remaining one could be used to resupply the Scrap Station's daily needs later, and the other one...

She was shocked when the system detected it; damn it, it was actually cooking oil!

"An Oil Tanker filled with cooking oil? Just tell me if there's any other oil mixed in there or not!?"

【Less than five percent, it is edible.】

The results given by the system were always accurate, but Liu Mu still felt disgusted; she really hadn't expected that even in a professional organization like the Sky Viper, there would be people "faking" things. Who could she even reason with?

The organization member who was lucky enough not to have his fraud discovered had just finished interrogation at this moment and had been cleared of the suspicion of stealing from the company.

The blond white man Joseph did not feel lucky, because compared to the fraud being discovered, the loss of a batch of important energy resources was a bigger blow to the organization.

Even though he had been cleared of suspicion, the several subordinates who guarded the warehouse that night were all executed by firing squad.

The investigators had stated clearly that it was for no other reason than the need to find a few people to take the fall and give the higher-ups an explanation.

"F**K!" Joseph smashed his fist onto the conference table, the shattered tabletop piercing his pot-sized fist. "Didn't they say there were traces left by the thief at the scene? Why not keep investigating? As long as we keep investigating, finding the person is just a matter of time. Is it reasonable to sacrifice our own people?"

Night Owl had an unreadable expression and handed him a folder. Joseph had not been qualified to look at the data while being interrogated; he flipped open the folder with anger, and a wilted blade of grass fell out.

He flipped it again, and there was nothing else... "Just this? What kind of trace is this? Isn't it just a blade of grass?"

"Colonel Joseph, you must not underestimate this blade of grass," a young man wearing silver-rimmed glasses explained. "After the Cataclysm, the entire Haicheng area lost almost all vegetation. So, what does it mean that someone could carry a living blade of grass with them at such a time?"

"It means... the other party is a vegetarian?" Joseph couldn't think of a more reasonable answer than that.

Night Owl snorted coldly, "The grass a vegetarian eats is not this kind of grass. You foreigners don't understand at all; in Traditional Chinese Medicine, this grass is called Pinellia, and when fresh, it is highly toxic."

The silver-rimmed glasses continued, "And this specimen should have already undergone Mutation. Usually, Pinellia only has one leaf, but this one has four, and it is still splitting into new leaves. If the leaf shape hadn't matched the toxicity test results of the roots, we wouldn't have been able to confirm its species."

"So?" Joseph still couldn't see what kind of clue a blade of grass could provide. "WTF kind of person took away such a large batch of oil?"

This batch of oil included gasoline and diesel; well, let's just pretend the cooking oil didn't exist.

"Regarding this question," the leader in charge of the night for the organization, Night Owl, spoke solemnly, seemingly about to offer a constructive discovery, "I wonder if you have ever watched a Mandarin TV series called 'The Heroic Thief Yizhimei'. The thief in it has superb skills and always commits mind-boggling thefts without anyone noticing, leaving behind a plum blossom every time they commit a crime. Therefore, I think the person who left this grass might be a copycat criminal."

"You mean this 'Blade of Grass' is a thief with superb skills...?" Although the silver-rimmed glasses man found it unbelievable, he wrote down this nickname in his notebook—Thief Blade of Grass.

Regarding this, Joseph expressed doubt, "Why call it Blade of Grass? Didn't you say this is raw Pinellia?"

"The codename is not important; what we need to analyze is the theft habits of Blade of Grass," the silver-rimmed glasses man pushed the bridge of his glasses with his index finger, looking inscrutable, and said firmly, "Since she can commit such a case so easily, then based on the vanity of showing off her own skills, Blade of Grass will definitely come back. As long as we strengthen our defenses, we will surely be able to..."

Joseph clenched his fists, "No matter what kind of grass it is, I will catch her myself!"

The others had burning gazes, as if they had already set a net, and 'Blade of Grass' would soon walk right into it.

Liu Mu, who had been inexplicably assigned a new nickname, was currently moving stones; that's right, she was moving stones to prop up the wheels of the Oil Tankers.

After finishing, she also dismantled the important parts of the vehicles, such as the batteries, engines, and fuel tanks. She had originally thought about just leaving the oil tanks here, but thinking that if she needed to move them later and there were other people around, it would be better to reinstall the parts and just drive the vehicles away.

Even she herself could not conjure things out of thin air in front of others; she still had to drive back, just like when she brought back the Rain Gear before.

Because she remembered that lost blade of grass earlier, Liu Mu paid special attention to whether any plants were sprouting on her way down the mountain.

In her careful search, she really did see a few places where tender buds had emerged. It was just that these buds were either strange in shape or colorful, and for a moment, she really didn't know if they had undergone Mutation.

She asked the system, but the system said that Liu Mu hadn't unlocked that part of the permissions yet, which made her so angry she made several sarcastic remarks.

"If you don't have the ability, just say you don't. Why act tough and say it's not unlocked? It's very convenient to push it onto me, anyway, I progress slowly, and I'm fragile and slow."

The system was rendered speechless again; the skill of holding grudges and bringing up old accounts was not yet among the human emotions it could simulate, but it could learn.

This time, Liu Mu didn't pull the grass, fearing that if she brought it back and planted it in Xu Xiaofeng's box, it would infect the perfectly fine sweet potatoes and Gastrodia.

Returning to the Scrap Station, she announced a piece of news: the trip to the Urban Base to trade for supplies this week would proceed as scheduled, and everyone got busy.

Early Thursday morning, two Trucks drove out of the Scrap Station; this time, only Li Gang was left to keep watch.

As the two vehicles and one dog drove far away, Li Gang took a sip of hot water from his stainless steel mug and, leaning on his crutch, suddenly had the feeling of an old person seeing off their relatives at the entrance of a village.

However, this feeling didn't last long; Xu Xiaoxia, who helped Liu Mu keep an eye out for news, arrived, following the Base's transport vehicle.

Xu Xiaoxia had met Li Gang, and as soon as she came up, she said, "The Haicheng Barrier will break ground and start construction next Monday. The Chief has already returned, and Sister Xiao Mu must come. Also, Brother Tan said he discovered the organization's movements and told you all to be careful, but he didn't say which organization it was, only that Sister Xiao Mu would know."