lody Sumrs couldn’t help but smile at that. ’That’s actually a pretty good idea,’ she thought. ’If we don’t talk at all, there’s no chance of being tricked or brainwashed.’
lody looked at Noelle Quillan and continued, "I was just looking around the apartnt. I found that Gene Young and his wife stockpiled a lot of supplies in the spare bedroom—coal, rice, flour, and even a lot of white sugar. There’s frozen at on the balcony, too. It’s more than enough for the three of you to live here for several months. Just stay here and wait for the police."
"After I leave, rember to double-lock the front door. Check all the doors and windows, and don’t let any strangers in. I don’t know if that couple has any other accomplices in this building, so you need to be vigilant and careful about everything. If anything happens, you can find upstairs in 1606."
Noelle Quillan nodded. "Okay, I’ll rember everything!"
lody then gave Noelle a few more reminders before leaving apartnt 1501.
******
The next morning, lody Sumrs tried to contact Officer Sean Pierce and Officer Tristan Tanner. She wanted to tell them about Gene Young and his wife, as well as the Advent Sect.
But neither of her two calls went through.
’Looks like both officers’ phones are dead, too...’ lody thought.
lody felt a bit helpless. After thinking it over, she reluctantly contacted Roman Rhodes.
Roman was currently investigating The Arcadia Shop, so lody really didn’t want to contact him unless it was absolutely necessary.
Roman and the Rhodes Family were staying at The Nimbus Hotel, which had its own power system, so the call connected quickly.
Once the call connected, lody omitted her deal with Joanne White and selectively told Roman about her experience the previous night.
Roman was also shocked to learn about it. He told lody he would arrange for people to start an investigation focusing on Margaret Adler and the couple, Gene Young and his wife, as soon as possible.
After hanging up, lody stretched and went into the Arcadian Space, ready to start today’s long-distance fishing expedition!
After two days of practice, lody had beco increasingly skilled at operating the Long-distance Fishing Boat, and she was catching more and more seafood. Today’s haul was another great success, with various kinds of fresh seafood piled into small mountains on the deck.
Today, lody had sailed to a stormy deep-sea area and caught several thousand pounds of seafood and over a hundred king crabs.
Yesterday, lody had supplied The Grand Karn Hotel in Kanton and The Solara Hotel in Lyndell. Both hotels were extrely satisfied with the quality of the seafood and expressed their desire for a long-term partnership.
In addition to these two, several other hotels got wind of it and contacted lody to place orders.
After so negotiation, lody arranged to supply six hotels today. If all went according to plan, she was on track to earn a small fortune today!
With the orders settled, lody happily rolled up her sleeves, full of energy, and began sorting, rinsing, and packing the seafood for delivery!
lody and Albus worked together in perfect sync. The orders for the other five hotels went out smoothly, but when it ca to the delivery for The Nimbus Hotel, sothing unexpected happened.
Albus let out a "ow" and said to lody:
[Host, The Nimbus Hotel really did intercept our drone!]
It was clear soone at The Nimbus Hotel had set an ambush. The mont Albus maneuvered the drone and seafood to appear at the hotel, the drone was captured by the people lying in wait.
lody sighed at the news. "Just as I expected... They finally made a move on our drone."
Even so, lody wasn’t the least bit panicked.
Thanks to Sophie Thorne’s warning, lody had already anticipated this scenario. She had swapped out the prop ahead of ti, replacing the store-bought drone she normally used for deliveries with a model made of wood.
lody had built the model herself using materials she found on hand. No matter how much Roman and Ronan Rhodes combed through big data from sales platforms, they would never find any information about this wooden model.
’There’s no way I’m letting my cover get blown.’
As for everything else, lody was tired of putting on an act. ’Fine, let the world think The Arcadia Store is run by aliens!’
She had a devil-may-care thought. ’There are already so many illogical things about The Arcadia Shop, let the outside world guess whatever they want! As long as my identity isn’t exposed, what can they do, even if the governnt discovers how strange the shop is?’
’We’re about to enter the third year of the cataclysm, with torrential rains and floods on the way. The governnt will be too busy with disaster relief everywhere to have much energy left to investigate The Arcadia Shop.’
Realizing this, lody no longer had anything to fear!
After she finished sending out the seafood, the mountains of produce on the deck had vanished, leaving only a few large, beautiful conch shells.
If lody wasn’t mistaken, these shells should be full of Blue Scale Prawns!
lody took out a bucket and emptied the Blue Scale Prawns from the shells into it. This ti, she had harvested over forty lively, wriggling Blue Scale Prawns!
lody was both surprised and delighted. Her previous grumbling about the drone instantly vanished.
She joyfully carried the bucket out of the space, ready to share the delicious and nutritious prawns with her whole family!
******
「anwhile, at The Nimbus Hotel.」
Ronan Rhodes stared at the drone the bodyguard brought over, his face a mask of astonishnt. "It’s made of wood?!"
’How is that possible?!’
The bodyguard nodded. "Yes, sir. We were just as surprised when we first got it. We thought we’d made a mistake, so we replayed the surveillance footage. But we couldn’t find anything wrong in the footage. The only thing used for transport was indeed this wooden drone."
Ronan was so shocked his eyes widened. He couldn’t help but blurt out to the bodyguard, "How is that possible! How can sothing made of wood fly?!"
The bodyguard didn’t dare to speak. In truth, he was no less shocked than Ronan. He had re-watched the surveillance footage several tis to confirm it, and now he felt like his entire worldview was collapsing.
Compared to Ronan’s shock, Roman Rhodes, who was looking at a computer nearby, was much calr.
Roman pondered for a mont, then pointed at the wooden drone and said to the bodyguard, "Have soone take it to be tested for fingerprint data. See how many prints you can lift, then run them through the database."
Roman could tell the drone’s workmanship was extrely crude; it could even be described as shoddily made. This was definitely not sothing sold on the market—after all, if a product was made this poorly, no one would buy it.
If they could lift fingerprints from it, they could essentially identify the shop’s operator.
After the bodyguard left, Ronan still hadn’t recovered from his shock.
He said to Roman, "Uncle, if the drone is made of wood, how did they transport thousands of pounds of seafood? Don’t tell ... they have so kind of teleportation ability?"
Roman gave a noncommittal response, his focus fixed on the computer screen in front of him. He replied sowhat dismissively, "Maybe it’s just as you think. This shop is actually run by aliens. They have the ability to teleport, moving the seafood here instantly, and the drone is just a decoy."
Hearing such words from the ever-materialistic Roman, Ronan felt as if his world was about to end!
Shock and disbelief were written all over his face. He couldn’t help but grab Roman’s sleeve and say, "Uncle, what are you talking about?! You’re a materialist!"
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