Open A Clinic To Cultivate Myself Chapter 227 Who Was She?

The helicopter didn't leave. The pilot set up two tents next to the helicopter, one of his own and the other apparently made for Tu Wenjin and Tang Zixian.

The supplies brought by the helicopter had been transferred to the archaeological camp, where Tu Wenjin and Tang Zixian remained. A simple bonfire party was going on there. Ji Wengui recited a poem—Zhuge Liang's “Northern Expedition Memorial”. He read so eloquently that the audience even suspected that he had been possessed by Zhuge Liang.

After reading the prose, Ji Wengui said, “Mr. Tu, please call the pilot. There's no wine, but there's tea. He brought us supplies. We should toast him and show our grat.i.tude.”

“That's not necessary. That's his job,” Tu Wenjin said.

“No, no, I will ask him myself. If he's worried about the helicopter, I can send one of the members to watch for him for a while,” Ji Wengui insisted.

Tu Wenjin cast a glance at Tang Zixian.

Tang Zixian nodded his head gently.

Tu Wenjin agreed, “Okay, call him over.”

He didn't seem to care to call the pilot himself.

Ji Wengui was not embarra.s.sed and went to the bench land to get the helicopter pilot on his own.

Just as the helicopter pilot followed Ji Wengui to the archaeological camp, Ning Tao stepped out of the woods near the bench land. He crouched down and crept into a tent as fast as he could.

He had to find out something.

That tent belonged to Tang Zixian and Tu Wenjin.

Inside was a damp proof carpet, a few suitcases, some groceries, and a couple of sleeping bags that had already been laid out.

Ning Tao opened a women's suitcase that contained several women's coats and underwear. He picked up a coat, woke up his nose, and sniffed it, and then picked up a bra and sniffed it. Finally he picked up a pair of briefs and sniffed them.

After he smelled the briefs, a sneer came to his lips. “You're pretending to be lovers. Your underwear doesn't even smell like your 'boyfriend'.”

That was why he smelled Tang Zixian's underwear. If they were a couple, how could she not smell like Tu Wenjin when they lived in a tent and she would receive all from him? Ning Tao had never slept with a woman, but he knew what it was like.

Ning Tao put Tang Zixian's clothes in place, then opened a men's suitcase and continued to sniff Tu Wenjin's clothes. As he expected, Tu Wenjin didn't smell Tang Zixian on his clothes. It turned out that the two weren't lovers at all.

“They pretend to be lovers when they aren't. Who are these guys trying to fool?” Ning Tao was confused.

He thought of Ji Wengui, but then dismissed the possibility. As investors, Tu Wenjin and Tang Zixian didn't have to pose as a couple in front of Ji Wengui. If they didn't have to fool Ji Wengui, they certainly didn't have to fool the rest of the archaeology team. But besides Ji Wengui and the archaeology team, who might Tu Wenjin and Tang Zixian be trying to fool?

“Are they…” Ning Tao gave a strange look. “Are they trying to deceive me?”

If so, the situation was a little more complicated.

Later Ning Tao found a pa.s.sport and a company doc.u.ment in Tu Wenjin's suitcase. A quick look revealed that Tu Wenjin was really an excellent man—he was in his early 30s but already the head of a publicly-traded Internet company.

Ning Tao took some pictures with his mobile phone before he left the tent, went into the woods and turned back. Near the mouth of the valley he came out of the woods and down the river. He had not gone far when he stopped and suddenly put out his hand and scratched into the water. He caught wild saury in his hand. It was not until his hand was out of the water that the saury began to struggle in his palm.

With his skill of looking and smelling and the speed of his Cat Claw Punch, he could catch fish in the river as easily as picking up a pickle in a jar.

Jian Mi had made a bonfire on a bench land at the mouth of the valley and was standing by it looking out into the distance, waiting for Ning Tao to come back. When Ning Tao's figure came into his sight, he hurried up to meet him. “Brother Ning, why are you so long… Wow, you caught saury. This is delicious! One, two, three, four, we'll have comfort food tonight!”

“Do you know how to cook fish?” asked Ning Tao casually.

Jian Mi smiled and said, “Of course, my mother taught me. Don't worry. I'm going to deal with the fish.”

“Go, go, I see the fire.” Ning Tao sat down by the bonfire, took out his phone and looked at it. There was still no signal. He temporarily gave up calling Jiang Hao, asking her to check Tu Wenjin and Tang Zixian.

Jian Mi did it with great dexterity. In less than 10 minutes, he had cleaned the four fish. Then he went back to the bonfire, strung them up with sticks, and began to roast them. Soon, the smell of fish overflowed.

After eating the fish, Ning Tao and Jian Mi lay down by the fire and began to sleep.

Ning Tao said, “Jian Mi, go to sleep. We have to go early tomorrow morning.”

“Okay.” Jian Mi closed his eyes, but soon he opened them again. “Brother Ning, do you think the archaeology team can find the Feminine-moon City?”

Ning Tao was actually thinking about it. He said, “Maybe yes, maybe no, depending on their luck. Don't worry about it.”

“They can't find it, I think.”

“Er, how can you be so sure?” Ning Tao looked at Jian Mi curiously.

Jian Mi replied, “I don't read many books, but I know some things are about reward. How can they be blessed when they do not repay you for saving their lives?”

Ning Tao smiled. “Go to sleep.”

Jian Mi closed his eyes and went to sleep. He was so tired these two days that he fell asleep soon after he closed his eyes.

Ning Tao watched Jian Mi who fell asleep soon, still thinking about what Jian Mi said about reward and having all kinds of feelings. People in the world wanted all kinds of things so that human nature had long yielded to all kinds of desires. But how many people really got what they wanted? If a person had even forgotten the most basic truth of life—”The best thing is to be grateful”, how could this person be blessed?

Then a few birds suddenly flew up from the bank.

Birds didn't fly at night unless something frightened them.

Ning Tao, who was always on guard, did not respond, but just looked out of the corner of his eye at the direction in which the bird was flying. During the process, he awakened the eyes and nose to the state of looking and smelling.

The woods was quiet.

The innate aura of a living body came into Ning Tao's sight. Judging by the characteristics of the innate aura, it was a woman. Then his nose caught the scent of the woman's body. Although across the trees, shrouded in darkness, it took him only a few seconds to determine the ident.i.ty of the woman—she was Tang Zixian—with the characteristics of her innate aura and body odor.

“Is she watching me? She's probably using night-vision gear,” Ning Tao thought to himself. “It seems that Tang Zixian is probably from the Tang family. If not, she's probably sent by Bai Sheng. But how could the Tang family or Bai Sheng send an ordinary man to spy on me?”

Quietly, Ning Tao moved his hand to his waist. If he felt that he was going to be attacked, he would not hesitate to pull out his Mauser pistol and shoot at her.

But that didn't happen.

Over 10 minutes later, Tang Zixian crept up and walked back through the woods.

Until Tang Zixian was out of sight, Ning Tao got up, entered the river, and carefully tracked Tang Zixian in it. Tang Zixian had a night-vision device that could image heat as it pa.s.sed through the river, hiding the heat from his body.

Tang Zixian entered the valley, left the woods and returned from the bench land to her and Tu Wenjin's tent.

Ning Tao crouched down in the river, almost his whole body buried in the river, and then approached the tent on the bench land.

Tu Wenjin's voice came from the tent.

“Zixian, what did you find?”

“Shh,” Tang Zixian's voice sounded. “What did I tell you?”

“I… Don't ask what I shouldn't ask,” Tu Wenjin's voice rang.

“Now that you remember, why do you ask? Remember what I told you before. Don't forget a word.”

“Okay.” Tu Wenjin's voice was awed.

“Well, it's getting late. I'm going to sleep.” It was Tang Zixian's voice.

“I, I'm going to sleep with the pilot.” Tu Wenjin's voice sounded.

“Don't go anywhere else. Stay in this tent,” Tang Zixian's voice said.

“Well… all right,” Tu Wenjin's voice replied.

Then, there was a rustle in the tent into the sleeping bag and then silence.

Ning Tao stayed in the water for a dozen minutes, but gave up after hearing nothing else. He relaxed and drifted downstream with the current. The river was running fast, and his head struck against the hard rock, but he was not hurt at all except feeling a little shaking.

Tang Zixian's ident.i.ty and her motives had aroused his greatest curiosity.

Tu Wenjin, the boss of a publicly traded Internet company, was subservient to Tang Zixian, like her subordinate. How n.o.ble her position must be! But to disguise her ident.i.ty, she slept in a tent with Tu Wenjin. What was the purpose for which she would pay such a price?

Ning Tao couldn't figure it out.

When he came back to the bench land, the fire was still burning and Jian Mi was sleeping soundly.

Ning Tao reached out and pressed Jian Mi's neck. Under the effect of his special spiritual power, Jian Mi fell into a complete coma in an instant, and even the thunder could not wake him up.

Ning Tao carried him into the woods, opened the blood lock and went back to the Sky Clinic. Then he opened the blood lock in the clinic and went to Jian Mi's room. He put Jian Mi on the bed, left him a note, and returned to the Sky Clinic again. For the rest of the night he had an even more important job to do—refining the cloud ore.