Chapter 63: Murdered Right After Inheriting a Billion Hectares of Farmland (2)

"Does the original body have a twin sister?"

While Ding Shui was feeling puzzled, the figure standing in front of the farm's central management console also spotted her, and after a moment of hesitation, sped up their operations.

At this point, Ding Shui caught sight of the console's display screen.

There, it clearly showed:

[Farm management permission transfer progress: 80%]

At the same time, the green progress bar below was steadily advancing. Ding Shui recognized this device from the original body's memories; she had operated it once when she first arrived. Using a series of documents in her possession, she had transferred the management rights from her deceased great-grandfather to herself.

The process had been quite troublesome, and she had fussed over it for ages before finally getting it sorted.

Even though she had signed all the prior documents and held certification from the notary office, without the authorization from the central management system here, it remained extremely difficult to truly take control of the farm.

Clearly, this individual was engaging in robbery.

They were attempting to steal ownership of her farm.

Realizing what was happening, Ding Shui did not dare to charge in directly for close-quarters combat. Instead, while launching a mental attack against the person in front of her, she used her smart wristband to summon a bodyguard robot. Then, she almost vomited blood from sheer frustration when that damned wristband popped up with an advertisement yet again.

Fortunately, Ding Shui's psychic power experienced no glitches this time, successfully penetrating the body of the individual ahead. However, she could not find a soul anywhere. In the end, following her intuition, she attacked the brainstem of this seemingly soulless entity, because she sensed an energy fluctuation there resembling the one previously emitted by the mechanical bees.

Although she was not entirely sure what it was, Ding Shui instinctively felt it was the crucial point and struck directly.

Right after that, the person's head exploded.

Even with her worldly experience, witnessing a living person who looked identical to her own body suddenly have their head blow up right before her eyes gave her a severe start, sending her heart racing. It took her quite a while to calm down. Ignoring the bloody mess in front of her, she hurried forward to terminate the permission transfer and subsequently called the police.

Naturally, the mandatory advertisement still had to be watched.

At the same time, the network connection was established without any obstruction.

After the thirty-second commercial ended and another two seconds passed, the emergency call went through. An artificial intelligence answered, but the moment Ding Shui reported a homicide, the AI immediately transferred the call to a human operator. A few seconds later, a holographic projection of a female police precinct case officer appeared beside Ding Shui via the wristband on her arm.

Then came another thirty-second mandatory advertisement.

The crucial part was that the case officer had to watch it right along with her. Even if she didn't want to look, her ears couldn't avoid hearing it, and her face turned dark.

Ding Shui was, of course, rather embarrassed:

"I'm sorry, I can't control this thing; it plays automatically. You can see it now, right? This person died right in front of me, her head suddenly exploded. I don't know what to call her—a robber, I suppose, or a thief. She came to my farm wanting to misappropriate the farm's ownership. I came over to stop her, but I definitely didn't kill her. I only wanted to stop her."

"Right, there's another very strange thing. She looks exactly like me, carved from the exact same mold, but as far as I know, I don't have a twin sister."

"There seem to be surveillance cameras here. Hold on, I'll pull the footage up for you. I really didn't do anything to this person."

Although the woman's head had exploded right when Ding Shui attacked her brainstem, Ding Shui was certain her psychic power wasn't that strong yet. That level of attack at most would have injured her brainstem enough to stop her from continuing to usurp the farm's central management permissions. Thus, her death was most likely a suicide, or perhaps she triggered some kind of self-destruct program, like a human bomb. Precisely for this reason, Ding Shui had the courage to report the crime; otherwise, wouldn't she merely be turning herself in?

After explaining the general situation, Ding Shui began searching for the surveillance footage. Meanwhile, the holographic projection of the investigator had already started carefully observing the scene, using her office equipment to build a 3D model simulation. Next came Ding Shui handing over the retrieved surveillance footage for her review, along with the officer using her authority to pull up Ding Shui's personal information.

After a long while, the case officer, Qian Yin, spoke up:

"Based on the currently known information and your past genetic screening data, you indeed do not have a twin sister, so this person's identity is questionable. Furthermore, her death probably has very little to do with you. However, please preserve the scene as it is; we will dispatch personnel to investigate.

"Would you like to choose the standard processing procedure, or the expedited fast-track procedure?"

"Under the standard processing procedure, we will arrive within three working days. After all, the Huaguang Agricultural Planet where you are located is private property, and there are no wormholes directly nearby. Our investigation budget is limited, so we can only purchase ordinary spaceship tickets and arrive through several transfers. If we manage to snap up all the tickets just right, we can arrive within two days. In case of any force majeure or if we fail to secure tickets, the speed will be somewhat slower."

"Expedited processing requires you to fund it yourself, which basically guarantees arrival within a day. You may choose for yourself."

The Huaguang Agricultural Planet was rather remote, and private planets didn't require a police precinct stationed on-site, meaning the nearest precinct was located on another planet. There was a distance of more than seven hundred light-years in between. Fortunately, along this seven-hundred-light-year journey, there were several mining planets, and to facilitate mineral transportation, those mining planets had specially constructed wormholes.

Transfers could be made through those wormholes.

Only the final stretch of less than three light-years required traveling directly by piloting or taking a faster-than-light spacecraft.

In short, her location was terribly remote. Under the normal procedure, travel was very slow. If she wanted to speed things up, she had to pay extra. After all, her case wasn't massive; if the precinct spent a lot of money to travel there and exceeded their expense cap, writing a report to get reimbursed from above would likely result in it being rejected.

That was why such an option existed.

The reporter of the crime was left to make their own choice.

Of course, this applied to non-urgent situations. If the situation were extremely critical, they would definitely make haste to arrive, as long as a post-incident report was filed stating the circumstances were genuinely urgent, making reimbursement relatively straightforward.

"How much would the expedited fast-track option cost?"

Ding Shui actually wasn't certain whether what they were doing was entirely legal, but she was indeed in a bit of a rush. Having the police precinct personnel arrive sooner would give her peace of mind. Most importantly, once they finished investigating the scene, it would be convenient for her to clean things up.

A scene covered all over in blood and brains...

Still looked rather creepy.

"About three hundred thousand," Qian Yin continued. During the prior investigation, when she saw Ding Shui's wristband continually popping up with mandatory advertisements, she hadn't even thought of bringing this up, nor did she intend to let Ding Shui choose it. After all, someone poor enough to use a smart wristband with mandatory ads surely didn't have the money for expedited services!

However, later on, she had checked Ding Shui's personal information and learned that she had inherited a massive farm.

The inheritance tax alone had deducted over thirty billion.

That was why she had casually mentioned the expedited option.