After figuring out the twists and turns of the story that happened before Xu Ran got the space key, Xu Ran felt a little guilty and happy.

If it weren't for Yang Jiaxin who lost the experiment, he wouldn't have been picked up by Xu Ran and found the space key hidden inside during his research.

If I hadn't gotten the key to that space, I wouldn't have Xu Ran today.

Among them, Yang Jiaxin had to pay the responsibility for the loss of the experimental product, and in order to prevent Yang Weiguo from violating professional ethics and compensating the Ye family for the experimental results in desperation, he ruined his reputation, thus indirectly carrying this pot.

However, even if he figured out the whole story, Xu Ran would treat it as if he didn't know.

As the saying goes, if people don't do it, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed.

Since no one knows the secret of the space key except Xu Ran, even now that he knows the truth, Xu Ran doesn't want to talk about it to anyone again.

He planned to rot in his stomach like this, and if he really said it, it would be purely to make trouble for himself and put himself in danger, which is what only a fool would do.

But under the influence of a little guilt, since Yang Jiaxin took the blame for this matter and wanted to repay the debt owed to the Ye family and asked Xu Ran to borrow money, Xu Ran couldn't help but have the psychology of making up for it.

So, Xu Ran didn't say anything more, directly took out the checkbook, signed five million on the check and handed it to Yang Jiaxin: "Take it and return the money, after settling the relationship with the people of the Ye family, we are still friends!"

"Thank you!"

Seeing that Xu Ran didn't bother with her too much, Yang Jiaxin's heart trembled, and after taking the check, she didn't know what to say, which was a bit complicated.

Originally, she was ready to agree to any request Xu Ran made, but after Xu Ran gave her the check, she didn't say anything, and she couldn't help but feel a little resentful in her heart.

But she knew very well in her heart that this man didn't like her type of woman.

Forget it, since you can continue to be ordinary friends to get along, it's not bad, why should you be obsessed with it anymore.

When I think about it this way, I feel a lot more relaxed after I am open-minded.

Next, the two chatted briefly, and Lin Jiaxin also wanted to go to the Ye family as soon as possible to settle the matter, so they left and separated.

After leaving Lee's restaurant, Xu Ran had no plans to return to his alma mater to meet his old classmates.

Going to Jiangcheng to do errands, and then transferring to the Western Capital, the time has been delayed for a few days, and it can also be said that the water in the fragmented city may have been cut off, and he must go back immediately.

Before coming to the appointment, Yang Weihe didn't know what else Xu Ran had to deal with, so he took the team to Xiacheng first, and only Ning Xiuyun stayed in Xidu to guard the family business.

After Xu Ran called Ning Xiuyun to say goodbye, he directly booked a ticket to return to Xia City that would be able to leave in an hour and a half.

……

Half past two in the afternoon.

After Xu Ran returned to Xiacheng, he did not contact Yang Weihe, and immediately took the car and went straight to the Hatching Egg Pioneer Park.

The traffic roads around the Pioneer Park are in full swing under construction, and the progress is very fast, even if the current road is not very easy to walk, but when the year is approaching, there are still some people who will patronize the second-hand market.

It's only been a few days since he left, the market is running as usual, and Xu Ran doesn't plan to ask about those daily trivial matters, with Qiangzi and Luo Zihai, a capable manager, he doesn't have to worry about it.

After brushing his face and entering the teleportation point facility of the storage center through verification, Xu Ran directly took out the space key and opened the space gate and entered the fragmented city.

Maybe I haven't been in for a few days, and the dungeon in the fragmented city still looks like that, but if you feel it carefully, you can still notice some subtle changes.

Most notably, the lights have gone out in many parts of the dungeon, and some of the nearby robots have not been fully replenished.

"Boss, welcome back!"

An An, as Xu Ran's robot butler, rushed to Xu Ran's side as soon as Xu Ran teleported in, and felt a little coquettish.

Maybe it is these subtle changes that make Xu Ran always feel that An An's artificial intelligence seems to have changed again, An An seems to be more colorful in feeling, and people will always inadvertently treat her as a human being, not a cold machine.

Xu Ran hurriedly came back to enter the fragmented city this time, remembering the consumption of water resources in his heart, so he asked An An: "An An, has the supply of water been interrupted?"

An An replied: "Report to the boss, because there is no replenishment for two days, the water resources are urgent, the artificial intelligence management system of the entire dungeon will be converted to the state of energy-saving mode, in addition to the two laboratories, the charging system of the robot center has also temporarily interrupted the energy replenishment of the robot, and the power generation of the power plant has also decreased, and the water supply needs to be replenished as soon as possible!"

After roughly understanding the situation, Xu Ran did not delay any longer, and immediately mobilized a water supply vehicle to come over, and used the teleportation array to bring it back to Earth and began to pump water from the artificial lake.

This time, it took six hours, and Xu Ran pumped a total of 12,000 tons of lake water from the artificial lake, which temporarily alleviated the water shortage in the fragmented city.

It's still a bit tiring though.

It took six hours for Earth Time to replenish 12,000 tons of water for the fragmented city, and this efficiency became more and more unbearable.

However, there is still no major breakthrough in the research of water resource capacity and storage technology in the scientific research laboratory of the robot center, and the two parallel worlds where the earth and the fragmented city are located cannot directly erect water pipelines, and the transportation of water resources still requires storage media for transmission.

In the absence of a better solution, and the limited water resources of the artificial lake in this market, a second water collection point in Jiangcheng must be completed as soon as possible.

Although this is bad news for Xu Ran, there is good news elsewhere.

At about seven o'clock in the evening, after Xu Ran came out of the storage center, he received a call from Zhu Guodong.

Zhu Guodong told Xu Ran that their scientific expedition work had ended, and today was officially over.

However, the exam holiday is coming soon, and Zhu Guodong said that he has no time to reunite with Xu Ran, and his team members with the teacher have boarded the train back to school, and the other teams have also left one after another.

Because he didn't want to bother Xu Ran anymore, Zhu Guodong called Xu Ran after getting on the train.

Of course, the good news is not that Zhu Guodong and his team with Yang Weiguo's scientific expedition team ended the scientific expedition work on the Shahaigouzi Tomb for more than two months, but with the end of the scientific expedition, the entrance to the ancient tomb was temporarily closed, and the surrounding military blockade was also evacuated, leaving only a few security personnel to take turns guarding the ancient tomb to prevent tomb robbers from patronizing.

However, Xu Ran knew that the Huo family had already started the construction of the desert thermal power project, and since the blockade of the sand sea hook was now evacuated, presumably the Huo family would definitely organize a tentative infiltration investigation in the near future.

For Xu Ran, he has always been curious about the Shahaigouzi Ancient Tomb, coupled with some information provided to him by Song Wenli and Zhu Guodong, which made Xu Ran's desire to personally explore and investigate there even more hot.

Now that the blockade has been canceled and the entrance to the ancient tomb has been closed, it is estimated that the Huo family is also starting to move, so Xu Ran will not let go of this opportunity, he plans to go one step ahead of others to investigate and see what mysteries are hidden there.

After all, Xu Ran had a great advantage that the Fire Family did not have.