Chapter 317: Damn! The System Is Pulling This Again!
After receiving the game prompt, Chen Han wanted to leave.
However, for something as important as the clan genealogy registration ceremony, if even the patriarch acted casually, what would the clan members think?
Aside from establishing prestige, setting an example was also very important.
The clan genealogy registration ceremony continued until evening before all the clan members of this batch were entered into the genealogy.
This batch was mainly selected from the older generation, those who could make decisions for their families. The primary goal was still to identify their origins.
Identifying origins meant determining which ancestors they had deduced in reverse.
Which branch these people belonged to.
For example, Chen Dagou, Chen Lin, and Chen Shuisheng shared the same ancestor two generations up.
The people in the clan naturally also had to be distinguished clearly; they could not mistakenly treat the neighbor as their ancestor.
Only after the clan genealogy registration ceremony ended did everyone, under the guidance of the aunt-grandmother, once again offer incense together to the ancestor statues and those memorial tablets.
Then it was over.
Tomorrow a new batch would come to register. That group would be simple; they were juniors, so they only needed to find their own elders and follow the lineage down in order to write.
After it ended, Chen Han quickly left the Ancestral Hall and went straight back to his attic, to the room with the instance teleportation array.
He walked to the toilet door, reached out to touch it, and the entire door changed, turning into a Light Gate standing there.
Then, seeing the prompt on it, he could no longer hide his smile.
The dungeon refresh had really come at the right time.
The instance portal contained three dungeons: the Wu Tai Sect demon extermination instance, the Skull Gate demon extermination instance, and the Outer Demonic Realm stronghold demon extermination instance.
This time, the one refreshed was the Skull Gate demon extermination instance.
The Skull Gate demon extermination instance was the simplest of the three. Before the instance was triggered last time, those people even used fake guns to threaten him.
Later, that Skull Gate demon extermination instance cruise ship reached that certain island nation, and a certain corporation over there even claimed the cruise ship as their company’s. In fact, everyone knew that behind that company was the yakuza.
He did not know where this Skull Gate demon extermination instance would be this time.
Chen Han directly took out the Thousand Illusions Mask and transformed into the Old Daoist Priest, then took out five Primary Spirit Stones and activated the instance portal.
In the next moment, the light of the portal was activated, enveloping him and making him disappear from where he stood.
Night fell faster at sea, and at this time it was already pitch dark all around.
What surprised Chen Han was that he again appeared on a cruise ship. He even felt that this cruise ship should be the same one as last time.
Could it be that the previously cleared instance had been refreshed again?
But he soon rejected that idea, because he heard playful noises, from both women and men, and saw that the deck had been remodeled into a swimming pool.
At this moment, several couples were frolicking in the pool. If not for the guns placed to the side, with such lively fun, one would have thought they were out at sea on vacation.
The key point was that these people were speaking gibberish:
“Ah, this booze…”
“Hey, you…”
“……”
Chen Han did not understand, and several steel needles appeared in his hand, shooting out and directly killing these people.
They were all red dots, and all of them were foreign devils; not a single good person.
Die early and reincarnate as beasts.
In a moment, the water in the pool was dyed a crimson red.
No one inside the cruise ship noticed what had happened outside. Chen Han walked straight in, and along the way he ran into two more speaking gibberish, who were clearly shocked when they saw him.
He simply used a few steel needles to dispose of them.
But this also alerted the people on the cruise ship.
In the surveillance room, two short men saw an old guy appear on the monitors, and then the screens suddenly turned into snowflake patterns, shocking them.
When the monitors recovered, two companions were already lying in pools of blood.
And on another screen, under the light, the swimming pool was covered in blood, with several bodies floating on it.
One of them hurriedly picked up the walkie-talkie and reported, “Sir, someone has broken in, several brothers are already dead.”
In the cruise ship hall, large screens had been installed. At this moment, lines of data were rapidly jumping on those screens.
Each jump in the data represented money.
Naturally, Sun Kuan knew this money was illegal, all dirty money. During his time undercover, the numbers he saw were truly shocking.
Domestically, such money would at least have to pass through several channels to be laundered white, and some could never be fully cleaned.
But over in that island nation, things were different. They had many methods to easily launder this money through legitimate industries.
Because their underworld gangs were treated as legal industries.
Thinking of those who always believed foreign countries were so great, even groveling to that island nation, especially that professor who even called that island “little sun” and that certain old bastard third uncle his own third uncle, really showed his brain was broken.
How could a place that turns underworld gangs into legitimate industries be a good place?
Yet plenty of people online believed it.
Really, it is fine to like that island nation’s anime, music, and movies, especially the movies. It is fine to like them; most men have followed a certain beautiful actress there, and to be fair, those movies are indeed good and unique in the world.
But one’s stance must be clear.
Sun Kuan suddenly saw those around him all become tense as if facing a great enemy, even picking up weapons and heading out, and his eyes could not help but light up.
He had been undercover on this cruise ship for so long. Was there finally going to be big action?
After all, the reason he infiltrated this cruise ship was also to investigate the Hacker Judge. Minister Zhong over in chapter 281 believed the Hacker Judge might target this cruise ship again.
Of course, that was also because they really could not find the Hacker Judge, and this was a last-resort move.
He had also been sent because of his short height after operating undercover in that island nation for a long time.
Originally, if another month passed with no results, he would have withdrawn. Who would have imagined something would suddenly happen now?
“What are you spacing out for? Follow them.” A harsh voice sounded in Sun Kuan’s ear.
He saw it was the deputy section chief in charge of this cruise ship and immediately shouted loudly, “Yes!”
Then he followed the others outside, as he also wanted to know what had happened and whether it was related to the Hacker Judge.
However, when he entered the corridor leading out, he was horrified to see the islanders in front of him dropping one after another, all lying motionless.
The scene was eerie to the extreme.
Before he could react, his vision went black and he fainted.
Chen Han stepped forward and looked doubtfully at this unconscious guy.
Amid a sea of red dots, a single one that was not red; if that was not suspicious, what was?
But he also understood there was only one possible explanation under these circumstances: infiltration, undercover agents… things like that were not uncommon in movies and TV series.
He did not dwell on it and ignored the guy, walking straight inside.
Along the way, any islanders he saw were immediately dealt with.
Anything that dropped, he picked up and put into the game warehouse.
Basically, there were two types of items, just like before: anonymous bank cards from that certain country, with account numbers and passwords written on them.
And Primary Spirit Stones.
The Skull Gate demon extermination instance had dropped exactly the same items both times.
So the USB drives and storage disks still had to come from the boss.
Thinking of this, Chen Han killed even faster, wanting to complete the instance and exit quickly.
This suddenly gave him the same urgent mentality as those online power-leveling service players rushing dungeons.
It was a race against time.
Not long after, he once again entered the cruise ship hall. Unlike last time, the hall had clearly been renovated, with many more electronic display screens.
His appearance made the faces of those remaining inside change drastically. They could not understand how, with so many armed men going out, there had been no commotion, and yet an old man had broken in.
“Kill him.”He looked at Chen Han and, without hesitation, gave the order.
The rattling of modern firearms echoed as bullets poured toward Chen Han with lethal prestige, but unfortunately, when they approached him, they were blocked by a condensed Light Shield.
The bullets turned soft and weak, clattering to the ground.
This scene froze the air; everyone’s eyes went wide. In the next moment, a dense flurry of steel needles shot out, and they all fell in unison.
Even him, a big name in the yakuza, died decisively and soundlessly under this cultivation power.
However, he did indeed drop a pile of White Light.
At least he had not shamed his status as a dungeon map boss.
Chen Han hurried over, picked up the White Light that dropped: three more anonymous bank cards from that country, several Primary Spirit Stones, as well as five USB drives and one Storage Disk.
Seeing these five USB drives and the Storage Disk, Chen Han let out a sigh of relief. Now, the space materials were secured.
After putting everything away, he also took a look at some dungeon guide maps and the remaining red dots hiding like rats.
Following the red dots, he hunted them all down one by one and then received the prompt that the game instance had been completed.
He did not choose to quit immediately. Just like before, he took out the laptop obtained from Myanmar, connected the USB drives, and checked the data one by one.
The information on these USB drives was all about personnel from various nearby countries, mostly involving black money operations and underground channels.
Conveniently, one of them concerned his own country.
What shocked him was that the foreign entries were all about major operations, with transfers of several million or tens of millions, all in dollars and pounds.
But when he saw the domestic entries, they were all outward transfers of 20,000, 50,000, 100,000, and up to 500,
He seemed to understand.
These people, when caught, could be squeezed for 500,000, and they would pay 500,
Among them was that professor who recognized that old bastard third uncle, as well as many internet bloggers promoting “Japanophile” culture and various public figures advocating it.
No wonder there were so many people brazenly spouting nonsense; it turned out they were doing it for benefit.
He even saw something related: reporting, complaining about, and smearing a movie about bacteria research.
Completing such a task earned a payout.
Damn it. Without seeing this data, he would have thought mobilizing someone for 500,000 would require very strict and tight measures.
At least like the USB contents dropped in the Wu Tai Sect case.
But now he wanted to say: there were actually people online who would cast aside national integrity for just a few thousand.
Although that movie had been ruined by the director, no matter how bad the movie was, one’s stance had to be correct; that history could not be covered up, much less denied.
Chen Han would not indulge these people. He directly copied the information and exposed it on the domestic internet.
Once these people were exposed, no one would dare suppress it. As public opinion fermented, the relevant persons in charge would instead urge that it be resolved quickly.
After all, this kind of matter gave them arrests, achievements, bonuses, and a good reputation. Everyone would be scrambling to handle it well.
So, whatever you become, do not become such trash.
Most importantly, the fact that the yakuza-type forces were involved in this showed that the legalization of their industries was being driven from official levels.
Yet in such a place shrouded in darkness, so many online were still claiming how good it was over there.
No, most of those people were likely also on the exposed list.
As for the information on the other four USB drives, that was none of his business.
The islanders sabotaging their own people, their big brother, and their allies was something they should continue doing.
The more, the better.
The Storage Disk’s contents were basically similar. Whatever chaos existed abroad had nothing to do with him.
In addition, the Storage Disk contained a large number of surveillance videos from this cruise ship, likely inserted directly by the game system.
The current real-time cruise ship surveillance had definitely been wiped.
After putting the USB drives and Storage Disk into the game warehouse, he took out some items, namely the anonymous bank cards from that country.
If his guess was correct, each card held funds which counted as clean money in that country and could be freely withdrawn.
But by the same logic, money that was clean there might not be treated the same domestically; bringing it back would not be simple.
The key issue was that he did not understand how banks in that country operated and had no knowledge in this area. More importantly, he did not yet know how much money was inside.
When he went back, he could ask the tycoon Liu Ye whether he had any channels for this, to first confirm whether these cards contained money and how much.
After all, upgrading the sect also required money.
Thinking this, he put away the computer and those anonymous bank cards and went to check the cruise ship’s route.
Seeing that the final destination was still that island nation, he felt relieved and chose to exit the instance. As White Light enveloped him, his figure once again vanished from the cruise ship.
The sea breeze swept across the cruise ship, unaware of what had happened above, only carrying strands of blood scent farther away.
When Sun Kuan woke up, he felt something sticky under him. Opening his eyes, he saw that it was all blood.
He jolted up, seeing blood everywhere, the islanders lying on the ground with blood flowing from their bodies, converging in one place.
He remembered the moment before he lost consciousness, those people toppling in unison. Had they been killed?
But what had done it?
Most crucially, it seemed the other side had spared him.
Why?
Could it be they knew his identity?
But how was that possible, with only that brief instant?
Sun Kuan did not dare hesitate. He quickly checked the corpses and found all had a puncture wound through the neck, and a torn one at that.
It was obviously the same as last time.
Last time, the people on this cruise ship had died in the same way. So this time, was it again the work of the Hacker Judge?
This…
The key was he still did not know whether the other side was a single person or a team, only that they were absolutely terrifying; these people had almost no power to resist.
He thought of something and rushed to the surveillance room to check the video, only to find all the footage gone. The cleanup was extremely thorough, leaving nothing that could be used as evidence.
Then he thought of something else. Not daring to stay, he quickly took photos and videos of the scene, then hurriedly lowered a speedboat and sped off in another direction.
There was no way to bring the cruise ship back; if it appeared in their own territorial waters, the other side would demand an explanation, which could easily escalate into a major international incident.
At that point, the truth would not matter; they would be smeared no matter what.
Even he, as a surviving witness, would be thoroughly investigated, his identity exposed, and used as an excuse in that smear campaign.
So he had to return as fast as possible. Even dying at sea was better than living as someone else’s pawn.
Fortunately, no one yet knew what had happened on the cruise ship, so he still had time.
After piloting the speedboat a long distance, he immediately took out a phone, removed a special SIM card from his shoe, and contacted his superior leader.
Zhong Hou in chapter 281 had been searching for the Hacker Judge for some time, trying every possible method, yet gaining no clues at all.
Until suddenly a long list was exposed online again, and he knew the Hacker Judge had acted.
This time, the list was not of high-level targets; the highest was only at 500,000, some professors and such, mostly disgusting kinds of deeds.
For example, some stay-at-home mothers who, for 500 yuan, joined in complaining about and reporting a certain bacteria-themed movie as too bloody and so on.
This was absolute bullshit.
Calling it bloody without even watching it?
Sometimes before it even released.
In essence, that island nation was simply afraid its crimes would be exposed by the movie, letting more people know; they wanted to use such ridiculous and useless tricks to stop its release.
So how should those mothers who reported it for 500 yuan be handled?
Many of them were ignorant, led along by some fifty-thousand-level “guide” online. They did not even know what the movie was about, just greedy for petty gain.
However, the internet was already boiling. In a short time, countless people were denouncing those on the list.
But that was not the important part. What mattered was that the Hacker Judge had appeared again, so Zhong Hou had his subordinates fully lock on the source, eventually narrowing it down to a certain sea area.
Zhong Hou was stunned. It felt familiar.
Previously, they had also locked onto a sea area, only for the other side to quickly vanish without a trace.
As he expected, in a moment they completely lost the signal again.
But soon another piece of information excited him, because the location coincided with the sea area reported earlier by an undercover agent they controlled.
At this thought, Zhong Hou grew anxious. This might be their closest contact with the Hacker Judge so far.
After waiting a long time, his special communicator rang. He hastily answered, asking, “Sea Doggy, the Hacker Judge may have appeared in your area. See if you can find them, even just a suspect.”
Hearing the codename “Sea Doggy,” Sun Kuan felt speechless. The worst thing in undercover work was a leader with no talent for nicknames.
But he could only report immediately, “Minister Zhong, it is too late. Everyone on the cruise ship is dead. I am afraid there will soon be a sensation in that island nation… at the time I saw them all fall together, then I blacked out.”
“When I woke up, not much time had passed, but there was no one alive on the cruise ship. It seems the other side knew my identity and deliberately spared me…”
After explaining, Sun Kuan urgently urged, “Leader, please send someone to pick me up. I cannot stay out here.”
“Understood, I will notify the nearest team.” Zhong Hou answered immediately and, after hanging up, ordered the pickup.
But inside, waves were surging.
From Sea Doggy’s account, he could be sure the Hacker Judge was definitely not alone, but a team.
Based on the time described, it was impossible for a single person to silently wipe out everyone on the cruise ship. It had to be an elite squad with extremely strong capabilities.
They were also equipped with special weapons, and most importantly, they were ruthless and precise, always targeting the neck.
There was also a powerful hacker involved; while those people were acting, the hacker had already infiltrated the cruise ship’s network, erased the surveillance, and obtained those lists.
Then they uploaded them to the domestic internet for exposure.
There might have been more than one hacker, because even with their entire department working at full capacity, they locked onto the target briefly, only for the target to disappear in no time.
That was not something a lone hacker could do.
And how had they silently approached and left the cruise ship each time?
The more Zhong Hou thought about it, the more afraid he felt. This might be an extremely terrifying organization that had remained undiscovered until now.
From what they had seen so far, the other side did not seem hostile to them; many of the exposures even benefited their society.
The fact that they spared Sea Doggy also showed something.
“No…” Zhong Hou suddenly felt a chill. Only a few people knew Sea Doggy’s identity. How had the other side known and spared him?
There were only two possibilities: either there was a mole, or the other side had hacked their department.
He did not dare consider the mole theory, because everyone who knew Sea Doggy’s identity outranked him. If there was a mole, he himself would be the prime suspect.
So the likely scenario was that their department had been hacked. Without hesitation, he immediately ordered a full internal audit.
For a while, the pressure was immense.
He had no idea he was drifting further and further from the truth.
…
Chen Han also did not know that a special cyber department had locked onto him, the Hacker Judge.
After exiting the Skull Gate demon extermination instance, he immediately took out the Storage Disk and the Level 1 Family Cave Dwelling Construction Scroll from the game warehouse.
This time, the game prompt appeared again. The Level 1 Family Cave Dwelling Construction Scroll indeed absorbed this Storage Disk, and the space materials reached 100 percent of the requirement.
In other words, as long as he found a sufficiently spiritual and secluded place and produced 50 Primary Spirit Stones, he could build a level 1 Family Grotto-Heaven.
He could now easily produce 50 Spirit Stones. As for the place, the only one he could think of was the cliff stone platform at the back mountain and that cave.
Without hesitation, Chen Han left the Chen Clan and headed for the back mountain.
By this time, it was already dark. He moved through restricted areas inside the Chen Clan; even with the image of the Old Daoist Priest, no one noticed him.
With the Heart Light Escape Technique, anyone who bumped into him would be hitting the lottery.
And, coincidentally, someone really did hit the lottery.
At the base of the cliff, someone had actually pitched a tent here. Were they not afraid of accidentally rolling off?
“You are bad, calling me up the mountain when it is so dark…”
“Baby, this is exciting!”
“Hmph, I want to be on top…”
Chen Han felt his ears polluted. Shameless. He would have to talk to his junior sister and Chen Xiaoyan about tightening management.
They must not allow people to pitch tents on the mountain, lest something happen.
However, as for this camping business, the Chen Clan could consider building an official campsite for visitors in need.
With their supervision, camping would be safer than people sneaking up.
At this moment, he also did not want to scare them into trauma. Silently, he went down the cliff, reached the stone platform, and entered the cave, then took out the Level 1 Family Grotto-Heaven Construction Scroll.
A game prompt immediately appeared:
【Current location meets the conditions of a secluded spiritual place. A family grotto-heaven can be constructed. Please prepare 50 Primary Spirit Stones to trigger the grotto-heaven’s spiritual energy!】
Without hesitation, Chen Han took out 50 Primary Spirit Stones from the game warehouse; these were not in short supply for now.
This Skull Gate demon extermination instance had dropped quite a few again.
After selecting use, another game prompt appeared:
【Current level 1 family cave dwelling meets construction requirements. Scanning current cave dwelling area…】
In the next moment, the Level 1 Family Cave Dwelling Construction Scroll and the 50 Primary Spirit Stones all flew out.
The Spirit Stones instantly turned into beams of light, linking together and enveloping the entire cave and the stone cliff platform outside.
The game prompt appeared again:
【Current cave dwelling space scan complete. Selecting a suitable family-type cave dwelling from database for construction. Cave dwelling selection in progress…】
Chen Han saw before his eyes a series of magnificent grotto-heaven scenes: some with exotic flowers and spiritual fruits, some with spirit beasts gathered, some with starry domes…
These family grotto-heavens all looked very immortal-like. He did not insist; any one of them would do.
But in the next moment, a game prompt dumped a bucket of cold water on him.
【Level 1 family cave dwelling match complete. Constructing corresponding family cave dwelling… game system database lost… corresponding cave dwelling cannot be constructed… system error occurring…】
“????” Chen Han stared blankly at the prompt. The next moment, he felt a repulsive force push him out of the light shield formed by the scroll and Spirit Stones.
A gust of night wind blew past as he looked at the pitch-black scene before him, thinking, was his cave dwelling about to be swallowed?
Just as he was wondering, another game prompt appeared, with content that made him want to curse.
Damn.
Here we go again, huh?
