Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn

Chapter 752: Chapter 93: Orchard Sabotage Incident

After Xiao Xian finished speaking, Xuerou fell silent, then looked her over from head to toe with a gaze as if she were seeing Xiao Xian for the first time.

"Don’t look at me like that, there’s a saying that ’one becomes red near cinnabar and black near ink.’ People who get close to Zeng Xuerou can get smarter," joked Xiao Xian, and the three of them burst into hearty laughter, their voices carrying far away.

After Xiao Xian’s speech, Xuerou was no longer in a hurry. After breakfast, the three of them slowly made their way to the Spiritual Fruit Garden.

In the more than ten years since the Reverse Genius Class at Huake Institute was established, this was the first time such a major incident of Medicine Field destruction had occurred, and the Spiritual Fruit Garden was now in complete chaos.

All the Juliet robots responsible for maintaining order in the districts had rushed to the scene, with Juliet One in charge of surveying the site of the incident.

In addition to the robots, all Intermediate Students in charge of planting projects in Zone B’s Spiritual Fruit Garden received an urgent notification to check their trees and flowers for any damage.

Xiao Xian and her friends rarely visited Zone B; it was quite something to see so many Intermediate Students at once, with the number of students in the Spiritual Fruit Garden easily exceeding a hundred.

After investigating the periphery and flower fields of the Spiritual Fruit Garden, no damage was found, so the school defined this sabotage as an act of retribution targeted at the Medicine Field.

Further inside, several robots including Romeo One were present, and even Juliet One was in the Medicine Field, collecting traces of the fire.

About a dozen Intermediate Students stood around, and from the center of the crowd, a woman’s voice of accusation rang out, "The campus authorities must give us an explanation for this. My ginseng field would have been ready for harvest in half a month. After deducting the twenty percent that is paid to the school, there would have been a large amount of ginseng left, but now it’s all been burned up in a fire. Who do we ask for compensation for these losses?"

Xiao Xian’s lips curled slightly as she exchanged glances with her friends, and without saying anything, they mingled into the crowd of onlookers.

Xu Lan Ya really knows how to act. But the bigger the uproar, the better the play that follows.

"Student Xu Lan Ya, the campus authorities are already thoroughly investigating the whole incident. Please refrain from causing a scene without reason," Juliet One responded coldly.

At this moment, a few more people came in from the perimeter, including Wang Shuai and Ye Heng.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, the school had deployed a large number of robots and also called over Advanced Students to prevent chaos.

"If the school really had the ability to thoroughly investigate the incident, it wouldn’t have taken nearly a whole night to discover it," Ye Heng spoke up first, walking over to Xu Lan Ya and whispering words of comfort to her, blatantly ignoring Wang Shuai.

Wang Shuai remained indifferent, exchanged glances with Xiao Xian and others in the crowd, and did not rush to speak; instead, he went to Juliet One to inquire about the details of the incident.

"Everyone quiet down. It is difficult for the school authorities to quickly identify the culprit. The specific data on the damage to the Medicine Field has also come out. The most severely burned area belongs to Student Xu Lan Ya’s ginseng field: all five acres of ginseng field are ruined. Next is Student Liao Xiaofang’s Medicine Field, with three acres damaged, and then..." Romeo Eighteen finished tallying up the data and made the announcement; the school would provide certain compensation to these students.

The ranking of Xiao Xian and her friends’ ginseng field was lower, and Yiyi felt something was not right, "Why is our compensation so low? We all planted ginseng; why the differential treatment?" According to the data, only Xu Lan Ya and Xiao Xian’s Medicine Fields were planted with ginseng. Other people’s medicinal herbs varied, and so did the value of their compensation.

"The compensation this time is based on the market value of the medicinal herbs and their historical value. Your ginseng is a new variety, without official production, so it is calculated based on the value of ordinary garden ginseng," Romeo Eighteen was already set with the response according to the central computer’s instructions.

Yiyi listened and pouted; now the Medicine Field was burned clean, and the ginseng had turned into roasted sweet potatoes. With no evidence to prove otherwise, they would accept whatever was said.

"Compensation should follow the procedure. The key issue now is to find out who set the fire to the Medicine Field. If they dare to set a fire this time, I’m afraid next time they might resort to murder. I suggest we severely punish those who started the fire," Xuerou interjected.

Xu Lan Ya listened, her brow twitching violently, "Where is it your place to speak, a Beginner Student like you doesn’t even have the qualifications to enter the Spiritual Fruit Garden. I see, it might well be the Beginner Students in Zone C who are behind this. Jealous of Zone B’s better environment and treatment, they secretly set fire to destroy the Spiritual Fruit Garden. We should get the compensation issue clarified first; these ginseng plants of mine already had buyers."