What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company?

Chapter 323 We're Investigating This

After we looted the bodies and left the scene, we met up with Ries and Lea who had indeed been waiting outside the alley.

We then left the place quickly because the gang fight was still going on. We even have to step over a few corpses just to leave the area.

I actually thought about looting those bodies too, especially since there were others who had the same idea and were busy looting the dead gang members even as the shootout was still ongoing.

But then one of those looters got shot through the head by a stray bullet and I decided it wasn't worth it and quickly left with the girls.

On the way back to the ship, Mara told Lea and Ries about what she found out about the attackers and they seemed quite surprised for some reason.

"Wait... You mean that they were going crazy for the drug and not just... Erm... Organic food?" Ries asked.

Mara nodded, "Apparently... And it seems like it's a wide scale operation as well."

I scratched my head at that, "Why would they even bother doing something like this? Like... What's the point of sneaking White Powder into organic food? It's not like you can't just buy or sell them openly here right?"

Amber turned to me with a grin, "Well~ If you're interested in finding out, there's a job for that."

I raised an eyebrow questioningly at her and she tapped on her personal terminal to show me a screen that she projected in front of me.

I narrowed my eyes on the words and I realised it was a Guild request where someone was asking people to find out why there was a boom in organic food demand and why the people seemed to be going quite crazy for it.

Incidentally, this quest was posted by the station master of the station itself so we know that it was legit.

What's more, the reward they were offering wasn't that bad either. If we could provide him with the explanation of why this was happening and provide proof of it, the reward was a hundred thousand Creas for each evidence provided. If we can solve the problem for him, there will be an additional five hundred thousand Creas on top of that.

Technically, we could already turn the vial that Mara had obtained to him for the hundred thousand Creas reward.

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"I didn't think that the station master would be interested in things like this, much less post this for the Guild to handle."

Mara scoffed, "Of course he would care. It's one thing to knowingly buy drugs and get high on them, it's another thing to be fed the drugs unknowingly and then go crazy for it and start getting violent. That disrupts business. And when business gets disrupted, the gangs won't be happy and you've already seen what happens when they aren't happy."

I raised an eyebrow, "Do you mean the shooting we just witnessed?"

She nodded, "If you want to know, that was a territory takeover by one of the gangs. Their business got disrupted so badly that one side decided that they had to take more territory for themselves."

Amber continued, "And when more of those fights breakout, that station master position of his won't be relevant for very long~"

Of course, everyone is motivated by self interest here so I guess that's to be expected.

Ries perked up, "This doesn't make sense though... How did they mix up the organic ingredients with the drugs? They couldn't have just intentionally mixed them together, could they?"

Lea hesitated for a moment at that, "That is what I do not know. Perhaps when they were raiding the ship, the smuggler intentionally or accidentally mixed the White Powder with the organic food and the smugglers were not aware of the contamination and ended up selling it as it is, which led to what we see now. I, myself, find that a little unlikely that is the case though."

"Could the smugglers themselves have added the White Powder into the organic food before selling them?" Ries suggested.

Amber frowned, "That would really make no sense. Why would they want to mix those two products together when they can just sell them as two separate products? It's not like the drug is illegal here."

Ries's ears drooped slightly, "That's true... Then what if these people were selling White Powder and organic food as a package together and the people who bought them also got the White Powder that made them addicted to it?"

Amber paused, "I would actually like to say that people aren't that stupid... But this is also quite likely as well."

Lea interjected, "All of this is just our guesses with no proof anyway. For all we know, the truth might be very different from what is actually happening."

I chuckled, "Ahaha~ Yeah, for all we know, someone might just be adding White Powder to the food thinking it's salt so they're mistakenly seasoning it with the drug and selling it to people~"

All four of them looked at each other before turning back to me.

"That's... Actually quite possible, Mistress."

"I think that might actually be what's happening too, Tera..."

"I actually believe that's the most likely one too, Boss..."

"I also think that there's a high possibility that this might be the truth, Captain."

Oh come on, I was joking, girls...

I tapped the side of my cheek, "Still... I guess that at least gives us a place to start from..."

Amber turned to me, "That means we're going back to that bar again, aren't we? We're going to go interrogate some people~"

"Well... I mean..." I drifted off, shooting Mara a look.

Mara smiled, "I would be happy to help you read their minds, Tera. It's not even a problem for me."

"Great~ Then we might even find out if someone there was involved in the distribution too! Shall we head there now?"

Amber tapped on her personal terminal to bring up a map, "I'll lead the way."

Alright then, guess we're becoming detectives now~