Love On The Turquoise Land[ 枭起青壤_尾鱼 ]

Chapter 70

Nie Jiuluo's words painted a vivid picture, and even just imagining it made Yan Tuo shudder. Thinking about it, Lin Ling was the one who experienced it firsthand, no wonder she was scared enough to call him in the middle of the night.

After sitting for a while, he said, "Let me show you something."

As he spoke, he picked up his phone and logged into his email—the Excel spreadsheet was stored in a hidden directory on his computer, but carrying his computer around was inconvenient, so he also archived a copy in his email.

Before opening it, he explained to Nie Jiuluo, "This spreadsheet was stolen from Lin Yi's computer. Personally, I believe it might be a list of Di Xiaos up to the present."

"A list of groundlings?" Nie Jiuluo was greatly surprised. "You've managed to get a hold of the list of Di Xiaos? I can't believe you've been so busy behind the scenes. You've really done a lot."

Yan Tuo chuckled self-deprecatingly.

As the old saying goes, "You must plow with all your might while keeping an eye on the road ahead." In the past few years, he couldn't see the road ahead, so he decided to plow with all his might: bit by bit, digging everywhere, like collecting fragments of a huge map.

He had felt despair, frustration, and doubt, but then he thought, if he stopped, he would lose everything, but if he kept going, at least there was hope ahead. They say heaven rewards hard work, so he should be rewarded for working so hard.

He had opened this spreadsheet countless times before, but couldn't make heads or tails of it. This time, secrets finally surfaced.

He enlarged the page and showed Nie Jiuluo number 017, Zhu Changyi.

"This is the latest one. He's in Anhui, working as a construction worker, living with a woman named Ma Mei, who has a nine-year-old son named Zhou Xiao."

Then he flipped to number 014.

"This one is Shen Lizhu, in her fifties, working as a waitress in a hot pot restaurant in Chongqing. She has an adopted younger sister named Yu Caiyan, and they share an apartment. Yu Caiyan has a six-year-old daughter."

Nie Jiuluo didn't think much of it when she looked at one sheet alone, but when she saw them together, she suddenly exclaimed, "Ah."

Yan Tuo said, "You see it now, right? These people are scattered all over the country, in various industries. I used to think they were spreading the risk by not putting all their eggs in one basket. After talking to you, I suddenly realized we should reverse-engineer."

He had Nie Jiuluo look into this spreadsheet, especially focusing on the intimate relationships of these people. Now he realized that the most overlooked and invisible person on the spreadsheet was actually the most crucial one.

Where did Ma Mei's ex-husband, Zhou Dachong, go?

Since Yu Caiyan had a daughter, she must have had a husband before. Where is he now?

Applying the pattern of the young wife's story, could the invisible person be the elder brother?

And Zhou Xiao and Qian Qian, would they be the second generation with an intimate blood relationship with the elder brother?

These Di Xiaos had silently become their people, even their relatives and friends—this was reasonable, as their tonics naturally needed to be closely watched and kept in sight.

Nie Jiuluo fell silent for a moment. "Do the other people also have children around them?"

Yan Tuo shook his head. "Lin Ling's access is limited, so there are some intimate relationships that she couldn't find information about, and those are left blank. Some of them don't have children. Look at this one."